skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree that they are able to do better targeting, what I don't see is that the ad revenue is able to pay for their costs.

The golden standard, search advertising, can tie buying intent to demographics to vendor and track conversions. The old standard, television advertising, can tie viewers to demographics but struggles with tracking conversions and understanding buying intent.

To try to get my head around the scope of this I did a bit of searching around for data on Television advertising. CBS got advertising commitments of $2.7B [1] for placement on its prime time shows. Prime time is 3 hours a night (7-10 or 8-11 depending on your time zone). Assuming 41 advertisements per hour [2] that is 123 Adds per day, 7 days a week is 861 ads, 52 weeks is 44,772 ads per year. If they sold them for $2.7B in commitments that is $60,305 per single advertising placement, one day, one show, one advertisement. I expect it is much more complicated than that but order of magnitude it meshes with numbers people throw around. So if you agree with the reasoning there ...

How does Twitter get to the point where someone will pay even $50,000 to send out a single 'sponsored tweet' or some other chunk of information to an equivalent demographic?

That is the challenge I see for them going forward.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230376810457746...

[2] http://www.marketingcharts.com/wp/television/primetime-tv-ho...
> Any idea how fast it is? GitHub have put a considerable amount of effort into a very fast implementation.

From my tests, is usable. I'm using in the intranet, and have an installation with 20 users and 15 repos so far, with ~100MB each at the moment.

However, this project is not targeted as a GitHub replacement (massive hosting with many huge repositories), but toward small teams that need a UI and simple admin for their Git repos and aren't allowed (or don't want) to use an existing cloud service, or don't have the budget for the GitHub Enterprise.
Even on timescales of a month, the recent dip is mostly in the noise:

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg60ztgSzm1g10zm...

On timescales of a year, comparable jumps are common:

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg360ztgSzm1g10z...
I have a robot on my desk that makes me stuff out of plastic and it cost less than a grand. Who gives a damn if it is obsolete next week thanks to nano-wizardry, it makes me stuff now.
Spot on. If I could upvote this a hundred times I would.
I had a certain well know recruitment agent basically begging for me to go and work for them a couple of years ago. The agent was completely incapable of understanding why I "would turn away such a great opportunity" and just kept pushing so I told her to fuck off.

Absolute arsehole recruiters and companies.

for ref, I refuse to work for gambling and gaming outfits as well as they're just as bad
Interesting. I'm not sure I've seen extended-release melatonin. IIRC melatonin does not help you stay asleep, so that would be fairly useless.

I recommend starting at the smallest dose you can find designed for sublingual (under-the-tongue dissolving) administration. 0.3mg to 1mg is a good range.
You're right. It's easy to compile, configure, and start on a dev VPS. It's easy to fill with data and easy to query.

This is the sweet spot: when MongoDB is on a dev VPS and you're building a small product around it. Most devs don't have to worry about the next step.

Then you push everything live. If you're lucky enough to get any real traffic, everything other than 99% read crumbles. You scramble to shard but realize that sharding just doesn't work well, and is incredibly complicated to set up.

Then you start losing data...because the drivers are programmed to not fucking check if the data you sent was actually written (yes, I know, this is fixed). Ok, you set your driver on your flopping app to validate writes, and BAM there goes 80% of the write performance 10gen promised you.

The solution? Just add more shards!! Ok, so now I have 4 shards, each with 3 repsets + 3 config servers. 4 * 3 + 3 = 15. Fifteen servers to handle what one MySQL server could do in its sleep.

Conclusion: MongoDB is terrific as a write-only, developer friendly database that you will never have to scale, ever.
Given the relative popularity of Windows vs Linux, it probably is worth the effort to maintain Windows-only features.
I don't have Flash or Silverlight installed on my system. Trust me when I say that approximately zero commercial video is available with these plugins.

Even half of the ad-supported content on YouTube isn't available.

As an implementor, until mozilla finished shipping native h.264 support I have to either use Flash as a fallback for IE8 and Firefox (mediaobject.js is great!) or encode all of my video twice and double my storage bill. Guess which one is more appealing?
>Epidermal sun damage is natural too

If we're talking from an evolutionary stand-point, humans have protections to keep the sun from killing us. If you're in the sun a lot, you would have darker skin (or skin that grows darker as the sun's rays increase in intensity per the season). You wouldn't be spending all day inside in the Midwest and then be in Brazil the next day. The sun is natural, the way you're exposing (or not exposing) yourself to it is what is unnatural.

It's the same argument that cyanide is natural. Yeah, but humans tend not to find cyanide very tasty at all (as an evolutionary protection). People don't go around eating peach pits just for fun. Pure cyanide being added to foods in concentrated doses as a poison is a human invention and is not natural. Melatonin being used by the body to regulate sleep cycles is natural in the sense that it happens whether we supplement it or not. The unnatural human invention is to boost the natural effect by taking more, or by taking it at a specific time rather than trusting our body to fully regulate its production.
I see.

You wrote:

"That equates to a maximum of 655363 packets in order to obtain and detect a single successful opening."

They wrote:

"That equates to a maximum of 65536 ^ 3 packets in order to obtain and detect a single successful opening."
Ok. So what you're talking about is a VM that is only able to route to the internet via Tor, so it would be impossible for it to make a non-Tor connection (thereby compromising anonymity).

- If the host <=> guest tools are installed on the guest host, then it would be possible for the malware to install them itself.

- If the host <=> guest tools can't be enabled/disabled on a per-VM basis, then that could be an issue, as you would probably have VMs that you wish to use in a less convert capacity.

- The malware would have access to your browser for the duration of that session. Presumably any information that you accessed during that session is compromised. If they are consistently able to compromise you during every session, then any slip-up with PII during any session could compromise you.
I like the metaphor, and I'll extend it by saying you want to assemble the best dance crew you can find!
But hurt anyone? lol
The 1981 AG memo, which unfortunately seems not to be online anywhere (if you have access to Westlaw or LexisNexis the cite is 43 Op. Att’y Gen. 293) interprets the law as implicitly allowing shutdown costs after the budget authority is exhausted.
True, but Windows has the much larger market share so it becomes worth it.
No it wasn't. It at the top of the front page now.
The Manhattan project involved gobs of never-before-done of engineering, new understanding of physics. Owning up the backbones is simply a matter of scale and access.

I don't think there is really an analogy here.
> But it is a pretty good in-memory cache that can persist to disk, which is a valuable technical niche

It's not a niche at all. Those are standard OS primitives.

MongoDB arrived in the gap between MySQL sucking and SSDs becoming common enough that in-memory performance wasn't essential to get simple workloads to go.
> "and everything around them becoming 10x worse as a result?"

(Note my emphasis) You are begging the question here.

Consider the alternative hypothesis, that things went to shit and they switched to a cheaper form of cocaine. 'And', not 'because'. In fact, one can hypothesis that both changes were triggered by another factor that you have failed to mention.
Congress is removing it, not the federal workers following the rules. If you don't like the laws or don't like the way they're stalling on authorizing spending, contact your representatives and express your displeasure.
Their basis is against coercion. There are other ways to effect change beside coercion.
It actually was earlier removed from frontpage, only to reappear after some 10 minutes or so.
Someone is proud of the YouTube UI? I avoid it if I can. There is the intro advert I can't skip for 10 seconds, the banner, the ones down the side. How could anyone claim users drove that development?
NodeJS is plenty fast enough. When the dust settles we will provide benchmarks alongside NGINX. We're not pulling the wool over anyones eyes, I don't expect Harp to reach NGINX speeds anytime soon (or perhaps ever). That is not the focus of this server. Faster web server than NGINX is not what developers need. They need something that is easier to use, install, doesn't require any configuration, and more importantly is a suitable development tool on its own. Our focus are on the needs of front-end developers not Server operators.

We are publishing a spec for how Harp compatible servers should behave and we expect to see other implementations in the future.
Awesome content as always.
Both of your points are hyperbolic claims with no warrant.

> Communication mediums are the safest thing in the whole wide world.

Even though this is a strawman, since my arguing to the contrary does nothing to support that anonymity is or isn't a natural right, you're still completely wrong. Perhaps I can't literally shoot someone with a computer, but all kinds of violence is inflicted by communication. You can harass, threaten, and blackmail simply by communicating. The internet has been used to inflict sexual abuse, aid hate crime, and transmit child pornography. It can also be used to steal, commit fraud, and induce an unsafe panic (think of shouting fire in a crowded theater). These are all non-physical but violent acts; incidentally, anonymity aids in perpetrating every one of them. Saying that the internet is inherently safe, much less the safest thing in the whole wide world, is patently false.

> History is very clear on this: the biggest enemies of justice have been governments and state sponsored entities, every single time.

Perhaps you can add up the numbers and claim that more suffering has been inflicted in total by governments (in the course of wars, or whatever, some of which were more justifiable than others) rather than isolated individuals. You'd have a serious sampling bias, though, because we generally owe recorded history to the presence of a government, and people seem to have preferred throughout recorded history to form governments rather than live as individuals. So while this is a nice setup for an anarchistic manifesto, unless you are seriously willing to give up government and then move to Antarctica (which has pretty bad Internet, I'm told), it doesn't really make sense for this discussion.
Does anyone want to work at Checkout 51?
Perhaps it's something to do with particular makes of the drug, but I've also had my worst nightmares while on it, and the words GP used are spot on for me. My mom, aunt and other members of my family had similar experiences and we've mostly stopped taking it. I did partly because it no longer has the surefire effect it once had on me, and partly because I'd often wake up in a crappy/despairing mood because of the apocalyptic nightmares.

On the other hand, I really miss it back when it worked mostly wonderfully. I coupled my intake with an experiment on segmented sleep, where I'd take it some time before 4pm and sleep till around 9pm, often waking up in a so called "writer's mood," and then sleep again (without Melatonin) from roughly 1am till 4am. I tend to be a very unfocused person, but on these intervals between first sleep and second sleep I'd feel in an elevated state of consciousness where my focus was like a laser I could point anywhere. Sublime is a good word, everything feels light and effortless, and the right thoughts just flow when you need them. I'm sure people have felt similarly while on other kinds of drugs, which is interesting to say the least. But I was sober and really productive, and have written my best fiction in this way.
Why we hack contracts
GTX 670 in a motherboard with a UEFI BIOS, running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the nouveau driver crashes whenever you move a window too quickly.

Verified on three machines with identical hardware.

AMD doesn't have decent drivers even for Windows. (By decent, I mean less than 1 graphics-related crash on average per year.)
AFAIK, there is nothing in the current proposal about forcing browsers to bundle CDMs. The CDMs could be part of the OS, installed separately, or simply not there at all (in which case you have a browser that won't play DRM video, but is otherwise fully functional).

That's no different from the current situation with Flash and Silverlight. You're not forced to use them, but some content is only accessible if you do. If we can replace Flash with a CDM, the attack surface is decreased, because a CDM is less complex.

Without the EME standard, it seems highly unlikely that media companies would decide to distribute videos DRM-free. They would simply continue to build and use non-standard solutions. EME is just a standard API for what they'd be bound to do anyway.
Thanks, Hong! These guys definitely get it done as a dance crew: http://www.jbwkz.com/
I actually don't think Maps is a good example. I'd argue that Apple wouldn't have taken such heat and criticism if they'd launch Maps as an independent app, worked to iterate and improve it, and then baked it into iOS as a Google Maps replacement when it was good and ready.
Whenever I see something like this, I can't help but think this is just a business deal. Nothing to do with technology. Rich business men are going to get richer because they can get away with over-valuing technology and tricking their non-tech savy investors into thinking this will make them a buttload. Some sort of quasi-pyramid scheme.
if they have such trouble finding good engineers, what are they willing to pay for them?
Oh. That might be simpler, I didn't know they could do that. I'm not very familiar with the stock exchange, thanks.
In re-reading my post, yeah, I guess it's a little "power user" centric. You're right in that most people wouldn't be comfortable with Linux, an NFS server, or even R.

I think the point I should have made was that I don't find a lot of the apps to be that useful because there are good web equivalents (mail, chat, docs, etc.) and I don't find the other apps that compelling. I would suspect, even being the "power user" that I am, that most other people are of the same opinion. That, or they're just using a tablet or their phone instead.

As for Firefox, I'm not sure how it would confuse your sister any more than Safari does, unless she finds it confusing for web sites to render correctly and not crash constantly.
But the Silk Road wasn't truly anonymous because buyers had to disclose their address to at least one person. It's surprising that so many people were willing to send their addresses to anonymous criminals who could, at any time, turn into DEA informants. Furthermore, vendors must mail the package; seeing as how it's not terribly hard to see where packages come from, many vendors are probably vulnerable to simple surveillance of some mailboxes in a region.

These people were only getting away with it because law enforcement lacks the resolve and infrastructure to prosecute small scale buyers. To put this another way, we could hold them accountable, or at least introduce risk associated costs into the system, but law enforcement choose not to. (After browsing SR enthusiast forums, it starts to seem as if the whole community is predicated on the common belief that buyers are immune from risk... it's delusional!) If I'm wrong, and it's not so easy to bust these people, then I'm sure we'd just legislate a solution.

I'm getting at this: Real world actions do not automatically become anonymous because they're coordinated online. That's not my most brilliant observation, but the consequence is that, aside from digital crimes (DDOS, website defacement, copyright infringement, child porn), internet anonymity doesn't generally enable us to significantly screw up the so-called meatworld with complete unaccountability unless we're exploiting the government's technological time-lag.

So when I talk about internet anonymity, I'm trying to speak of our right to communicate anonymously. That's it. I think the same is true for most people.

Finally, I just want to add that "natural rights" have no scientific basis in our current understanding of the universe. Objectively, cultures confer rights to their members; it's probably an adaptive mechanism involving many factors. In a strict materialist and scientific world, "natural right" is a broken concept.
Banks as information and technology companies is a great insight. I think we'll start seeing more of this creep into the noosphere as p2p public ledger systems (like Bitcoin) becomes more mainstream.

I think it will also lead to a reforumlation of the concept of currency. Rather than defining and conceptualizing currency as a store of value, it becomes defined and conceptualized as data.

Arguably, the practice of accounting is already treating exchange of currency as data. However, popular concept of money is still tied more with the notion of "value", and emotionally with how much work and suffering one puts up with to trade for a reward. Maybe this popular notion will shift.
I like Twitch, but it's interesting to see comments from Redditors and especially European users who have huge frustrations over the quality of streams, bugginess, and chat which never seems to work right.

Source:

http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1nfcno/i_fe...

http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1nfrlv/twitch_raises_...

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1nfrkf/twitch_rai...
This is the kind of stuff we mean when we say, "Go beyond the impossible, and kick logic to the curb."

Kol ha'kavod!
> While it’s dependent on an at-the-minute market price, the movement of 27,365 bitcoins on the block chain on October 4, likely from Ross Ulbricht’s stash, nevertheless represents a substantial amount of holdings for the government.

> In fact, conventional wisdom might suggest that with a governmental body owning so much of the currency it could create substantial market-maker powers within the bitcoin world.

I did the conversion: 27,365 BTC = USD $3,426,084.77 at the current rate.
The investors are putting up capital based on what they think Mongo will be worth at some future date after they have used the new capital to fuel growth. It's a bet, not an accounting exercise, and the bet is based on what might happen five or more years down the road.

The valuation is really irrelevant because it is a side effect of the negotiations between a syndicate with $150 million to invest and a company looking to raise money.

If the investors had negotiated less successfully, the valuation would be higher. If the company had been less successful, the valuation would have been lower.

But in either of those scenarios there would be little difference in their returns if Mongo goes bust, and little difference if they become Oracle sized in the next ten years.
My company actually bought some "big data"-machinery plus consulting and they actually delivered their hardware in a Very Large case. Truly one of those '90s dual big towers. I thought that was pretty funny, considering they put less data in it than fits on a $200 hard drive.
I've had intense freaky sex dreams from melatonin, but... You know, they were very tolerable. An acceptable side-effect.
> Now, suddenly, Volkswagen/Ford/Chevy decide that one time payments suck and you need to pay monthly, say $1000.

Adobe would say that it might be more comparable to your car manufacturer upgrading your car every time they released a new model.

> His current car's value reduces drastically because of this monthly scheme.

The value of what his current car has reduced because they released a new model, not because of the new scheme (and CS6 hasn't depreciated in price that much!)

> And to access any sort of updates to his car, he needs to pay monthly, and this monthly payment includes a penalty as well, if you decide to cancel sometime in between.

Just like every other 12 month contract ever? It's pretty clearly labelled that it's an annual contract, and that there are recurring monthly contracts available for a higher cost.

> Now these manufacturers tell you that you can still buy an older model from their store and make it extremely difficult and dodgy to buy one.

As MarkMc said, it's not especially hard to buy CS6. All the top search results for "buy cs6" allow me to buy it pretty immediately.

Sure, they definitely upsell CC, but they also see that as their new and better product: is it really dishonest or nasty of them to do so?
It is really interesting to see the "Western" approach to meditation.

I grew up in a Buddhist community and have sat week long meditation retreats without anyone quantifying results.

It is interesting that Westerners have to be scientifically convinced that meditation will have a quantifiable outcome for it to be a helpful practice. It's like we know that eating fresh vegetables is good for us, but only when it is proven to us are we convinced that we should go ahead and eat fresh.
If you want typesafe functional programming on the JVM, why not just use Scala?
I'll echo this, I had similar results restricting blue light.

What clued me in was when I went camping for a weekend after not camping for almost a decade. I found myself falling asleep and waking early, feeling better, even after a single night, and it got even better the second. Real darkness after sunset, and tons of bright sunlight in the morning.

Wearing the goggles IS a pain though. Worth it but a pain. F.lux didn't do nearly enough in my experience though it does seem to have an effect.

I also find that sunrise simulator clock is okay for waking up but not strong enough to replace bright light exposure in the morning. I would recommend eating breakfast outside in the sun for awhile, and if you find that helps, get some lights with some heavy duty lux for the winter mornings inside.
Hi I'm Andrew and I'm one of the founders. To provide some context about us, we're a well funded startup in Toronto Canada. The company currently has a around 25 people and we're growing quickly. In the very near future we'll be launching in the US and would love your help to make it happen :-)

If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me directly andrew@checkout51.com
Clickable: http://blogvio.com

I can't make heads or tails of it. I'm on my BlackBerry Q10 and nothing is happening. I compliment you on the mobile version though.
Ok, that is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Love the comment that they haven't taken to heart the Replicator storyline from SG-1.

The idea of exploiting the inverse square law to promote control over positioning is pure genius.