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> Believe it or not, the Content Services team at Mozilla is thinking about way more than just "plunking ads into Firefox". Like, what if we actually accepted the fact that ads are a way of funding the web at large, and browsers themselves offered built-in mechanisms to support advertising that respect privacy & performance? Yeah, that's a bit of a change from browsers' traditional neutrality. But, it could be a better deal for publishers and users together.

I'm curious as to how that could ever be done. I feel that it's almost impossible without somehow getting user information. I feel the trend is that ads are going to continue to be tuned to people and aspects about them. Maybe fully homomorphic encryption can do that without violating privacy but that's a long way off.

> Here's another idea: Almost a year ago, I heard the notion of "Subscribe 2 Web" at Mozilla. The gist is that you're worth about $6.20 per month across publishers via advertising revenues. What if you paid that much into an account yourself every month and used a mechanism built into your browser to distribute that money? Yeah, it's micropayments, but I find it interesting that these folks came up with a specific dollar amount that doesn't sound terrible.

It exists. It's called Contributor by Google: https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/. If anybody needs an invite please let me know.
How did the model work for for recording artists?

MP3 killed the CD and Apple replaced MTV.
Now the artists don't make as much money.
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Looks awesome. I just wanted to mention a couple stylistic things I noticed in the sample copy: subsubsection under Part 1 named "It;s all about communication" (the it;s), and the capitalization style for section titles is pretty inconsistent.

I don't know if you'll have an editor go through everything later on, but just wanted to mention a couple of the things from the early access sample :)
It seems like Amazon is in a position where they could turn a huge profit, they're just choosing to reinvest instead. If they just raised prices by something tiny like 1%, wouldn't their profits become instantly massive?
Cool. Go buy Walmart stock.

Seriously, guys, all this "Oh, well, I disagree with the valuation of this company" stuff isn't very interesting. We all know that sometimes the market gets the value of companies wrong. Probably if Amazon's next quarter is not very good, its valuation will go back down.

And trying to make a virtue of extremely simple analyses of company valuation is also silly. It's not like you're revealing a deeply held secret that Amazon is very low-margin and often runs a loss. It's not like people don't get that. They've decided that Amazon has other virtues. Maybe they're right and maybe they're wrong, but I'm really confident that looking only at net profit as your sole method of valuation is a losing stock market strategy.
Your initial question sounded more dismissive than that.
There is a continuation to sc, called scim:

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Let me know when they can shuffle the books and make 16 billion fall out and I'll stop laughing.
The scenario involves a notional Boeing engineer from 1965. My hands are really tied.

Point taken on the 'grandfather' bit, though!
Then short sell Amazon and long Wal-Mart.

Every time these conversations come up it's always the same thing. One said says profit the other side says to skate where the puck is going.
Good to know, thanks! I hope this gets ported to Debian/Ubuntu... I wish it shipped with built-in 2FA capability.
And I'm sure Taylor Swift was so sad that evil spotify was stealing all of her due profits, so she pulled her songs from their service.

The whole industry is garbage, for both successful and indie artists.
From the article you're commenting on:

"Amazon posted a surprise second-quarter profit"
Using common CDN-hosted jQuery is a ridiculous idea security-wise anyway.
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There different ways to value a company beyond their ability to profit in the near term.

Walmart perfected 20th century shopping and are reaping dividends for it in terms of current monetary profits.

Amazon is working on perfecting 21st century shopping. Bezos owns 18% of the company and he plays a long game. He sees what others don't see.

e.g. He was supposedly an idiot for selling books online.
> In brief; we start of with a number of connected nodes in a circle. Gradually we introduce new nodes on the line—prioritizing segments where the curve bends more sharply. Over time the curve grows increasingly intricate, but it never self-intersects.

Is there a proof showing that it will never self-intersect?
Nor am I, but I know about acre feet from the thousands of articles that have been written about various droughts and agriculture water usage. It's also pretty easy to deduce on your own.
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As someone who shops at both Amazon.com and Wal-mart, this makes me happy. Now, I don't know if their worth translates to more success but all I know is that my experience with amazon is always pleasant and convenient whereas my experience at Wal-Mart is almost always unpleasant and inconvenient.
this just makes me want to surf, and regret staying in Chicago for work
I wrote this a few years ago

Wish it was implemented

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2023475
I actually think Starbucks Americano is one of the best Americanos I've ever tried, and I've tried all kinds. I've lived in both SF and NY and been to many "famous" coffee shops like blue bottle, philz, etc. (in my book philz is better than starbucks but blue bottle is not so much) but haven't had many Americanos that top Starbucks. Plus they are the only ones with really large size (venti). I don't drink their regular coffee so I can't really say much about them but have you tried Starbucks americano?
You might attack it from a non-technical perspective, where the "Decent Ads" certification says something about how their business practices are set up with SLAs or policies for who is at fault if an advertisement contains malware.

Alternately, a technical benchmarking-only system, where you try to identify how much their contribution is to page-load without respect to security/etc.
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If consumers were insensitive to that hike, yes. Problem is they aren't, which is why Amazon has to keep reinvesting and operating on that razor thin margin. That strategy is as bad for individual companies as it is for the macroeconomy (Asian tiger bubble comes to mind).
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Hi folks from PyData Seattle conference! Our team just launched a hosted Jupyter notebook service. Would love to get your feedback! Also - it runs on Linux/docker - and we're new to Linux, so if you find any security holes, please drop us a line at nbhelp@microsoft.com.

blog: http://aka.ms/jupyter

If you just want to try it:

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It is a difficult task. SA needs plenty of water for the nearest decades. What are the options to get it? How much will it cost? Many difficult questions to answer. Many approaches to choose. If the ideal is to built a great dam, then everything else burden the environment more. Creating of the desalvation factory take a lot of earth resources as well as the energy which also comes mostly out of non-renewable sources. If you produce electric energy you have a great impact on the environment too.
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I am surprised this is not talked about more:

Amazon Full Time Employees:	154,100

Walmart Full Time Employees:	2,200,000

(Based on Yahoo Finance Company Profile Stats)

There is a growing need for Human's to work Lesser Hours going forward rather than more Hours.
I liked the concept of honeymoon registry, that is one travel friends and family do not have problem sponsoring.
>The idea really is anyone should be free to build a solution

I can't think of a worse outcome.

If drones and automated cars don't operate off of an open and public communication system, it will be a massive failure.

GPS works because a for-profit company isn't in charge of it.
> Well, lets get started then.

Have you adopted IPv6, yet? ;)

Clearly, we wouldn't rebuild an IPv4 internet.
One thing i'd like to see from drones is a registration of the drones firmware signature. So as a drone is flying, it would broadcast the signature, and you can see above you what's flying around.
> Their achilles heal though continues to be browsability and searching. It is obviously a great place to go if you know exactly what you want, but continues to be a poor experience if you are browsing for an item or don't know what you want. There continues to be duplicate listings for the same items (some listed by 1st party and some by 3rd party), and it is very tough to browse items. Once they actually figure this out and implement, that's when this will really become game over (at least domestically)

Their catalog is getting so bad that I can't even find things when I know exactly what I want.
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Your opinion is not substantiated by any significant amount of evidence and therefore does not merit consideration.
It's up to the board at the time they make the grant. Some companies prefer not to allow early exercise to save the minor administrative burden, but it's employee friendly to allow it so lots of places do. Your option paperwork will mention it if you have this right.
I t is worth noting that only one of those three 2012 works uses the term "snow white" (in the title) and they prefix it with "Grimm's [Snow White]" which automatically counters any claim by Disney that Disney's trademark is being appropriated.

Note that the "registration date" for the RTM [which I'm assuming is the date at which the registration becomes active, please correct if wrong] is 2013 - how the hell did Disney get a RTM on "Snow White" it doesn't indicate origin, it's a traditional story character. The only way it could genuinely be a trademark would be if it were used in a way completely unrelated to the character or story.

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=77618057&caseType=SERIAL_N...
> The company added that hacking its vehicles was a "criminal action".

screw that attitude.

I hope government will make the equivalent of whistleblower protection for security researchers that report exploitable flaws, because it's the only way to increase security over time.

i.e. I'm scared as hell that planes are allegedly hackable but researchers aren't really talking about it nor testing it properly because fear of lawsuits.
Short of the service provider giving you a library to access their code I prefer REST over SOAP for integration work I've done. REST in my experience forces better documentation and interaction between the service provider and client. I've worked with way too many SOAP services where some dev from 8 years ago wrote the service and nobody at the company wants to go anywhere near it to modify it. On top of that there is nearly zero documentation or if it exists it's very poorly done. With REST I feel I'm forced to interact with the creator which in my experience also drives better documentation. Because who wants to answer all of my usage questions :-)

I have never run into HATEOAS in the wild but it sounds pretty cool. I hope to get to try out a service that implements that one day.
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Implicit in that is the growing need for humans to support themselves comfortably on fewer hours going forward as well.
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See my quick python2 edit at https://gist.github.com/junkblocker/c4b7f2417e62f0893021 . It needed os.path.expanduser(...) since my editor was set to ~/bin/vim and ~ is only expanded by shell without that.
Well, the fact my window manager is now intrinsically linked to my systems boot process strikes me as somewhat obscene. There was the amusement with it reacting to debug being passed to the kernel which caused the system to never finish booting...

systemd is by no means alone; in the last month I've discovered that `yum` deliberately breaks its output when you try and pipe it to something else (I mean really, ffs, really?). The justification for this isn't even internally consistent which really winds me up too...

Whilst I pick on a couple, there's been innumerable packages, languages and platforms over the years that have had their share of what could politely be called idiosyncrasies. I highly recommend The Unix Haters Handbook [1] for plenty of historic examples -it's a lovely read -oh, and for years one of the *nix bullet points was always "all the power in the world and not a safety in sight" [2]

[1] The Unix Haters Handbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix-Haters_Handbook || http://www.csf.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/BioComp/training/...

[2] The Hole Hawg: https://web.archive.org/web/20150214132948/http://www.team.n...
I just don't understand why Amazon.com stock is so high. Bezos has stated time and time again that he intends for Amazon.com to never make a profit and to never pay a dividend, always folding all of the earnings back into the company for future growth. There is no logic to its value.
I could argue that fewer people need to work and lean towards a basic income. Sadly, this is not very palatable to most people.
could not even read this.
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Best guess is that by monolithic the author means homogeneous. Watching instructional videos on nail care is more educational than Family Ties, for sure, but it's easier to get stuck on a very specific value system or culture on the internet.

The smorgasboard of teh internets means that we never have to consume anything we don't already like. In a perverted way, having access to billions of small pieces of content homogenizes our personal experiences. When there's only a few pieces of content, the differentiation comes in our experiences with it. You and I may have something to talk about if we're both reading Walden. But if you've been watching unboxing videos of new laptops and I've been catching up on how to build fairy houses it doesn't matter that we're both living in the same house. That's a little sad.
Average Appstore visit to Download rates?
Anyone have any idea for average app store visit to download conversion rates?

What's a good rate, what's a bad rate?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9942215
My favorite line from that book:

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
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That difference is partly due to different things being valued: Walmart's valuation is primarily its current business, while Amazon's valuation is primarily its future growth prospects. That future growth is valued in the market cap today, but its actual materialization will only take place in the future, so doesn't show up on the payroll today. If Amazon does actually succeed in growing to Wal-Mart levels of sales, it will end up with a lot more employees than it currently has, though quite possibly still fewer than Wal-Mart.
I don't know if it's funny or sad. Remember how economists predicted that productivity increase would lead to everyone being richer and having to work fewer hours?

Yeah...
I'm slap bang in the commuter belt round London - and broadband availability is having an actual effect on house prices and decisions to move out of the area.

It's surprisingly low on the political agenda nationwide.

I'm about to get all English Middle class over this Sinai will stop now :-)
The old rule is still in effect: Nobody hates women more than other women.

Her and I could be friends.
USA contributed most of the world's innovations in science, technology, culture, and institution. It is silly to compare other countries to the USA.

Why Netherlands can be a socialist country, but not USA? Because Netherlands consumes innovations, while USA creates innovations.
The average Amazon employee is paid a lot more than the average Walmart employee, too. That matters a lot.
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I suppose if you need a style guide for SQL, then you're likely in the business of building databases to be accessed by multiple applications. However, be aware that the majority of applications are initially developed using a database as a data store, alongside opinionated ORM systems that will prefer a specific naming convention (such as plural forms).

Speaking from experience, you can't even expect native speakers to know all the collective forms. Worse, in some cases the collective form may cause confusion if the collective is the singular of a different table (players in a team, teams in a league, doing a fantasy football league app).

Using the plural, your schema would be player -> team -> league. Using your system, it would be team -> league -> sport. Good luck explaining that to a new hire.
Amazon's employee count would look much higher if they counted subcontractors working in their warehouses.
Ugh, can't read it because of the scrolling. Not sure what that's about.
Since nobody can agree what RESTful is, and RESTful services tend not to follow any particular set of rules, indeed to the extent that most RESTful services aren't really RESTful, it's hard to get past the section titles in this as being anything other than an exhausted straw man.
Well, can you name any companies operating on this scale that lack "ruthlessness"?
The far less polished solution I came up with for syncing viewing with my friends: https://github.com/wcummings/vlc-irc-rc
If you read around on this, you'll read that men in these fields are treated like absolute garbage. Especially nursing.
Perhaps that's a good thing. I look at the content market wrt. movies and music and see a thing that would be better off not existing, leaving the field for those who do work for the love of their craft.
I have not seen the play, but looking at the wikipedia page, they give eight examples of the monologues, and I don't see anything that's obviously anti-male. (unless you're going to get angry about "My Vagina Was My Village, a monologue compiled from the testimonies of Bosnian women subjected to rape camps.")
Nothing has changed recently. There have been dozens (probably hundreds) of discussions about feminism on HN. Some stay on the front page; many don't. As with any divisive topic that comes up frequently, the threads tend quickly to become flamewars, and those tend not to stay on the HN front page, though the discussions stay open for additional comments.

Many things affect a story's rank. Upvotes make it go up. User flags make it go down. Moderators downweight posts for various reasons (e.g. when a story or thread breaks the site guidelines or has been discussed recently). Software downweights posts for various reasons. Sometimes it's all of the above.

Please follow the guidelines and send this kind of question to hn@ycombinator.com, rather than posting it on HN itself, where it's largely off topic.
It will happen, just don't expect "the invisible hand of the market" to do it. The mechanism for bringing about these benefits will be political in nature.
The benefits of REST come when making public APIs that can be discovered with HATEOAS. People aren't doing that much yet, but I do hope it catches on, because we're not going to reach the next level of interaction between services until it (or something similar does).

I think the title misses the point a little, or at least generalises too much. REST is not harmful, it's incredibly powerful when used for the right thing. However, REST is not the correct technology choice for internal or high performance APIs.
Very few, but what's your point? Do you think we should stop demanding and fighting for transparency just because we don't have it now?
Time for me to cancel my DirectTV
Plus all the UPS/FedEx/USPS employees.
Yeah, and my college had (back in 2000) a womens-only robotics group. Where's your outrage over the men?

This is a dumb example.
In the tradition of declaring something new as "X for Y", I declare this is "Cytube for Netflix". Or it will be, when you add chat functionality.

It's a really neat idea, and it's basically second-best to watching a video in the same room as someone else. It's really fun to watch shows with other people, have discussions about the show, and share the experience.

References (I didn't make these):

https://github.com/calzoneman/sync/wiki/CyTube-3.0-User-Guid...

https://Cytu.be
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Clearly people think that Amazon will take over the world -- literally -- and their only method of influencing their new overlord will be to have shares to vote.

That's a joke.

Presumably the ultimate belief in the value is either that Bezos will eventually share some value of the company, or that Bezos will retire or die and it won't be his decision, or that stockholders will force a value-sharing over Bezos' objections (he does not, after all, have a majority).
The UK is an exciting opportunity! Do you think it will fit well there? I know tea in general is very popular there.
Let's talk offline about our expansion plan.
Is that number including all of the contractors in their warehouses? I believe they make heavy use of temp services.
Well it probably would happen if economists were managers and owners.
Not any cop, but a 36 yo Russian general and Head of the Anti-fraud service on the Ministry of Interior.
That's how I get updates on my car. A signed executable from Fiat. It hardly ever works right, and it takes longer than the time you need to fill up with gas. And the car has to remain stationary.
Seems more like a GoFundMe for travel, actually not that bad of an idea(GoFundMe even has a section for travel). I think the idea is more for friends and family to donate to a travel experience, not strangers.
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