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There are alternatives to AdSense, but the key here is to recognize that AdSense enjoys its favorable position in part by sourcing advertiser demand from other platforms. There is a massive and creative ecosystem around developing technology to suit (and sometimes to drive) the mercurial wishes of ad agencies. So Google captures this through partnerships. Ad demand that's actually originated by Google sales is very significant and very high quality, but there's no doubt that Google is simultaneously interested in serving its own wholly owned properties.

The best thing to do is to build relationships with 5-9 high quality ad platforms and waterfall them through passback tags, one to the other.

Good platforms include, but are certainly not limited to:

AOL
x+1
AppNexus
Turn
MediaMath
AudienceScience
Criteo
The Trade Desk

If you're lucky, you can satisfy all requests without sending a single impression over to AdSense.

If your domain is delivering fewer than 100m impressions monthly, it's unlikely that the companies noted above will be keen to put personnel on your account, and may not be able to work with you at all.

However, with intelligent switching, keen arbitrage, and an aggressive performant waterfall (e.g., you never actually want to pass a request to more than two or three of these or you'll see packet loss that exceeds the positive delta you'd have obtained by accessing yet another ad platform) you can do very well without using AdSense. The company I mentioned below, Publir, was cofounded by me about five years ago and does what we think is a rather good job of this. Sites like The Atlantic and others use us for their ads.

We're also terrific fans of BuySellAds, whose self-serve platform is second to none. There, your goal is simply to do direct outreach to advertisers likely to covet your audience. Even the finest brand-name publishers only sell about 30% of their ads this way, though, so your expectations ought not be too high.
It's got more to do with the audience for the sport. Golf is played all over the world. On the other hand, a famous American Football quarterback could travel incognito in most of the world, because the international audience for American football is tiny by comparison.
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production of more long-term housing is already hugely incentivized but severely limited due to anti-development regulations and activism
As a developer and user, I love this. For many small apps, it just doesn't make sense to ask people to create a username/password, but I still want a way of authenticating them. This move gives me a way to leverage Facebook for that without users giving up any privacy. A total win/win.
I think they're doing a great job grouping and ordering their videos according to common standards. I find myself jumping around trying to figure out what I need to learn less often.
Food-borne, yes; but doesn't Toxoplasma gondii need to pass through a cat before it gets into the food?
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The best way to get the Senate to make patent reform a priority is a Samsung-induced sales injunction on iPhones. The outrage would be immediate, and we'd have this resolved in weeks instead of years or decades (if we ever do "resolve" it).

Unfortunately, I don't think such an injunction is in the cards. It would hit home enough in that it'd inconvenience them personally, which would spur immediate action.
The most important thing FB can do is win universal login. And the #1 thing it can do to promote that is restore some faith in its privacy commitment. This is a very smart move.

Of course let's see how they implement it. If the process is too complex, it won't work for users. Given their reputation on privacy - it will be hard to recover. But (almost) no other company has as good a shot at this opportunity.
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BTW, you can already see a shift in the industry from calling out the antibiotic use as a growth enhancement, to calling it a preemptive use to prevent sickness. It just happens that when you collect animals together in high density feedlots to fatten them up - it does create increased illness rates - in addition to being a vector for breeding and spreading resistant bacteria.

So the label has changed, but the end effect of pouring tons of antibiotics into conditions that breed resistance is still there unless we change conditions in feedlots.
Yeah -- with Publir, we want to speak with every applicant first. But aside from that, it is more or less as simple as us generated a <script> tag and sending that over.
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When are we going to hear the news?

> In a move to bolster its new 'Anonymous' strategy, Facebook has acquired 4chan for $30 billion in an all-cash deal

> "It's been an incredible journey", said 4chan founder Christopher Poole at a press conference in Menlo Park, CA. "Our anonymous users have been the driving force behind 4chan, and we look forward to bringing that experience to Facebook"
Some bugs already exist. We don't want to breed any more.
At the risk of not adding much of substance to this conversation, I do feel compelled to point out how happy (giddy, even!) it makes me to see so many people jump right on this and investigate, and in part just for the hell of it.

It's infectious!

I'm here because I share many of the interests of the people here, and I'm convinced that a big reason why I started 'hacking' more and more over the past years, in part just for the hell of it, is because of the enthusiasm I find in comment sections for links like these.

Some links show me tricks I didn't know or tools/libraries/frameworks I haven't used before. Some make me curious to try different programming languages. Some articles go way over my head but make me strive harder to get better at whatever it is the article is about. And some, like this one, make me want to code or tinker just for fun.

I just wanted to say that once, and this seemed like an appropriate moment. Move along.
There's no such thing as "default price pressure" (up or down) in financial markets.

Every trade has both a buyer and a seller—for someone to have sold bitcoins, someone else has to have bought them.
We actually implemented Facebook Connect for April Fool's back in 2010. It was a real app and posted your 4chan post(s) to your Facebook wall.

EDIT: Here's a screenshot -- http://i.imgur.com/p0peJp6.png
The best part was the reviews. They were all either 1 or 5 stars. People were shocked it actually worked.
But if the price is mainly based on that, it's nothing but a tulip bubble. I don't think we get sustainable value unless people are actually using it as currency to buy things.
> So, why even make them log in?

As a programmer, I surely hope you don't think the only purpose of user accounts is to gain personal information.

Hacker News does not ask for personal information. Does that mean we shouldn't have to log in on HN?
I think a lot of people argue that the "English Rule" makes sense. The only people I've seen argue against it are... lawyers. Unfortunately, the lawyers do have a small point, in that "loser pays" means that a less-wealthy plaintiff will probably be less likely to even file.
It looks like they updated their site's description to reflect this, at least for DuckDuckGo: http://i.imgur.com/q7JbbBv.png
Sounds like he's moving the goal post. When did the conversation change from "Bitcoin is going to change everything!" to "Bitcoin itself doesn't matter, it's the blockhain idea that does!"
The only "outs" therefore are the greater fool theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory) or a pyramid scheme structure.

Or, perhaps all of this price-mongering is the wrong way to look at things. Consider this: BTC success should instead be measured in transactions / day. The only people who care about BTC per $$$ are speculators.
I think, especially in emerging markets, merchants will eventually hold bitcoin.
> The Bitcoin price is falling because the Google Trends search volume is going down.

This is some serious correlation/causation confusion. What do you think is causing the Google search volume to decrease?
My responses are directly to the comments they were in response to. So that comment was in response to:

> So only a few types of mail generate a loss, and it is a loss of $1.7B, and advertising mail generates a profit of $5.7B, yet as a whole USPS operates at a loss of $8.5B. This doesn't leave me with much faith in their self-assessment of the profitability of specific types of mail.

Because you switched from 'is X subsidized' to 'well...if X is profitable, it must be because they cannot perform accurate accounting'.

They are both profitable categories of mail and neither are 'subsidized'. The 'subsidized categories' are those that are losing money.
"So I'm going to change my hiring practices to take that into account."

As an employee, I expect managers to change their opinions when provided with evidence and/or cogent arguments. You've passed, well done.
That's the best situation, since they know the content and can segment their content very effectively. YouTube Partners and VEVO can get premium pre-roll ads because it's considered to be premium content. Content that gets flagged or has negative keywords in the title, desc, or comments may get no ads at all.

Any publisher can do this on their own. They can sell their own ad space at a premium, and use an ad network throughout the rest of the site -- it's called "remnant" inventory. If someone writes profanity or uploads something for that page, them switch the ads off, or use a different ad network that will tolerate that. High traffic sites frequently use multiple ad networks to maximize revenue yield.
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> I guess I just don't see the point of requiring a user account if it isn't adding value to either the user or the app creator.

It adds plenty of value for the user: they get a logon to the app which allows them to keep information across sessions, while not providing the app vendor any information unnecessary to that function.

It provides a authentication as the same person without providing identification of who that person is.

Now, obviously, anonymous login provides less value to app developers who are using using logins to harvest personal information from users, but then, that's a plus for users.
What is the point of this? I don't want to have to login with facebook at all. If some site has facebook login requirements I simply don't use that site anymore.

If you use facebook login for your site then you are shooting yourself in the foot if you care about users.
> If you don't have a LinkedIn profile, I assume you're either very junior, shady, or clueless, and none of those is good

Or is more concerned with getting shit done that managing some bullshit online identity across a dozen media sites (and growing).
We've had some folks request to be paid out in Bitcoin. We're open to doing this once we have a handful more (or so) ask for it... the tricky thing is that you then have to play the exchange rate game and withdraw money from BuySellAds when it's "favorable" for you to do so, since the advertisers aren't actually paying you in Bitcoin.
> Yes, by one important economic metric, China wins.

I know you mean that a bit sarcastically, but some people really thing that way.

Don't we win too? If your business partner grows wealthier, isn't that good for you? I want all my business partners to become fabulously wealthy.

It is true that, when it comes to politics (which includes armed conflict), it's better if your enemy is poor.
Hi, Michael! I agree it is hard to quantify, but many things are.

A good analogy is deferred maintenance [1]. That's where you fail to maintain something like a building or a piece of machinery. There's a new and complicated federal standard for measuring it. [2]

Measuring technical debt for software is especially hard, because we don't measure much else about it. Programmers sit around coding, presumably creating a valuable asset. But it's hard to say what the value is, so we mostly don't. That makes it even harder to estimate how bad code reduces the value of that asset.

One easy proof that it's more than a fuzzy metaphor, though, is how often people declare technical bankruptcy. There's the total rewrite, our equivalent of Chapter 7. [3] And we have the partial rewrite and the cleanup around a major new version, both akin to Chapter 11. [4]

I agree that some of those rewrites are driven by new use cases just being so wildly different than the old ones that it's on longer the same system. But a lot of what I'd call technical debt would have to be cleaned up for most likely changes.

One could look at it from an "if we don't change it, the debt never counts" perspective, which makes the debt look as if it isn't real. But I have yet to see a software project that keeps running for an extended period without anybody wanting to change it, so I think that perspective is a false hypothetical.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_maintenance

[2] http://www.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_42.pdf

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_7,_Title_11,_United_Sta...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_11,_Title_11,_United_St...
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This works fine when you're doing stills with simple scenes. When you've got GBs/TBs of external assets in the form of source geometry and texture data, all nodes need access to the same source data.

Once you start doing Monte Carlo path tracing and need decent sampling, you've also got to be careful that each node is generating the seeds for the random number generator correctly, otherwise you get patterns in the noise when you piece them back together.

For animated stuff, you're better off distributing the different frames across the nodes instead of splitting up each frame.
Cool! I've used type classes in Haskell but had no idea how you could even start to implement them. It's like learning about vtable pointers for a C++ programmer.
When most merchants take bitcoin for a purchase,
they immediately sell for dollars.

This is ignoring the other side of the equation. For someone to spend bitcoins, they had to have bought them for cash.

Bitcoin has declined lately because of 3 main reasons:

1. There was a massive 10x price increase in the past year or so. (You could call this a bubble.) Now a 50% drop from the high just means a 5x increase in the past year.

2. Much of this growth was due to China speculation, and with the Chinese government cracking down on bitcoin ownership and exchanges, this pops much of the speculation.

3. Mt. Gox going insolvent.
My wife and I have been living on a $100 a month grocery budget for a few years now and are having no problems with it. Plenty of calories.
Is it really the combined views of the citizenry? Or is it primarily the views of a minority of wealthy landowners who have political influence more proportional to their wealth than their numbers?
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So basically fb gives each app a unique uid for that user so they can't be tracked across apps right? And returns no info for them?

Has anyone actually tried using this?
It's basically Facebook's version of OpenID/Persona. Single-sign-on without the hook into your FB data.
Promises are being moved to native implementations, so the lack of setImmediate isn't really a problem anymore.
Through our marketplace we don't track any personal or sensitive info about users, or use it to figure out which ads to display. The most sensitive info we use to show ads would be geo-location (just country...). Advertisers are selecting the sites they want to advertise with based on the sites topical area vs. us coming up with some magical algorithm that matches an ad with a user.
Why should one company control identity and authentication on the web?

What we really need is a decentralized identity platform.
"People" on HN see them as a spammy, shady mess. People I've talked to that work in different industries are mystified that I don't use LinkedIn. They love it.
Well, the fact that most useful development is illegal is a massive disincentive.
This book outlines various geopolitical climate change reactions. http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Wars-Fight-Survival-Overheats/...

The last scenario talks about, if I recall correctly, the oceans becoming more welcoming to bacteria that produce hydrogen sulfide. Sorry, I don't remember the details, but will update tonight from the book at home if I remember.
This may be true, but it is not the POV implied in OP's question.
As a german I can say that "Stoff" has different meanings. It can be used like cloth, but in other contexts it is used like material. For example there is "Stoffkunde" which it the study (Kunde) of materials (Stoffe). "Lesestoff" is reading (lesen) material.
This is the exact opposite of the product I want. The group I least want in control of my data is Facebook and their ever changing security/privacy policies.
Indeed, there are many folks doing this very successfully. It's certainly not for everyone though, and does require a bit of work. We actually work with a bunch of folks who are doing this successfully over at a side-project of ours: http://syndicateads.net
Why? Why wouldn't they just sell it immediately, for all the reasons why merchants sell it now?
While I agree in principle that when owned one should start from scratch, my advice would be to learn something. Often I am asked to analyse attacks and I now have a collection of about 15 malware scripts that not only show me the intent but they are also useful (and remarkably well coded) for my daily admin tasks.

So, fresh start but at least get something out of it!
> And even if bitcoin itself fails, I think the blockchain will be one of key technical innovations of this time period.

A blockchain is only useful if it is heavily secured by hashing power. This is only the case if there is significant mining equipment devoted to validating blocks. That in turn only happens if there is a reward for validating a block.

Long story short, it's currently very difficult to use a secure blockchain that is not based on Bitcoin, which puts the quote into perspective. Those who want to use blockchain technology have an incentive to use the Bitcoin blockchain because it has the greatest security.
It isn't what you mean, but DARPA does fund medical research, including treatments for infection. And USAMRIID ends up doing some research into treatments.
You know what really pisses me off? When any change to your profile gets broadcasted to your entire network. This needs to be off by default. My "feed" is inundated with updates with updates about people tweaking their title or personal information.
Will developers be able to reject customers who insist on anonymity? If not, I'm inclined to lean away from offering Facebook login.
As I said below, I had an extremely negative experience having someone in my building renting out their apartment on Airbnb. Of course, sample size of 1.
If you are getting products / services for free you have no right to demand that of them. Simply stop using facebook or any other social networking site for that matter.
Well, sitting here in China and observing its changes for 13 years so far, including the initial WTO membership rah-rah, I would counter much of the commentary here with the less obtuse statement that China is certainly the world's largest economy with some very interesting properties:
(1) The government roughly controls all of the economic statistics, and thus roughly controls international perspective on the economy. (Foreign organizations are not legally allowed to conduct independent market research.)
(2) The government roughly controls all the education and media, except small corners of the internet, and thus roughly controls domestic perspective on the economy.
(3) Foreign banks are heavily restricted, for example from providing many business-critical account services. (Despite WTO related promises)
(4) The government controls its own domestic settlement network, and apparently mandates its use for interbank payments. This nominally acts to preserve national privacy versus using standard international Visa/Mastercard and SWIFT networks while asserting strong control.
(5) Currently, as detailed in my OHM2013 talk at http://www.scribd.com/doc/215642587 the government is also aggressively asserting the RMB as a regional reserve currency.
First of all, I know what I am talking about; I published on the subject, I also created a working system (CRDT-based).

Second, in my understanding, transactions don't deal with partial order; they do linearization. That indeed requires a round-trip.

Third, I also sketched some OT-based solutions, so I saw both sides of the coin. According to my experience, OT is terribly complex and fragile. Basic principles are simple, but various concurrency issues make it a nightmare further down the road. Operations are rewritten in several places, all those rewrites are interdependent, partial failures create really tricky situations, etc.

Fourth, Google has a working OT stack, but they also have a working Paxos. They simply have too many brainy folks and too much of equipment/money, probably.

Fifth, all the problems OT solves by entangled op rewrite trickery can be trivially solved by brute force (not that much of force actually, see CRDT).

Sixth, the very notion of "intent" in OT was a really really big misnomer. "Intent" is OK for a legal term, but it is terrible for CS, as it has no intuitive formal meaning (as opposed to "convergence", for example).

Seventh, OT has a strong "magic factor". It is too smart kind of, so it strikes a spark of excitement in some folks. That is often a bad thing (see eg "digital fountains").
There are all manner of odd themes in the book. That Brad Katsuyama got paid exorbitant amounts of money to execute trades poorly for large institutions is presented as a virtue, even though his bonus came specifically from those large institutions profits we are so outraged that HFT is trading against.

My favourite one is a section where Lewis starts naming HFT algos and they invariably have names like Dagger, Viper, etc. yet he never seems to point out the HFT Brad Katsuyama created was named Thor.
You don't ban faster connections the same way you don't ban insider information. Faster connections and insider information will always exist. What you ban is trading on specific information that puts you at a substantially unfair advantage.

If I'm the CFO of company X I have an unfair advantage when it comes to making trades minutes before the quarterly results are release for my company.
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This sounds true, but it's not. First of all, the supply of bitcoins increases every day when they are created out of thin air.

Even without that factor, having a buyer and a seller doesn't mean that prices can't have a tendency towards a trend. People who purchase goods and services with bitcoins usually aren't making a calculated decision to sell bitcoins for dollars, but that's what they're doing when they pay with bitcoins.

Humans aren't rational actors, especially when you try to judge their actions in a single market without considering other motivations.
It just takes more planning ahead if you have a busy schedule. Stews and the like are pretty easy to make in a large batch or slowcooker.