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It's slang, meaning to lose momentum and stop. Saying "died out" or "fizzled out" is more common these days (eg: A spark jumped from the fire but quickly fizzled out on the snowy ground).

This is not "niche." Every person living outside of the states has this problem. Next time you need something even remotely specific or customized, head on over to amazon.ca and see if you can find the item you're looking for. Then when you can't, think of other countries that aren't directly beside the most consumer friendly country on earth.

Here's how a typical banner/adspace currently works:

1. The ad/banner space downloads a javascript file

2. Javascript runs, collects browser+cookie+other identifying information and sends it on up to an ad exchange

3. The ad-exchange systems cross-reference the information it receives with other information it already has (think huge low latency k/v store) in order to try to identify you further, perform cross-device identification, save more information

4. The ad-exchange system then rolls all this information together and fans out this package saying "here is a male aged 25-35 who likes ponies and bick shaving cream" to dozens or hundreds of partnered ad providers

5. Each ad provider looks at their content, finds a close match, and then bids on how much they would pay in order to serve content to this person

6. Ad-exchange receives all the bids and picks the second highest bidder (no idea why it's the second highest)

7. Ad-exchange then sends this second highest bidder's ad URL back to the waiting javascript running in the users browser, and ad-exchange marks the winning bid so it knows who won/who has to pay at the end of the month.

8. From 1 to here usually has an SLA of occurring in less than 170ms

9. User's browser then loads up the response URL and the ad displays

Asking website operators to host their own thing is feasible, but perhaps not worthwhile. The big money maker in adspace is targeted advertising, and small sites will never have the infrastructure to be able to really identify anybody but perhaps their core users. Others have mentioned reverse proxies to make content appear as if it came from the target site, and that may exist, but the reality is whatever these guys do is currently being defeated pretty handily by community driven ad blocking. Perhaps we will eventually see what you're talking about though

My bad, I was cranky!

I got an initial

[error] k.m.ApiError - error : Ask timed out on [ActorSelection[Anchor(akka://kafka-manager-system/), Path(/user/kafka-manager)]] after [1000 ms]

But then I waited for a bit (Updating internal state...?) and hit refresh and it worked. Also it didn't just pick up my cluster from zookeeper, had to click "Add cluster" and enter zookeeper deets before it showed. This is probably expected behaviour, just a heads up to others.

...does your mom still cook/clean/shop for you? Other countries are not alien planets which are devoid of grocery stores and somewhere you can buy a broom. Just grab a backpack and go. This whole 'arrangement' thing is very american. Use hostelworld, go stay at some hostels for a while. Meet people and have an adventure. Backpack around your target country (or countries) and find a city you like. Ask the people that work at the hostel there how to get set up with a place. Or, get to a country and take language classes at a school somewhere and ask your professors.

"Privacy" link is broken. Is there client side encryption, or can fetching decrypt the data?

This is awesome. It reminds me of a talk I saw recently, linked from hackernews at some point in the last year or so. Something about re-thinking internet infrastructure into a "directory-tree" like model. Does anyone remember it?

Chrome 37.0.2062.120 m (latest version) for Win7 x64 has some sort of validation problem upon entering a perfectly valid gmail address in that signup field. Hitting subscribe just makes it highlight red. Works in IE though. PS: I'm looking for the android version too! Anki is great but clunky.