skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I frequent r/bicycling which has 80k+ subscribers, so it's good to know I have a feel for what the environment of a "popular" subreddit is like with respect to # of submissions, comments, etc.
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It's too bad there isn't more substance in the slides. At this point, Reddit's current system of advertising works well for few other than those posting Amazon links with affiliate tags and a link-bait title. If you're going to even think of advertising on Reddit, it works best when you advertise on highly-relevant subreddits with either at least 50K subscribers or one with a very tight-knit community (like many of the city subreddits). Be straightforward and don't use much marketing fluff in the title otherwise you can expect to get some negative comments from hypercritical Redditors.
Even Google’s Own Developers Won't Be Seen Wearing Google Glass
On android at least, you can tell your device to override it under accessibility settings for the stock browser.
Writing a good README
Even Archive Team won't be able to save Tumblr.
Not too lean too heavily on the crutch of tooling, but it bothers me that this type of error can "slip through the cracks". Our tooling should make it patently obvious that this is a problem (before the code can be tested) if not automatically fixing it.

Indeed many tools (IDEs) do correct these kinds of problems, and it strikes me as silly that we have to worry about the execution of programs failing because of these types of typos/bugs.
There's at least 234 subreddits with 50000+ subscribers[1] ...that's a fair number of highly targeted marketing channels.

[1]: http://redditlist.com/
i.e., they don't have a 100% stake.
You wouldn't reel back if I punched you in the face? You're man enough to shrug it off without so much as flinching? The idea is to get you to take a step back and pause so I can walk away.
A good question to ask would be, "How many local privilege escalation bugs have popped up in Windows vs. Linux vs. OSX?"
I think that article is a bit content free, the real gold is in the article it links to by the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/technology/big-data-trying...;
I wonder why they're deciding to offer an All-Cash offer rather than some part of the offer being in Stock. Yahoo's stock has done well lately and should be fairly attractive to Tumblr investors and management. Given the size of the potential acquisition, there aren't that many alternative suitors, so Yahoo should have pretty good leverage here, especially since Tumblr has gotten heat over the last few years regarding their lack of a business model.

Maybe Yahoo is afraid that offering say ~$400MM in stock would dilute the existing shares and irritate existing shareholders?
costco probably gets discounted processing rates for being the exclusive cc vendor
I was unable to find a Watson based search engine using Google. Are you talking about the highly specialized application of asking Jeopardy questions? Recall that those searches are already constrained to being trivia, having exactly one solution and belonging to a certain Jeopardy category, context and difficulty.
I don't follow. Also: Marco calls himself an "employee" as well.
I'd say getting a high SAT score and GPA requires pretty much the same skill set as technical code-on-the-whiteboard interviews. Actually, technical interviews are even more narrow, and probably weed out very many highly creative, motivated people that "have a mission".
Agreed, I think "goodwill" is incredibly important for advertisers to either (1) already have, or (2) convey strongly to the subreddit community.
Thanks for sharing but please clean the URL so it that doesn't credit a different site for referral URL (?ref=http://www.digiday.com/platforms/reddits-pitch-to-advertiser...)

http://www.slideshare.net/MikeCole1/reddit-secret-planforwor...
> In our terms botnet can be a mix of a free and paid Mailgun accounts. Botnets can include anything from 2-3 to dozens and hundreds of accounts created at different time and using different billing plans.

My criticism is I've never heard of a botnet referred to as a group of accounts. To me, a botnet is a group of host computers that run some sort of proxy server (tens of thousands of hosts). I've never given thought to what someone would call a group of email accounts aimed at exploiting a service, but to me botnet seems like it would be specific to a network of computers, sometimes compromised, sometimes not, running a type of proxy or automated software.

> We are talking about Mailgun service - the time they need to invest in building some solution on top of Mailgun that pays back is just not worth it.

The problem is when it comes to a service like yours, if it really is that hard to bulk mail, then the guys using your service aren't the guys getting a 1 in 125m response rate.

Anyone sending that kind of volume would assume their messages were going to a spam folder, and sending larger volumes to compensate for it.

Someone going through the hoops you set in place, are doing it because your service gets inbox. This means they can send bulk email to higher quality lists, and their response rate will be significantly higher than 1 in 125m, more like 1% to 2% response rates.

In this case, the people actually sending mail through your service probably don't even bother making those accounts themselves. They likely find people who specialize in circumventing your security measures, and pay a premium of $x to $xx per 1,000 accounts.

> On the other hand, phishing attacks are very dangerous and this is our biggest threat - we've noticed that they get very high quality lists with 0 bounces, so it might be real bank users and build pages for every atack.

This too, but don't forget about simply cracking passwords for the accounts. Simple math. Take the top 100 most used passwords, assume your users are just as naive as most the internet, and you have x% users you can assume will be compromised at some point in the future.
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It's a bit more than that. Tumblr will decline if they just view it as a turn-key solution.
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I didn't know if it'd be a negative signal by asking about salary early on. Also, I was under the impression a hedge fund would pay better.

They may have considered going up if they didn't have another option. I was told they were out for a week, which I interpret as them making an offer to someone else first. For all I know this person was a better candidate all around, but I'd be wary of hiring someone clearly unhappy about the salary too. Overplayed my cards, live and learn.
I took a glance at the list and a lot of those subreddits aren't really suitable for advertisement targets.

I'd guess that 2/3 of those 234 subreddits are addressable, so maybe 150 is a reasonable estimate.
http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2009/ghm2009-dolstra-lar...

this talk by Eelco is a good introduction for hacker types. And the motivation is at the beginning of the talk.
Technically, no, just their parent company.

"In September 2011, Reddit was split from Condé Nast, and now operates as a subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications."
Additionally, what would make it a better offering for your industry?
Hmm. As far as I've seen these ads are just 350x250 and 300x100 blocks. I've never seen the layout or styling of a subreddit modified for an ad. And I imagine many of the communities being very upset if this did happen (Imagine EA branded /r/gaming).

So that second bullet point seems confusing as I've never seen that and the two ads types they are selling don't seem to offer that capability. Has anyone ever seen the sort of ad that slide describes??

edit: I guess they do have that sort of functionality on reddit.tv but that doesn't seem to be what the slide deck is offering to me.
| if anyone marks you as a "B", you are unlikely
| to be hired.

Then what's the point of not making it pass/fail?
Well, they might not all have been entirely wrong. The martingale strategy is always a winner...

(As long as you're working with infinite money, infinite time and you're playing against a casino willing to take bets approaching infinity)
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Popular relative to the overall size of Reddit, by that measure almost none of the subreddits are very big. They should have a bunch of subreddits with 1+ million subscribers given the size of the site.

They should encourage people to create accounts and subscribe to things they're interested in. It makes the site 100x more interesting, and yet most users just lurk or refresh the front page.
Starting from rest at a distance infinity, any object (regardless of it's own mass) necessarily undergoes a minimum increase in kinetic energy due to the gravitational potential of the mass of the target object (in this case the Earth, which has a known mass and so this is calculable). So I think the assumption is that the object isn't propelling itself away from the earth, and the object hasn't experienced any major competing gravitational forces inside the radius of the Moon's orbit.

Also, 11km/s isn't terribly quick on the celestial scale, I'd imagine.
Maybe so, but that completely gives the lie to the idea that two languages are equipotent if they're both Turing complete. The sorts of abstractions you'd need to implement go far beyond what's required for Turing completeness

Unlambda, for instance, is Turing complete, and moreover, it can do I/O. An Unlambda program is nevertheless incapable of opening files or doing different things depending on its command-line arguments. You can write cat (the version of cat that just echoes stdin to stdout) in Unlambda, but not ls.

You might be able to write an Unlambda-based operating system in which all the various sorts of input events that an OS needs to respond to are represented as elements in its input stream (or, even better, an OS in Lazy-K).

But when you've got that OS up and running, Unlambda programs running on it still won't be able to open files. (Frankly I'd be surprised if the "abstractions" necessary to get something like that up and running weren't essentially an interpreter written in another language dealing with the encoding and decoding of input and output to your Unlambda/Lazy-K program, rather than abstractions written in Unlambda/Lazy-K. (Consider that the numbers that Lazy-K outputs are church encoded and must be converted by the Lazy-K interpreter into C-like integers before characters can be output to stdout.) This isn't really important, though.)

Consider also this final note from the Lazy-K page:

"Remove output entirely. You still have a Turing-complete language this way, and it is if anything more elegant. But, as with the equally elegant SMETANA, you can't do anything with it except stare at it in admiration, and the novelty of that wears off after a few minutes."

That's not really true, of course: there are other things you can do, like increase the temperature of your processor. Not many other things, though.
Based on my experience, American Express has outstanding customer service. I have also heard that they tend to be rather aggressive in their fraud protection program and they way they deal with chargebacks, often taking the side of the cardholder rather than the merchant's.
> Facebook holds your info for a week and if you sign back in, the week restarts.

I think this might be intended as protection against attacks on your account. If someone gets ahold of your password and deletes your account, it's nice that you'll be able to restore it for some time after, isn't it? I agree that the wording of the e-mails they send when this happens is unfortunate.
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He's written quite a bit on the topic. It's worth taking a look at if you're interested in that kind of thing.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/
Completely minor point but Iac has owned Vimeo for so long, I doubt they'd want to ever sell it to a company like Yahoo.
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The acquisitions are not the only thing Marissa did.
To be fair, I should mention that it's only important if you're either (1) advertising with a very high bid for a reasonable amount of time or (2) promoting your product organically by posting it as a link/self-text post. For the first case, it's beneficial to have the appearance of good-intentions if comments are enabled. For the second case, it's critical because your exposure is determined based on your score from upvotes and downvotes.
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I don't think this comment deserves to be downvoted (it's currently grey, this isn't reddit).

It's entirely a valid point to be likewise concerned if newegg investors have their fiduciary interests served by an expensive fight against injustice. This is a more general concern of tragedy of the commons where it's not in any one retailer's selfish interest to battle it out, but it's in their collective interest to solve the systemic problem.

Newegg might be heroic here in the grand scheme of things, but not necessarily for its shareholders.
Even so, the example is a tad puffed up:

if (count > 100) {
$el.removeClass('low-value');
$el.addClass('high-value');
} else if (count < 50) {
$el.removeClass('high-value');
$el.addClass('low-value');
} else {
$el.removeClass('high-value');
$el.removeClass('low-value');
}

Compare to how this would normally be written:

$el.toggleClass('high-value', count > 100);
$el.toggleClass('low-value', count < 50);
Not going to lie, I didn't know where the signup button is when I was trying to sign up for a throwaway. I simply gave up after that.
The Starwood AmEx also has a foreign transaction fee of 2.7%, I believe, so there's no real reason to use it outside the US, unless you're at a Starwood hotel and getting a huge bonus that way. In the US it's pretty excellent, though.
I think the suggestion is that Marco probably didn't have a sizable equity chunk - I.E. the 70/30 split might be generous - and it very well might have been something closer to 95/5.

I've listened to pretty much all his podcasts, and while Marco is pretty wide open when it comes to financials (in one memorable episode, he detailed pretty much every line-item costs associated with instapaper, and he's been even more open with "The Magazine" - discussing all of the revenue and cost elements), I don't ever recall him discussing his equity stake in tumblr, though, he did mention that he's been chatting with David recently...
Most of the time, advice that includes the words "don't let your co-founders know that you're doing this" is worth ignoring and that's certainly the case here.

The author appears to have marketable technical skills and should be able to spin his startup experience to his advantage. There's no reason he can't resign professionally and seek new opportunities without involving any of the people connected to his current company.
This "Multi-user package management" is a really neat feature, I wonder if there are other distro's having that.
Pretty fun, except for those annoying flashing buttons. I get that the theme of the game is randomness, but it's still very unnecessary and hard on the eyes.

Edit: Also there needs to be a time limit to choose your card. Over half of the games I join are ruined because someone isn't really playing.
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I don't think you know what a licensing fee is.

That's the fee that you need to pay each year to update the license on the car. I'm quite sure that in Denmark you don't pay 180% of the car's worth every year.
So you're choosing friends based on the messaging service they use?

I would not want to be your friend.
The first few seconds I don;t know what the app does....more importantly how it is different from the bazillion other place rating apps.
I've heard longshoreman make excellent money, and there's a long wait list of people to get into the trade. What's the pay like?
I made about $6000 in 2011 resoldering the capacitors in iMac G5s and selling them. It was only feasible because I had about 40 broken iMacs from my old job. But that was enough to pay rent for 6 months in Idaho. For everyone with dreams of VC capital and incubators, I highly recommend just scraping out a living any way you can if it's a stepping stone to your dreams. You can make as much in an hour as other people make all day, and use the rest of the time to code. It worked great until I ran out of inventory, now I mostly work from elance, odesk and freelancer. Taught me some valuable lessons though.
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The problem with Reddit Ads is the average Reddit user leaves your site within the first couple of seconds.
Actually I think you are wrong. Android Studio is not 100% complete yet, and probably won't be for some time - but when it is done, Eclipse will slowly go away - Google style. Meaning it will languish and its users will bitch and moan until eventually it is canceled.
Interesting, sounds like puppet/chef at the OS level.
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I have synesthesia in real life. For me, I have one of the "most common" forms, between words and colors. Specifically, I have a color-word synesthesia ("association" is not the right word here) between days of the week and colors. For example, Friday for me is a "medium green", Tuesday is a "light blue" and Wednesday is a sort of "soft red"... Every day has its own color, though I must mention that Saturday and Sunday are both white, though different shades. Each of these colors also has a "brightness" to it that is kind of impossible to describe in terms of regular colors, though colors seen on a computer display get close. I also have some mild synesthesia between specific letters of the alphabet (but not all of them), as well as every single-digit number. It's worth a mention that I can't think of specific instances of this synesthesia helping me remember anything, though I am pretty good with remembering numbers, and it needs to be said that I don't know what it's like without synesthesia, so I can't offer a comparison.

Very much related to this post, I can't say whether or not learning synethesia is possible. It's so hard to describe the synesthesia between words-colors, to such a degree that I'm inclined to say that any learning would be simple association, and not the synesthesia that I experience myself. For example, when I read the word "Wednesday" it's a very specific color of red with a certain bright softness about it. I "see" that color every time I hear or see and then comprehend the idea of Wednesday. When I see "Wednesday" as a collection of letters, there's no color, but when I summon the internal idea/concept of Wednesday, then the color is there. See how retarded I sound? That's how confusing the internal "association" is, and why I am inclined to believe that "one does not simply learn synesthesia"...
How much of that 1.4 million is due to people dying?

Global churn affects your userbase when you have a userbase as insanely massive as Facebook's.
The top students often dont't have an overly high GPA because they take a difficult courslanded for them and go beyond there classes and end up prioritizing more than just a 4.0. Also I find highly technical interviews have limited value beyond a simple pass\fail because the poorly represent an actual working environment.

If you really want the best have them walk you through a project they are proud of. It takes a lot more effort and you need to let go of the ego boost of knowing all the answers as you go over the same problems with everyone. However, you can dig a lot further into how they think.

PS: It's important to reolise Google is way to large to be all that picky though. Lucky the vast majority of Google projects are not really that difficult or important. But, if you need the 'best' there are people out there that will blow your mind.
"This year Facebook lost 1.4 million users"

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/facebook-earnings-graphs/

Just to add some context, overall up 20%+ first quarter over prior year Q1. Granted flat in the first world and I could believe a small net loss but I don't see it in these numbers.
Didn't Google use to build mini-data center fitted in the standard size container? Completed with powers, racks, cooling, etc. Ready to drop-ship it to any location in short notice.
I agree with you, I think Yahoo gets it. They have a vision, and they're actively rebuilding their tech portfolio.

Flickr and Tumblr are great assets to have.

Whether it turns out great for them or not though, we have yet to see. It's certainly interesting to watch though.
most currently existing bookmarking services support tags... you could use "now", "later" or "future" tags?
Everywhere else, he's described as a cofounder. Being shrugged off as an employee would be insulting.
Multi-user and multi-aplication (different applications can depend on different versions of a shared library).

Here's another example that's not public, and not really a distro, but... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3380795/what-does-amazon-...
I don't think this is the case. A large number of reddit users either use reddit enhancement suite or hover zoom, both if which allow you to view images without leaving the page. Also comments are a huge part of reddit which all takes place on the site.
Large brand advertisers care a lot about the type of content their advertising will be shown against. For example, it's pretty unlikely that prestige brands like Clinique and Mercedes-Benz, or family-friendly brands like Clorox and Disney will be advertising on Reddit. Brands also care about what TV shows their ads are shown with, so even if the demo fits, the content needs to match, too.

UGC is risky for brands because the content can be very NSFW or generally distateful. Sometimes outright hostile to brands. Reddit knows this, and has no pretense about it. So they're simply playing to their strengths. Some brands will embrace their unique audience, and some won't.
Single page link:

http://www.marketwatch.com/Story/story/print?guid=EAC116D6-B...

For those of us who prefer to read our articles whole, instead of chopped up into arbitrary parts.
Facebook provides a lot of public info (profile pic, first name and last name) that would otherwise be really annoying for the user to type in. Of course, to each his/her own.
> The problem is when it comes to a service like yours, if it really is that hard to bulk mail, then the > guys using your service aren't the guys getting a 1 in 125m response rate.

So for old school spammers even if they got lucky and got 1% click rate, they'd 1K clicks in their best day in our service. So I'm mostly considering them as people looking for potential holes in the service.

The people coming with stolen credit cards who want to steal more are the biggest threat as they are most harmful - they hunt for our ips and domain reputation, so they take time and try pretty hard to break through our filters.

> This too, but don't forget about simply cracking passwords for the accounts. Simple math. Take the top > 100 most used passwords, assume your users are just as naive as most the internet, and you have x% > users you can assume will be compromised at some point in the future.

Yep, and we watch every account in the system for changes in behavior, but that's happened only once or twice in the last 2 months - so it's not a biggest problem right now.
That's very unique and impressive! Any chance you would make it open-source?
That is cryptic. What else are your referring to? Dismissing the remote employees, or free lunches, or something else?
But the argument you used would seem to apply to both of those thing. That's what makes it flawed -- you claim it is obvious, when in fact this line of argument is very subtle and often misleads laymen. (Notice that in this very thread there seem to be people who think you couldn't detect acceleration.)