skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living every moment serendipitously has its problems too. Most folk are happier minimising their regrets; review services should help that to occur.

Part of the problem with something like yelp is that there's no way to gatekeep the genuine and false reviews. Netflix or Amazon, for example, know what you actually paid for. Yelp's got no way to know if you really dined at the restaurant or whether you just know the owner.
This is not the first time this has come up on HN:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=yel...
This is very interesting. Perhaps this is Yelp's Achilles heal. A non-advertising based review site could be far more credible. Maybe some sort of freemium model could take them down by virtue of being more credible...
You're perpetuating a silly myth which is along the same lines as the "language X sucks because it attracts Y-type programmers." Don't hate a valuable tool just because you've seen it misused. Also, don't assume that because a person uses or even prefers one development environment, that he or she is incapable of working outside that.

claims he knows scala .. there are no mature debugger for scala in eclipse. For him a eclipse plugin is a necessary condition.

What's wrong with that? If your favorite editor is vim with a host of preferred customization and plugins, and I tell you that at my company we only allow the use of TextPad, are you going to be happy about that? How is it wrong for a developer to prefer working from within a particular environment? I hear people talk about muscle memory and the power of vim, yet when the table is turned they cry about crutches and ineptitude.
"One caveat is that they can't royally fuck their customers. This is royally fucking their customers."

You can't objectively define what constitutes "royally fuck[ing]" their customers.

Just saying "this cost more than I think is reasonable as a wireless customer" means absolutely nothing in court.
There was a similar HN post/Google+ post last week. I can't remember where I read it.

Something along the lines of an avid lawyer decided to kill her account because she read the ToS and drew exactly the same conclusions as what you had just wrote.

While it's quite easy to regard this as been a ticking timebomb, a few things to probably note.

If you are a photographer or someone who holds copyright in a work you would most likely just issue a DMCA.

Now, lets assume that you aren't content with that. You might argue that you have incurred losses and want some form of damages. You are first going to have to contact Pinterest to get the information of the user who has listed this said work. Are Pinterest goijng to give up this information so willingly? Probably not...
ZDI, though, is insanely biased in this regard. They make their money by selling protection to companies -- fewer bugs, less money for them. Google has a vested interest in making their software more secure, ZDI has a vested interest in keeping their customers coming back for more patches.
The challenge of building a sports car is generally building your own engine (which people don't do often unless they are steam based). You need to get the engine block cast and that requires a steel foundry.

Unless you just insist on starting with a home-made block, you can acquire "naked" engine blocks fairly easily. Or at least you could a few years ago, I've been away from that scene for a while, so my knowledge isn't completely up to date. And even if you can't get a naked block you can certainly get partially built engines (usually the block, crankshaft, pistons and connecting rods) or "crate engines" (usually everything except intake manifold and carburetor / fuel injector) straight from the manufacturers. For example, see:

http://store.gmperformanceparts.com/store/SelectProd.do?prod...

'course, starting with a pre-forged block and partially built engine isn't quite like doing it from scratch, but then again, I'm assuming anybody building their own car is buying pre-rolled tubing and sheet stock, etc., not literally building everything up from iron ore, aluminum ore, etc.
The problem with Restaurant owners hating yelp, is they are yelp's customers. They need to figure out a better way to monetize their business, because selling ads to the people who loathe them probably won't work for long.

I have a local business, and while we have great overall reviews, we have had MANY reviews filtered out by yelp's super-secret algorithms that are from actual customers. We also have a bad review that is by someone that has never visited our business, but is not filtered - despite our contacting yelp several times. All this is fine, overall we have great reviews - the problem is yelp has been contacting us weekly to run ads with them. Why would we run ads to bring people to a page that doesn't represent our business accurately?

Furthermore, the cost per impression/clicks is ridiculously high compared with the industry standards.

That being said, from the consumer perspective, I appreciate and frequently use yelp. ...I think they provide a valuable service, they just need to implement a better monetization method before I would consider investing.
I disagree with all of his points. You shouldn't be able to opt out; if I want to post a review of your business on the Internet, that's my decision to make, not yours. (What's next, politicians opting out of news coverage? Yeah right.)

Review filtering is similar; Yelp is allowed to express editorial oversight over their website. Specifically, they try to reduce fraud. Your credit card company doesn't discuss their fraud detection algorithms, so why should Yelp?

All I see here is, "I like my own restaurant, but other people don't. Shut down the review site so nobody can tell anyone else!"
Or, even if you do know a bit about design, but don't want to waste a bunch of time reinventing the wheel.
Agreed. Some great places in New York get low reviews for being "too expensive". That's fair in some cases but some ingredients and methods are expensive - don't order a truffle pasta with a puff pastry dessert and then complain that it costs more than Shake Shack.

We once again land up with the situation where Chipotle routinely outranks Michelin rated restaurants.

A better method might be bilateral context-aware ratings, e.g. for a nice dinner would you rather go to X or Y? Troublesome for a start-up due to the amplified network effect, but tenable for a site with an established user base.
If you want a bulletproof registrar that doesn't bow under pressure and with competitive pricing go for http://internet.bs/ (yes they have their offices in the bahamas). Also free whois protection is included AFAIK
Who Will Control the Green Economy?
Nice ideas all, thanks!
> We built a credential in 30 hrs that can give us more recognition for our startup than we potentially would have gotten for months or more of normal work

The importance of this can't be stressed enough. Winning the Facebook Hackathon within a month of starting university was the catalyst to applying to and being accepted at a YC company for the summer as well as a ticket through the interview processes at Google, et al.

More importantly, it also forged connections with local investors and angels that would have taken years to create had I gone through the normal routes, and that wasn't even a large event, so I can only imagine what an AngelHack placing would do
Yelp's got no way to know if you really dined at the restaurant

Don't they have "Yelp offers"? When you redeem one of these, it's probably because you ate at the restaurant. With the right software, they could even figure out what food you ate, who your server was, and if you tipped well.
When showdead is on, you can see submissions and comments that have been flagged to death.

When noprocrast is on, you may only view HN for maxvisit minutes at a time, and must stay away for minaway minutes before returning.
Sure, disturbing if true. But restauranteurs keep saying that, and keep failing to prove it - critically, they fail to prove it under oath. [1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelp,_Inc.#Criticism_of_reviews is a good place to start digging, check their cites.
Apple could release a 9.7" Air and use the same IPS screen as the iPad. (Even better would be a 13" Air/13" iPad with the same screen. I'd buy both.)
Really? Is it possible that an analogous review exists on a competitor who advertises with Yelp, but on that page the "review" is filtered?

It is entirely possible that the food is exactly the same, but this person's perception is entirely colored by the ethnicity of the staff.
Oh please, not again.

Absolutely any and every product you use has ridiculous Terms of Service.

These documents are drafted up by lawyers. Their job is not to please the end users who care to read through the legalese. Their job is to create a document that will protect the product vendor in court, if and when the time comes.

Lets put an end to finding eccentricities in ToSs/EULAs, it's getting kind of redundant. If this is some sort of game to see who can find the most absurd clauses in these documents, we're all losing.
The Higgs isn't like some sort of "mass coin", particles don't have mass by containing one or more instances of a Higgs boson. Instead there is a Higgs field which individual particles couple to which gives rise to mass. The Higgs boson is an excitation of the Higgs field the same way a photon is an excitation of the EM field, a graviton is an excitation of the gravitational field, etc.
noprocrast is a way you can keep yourself from wasting too much time on HN. Turn it on and set a "min away" time and you won't be allowed to visit HN unless the "min away" time has elapsed since your last visit. Set a "max visit" time and you won't be allowed to spend more than "max visit" time on HN in any given session.

showdead lets you view "dead" posts. Posts go "dead" due to flagging or action by the moderators and maybe a couple of other reasons. From what I've seen, most of them are pure spam, and I - for one - don't advocate turning showdead on. But you can certainly experiment with it and see what you think.
Documentation is great in that it can elaborate in much more detail, especially with actual pictures and graphs.

However, unlike source code, documentation cannot be machine tested for correctness.

Honestly, they're both important, and for different reasons. In this instance, Cydrak and I were able to pass revisions of the ARM core back and forth to fully debug it.
I noticed this too. I recently moved to Brooklyn Heights, and every review of every restaurant complains about price. Well yeah, dude, it's Brooklyn Heights. You're paying Manhattan prices for the privilege of not being in Manhattan :)
Looks great, will you be keeping the site up and running?

edit: When I am signed in and 1.) click "Load Craigslist Listings" then 2.) click "Cancel" 3.) I get "We're sorry, but something went wrong."

I'm not sure how frequently users will be clicking cancel or if it happens in every browser but FWIW this is happening in Safari(desktop).
It will work exactly like it does on the iPhone—if you specify 1000 pixels, it will be 1000 pixels wide on the non-retina iPads, and 2000 pixels on the new iPad.
Alternatives to Linode VPS?
Given that Linode recently experienced a major security breach, and is unwilling to divulge any more details (other than what's on status.linode.com), I'd like to switch my hosting to another VPS provider.

Can the HN community recommend some other VPS providers, with plans similar to Linode's?

References:

http://www.linode.com/

http://status.linode.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655137

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66916.40;all
Internet.bs is a good choice if you want a safe domain name registrar. They are based in the Bahamas and the staff is composed by people from Europe and South America.

Getting a "secure" swiss domain name with a registrar in the USA isn't probably the best idea ;)
This brings up an interesting question (or possibly interesting): how would one observe the simulation? Would we not be able to detect evidence of the observation?
Have any of the lawsuits made it through the courts?

All I can find is this the dismissal of Levitt v Yelp where the Court, while "sympathetic to the ethical underpinnings of Plaintiff's argument" rules that editorial "immunity still applies regardless of whether the publisher acts in good faith", noting that "traditional editorial functions often include subjective judgments informed by political and financial considerations" [1].

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/70421921/Levitt-v-Yelp-Dismissal
That right there: bingo - that's why I think that Yelp is coming out on top of this. They're delivering value to the website visitors/app users. Not that either company is a paragon of virtue, but compare Yelp to Apple and yourself to an iOS app developer and I suspect you'll have an accurate picture of who's where on the totem pole (cf Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/nack_control ).

If Yelp were dedicated to making its advertisers happy, it would quickly become useless for its users.
One of my comp sci teachers at Cornell actually solved this problem pretty generally and implemented their research for LimeWire/Gnutella. It was called Credence, and it does just what you're saying, but crowdsourced.

Okay, so here's the basic idea: you start to vote, "I liked this, I didn't like that, I liked this." This program Credence would say, "Oh, your preferences are a lot like Alice (someone you don't know), whose preferences are also like Bob (someone who hasn't even rated anything similar to you), and you three are pretty much the exact opposite of Carol (someone else you don't know). Carol thumbs-downed X while Alice and Bob thumbs-upped it, so I'm going to suggest that it's a thumbs-up for you as well."

Notice the key elements of transitivity and negative correlation. Someone who disagrees with you all the time saying "this is bad" could actually make something good.

The idea was to kill linkspam by saying, "if spammers want to thumbs-up their own content, feel free -- but they'd better thumbs-up good content and thumbs-down other spam, at least moreso than they thumbs-up their own content, otherwise nobody will listen to them." In that sense the only way for a spammer to spam is if they contribute to killing spam in general, and it becomes a self-defeating business model.

It's a pretty nifty idea. PDF here:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/credence/credence.pdf
Pangool is not an alternative for Cascading. For example, at this point, Pangool does not help you managing workflows. If you are starting a MapReduce application, it is probably the best option to start using higher level abstractions: Cascading, Hive, Pig, etc.

But if you are thinking about learning Hadoop using the standard Hadoop API, or if you need for some particular reason to use it for your project, we recommend you to use Pangool instead.

Or if you are considering to implement another abstraction on top of Hadoop, probably using Pangool for it would also be a good idea.

In fact, what we believe is that the default Hadoop API should look like Pangool.
This is why the US war on terror is utter bullshit and a complete farce.

The US government spent trillions ostensibly tracking down ONE man, and cannot even prove that they actually killed him - and looked like complete and utter fools given his location -- yet here is a documentary on a terrorist who has committed atrocities against humanity -- and we all sit on our damn hands.

If the US wants ANY credibility in its egregious laws (which Eric Holder has been pushing) to set legal precedent to kill terrorists, here is the perfect model for that.

This world drives me absolutely insane!
This issue comes up quite a bit. Since OwnLocal works with a number of small businesses, we've heard many so-called "horror" stories.

What it boils down to is Yelp filters positive reviews for effusiveness (and ALL CAPS), personal connections with the business owner or employees, rapid review acceleration from first-time Yelp users, or users from the same IP address.

What this article doesn't mention is that many small business owners understand how important Yelp is and actively try to game the system in blatant and unsophisticated ways. Their friends write five star reviews about how wonderful the owner is and how they always have their anniversary dinner there. They create multiple fake accounts and complain loudly that their positive reviews have been filtered.

We've also noticed a certain tone businesses and their friends use. They don't typically describe a particular experience, they describe a business in generalities and will often refer back to what other reviewers are saying. They also appear to take what other people think very personally.

The very first four-star filtered review this business has mentions the waitress and host by first name (she goes on to sign it). Many of the other reviews for this business are similar and come across as fake or by people who mean well, but go overboard on behalf of their friends.

A common looking filtered review (notice effusiveness, caps wording, and referencing other reviews):

"This is a NICE restaurant - one that you go to when you want a quiet meal away from the kids - it's definitely not family-oriented, but then again, not every restaurant needs to be. If you're used to Olive Garden as your Italian "go-to place", then you will probably be disappointed in Fior d'Italia. If you want REAL Italian food, then ignore the naysayers and come here."

Yelp itself has rough stats for the breakdown of reviews:

5 stars: 38%
4 stars: 29%
3 stars: 14%
2 stars: 8%
1 star: 11%

Yelp's little secret is actually that the star ratings don't provide very much granularity for the casual review reader to make a decision and that most restaurants average out to ~3.75 or in Yelp parlance ~3.5 - 4 stars.
Yelp has really let me down

Following the crowds is rarely worth the effort, whether it's the popular-kids crowd, or the brogrammers.
Apple has effectively paid for some of its suppliers factories to ensure parts availability. Good position to be in. http://www.asymco.com/2011/01/23/the-bank-of-apple-using-cap...
That could be the case. Customers are unpredictable and you will have to work very hard to please them all.

But if all your reviews are negative, it's possible you are doing something wrong. Restaurants are one of those professions where you have to be good at more than one thing; you have to design great menus, you have to buy good food, and you have to hire and manage good staff. As a chef, you may consider your ability to make a great menu the only thing that matters. Unfortunately, your customers disagree, thus causing the restaurant to fail. Sorry, that's life. (Same goes for great doctors that hire incompetent staff. I've had to stop going to a doctor I liked for that reason.)
>You are first going to have to contact Pinterest to get the information of the user who has listed this said work. Are Pinterest goijng to give up this information so willingly? Probably not...

IIRC, in this case you sue John Doe and have the court compel Pinterest to identify him.
Full disk encryption provides some level of protection against backdooring.
Designers generally shouldn't be worrying about the things Bootstrap covers, like how a button looks. That's a commodity. It always has been. Instead, figure out where to put the button, and whether it should even exist. That is as valuable now as ever.

Furthermore, all the designers I've ever worked with like to throw a PSD over the wall and say, "Make that." Every little detail reimagined and drawn from scratch. They don't know how to build and work from a set of reusable CSS components like Bootstrap. So as a developer, I'm inclined to say forget your PSDs, learn CSS, we're on the web and it's part of the job.
Your screenshot has the blocked cookies icon at the end of the address bar. Chrome is probably also blocking local storage.
Yelp is not a substitute for your friends. It's not even nearly as good as asking a random person on the street. If you're really stuck, go to a hotel and ask the concierge, they generally don't even care that you're not a guest if you're asking for something as simple as a restaurant recommendation.
For example, there has been a lot of talk for the last few decades about bioterrorism. In 2001, it finally happened; a bioterrorist attack occurred. It killed five people.

In the meantime, natural infectious diseases kill several million people every year, and far worse is possible. In 1918-1919, a flu epidemic killed two or three times as many people in a single year as the First World War had killed in four years. In 2002-2003, a SARS outbreak killed a thousand people before it was stopped by quarantine measures. We got off _very_ lightly; SARS is at least as infectious as the 1918 flu, is no more curable, and has nominally roughly twice the lethality rate. The real lethality difference is higher, for the 2002-2003 outbreak was small enough that most of the victims could receive oxygen treatment, which significantly improves survival; in a pandemic, of course, there would not be enough such treatment to go around. And there have been historical plagues deadlier by far than SARS. Terrorists have political goals relative to which the weapon that killed their own communities and families would be counterproductive. The forces of mutation and natural selection working on disease organisms have no such reason for restraint.

Now what exactly do the bioterrorism criers think is going to happen if they start being taken seriously enough to influence policy? It's only too obvious what's going to happen, because it's the same thing that always does: more regulation on biotech research, more red tape, more of the sort of field day for the paranoid and bureaucracy gone mad that we already see in the security theater at airports. It's hard enough to fly to Disneyland in those conditions, let alone do cutting-edge research.

And so when - not if - something deadlier and more insidious than SARS does come along, whatever chance we might have had of being prepared for it may end up being thrown away.

It's not difficult to understand why our instinctive assessment of threats is so wildly irrational. In the ancestral environment there was plenty of disease, to be sure, but almost no medicine, so little selection pressure to be sensitive to that threat. Violence was the main cause of death _that you could do something about_. The human brain is wired to assume our fellow man is the primary threat, regardless of the facts.

But we can sometimes override even hardwired assumptions, once we understand that we live in a world in which they are no longer true. We had better learn to override this one, and quickly.
Under what threat model? (Backdooring is also beyond the scope of the initial doiscussion)
Not anymore, they seem to be selling the new iPads and the old iPads, which will mean two display sizes. Still, your point holds.

The other issue is that Apple has enough money to invest in factories, not that it owns them, but it can put money up front to encourage building them. I would not be surprised if they had a 1 year hold on screens of this size, just as they did for the iphone 4 (although even today noone is using the same screens as the 4).
No.... not constantly. Spend some of your time being pleasantly surprised. Spend some of your time being underwhelmed with overpriced mediocrity. Spend some of your time horrified by awful food and service. And spend some of your time with your ass welded to a toilet seat most of the day due to food poisoning.

Exploring new restaurants is fun, but also potentially risky and typically needs to be moderated with some degree of caution and preparation.
Yes, that link to instructions was only added later this afternoon.
I like the trick of placing something meaningful at the api root url, will use that in the future.

"You of course need a JSON viewer plugin to do this."

Why not emit your JSON slightly prettier from the server side? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/86653/how-can-i-pretty-fo...