Hacker News: bsullivan01

New comment by bsullivan01 in "The growing irrelevance of Google Search"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:16:06 +0000

There are YouTube videos I watch recreationally that I don't necessarily want to attach to my public identity.

Wait until what you viewed is broadcast http://uk.news.yahoo.com/google-users-stars-online-ads-14411... all over Google, and maybe the web via Adsense ads.

New comment by bsullivan01 in "The growing irrelevance of Google Search"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:11:31 +0000

I consciously try not to use Google but when I do it's with ad blockers. For products is Amazon directly--they are usually #1 anyway after the many ads Google puts on top. Ironically Google is training people to go directly to the top sites by putting them on top for virtually anything.

New comment by bsullivan01 in "Stay away from Digital Ocean"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:57:51 +0000

They work on razor thin margins so they shoot first and ask questions later. They don't have the resources to provide top notch customer service or investigate in depth, or prices would be much higher.

So you get what you pay for, I wouldn't move my money making sites to a service like that.

New comment by bsullivan01 in "How Bill Gross’ GoTo.com inspired the AdWords business model"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:45:28 +0000

wrong comparison Larry. Now a few entrenched players (not always the best choice or cheapest) can outbid you and hide your ads AND free listing. Not many people scroll down and on top is all ads. Small business is going broke thanks to Google, as Google's earnings keep going up.

Without having to spend money it ends up being confusing for consumers because it's like craigslist and inevitably results in people not being able to find what they want.

So Google without ads, when it first started, was worse than other search engines? Nope. The advertiser that bids the highest might not be the best option for the user at all

New comment by bsullivan01 in "Brazil announces secure email to counter US spying"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:37:38 +0000

I'm surprised they didn't have their their government emails. But they should know that if NSA really wants them, suitcases of cash will exchange hands to get the key...

New comment by bsullivan01 in "The San Francisco Exodus"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:22:43 +0000

To subsidize affordable homes for 100,000 people would cost $25 billion.

and then another 100,000 people would move in there.

So yes, we should build as much subsidized affordable housing as we can.

Skip as many meals as you want, work as many hours and you want to do that. People can move to different cities you know...

New comment by bsullivan01 in "Adblock Plus: the tiny plugin threatening the internet's business model"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:10:30 +0000

I think it also has to do with a rush new votes up or down. Sort of trending

New comment by bsullivan01 in "Adblock Plus: the tiny plugin threatening the internet's business model"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:55:39 +0000

Employes of a certain company that starts with G do this on stories harmful to their employer. I'd bet that's the reason.

New comment by bsullivan01 in "IBM researcher can guess your personality from 200 of your tweets"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:37:14 +0000

IBM researcher can decipher your personality from 200 of your tweets

memo to self, always keep the total number of avail tweets at 199, or 198 just to be sure.

Google and Facebook might, simply because they know everything about you and sites you visit.

New comment by bsullivan01 in "How to Become as Rich as Bill Gates"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:32:11 +0000

So the person born in the current Gates' situation would prolly have achieved what Gates did - given that Gates is who he is because he won the ovarian lottery.

If he had a twin brother he's be, say Larry Ellison or Warren Buffet?

No doubt knowing that daddy is there for you if you fail and that Harvard will take you back is a huge relief and fall back strategy but Gates did make some amazingly good decisions. Some forty years later his company is worth close to $300 Billion and makes over $20 Billion in profit, year after year.

New comment by bsullivan01 in "Adblock Plus: the tiny plugin threatening the internet's business model"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:22:20 +0000

Ads are fine, up to a point. If the page is almost all ads and not marked clearly as so, then F that company.

But these AdBlock PLUS guys are extortionists. Google paid and their ads are "acceptable." all of the sudden. (Disclaimer: not a fan of Google at all) Google being the world's largest advertiser is leading the way in putting the entire business model at risk, ruining ads for everyone. They started with no ads, then a few ads on the side, then on top, then 2-5 on top and 12 on the sides, now ads everywhere and just a few results hidden by ads. Now the product search is 100% ads and I doubt that most people know (not everyone reads HN and Ars) I posted them before but this is a disgrace and it's not receiving the needed attention from the media:

http://i.imgur.com/mhJhc5W.png

http://ho9od35yvs05ejqn.zippykid.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/u...

New comment by bsullivan01 in "How Samsung inflated its performance scores"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:23:02 +0000

But it's not like the market punished them at all. They are still selling lots of them.

Apple is the only that held them accountable in court, at least a little it. These b*stards are shameless http://cdn.mactrast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Samsung-A...

New comment by bsullivan01 in "How Samsung inflated its performance scores"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:42:59 +0000

Samsung is one shady company. They get away with murder in South Korea, given that they make up a huge chunk of SK's GDP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kun-hee#Samsung_scandal

They do make decent electronics, but I wouldn't trust anything they say.

New comment by bsullivan01 in "Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'"

bsullivan01 — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 04:14:51 +0000

You don't know what you're talking about.

All I know comes from trying to help via the internet a cousin find a place to live around that area.

Bullshit. I have friends that lived in Surreal Estate (a Bushwick artists' loft) five years go for 150/_month_.

Apparently Surreal Estate is some sort of experimental commune so I don't see how this makes my argument invalid. Oh, and it's in Brooklyn, not Manhattan. And apparently it was five years ago.

New comment by bsullivan01 in "Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'"

bsullivan01 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 21:30:27 +0000

No, what's fishy is the $135/week rent, even a small room can cost more than that--unless it's a really, really bad area. But you can live on $540, for a while. Food can be very cheap in the bodegas and the rest can largely be controlled by only getting what's really needed. Of course a hospital visit will set you back 1-5 years of living expenses but that's different.

Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'

bsullivan01 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:18:31 +0000

Article URL: http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/13/20923154-living-on-5000-a-year-on-purpose-meet-americas-intentional-poor?lite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6544012

Points: 40

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New comment by bsullivan01 in "Stone Age hunter-gatherers lived beside farmers, didn't interbreed"

bsullivan01 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:34:48 +0000

If it's anything like Africa has been over the past 100 years, agricultural tribes and hunter-gatherer tribes simply don't mix.

You are missing the point IMO. Back then, it wasn't like today, where you check their LinkedIn profile, FB pictures, date them a few dozen times and then decide.

Food, shelter and protection were even more important than now. And 2000 years is a long time not to mix, imagine what the world goes through in 2 millennia.

New comment by bsullivan01 in "Twitter pays SVP of Engineering $10 million as Silicon Valley tussles for talent"

bsullivan01 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:19:36 +0000

Twitter pays engineer $10 million as Silicon Valley tussles for talent

He may be an engineer but he got the $10 Mil for being "The senior vice president of engineering"

New comment by bsullivan01 in "Ask HN: I found documents on the backseat of a taxi. Can I legally use them?"

bsullivan01 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:19:32 +0000

First thing I would have done, NOT F*CKING POST on HN. The person that lost it reads too and so do his friends.

Second, if you wanted to you might used part of it you would have to be very careful and pair it with something totally yours.

Oh, and laws vary from country to country. Ethics are a different thing

New comment by bsullivan01 in "Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)"

bsullivan01 — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:07:18 +0000

"A system provides a periodically changing story line and/or a special event company logo to entice users to access a Web page"...or change logo and upload the new one to the website. Revolutionary!