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Indeed. Thus the talks with YouTube. The issue has always been more of a technical challenge than a political/design challenge. The foreground popup page used by most extensions is destroyed when focus is lost which makes it a very poor location for hosting YouTube's <iframe>. The audio would stop whenever the popup loses focus. So, the <iframe> is hosted on a background page which, unfortunately, isn't visible to the end user.

I've known about the issue since day 1 and went into this project with the mindset of, "If I make something cool enough to get shut down then I'll consider it a success."

A few years into the project I garnered their attention and was finally able to setup some talks to figure out what my options were for fulfilling their ToS.

My initial suggestion was to allow Streamus to follow in the footsteps of the Google Hangouts extension which uses Chrome Panels to display a tab-independent window over your browser. The intent was that the YouTube video could be displayed there and minimized when not wanted. However, this functionality is being deprecated and Google didn't have much interest in expanding the usage of it.

So, what I've got going now is some code which injects itself into YouTube's iframe and sniffs the responses from YouTube's server, https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/blob/Devel.... This allows me to pass around a pointer to the array buffer of video data being rendered in YouTube's iframe. Using this data I'm able to sync and re-render the video inside of the popup without having it coupled directly to the audio.

So far this seems like a satisfactory response to the issue. It's akin to having a YouTube video player running on an inactive tab. The user has the ability to watch the video, but isn't necessarily viewing it while listening to the audio.

I'm aware that I'm playing with fire a fair bit, but I think that's the case when using any API. YouTube has been nothing but completely understanding throughout all of our talks.

Fallback options include migrating Streamus to a Chrome App, which would not suffer the same issue but, IMO, has worse UX, or migrating away from YouTube in favor of other sources such as SoundCloud, MixCloud, SFX.io, etc.
All you have to do is butthurt a CEO of a fortune 500 company and FBI will be all up in your business... claiming loss of untold millions, etc.
ULA wins very little commercial business. So yes, they're the market leader for US government launches of extremely expensive satellites. The rest of the market, commercial and US government launches of less expensive stuff, is where SpaceX is way ahead of ULA.
If we can't change the URL to the one mentioned above, here's a news article by a slightly more creditable website.

http://www.popsci.com/australian-robot-will-shift-bricks
If they are, I demand my own tank and as much fish as I can eat.
That's why you have to get your name exact, airlines now charge a lot for re-ticketing, the idea is to prevent this kind of arbitrage. In fact on long-haul travel if you misspell your name the airline will force you to create a new ticket completely and pay whatever the new price is plus a change fee (and you generally can't just cancel as there's often cancellation fees).

If you hold without ticketing you have a limited time period you can hold, furthermore if you hold and cancel above a certain threshold the airlines will get upset and effectively block you from their inventory.
"Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?"

"Because it's there. Everest is the highest mountain in the world, and no man has reached its summit. Its existence is a challenge. The answer is instinctive, a part, I suppose, of man's desire to conquer the universe." - George Mallory
Greg was a friend. He will be missed.
Did you start looking for a job? Did you jump straight into your next startup

I'm always curious about comments like this. Do you have enough personal reserves to go into startup mode again and still pay rent/mortgage, household expenses for another year, whatever?
Old story. For non-brand advertising this is easily solved by down funnel tracking. Any marketer worth their salt tracks to the 'ultimate goal' and will avoid the shadier networks by looking at overall results. End of the day it comes down to a ROMI metric. It doesn't matter if 50% of the impressions are fake as long as the total investment pays off. For brand marketing I follow the networks that show DM performance as this shows some level of quality.
Junk article. The important vendors are ACID. Just because the default isolation level isn't serializable doesn't warrant the conclusion.

One amusing thing is that every now and then there is an article stating that certain relational dbs aren't webscale because the default isolation level is too high.
You don't even have to be actually racist to be considered a racist these days either.
Awesome story. I wonder if the same kind of things have happened for other brands. Coke was also pretty clever advertising 5 cents a bottle to lock the price, brilliant plan to neutralize a bad move in the past.
Refresh on the syntax, read up on some Java specific stuff ( like geeksforgeeks.org/Java), and check out "Effective Java" - http://uet.vnu.edu.vn/~chauttm/e-books/java/Effective.Java.2... . Seems long, but it actually reads pretty well.

Also, check out the Google Java style guide. It's a nice point-of-reference, but don't get too hung up on their conventions.

That's pretty generic advice. There is probably a better resource specific to what you'll be doing.

EDIT: I'm still just a college student, but I have done a few Java-based internships. My advice probably won't be all that helpful if your senior developer, or doing some super low-level stuff.
Its a little egocentric to expect a metropolitan area of 2 million to not be able to invent something. The world economy isn't on hold because one location is doing well.
Isn't click fraud basically solved by the free market?
I mean, as more and more bots create fake clicks and impressions, the value of the traffic itself is reduced. This will lower the CPC and CPM and you'll still be able to buy traffic at its free market value. If the traffic becomes worthless, no one will be willing to pay for it.

Advertising fraud is basically arbitrage. The fraudsters are inflating the numbers but someone is still willing to pay a specific value for the traffic they're receiving. If a specific market is more prone to fraud, its because the amount publishers are paying is below its actual value.
Ironically enough, Netscape proposed a JavaScript Style Sheets specification back in 1996 to replace CSS, but was rejected for being too complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets
Cool story, Hansel.
or to give to GiveWell itself

This would be the most optimal use of $20k IMHO - giving to an organization that guides donations to more honest, better operated charities means more people effectively helped. $20k could be used to cover hosting and operations costs so that people like you and I have a resource to show us what will give the most bang for our collective buck.

Billions of dollars go to charities annually but high administrative costs and poor management means only a fraction reaches the intended target.
Interesting, this is why security is extremely important for big companies. Especially ones where fraud is a real issue. Oh and of course for people who have to store personal data, something that many companies have yet to learn cough Sony cough
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So someone who is homeless and forced to beg or commit petty theft in order to eat would appreciate a chat more than $20k? You should try that and mention you're paying yourself $200 an hour because you think that's better for them.
It's "solved" for advertisers who can measure ROI, at least short-term. It's unsolved when the success metric for the campaign is not easily measured, like brand awareness. It's also not solved for the publishers not engaging in arbitrage or fraud who earn less and less per impression. Let it play out unchecked and the bad actors will kill the market by driving all the legitimate suppliers out of business: if ad rates are driven so low that content sites can't pay their staff with the ad dollars, they'll either go out of business or exit the market (i.e. erect paywalls, return to direct ad sales instead of participating in exchanges, etc).
That's a great reason to be the first to climb Everest, but it seems lacking to be the 4,000th.
One example that comes to mind is adding custom force touch events on Apple's new trackpads.
They unfortunately have little incentive to do so, since they profit from fraudulent clicks.
The advertising on this was so obnoxious (a 5 second video popup that I couldn't dismiss) that I was just left with Betteridge's law of headlines here.
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You will suffer consequences from your employer, with whom you have a contractual agreement.
I work for an AdTech company. One of our selling points is that we track much time users actively spent on our ads (= ad is in viewport + tab is active + user has moved the mouse or scrolled in the past 20 seconds). If we consistently see a source of traffic spending < 30 secs, then we manually start digging into the logs.

If you're a brand/marketer, I recommend two easy things to increase your ROI: (1) Make sure you are not being charged for GoogleBot traffic. Seriously, for frequently updating sites, self-advertising GoogleBot can account for up to 10% of all impressions. Ad Networks can easily filter that traffic out. (2) If you're paying per impression, work with partners that charge on viewable CPM.
I hope html and css bending become one language is there any language like that to make a webpage?
Cottage cheese also freezes badly. Hard cheese does fine though.
The worse point for junk clicks is mobile display - particularly in app. Id never advise RON campaigns here without super tight monitoring. I've never been sure if it's more fraud or 'well placed ads'. I'm guessing the latter as kids apps seem to be the highest offender for mobile display.

@dangrossman I build white lists rather than a black lists for companies where I handle their marketing for display on mobile. Not sure if your offering something like this in Improvely but I imagine it would be of value to a bunch of clients. Advertising networks will hate you!
If the information were material, then trading would be illegal. We're assuming these are people who can legally trade; i.e., those without access to material nonpublic information.
I was in the same situation as you at the end of last year. After 2.5 years working on a Techstars VC funded startup as a co-founder, we failed. Unfortunately at the time, I didn't have the extra cash to take time off, so I sent a few emails out (to the Techstars network) and a few weeks later jumped onboard another early startup as the first engineering hire. I honestly wasn't sure if I wanted to join another early stage company, but they offered a nice salary (I obviously chose salary over equity), a nice bonus, + some equity. They were the perfect fit for me, so things worked out well.

If you have the $$ to travel before moving on, I would advise you to take some time off to relax and get your mind away from the startup world. Go see your family, it's amazing how much they care.

Lastly, you will experience many emotions for many months following, don't take it too hard. Life goes on, things happen for a reason, and good luck! It will all work out.
The long-term incentives for ad companies like Google are aligned with the advertisers. They only profit from fraudulent clicks in the short term. Every fraudulent click they charge an advertiser for increases the likelihood that advertiser's campaign has a negative ROI and they stop advertising. The lost future revenue is a much larger number than the revenue from today's clicks.
I worked with Greg just a few months ago at Google. He was an amazingly generous person, and I will miss him greatly.
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Are there seriously ad companies that aren't filtering out common bots by UA in 2015? That seems unlikely but would be very disturbing if true.

Second, I think simple tests like "time spent on ads" as a trigger is an extremely simplisitc, inefficient and likely inaccurate way of determining "potentially not human." The systems here are very complex, designed to mimic randomness within humanesque constraints.
Wow. I understand why the app succeeded. 1) It has a simple and beautiful UI. 2) It uses a Skinner Box system effectively. Do task, get reward of seeing it completed on check box, miss once and you don't get as much of a reward (assuming I'm interpreting the app correctly). 3) People like to think that they are doing more than they are actually doing. For example, people would like to think that if they work on something every day for a year it has to get done, but if they are doing things so small (for example, 1 line of code a day) it won't get done. However, from a perspective of Streaks it "looks" like more work is getting done than what actually may be getting done
This makes sense, thanks. It also assumes that the entire org is aligned with the long term goals. Couldn't short term gains be worthwhile for some group, at some time?
I'm a technical founder building an easy way for consumers to seek justice against the large corporations we are forced to deal with every day (Comcast, Verizon, Bank of America) via small claims.

I'm seeking a legal cofounder to shape the product to be compliant and effective.

Currently building prototype. Email throwaway84557@gmail.com
If by "learning JavaScript" you mean "getting used to all the awful decisions..."
Regardless of how much someone is giving, they are still missing out on the tax deduction for the first $6300 (or $12.6k if filing jointly) of income.
There is some wiggle room, payload achieved orbit, but not nessisarily the desired orbit.
Since you built Improvely, I'm curious, what motivation is there for click fraud? Who benefits from fraudulent clicks?

By that, I mean, who's paying for bots to generate this activity, and what do they gain by it?

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Yeah yeah, and not only that I allow scripts from various CDNs all the time. I call bullshit on anyone who claims they don't do the same. It's still worth running for no other reason than reducing the overall resources my browser uses and extending the time required between restarts.
Personally I wasn't a great coder after my startup failed (right after college). So I went to Fullstack Academy, and then got a job as a web developer. I plan on taking another stab at it once I get some more experience though.
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> brand awarenesss

Exactly. Brand-awareness media buys tend to rely on third-party web traffic "experts" like Alexa, comScore, Hitwise, Quantcast, etc. These tools are incredibly simplistic and count the majority of fraudulent traffic as legit. When a site ranks highly across these experts, it is then used to increase the CPM a brand-advertiser ends up paying.
You can park either number by creating a new Google account and porting the number to Google Voice on that account. No SMS autoresponder but you could set up a voicemail message.
> Intercepted echolocation data could generate objects that are experienced in more nearly the same way by different individuals than ever occurs in communal human experiences when we are passive observers of the same external environment. Since the data are in the auditory domain, the “objects” they generate would be as real as human seen-objects than heard “objects,” that are so difficult for us to imagine. They could be vivid natural objects in a dolphin’s world.

Not directly related to the personhood question, but for me it was the highlight.
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Random thoughts: As far as I understand it, CSS is declarative. JavaScript, not so much. The declarative aspect of CSS is nice; you just specify what you want and CSS handles everything else for you.

I am also idly wondering how this would all work out in "HTML and CSS as s-expressions" à la Ŝablono https://github.com/r0man/sablono
this is a huge market correction just waiting to happen. I'm glad, it should take these annoying banner ads out once and for all.
The write once run anywhere concept is intriguing. R has major scaling issues and a lot of the algorithms and packages in the CRAN just don't scale to any reasonable amounts of data. It really was designed in an era of controlled experiments with minimal data.
Our views are different.
Ok 60fps on my phone, that's impressive.
At least where I live, houses are not built from brick, they are made from cinderblock, with a facing (skin) of brick.

Not sure if this is because of labor, or cost or materials or some other reason.

They should extend this machine to also lay cinderblock.
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As far as I know, Automattic (the company behind WordPress) doesn't have offices. At the very least, almost all of their workforce are remote workers.
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I don't have evidence to back up my assertion - only the theory that in an efficient market riskier assets should be priced appropriately. So I don't know for a fact that the expected return is higher. That said, the fact that the median fund underperforms the S&P doesn't necessarily prove that the expected return on an individual startup investment will do so. For one thing, funds will have overhead - probably significant overhead in startup investing. (Of course, they provide valuable diversification, but as mentioned above, that shouldn't be the priority in this particular case.) Also, even if the median fund underforms before costs, the average might still outperform, if the winners are relatively concentrated.
Personally, I think you are better off going to California. Judging by you considering moving there for a few years now, you want to go there, and from what I can see, there is no reason for you not to. Yes, it will take longer to pay off your loans, but I think the quality of life increase per dollar lost is well worth it considering you. A) Wouldn't be working two jobs. B) You would be able to go to California like you have wanted to for a while. C) You would be able to improve your glass skills, art and creativity are important whatever field you go into because you will need a creative outlet.
I'm really curious how you do qa on an electric shock device? Do you have extra standards for medical devices that you have to meet for this product?
I was going to mention this as well, thanks for finding the economist article. Manufacturing costs are more than just the price of parts, sending people to and from the factory several times, communicating requirements, Dealing with tariffs and customs. For smaller runs it is definitely getting competitive in the US, but so far the parts suppliers haven't yet picked up on this. I'm expecting a midwest town or two with good air/rail transport to figure this out and start a mini-manufacturing boomlet. Will be interesting to see.
Hawaii doesn't have natural gas plants though. The article says 70% of their energy comes from oil. I know they have diesel and coal plants too.

They would have to build LNG terminals, pipelines, and gas fired power plants on each island in order to use natural gas as a quickly dispatchable source of electric power.

Each island in hawaii has it's own small electric grid. The challenge for Hawaii is running small grids with high percentages of uncontrollable generation.

All of Europe is interconnected, so Germany can install as many solar panels that don't get any sunshine as they want and it is only ever going to be a sliver of the total generation on the system. The price of electricity in Germany is also 29 cents / kwh, 2nd highest in europe. That doesn't make it seem like a good model to me.
It's a shame you deleted what you wrote. It was an interesting perspective and it challenged some of my assumptions.

I wish you the best of luck with your start up.

I am genuinely curious as to how an incubator/accelerator model makes money. Maybe somebody else can answer?
This is fascinating to me. It's worth noting this was from the same console generation as the PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast, and GameCube.

I found some specific information about it here [1]

> The technology in the few available NUON DVD players raised the price around $100 over comparable players.

> Only eight games were ever released for NUON. The graphics are comparable to early PlayStation 2 games and are most notable in Iron Soldier 3, a mech combat game.

Here's a video showing the Iron Soldier 3 graphics [2]

> The best game is generally regarded to be Tempest 3000 (many sources consider it the only truly playable game)

The wiki also lists 16 homebrew titles including an Atari 800 emulator and Doom.

On the NUON-Dome site [3] there's a homebrew release announcement from 2014, as well as Amazon links where you can still buy some discs and hardware.

It also features a "Video Light Machine" [4] which as far as I can tell is Winamp-style audio visualization.

[1] http://www.giantbomb.com/nuon/3045-85/

[2] https://youtu.be/0nypv2_qvSg?t=173

[3] http://www.nuon-dome.com/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nJlY4Z8v-A
How does this job posting suggest that Snapchat is a government contractor? It sounds like they want to get into the news reporting business.
Personally, I think you're mistaken. Allowing anyone to propose a date outside of the control of the event creator can lead you to confusion for little or no benefit.

Personally, I think the value proposition is to avoid the long back-and-forth messages for finding a suitable time. This is not the same as finding the best fitting time spots for all participants.
If your motivation levels are pretty low, you may want to delay job searching for a bit. Looking for the right job is hard and comes with its own setbacks that you need to be prepared for.

I started looking for a job in May. It takes a lot of time finding the right kind of company, going through all the interviews, and determining whether there's a fit. It's very draining and, of course, rejection always stinks.

You probably have a lot of great skills you picked up from building your startup, but practically no interview judges you on that kind of experience. I've encountered two main assessments: the take-home challenge and algorithm coding. Honestly, algorithm coding punched me right in the face when I started looking for jobs. It took me a little while to get back into the algorithm mentality (leetcode helped a lot).

Take home challenges are frustrating. You can put in a whole days worth of effort with no guarantee of getting to the next step where you can talk about your awesome startup experience. What's worse is that you probably are interested in the company because, otherwise, you wouldn't have put in the effort in the first place.

If you aren't ready to face this yet, I recommend picking up small coding jobs for a bit to get your spirits up and work on interview prep.
The motivation is a monthly paycheck from an ad network without having to build a real audience for your website. If you can generate fake views and clicks at a lower cost than the network pays you, and convince the network the bot-generated activity is genuine, you're printing money.
I believe that for this article placebo controlled trials for fecal transplant are a lot more relevant than diet trials.
What is a 'shoplocket'?
This seems like the missing link to the concept of 3D printing large structures. Printing concrete in layers from the slab up to make walls seemed like it was jumping the gun a little. This seems entirely more reasonable - the finished structure will look more uniform and be made quicker as the primary material is formed offsite and delivered in bulk, ready to use.