skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly what's going on with ReCAPTCHA. One of the elements presented is a "known" that you have to get right, and the other is (usually) an unknown or ambiguous OCR result. Google is crowdsourcing their scans. And yes, sometimes it is just a blob of ink -- on other occasions, it's an inline differential equation or something similar that can't be properly entered into the text box (even with the whole of Unicode at your disposal). There's no penalty for getting the graecum est part wrong, but if it's something you can read but can't enter properly, do be a gem and don't pollute the pool of results -- hit the refresh icon.
I imagine you would also be uncomfortable walking about with limited vision, not looking where you were going and staring at your phone. At least a headphone can solve the former case.
Your point was already addressed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2960504.
Both this comment and your comment further down below are really illuminating to a film luddite like me. It's always interesting to hear the nitty-gritty details of someone else's trade. It always amazes me how much detail goes into things that at the end of the day, the end user is none-the-wiser.

Thanks for the informative posts.
According to this theory, it would be the magnetic field alone--not the gravitational field--that is overwhelming the antigravity effect. After all, if these particles had an opposite "gravitational charge", then their experience of gravity wouldn't be attractive but would be equal in magnitude but opposite in orientation. Hence "anti"gravity.
I bet it's used to wow clients who don't know web programming. "If you want to start over, just click this link and BOOM, everything empties out." Nevermind that, as you note, nobody ever wants to start over.
/me puts on conspiracy hat

Github hacked kernel.org
Aside from DRM restrictions that stop me from buying a couple games out of principle, I think gaming is better then ever and people are happy about it. Gaming is more popular then ever before and digital distribution makes it a snap for people with an internet connection to try out something new. Not sure why he thinks people are complaining. Deus Ex:HR, Skyrim, and Saints Row 3 this year alone. I'm in heaven.
This is something I struggled with for a long time in regards to my own company. I did ultimately though end up with going with a "Freemium" model though. The article does a good job pointing out the strengths of freemium, and I think for any sort of social network based company (I believe he used linkedin as an example) you would be hard pressed to find a pricing model that works as well as Freemium.
This is a little incomplete. It is true that it matters where in the sleep cycle you wake up. You want to wake up during light sleep, or most ideally, during the occasional waking moment (which you forget, but there are usually 0-5 such periods during sleep). Sleep latency is a lot higher when you are woken during deep sleep or REM. (I don't have citations for this off hand, but I'm pretty sure it's well-accepted sleep science.)

So if his sleep cycle is very regular, and his alarm time happens to be at a frequently REM/deep portion, then less sleep could lead to a better wake up. But he is still cutting sleep off his schedule! All the research he alludes to about how less sleep is harmful still applies; he's still losing some mental capacity or resilience or something because he has trimmed his sleep.

This may or may not be a worthwhile exchange for having a better morning.
A quick and dirty solution could be to add something to the page using javascript after the page has loaded and only let the link work if that variable exists (and check the value of the key with the server, if you wanted to be more cautious). Not a complete solution, but a first step and invisible to the user (and a pain in the ass to a robot)
But the business owner (or government agency in most cases with Trib/WYP) see it as "if I don't fix this issue, it's going to be in the newspaper where my boss will see it".

The reporter doesn't have to be unethical in the slightest. The message is implied and, in most cases from what I've read in the Tribune over the years, very effective.
Cool, works well. It looks like you have some default viewport size so if content scrolls beneath it, it gets cropped in the image:

Compare:

http://site2pic.com/pics/littleheroes.com9474.png

To:

http://www.littleheroes.com

Care to share how you're doing this? Instrumenting webkit server side?

Edit: Just discovered a ruby program that can be installed with homebrew on OSX (brew install webkit2png). It's a command line call that does the same as this web service:

webkit2png http://www.google.com
webkit2png -W 1000 -H 1000 http://www.google.com

(Sorry OP, don't mean to take away your thunder, just thought others might want to try this too.)
I think this was the first thing I ever submitted to HN. It got several hundred points and hit #1 for a time. It's amusing to see things resurface here.

EDIT: It was the 17th submission, 538 days ago, My god!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1193657
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I wasn't even thinking about the impacts of constantly moving around on individual productivity; rather, I have usually worked in a team, and things work better when you can speak face-to-face.
Intuitively it feels that simple system would lead to higher number of reviews and consequently paint a more accurate picture of reality.

It may lead to a higher number of snitty reviews, as in "I gave this restaurant 1 star because I went there for my friends birthday and she was depressed at getting oder." Or, "This book gets 1 star because UPS delivered it while I was not home and they left it in the rain."
What will bring value to the crypto-currency now that spectators are leaving?
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And on top of that, there's no undo :)
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Thank you for Smoking might be a little closer?
I learned one thing from this post - Wow, blind people are pissed off.

In the past I've made a few websites where the owner required images incorporated into the menu. I've spoken to owners about accessibility, countless times, but more often then not I end up having to do some retarded flash intro coupled with a graphic heavy menu. Owners don't care, they want it to match their vision, and of course they don't want to pay extra to have everything made accessible to the blind as they are probably some percentage of a point of their customer base.
A master’s degree in education seems to have no impact on classroom effectiveness.

Yes. The research consistently shows that the typical master's degree possessed by a K-12 teacher (a degree in "education") adds NIL value to the teacher's teaching. But most teacher contracts entered into by most school districts give automatic raises to any teacher who has a master's degree in any subject. No evaluation of effectiveness is performed, but the master's degree gives the teacher an automatic raise. That costs school districts all around the United States billions of dollars in the aggregate, all money that could be better spent for many other purposes.

Bill Gates has commented on the wasteful spending on bonuses for master's degrees,

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/us/19gates.html
and so has Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

http://articles.boston.com/2010-11-26/news/29286099_1_public...

It would be far better to give teachers raises if they do an excellent job of teaching, whatever degrees they have.
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Thanks, all the magic is done with url2png.com, I'm just adding a front-face with Twitter Bootstrap and a Django backend.

(edit) The cropping is because I've started with a 600x600 image, so taller sites will be cropped. I may add different image sizes as options.

Also I'm thinking about adding an editor with Raphaël. Other ideas are welcome.

One of the use-cases (for me) is to be able to quickly send a link to a screenshot to someone (technically challenged) with a button or something circled in red to explain "this is where you need to click".

(edit)I'm aware this can be done with command line, it's just that most people don't know how.
This seems like a very elegant solution to the issue. Rather than pitting the CEO against one VC board member, it makes the decision one of the entire board. And allows the VC to make his pitch to his peers, who understand the travel demands of serving on several boards. First class, and especially private aviation, can be more money but also can be justified in the right circumstances.

I fly my own (single-engine piston) airplane for recreation, most of our east of the Mississippi family travel and have flown it for a prior company on business trips. Even my little bug-smasher can save a night's hotel stay on one end, and often on both ends, making my life and my family's life better for that, making me more willing to travel for business, and I had no problem (ethically or practically) submitting a spreadsheet with column B as what the airlines would have cost, including airport parking and hotel charges, and column C showing what my airplane cost (including hotel and landing/ramp fees) and submitting for reimbursement the lower total (almost always airline, but saving 2 nights hotel and 4 days parking at Logan takes away a good bit of the difference).
Linux is now hosted on GitHub
Is it really that common to be in charge of a company and simultaneously lack the basic assertiveness necessary to say you're not going to cover lavish travel expenses?
"At the very least, it should tell you your review is filtered, I see no reason to pretend the review is not filtered when the review is legitimate."

I can explain that for you! If you're gaming the system and Yelp catches you, they don't want to tell you they've caught you, or you'll just try again. That's also why you need to enter in a captcha to view the unfiltered reviews -- they want to prevent automatic methods of confirming that posts were filtered.

Apparently this isn't common knowledge -- the OP makes the same mistake:

"Interestingly enough, you have to pass a reCaptcha when clicking on it. Weird, I don't have to do that to view unfiltered reviews. Interesting...."

EDIT: ps, the user you linked to doesn't have a name. I'm not saying his stuff should be filtered, but keep in mind when you're looking at this stuff that a million factors go into that decision, and it's probably in their customers' best interests to err on the side of filtering a review.
Yelp are in a hard place, they show negative reviews about peoples businesses. People who work there, or own the business absolutely hate this, because it could cost them there business. Nobody likes having their work threatened.

And most people who own businesses think they are doing a good job, and don't like criticism. They take it very personally, and blame Yelp rather than the reviewer.
Scraping with a normal web browser is utterly trivial. Anything a computer can do, a computer can do. Hence CAPTCHAs.
Ask HN: How do you improve your attention to detail?
Simple example: you wrote brilliant code, passed all tests, installed into production environment but configured the wrong date (or forgot to configure any other parameter) and your release was an epic fail?

It seems to happen to me often, it does not seem to be directly related to programming ability - the code does what it's supposed to do. But since the environment I'm working in is directly interacting to clients in real time, every time anything is released with some wrong configuration, it's only picked up when a client does something and gets an error back and complains. That's quite frustrating.

I'm trying to think of the way to 'fix' it - must have something to do with the ability to keep a lot of small details in memory and/or picture in my mind all the possible small differences between the "production" and "test" environment.

Any advice?
I don't think so, people running businesses hate seeing negative reviews about themselves. No matter what Yelp did, nothing is going to change that fact, and nothing will put it right in the minds of those being criticized.
Yelp does not just want to make scraping impossible, they seem to also be interested in making it harder for humans to view filtered reviews.
Why should they change their design for one person ? Maybe websites should start having one version for people with sight and one all text version for the blind. I think it's kind of dumb to make it so people can't use images embedded with text. What about art or multimedia sites ?
I am not sure what you mean.

Why would filtered reviews distribution match up to the unfiltered reviews?

Typically a "fake" review is either going to be someone who is raving about a business to try to boost the rating or someone who for some reason wants to bad mouth the business (e.g. a competitor) so it makes sense that 1 and 5 star ratings are the most filtered.
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Interesting. Sounds a lot like ThinApp for Linux. http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/
There are significantly more stories of businesses having a great experience with Yelp than a bad one. But it's not exactly a great story for the Chicago Tribune to highlight all of those businesses.

What does it say to you that a judge threw the case out?
Not sure what you mean..rtfm
This seems dubious. I think the report is referring to total US assets (public and private). See this quote...

That’s a hard question to answer completely, but a good place to start is the Financial Report of the United States Government. According to the 2009 report, the U.S. owned $2.7 trillion in assets at the end of 2009, up from only $2.0 trillion a year earlier. Many of these are off-limits (we aren’t going to sell the Capitol or the USS Nimitz), but some raise interesting questions.

Source:http://dmarron.com/2010/03/07/what-assets-could-the-united-s...

The report this article is based on is online but I didn't have time to go through all of it. Still I'm pretty sure I'm right. Here's the link:
http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/reports/freepass_pdfs/Mapping_gl... (look at the summary under the chart on pg 8)
Though I use Linux on daily basis, I see the source code for the first time.
I think the idea is that given a large corpus of filtered and unfiltered reviews, you might be able to reverse engineer signals in the algorithm and game the system. If that's your end goal, you and the software you write is likely to ignore robots.txt directives.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "hosted" on Github. It's probably just a mirror, and/or Linus playing around with Github. Linux already has a very strong hierarchy for managing patches, and I certainly don't see them moving to a proprietary platform.
The Desk in the photo of the post soyelmago linked to is an Ikea Jerker.

http://smarterware.org/7102/how-and-why-i-switched-to-a-stan...

They don't sell them anymore, but you can usually find them in good condition on Craigslist for 50 to 150 USD. I've owned 6 or 7 over the years, and as I've moved pawned them off on family and friends.

Well worth investing in, one of the best desks ever made.

On the back pain, stop wearing shoes. Both sitting and shoes are horrible for your posture. Standing should help, but odds are it's going to take a long time.

Resources for Feet
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/05/07/vibram-five-...
http://lunasandals.com/
http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/

Resources for Back
http://stronglifts.com/lordosis-why-it-causes-lower-back-pai...
http://stronglifts.com/the-reverse-crunch-get-your-six-pack-...
http://ericcressey.com/why-crunches-suck
http://ericcressey.com/tag/thoracic-spine-mobility
http://ericcressey.com/strategies-for-correcting-bad-posture... <- Read all 4 parts of that

Remember IANAD, but all of this stuff has helped me. Take it slow, don't do anything that hurts too much.

Feel free to email me with any question, Username@gmail

Cheers!
When all you show is frames that happen to be teal and orange, of course you can make it look like all movies are just teal and orange. Also, the sky is blue and light-colored skin can easily look orangish, which explains most of the frames.
Presumably just Linus playing around with Github? There's been a mirror for some time - https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6 and https://github.com/mirrors/linux
Hasn't this been out for like, a long time?
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Previous submission 605 days ago by the same submitter:

Apologies! I actually re-read the article today for a blog post, and as I did I thought, "This is good stuff for HN." So I submitted it without thinking to see if I already had.
A friend of mine committed himself to get Elite status one year. He did it too, by writing hundreds of reviews. Though he tried making most of them pretty funny, he eventually switched to a strategy that emphasized quantity over quality, because he didn't feel he was getting there with just high-quality reviews. Surprisingly, this seemed to work, though perhaps his multitude of reviews were genuinely useful enough.

He didn't get paid for any of this either. It was just for the parties, grand openings, and extra-special treatment at restaurants.

I don't have any way of verifying these accounts, but I see a couple of stories about Yelp paying (non-Elite) reviewers to write reviews:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/10/yelp_reviewers_paid/

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives...

There's also a thread on Yelp about a supposed popular paid reviewer too:

http://www.yelp.com/topic/redding-paid-reviewers-suck

I recall reading somewhere that when Yelp started, they seeded their database with paid reviews as well, to surmount that chicken-and-egg problem of new social networks & review services. I wouldn't consider that a negative mark against them though.
I got an adjustable standing desk a couple of months ago.

It took a little bit of getting used to, but less than I expected. At first the sit/stand ratio was around 50%, alternating every couple of hours. Now I just tend to sit if I am eating lunch or really tired. A side benefit (as someone fairly tall) is that the sitting height is about 2 inches higher than my old desk which is more comfortable too.

There was no foot pain, and I don't use a mat to stand on, but I do tend to move around a fair bit. My back pain is gone too and I've got less trouble than I've had with it in years. My general 'altertness' level has also gone up.

I'm not in great shape either (20 years in IT) though I've been starting to run more this year which has helped as well.
Yes, everything is a mirror with git.

Look at his public activity [1]: comments, pull requests, issues… he is using GitHub, for real.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds
Some interesting Gibson perspectives, but his closing comment is the best:

Sometimes I remember that I evidently assumed that Ronald Reagan was probably about as weird as it was going to get; that that all seemed a bit over the top, a grave if semi-comic but blessedly temporary anomaly. That's scary.
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Not for nothing, but full fare economy can often be more expensive than discounted biz tickets. Having an actual conversation telling the VC to cool it might have ended up saving you more money.
It really depends on the board member is. Imagine you have a board member who has been one of the key people who have brought your VC funding. You're about to start up a series B and again, he's one of your rocks.

Now you're having some extra meetings to get things straightened out. You know he typically flies first class in any case. Do you want to ask him to inconvenience himself (which is really what you're asking him to do) so that you can use him to raise more money?

While youy may say that this is a basic lack of assertiveness -- I could see the board member saying, "You're missing the forest for the trees."
It looks great. I like it. I just wonder if too much javascript magic on a credit card processing form might make users feel uneasy about security.
We must be doing something right since we have Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.
> it objectively reduces readability

Would love to get some pointers for good reads on this. I've always felt the opposite.
Those internal documents are property of PDVSA; it even say so in each of those internal documents, that the information is confidential and property of PDVSA. Microsoft is not legally allowed to get the memos -which is not clear if they did through backdoors in the software or just with spies inside the company-. And of course, is not allowed to pass/use that information.
A university degree no longer confers financial security
Should be a good test of github's infrastructure.
I'm mostly with you, but how can you say Google is boot st this stuff when many of their products aren't accessible or don't work in Opera?
He is using comments, pull requests, and issues to develop diveclog, a relatively minor pet project, not Linux. As I said: Linux has its own infrastructure, and were Linus seriously considering a move to Github, there would be some announcement on a mailing list.

Which, this makes me wonder what will happen when someone forks "linux" and sends Linus a pull request. ;-)
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Would not be entirely surprised if the attack on kernel.org made the community (or even just Linus) investigate alternative hosting.

I know nothing important was compromised, but nobody likes to deal with being hacked. It's like being the victim in a car accident- insurance makes you whole, but the whole experience sucks all the same.
Kudos to Github. Hard to think of a better endorsement than that.
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Part of the reason for stating my values so clearly is that the primary audience for this post is people who share those values. I don't want people who share those values to misattribute my conclusions to a conflict of values.

As for people who don't think Hulu and the iTunes Music Store are horrifying abominations, they probably already think ADSL is fine and dandy, so there's no point in tailoring the article to them.
> What matters is what others with similar tastes like.

Yes. Exactly. And it depends. Some friends have very different tastes than I - and sometimes that's exactly why they are my friends (who wants homogenous friends?).

For some items, I want to know what others with similar tastes like - like restaurants, for instance. A friend of mine loves fried food; me, not so much. But a stranger who likes healthy food may know of an unpopular restaurant none of my friends know of. That is exactly the kind of restaurant I would want surfaced in a good social search for restaurants.

For news articles, I would want the opposite. I don't necessarily want people with similar tastes to recommend articles to me. I'd rather read conflicting views across the gamut of the argument, so I can make my own (hopefully) informed decision. Again, friends aren't as good a source of such articles as strangers would be.

And to make it more complicated, that's just my preference. Someone else might prefer people with similar tastes instead.

I definitely agree that the context informed by the relationships is the key to social search - sometimes it's someone similar to you, other times, it's not.