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The biggest problem with buying 4chan traffic is that it's not easily targeted towards any specific type of person.

I see plenty of opportunities for targeted advertising on 4chan. Obviously, it's hard to have targeted advertising on the larger boards for subjects like "random" and "video games," but you can make pretty safe assumptions about the demographics for other smaller hobby-centric boards; the cosplay & EGL board is mostly populated with young women who are into dressing up and going to conventions, the "traditional gaming" board is mostly (young) adult males who are into tabletop games like D&D and Warhammer 40k or trading card games like Magic: The Gathering.

I mention these two boards specifically because I think that they represent valuable demographics. The cosplay & EGL board of 4chan is where people go to talk about the dress that they just spent $300 on (and that's on the low end--for some of those girls, $300 is what they'll spend on cosmetics seasonally). By the same token, tabletop games and trading card games can be big cash sinks, and there are plenty examples of people who spend hundreds of dollars per month on these hobbies.
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In SQL server normal Views are basically just a select statent but indexed views can have large performance advantages. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc917715.aspx Other DB's have there own optimizations for the same idea.
Because that is entirely infeasible for most languages that aren't English.
If they don't know the difference between diesel and gasoline, how do they know if the one they want is "diesel" or "gasoline"?

But, yes, clearly, the goal is removing configuration until the app does one thing well, not badly.
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Brazil - Glenn Greenwald, your primary reporter you're working with is based there, big country, cost-effective when you're on a budget, and Greenwald would have a local network of people who could help hide you, and Brazil doesn't extradite political prisoners.

Not to mention, borders on a ton of other countries with fairly porous borders, so you have the possibility of moving from one country to another.

I'm sure there's a lot more options that would crop up depending on a variety of factors. But if you're Snowden you want:

- A network of friends and associates you can trust to help support you, emotionally, physically, and fiscally

- To be in a country where the information you're in possession of might be valuable to that country, and could be used as a bargaining tool

- A country with good, but not great, relationships with the US (so no UK, Canada, EU is probably out).

- A country with a huge bureaucracy and judicial system - you want it to take years to extradite you

Hong Kong makes little sense on most of those, other than the judicial system.
specific boards can be targeted, which is something I guess.
This is a move the folks at Something Awful did a while back and it appears to be performing pretty well for them.
Feels for you, bro.

I don't know if Brazilian education has improved since Feynman wrote this: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

I suspect not by much.
Take a look at StartPage (http://startpage.com) - similar Privacy Policy.
I'm not convinced with the arguments in this post. Auto Mechanic and Italian Food are both vague queries. Auto Mechanic could mean the definition of the term or places around you or even . And its not super hard to get rid of advertisements. If you really want better "organic" results, type in a better query -- "Auto Mechanic, Bay Area" or "Italian Food, New York".

I think its almost taken for granted that all search is interactive. If the first try is not precise, refine the query and try again. Its not correct to compare the Google of today with the "organic" search engines of a decade ago. The world, and the web have changed tremendously since. It can be argued that Google is trying to help the consumer by showing multi-faceted search for vague queries (which can potentially narrow search requirements) or provide cues about forming the next query -- and if a company can make money doing that, whats wrong in it?
What bugs are you referring to? Images are now decoded off the main thread (in nightly) and are not decoded until you scroll to them.
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There's still room for an alt, "hacker" OS that's seen as not in the pocket of Google: a Linux of the smartphone world. Tizen, being Samsung's beast, doesn't quite fit that description. So between Firefox OS, Ubuntu Mobile, Sailfish OS, Open webOS, (any others?) I'm wondering which one will capture the hearts and minds of the hacker community, if not any relevant marketshare.
Is this an effort to take the pg investing trends essay to an extreme? Or an effort to quickly fill the deal pipeline for a new VC?
It saves facebook confession page admins from copy paste of each confession from google doc to confession page.
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I wonder if there is interest in someone building a search site that uses the google custom search API to search. The CSE that Google provides does not include advertising or local results unless specifically requested. The only problem would be that it costs money for large volumes, so you might have to charge or use ads to pay for it.
You mean "demotivational posters".

Words change. "LOL" means something different than it used to. Such is the fluidity of language and the web.
I would assume the government would require services and large teams to help them make sense of the data along with the low the infrastructure described by the article.
Although I have no experience with MySQL, this kind of problems have to be resolved by using LINQ to SQL since every db type is automatically mapped to its .NET counterpart. The DateTime .NET type then has only one representation of null.
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Sounds like a grass roots community!
It's not quite like that.

What advertisers can afford to pay is margin X conversion rate. If people search for cheap socks and you have high margin socks, your conversion rate will be lower. In super competitive markets, the conversion rate is usually what makes one win. For something like insurance quotes, that probably means the one with a known brand, supporting advertising in tv & radio, etc.

The quality of the sites and the margins will probably be pretty similar among most players.

Where the dynamic you're describing happens is between product categories where you have a high margin per unit in one product category. Eg. If you want to sell a 'diy divorce kit with a $5 margin' you will have to outbid divorce lawyers who expect to earn thousands per client. The lawyers will drown everyone else out.
What additional security issues might those be? The only security issue I can see with that design is that is each user on the machine would need to update individually and thus users that login only infrequently would often have an out of date version of Chrome.
Its really quite ironic that this article was submitted by an account that is 33 days old and submits daily dot articles exclusively without ever commenting.

I pointed this out once before, the last time they wrote an article and submitted it, and that was about the same thing too.
The entry price: $99/yr for 250K pageviews per month.

Less than $10/mo for access to the H&FJ webfont library is a steal in my book.
Interestingly, this is one of the few news outlets that correctly identified them as "image macros". Pull quote:

His history on Reddit amounted to little more than link submissions to a relatively new site called Quickmeme, where users type bold-faced captions on popular memes like Scumbag Steve and Success Kid.

These are known as image macros.
This article seems to make a point of showcasing Zagat's rating in search above others, somehow indicating that Google is unfairly manipulating search results to it's own gain (as Zagat is Google, Inc. owned).

However, there's an important point here to be made, which has been said in numerous antitrust arguments against Google, and that is, "what if the product in No. 1, Google's, is in fact preferred by consumers and therefore is, to use language of the tutorspree authors 'organic'?".

It's an interesting question. I find much of the article interesting and of course the screen space dedicated to search is a hot topic, and Google's minimal style still remains in my favor, I just wanted to briefly object to the claim that somehow showing a non-ad Zagat page is "0%" (in the author's numbers) organic search.
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Not really. Putin is former FSB and Russia's interests always are defined by having a security state. Today, during the Soviets and before with the Tsar, Russia has always used a heavily authoritarian regime to maintain security. They must in order to maintain sovereignty.

While there could be simple pragmatism here, Putin does not operate as a pragmatist and it is in his direct interest to keep the leaks to a minimum so that they can be the sole ones to know of how it operates.

After all, if they know how we're spying and their own adversaries don't, they're better off.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about this topic recently, so it's nice to see a discussion on HN.

AdWords ad placement is determined by a mix of quality score and bid size. It's good that they're using quality of links to influence ad ranking, but here's what troubles me:

We're allowing money to influence information salience.

You could say this is how the world works, and I can't deny it. Money = power = eyeballs. But is this a good thing? Is this a dynamic we should be actively supporting? I honestly don't know.

Possible counterargument (because I can't help but play Devil's Advocate against myself):

Maybe the auction model is about determining the true "market price" of an ad position, in which case maybe this is a good thing?
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They were originally "image macros," but some image macros became memes unto themselves. Eventually people started referring to image macros as memes. Advice Animals started somewhere in the middle of all of this. Originally image macros didn't share a common picture, but a common phrase with a funny picture that was related or a specific image/phrase combination (e.g. "do not want", "no u", "get in the soup"[1]).

[1] http://endlesspicdump.com/original/shut%20the%20hell%20up%20...
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I've never been so amused by source code as I was reading that. I particularly enjoyed how he used spaces after dots and question marks, making it read like punctuation.
Those numbers are from Worth of Web which is not reliable source. Were they making bank? Sure, but nowhere near $1m per month. CPM on websites like these is low.
I don't, but I could probably check my email. I was responsible for benchmarking boxes from major manufacturers for the selection process (which ended up being a waste of time, because only one of the vendors met our price criteria).
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Not sure how many layers of paranoiac overanalysis I'm applying here, but letting Snowden fall into the clutches of Russian intelligence may be a far better deterrent to future leakers than a 'clean' prosecution and imprisonment here in the US.
I just ran into this with some pages in our product as well. If you run Chrome with '--enable-logging --v=2' the chrome_debug.log will contain messages from the phishing classifier (search for 'phishing_classifier'). I was able to tweak the wording on the page to drop the score below 0.5, but there are other features that may be causing your problem.

You may need to restart the browser between edits, as it seems to cache the classifier results by URL. It also skips classification for hosts with private IPs, I had to jump through some hoops to test.
Price wise, this is quite a bit less than I was expecting, especially considering that you get 5 free with subscription. Now just to wait and see how long it is before every site is using Gotham.
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Good point. I wonder how much Snowden hasn't leaked - that, at least, is unknown to most at this time.
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This is making the arguments based on only things "above the fold". There are plenty of people that have dispelled the myth that content NEEDS to be above the fold (1)(2).

That said, the implication with Google results is that the higher up on the page the link is, the more relevant that link is to a user's search. In my experience, very few people ever get to the second page of Google Search results. I'm all but certain that if we looked at heatmaps of clicks across all Google search pages, we would see this quite clearly. It's the entire reason that SEO has been an industry at all.

It gets more troubling with products like Google Cars (3)(4). It is literally another layer of PPC results specific to cars. I've got to think that other car retailers (including manufacturers) can't be too happy about this.

(1) http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/
(2) http://blog.kissmetrics.com/why-the-fold-is-a-myth/
(3) http://www.drivingsales.com/blogs/InvestigativeReporting/201...
(4) http://searchengineland.com/google-tests-new-car-leads-produ...
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Firefox OS is multi-process like Chrome.

There is nothing technical in the browser engine that prevents Gecko from being multi-process; support for it is actually integrated quite deeply into the engine, more like WebKit2 than Chromium. The reason that Firefox isn't multi-process is purely an application-level issue, not an engine-level one.
Maybe this is a misconception on my part, but isn't local search listings and map info a form of organic search, just derived using different signals for authoritativeness and relevancy, of which proximity is only one variable?

If the above is true, Google is dedicating way more real estate to organic than ever. It's just a different form of organic.
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>Also, note even the paper of the user guide and the rivets used to bind the paper. They show great care.

Yes, using brass fasteners instead of binding the papers into a true book shows a level of care similar to what I did when I was 4 years old in 1976 in my preschool class binding pictures of trees and dinosaurs together.

You seem like a fan of Apple, so I'm sure you can appreciate the exquisite font used on the Clear / Reset / Push button mechanism. It almost looks realistically hand-written instead of sophisticated typography created by a top level designer after months of work. In fact, this entire thing almost looks like it wasn't someone in their garage putting together a prototype on a wooden cutting board.
> The problem is that schools aren't aware of that

I think the schools, and the teachers, are very aware of their "half babysitting" role. The public schools, in the US, are paid based on heads-per-day, with some restrictions on minimum days and test scores (depending on the state). They get money for providing services to the children. So, as with all incentive plans, the system gets gamed.

> What 6 or 7 year old can possibly sit still and study for 5 or 6 hours each day?

The ones society wants to succeed in school. Like sports, not everyone has the ability required to succeed at higher levels. If someone hadn't forced me to stop watching TV when I was young, I would be in front of it right now. This says nothing about their ability in reality, just in playing the school game.
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After upgrading to an iPhone from a Treo 700w (and Win Mo 2003 phone before that), it's hard for me to admit to myself or believe that MS has made such a 360 in mobile UX.
Word on the street was that Mattrick was in line for greater roles/responsibilities at Microsoft, which is presently getting ready for some mega reorg by Ballmer.

Not sure what it means for Zynga, but I think this is a big deal to Microsoft.
To be honest, it's probably good you fidget constantly just for blood flow. Sitting still all day gets you airplane traveler afflictions like deep vein thrombosis.
A friend reported that The German School outside Washington, DC, (private, predominately but not exclusively male) has the kids in some of the lowest grades spend most of their time running around. Now, I don't remember whether this applied as high up as 1st grade.
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To communicate, Paula Broadwell and David Petraeus shared an anonymous email account

2.
Instead of sending emails, both would login to the account, edit and save drafts

3.
Broadwell logged in from various hotels' public Wi-Fi, leaving a trail of metadata that included times and locations

4.
The FBI crossed-referenced hotel guests with login times and locations leading to the identification of Broadwell

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/interactive/2013/jun/12...
Product of our culture more than anything. We'd all be buff if we barely ate and were outdoors/hunting all the time.
I was expecting to get downmodded for being too Reddity. :)
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It's the friction that makes it useless. I saw a QR code on the window of a Chevy Volt that said scan for Volt info. It would have taken a lot longer to find and use a QR scanner than to just enter Chevy Volt into search on a mobile browser.

If QR scanning was a first class citizen and I could just look at it and instantly get the information, I can see QR being used by real people.
Google Glass is an innovative product that will surely cause some problems. I admit I'd love to have one, but given what cellphones have done to life, I fear that we are rushing into radical changes without due thought.

Privacy issues when Glass users record every interaction they have (and potentially post to their social networks). Capturing my daugther's first words is sweet. Capturing my naked partner could be different. No need to hold up a phone -- very convenient. And it will surely all be there on the web.

Glass also could further the trend towards self-indulgent isolation and distraction. Are looking at me or reading mail? Texting while driving is bad, reading tweets and viewing images while driving (all hands free) will be worse.

People already spend too much time photographing/capturing experiences instead of actually experiencing them. Glass will accentuate this. The goal in life should be to live in the present, not record for posterity. And frankly, I have my own life; I don't want to share every bit of yours...
Same here. I'm in Chrome 28 beta.
He must be getting an insane severance package written into his contact in order to join a sinking ship like Zynga, for when they dissolve...or he really is that stupid.
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I would use a paid search service with a quality search, no ads, no tracking, and no selling my data to third-parties.