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From the OP: "So, What Are Sponsored Comments?"

> Sponsored Comments let businesses deliver a message to the people they need to reach. A Sponsored Comment can use all types of media to get their point across, just like any other Disqus comment. But they’re not part of the discussion happening on that thread or community itself. That’s too disruptive.

So instead, they’re pinned to the top of the discussion environment where things are just getting started. It’s like movie previews.

So...why not call them by their old fashioned name: "ads"? I don't disapprove of ad-based models, but something seems a bit disingenuous to use the term "Comments" when they are not "comments" at all. Unless users are able to respond to them and not have their comments hidden.

It's hard to imagine advertisers being happy about users getting to attach negative comments onto the ads. And if those threads get to be a snark train, then that pushes all the regular discussion down even further. So either the "sponsored comment"-discussions are hidden, or advertisers AND site-users are inconvenienced.
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That's what http://www.deadmansswitch.net/ (disclosure: I wrote it) does, it also has configurable intervals so you can make them as short or as long as you want. It sends you an email every interval, and, if you don't reply to any of them, it sends your messages.
Indeed. I don't agree with Eich's personal views on gay marriage, but I'm kind of disappointed that everybody seems to be cool with getting people fired because they stood up for their personal views.

People are comfortable with his firing because they feel his views are "wrong", but pretty much all progressive views, by definition, started out as "wrong" as well...
Actively contributing to a campaign to crush individual rights is a pretty strong indicator that as a CEO he'd have trouble living up to all sorts of equal-opportunity employers requirements.

The actual policies of the organization he helped to run would suggest exactly the opposite.
I agree with @manmeet that the algorithm for the sentiment analysis has to be great; the search algorithm also has to be tremendous to convince me to switch from Google or DuckDuckGo. To avoid the challenge of making a new search engine, maybe you could build a plugin?

Somewhat similar sentiment analysis, for terms rather than unique entities:
http://www.whatdoestheinternetthink.net
I'm confused why this is on the front page. The title left me with the impression that this post was about someone quitting to live for Monday aka the start of the work week in most parts of the world, and doing something else.

On clicking the link, I found a blog post with 50 reasons the author of the post came up with for shuttering his business that was called "Living for Monday".

I didn't read the list, just skimmed through the top few and there was nothing profound there.

Just fyi for others.
>This is the free market at work

The free market sometimes leads to a not-so-free market, which is ultimately bad for consumers. This is the entire reason there is anti-trust law.
What about traffic from Google?

For any existng online platform that's already established itself on the web, you're probably seeing 50%+ of your traffic coming from Google and a big chunk of that will be mobile. Some of your userbase may be loyal enough to your brand to want to install your app but the rest will be lost if you don't have a decent mobile web presence.

In short: apps vs mobile web? Both
"Don't roll your own parsers" should really be up there with "Don't roll your own crypto". This advisory is scant on details, but this extension protocol[0] neither looks complex nor beyond mechanical code generation to me. Just simple enough to be dangerous. And it's pretty new, so this must be recently authored vulnerable code.

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-dtls-heartbeat-04
What's your basis for claiming this is an often occurrence? I have no doubt that there are nightmare airbnb hosts, but often is hardly warranted. I've lived as a roommate in a unit where the master tenant rents out on airbnb and in the dozens of interactions, I can think of at most one case where the person what an inconvenience to me and I can think of no cases where the person was an inconvenience to our neighbors.
Does couchdb have something that provides fine-grained control over the db models, like flask-restless does(https://flask-restless.readthedocs.org/en/latest/customizing...)? I didn't find anything in their documentation or on google.
1. If you decrease the text size on a kindle, you can display quite a bit of text on each screen.

2. E-books don't have a concept of "pages." They're essentially responsive html documents, and should be full of links (both internal and external).
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I believe that's the case, and that we're in agreeement. I owe you a coffee.
(Manhattan prices) A good studio apartment will be $2000-2500 a month. A one bedroom would be $3000+.
as long as the local authorities support it... and as long as "Dateline" doesn't run a special on the AirBNB killer...

Sure, they have a head start, but the various problems haven't been fleshed out nor resolved. And, there is going to be a very active resistance from many sectors (for good reason).

I might be wrong, and not to rain on parades and such, but I just don't see that valuation level reflecting reality at all.
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> no one should be made to apologize for a belief that half of the country

He wasn't made to apologize.
>And if I prefer apps to the ad-ridden, third-party-tracking-code infested web pages, so be it

Cool. And now, I'd like to introduce you to the world of ad-ridden, third-party-tracking-code infested apps.
Just so you know, apps are also using any number of third party tracking services, and many are also ad-ridden.

Not to mention that apps usually have more/deeper access to your personal information.
>But even the best mobile websites really are second-tier to solid (not even top tier) native apps.

This goes back to his original point , no one really has strong incentive to make mobile web performance better. The two primary gatekeepers (apple, google) are benefiting hugely from their app stores in terms of profit and pushing their agenda.
This isn't intolerance of intolerance. It's punishment for a small donation six years ago. If Eich were running around being a dick to gay Mozilla employees, nobody would disagree with firing him. But he's not. People are attacking him for his political sympathies, not for being intolerant. (In fact, Eich's behavior at Mozilla was exemplary. I have never heard of any instances where he had trouble tolerating gays or liberals.)

When we talk about "intolerance of intolerance" being OK, we're being a bit flip. What is actually meant by the phrase is that it's OK to make people act tolerant, even if they aren't naturally inclined to do so, in order to preserve a particular group's rights. They can hold whatever opinions they want, but they have to be civil. But Eich was already doing that. He was even one of the people who helped draft Mozilla's inclusiveness guidelines. This was just punishment because Eich held a particular opinion, not because he was actually having trouble tolerating gays in the organization.
Why does it need to be a criminal issue though instead of merely a civil contract law issue?

I would imagine that each landlord and each homeowner's association could come to their own agreements on what is and is not acceptable without the need for laws on the books.
Hmm, I am the opposite. Infact, the reddit mobile site is one of the few mobile web apps I use on a daily basis.
I really wish anyone at all would acknowledge that not everyone who had a problem with his donation wanted him out of a job. People are too eager to combine everyone into two faceless mobs when the arguments were far more nuanced than two mindless binaries.

The general wave of anti-gay equality campaigns didn't start or stop with prop 8. It began as a reaction to some of the early victories of the pro-equality movement. My own state tried to make it legal for businesses to deny service to me just a few weeks ago. His donation exists in a context where people are still suffering from the constant assault on their status as equal citizens.
Apps are usually better in every way than web sites (I'd love a good HN app for my iPhone). If I visit a site frequently, I'd want an app for it.

But for infrequently used sites, the hassle isn't worth the benefit.
Also the data is tied to the id
Do you believe gay people being allowed to marry negatively affect you? If so, how?
We own a Roku 2 XD and a Roku LT, both about 2.5 years old. Both worked great for ~ 6 months and then... something changed and they haven't worked well since.

I used to have one of the originals, it was great.
I'm sure many supporters of Brendan Eich's ouster are completely sincere, but it's difficult to explain the intensity of their feelings on this issue. It can't be as simple as "civil rights" and "marriage equality"; for example, (first) cousin marriage is important to many groups—indeed, in Islam cousin marriage is not only allowed, it's often preferred [1]—but it is illegal in most states [2]. And yet, I rarely see advocates of "marriage equality" get all lathered up over this issue. Are advocates of "marriage equality" in favor of legalizing cousin marriage? If not, why not? If so, why have they not worked harder to achieve it?

I see no way to resolve this paradox from within the context of progressive ideology, but it's trivial to explain once you view it from the outside. As the example of cousin marriage shows, the behavior of Eich's purgers is not consistent with mere "civil rights" and "marriage equality", but it is consistent with signaling tribal membership, seizing political power, and smashing their enemies.

As it happens, right now gay marriage is an effective club with which progressives can beat conservatives. At some point, this may also be the case for cousin marriage—I can easily imagine opponents of cousin marriage someday being branded "Islamophobes", just as today opponents of gay marriage are branded "homophobes". But I predict that this will happen if, and only if, it serves progressive political ends.

[1]: http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Cousin_Marriage_in_Islam

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_law_in_the_Unit...
Why do you think so?

There has been serious improvement in many areas of mobile web/browser support in the last 12 odd months; for what I've seen. Thanks to Android, Chrome, Firefox and Dolphin.
thanks for wasting my time
when you will be able to integrate web into mobile OS then we will be talking. Mobile just in a browser window is unexciting and cumbersome. Mobile Internet, I wouldn't call it so much the web but more like integrated experience can bring so much more to the mobile platform. but it would take another Apple with Steve Jobs to implement it(IMO). Basically it is unploughed field and investment need is of investment of epic proportion of research and monetary kind. The whole look and feel of mobile OSes has to change.
Mobile Internet is kind of boring when it is contrained to just one of little boxes on the screen, if mobile has access to OS services that would another thing.

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> While native has had roughly seven years lead

Nope, it has not. Remember, web apps were first on iPhone, before native third party apps. And that's not to mention "common" web.

Also, the roots of HTML5 go back to 2004 when whatwg was formed.

> when it comes to providing quality online experience,
> web apps can beat native easily.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Anyone speaking this: please, find a time and get familiar with native SDKs. You absolutely have no clue how far far far behind web tech for apps is. Just do not forget that being capable to do something does not imply that this capability if pleasant to work with, performant enough, or at all useable.
I lost my hope that web-tech-for-mobile will ever go past "which mvc framework to use" stage.
As someone who just went through the internship process with a few different companies, I find this fascinating. This is pretty much what I expected going into the experience (multiple interviews, at least 1-2 coding questions/examples to do, a test maybe). Out of the few companies I interviewed from, I had nothing as intense as this. The majority of them didn't even test coding/theory knowledge at all. They were just simple interviews that lasted 2-5 hours. The hardest part of any interview was a freaking mental acuity standardized test I took at the company who I'll be working for that wasn't hard, so take the term "hardest" lightly. Good news is I accepted an offer at that smaller engineering company! A good portion of my interviews were for engineering companies because of the employers my university attracts, so that could also have affected the technical parts of the interview.

I'm not sure how I feel about how many interviews and how long this process is. I know some of my fellow students would be completely blindsided by such a long process unless it was clearly laid out. The compensation seems nice from the companies that hire around here (I go to a predominately STEM university in the Mid-West and all the companies I interviewed with came to our career fair in February, which is pretty late in the process). I'll make just over half that much monthly, but it'll be June-December and in STL. The highest I've heard from my classmates is 7k/month, but that was from Exxon Mobile and there was very little technical parts of the interview. He did have to take a hair test for drugs though. Ideally, I believe most of the larger corporations, like Boeing, Monsanto, etc, (like the article said) start interviews after the fall career fair.

Another side note about compensation: Seems to be pretty wide spread between 13-30/hr (without adding in housing) at companies around the Midwest. I don't exactly have the greatest academic credentials though (3.0 gpa), so some of the more selective companies may pay more, especially for graduating seniors. Exxon-Mobile being the highest, Boeing right in the middle of that range, and a local ISP looking for a non-coding cs major on the low end for the curious.

edit: Just adding in details as I get time.

FORGOT THE MOST ANNOYING THING

I was given the offer on Friday and he needed an answer on Monday, else he was going to extend the offer to other candidates. This was pretty obnoxious to me, but I ended up taking the offer because I was interested in it more than my other potential offers, but seriously, recruiters, a weekend is not enough time to get back to you with an offer, especially when other companies are asking you to keep them notified with enough time that they can either speed things up or not waste time on a candidate.
Great suggestions. I've been meaning to take a deeper dive into Wit.ai for a while now. It seems like their intents-entities architecture would actually fit in pretty cleanly with Jasper.

As an aside: I don't think it'd be difficult to developer Jasper modules that use Wit without modifying much of the original source (as long as the speech-to-text systems pick up on the text you'd need to pass to Wit).
This sums up my original comment perfectly, thanks.
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Maybe they weren't making any money. If that's the case, the product would probably die eventually anyway, like Everpix, for instance. I guess that's the issue with these bittersweet acquihires. Tough to tell what the alternative is.
So you're saying that the main disadvantage with rent control is that poor people can afford the rent?
Also, as someone pointed out in the comments of the article, if you count video games in the "time spent in apps", then really it's the gaming consoles and devices that are losing out, not mobile websites, so the discrepancy between web and apps is overstated.

As always, look at the data for your own website/service before deciding which path to take.
What nonsense. You want a dialogue with every racist, sexist and homophobic jerk in the country, you are welcome to it -- and good luck.

Western society by and large has decided that certain issues are no longer up for "dialogue". Racism is wrong. Sexism is wrong. 61% of young republican (18-29) leaning voters support marriage equality -- which means this issue is actually settled, just waiting a few generations for old homophobic people to shuffle off this mortal coil.

Until you get on here and vigorously defend holocaust deniers, racists and sexists who materially support such perspectives, I am prone to believe you have another agenda here.
Wait, why is it defense for him to speak in favor, and attack for others to speak against? Don't mass speech and boycotts constitute a "nonviolent political stand"?
Agree in general. This is worrisome. However, (1) is most probably exaggerated. On mobile, you have an unbelievably broad selection, this will never become an oligopoly. But big players will get bigger. Anyway, Firefox OS may become a promising alternative, althought it comes with some of the same downsides.
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Time spent is a very tricky measure, and OP is making the mistake of taking it too seriously. Games, social/chat, video, especially porn always take more time than anything else, and mobile apps are enjoying their time...
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Wow, yea now I see why they get payed so much. A solid 2 bedroom around me is like 500-800.
I saw their talk at Siggraph in 2012. This is really interesting work.

The target image processing algorithms are low level. Think "How can I write the fastest 3x3 box blur for Sandy Bridge and later architectures", not "How can I speed up my face detector".

Examples of scheduling decisions that Halide deals with:
process image in 4x4? 8x8? 16x16 chunks?
use a temporary buffer for an intermediate processing stage, causing worse cache behavior but reusing results that are needed more than once?
use a sliding window the size of a couple rows as a compromise?

This kind of work means the difference between a laggy or interactive Gaussian Blur radius slider in Photoshop.

The Halide code shown at the talk was replacing really hard-to-read code with lots of SIMD compiler intrinsics. Dozens of lines of code doing something that would be 5 lines in a naive implementation. With Halide, it's almost as readable as the naive version because the scheduling stuff is separated from the algorithm.

For an application like Photoshop, this is a big win because they will never choose code readability over performance. Performance wins every time. If they can get the same performance with readable code, they are very happy.

GPU code generation falls naturally out of the scheduling intelligence and restricted problem domain.

I have never used Halide, so I do not intend to endorse it, but this line of inquiry is absolutely useful for a certain niche of programming.
Ironic, perhaps, but not oxymoronic.
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Hi nateday, thanks for your comments. The idea here is not to build a new search engine per se. Suppose you are looking for reviews, what you normally do is go to google and type "something reviews".

Instead we want you to go to our page, search for the entity and then get a condensed view using reviews on the web for your search query.
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So the numbers are simplified to make it easy to follow the general point. If they line up _that_ neatly, they usually are.
The way I interpreted it was more, failure in VC terms is "not blowing up".

That $15 mil investment might be acquihired, or continue to be unexcitingly profitable, or put up on the chopping block for its patent portfolio. They might not even lose money, but.

Also keep in mind that VC funds as an asset class are historically a bad investment: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/05/07/most_venture_... http://avc.com/2013/02/venture-capital-returns/

It's not just that the VC expects the average startup to fail; it's also expected that the average VC fails - or at least underperforms the S&P500.
Looks like a good use case for Hammer: https://github.com/UpstandingHackers/hammer
Think something like messages with behavior[1]. Think objects where behavior is implemented in properties: a single "makeItSo" property for example.

Every object has the exact same behavioral interface. The exact same behavioral interface means there is no specialization: every message looks the same. We can compose programs (behavior) by hooking up objects/messages as opposed to coding them. This is because we have 100% encapsulation[2]. We need to know nothing about the internal working of an object since it has no parameterized subroutines.

The abstraction for passing information between sub-systems are these messages (every object is a message) as opposed to parameterized subroutines.

[1] We could call it message-oriented programming (not to be confused with message-oriented software/frameworks).

[2] Even a single parameterized method leaks some of the internal workings of an object and leads to specialization of the objects interface. This also leads to tightly coupled software systems.
Part of the reason why people prefer "apps" to mobile websites is speed.

Mobile website, infact normal websites are large, clunky and not designed for fingers, or high latency.
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>Why should the app stores decide what can and cannot be on our phones

This is not a freedom problem. You have the freedom to buy an Android device, and you have the freedom to install any apk you want without ever even opening the Google app store. Moreover, Google even allows 3rd party app stores on their devices.

And of course these new players are acting as middlemen, but you are forgetting the fundamental difference, and this is what has changed the game. Anybody can publish their app, virtually for free. There are no gatekeepers, who decide what gets published and what doesn't, anymore.
The mobile web experience is just not good enough yet.

But we've seen this pattern multiple times over the past 15+ years, the open web by its very nature needs time to catch up.

It doesn't mean that the current state of affairs is final.

It took the open web over a decade to start making proprietary "rich media" solutions like Flash obsolete. These things take time.

Open web will never be at the lead of innovation, it just provides the foundation for it. Also, most mobile apps still use the web to be networked. The browser is not the web.
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See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
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I don't understand why the "angry internet mob" is any different from thousands of people boycotting a company for unfair labor practices, or doing a sit-in somewhere, or picketing? How is the internet mob different from these other forms of nonviolent political activism?
Which is easier to code: a mobile app or a mobile website? The tools are much better for the mobile app and it is much easier to do cool stuff. Plus the testing time is much quicker. Path of least resistance and biggest wow.
I was expecting the service to utilize uber drivers between picking up and dropping of traditional customers the same way commercial jets carry airfreight. None the less I think it will be interesting to see if business will switch to uber from their traditional couriers.
It would also add a lot of legal complexities to the buying process.

For example, what happens when "Cover" is discontinued, but it got bought for the underlying technology? It needs to be open sourced because of that.