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HN Headline: Google inks deal on payment of French media links (reuters.com)

Title on Reuters: Google to pay 60 million euros into French media fund

Subhead on Reuters: Google... will not pay them for posting links to their content.

Article content says publishers had been pushing for payment for links and snippets, and Google was threatened with legislation to pay for links, but instead settled on this fund to help the publishers make more money using Google's advertising technology (kind of like a $60M version of the $100 AdWords leads.)

Troubles me that informative submission titles are so often elided, while ones suggesting the opposite of the article's intent can be left as is.
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From my limited experience this has less to do with the poster's history than with the site being linked. Some of the sites just seem to turn false positives wrt being spam.
So you're invalidating other people's opinions because of their skin color and gender?

You're never going to be taken seriously when you dismiss the opinions of others based on the not-necessarily-true claim that they hold that opinion because of their skin color, gender, and upbringing.
Hi, it isn't really clear what the product is. How does it interface with my meter or other hardware? Do I need to buy the app and a power monitor? How does it communicate with my existing home network, or the internet? The copy is written by a non-native English speaker, there are subtle problems with the language, that plus the graphic design needs to be tightened up. The overall marketing needs to be more serious-- I think the product sector is more like banking or health care, in that there are major safety and privacy concerns. So you need marketing that conveys that you're serious people, that the hardware won't catch on fire or electrocute me, and that the API and my home network are secure.
Letting the banks fail was an option. Lehman failed. I wonder what the EU would look like now if we let the banks fail. Too big to fail is a problem though.
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how is this different from WattVision.com?
It's nice that things have gone in the direction of XML and JSON lately, and many people devise formats that build upon those. I was thinking more of arbitrary text formats. Even if it's XML or JSON though, the existing parsers only handle comprehending the structure of the data itself. You have to write some semantic analysis on top of those, because the standard "parser" will just give you the input data as a tree - but the semi-standard format certainly helps a lot.

I do think you overestimate the work required to write a parser for simpler formats - for someone familiar with one of the popular parser generators this can be a handful of hours, and the quality of results should be much higher than an ad hoc method. This can be a good design decision.
That's wrong. The GP is right. The FBI is responsible for investigating any leak of US secrets. They will investigate if the CIA leaks secrets, the military leaks secrets, or Russian agents steal American secrets.
What's wrong with being boring?

If I can completely understand it without giving a hint of effort, that's perfection.
IB gets you more access for less money than any other outfit I'm aware of. They narrowly missed getting Corzine'd last year. I'm glad they had the sense to walk away. http://www.futuresmag.com/2011/11/04/interactive-brokers-chi...
Well outside the atmosphere we've already got a plan, its called the James Webb Telescope [1] :-)

One of the weird things about light is that the photons that hit the camera sensor in California are not the same photons that hit the camera sensor in New York. So you could, if you chose to, add the two pictures together which would increase its brightness (more photons) and not change the content of the picture. The trick of course is figuring out which pixels in the camera sensor were getting the same (or nearly the same) photons.

Since you are taking a picture of the stars, which are far enough away that parallax effects won't change their relative position, I should be possible to map the position of the stars in each image, combine it with the pointing vector from the accelerometer, to then create a projection matrix that would allow you to back project the camera pixels into an idealized focal geometric plane.

Now you have a map of all of the various image pixels with respect to their projection onto this plane, and you can then add together like pixels. Or generate a pseudo 5mP image where each pixel is comprised of a million sub-samples. (sometimes I wish I could draw in this editor)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_webb_telescope
As I interpret it, "hotting up" is purely metaphorical, and "heating up" is usually literal (though not always). You might heat up your cup of tea by putting it on the stove, for example, but you would hot it up by tipping in some cocaine, adding a little umbrella, and drinking it from a pyrex glass covered in glitter.
Not only that, but someone born and raised in Los Angeles is going to have nothing in common with someone born in Oregon, or Tennessee, or Michigan, or Vermont.
I'd love to take it over, shall I shoot you an email?
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Assuming that you're comfortable with 2d histograms (hexagonal binning is the standard) I completely agree. Otherwise scatterplots are pretty crucial.
Thanks for the feedback! I actually didn't think about international markets, where as you pointed out, there could be more potential due to certain lifestyle differences.
You'll have to roll your own backtester though when you build your own historical DB.

Or you could just PR a new data source class for Zipline that pulls data from IB. Ah, the wonders of open source!
But how much did they pay for politicians? Do you know how bad light they get if they take any money? Do you know how much corporations on US pay for politicians so they only do good things for them?
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I believe it is (or was at some point) an option for the iPhone, and a few other phones.

I've always found it silly, because in my experience, "Open network" never means "just connect and it will work". At best, you have to agree to a few terms of service (which requires action from me), at worst, you have to authenticate and/or pay or there is another security measure preventing access (MAC whitelist, etc).
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Looking for business development and marketing specialist to help our small but very profitable startup enter new markets and establish new connections with large corporations, computer repair chains, resellers, and affiliates for our very powerful and very popular system recovery and repair products and utilities.

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At the risk of being wrong, what Google (and others) have been doing in France, here in the UK etc, is legal - I believe under EU law. The governments probably can't do much, but some people are a bit annoyed about their ridiculously low tax contributions. Perhaps they've gone further in France than they did here though.
I for one have plenty of dead BuzzFeed submissions to my name.

That's entirely based on the site and not me - fortunately.
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In other words, the main difference to "big government" since the Cold War is that it's now politically astute, rather than alarmingly unpatriotic, for the Right to attack it. :)
Interesting analogy. This actually made me pause and think for a while.

However, I think it is ultimately flawed. The message here is clearly targeted at the reptilian part of heterosexual male brains: buying this battery is like buying this woman to bed her. Straightforward and effective.

Saying "do this and be smart just like me" works in a completely different way. It does reduce people to one dimension: their success, while ignoring their appreciation for the finer points of Zoroastrianism. But I would not call it exploitative. You put forward a positive quality (business skill, programming chops, whatever) and you encourage people to take action and work to acquire it. This is a fairly positive message.

I would say also that paying a woman to create a battery (provided the compensation is fair) is not exploitation. In this context, we are not talking about economic exploitation, but exploitation of heterosexual male lust in ways which send out the message that women are nothing better than sex toys.

To every straight, at least moderately attractive male who have trouble understanding how this can be an issue, I suggest to challenge yourselves and go out to a gay night club on a Friday night. If anything, this should be an interesting experience, and may help you understand some things which can make women uncomfortable.
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If you are trading in small lots, not very much. For the example of AAPL which has a daily volume of 20mil shares, at the current price of $450, a $450 million buy or sell order on AAPL will only be 1% of the daily trading volume.

Problem is that the bigger the ticker, the more crowded and optimized your competitors already are. The spread on AAPL options/stock is razor-thin, so using IB to do any kind of arbing/volatility/market-making trades is probably not going to be idea.

The trade-off with smaller ticker is you might have less competitors and even if it's a good opportunity, hedge funds aren't interested because potential profit is less than $1mil but for a retail guy, it's a lot. But the catch is the market is thinner, so in a volatile event, you might not be able to trade out of a very bad situation quickly. So your risk is higher.

Basically anything involving HFT where you are trading for liquidity rebates or sub-penny profits doing market-making or arbitrage, latency is critical; but 1sec tick data is an eternity already, for those operations, you need co-location to the exchanges for quotes and execution, not to mention 1mil+ trading capital for sub-penny profits/share to make sense.

1 second tick data would be more useful in swing trading situations where your profit target is 5-10% in a span of a few days to a week - it matters less if your order gets executed $0.01 less or more. So latency shouldn't be an issue.
At least in such a case you have some control over that tracking, by installing ghostery or whatever.

Without root you cannot count on being able to do that.
We're a degree or two away from several businesses... I'd say we were closer to "Kickstarter meets Reddit".
I'd quite like to live for a while in place like this, especially if there's a ski resort nearby (or the opposite – on a tropical island).
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3. Notch really seems like just about the most pleasant guy in the world and really just wears his passion on his sleeve. He's an easy guy to like.

I realize I am in the minority, but something about him just rubs me the wrong way. This is not a criticism of him, more just a personal preference.
Great point! A lot of people in the clinical world and health IT world completely agree with you. The real difficulty is opening the channel for secure communication between practices and hospitals, electronic health record vendors, and health information exchanges.

Have you heard of RHEx (http://wiki.siframework.org/RHEx, https://github.com/project-rhex/simple_rhex)? It's an open source implementation of hData (http://www.projecthdata.org) and provides a RESTful, secure way to transmit patient data.
It's not like this is an isolated incident though, it seems like every other week we see yet another tech company with a sexist ad campaign, sexist convention booth, or sexist job advertisement flyer.
There's definitely room in the market for several players (in terms of the whole crowd-design/manufacturing space), but I think that down the road, there will be one clear winner. At the end of the day, this industry is a network effects game. Inventors/sellers will always flock to the service with the largest user base to increase their chances of getting their ideas to market. Right now, I'd say the frontrunners are Kickstarter and Quirky, although I've personally seen inventors shy away from Kickstarter because of their increasingly stingy policies. Quirky probably has the most unique model by partnering with big box retailers and tapping into a much broader distribution bottleneck.
I haven't submitted stories personally, but I think I understand what he meant: Even though nobody took the time to come back to HN and exalt him with karma, the page views he received meant that somebody 'out there' experienced his creation.

The desire to be part of a group and share one's ideas with others is a pretty common trait shared by most human beings. Therefore, even if nobody thinks what he said is awesome enough to elicit an upvote, at least he was able to share it with the world. It's a validation that the work didn't just end up in the ether.

I would argue that it's Not Awesome to only write/create. Instead, it's awesome to be able to get one's writings/creations in front of others. We all have an ego...even if we don't admit it.
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I am as disappointed as you are. I found this note on wikiquote as I was looking for the original reference.
Well, I can't speak for the startups in question because I don't know enough about them, but that wasn't my beef.

I was commenting on what I thought seemed a dismissive attitude towards the role of software towards world-changing needs. You seem to think that because software developers work in relative comfort and safety, then what they do must be less noble or significant than the people on the front lines.

The people on the front lines, God bless them, but they're just one part of the solution. Let's not romanticize them at the cost of bashing those who have the potential to create great multipliers for their work.

And while I'm a software developer, I've been a journalist for most of my life and have covered a variety of truly awful situations. In education, for example, tragic stories at the classroom level are not the result of just some terrible teacher, or because adults don't care enough, etc. etc. Some of the problems have the potential to be alleviated through thoughtful logistical support, something which today, software is an essential part of. It's not sexy, and the people in charge of that aspect will never have their names recorded in history or immortalized in a movie, but it's important work nonetheless.

Maybe not all software developers are working on world-changing stuff (neither are all doctors or aid workers, for that matter). But I would hope we have more software developers who see how software can change the world and aspire toward it.

Just because there are a few dishonest douchebag startups doesn't mean we should discourage other developers to chase after these higher aspirations.
I would say the person with 50k is making a larger personal sacrifice, but is not being "more generous" objectively.
This is laughable. I (surprisingly) see just as many regional differences within a single European country as in the US. For example, people from Gothenburg can't stand people from Stockholm, dialects and customs vary greatly. People very much identify with the region they're from. I'm from an island that historically had much German and Danish influence, hence it has it's own language (almost died out though) and very peculiar dialect. The island has its own customs, food even sports. Many people from the middle or north have trouble even understanding southerners, especially those with a rural dialect. The south also used to be part of Denmark for many hundreds of years which is partly why they have such a strange dialect. Sweden has its own indigenous people called Samer that live in the north, which have their own language. Sweden has a history spanning more than 1000 years, with vikings, invasions, kings and empire. Wherever you go in Europe, you'll see the same but EVEN MORE diverse. It seems you haven't really been to Europe much, or you wouldn't say something so hilariously wrong. On the other hand, I'm European, and have lived in 3 different US states and visited maybe 15. Whatever regional difference within the US that you are talking about is largely urban vs. rural, but the culture itself has become a blend of whoever immigrated, but there are only small remnants left of that. The US is largely a homogeneous country in my eyes, people move cross states here way more often than people do in Europe, because in Europe you'll get genuine culture shock, if you can even understand the language.

Laughable...
I'd be extremely reluctant to hire somebody who was willing to give me a guided tour of another company's CRM.

Even ignoring the ethics of the request, if somebody is willing to act against their current employer's wishes, they're almost certainly going to act against my wishes as well.

There are plenty of ways to check an applicant's abilities without requesting access to confidential information. This is as true for biz dev as it is for coders.
You can say it looks like a phone, but saying it looks like an iPhone specifically is just going too far in a time when every phone "looks like an iPhone".

I could say my new SUV looks like a Model T, because the Model T popularized the look of having a general shape and design of an SUV. My new car has a similar overall shape and design as the Model T, and I was struck by how Chevy chose to go in a visual direction similar to Ford and Chrysler rather than strike off in a new direction like Cessna.

Every smartphone looks like a smartphone.
> When you work with the Microsoft stack, except for a few core technologies, you have no idea if the "hot" API or current solution Redmond is pushing will be supported or abandoned in a couple of years.

The situation is no different for other software vendors.

That is how commercial software works.
While I half-agree with you, it's really not all as wonderful as you make it sound. Please take a look at this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icesave_dispute
there is probably a greater cultural distance between e.g. the Pacific Northwest and deep South in the US than there is between many European countries.

This is a little overstated. Geography aside, there's a lot of similarity in the look, feel and culture of suburban USA no matter what part of the country it is. The big differences in the cultures in the USA are between the three or four largest cities and the rest of the country. There's also a handful of outlier areas like New Orleans or Honolulu that aren't really like anywhere else on the planet.
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You should look into the details of MET Project that is mentioned as the source of Gates' claim. As is often the case the reporter mangled or left out many of the details.

In addition to student surveys and teacher evaluations teacher performance measured as "value added" in students test scores. These three components were combined into an overall "teacher effectiveness" measure. This was all done using what look like very good experimental practices (random assignment of students to teachers, multiple schools across the US...).

Although not perfect the "teacher effectiveness" measure was quite predictive of future "value added". So perhaps we are closer to a solution. Of course this study was in elementary and middle schools and it may be more difficult in colleges (students walking out on surveys).

The project's methodology and results are well documented in a number of reports[1] including a detailed research report for those literate in statistics[2].

[1] http://www.metproject.org/reports.php

[2] http://www.metproject.org/downloads/MET_Validating_Using_Ran...
Think of what is already being rented to travelers. Cars, lodging, insurance, motorcycles, boats, etc.. It's usually large things that people simply can't travel with.

If you want to rent something to someone, you have to think of things which a person couldn't reasonably have brought with them or offer them something that makes them feel safe in a strange place.
I rather doubt that, as it would be a big security problem. If phones auto-connected to open APs, anybody could run a rogue one and collect passwords, sessions, etc.
My issue here - and why I am glad it's on HN - is because we have this problem in our industry a lot. We question why more women aren't interested in it while we parade them around our conferences or include photos of them in slides barely-clothed. We make very vivid implications that they are just visual stimuli for the taking.

We can go back to that whole Violet Blue Twitter/article debacle wherein she criticized a woman legitimately working at her company's spot on the floor for being a boring-looking booth babe.

In my opinion, the only people that should be doing your advertising for you are your employees. There's no reason to bring human eye-candy to these events in the hopes that it will get a few more customers. I do like PAX's stance where if the "babe" isn't educated on your product as much as you are, she shouldn't be there. At the same time, those are "models" of the characters for your games at a gaming convention, not male or female bodies just standing in a warehouse being ogled to sell unrelated product.
How do they do this? I seem to be having a mental block as to the logistics of this. (On a side note, the pragmatics of having cross border employees when you have no presence in that country would be a very, very interesting blog post, and one I'd read with interest.)

From another comment I understand they also have a UK presence. Are you a true-blue employee or a contractor who takes care of their own taxes and affairs, and just issues monthly invoices? If you are an actual employee (in the legal sense), are you employed by the UK or US company, or something else? Do they have to have an address there, or a foreign subsidiary? Presumably there's no German legal entity, so how have they registered there to pay tax?

This is something I'm prospectively interested in doing for my own business, but I'm not sure how I'd make it work from a tax point of view.
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Let's see you implement it then smartypants. So you can learn the hard way why there is a limit. You think you're smarter than the biggest technology companies on the planet? It's a clear indication of nothing but your own little vendetta driving you crazy.