skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the closest analogy here is to CPM (cost per mille - thousand page views), for online display advertising. On that scale, $0.80 CPM is low; typical figures I've seen/heard are around the $10 mark.

That's probably related to the fact that Twitter is still relatively ad-free; it also means they have a lot of ceiling into which they can increase their revenue, albeit at the usual cost of negative user experience!

Has anyone here worked in advertising for social networks which use timeline-style feeds? I'd be interested to hear how (and if) the businesses practices differ from 'traditional' online advertising.
No references, coworkers etc on LinkedIn? Press articles?
Isn't SV (i.e. the tech industry) one of the few places where interns do get paid (and paid well, to boot)? All of my buds in the social sciences (politics) and media industry (LA film industry) don't get paid or get paid very little.
Just noticed it seems to be some sort of tamagotchi clone from what I can see. the yellow/white meter could be growth and the icon to the right an egg. this (unrelated) app uses the same 'notebook' style of backdrop.

https://lh3.ggpht.com/8gjIb24gOSjoLwxYvVgfFfMz9ItAT_0h86QRlY...
Ya, I lost the instruction manual to my crystal ball so I hate trying to predict things like this, but I don't see any moat that the US has that will stop the world from writing the simple CRUD apps. And we regularly get 'self taught' resumes coming through where people have tossed together some simple apps that they have sold. It's a pretty low barrier to entry when everyone owns a smart phone and the dev tools are free.

Learn math. Learn physics. Learn some chemistry or biology. Be able to write digital signal processing code. Know linear algebra. Learn some NLP. Learn enough algorithms to write an efficient soldering path tool, or network router. Even there I am not sure of the moat; the number of searches for terms like "asymptotic complexity" are far higher in places like India and China than the US. But if you can reasonably say "if I leave it will take 3 normal people to replace me" you will have job security and the ability to command a high salary regardless of the economy.

Secondarily, I think there is an untapped market for people that are actually able to architect software and lead teams. I don't mean writing StrategyFactoryAbstractVistorBuilderFactorySingletonFlyweight horror shows, but actually putting together a solution that is maintainable and extensible over time. The field seems very immature in this regard. Or someone that can just think clearly, put a plan together, and execute it, even just at a middling level, seems pretty rare. I don't know if that (project management) pays a lot, but I think skilled people are worth their weight in gold. It seems to attract people that don't have the technical chops, not because they chose a different education, but more that they tried to be technical and just weren't that smart. If you are smart, you will always have a job in that arena.
As someone who's had a reasonable amount of success with the SAT (a 2360 in the October 2009 SAT) and now spends a bit of time tutoring students for the SAT, I'd argue that for you a whole summer is overkill for the SAT.

If you're a fast learner with a knack for pattern recognition, which your internship experience suggests to me that you are, mastering the SAT for you should be as simple as taking the 10 tests in the Official SAT book and going over answers and explanations with someone. That's easily achieved over a few weeks of focused work.

It seems crazy when you consider how much people freak out over it, but I'm confident this works and I encourage you to try it out.

If you have any specific questions about the SAT or the college applications process in general (something I also had a reasonable amount of success with in that I got into all 4 of the Ivies I applied to) feel free to email me.
Hmm, the functional editing idea is interesting - can you drop me an email at the address on the webpage to discuss? I'd like to know what you have in mind for that. Function application graphs would be great too, and could be built off the resolution functionality.
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers (aka pigeons)
That's also a very legitimate concern. On systems with limited RAM - or disk space - one should either limit themselves to a relatively small number of clients/packages, more likely, prefer another operating system.
It seems, then, that thinking about time has the opposite effect on people from thinking about money. It makes them more honest than normal, rather than less so. Moreover, the more reflective they are, the more honest they become.

Rewarding people with time instead of with money makes them "better" people...

There must be an aphorism in that.

Is this some unknown reason why we have prisons, one place where this takes place, to make people into better people?
However, in my experience they seem to try to vastly simplify many issues by waving their hands and talking about the non-aggression principle as if that automatically solves everything.

I don't know any libertarians or ancaps who insist that the non-aggression principle solves anything, much less everything. What we say is that it's simply the ethically Right Thing To Do, and that if "solving" a problem requires violating the NAF, then it's better left unsolved, even if there are negative consequences.

The idea that libertarians believe in some kind of "libertopia" is one of the most persistent, while completely unfounded and mistaken, myths that exists about libertarians. It's the libertarians who, more than any other group, take reality into account by acknowledging that we can't engineer a "perfect" society by using force against one another.

Libertarianism has pathologies at the edges? Big deal, so does every system that has ever been proposed as an alternative.
You need a favicon :)
Social networking in its oldest form
Satoshi - creator of bitcoin

Purposely remained anonymous because he knew they would target him. Bitcoin foundation claims that as creator of Bitcoin, he is liable for every transaction under new FinCen laws being considered. https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=163

It would help if the author of this software doesn't call it 'Silk Rd 2.0' or reference online narcotics trade in any way. It should be called 'P2P open marketplace' which makes a huge difference during your trial when they claim you purposely set it up to violate US law instead of being able to argue you are an innocent software developer. Just look at weev's trial how they manipulated everything he said on IRC to make him look as criminal as possible.

Stephen Watt (the_uT) also merely wrote a piece of software he didn't use himself, nor did he profit from and he went to prison after Albert Gonzales used it to steal a ton of money with. It was sort of released to the public, dumped in an IRC room
Calculating the Value of a Life
Yes you can open source a paid app. The licensing of the source you release just has to be compatible with the App Store licensing. If you go with a MIT license you'll be good.
but the reality is that capitalism, mixed with human nature, eventually leads to one corporation that rules everything

Check your assumptions. Corporations are a legal fiction created by the State and would not even exist in a purely anarcho-capitalist society.
The "marker" test checks for starch, which wood pulp paper has, but currency rag pulp paper doesn't. But it's security theater: minimally competent counterfeiters would just buy $5 worth of rag pulp resume paper from office depot...
Smart Voicemail. It's an Advanced Voicemail + Virtual Assistant
Yahoo came into Japan by selling part of them to Softbank (Son Masayoshi). This led them to be a separate entity to Yahoo Global. E.g. if you try to find a job in Yahoo Global you will not find jobs listed in Japan and vice versa.

Google came in thinking that they can implement US/Western practices which allowed them to be successful overseas. This unfortunately does not work.

Japan's market is very unique and very self sustaining. Due to the population and the way the people behave. For example Yahoo Auctions is still the number 1 auction website in the world whereas Ebay has never penetrated the market. And Ebay also has moved into the form of a marketplace over the last few years. Yahoo Auctions has largely not changed over the years.
No one is expressing surprise. We are expressing reasons for why it needs to change.
Nowadays, it's pretty regulated. Which makes smaller, pilot projects more of a hassle, but not impossible. You just have to be persistent with the paperwork, and luck out with an IRB or IACUC (for animals) that has good, well-informed members, and not a bunch of incompetents riding on their high horse.
This article highlihts the dis-proportionate amount of revenues advertisers pay for "premium" demographics, noting that the USA yields ~$2.2 cpm and ROW around $0.30 cpm. This is a 7x multiple or premium for a USA user. It also raises the question of ultimate growth potential: the low value category are 3x more plentiful than the premium one in terms of subscriber base (and presumably growing faster, too).
(thunderous applause)
Google has developed this pass, and sell about $15 billion or so of it a year, with roughly $10 billion of that distributed to publishers. (Pulling numbers from memory -- check their quarterlies for the up-to-date ones.) The genius was denominating the end-user price in attention, which doesn't require a credit card number to transact in (single-click transactions, no information required, and no penny gap -- whee!), and then selling attention of desirable users to advertisers for substantial amounts of money.

Given the substantial success of Google at doing this, any micropayments system doesn't just have to clear the "Will this be better than putting up a paywall?" hurdle for every site it signs up, it also has to clear "Is this better than the largest, most entrenched, most locked-in, most supported, most widely distributed economic engine on the Internet?"
I don't know if it's a browser issue or something else, but I actually don't see any quotation marks, or italics, or anything else. I spent a good while figuring out where one of the quotes ended.
I don't understand the willful ignorance of libertarians who make the claim that the state doesn't do anything outside of extorting people and ruling with guns.

Luckily, very few - if any - libertarians ever make such a claim. If anything, you're probably either misunderstanding what they're saying, or simply engaging in hyperbole to the point of, essentially, setting up a strawman.

Libertarians acknowledge that the govt sometimes does things that are, in some sense, "good". We just happen to consider that irrelevant, since "good" which requires violating the NIF principle is not justified in our worldview. And/or, some Libertarians will also argue that for almost every value of X, where X = "something the State does", that X either isn't actually needed at all, or would be provided more efficiently by a non-State mechanism.
Not that I'm aware of, but I have considered that there could be a market for them before too :)

What kind of approach are you thinking of? Using the database as the primary store, and reflecting any row changes in the corresponding search indices?
Living in Japan I can say that Yahoo Maps is number 1 in detail. Although Google Maps is catching up in terms of service and information now. And I also believe there is a market shift amongst younger people from Yahoo Japan.
Digital Natives Population in Asia
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I don't believe it's a good commercial use because I don't believe Newsrooms need that kind of technological change - they are clearly intended to be showy, not useful, as a 17" screen would certainly do for research.

I don't think Close-up, a 55" 1080p resolution can hardly lead to productive work. I sometimes use a 55" 1080p screen from five feet away and even there the text is not clear enough and too large to fit entirely in my field of vision.

It's not a good moment because it's a completely irrelevant moment. I am sure Microsoft has other exciting products in thr works.
Benioff (of Saleforce.com) donates $2.7M to SF middle schools
May I compare apples to oranges?

$0.1 Google revenue per search.

$0.001 Twitter revenue per timeline view.
I think the first result takes you to this link.

http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2...

So just one less step for the lazy ;).
Silicon Valley interns (in tech fields) are generally paid reasonably well. There may be some cases where tech companies here don't pay their interns but the majority certainly do. The cases of systemic intern non-payment seem to generally happen outside of the tech industry.
Not ignoring that at all. History is replete with true believers willing to kill and die for their causes.
I code a lot in JS these days and I find this divide suggestion interesting. Though I'm proficient in JS, I don't trust myself enough to write server stuff in JS - for ex: while an accidental global access likely has limited consequences on the browser side, it can result in data cross talk between users on the server side. So I do prefer the help offered by some static typing. Even go feels better, Haskell would rock, typed racket also looks awesome from this perspective.

To my main point, I'm unclear how such a split would actually work in practice. For example, if I have a file upload to do from the client, should that get streamed to the "ui front end at the back end" (whew!) or directly to the "real back end"? Are there any fundamental architectural problems with client side code pulling together an application by accessing a number of independent REST services without going through such a "front end at the back end"?

Thoughts/suggestions?
Belarus has the Web, and will be aware of a project like this. DPR was just arrested by the Feds, and one of their primary sources was his forum posts. Do you see what I'm saying here? This is in poor judgement.
I think it's more that the country is so self sustaining that it does not feel it requires to change. As well as the people being quite inflexible.

Which is why Japan is now behind Korea in electronics.
Very slick. Nice touch adding the delay between scrolling and moving the other page. Your logo looks like StackOverflow's, is there a relationship between the two? Otherwise I'd consider changing it.

Also, the save/download buttons (the first thing I look for in an app like this) are hidden behind a sliding panel. Move them front and center!
Lower fees, and no divulgement of personal financial details, make it awesome for micropayments.
I'm currently learning CSS, and it really all seems like dirty hacks to me. margin: o auto;? So I can't tell this to just horizontally center itself automatically?

Don't get me wrong, I love dirty hacks, just not if they're forced onto me. I guess in a couple of weeks stockholm syndrome will set in, and I'll love it, but for the beginner, especially if you're moving there from either design (What, I need to hack things to get this typography display right?), or programming (What, I need to learn a whole bag of tricks to get the site to style properly?), CSS seems like that dirty pimp down the street to you. Yeah, he's fabulous, but he always wants you to do tricks for him.
time > money
I vote we change the name from CSS to PWL. PWL is, of course, Puzzle Web Language. This is what I hate about CSS: it's a jigsaw puzzle that must be brute-forced.

The fact that this exists and is lauded as clever rather than being ridiculed for its opaqueness really gets my goat.
This is why I'm really hesitant to use popular libraries like Flurry.

I'm making a kids game & really want to respect the kids' privacy. I can't hand the keys to all that data & possible backdoors to some "free" third party library & just trust they will play nice.
Doesn't hurt to dream. Maybe a controller somewhere on the grid got compromised (SCADA?) as someone generously performs a series of hi-pot tests. Can't wait to move my operations to HK servers in spite of having nothing to protect other than maybe exercising a little 1st amendment.
"But without a reliable electrical system to run computers and keep them cool, the NSA’s global surveillance data systems can’t function. The NSA chose Bluffdale, Utah, to house the data center largely because of the abundance of cheap electricity. It continuously uses 65 megawatts, which could power a small city of at least 20,000, at a cost of more than $1 million a month, according to project officials and documents."

I'm wondering if the heat in Utah may have an effect on operations, in the desert it can get very hot and cold.
Wouldn't it be 0.666...?
Where would you rather work: a nuclear power plant, or a coal mine? I know I would rather work in a nuclear power plant; it is far safer.
I'm curious what are all the "Application Cache Progress event" showing up in the console? There's a different URL for each event but it doesn't seem to correspond to an actual HTTP request?
On the other side, you have scientists who do dangerous experiments on themselves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-experimentation_in_medicin...

For example, Dr. Jesse Lazear helped confirm that mosquitoes transmit yellow fever by letting infected mosquitoes bite himself and then dying of yellow fever.

And then there's Dr. Werner Forssmann who developed cardiac catheterization by putting a catheter in his arm and guiding it into his own heart. He then walked up the stairs to the X-ray department to get a picture as proof. He got fired for doing this, but later got the Nobel Prize.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you're over-thinking the problem this will cause you. It's understood that most startups end up dying. Additionally, you have other companies listed on your resume, so I'm not sure what there is to worry about.

If you're concerned, I might add a note on your resume that this startup formally ceased operations on X date.
I flew from Australia in 2011 for it and have no regrets. At the time though I was very new to the startup scene.

Like any conference most of the value is derived from the networking rather than the speakers/presentations. Keeping in mind the target market, expect to see a lot of undergrads and startup newbies.

That being said the talks are still amazing and there are some more senior guys that go.
Here's what I'm sad about. Does every single web and mobile app that gets made by anyone these days now require an extensive knowledge of how to do security right? If so, that sucks, given how big the field is. Or do we all need to go and hire tptacek for a quarterly security audit? I imagine that can get quite expensive. It really gets in the way of just making things and putting them up; I think kind of kills the spirit of creation and entrepreneurship. :( I mean, it's great for people who are truly interested in security, but what if you're not? Are you doomed to fail at the startup game if you don't know security well?
This isn't a real problem, don't worry about it.
When I was 13 (2005) I would have LOVED to do something like this. I tried to reach out for some experience but all that got me was a job making a website for a local charity (wildlife sanctuary society). I think I was 12 at that time. I already was making my own things but that drove me even further to run projects that I could call my own.
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Hi deeths, my site leaves it up to the seller (or buyer) to comply with restrictions on the usage of software. This seems to be how ebay deals with this issue as well. For example, there is a lot of used software on ebay that has restrictions regarding where software can be used (only in N. America, etc.)

The difference between my site and ebay is that because my company is based exclusively in Europe, my site isn't bound by the Vernor v Autodesk ruling and instead relies on the UsedSoft v Oracle ruling, at least when it comes to EU citizens. This is what allows my site to let EU citizens resell their used iOS apps or even their used Steam games. Other than the UsedSoft v Oracle issue, my site operates pretty much like ebay regarding software usage restrictions.
Reminiscent of "why do our centrifuges keep tearing themselves apart?"
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This Hacker News thread will likely be the most human thought ever expended on this portion of your resume, by a factor of lots. You're overestimating how much the recruiter cares about individual line items in your work history. (Heck, many of them will not even bother to check a single one of your references.)

In the highly unlikely event that it comes up in the interview, you simply say "<What I did and why this demonstrates my ability to increase your company's revenue or reduce its costs> The firm subsequently went out of business."

Many, many people in our industry have resume line items from organizations which are no longer going concerns. One would hope your recruiter has adjusted to this reality. If not, I might file that under "Dodged a bullet."
HTC 8S Windows Phone
Boldly coloured design - with its “colour-dipped” accents for an eye-catching, playful look
High-performing battery - an optimized battery that lasts as long as you
Studio-quality sound and entertainment - with Beats Audio built-in
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It's an extremely misleading half-truth. Worse, Q must be an order of magnitude greater than 1 IIRC to be economically viable.
So your advice to kids who want to succeed in life would be to aim low?
How will that help, do i know you?
We need more kids like you! I see kids these days with their heads down in their mobile device playing games, facebook, instagram, snapchat and what not! They are wasting precious time. Time that will never come back!!!
They really shouldn't be.
Would fusion only weapons be covered under any existing non-proliferation or test ban treaties?
I came across codementor.io
Ahhh the hatin' HN crowd. For what it's worth - I've built this bit of CSS over and over but seeing so uniquely presented was great. Thanks for that.
ShowKit is Hiring Talented Developers
Yes, but you need to click through from Google or else fake your referrer or something.
People are hostile because they're tired of Microsoft holding things back. These decisions, while reasonable, ultimately don't add up to good decisions. They're not obligated to do anything else, but I'm not obligated to be nice about it.
Focusing on Fruit Flies, Curiosity Takes Flight
A good question is how the engineer implemented a half-baked crypto system with 1990s style flaws in the first place. Considering the startup is relatively well funded.

Ignorance? Lack of research? Lack of industry best standards?

This seems to keep happening all the time.

Although most programming in general is full of hackery and rookie code used in production. So that itself isn't alarming. I'm just curious if it's the security industry itself is particularly in need of better communication of best practices and things to avoid.

Maybe more work with designers/writers to create online guides is needed.
The reason this is clever is because CSS wasn't intended to be used to draw shapes. You would use HTML5's canvas element to do that. Instead this shows how you can hack a simple border property to make a DOM element look like a triangle.
> total energy dumped into the entire system: 1.7 megajoules. In comparison, the fusion power produced was a paltry 8 kilojoules

In other words, the National Ignition Facility hasn't achieved ignition yet.

If you can actually achieve ignition, then nobody will care about the megajoules needed to get it ignited. Because once you've got ignition, you can get an arbitrary amount of energy out.

But if you can't get ignition, well, then, that pesky 0.3% heating efficiency will still leave you a couple of orders of magnitude away from engineering breakeven.
Yeah, stop volunteering to be a canary.
This is excellent. I'll add this to the article so everyone can read it all. Thanks for taking the time out to search for and put it up.
Chesterton is a great writer that ought to be better known.