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Ask HN: Anyone Has Experience with Adsense Host API?
How easy is to get approval?

I am planning to build website similar to http://hubpages.com/ or http://www.bubblews.com/.

But adsense host api has limitation that we need atleast 100K daily page views even to apply. So my query is till then can we use our adsense account and give out our user 1$ per thousand page views?

Is that against adsense policy?

After that will it be easy to get approval for host api once we reach 100K PV daily?

Thanks in Advance.
Shortest, most concise version of the right answer.

Science is the doubt and uncertainty part, not the results part. New and better results should always be celebrated, and when framed right, they are.

We need better science and liberal arts education for everyone. We no longer live in a world where it is optional.
I tend to agree, but the author picks an odd example. The Wallet Ninja appears to be a product in the vein of the swiss army knife, an IMMENSELY successful product.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_knife
Monads themselves are composable via bind, but the values encapsulated by the monad are not. Consider there is no real converse to the return operator: once something has been wrapped by a monad, then it is forever stuck in that monadic world. That can be rather annoying, because in languages such as OCaml (not sure about Haskell &c), monad-like interfaces are a convenient abstraction, yet using them leads to highly idiosyncratic code. Rather similar to the sync/async, red/blue distinction in the original article.
Yes yes, it would be terrible if US had actual consumer oriented regulation. Nothing says communism like $16 300Mbit Internet (http://giga-kablowka.pl this offering is possible directly because of tight regulation) in some ex soviet shithole of a country in middle/east Europe.
Why is it that everyone's first response seems to be along the lines of patting this guy on the back for his dedication to getting to work (an applaudable work ethic, to be sure) but no one condemns his employer for his abysmal hourly wage, which is what forces this ridiculous commute? According to TFA, he's a favorite of the company owners—but apparently not such a favorite that they can bump the wages of a worker who's been there for at least ten years into something approaching a living wage. They don't seem to have a problem with the healthcare problems this man is almost certainly creating for himself from the numerous ill effects of sleep deprivation.

We should all be disgusted by this.
> I can't fire my power company, nor can I ever really expect to gain that ability.

The same is true for many folks and Comcast or Time Warner - it's hardly unique to utilities. Here in Rochester, NY TWC is the only reasonable option for high-speed internet in most areas - the local phone company Frontier is crap, and the upstart fiber company is only in a few high-density spots thus far.

Meanwhile, your city and state governments can really give the power company a rough time if enough citizens are complaining.
I get what you're saying, but living in rural Indiana I could say yes basically. Our water, gas and power companies here locally are coop non profits and the employees are residents (and users themselves). The whole experience dealing with these entities are night and day when compared to say Comcast or Verizon.
My tap water is clean and delicious and I have never, ever had a problem with it. I have never experienced an unscheduled service interruption with my water, and scheduled service interruptions are very rare and advertised well in advance.

My electricity is stable and reliable, and any power outages I've experienced have been brief, and exclusively due to exceptional weather events.

I'm also a Comcast customer, and I would say that I have some sort of partial or total service interruption (internet is completely gone, or set top box stops working) on average, once every other week or so. These outages are usually relatively brief (a few minutes), but at least once a year I lose one or both services for 6 hours or more. Plus the internet speed varies wildly from "high-end dialup modem" at the low end, to "significantly less than the advertised value" at the high end. Needless to say, I have never actually experienced the advertised speeds.

If I got the same service from my utilities as I did from Comcast, I would end up brushing my teeth with raw sewage about once a month, and trying to toast bread would occasionally cause a power dip that would brown-out every other outlet in my house. I probably wouldn't be able to shower some nights because the cold water pressure would be unusably low, and I would have to reset every clock in my house a couple times a month. The one similarity is that I would still be unable to shop around for better service, because Comcast is the only option in my area.

If you want a TLDR, it's that I would figuratively kill to get Internet service that's even just half as good as my utility service, because right now my internet service is much worse than that.
A lot of them choose .NET because their CTOs chose it because a Microsoft account representative told them it was enterprise-grade and had full Microsoft support while playing golf.
I think another reason people jumped all over it was vegetarianism - less fat (especially saturated) equates to eating less meat. Whether you are a vegetarian for environmental (raising meat requires much more resources) or for ethical (PETA) you would want to latch on to the low fat thing because it agreed with you.
It's a crime that he only sleeps for two hours a day.
14 years old remotely exploitable bug found in glibc
What about FRP?
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Do you remember the other day when the FCC changed the definition of broadband to 25/3? If they can continue to do that, we would no longer be beholden to the ISPs upgrading out of the goodness of their hearts. They would upgrade whenever their regulating agency told them they had to.
The length of the blackout would probably need to be given to provide some perspective. 2 30 minute blackouts would be much easier to deal with than 1 3 day blackout.
Right on.

I recently deployed a fedwiki farm for my team after playing with it myself and catching just a whiff of the possibilities. I had a litany of complaints myself, but was compelled to press on due to the intriguing promise of the goals of the project.

While some issues stem from the fundamental design of tracking individual paragraphs, I believe many of the problems will be designed away with better client side programming or alternative UIs in time. With this rollout of fedwiki on the original wiki, I now think all the issues will be defended or fixed sooner than I thought.
Law does not operate in a vacuum because, in the end, it is closely tied to power - to fine, to jail, to sanction, to regulate and restrict - and that makes it scary when it becomes unhinged from a sense of principle in its application.

Is it wise, then, to grant unchecked, plenary power over the internet to the government in the name of trusting that those who currently exercise the F.C.C.'s power will exercise that power with self-imposed restraint? Lord Acton's dictum that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely comes to mind in considering the implications of this step. Once we grant that the F.C.C. has open-ended authority to do what it wants with the internet, where is the formal protection against abuse and who will exercise it. Certainly the courts will not. The Telecommunications Act being relied upon here certainly grants the formal authority to do this. Those who passed that Act did so 80 years ago and never contemplated that it would be so applied. But the courts will say, it was for Congress to make the law and for the appointed agency to administer it within the bounds laid out by the legislature, and that means this exercise of authority will be upheld. But so too will any attempt by the F.C.C. to impose detailed regulations over pricing, usage, and all sorts of other areas that those who favor a free and open internet clearly do not desire. Once this step is taken, all formal protections against abuses of this type are gone. What, then, is the remaining form of protection. It is that we choose to trust those who exercise open-ended power to use "restraint." They assure us they would never change the way things are. They will never succumb to the power and influence of lobbyists. They will never exercise so vast a power that is given to them without checks for any corrupt motive. After all, governments worldwide and throughout history have demonstrated that they can be trusted with unchecked power without abusing their citizens. And so we can all rest easily knowing that our benign government is and will always remain in good hands and will always keeps its promise. After all, who needs the formal protections of the rule of law when you can give all over to the discretion of leaders who will be wielding the very powers whose potential abuse we all fear. So, for those who want net neutrality at any cost, the end justifies the means and any fear in principle of giving unchecked theoretical power to an unaccountable governmental agency goes out the window in pursuit of the immediate goal of net neutrality and in trusting current leaders who tell us that they really never intend to use all those unchecked powers. I truly hope that is so but I am very saddened that people never learn the lessons of history about what can happen when political leaders suddenly find themselves with vast amounts of unchecked power.

The free internet we know today will be utterly dependent on their good graces. I for one am not so sanguine as others about where this may lead.
I've been using a combination of Ghostery and EFF Privacy Badger to some decent success.
I don't think net neutrality will dictate that support staff be located in America.
If the student knows enough to boot Linux and remove admin passwords why don't you just let them have admin access?
I understand all that (though it's useful to cover it for folks who might not know). But, is Python faster? It carries some baggage of its own. I guess PyPy may be able to make some sorts of problems faster, and it was still nascent at the tail end of when I was using Python; I think it existed, but was nothing more than a proof of concept. Even now, I think it's a pretty limited subset of Python deployments that use PyPy.

And, you speak of numerics, which is a good example of Python's wheel house. When I worked in Python it was at Enthought (the company run by the folks who created Numeric, SciPy, and who sponsors a lot of scientific computing Python projects). Perl definitely doesn't have the numbers performance of a hybrid Python+Fortran or Python+C++ system, like you can build with Python, Numeric, SciPy, etc.

So, even back then, Python was (probably) faster than Perl in that category (Perl has science and bioinformatics libraries, which may have been comparable back then, but certainly aren't now), and I guess it's unfair to compare Perl's strength to Python's weakness, and vice versa.

Nonetheless, I suspect Perl is not slower than Python in the general case. One would probably have to talk about specific tasks and implementations to figure it out.
This was discussed in my geology course at UBC. The prof was adamant that this was not a "true" tsunami, that it was a product of specific geology/geometry rather than a true sea-born wave triggered by geological-scale events. I guess he was correct in that this thing didn't have the total energy of a typical tsunami, but it was certainly enormous for those in the local area.
But in general, effects are not "the values encapsulated by the monad", so the fact that the values are "stuck" within the monad doesn't have any bearing on whether using monads to manage effects makes effects non-composable.
Aren't all those Microdata and Microformats things API's over HTML? Maybe those things could get another look by normal developers.

That said, the people at the IndieWeb[1] movement are makign heavy use of microformats2[2] to create beautiful HTML decentralized social networks.

[1]: http://indiewebcamp.com/

[2]: http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2
It's not by me and not from the wayback machine (might be integrated though), just hosted there. A crawl was requested in the archiveteam IRC channel a while ago and someone did it.
I can too, and then not have cable. At least with the utility company, I can put up PV panels and live off grid.
It's really not clear what you're asking for, but check out virtio-9p and novm.
I don't think you can call chocolaty a package manager as it does not (and, by the nature of Windows, can not) offer dependency resolutions in the way apt works. It might be better to call it a package downloader or a package installer.
The Subtle Brilliance of ‘Groundhog Day’
> The major problem is the influence of big corporations in funding studies and promoting certain points of view

If we cut government spending on science, then we are more dependent on private sources and their interests. Public funding is decided through a democratic process in the public's interest; private funders have their own interests and motivations, which even if altruistic might not be the best use of resources.
I agree. Arbitrary rules like this bug me especially since it reduces the number of passwords that a hacker has to try.
For a lot of people, they can't dump their cable company if they piss them off, because that's the only option they have available.
Sorry, but since the move to Intel it isn't "premium", it's just over-priced.
I think there's a very real truth to what he's saying. I find myself wholly skeptical whenever I hear about the results of any scientific discovery such as a breakthrough in cancer research or diet/health issues.

Partly to blame are media outlets rushing to publish "definitive" results to get a headline before overwhelming evidence that the results are in fact conclusive before they are known to be. Also to blame are of course, scientists themselves, who conduct faulty research and publish the results in a conclusive manner prematurely as well.

That said, I think there's a distinction that needs to be made that Adams did not at the end of the post. He says that people are skeptical as to whether climate change is real due to the aforementioned credibility issues. I don't think this is really true. Most rational people (I realize that there are many who are not) do not dispute the existence of climate change. Any scan of climate data over the past century or photos of receding glaciers can quickly and conclusively show that climate change exists. What most people are skeptical of (and something that I do not believe scientists have yet convincingly proven) is that humans are directly responsible for the climate change. The climate of the earth was increasing prior to the industrial revolution, so how much humans are to blame is very much a debatable point.

To qualify that, I have no vested interest in either side of that argument, however as a skeptical person, I do not believe that there is convincing evidence to support the claim. My father, who was a geologist and climatologist had the same belief. I think for me the issue is that people, scientists and reporters alike, have proven themselves to just not be that smart. They lack credibility because they continue to make claims that are shown to be false. How many reports did we hear that oil was going to spike to $300/barrel and that the economy was on the brink of collapse? How'd that turn out?
Well put. I know someone who has elegantly solved five major outstanding problems in physics. The mystery of dark energy, one of the top 10 physics problems, is only one of them. But science is an industry nowadays, and there's no grant money in these solutions (indeed, grant money would more likely be pulled) so the odds of this person being listened to is nil.
Sure the values are. Any function `a -> b -> c` can be lifted into a function `m a -> m b -> m c` for any Monad. That's (part of) the exact thing that bind buys you.

"Escaping" from a monad is an artifact of a bad intuition. There's no reason for a monad (m a) to "contain" values a and thus no reason to believe that they can be removed.

Even Maybe is a sufficient model of this. I can make a whole big compositional pipeline with all kinds of compositions at the value level, but if my inputs are Nothing then there won't be anything to "pull out" at the end.

Ultimately, "monadic worlds" is a good intuition. Just realize that your monadic world may be a strange one when you pull it back into "your" world---the interpretation may not be obvious, it may demand something of you, and it may not look very much like the "values" you felt like you were playing around with.
Adams wasn't criticizing science's updating of beliefs on new evidence.

He was criticizing the practice of shouting "Hey! We're ultra-certain about this! Very important! You've got to do this!" when the truth was more like, "We kind of have some preliminary evidence this might be bad for you, stay tuned."

(And I don't buy the claim that it's just the media overblowing this; why weren't the national academies of science criticizing the food pyramid, at least in the sense of "okay it's not actually that important to eat 11 servings of bread a day".)

The point, then, is: don't be surprised when people are skeptical in those cases where you really are deservedly confident (e.g. vaccines).

If your evidence isn't very good and prone to being updated, that's fine! Just don't pretend to be confident it it.
The only way the law and technology are going to get further along is by companies pushing it forward. It's not going to happen by itself.
Back then I remeber reading articles all the time about UNIX vs Windows NT.

OS/2 wasn't really a thing, at least not in Portugal. PC able to run it confortably cost at least 500€ more than the ones that would fly with Windows 3.1.

Sure it wasn't the same thing, but for the majority of the folks it was good enough for what they wanted a computer for.

Actually I would say when Linux came to be a thing, OS/2 was already gone.

I only saw OS/2 once live back in 1994 in the anual computer expo in Lisbon.

GNU/Linux in 1995 still wasn't for the faint of heart. My Slackware 2.0 took quite some effort to install.
"I think the fears about “evil killer robots” are overblown. There’s a big difference between intelligence and sentience. Our software is becoming more intelligent, but that does not imply it is about to become sentient."

It is the period between sentience and "advanced" artificial intelligence that should be worrying for two reasons: First, it is close at hand. More importantly, the unintended consequences of tech are never well thought out in the initial stages of adoption.

I'm reading Eric Schlosser's book on the early days of nuclear weapons and the many, many near misses the US experienced as it adopted nuclear arms without much thought to risk management. I see parallels in the race to develop and deploy pre-sentient A.I. Link below to Schlosser's book.

http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illu...
According to that page you need to lower saturated fat to 5%-6% of calories. I'm suggesting that current science does not support the connection between saturated fat and heart disease. Nor does current science support their recommendation to cut salt. The AHA recommendations have been a dietary disaster for 30 years because they suggest that low fat food can be eaten without consequence, which has led to a massive uptake in the consumption of sugar and processed carbohydrates. And it was largely based on bad science.
That said, there are also options to use databases for page storage on the back end: https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki-node.
Interesting read: http://indiewebcamp.com/API
Some good observations but I'm not convinced that the focus on shareholder value is to blame otherwise we'd see non-public companies systematically outperform public ones over the medium and long term.

Also, there isn't much evidence that companies with a focus on short term financial results don't engage in long-term strategic planning. The two basically exist side-by-side.
Do people REALLY brute force passwords? Do people REALLY brute force all lowercase, all latin combinations up to 20 characters before trying symbols, uppercase and numbers?

I am very skeptical that the '3/4 complexity rules' approach is making systems meaningfully more secure. I've had all kinds of passwords, but I've never lost them to brute force. Every time it was because someone got inside a company and made off with the database.

If complexity rules don't add anything, they should be discarded in the name of usability.
I think we agree on a lot of things.

I also think Ward's project is not fundamentally bad just because it uses JavaScript.

I think the idea of federated text sharing through free software and open protocols is lovely and that anyone making a serious attempt at this should be encouraged.

And I think that interactive web software can actually help, especially when it comes to inviting people who wouldn't enjoy setting up a Usenet client.
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In college, I was excited about GCC because it was free as in beer, worked well, and the other compilers we could use were hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Does it make sense to start learning JavaScript with jQuery?
You used to be able to choose. Then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis happened.
Sorry about that :(, should be good to go now.
There are choices for service providers in many places in the US. However, there is one set of power lines, and I would presume that most power losses are due to the power line failures.
Quite a while ago i saw a thread "How to make Reddit worse". Besides adding avatars, signatures, etc, one of the most popular suggestion was to give karma a monetary value. I'm really glad it didn't happen.
Security Advisory for Adobe Flash Player (CVE-2015-0313)
We should have a Kickstarter for people who needs things. They could contribute money until someone actually offered to do the job.
> Wait, doesn't calling the Internet a utility mean all data will be metered by the MB from now on? Or does that not apply here?

No, it does not mean metered Internet, which is already increasingly common in the US - though usually in the form of x GB for $y, with $z/GB overages. This has actually become incredibly common. There isn't a single ISP in my state that doesn't have data caps with metered Internet thereafter, or, in the case of my ISP, mandatory upgrades (though even then, the most expensive plan has a cap of 1TB.)

> So what does it mean now that the government classifies all Internet under Title 2. What can we expect in terms of surveillance?

Nothing changes.