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Our startup failed early this year. We didn't make any money and while we did have a few interested clients, to keep going we needed funding that didn't come. End of the day, it was the wrong product. Period.

So - lesson learned.

I did try odesk/elance for a while but you can't make any money from it. My work is more embedded, and systems programming and the jobs on places like odesk are suited for very low end webdev. (The good webdev work isn't on odesk). As a result, they are very low paying.

I called that quits pretty quickly and started looking for a job. It took me a couple of interviews (including bombing the first one) before I found work. I'm pretty happy now. It pays the bills, but I am saving up for my next startup sometime in the future.

In short, don't be disheartened. Very few actually make it, but the journey is one that's really worth it. Sometime later you will find the right idea and your motivation will be up again.
As someone who writes CSS frameworks for a living, I don't know if I could ever give up the powerful globalness of the "c" (cascading.) Though, I do find myself writing more and more inline styles for elements that are specific to a block or page to avoid bloating the framework. I'm thinking a blended approach is in my future.
I always liked the idea of Benjamin Franklin's two century trust.

In 1790 when he died, he left £1,000 each to the cities of Boston and Philly, to be kept in trust for 100 years. There was supposed to be £130,000 by 1890, of which £100,000 would be spent, and another £30,000 left to compound for another 100 years. [1]

Even after a significant distribution in 1890, the funds distributed about $7 million to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia in 1990. The original investment was about $80,000 (for both cities) in today's dollars. [2]

[1] - http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/topic/excellence_in_ph...

[2] - http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number12/heldman.ht...
On the server-side most bots are easy to recognize in an automated way. not all, but most. So speaking in general terms if the advertiser (by this I mean whoever's product or service is being promoted) site wants to filter out bot traffic, or only place ads with partners who block bots, there are ways of doing that, or at least reducing it. This has been pretty well-known for over a decade in this industry, easily.
1983 as the birth of the modern era
I'm the CEO of Atlassian (who run Bitbucket & Stash). Would love to get your feedback on what we can do to improve. We really pride ourselves on making products that have the right level of control in our products.

Or email me - scott <at> atlassian.
I think the real caution behind giving the status of person to a non-human has nothing to do with animals, but with removing the status of person from certain classes of humans. The atrocities of the last century should probably suffice to establish a measure of caution when redefining personhood.
That is the question basically, is being human a necessary precondition to being a person? And assuming that it is, which humans are not persons ( otherwise human and person would just be synonymous).
There's a fundamental difference since the slaves didn't choose to be slaves, even if better off.

The Chinese factory workers are choosing from the options provided. From their perspective they've been given a better option. From a western first world perspective, people here can't seem to relate to how $3/hr could possibly be a better option, but it is. Over here we have the benefit of minimum wage, welfare, higher standard of living, etc. Unfortunately it is a very egocentric viewpoint to not think of this from the perspective of an actual factory worker.
Interesting comparison: inflation is much faster than wage rises.
To be fair, the game consoles were not a walk in the park either. PS2 VU programming was in some senses more complicated - on NUON you just had to stuff as many slots in a packet as possible e.g. you could write a jump to self and had like 20 slots for instructions in there (the jump packet itself and 2 delay packets, each was 6 or 7 instructions possible if memory serves) but on PS2 you had to be more clever with hiding latency between dual pipes. A loop on PS2 would be processing several items at once, eg stage 1 for the current idex, stage 2 for the previous index and the final stage for the current index - 2.

Programmers at the time were okay with this and it was actually fun. The tools though were much better for the competition, on PS2 I could set break points anywhere (even on memory reads) and see the DMA streams in the debugger, on NUON it was pretty much debugging with prints except you had to write the print yourself :)
What is it that you're after? You already know about Stash's plugin system that you can configure to do anything weird and wonderful (huge perk), but wondering if there is something we should bake into the core product?

(Atlassian CEO here)
That's not the type of interface you'd want to build algorithms on which are constantly and deeply traversing data object links, if any type of performance is required.

Same thing as with ETS or SQL.

Implementing traversal-heavy algorithms across a large in-RAM data network does not require external tools, and is not helped either in performance or simplicity by decoupling direct pointer-based linkages into hash keys, and speaking to external interfaces. At least not for the work we were doing.
I would make STEM kits for $20 each (common lab compounds, electronic components, microcontroller, lenses, list of online resources, etc.) I would give them to high school kids rather than the younger kids they're usually geared towards. Make it a little bit edgy - high schoolers love fire we all know this - not like a bit of rocket candy is more dangerous that whatever else they have access to. If they want the next kit they pay $20, but they also have to give the previous kit to a noob first. The second kit would how them how to get all the components/compounds they need generally free or cheap.
Visualizing 25 Years of Music History
Vielen dank!

Getting hammered by the votes was quite disheartening. I assumed indirect reference to one of Larry Wall's most famous quotes would be obvious.

Ah well, I guess what happens when I "assume" is it makes an ass out of micro-me ;-).
Not really. I click on Skype and it's three seconds until all contacts appear, and those seconds can be blamed on the network.

The only thing that loads slowly is Chrome with my 50 open tabs, and I don't think it's the fault of the OS.

In the same hardware what you describe actually happens every time with Windows 7 (I can't upgrade the Windows version, corporate policy) and it's a really annoying process.
is true, and not just display ads even a lot of facebook is still CPM/CPC
BigPerx Getting Attention from Working Professionals and Corporate Employees
BigPerx.com – The Employee benefits portal re-launched in January 2015 with their upgrades and is now growing at a steady pace, the startup has built a partnership with all major brands in the market and has achieved almost 40,000 visits in last 6 months with more than 6000 new registered users from multitudes of smaller and medium companies but also from TCS, Cognizant, iGATE-Patni to name a few. Without the mass media advertising, it's still the best-known secret for employees.

Unlike other employee deals website that primarily require with Company HR approvals to extend employee deals, Employees can sign up themselves with their Corporate email ID, truly making it easy and simple. Currently, BigPerx is allowing free registration up to 200 employees per company and its evolving more features.

What is BIGPERX?

What started in 2012, the early version of BigPerx was as Employee purchase program for a couple of brands extended to select few companies. Based on market feedback, the founders went back to drawing board in order to extend it to employees /working professionals of all organisations with a single aim in mind - How to make online shopping convenient for the corporate employee?

What does BigPerx offer to Working professionals/ Corporate Employees?

Along with Special Corporate Pricing, with an aim to provide best buying experience to niche customer base like working professionals, has re-launched with for the first time introduced innovative features like 7000+ Payment Options (including Split payment methods, COD and BYOD schemes credits), Free Product Advise, Request for their Friend’s Opinion that add conveniences that most people desired but were never got.
Did you actually read the article? The question "Are killer whales persons" is in fact the central issue that it examines, and the use of "persons" instead of "people" ought to make it clear that they're using "person" in the legal sense.
Oh cool! That rings a bell! :)

I wrote and am operating a similar service at http://remaildr.com

The implementation is open source at https://github.com/Pluies/remaildr/

The main issue I've had with this side project is the availability that wasn't so great (as monitoring was conspicuously absent from the start and I never got around to actually setting it up, but I've got plans for it!) and it was eventually caught by spam due to Spamassassin misconfiguration on my part.

So I hope you have a good process for handling spam, and fingers crossed your code crashes less often than mine :)
Wouldn't it be easier to automate building using something other than brick? Probably bricklaying started because bricks were small enough a person could carry and lay them individually (now they are ornamental of course rather than strictly functional). With a machine there isn't the weight/size restraint of a human laborer.

I worked one summer on a concrete crew building tip up slab buildings... big structures like a Costco or trucking depot. How it worked was the foundation was poured, then the forms for the walls (one or two walls at a time) were placed on top of the foundation. A spray to prevent the concrete wall from bonding the the floor was applied, and the wall was poured directly on top of the floor and then tilted up by a crane. Then the next wall was poured on top of the floor and the process repeated. The whole system seemed much more efficient then laying blocks and a building shell could be assembled very quickly.

While a cool invention, this robot bricklayer seems something like a computerized horse carriage. It seems a paradigm shift is in order to really automate building. Poured in place concrete may be a more efficient method for automation.
It's rare to work for a software company in software engineering capacity and not have access to such information. Even if you deliberately avoid it, business metrics get shared during all-hands of various levels, or displayed on giant screens. Formation of a new team that will work on a project X with a large partner Y is by itself material until it's public.
Oslo creates world's first 'highway' to protect endangered bees
I am aware of the fights, and cookie churn is a symptom of the a challenging and, to my way of thinking, a not very good way of identifying origination.

Lets say I'm content provider A, I get your ad and it has an encrypted URL that lands back on my site. When it lands on my site I can decrypt it and know who sent that click to me and note it. Then, on conversion, pay that person.

The challenge this system has is that it doesn't let you throw your ads into a distribution bucket and wait for them to land on some site that is buying some traffic from some traffic provider. You have to know the sites (and presumably their IP addresses) where it lands. I need a relationship between the site showing the ad, and me. Then I can be sure that anyone who clicks on that ad, and then buys something from me, I can credit the sale to that site.

What is useful (and to some extent different) about this scheme is that you can compute ad spend against revenue generated. There is no 'fraud' because you don't pay unless someone "converts" (the term for making transaction). What it does do however is cut off all the shady ad networks and packagers and skimlinkers and what not because they don't add value for a large brand like Macy's or Target or Amazon.

So a blog like TechCrunch with a relationship with Target can give target an exact number of how much business has arrived at Target because of their ad on Techcrunch stories. And Target can compute exactly how much revenue the clicks that landed there from TechCrunch generated. And from their existing understanding of life time value of a customer who has landed on their site and made a purchase, they can price the value of that advertisement fairly precisely. TechCrunch gets feedback on how much their ads are worth to Target and can choose to make every ad a target ad if they think it will maximize revenue, base on the performance not on the click through rate. Target could lie about conversions, but that would be self defeating in the long term (they want people to land on their site and want people to carry their advertising).

If we learned anything from the meteoric rise of Google as an advertising behemoth it is that people will pay for metrics and demonstrable results. If you can provide the best metrics and the best results, you win.
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Thanks! That paper/book is going on the reading list. I need to bring this up with some neuroscience friends.
That looks more like PS1 graphics rather than PS2.
mind... blown... hah I've definitely read things like this before but.... damn it just sounds so much like people thinking electric cars will save the world without considering where the energy is actually (not hypothetically) coming from.... then that example starts to gets recursive because electric cars are expensive, HOW did you get that extra 40k to be able to afford it? hah
Some countries have the minimum wage linked to inflation. While that can have some disadvantages as well (in certain short term periods), overall it's probably much better off in the long term for the population.
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the point of this article though, is that folks are slowly learning that CPM/CPC is completely worthless. No amount of fraud detection is going to get it under control, and when your typical click frauder can spin up 10,000 micro instances on Amazon and generate a couple of billion false "impressions" you realize that its not cost effective to try to play that game. I agree though that many people have yet to learn this lesson, especially on Facebook but it is happening.
I switched to Fi about a month ago and it has served me very well in the Bay area so far, and it made a trip to the east coast with good wifi and bad cell service much easier because I could just use wifi.

Also liking the Nexus 6. After playing with a coworkers a little I decided I was fine with the size and after a month I'm still very happy with it. I upgraded from a Galaxy Nexus.

Please who doesn't love being able to ditch Verizon.
I am extremely against advertising, but even though this is money being spent towards something that offends and antagonizes me, I still think that fraud in the industry should be called out and fixed.
The Sorry State of “Games Are Art” in 2015
Nice simple UI. I like not having to hit enter!

If you want to make it more "fair" consider bining the questions by difficulty and randomly select some number from each bin, versus a random selection / generation over the entire pool of possible questions, or actually timing each response individually and showing an average of the percentiles for each answer, instead of a percentile for the average time.

Total sums done: 3,816,583 -- really?
This only applies to ASCII (at best). Case insensitivity is very annoying.
The Greek finance minister recommends defaulting in (2). Also note one of his points is defaulting would poison the Eurozone. That's one more reason this isn't as simple as "default would be bad" for Greece. It's a lesser evil for Greece and it's bad for the Eurozone. It gives Greece leverage.

"Does this mean that Greece ought to grin and bear the massive and misanthropic idiocy of the bailout-austerity package imposed upon it by the troika (EU-ECB-IMF)? Of course not. We should certainly default."

Defaulting could lead to further negotiations if Greece stays in the Eurozone, like slashing a big part of a loan handed out when projections showed Greece would not be able to pay it.

Why do you loan to a country when projections show the country can't pay? Is it to keep the country economically enslaved for years?

That's probably why the second-to-top-level comment translated the following as FUD. The gains for Greece from defaulting would be better than accepting the austerity measures.

>For Greece the gains from defaulting would be slight, and
the costs potentially vast.

Translation: FUD.
Apologies for the off-topic pedantry, but bated breath is probably the idiom you are looking for!
It's weird to hear you say insisting on one angle does not help anyone.
> So the ad will be much, much louder.

And you figure that'll make the ad-haters click it more?

Also, that 10cent ad is much more ripe for the picking than the 1cent one. All of a sudden you're attracting click-fraud attention from far more sophisticated attackers. And driving more "normal people" to ask a techie to hide these annoying dancing bananas (and all others ads at the same time.)

I don't really think you've thought this through to the endgame.
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Ask HN: What is the max amount of data can be moved between two regular servers?
Google Voice is great. I'm currently using the T-Mobile $30 plan (5 GB data, 100 minutes voice) in combination with Google Voice. The amount of included data is more than sufficient for me, and for voice calls I use Google Voice via VoIP (Hangouts dialer).
Slavery Lasted Until Pearl Harbor
oh, totally agree with that. your point not to mention all of the "ad intelligence" bots or "systems" driving up the prices.
When a Company Is Put Up for Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data Is, Too
Totally.

However, it's worth noting that there are much larger fish in this pond already! http://plug.dj/ employs 9 people and has 2.5 million in funding while being entirely dependent on YouTube's API for their business model.

I don't think that validates my decision, but it helps me sleep at night a bit. Plus, YouTube is trying to get into this sphere with software such as YouTube Music Key. They're failing to win over the general public with it, but Streamus doesn't seem to have any trouble convincing people to give YouTube a try as a more genuine music player. I'd like to think that they'd be more interested in acquiring the software than forcing it to sink alongside their own.
You are assuming the advertiser is not measuring the perfomance in any way.

More likely, the ongoing fraud is driving the prices down. Once the fraud stops, cpc would go up.
Greece crisis: markets begin to tumble as investors flee
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This is from Douglas Thain's Cooperative Computing Laboratory.

An architecture class assignment had us trying to find the "best" cpu configuration to run a snippet of code (number of registers, issue width, etc). Most people in the class simulated around 20 configurations. Using an earlier iteration of the CCL Work Queue abstraction, I ran ~12000 simulations in IIRC only about 6 hours.

The point being, it's pretty easy to use. The source is mostly straight C, and pretty easy to follow. I would start with chirp_server.c.

disclaimer: I was one of Dr Thain's students before I dropped out to go do some dream job or other.
In general I and I assume nobody does rationally care about their privacy (they might emotionally). I care about the reaction/behaviour/prosecution of other people on this information ! History has thought me this can even lead to dead, and my life that people are still rude/bullies.
I'm not sure they offer free hosting, at least not anywhere obvious on their website. But they do offer a "pay what you use" model.
nice work op,
It's probably not gaining traction because much of Jho Low's wealth comes from (allegedly) the embezzlement and misappropriation of money from a state-funded Malaysian investment fund. Just google Jho Low and 1MDB. The case currently threatens to destabilize the Malaysian government.
Which gives us 480,000 ounces of coke in 1950 vs 505,000 ounces of coke in 2015. A 5.2% increase in the amount of coke you can buy for a year's salary. (I'm actually kinda surprised the price is that stable.)
I use Plivo to forward calls and sms for 2 of my old phone numbers. One is a US # and one is Canadian #. You don't have to program it to forward, you could very easily code an autoresponder type thing.

Here's some code to get you started:
https://github.com/dannysu/plivo-forward-ruby

I also used Twilio and Anveo before. Both of those should work too.
In the mid 00's I was working for a cashback/incentive site. Basically we would give monetary incentive to members of our site to complete whatever each specific ad was measuring. It could be signing up for a newsletter, or registering an account at some site. Poker websites would pay well for new users.

The whole scheme was of dubious value for the advertisers, obviously. The ad networks were happy to have us, though.
Between this austerity and this default, default is better. See above.
One needs an email address that ends with gmail.com to request access, that sucks. I have a google apps email address.
(It also guarantees happens-before for a given thread, so if a thread changes it from three to 5 and other threads are not changing it back, that thread will never read a 3 again. This also needs some level of synchronization)
I have wondered about this often with cetaceans. I feel like personhood is such a human concept and completely depends on who is defining it. It calls into question, "What is personhood to begin with?"

There have many documented cases of dolphins rescuing drowning human swimmers or protecting surfers from sharks. I feel like it takes a good amount of intelligence and empathy-like qualities for dolphins to be able to recognize the peril of a human creature--foreign to their natural environment--and decide to treat him as one of their own where there is no obvious benefit for the dolphin.

My opinion is that we should give them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to personhood.

EDIT: This video of killer whales is also perplexing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWsN63PRCW8

A group of killer whales beach themselves to grab some sea lion pups for lunch, then proceed to toss them around and eat them. There was one seal they decided not to eat so one of the killer whales beached himself again in order to release it safely on land. It really does feel like there's complex mind behind this behavior.
My concern isn't that Google is being "open" about click fraud on their network advertising, which I think they are. But what about the fraud on Google service sites themselves. It at that point is no longer in Google's self interest to be as strict in their "open" reporting; it's ~90% of their revenue.

So, it becomes an ROI game, which as long as ROI is strong they can keep their rates up while keeping their profits climbing. Then again, Google's top line has been shrinking recently, so it is possible they are doing something about it, and it is hurting them. That or it's the general shift in advertising to focus on mobile where it's much harder to get engagement.

PPC campaigns feel like a shell game to me often times. Agency switching among advertisers is staggeringly high as people hunt for higher ROI.
I started over with different idea, moved to a place where I can pay less, can live sparingly. what I learnt helped to develop/market 5x faster.