skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a place has 700 reviews and a 4.5 star rating that's good signal that it's good, regardless of how many words are put into the 3 reviews you see on the front page.

If a place has 5 reviews and a 3 star rating that doesn't mean anything to me. Maybe it's great maybe it sucks, but I'm not turned off by it. It's just basic stats. If you're trusting one good 500-word yelp-elite review on a listing with 2000 2-star reviews, frankly you're doing it wrong.

Sometimes long reviews offer good things to search for -- for example someone might talk about a patio or happy hour that isn't identified on the site or yelp listing. I've used them for that purpose a few times.
I use TripAdvisor. Much less mean and agressive in terms of review quality as what I have experienced with Yelp.
You can already use ipv6 as an overlay network ontop of ipv4 and not worry about whatever wacky shit middle nodes are doing

https://tunnelbroker.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IPv6_tunnel_brokers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4

The time to bikeshed this stuff is long, long passed, take the time, understand the options, stop writing off ipv6 as impractical, or never going to happen, nobody is writing a (different) overlay network.
If you work at my employer, having to write secure code seems to be the bane of these developers existence.
Ancient genomics is recasting the story of the Americas’ first residents
I discovered that the Chrome browser had been storing every previous version as it updated them. I had over 20 GB of old versions of Chrome, which I recovered when I deleted them.
I travel a lot and talk to a lot of people and I can tell you from my experience that a lot of people don't know the best restaurants in their town. Most people haven't eaten at all of them to make the comparison. The best way to find out is to have some way to ask a bunch of people then compare their collective results and see what everyone's experience adds up to. That quickly starts looking a lot like Yelp.
Everything like "this" is technically a Bitcoin competitor... Whether it (Initiative Q or Bitcoin) is a viable one or not is the real question and remains to be seen.
Can you clarify what's "terrible" about it?

Provided a hash function for the key type exists, the hash map is one valid implementation for a generic map from keys to values. An array is a more efficient map from keys to values if the key type is an integral type and the actual keys at runtime are contiguous. It's also efficient if the keys are only nearly contiguous, and we have a "N/A" sentinel in the value type.
Smoke dope
Do you not get to pick? Android gives you a popup (e.g. Yelp app or Chrome) with an option to save your answer.
How can you attract the best tech talent?
One more agree-er for the bunch ;-)
This is related to what you are saying, but I think the main reason is that the app has better user retention (push notifications, icon on your home screen). Also they get location data.
Most of us have had to relocate to find decent jobs. If you chose to stay in the same town then that's on you.
Someone on Google reviewed my local cemetery. One star rating, because it made them sad to drive past it. Why even allow reviews on a cemetery?!
Can someone in marketing help me make sense of this, please? If I'm accessing a site on the web, what makes them so sure I'd access them more frequently if I had their app?

Personally, if I'm on a web page, I am actually much more likely to never install their app if I have a bad experience.
From the article: "“The creative submitted to us is linked to another organisation who have not yet been able to demonstrate compliance in this area.”

It's a Greenpeace video with the logo taken off. So it's political.

It's not about the topic of palm oil - it's about how much an advert can take content directly from an organisation that is a political organisation. Without this, you open a massive backdoor into all TV advertising in the UK.
Anyone else noticing more apps also providing a dark mode as an option?
Homeadvisor is just not a good source for service providers, especially when compared to Yelp. Angie's list is a little better, but Yelp still beats it. Maybe it's because Angie's List started as a paid service which limits the number of reviewers, even though it slightly improves review authenticity
This is pure nonsense. This isn’t even the right way to begin thinking about this as a forecasting task — the target series should be log-normal returns, not raw asset price. The performance of this model is laughably bad, which is probably why he spends zero time evaluating its effectiveness. You could trivially get better forecasts than this by naively repeating the last-observed price.

This isn’t ML. It’s cargo-cult performance of words and ideas that ML people use.
Because in sexual harassment, a manager is responsible for the behaviour of their reports.

Because it is the most common way for an idiot to open up the company to hundreds of thousands of dollars of liability.

Because it is the only concern that is a constant, regardless of which industry you work with.

When you're in the medical industry, managers have to take medical compliance training. When you're in the financial industry, managers have to take financial compliance training. When you're in the automotive industry, managers have to take OSHA compliance training.

But in all of those industries, there is one common element. Managers have reports. Reports that can sue the company, if their manager engages in harassment, or allows another employee, customer, or contractor to harass them.
It does the same on Android asking to open in "Chrome", regardless of whether I am using Brave or Firefox. However, the click always opens in the current browser for me regardless of clicking on chrome.
It seems like if you do anything with financial data like this, people often aren’t capable of accepting that it’s just a toy example — they judge it as if it must be intended to really make money. I don’t know why.
Sleep enough.
Uh kyc banking laws used to fund terrorism (eg hawalas) have been extensively ramped up over the past 20 yrs. Theres certain non violent crimes that law enforcement has carte blanche to investigate.
Angie’s List lost me with their user-hostile behavior. For example, cancelling an account required a phone call, also you can’t change your membership location at will, so if you spend any time outside of your local area, they didn’t let you see information for other locales.
Both you and Google are helping with the killing because it helps you make money. That’s okay. We all do terrible things for money.

You can withhold taxes by dropping your income below the minimum threshold.
Yelp positions their product primarily as a consumer service; the fact that the other side of the marketplace (service providers) is dissatisfied may affect Yelp's business but not necessarily the product they provide to consumers.
There are local path-dependent optima. There may be no -intrinsic reason for favouring these initially, but once established, their familiarity becomes their most valuable aspect.

Chirality, side of the road, alphabet, notational conventions, AC/DC, power frequency, mains socket design, measurement standards, sugar and DNA handedness, etc., etc.
I agree, to the extent that car-parks take up valuable space in cities. I assume that solar would not have that same problem.
People have proposed a pulley that the Egyptians could have had. Not sure if there is any evidence that they did have it beyond what's mentioned in the article.

https://egyptianpulley.com
That makes more sense, thanks. RIP my reading comprehension.
Apparently, the expectation that your boss shouldn't proposition you for sex = feminism.

Also, recognizing that a quid pro quo relationship is inappropriate at work = also feminism.

Have you considered that work is for people to go to, so that they can do their ing jobs?
All you have to do is live unemployed and take money from the government, thus draining it of killing money.
For volumetric attacks (where the attacker is using DNS reflection or similar to do nothing but eat your bandwidth) pretty much the only solution is to work with providers to block the sources/protocols to stop the majority of the traffic before it hits the fiber into the proxy servers. For SYN floods (where spoofed SYN packets are used to fill up the proxies connection table) the kernels SYN cookie functions can be used to ignore invalid SYN's, or if that isn't enough something like our ALOHA's PacketSheld to prevent the reflected/spoofed traffic from reaching the proxy at all (but still useless if the 10gb line is completely full).
HAProxy comes into account more if they are actually establishing a TCP connection even if they don't actually make a request, as then conn_rate/conn_cur trackers can be used to refuse/drop the connections (and with silent drop fill up their connection tables and make it harder for them to make more). If they actually make a full HTTP request, then the http_req_rate comes into play to 403 the requests (and can be combined with connection rate limiting to reduce the amount of traffic in HTTP requests they send).
I'm 90% sure I remember watching a documentary from 10+ years ago about a French egyptologist postulating the same mechanism and finding evidence for these ramps on site. I remember specifically how it solved a major puzzle pertaining to the transportation of such heavy blocks within the upper levels of the pyramid as it was being constructed.
Capsicum – oshogbo//vx
Also bandwidth. Because there is little other use for the satellites over the pacific, the instant the first phase of the constellation is up, it is better than the Southern Cross fiber line at everything it does.
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
Best Christmas gifts from gq (2018)
Old Urbanspoon reviews are still available on Zomato, but recent reviews (in my area) seem few and far between. Activity seems to be mostly on fb and google maps now.

To me, every time there's a migration of platform for restaurant reviews, the user experience gets worse. :(
NASA: State Machine Modeling of the Space Launch System [pdf]
Why do you prefer Angular?

Here are some of the reasons I would give:

.) More choice for mobile development: Ionic & Nativescript.
.) Easier to integrate new developers, all Angular projects look the same.
.) Project backed by Google.
.) Components closer to WebComponents framework, meaning designers can work on them concurrently vis-a-vis ugly JSX locked in your JS.
.) No commercial risk from libraries such as MobX and other router libraries dependent on a single amateur developer.
"A research scientist and senior level employee who worked out of his Pennsylvania home […] His noncompetition agreement prevented Magerman from working for one year after leaving Renaissance for any firm engaged in the business of mathematically-based trading of futures and securities." [1]

Not quite lifetime, unless they expected him to drop dead within a year.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2017/05/08/inside-t...
And in Rome, where famously Marcus Licinius Crassus' private fire fighters would arrive to a fire but first haggle over the price before attempting to put it out.
> ...Black people couldn't vote in the US 70 years ago.

Black people have been guaranteed equal voting rights in theory since the 15th amendment was ratified in 1870, which was 148 years ago. (And free black citizens existed and could vote in parts of the USA before that.)

Black people since then have faced practical barriers to equal voting in many parts of the country, continuing to the present day.
getting a course of rabies vaccines cured me of my dislike of needles, YMMV
That'll be a fun etymology to unwind a century from now.
Amateur sleuthing clues to colorectal cancer
> With a total of 2.5 million giant stones coming from such extreme distances

Afaik most of the stones were quaried very near the pyramids. Most of the stones aren’t the “quality stones” and didn’t have to travel distances:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza

“The Great Pyramid consists of an estimated 2.3 million blocks which most believe to have been transported from nearby quarries.”
I know people who have gone through the their hiring process, and they were sufficiently unsure if they would ever get on the team they applied for.

There's also the story of the Google+ UI lead who though he'd be working on another Google product, then got reassigned before he was even hired into G+ and hated his entire 9mo having never even met with Vic the VP driving G+.

Does that still happen?
it's not that you're accessing them more frequently, it's that installing an app gives them more access to you.
Now, who does that (and what languages support that anyway) and still gets the project finished?

Could you show a real world and readable example of this, using a language and compiler that actually exist?

Also, is it really better specifying all the information to possibly help the compiler come to the conclusion that it should choose an array, than simply typing "Array"?
I've been working on a similar project for a bit now, really think this is a good idea and good job for shipping!
A contrasting opinion - human effort is finite, but increasing.

If we continue to do things in the way they've been done, the total work produced by human effort will grow linearly with the total amount of human effort used.

If we invest human effort in improving the way things are done, then not only will that effort be available for improving other things, all effort that would have been spent on the task that was improved may be put to other work. This allows us to grow the total work produced by human effort to grow exponentially with the total amount of human effort used.
If someone sends you a link in Hangouts on iOS, it asks you if you want to open it in Chrome or Safari. I don't have Chrome installed, and I use Firefox on my iPhone. Deleted Hangouts after that and only use Hangouts in Pidgin on a desktop.
If they did that then companies like Yelp would immediately switch to using JavaScript to change the URL, if they aren't already.
So how do you the third world obtaining power?
If you’re going to disable the other services, why not use Algo instead
Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave_theory#Mathematical...

The problem is that if you have five particles then the function ψ(r1, r2, r3, r4, r5, t) is a function on 3*5+1=15 coordinates. If we assume that for each particle we use a 100x100x100=1000000 grid, then for the 5 particles we need a grid of (1000000)^5=1000000000000000000000000000000 points. The space were the wave is defined grows exponentially. (As a rule of thumb, with a current notebook, you can do up to 1000000000 or 1000000000000 calculations in a few seconds/minutes/hours.)
This sounds like one of the false reviews that people complain about.
But it was never implied that it's the first in the world.
Starcity (YC S16) is looking for a senior back end software engineer
> it's not limited to race

Very true.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27307476

> The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said there was not enough evidence for the organisation to "either support or not support" placentophagy as there had not been enough research on the health benefits.

On the one hand I didn't want to post this because it kinda grossed me out and might ruin someone's day or something -- on the other hand, I "totally could see it being a thing in Asia", just because of the other powdered animal stuff; but wasn't aware of it being a thing, period, and I guess that would describe many people. And some of the sentences in that article are really quite something, oh my.
I don't think "most people" are even aware of Yelp's previous issues. It's probably more just Google eating their lunch.
Listening to the 9/11 broadcast, the first thing that tipped me off was the anchor's tone of voice. Discovery accident likewise.
To be fair, iOS offers no capability to list the browsers a user has installed on their phone. So they have to assume Safari, which is a fair assumption for 90% of users, I imagine.
They tuned it to the preference of a professional driver, who has also driven probably every sporty car made in the past decade on that track. So it's not like his preferences are arbitrary, they are the result of a huge amount of experience. And clearly his expertise is paying off, as the lap times have improved considerably.

I also don't think that preference is the right word to use. Cars have unique characteristics which need to be leveraged differently to maximize performance. A Mustang GT, a 911 Turbo S, and a Audi TT-RS are going to have different handling characteristics by virtue of their design.

Since the Model3 is so unique, adapting characteristics of, say, a BMW M3 or an Audi RS3 to a Model3 might not yield the best results. Which is probably what the original engineers did.
Without employees, there would be no company, and all conversation about what shareholders want would be moot.

Employees have extraordinary power - especially if they work together to use it.
https://www.facebook.com/jaime.oliver.5/videos/1015582303591...
Apple can be proud of using plastic recycled at 60 percent but a not easily serviceable computer will end up in a landfill way sooner than it should.

What happens three years down the line when the device is out of warranty and the storage fails? Between paying an absurd amount of money to replace the whole board and getting a new one I bet most people will go with the landfill option.

My Mac mini 2012 got a second life after I maxed out the ram and replaced the spinning rust. If a component fails I can easily replace it and squeeze a couple of years more out of it.
Does it support dark mode?
Just noticed the downvotes my comment got. To clarify: I lived there and loved every minute.
Ars technica covered this in a well written, well explained article [1] yesterday. Worth a read for folks who don't necessarily have the right background to understand the significance and / or importance.

To quote one of the many good excerpts:

"They looked at siblings-in-law, and first-cousins-in-law, and then further afield, at relationships like “the sibling of a sibling’s spouse" (your brother’s wife’s sister) and "the spouse of a spouse’s sibling” (your husband’s sister’s husband). Even at these distant relationships, lifespans were correlated—if your spouse’s sibling’s spouse lived to a ripe old age, that means you’re a bit more likely to do the same."

Worth reading, IMHO.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/genetics-play-less-o...
We ship a consumer application with databases in it (multiple). Even the ACID ones fail all the time, maybe 1-3% of our userbase has had a corruption at some point.
i recently broke my two fingers on my right hand and could only code with the left hand (i am right handed) would have loved intellegint auto complete. And speach to text interface. That would be cool
If you actually run a good restaurant ( not subjectively good, but objectively good ) then you can tell Yelp to take a hike every time their sales person calls so it would never be surfaced more than some taco place which for some reason did decide to give Yelp money. I'm sure this affects placement, not to mention probably frequency of reviews/checkins plays into placement.

It is not that Aska NYC gives two cents about it not showing up on every Yelp search - after all they are a place that gets away with charging your credit card when you make a reservation and offers no refunds!
Magnus Carlsen V Fabiano Caruana: World Chess Championship, Game 1 – Live
That's just FOMO talking. Sacrifice is giving up what you want for what you need. I'd say careers are strategies for meeting needs while contributing to the life of another is a need. As long as all other needs are being met, I don't see the problem.
I don't think you can really use any absolutes here. It depends very heavily on where in the world you are.
why do all cars look the same? why do all magazine covers look the same? why do all the graphics on cable news channels look the same?

These are questions that do not require an article worth of words for analysis..
How Caligula's Floating Pleasure Palaces Were Found and Lost Again
unless that text validates hidden assumptions, or conveys important information to the user.

not always the case, but you can't argue that "less text is more readable" any more than you can argue "more text is more readable". what you want is, "just the right amount of text" which will depend on your tastes.
Its not terribly common to attack the SMTP service itself, as usually spam can be sent to cause problems outside of the availability of the SMTP service itself.
If SMTP traffic is put through HAProxy conn_cur and conn_rate trackers can be used to limit connections per source IP. "inspect delay" can be used to cause SMTP connections to be held in HAProxy for a while, which makes mail flooding substantially more difficult as well (there is an example of that in the docs if you search for inspect-delay).
Yes, but it’s not exactly an informative image.
I read it more as a two part rant, first "all code is bad and what is good will become bad" with a shade of resignation then "the source of badness is in how we set our own goals as an industry and we should strive to change them".

Overall it seems quite reasonable except maybe for the tone that was off-putting to many apparently
Write down a problem, take a nap, wake up with the answer.
It's sad but many companies have tunnel vision - probably getting thousands of reports of people complaining of this. Unfortunately they think, for whatever reason, those are all outliers. It takes a good scathing top-rated post on HN to let them see. I'm sure a developer at Yelp that has been complaining to management for years is going to take this thread and show someone that can change it.

But I think it's too late.
It was a joke - the Xcode section starts about halfway down the page. I was just illustrating that the friction we deal with today is of comparable complexity to what might be thought of as advanced programming (AI, VR, AR, physics, etc etc).
You said it better (and nicer) than I could have. You can extend this to .NET Standard. I mean, I love .NET. You can have Rust and functional programming and whatever else. .NET gets the job done pretty much all of the time for me. But when you reach for simple file system access or System.Drawing and they aren't available it makes you wonder how they are on version 2. That's pre-alpha if you ask me.

Again, I think C# is a great language. I just feel a bit decieved about what .NET Core and .NET Standard are capable of. If the version number matched the capability I would probably be excited.
I couldn't agree more. Hopefully this is a wakeup call to Yelp and other slimy sites that try to extort users into downloading their app.

Also, small pro-tip for anyone unaware. If you are on mobile web and on Yelp, but don't want to download the app, hold down the refresh button, and select 'Request Desktop Site' - this will load the non mobile version of the site that will not force you to download the app. The UI isn't as great as the mobile optimized site, but hey at least you can read reviews without being extorted into downloading an app.