skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take the number of your friends. Subtract the "lurker" ratio, which most studies show to be pretty high. Now subtract the ones who have never been to the place you want to see the review of. Now subtract the ones who went there but didn't review it (because do you leave reviews of every single business you use? if so, where do you find the time to do anything else?). The mode of the result will be 0.

If your friends are homogeneous and outgoing, you might achieve the critical mass necessary to have more than just one review on a handful of local businesses.

On Yelp, I have many local places with 0 reviews period, let alone by people I know.

Broader comment: Tying identities to reviews won't do squat. If I tell you I'm Bob Thurmond, put up a photo of an older white guy, and exercise even a modicum of identity management, who's going to be able to tell otherwise?
Anyone knows a good Book Suggestion tool?
I like to read business related biographies and studies. Also I want to learn about investing and stuff. But searching for relevant books has become a nightmare. I have been to brick and mortar book stores as well as ecommerce sites. They have so many books I dont know which to pick. Does anyone know a good tool that i can use for book suggestions??
Who is "we"? Tim Berners-Lee is British.
May be I am missing something here... what if the Display Images is turned off? How will that activate the alert system?
I don't think the article does the case justice.

If you look at the holding, the Court just says that all invalidity defenses must be established by "clear and convincing evidence" (higher than preponderance of evidence but lower than beyond a reasonable doubt.)

It has been well-established that patent validity is a basic assumption. So, a plaintiff must prove patent invalidity by clear and convincing evidence. The issue here is once the plaintiff establishes patent invalidity, how much evidence does the defendant need to give to rebut the assumption of invalidity. The Court said that the higher standard of proof, not the lower standard of proof.

Maybe I'm being thickheaded here, but I don't see how that's terrible at all. In fact, it makes things equal. Once the plaintiff shows patent invalidity, it shouldn't be that easy for a defendant to rebut the assumption of invalidity.
Dealing with ungraceful customers is #1 thing I look for in a business. I am not usually ungraceful. I always try to be polite and friendly with any customer service rep, etc. However, I think it says a lot about a company.

For example, a budget hosting provider that I used for a while would go off on any customer who posted a negative review of them in the comments section of a blog I frequent (LowEndBox). They turned out to be a terrible provider and even being a reasonable customer, I could not get anything from their customer support.

This is the same principle that can be used at job interviews. Take the interviewee out to lunch and see how they treat the wait staff. Quick way to separate assholes from people that will gel well with your team.
Interesting list but the notion that "ideas are only valuable when someone (like you) makes something happen" can only go so far. If you have a bad idea that you make happen it doesn't automatically become valuable.

This story might prove that ideas are a dime a dozen, but one can argue that good ideas are not.
The entire article is honestly just an overly verbose, misguided, disorganized, incoherent straw man.

Geeks say classics are worthless because they're long and hard to read? Peter Thiel is out to ruin college just because it's 'elitist'? Books are no good because they're written by one person?

Give me a break -- he doesn't even bother citing anything to support his premises. These points are so laughably far from reality that no one should waste their time addressing them. It's not even worth reading this article except as an example of faulty logic and how not to write a persuasive piece.
I agree. A technical co-founder with no business sense would likely be inclined to disagree with business decisions made by the CEO, thus causing friction internally and hindering productivity.
This is for his own account; presumably, he's turned that option on.
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Well... it probably depends on how they claim to get these followers/fans.

If all you have to do is pay money, then yes it's a 'scam'. While it isn't really a scam because I'm sure they'll get you more followers or fans, they'll all be bots or fake accounts.

If they're some kind of social marketing agency, then it could be legitimate. That being said, there isn't any magic to engaging potential customers with social networking. There's plenty of free resources that can help give you advice.

The main difference is whether you're getting followers/fans that are actually interested and engaging with what you're doing. You want quality, not quantity.
Your comment only strengthens the case against Asus' product marketing execution.
excellent points. and post-it notes and a bunch of pens too.
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Really? Had Orange removed the ability to install native Symbian (.sis) apps and Mobile Java (.jar) apps?

Because if you would have a normal Symbian devices, there would be plenty of free software available. Not as easily as through AppStore (almost with the Ovi) but the platform is much more open than iPhone in that it allows installation of software from any source.
> A village in china that paints portraits of pop culture icons as various dog breeds. Look, Obama as a GreyHound!

If your ideas are retarded, of course they're a dime a dozen.
My favorite, #469: "A YouTube VC firm, that will invest money in people who are willing to do stupid stuff on video in hopes that the video will go viral and they will make a profit."

Could happen, in today's angel investment climate...
> And I caution everyone not to fall into the mental trap of overvaluing mass at the expense of momentum

Aha! But the formula for momentum, P = mv, shows that momentum increases linearly with mass. So it's impossible to overvalue mass at the expense of momentum!
Europe is great at technological innovation.

Why do Americans make more money in software?

* Pure inertia from the early cowboy days of Silicon Valley, which gave us great universities and lots of private investment capital looking for returns. (Contrast with academic grants.)

* A more straight-forward focus on technology-for-moneys-sake (really anything-for-moneys-sake) and marketing

* The U.S. development culture, to Dijkstra's eternal chagrin, is much more "Worse Is Better" so we tend to ship early, often and win the market, even though our stuff kind of sucks.
Agreed - and we think your friends would benefit from those short, honest, insightful comments as well.

Its all about providing an environment where people you care about can easily find your recommendations... so that when you do find a 5 star place, your reviews will be taken seriously.
You don't have to add a disclaimer about not condoning drunk driving. That you felt it was necessary says quite a bit about how we've been groomed to accept these checkpoints.
Persistence is what is needed, not anonymity. I don't care if the guy that wrote the review is of the opposite political persuasion than me. I just care that the last 3 restaurants where I ate on his recommendation were good, so the 4th is probably good too.

EDIT: I am suggesting using sha1(full_name + salt) as the displayed name.
I'd go so far as to add that the business guy having a modest amount of technical chops will make getting that technical guy easier, make getting funding easier, and make the creation of the product easier.

This is the Right approach.
Interesting & strong point.

We're looking to solve that problem as well -- its a darn big challenge!
I recently went through the "resume 2.0" process:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2638462
To be fair, there are plenty of reasons to avoid DUI checkpoints even if you're not driving impaired.

They tend to substantially slow down traffic, for one.
Wouldn't you think, a business co-founder with a technical co-founder would mainly stick to their strengths?
People, please... don't feed the trolls.
Where do they draw the line? What about Trapster/RadarActive?
Personally, I don't have a problem with deep magic that I don't completely understand operating in my code, as long as its semantics are clear and obvious. If I didn't, I doubt I'd code in C, never mind Scala.

I'm more interested in what this compiles to in the JVM, and what its performance overhead is.
You want to know what I blame for tasteless vegetables at the grocery store? Organic veggies. Hear me out.

Stores love premium brands. The profit margin is higher and they make the cheap brands look like a better deal.

In a grocery store produce section, the "organic" aisle there is the premium brand. At one point in time, organic was more tasty, but now it's the same mass-produced, over-transported crap.

If you took away their "organic" brand, they'd find another way to coax you to spend more money. If they did that by finding and marketing tastier vegetables, they'd empty my wallet PDQ.
These will probably not sell well. I guess Google didn't expect the iPad to be such a big hit, and now the netbook market is already over with. If Google had more foresight ChromeOS would've been a tablet OS right from the start.
JRuby's FFI implementation is great, but I've had about as much success with MRI, so I test my FFI libs on MRI 1.8.7, 1.9.2 and the latest JRuby. I'm looking forward to the day when Rubinius' FFI converges with the other implementations.
So? It doesn't stop it from being done. Legality != prevention/deterrance.
At the same time, a co-founder with a business sense and no sense will likely make bad business decisions that have technical impacts.

Do they understand the true cost of a highly available environment? Do they understand why feature development takes so long?

Even people with a limited technical background make those. In fact, they're probably worse, because they think they understand something but really don't.

Have two founders from different backgrounds, with a small understanding of the other is good. But the key is to understand their own knowledge boundaries and let the other take over where it matters. They need be able to play devils advocate to each other just enough to come up with the right solution.
http://goo.gl/niwt5
European Innovation Scoreboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Innovation_Scoreboard

It show the gap is getting smaller with US innovations.
But the article is stupid. They do not suck at innovation.
Ask HN: How do you think .net, .co, .ly & .me stack up?
Just a couple years ago, this wasn't even a question: .net was the clear-cut #2 if you couldn't score your .com

Where do you think things stand now? Are there particular situations that make you favor .co, .ly & .me (and others) over .net?

What factors help you determine which one you'd choose?
This is a good story that on one hand you need to actually sell your product but on the other than free samples and demonstrations are incredibly effective sales tools.

My only comment would be that it is always good to tweak and play with different angles, prices, and promotions. Different marketing channels react differently to different products at different prices. There is no one right way to do everything.
Right or wrong, I go with Amazon's "People who bought this book also looked at"
Seems overpriced by about $200. Competing with Netbooks that can do more and iPads that can do more and are more stylish...
According to the most recent information on hand, even the British are considered Europeans.

(More seriously, I wish people wouldn't submit interesting articles and then sullen them with dumbed-down, incendiary headlines.)
I like to read 1-star reviews (for anything) just to get a rough idea for what a 'worst case scenario' might look like for that particular thing. If the 1-star reviews are all about entitled patrons, that's pretty encouraging, whereas a few reviews about rats or cockroaches would make me look elsewhere. To use another example, I was looking at books on Amazon yesterday, and the only one-star review for a particular jQuery book was from this guy who was mad because the book didn't explain how to put quotation marks inside another pair of quotation marks (it was NOT a Javascript book) or how to download Firebug. Whereas another book's 1-star reviews might be about how the examples don't work, core material was skipped over, etc. When I was looking for a travel mug I could throw in my purse, I nixed any option that had a 1-star review about leaks (including many which were advertised as leakproof), and ended up getting the best travel mug I've ever had. I can shake it upside down or toss it across the room and my coffee stays safely contained. I think the bad reviews of it were about how hard it was to clean and how the lid came apart too easily. (It's supposed to come apart, to make it easier to clean...)
Could you link to your critique? I'd love to read it.
Good idea about the website. Of course I don't want to spend a lifetime on this, so I'll move on after that. Thank you!
Nice, is this the "titan silver"?
Corollary: Some ideas are vastly more lucrative than others. Which is why it's useful to spend a week listing your top 999 ideas. Execution is a PITA so choose carefully.
It's time to lower the ax on obsolete browsers
Yeah, but you know they aren't giving away their most valuable idea.
Also, while mobile Safari has made excellent strides, it's still not even close to a traditional browser.

That's not going to last very long.
Just in time. Thank you.
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Surprised that `ctrl-F incent` yields no results in the article or the comments. Sounds like a simple matter of incentivization to me. When you live in a relatively socialist country that puts discouraging penalties on rewards, why take a risk?
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"....worked out a compromise with Apple?"

I chuckled when I read this. Work out a compromise with Apple? Most reasonable people would view Apple's position as being too constraining on content providers. If another tech giant whom I won't mention pulled a move like this, then people who be up in arms about it. But no, not for Apple ;-)
Kind of a misleading title
Nokia anyone? Massive innovation in terms of creating cheap, portable tiny computers that we now derisively call "dumb phones" early on, when no one else was doing anything like it. Other smartphone players just came in and skimmed off the top ;)
"My only comment would be that it is always good to tweak and play with different angles, prices, and promotions."

I agree. In fact, I'm working on ways of making the service totally free for authors, by generating supporting revenues elsewhere (ideally not through ads).
That would be a disturbing aspect of government.

EDIT: To be clear, walled garden owners are under no legal obligations to comply with "suggestions" from government that apps be removed. If senators try to get their way by threatening regulation, I would say that's bad behavior on the part of those senators.
Are you implying that all people who are invited to the event have a Facebook account? Do you find it reasonable to require them to have one? Maybe you do, but not everyone does.
The IP-based approach seems flawed from my pov as someone who travels often. I'm always checking in from various IP addresses. Even locals who like to log in from the nearest cafe would get false positives, while the canary approach is more targeted.
Definitely get in touch with me, we (Heroku) are hiring exactly that kind of person for the operations team that I run. The company is based in San Francisco, but my team is all remote and a couple of us live here in the triangle.
Do you check for DUI checkpoints every time you get in your car? Because I don't.
As I was completely unaware of overclocking in WebOS and specifically for the original Pre (which I have), I'll save the user the bit of googling I did to find overclocking. I had no idea it was this easy in preware:

http://www.precentral.net/why-i-overclock-my-palm-pre-its-ea...

So now I have my distraction for the next half-hour while I play with the overclocking options and test the responsiveness.

So thank you for mentioning that. +1 to you!
Ideas are a dime a dozen, but great ideas are not. Some ideas are better than others, and some are much better than others. It would be easy to argue that someone who could consistently come up with the much better ones would be worth just as much if not more than a great executor.
A website dedicated to the event?
> We're finding more and more sources of energy everyday.

Excuse me, this flies in the face of everything I know of. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
No source of energy even remotely comparable to fossil fuels in power density and convenience is in sight. Unless you discovered a way to build a fusion reactor?

> Predicting a doom and gloom because we'll run out of fossil fuels makes you forget that humans have survived for thousands and thousands of centuries without fossil fuels.

Logical fallacy. Human beings will still exist in the future. What's in question is advanced civilisation. Read about how Rome looked like when Carolus Magnus came there, 350 years after its fall.

> Further, stating that we'll run out of resources ignores the laws of supply and demand: if resources start to dry up, prices will increase, prompting people to find alternative sources for energy.

Typical armchair economist bullshit; this really makes me angry nowadays. People will find alternative resources given that some exist.

> With economic growth, comes new and better ways of extracting energy ...

Hello, second law of thermodynamics calling. Exponential continuous growth is impossible. You know, like "it will cease someday or another, whether you like it or not".

This recent post on the oil drum is a pretty good digest: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7924
Also see

http://www.ideaswatch.com/
If people are confused by the word burn. Should you change the name?
not to mention they give out more seatbelt and sticker violations at DUI checkpoints than they do DUIs
Except Rasmus was born on Greenland and was in university in Ontario when he created PHP. Claim Ontario or Canada as a capitalist paradise at your own risk :).
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Most people wouldn't think to do it. But if you have a busted tail light of which you were not aware, for example, rest assured that you'll know about it after passing through a "DUI" checkpoint.
I'm thinking of qip.ru, mail.ru and Yandex.
This list is actually pretty awesome. I had my doubts, but wow, very nice.

Funny:
#120 A travel company that arranges people to stay at others houses.
MIT hacked by Lulzsec?
I like this bit from the article:

"Smaller companies that held patents worried that if Microsoft prevailed, it could lower the standard of proof for invalidating a patent, crippling small companies that depend on patent protection, legal experts say."

Other than patent trolls, which small (software) company benefits from (software) patents?
I don't see the point. The guy says he owns a private server. Why doesn't he just move his email there, and monitor activity in all sort of imaginable ways?
Ask HN: Large Usenet archives? (not Google)
Does anyone know if there are any large Usenet archives apart from Google Groups?

I've been able to find some individual newsgroup archives, and some relatively short-term archives of a large number of groups, but nothing near the scale of Google Groups.

And yet, with the size of cheap hard drive storage available now, large Usenet archives should be quite feasable (at least for the non-binary groups).
.me for cutesy personal things, .ly for libyans and .co for columbians. Because of course we have to get our cute puppies, 1.21 jiggawatts of polonium power and some suspicious white powder from somewhere.

Either get them to hold every domain with your name, or for some good url hack. In which case get .com and .net anyway. If I ever get tobyla.ne I'll want to have tobylane.com and tobylane.net.
I enjoyed reading your comment from my pre, while sitting in the park on a nice day. I agree that the fanfare over gee-whiz features is just hype. What should interest you is the potential, though unlikely emergence of another serious competitor. As with copy/paste, multitasking, notifications, and over-the-air updates, having competitors that show that Apple is not the only place great ideas come from can only be good for us all.
I'm solving the same problem at http://tattle.com.

Our pitch is "Local business reviews and recommendations from people you trust."

For me, as a vegetarian (http://tattle.com/#communities/vegetarian), the problem with Yelp has always been that I don't have any good way of finding vegetarian-friendly restaurants. They are good for factual queries, but trust is a delicate issue. That's mainly because when you run a search for "vegetarian" on Yelp, you're getting back a list of places that have the word in their name or description, or occasionally a review. But actually, places are not vegetarian, people are vegetarian. So if you want to know what place to go to, you need to know who goes there. That's how we're solving the trust gap (in addition to other problems with reviews).
I am in favor of software patents and I am in favor of shortening the duration. (In this context we somehow have to reform USPTO so that they can get a patent out in less than 3-5 years! remember this time comes off the term of the patent) :)
Just computer science students? I would generally expect most scientists or engineers to have have a developed antipathy to anti-reductionism.

"The brain is a computer, the mind is software" is in fact a very naive statement, but I hope your problems with it have more to do with the non-existent in reality hardware/software distinction than silly constructs like qualia.
They become read-only (and still private) and you get a big ol' red box at the top of every Github page asking you to pay them or downgrade to the free plan. (http://cl.ly/0W3X0g1l0N13450b0C00)
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This is one of the few email services I get and actually use: http://anynewbooks.com/

Every week brings at least one interesting book.
i4i is exactly such a small company.
Rent-a-wife – a woman who cleans, cooks, does laundry, picks up dry cleaning, mail, etc but without the emotional relationship.
I'd rent...
The fundamental point underlying science and basic research is that it's generally not possible to know the value of knowledge before you, well, know it. Your perspective is extremely shortsighted.

If humanity only invested in projects of "measurable value," there would be no computer programmers, because there would be no computers, because we would not understand physics, because physics requires esoteric mathematics, and what good did fiddling with numbers ever do for anyone? No measurable value whatsoever!
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