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The book he recommends for grids[1] isn't available yet (and has no release date).

As an alternative perhaps Khoi Vinh's Ordering Disorder[2].

[1] http://www.fivesimplesteps.com/products/a-practical-guide-to...

[2] http://www.subtraction.com/2010/11/05/i-wrote-a-book
Yeah, i really wanted to see this in action, but i guess your site is getting a lot of traffic at the moment.
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The way I understand this is, that he was not asked to pay to have the negative review removed, just for advertising, which was totally unrelated to his reviews.
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The 4 new reviews appear to have been generated by the article and I suspect 2 or 3 of them will eventually be hidden. And rightfully so since they are content-free and by new reviewers.
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It's hardly ever actually about conversion. It's usually about what your superior accepts as looking "good."
As a counterpoint to the stream of don't compete on price posts, I'd say leave all options open and look for one where the LTV of your customer is greater than your cost per cust acquisition.

So if charging a buck instead of ten bucks gets you 100 customers instead of ten, is may be worth looking into.
The irony of this is half of Windows is STILL utterly BROKEN with respect to path lengths since LFN was introduced in the Win32 API and it shoots you almost every day if you have to work with any deep directory hierarchies. There are so many rules it's unfunny:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(v=vs.85).as...
Khan Academy provides an easy way to download content for later offline viewing. This site, however, seems to try to do the exact opposite!

Using flash to restrict consumption and bugging users with registration offers is not a better way to learn.
The most egregious certs issued were for *.*.com and *.*.org

Why is that even possible? Does it ever make sense for that to exist? If the browsers currently accept that, I wouldn't be surprised if they stop accepting that since it almost certainly means someone got ahold of certs they shouldn't have.
Wrong.

"Where your Public Comment will appear Your comment will appear directly following the review that you've commented on."

https://biz.yelp.com/support/responding_to_reviews
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I question the value of social search in general. It doesn't matter what your friends like. What matters is what others with similar tastes like. The only good thing about social search is the context informed by the relationships.
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Maybe yelp paid a firm to generate positive reviews of yelp?
No. Sorry about the throwaway account, but I wanted to mention that my colleagues did well without allowing people to identify them.
Looks nice. You need to clean up the homepage blurb though and there are just a few spelling errors (changed sections are in italics):

Observer allows you to follow and observe your website visitors in real time. Ever wondered what they were clicking on or how they are navigating on your website? Then Observer is ideal for you, it's a 1 script installation and you are done.
This is a gem of Philistinism, smug in its knowledge of how the world works. Everyone "knows" that what really matters in life is a job at a company. But this author is more enlightened than usual. She concedes that some therapy may be needed as well!

When Dostoevsky had his nihilists argue that a pair of boots was worth more than Shakespeare, he took for granted that this was hilarious, stupid, absurd. Now the burden of proof is on Shakespeare.

The real reason not to go to grad school in the humanities is that the humanities can't be found there. They were abandoned long ago for pseudotechnical bullshit and obeisance to administrators. That's what I found, anyway, and that was a long time ago and they were already ruined when I got there.

There's nothing wrong with a young person whose mind and heart have lit up on encountering arts and letters craving a deeper education in them. The problem is with a society that has no such education to offer, and with the middle-aged dispensing their wisdom that you should work on your resumé instead. Now eat your porridge and hand over that Thackeray.
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This is true, but not even close to being the smallest of problems. Due to the Apps / Accounts forced migration, I have now lost access to Reader (happened 4 months ago), YouTube (last week) and AdWords (two months ago). The latter is the worst - the AdWords ads keep running with my credit card on file, but I can't access the account. That must be illegal, taking your customer's payment info hostage. The AdWords support team has not answered any of the 5 emails I have sent them.
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Ok, that's far more harsh than I was expecting. Thanks, for the clarification the added background completely alters things.
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Good luck! I was considering bidding, but learned that JetBlue doesn't fly to where I am.
He was asked to pay for advertising. He wasn't happy with previous dealings with yelp, so he declined. Then, all of the positive reviews that were on the site mysteriously disappeared. One plausible explanation is that all of the positive reviewers removed their responses. Another one is that all of the positive reviewers weren't real. But a third explanation is that they were removed precisely because he chose not to pay for advertising. And in the business owner's mind, that is what happened.
This meme hit pretty big a year or two ago, a bunch of lawsuits were filed and nothing came of any of them. Yelp is usually able to demonstrate in each case that what it claims is happening is accurate (advertisers are buying a specific bill of goods, review flagging is systematic, etc.).
HN eats asterisks, so for everybody else in tl;dr-land: "x.x.com" and "x.x.org".

Diginotar is looking worse and worse with every revelation, which is probably why they're attempting the silent treatment. This article says "their audit trail is incomplete." Frankly, I think this should be approaching criminality, though I don't think the law has caught up to that. It's an egregious shitting-on-the-internet by Diginotar, though.
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> Ironically, mild extortion is the point of the Tribune's "What's Your Problem?" column.

I don't think so. I can see why you'd say that---there's a certain family resemblance---but extortion when someone threatens to reveal a bad thing for their own gain; WYP is actually revealing a bad thing for the gain of the reader. If Jon Yates (the WYP author) ever ended a phone call "if you pay me (or otherwise grant me consideration) I won't run this column," then that would turn it into extortion.

As I think about it further, another thing that makes it not-extortion is that with WYP the company that did someone wrong is given a chance to make it right, even before the deed is revealed. That's not typically a feature of extortion.

(Edit: clarify last paragraph)
I don't really like to admit it, but anyone who thinks it's just the "poor old algorithm" doing what it thinks is fair is misinformed.

Part of my core day job work involves identifying real vs not real people and also uses the same technology to drive everything - lucene. An algorithm that refuses to attempt identification beyond what data yelp itself stores is clearly in denial of the "mountain" of data available on people in the form of public web apis on the internet. I could write an "algorithm"/analyzer that does a better job than what yelp is currently doing in a day.

At the end of the day the biggest loser in all of this is probably yelp's users. Inaccurate reviews means you're getting inaccurate results on finding places local to you...which means the tool isn't nearly as useful to you as an end consumer. They might want to just sit down and find another way to get the same sales figures without sacrificing the quality of their product. Otherwise all it will take is someone else to come along and give people the right product to put them out of business. These stories that keep appearing on the internet about Yelp are increasingly becoming harder to ignore for everyone, which is sad for all the hard working engineers at Yelp who's only desire is to deliver a kick ass product. Lame
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> Sadly I have to do a lot of web surfing with the wayback machine as a proxy to the days of the past.

I'd argue this is not sad, but incredible that the Wayback Machine has been so successful in preserving webpages as they've been revised, expanded, and deprecated. And if anything, it shows just how important the project and projects like it are for the preservation of the Internet's history.
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I included it to make the following point: Accessibility is more than catering for the deaf or blind. It also includes color blindness, mental handicaps or going by the standard:

http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/photosensitive-epilepsy/web-...

http://www.evengrounds.com/blog/assistive-technologies-for-p...

Which have the following guidelines (or myths?):

- allow users to control flickering, avoid causing the screen to flicker

- allow users to control blinking, avoid causing content to blink

- allow users to freeze moving content, avoid movement in pages

While people with epilepsy are browsing web sites, they
may encounter pages that have blinking texts and
animation that may trigger seizures. Sudden loud sounds
and repetitive audio in some web pages can also cause
epileptic seizures.

I do not know much about epilepsy, so I will believe your experience, but believe me when I say I am not using it as a way to further a point. I believe in above guidelines, regardless if they help for epilepsy, because in this case they help other users with a mental handicap or ADHD and so remain good guidelines. Or do you rather have we don't mention epilepsy all together when making sites accessible and just call them common sense? It is easy to ignore even a common sense guideline when there are so many different ones.

It seems you have an uphill battle to fight if mentioning epilepsy and accessibility in one sentence gets up your nose. Like my quotes show, I am not the fringe 'defend epileptics' spreader of myths here, this is part of the accessibility topic.
Confusing and hypocritical article.

The title asserts that density causes jobs, or somehow leads to better jobs, yet the article goes on to say, "One can’t create wealth just by crowding people together."

This article is all over the place, contradicts itself multiple times, and has no conclusion. It constantly appeals to authority by vague references like "... according to two decades’ worth of research from economists." Never mentioning which economists or what research.

Save yourself 10 minutes. This is all the article says: "Cities have more jobs due to many different factors, some of which are exclusive to cities."
If you consider consumer advocacy columns to be a form of extortion... consider that the newspaper doesn't request money from the subject to "fix" the column.
Had I thought of it a month or two ago I would have given it a lot more time for promotion.

I've been working on it for a few weeks and needed to launch. The BluePass is only good Aug 22 to Nov 22. There are still parts I'm working on completing, like outgoing email and automatic confirmation.
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Is that a "misstep," then? It seems to me that the logic of a too-tight misstep would be that the information simply does not get out. What would be the reason for FB (or whoever) to notice that too little of my information is getting out? I suppose the "misstep" is in the eye of the beholder. :)
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I'll take the job with the best experience/learning curve, coworkers, and future growth. I'm not worried about maximizing salary - I'm just trying to establish floor and ceilings for what to expect.

I think the fact its in finance is what skews things. I'm very frugal, so I don't want to feel as if I made out like a bandit when in fact I really got something below market rate.

Doesn't mean I won't take something below market rate, but I'd like to have that information when I evaluate an offer.
1) 5%, and they kept their word. Unfortunately it turned out to be only around $5k -- small ISP sold when the market was transitioning away from dial-up. But I was young, and this was good money for me at the time.

2) 0% - the company performed poorly, and I needed cash, so when salaries were cut, then cut again, then again, I bailed for the security of a bigCo. Apparently its now a pretty successful division of a bigCo.

3) Currently awaiting an exit, at the prices we're currently talking about I should see mid-six figures.

4) Still building (I'm at 3 & 4 simultaneously), co-founder of a bootstrap.

I've also worked at a couple bigCos in the meanwhile, but outside of some profit sharing that goes into a retirement fund...it's just salary and bonuses.
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If there was a reasonable or non-negligible possibility that removal of the positive reviews resulted from his failure to pay the bribe, then the onus is on the company to provide records to the contrary. That's the point of subpoenaing the poster of the negative comment that survived; not to sue him directly, but to establish the mechanics of and facts arising from Yelp's algorithm, and to establish a pattern of extortion.

Consider: Yelp's algorithm could just as easily flag EVERYONE who gets a single star review for a sales phone call.
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You said it, it's a huge untapped market, and if you want a piece of it you are going to abide by the rules imposed by the rule makers there. Just as in everywhere else.
Thanks, did my best to fix. The spaces are suboptimal, but a least the *'s are there.
> Right. Shortchange the company instead.

I don't mean shortchange the company. I mean don't shortchange yourself.

@OP, If you accept less than you are worth people will continue to offer you exactly that. I don't mean be unreasonable; I mean don't accept the age-old argument "oh, but you'll get experience".

Even when you are starting out, stand up for what you are worth. You won't regret it.
No, you are not. I am fairly confident that Yelp behaves above-board. It has a few hundred sales people making a lot of calls and I don't doubt that there are isolated incidents of questionably behavior. I also believe there is a lot of mis-interpretation. For example, advertisers get to choose one review to display at the top of the list. This feature is usually twisted by detractors beyond recognition.
It thought it will be a post by a VC.
That sounds even sillier. The most reasonable explanation is that there's some impossible matter around? At least the planet Vulcan was an ordinary planet that was just too close to the sun.

Again, I'm emphatically not a physicist. Stranger things have happened. It just smells funny to posit dark matter as a hypothesis.

The only thing that's not suspicious is the anomaly itself. Physics has always refined itself by looking at different scales. We were wrong about the quantum level the first time we looked at it, and we were wrong about even the planet Mercury, so it's to be expected that we're wrong about galaxy clusters.
First world problems....
Yeah, I just asked about that in another thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2959789) and pondered the use of the public suffix list for limiting wildcards.
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For some reason this article irritates me on some internal level. It seems to almost completely disregard any language that isn't mainstream at this moment -- essentially making your options for the next 10 years just a rearrangement of the same crap we're stuck with today. The only somewhat exciting thing in that list is F#; but if a rehash of 15 year old language that was based on another 10 year old language is our most "refreshing" option for the future, then screw everything about the next 10 years.

Also, another annoyance: .NET is not a language.
destruction is never more profitable than creation. It just means the profits are being internalized and the losses externalized.
Actually, they would be MICROS~1, MICROS~2, MICROS~3 and so on...
No need to speculate about "elite": http://www.yelp.com/elite

You can argue that the benefits of being "elite" equate to compensation but that's a pretty slippery slope and I'm not sure entirely useful.
The promise of money may be fuzzying your logic.

Finance is a domain with a lot of money. So, if you have domain knowledge and can help the firm make a lot of money, you can make a lot of money too. But if you don't, don't expect a dime more than at another company. In fact, they may pay you less, in return for gaining the domain knowledge, which you can later turn into a lot of money.
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Messaging
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I love the philosophy and have been keeping an eye on Angie's List for a long time but unfortunately it still isn't available in my area, although it looks like they are starting to think about Canada (province is mentioned here and there on their site).
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I'll wager $100 (to charity) that their 3500 ratings equate to a 3 star rating.
...which is why Google is doing god's work with it's self-driving cars.

Pundits don’t seem to realize just how big a deal
this is – it could let cities be roughly twice as big,
all else equal.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/11/who-will-pioneer-auto-...
Yelp's filtering algorithm is terrible. Purely anecdotal, but: I've tried writing reviews on Yelp several times. When I first started reviewing and my reviews were getting filtered out, I'd think "OK, maybe I just need to continue reviewing and eventually Yelp will realize I'm not a faker". After about 20 reviews (spread over a couple weeks, most of which still remain flagged), I got pissed and gave up.

How does Amazon solve this problem? AFAICT, Amazon doesn't filter out any reviews, and I've never noticed fake reviews being a problem. Are people simply less inclined to give fake-glowing or fake-terrible reviews on Amazon? (Makes somewhat sense to me, since Amazon is less "personal".)
Idk. I didn't notice anything fishy in Safari w/ java enabled.
How would you power it? How would you protect it from the cycles of heating and cooling every lunar day? How would you protect the circuits from long-term damage, like electromigration?
They don't get paid. I've been Elite for about 3 years now. But they do get invited to Elite only parties which they get to sample free food and drinks.
A lawsuit filed against them is not proof of anything. That same suit was thrown out.
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Isn't the burden of proof typically assigned to the accuser?
Many thanks to the Tor folks for this disclosure, at least they (and other browser providers) are taking responsibility where Diginotar would not.

It seems likely that Diginotar will be going out of business shortly, and rightly so, but I don't think this should stop there. Their lack of communication is very troubling. Not sure what their contractual obligations are, but when supplying trusted SSL certs trust seems pretty important, so maybe it's possible to sue for damages since that trust was obviously broken?
While your timespans are perhaps a little long, I adopted a similar approach, which allowed me to lose 70lbs.

Basically, I stopped looking forward to food and began seeing food as fuel. Like having to re-fuel your car, eating sometimes got to be more of a chore than a delight.

Our society looks at food as an indulgence, when perhaps it would be better to look at it as an energy source.

The Western mantra of "eat the things you love and look great doing it!" is probably cognitive dissonance at its best, not helping society at all.
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Are there so few Android devs out there?
As a web developer I've lately been noticing this problem as well. Pretty much everything I do lately is about integrating this or that API, producing a little bit of glue code and that's it.

Even working for startups mostly doesn't solve the problem ... what I need is a good algorithmic challenge. Something fun and cool.

But I fear I might have lost the ability to even design algorithms due to all this tools stuff.
No bids yet? Come on people, looks good! Would bid but we are in London :(
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Ironically, this particular information dispersal is directly contrary to the interests of YC -- it is in founders' and investors' best interests to drive the employee option pool as close to 0% as possible, without communicating that fact to employees.
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Many proxy servers within companies use such certificates to scan incoming traffic for malware/policy violations.
I concurr, this is a fantastic idea. A book and/or blog series on your adventures would definitely count me as an avid reader!
I'm looking into it. It's probably a font issue since Linux fonts are a bit different than OS X and Windows.
Well, I suppose you skipped over the "Disclaimer" slide :)
Yep - pretty much straight away I made the edit, but I guess it takes time to reflect in the RSS?
Yes, you're correct. The Wayback Machine is truly incredible. I meant that it is sad that the pages disappear and it is often impossible to contact the original author.
I've spent time selling SaaS products to SMBs and I really like the point about helping the customer sell the product to the rest of the organization. It's not enough to dazzle the customer into saying yes - you need to arm them with the tools to convince their boss/accountant/partners that this is the best solution.
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Plenty of free courses out there as well of course. I personally prefer paying for most self-learning stuff since I'll be investing so much time into it.