skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using a standing desk for over a year now. I use an Ergotron Work-fit Sit-Stand workstation. It allows you to move from standing to sitting just by pushing down on the desktop, or pulling it up.

When I first started with the standing desks I found it quite difficult, I felt like I couldn't concentrate with out sitting. It took a couple of weeks to get used to it, legs were sore for the first little while. Back pain I had from sitting went away. Now as far as physical condition goes.. not so good. I am quite heavy 330+lbs so if I can do it anyone can.

So what works for me now is a combination of sitting and standing. I go through phases of mostly standing or mostly sitting.. but I think a good balance between both is the way to go. I stand for a few hours, then sit for an hour or less, then back again. Some days I could do 6 hours no problem.

My advice is to try it until you get used to it... You will want to stop, but just give it some time. At least a few weeks. Just my 2 cents..

Hope that helps..
That's what robots.txt is for, not silly captchas. You put captchas for the people who ignore that file.
http://www.taskrabbit.com/ is a similar idea?
Nor the path. Even if he lawyered up and fought back, Google would probably keep the app pulled until some kind of judgement, far in the future. As an iOS app developer, I'm currently facing something like this. Apple has clearly stated that if I cannot resolve the issue with the company that sent the DCMA takedown, they will pull the app. I have no obvious recourse short of a lengthy and costly legal battle.
He's not talking about "web design", he's talking about the color scheme that this particular blogger has chosen for his site.

It's not a "complete non-sequitur" to connect the color selection criticism skills of the author to his own color selections.

Colors, not "web design".

Are they the same? No. Are they wholly unrelated? No.
It is not just about clueless people writing reviews. Yelp as a business doesn't care about the business owner when some inaccurate reviews are being posted and clearly break their TOS.
Yelp doesn't try to be fair toward the business, and why should they? Their goal is to sell ads which will have the side effect of pushing positive review toward the top of a page business.
So having an algorithm system biased toward promoting negative and potentially fake reviews is good for Yelp business, since a business owner will rather have the positive reviews listed first when advertising through Yelp.
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Previous submission 605 days ago by the same submitter:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1036509

(which I mention because some of the discussion last time was interesting, and because I was curious how the duplicate detector was defeated in this case).

I'm happy to discuss this issue afresh here, as HN's participation has grown quite a lot since 605 days ago, and teaching is my occupation (in a nonprofit organization offering supplemental mathematics lessons to advanced young learners).

My initial comment on the interesting submitted article is that I've always thought that one huge difference between pupils who grow up to be smart adults and those who grow up to be struggling adults, especially when siblings in the same family differ in academic success, is the effectiveness of the teachers each pupil had. If I consider the case of two pupils who enter a six-year elementary school in which each grade has five classrooms (basically the childhood experience my siblings and I had), the unfortunate pupil who gets the worst teacher in the grade each year for six years in a row will be lucky to know how to read, while the pupil who gets the best teacher in the grade each year for six years will likely be able to enter college early. Teachers make a huge difference. I'm always happy to learn how I can make a bigger positive difference for the pupils I teach.
Plus captcha's are just such a stupid user experience anyway, if you want to avoid the robots problem, there are plenty of ways around captchas
How we determine who to date (simple).
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Very true! Apple is the foremost example of great design from the inside.
Feedback not on the concept but on your implementation. Since you are saving the UUID to SharedPreferences, you can simply implement a Backup Manager [1] to ensure this is persisted for the user across application installs. It won't be tied to a device but to a user based on their Market identity.

[1]: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/backup.html#S...
I kind of feel like this is a bandaid solution. While this may help with travel expenses this seems indicative of a larger issue that needs to be dealt with directly. I think you need to have a talk with your investors about this rather than taking the passive approach.

On a side note most investors I know (admittedly that number is very very small), but still they would be incredibly conscious of any sort of over the top expense and would want the money to stay in the company and be used for something more productive than a better seat on a plane.
I found this and was posting it because I felt it was an interesting insight, hope you all enjoy!
Unsubstantiated complaints?

You claim that Yelp is writing their own 5 star reviews:

Personally, I wouldn't be shocked if Yelp is putting in its own 5 star reviews for itself in order to offset the barrage of negative reviews. Common perception of Yelp is not good, far from their current 3-star rating. Just glancing over the first few 4 and 5-star reviews for Yelp, all but two came from an 'Elite' member. Of course they review Yelp highly, they get thrown crazy parties. And I wouldn't be shocked if you lose your Elite status for a negative Yelp review.

This is pure FUD. You don't know if you lose elite status for a negative review. Not everyone gets to go to crazy parties. If this were Wikipedia, every statement would be tagged [weasel words] or [citation needed]. You've just made a bunch of stuff up.

If this is just entertainment, fine, but if you think you're writing something useful that is worthy of HN, then you're a little off. Your article boils down to links to filtered reviews not being obvious enough (even though the link is the same as all the other links on the page), complaints about reCaptcha, which Yelp doesn't even control, and then a bunch of made-up facts/anecdotes that you have done no research to prove true or false.

Look, I don't even like Yelp. But this is simply sloppy journalism, and it reads like it was written by a fifth grader who got a bunch of one-star reviews on Yelp.
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The point he's making is that work, art and design done by the author doesn't have anything to do with the arguments he puts forward in the article/blogpost. If the arguments he uses are wrong, point that out and explain why they are wrong.
fhars is correct. I'll say that you're getting closer than most people get to these concepts, but you seem to have mistaken partial ordering for no ordering. There is still a partial ordering of events, and we can now say that the supernova is in our past without ambiguity.
I wasn't very in shape when I started over a year ago, but it didn't take me long to get used. I do actually usually walk in place behind the desk which I find I can keep up for 5-6 hours while standing still I cannot stand long at all, still I cannot. Walking made me feel much fitter; I used to walk in place on the WII fit board with the WII on and I manage to cover quite a bit of distance doing that every day. I don't lose (or have lost) concentration and i'm not more tired; I am more thirsty though.
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I'm not defending Yelp. I'm just saying there's no evidence that Yelp is widely hated amongst average people. (I assume it's not, but I don't have any data for that either.)

I can't explain their filtering algorithm because I didn't write their filtering algorithm. Ultimately, automatic fraud assessment is the only way Yelp is going to scale; it's too expensive to have a human validate every review, so you get the computer to do it for you. 99% of the time, it works. 1% of the time, you get the situation where the dog training company gets screwed. It's like when your credit card gets flagged for buying gas out of state or using an ATM in China. It's annoying that you got false-positived for fraud, but that's what happens. It's the only way the credit-card system can work. Same for Yelp's filtering; no automatic filtering, no Yelp.

The problem with Yelp is that people don't take it with a grain of salt. But that's not Yelp's problem, that's a "people are morons" problem.
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First, I will note that avoiding your old friends may be a good thing. People tend to hang out with people similar to them. If the way you were then in some way caused your failures, it might be for the best to leave the friends from that era behind. (I'm some pathetic bleeding heart idealist with financial problems who at some point realized all my close friends could be described the same way. I decided I better start making new friends. Blaming the world for not appreciating the importance of my ideals was not going to pay the bills. Those people are no longer part of my inner circle. My finances have been gradually improving.)

A couple of movies I like: "Beyond Rangoon" and "Citizen Jane". I am thinking both are based on true stories. Beyond Rangoon is basically about a woman who had something really tragic happen to her, is mired in depression and then travels someplace where people have much bigger problems and makes her peace with her losses. Citizen Jane is about a woman whose second husband robs her blind and murders her beloved aunt for the woman's money and about her search for justice. There is a very good scene where, after her house is foreclosed on, a friend offers to let her live with them in their nice upscale house so she doesn't have to move to some really crappy apartment. She replies "I got myself into this mess and I will get myself out." I have some pretty big problems I am working on resolving. It's a scene I think about often. I could use assistance from somewhere in terms of figuring out how on earth to do certain things but I really am not looking to be rescued. Getting rescued won't give me the skills I need to have lifelong financial security. "Give a man fish..." and all that.

Best of luck.
I did a similar video not long ago, and my brother (who's a director) suggested I do a voice-over instead of comment bubbles.

I think it is good for the audience to hear a human voice, and hopefully you get to explain it a bit better.

Other than that, i think it's pretty good. I like the upbeat background music.
Jesus dude, do you work for Yelp? So damn angry over an article that mostly states the breakdown of Yelp's filtered reviews.

Notice I said "I wouldn't be shocked" twice, not "I know for a fact that". I not once said that was the way it was, I simply said I thought it to be a decent possibility.

And this isn't worthy of HN? It reads like it was written by a fifth grader? It's number one on HN right now. Did I do something to you at one time in the past? If so, I sincerely apologize for ever wronging you.
River of News: http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/riverOfNews

From the guy responsible for the first RSS reader and RSS producers. One of those cases where the pioneer got it right and a lot of the following horde missed one of the key points. I've been using RSS since, well, not quite day one but month one, and River of News is the only way to go.

It's OK to just skim past a lot of articles. If you pop open your reader and don't feel like it, just hit "everything's read" and close it again. You must understand it as a transient view. It's not email, it's a stream, and if you drop some of it on the floor it's not a problem. Nobody will bite you. None of this is an obligation.

Google reader is acceptable as a river of news. I've stopped using local readers, partially because despite only having about 60 feeds, RSS-reader-authors seem nearly incapable of producing halfway performant software and even my modest feed set tends to crash or cause 100% CPU for extended periods of time. (There are some, but cutting down the reader space by the criterion of "what was written competently" means that the apparent space of hundreds is actually only a handful of choices, and most of those aren't very good at the river approach.)
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This is how I do reCaptcha. I guess the easy-looking word correctly, and then type garbage for the hard-looking word. This results in approximately 99% correctness and hopefully screws up their "make jrockway do work for us for free" scam.
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Some of the key points I found interesting:

- Great teachers tended to set big goals for their students.

- Great teachers were perpetually looking for ways to improve their effectiveness.

- Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in common: they avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.

- Great teachers frequently check for understanding, and don't make the rookie mistake of asking "do you understand?"

- For many highly effective teachers, the measure of a well-executed routine is that it continues in the teacher’s absence.

- What predicts success: A history of perseverance, or "grit” — defined as perseverance and a passion for long-term goals.

- Success as a teacher: Teachers who scored high in “life satisfaction” — reporting that they were very content with their lives—were 43 percent more likely to perform well in the classroom than their less satisfied colleagues. These teachers “may be more adept at engaging their pupils, and their zest and enthusiasm may spread to their students.”

- Past performance is a great indicator of future performance.

- A master’s degree in education seems to have no impact on classroom effectiveness.

- Important when measuring success: Were you prepared? Did you achieve your objective in five minutes (or whatever other time)?

Not mentioned in the article: A great book on this topic is "What the Best College Teachers Do" by Ken Bain. Ken does his own research into what makes a great teacher and has some fascinating findings. The huge effort that highly successful teachers put into their students is just incredible, though daunting, and gives me a lot of respect for the profession.
People like the Eureka myth it's sexy, and people like the idea of being able to achieve great things effortlessly because if someone else can do it so can I.

It's the entire reason get rich quick scheme exist. Then again if it was that easy we wouldn't be in a recession.
I don't know what the general percentage is, but for example on reddit, most people are consumers or lurkers, and its a small percentage to get people to participate. So I would possibly implement something for so called karma people, a leader board, or showcase the user name more, to give people the vanity that apps like yours need to provide.
It's a wild stroke of luck that he was able to merge the two corpses and finally succeed.

So two turkeys can make an Eagle.
I don't work for Yelp. I'm just saying there's nothing interesting about your article, without wasting my time by going line-by-line.

Do you really think your article is an example of top-quality writing and analysis? (Also, why post your own work to social news sites if you can't take the criticism? I don't hate you, I hate this article.)
Yes you could. There's enough of us in London, able to pull together a venue, and the right audience, within a week or two. All you need to do is commit to a date, and let a few of us in London take care of the rest. So when are you free?
I don't like Yelp, so here are some random unsubstantiated complaints about the reviews about Yelp itself.

I'm inclined to agree with you about the original poster's perspective but it is hard for me to get past the serious accusations and evidence presented by numerous business owners; that Yelp basically extorted them when they received negative reviews and were a new listing on Yelp.

Based on multiple reports it appears as if Yelp's business intelligence group actively targeted(s) businesses that met certain criteria (new, very few reviews), sent those results to an inside sales team, and then if the customer didn't purchase from the inside sales rep Yelp effectively changed their filter process for that individual business to "penalize" them for not paying to play.

Zagat, Urbanspoon, and TripAdvisor, have never to my knowledge ever implemented these type tactics. I might be wrong, but barring a set of insurmountable complete coincidences for each and every one of the businesses that reported these algorithm changes in the way reviews were displayed, I've got to conclude that Yelp is using their inside sales teams to pressure (extort?) businesses that their business intel teams identify, and make them pay dearly if they don't pay.
I believe the way the algorithm works is it looks for how credible a given complaint is based on many factors. If I had to guess, they'll look at the age of the user account, how active it is, how many other reviews are written by the user. A user who just created an account and wrote a negative review against Yelp is probably going to be filtered out because that user isn't a regular reviewer. A more compelling argument would take all the users that were filtered and analyze their history. That's where the interesting data is, so show me that and convince me that Yelp's algorithm is bad. Don't just say "Look at how difficult reCaptcha is, Yelp must be up to something here." When has any implementation of captcha ever been easy to use?

That original article says that the users banded together to write positive reviews over a short period of time. We don't know whether the business owner incentivized them or if they just did that altruistically. The facts are simply not known, the best we can do is make assumptions there (which makes for a pretty weak argument to begin with). Banding together and writing reviews with the sole purpose of boosting a business' online reputation is what really happened here, and Yelp specifically designed their algorithm to deal with those use cases. The actual pattern businesses follow for building a reputation is very incremental: positive reviews spread over time, not a short burst by people who aren't actively using the site to review other businesses.

To make a compelling case, rather than what appears as a rant in its current form, you need more data. You need to show that the users are active on Yelp and they aren't afraid to write both positive and negative reviews to reflect their true experiences. Banding together in groups to write positive reviews is basically the same thing as submitting a story to HN and getting all your friends to upvote it.
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Agreed! if anything, we could organise a whole day of talks/meetings, with a cross section of the startup community in london, including students, bootstrapped entrepreneurs, funded teams, and talented individuals with ideas
Agreed about the Tweet button.

Also, consider renaming the location dropdown to "Timezone/Country", and either auto-populating it based on IP or using a "Please select item." Don't autopopulate with some obscure location where almost none of your users live.
Regarding your tablet story, which is obviously fictional, but I think raises a good point. Apple was originally working on a tablet, before the iPhone. Someone (maybe Jobs) decided that a phone would be better use of the technology today.

Imagine a world where they release the iPad in 2007 w/ no app store. That tablet gets slaughtered in the market. It may well prevent the iPhone from ever getting made, much less given special privileges from ATT.

The simple act of saying, "Not a tablet... not yet" may have been the difference between the greatest turnaround in corporate history and who knows what.
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As I have programmers and designers that work for me I see the programmers often butcher the work of designers when taking the mocksups to html/css. A simple rule seems to be that things should not stick out. There should be uniformity through out the site with fonts or spacing that are consistent. This isnt advice to make a great design but rather advice for how to improve a crappy one for the non designer. Another tip for those forced to design without the appropriate skillset is to search the web and find a professional site that has a good design and copy it. Yes I said copy it. Thats what we did with the original cramster.com (years ago) by getting inspiration for the page from amazon.com. You wont win any design awards but it will help you get something acceptable up while you look for professional help.
Using complementary colors to make your subjects "pop" is just standard color theory.

When coloring anything, you pretty much have to choose some variation of red/green, orange/blue, or violet/yellow. Anything else blurs into one of these three.

We'd all do better to criticize specific color choices, rather than stigmatizing one of the three possible general palettes. Otherwise it's like criticizing violins or oil paint for being overused.
I think this is a great idea. I wish I would have thought of this myself, it is about time that someone came up with a democratic social networking utility. I think that this could be expanded to several other topics. As far as your memcache issue goes, you may want to ask people more familiar with app engine to see if they could be of assistance.
Here's a fast track for you to "get established" and come out at "top-1%" with a "fat rolodex": launch those "fair airlines and hotels" that are not more expensive than you presume to know "they should be". No government needed.
Like? Yelp doesn't want the filtered reviews to be accessed in an automated fashion, that's what a CAPTCHA does. What are the other options?
> Now, when you think about that, remember: the DNSSEC trust model starts with an entity that can sign anything under .COM.

If the implication of this a claim that DNSSEC is worse than the current TLS/SSL security model with CAs, that claim is obviously false: having one entity that can sign anything under .COM is better than having three hundred of them.

If that claim is not intended, what do you suggest would be a better approach than DNSSEC?
I just got done putting together a basic CC form for a project, and they insisted that we have a separate pulldown indicating what type of card the user was going to enter. I argued against it, and was voted down.

One of the justifications was, by forcing a pulldown, you're telling the people what cards are accepted. However, showing icons and text does the same thing. There are no good justifications for it, imo. But, until people stop coddling end users from 1996, we'll be stuck with bad form input habits.

For goodness' sake, I saw a RESET button today. And not just a regular RESET button, but a custom icon, about 50% the size of a normal input button, butted up next to the 50% smaller 'submit' button.

WHO ever says to themselves "hrm... shoot - I just entered in 40 instead of 50 in field 7 of 29 fields - I wish there was a way I could erase everything and start over!". No one was pining for that functionality in 1995, but for some reason we got it, and every browser maker since then has seen fit to faithfully recreate it.

Sorry... slight tangent there...