skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
re: 2), the implementation is trivial, and rests upon serialize, which has been in rails (in one form or another) for a while now.

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/5daf07704ad21d8856612162...
For what it's worth, I just gave it a try and it seemed to make some pretty good recommendations (including places my friends have been to a lot but I've never heard of).

I don't really use recommendation sites/apps, because I've never found any of them to be useful (I find Yelp to be worthless), but I'd actually use this.

I totally didn't even know that was a thing in Foursquare. I use Foursquare almost exclusively to catalog where I go out to places, so I can remember later when the last time I was there was.
I've also heard of people getting other carriers to buy them out of their existing contract. No idea how to approach this though.
I have a friend from Italy who finds it odd that Americans demand quick service. He once said that he used TripAdvisor to find a restaurant and the place was rated low because service was slow although the food was great. I suppose we all expect different things from a restaurant. I prefer a quiet place with consistent food without feeling like I'm being rushed.

I don't use Yelp but I do use Goodreads which is a site that allows people to review books. And I find that the book ratings are somewhat reliable. Maybe it's that people who read books and are willing to rate a book are more thoughtful about the process.
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This is my rule for Yelp:

1. Listen to bad reviews.
2. Ignore good reviews.
I think that's just random auto-complete noise caused by the fact that their search input uses a fairly common name.
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Their launches are not beating customer expectations as they once used to - think iPhone 1, iPod, Nano, Air and compare that to today's launch of the iPad. Was that launch revolutionary, or modest?

This point alone doesn't mean that they are not a bet worth taking. But that, taken along with the fact that they're now facing tougher odds growing 20% or 30% per annum on already massive sales figures makes it harder to justify investing in them in order to make huge returns. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/business/apple-confronts-t...)

Lastly, and most importantly, society, especially a free one, always finds a way to mobilize against those that are deemed too powerful. The simple argument here is that in order to scale past the law of large numbers and continue to deliver "predictable" growth to the Street, companies sometimes have to push against the limits of acceptable business practices. We have seen that with Walmart, Microsoft, Exxon, BP, AT&T not to mention the robber barons of old.

Free societies, especially representative democracies check such growth with regulation (sometimes necessary, sometimes far reaching, but in its ideal - self-correcting). The same sorts of regulations that prevented AT&T (of old think Ma Bell) and Microsoft from extending its reach, will soon affect Apple. One can argue, it already has. What with lax supervision of its subcontractors in China etc (Foxconn)

That said, I am very impressed with how quickly Apple responded to these accusations, and tended to being more open than closed. An instinct not easily attributed to Apple.

In closing. Apple is probably a safe place to park your cash to hedge inflation. Perhaps even enjoy 4-5% YoY growth averaged aver 10 years. But blockbuster, maybe not.
I stopped counting, but I must have started over a dozen times before I was finally able to check out. What I didn't know was that each walk through the iPad page was ordering another iPad, so my cart wound up with five of them (!) but thankfully removing the extra three didn't make me start over.

[Aside: The new Apple TV is impossible to order from the website because the page has no continue or buy button! Maybe they'll notice when first day sales are zero. You can add one to your cart from the Apple Store iPhone app, but so far I have been unable to check out. Apple seriously underestimated the order volume for these products!]
You can send a DMCA takedown request if you see that someone is misusing your content. What exactly do you propose? Eliminate any website with user submitted content? I mean, what if someone posts a work to Hacker News without permission, should YCombinator be held liable?
Maybe all the buzz about Pinterest is because so many people think that finding an image online makes it publicly redistributable. "Pinning" is just another way of sharing.

I get the impression that there's much wider public acceptance of sharing (pirating?) pictures than music, movies, or software. I don't have a good answer as to why this might be, but I'd be curious what HN thinks.
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Yup, I remember those days, at members.tripod.com ;)
Problem is, copyright is implied on the part of the creator. It does not need to be applied for, nor is there any requirement for a copyright notice.

Just because you didn't watermark your image doesn't mean the copyright now belongs to Pintrest (or imgur, or Google+, or Facebook, etc) because people who didn't hold the copyright and didn't have the standing to give it away posted it.
As someone who doesn't work at Foursquare, I agree! If you're friends use Foursquare, Explore is a great way to find places to eat nearby.

Even if none of your friends have ever written a tip, I've found that seeing that one of my friends has been to restaurant 3 or 4 times is great way to find good places to eat or drink.
looking at http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/lycos.com , within the past 6 months spurred by a buyout from an Indian company.

From Wikipedia:
As part of a corporate restructuring to focus on mobile, social networks and location-based serves, Daum sold Lycos for $36 million in August 2010 to Ybrant Digital, an internet marketing company based in Hyderabad, India.

Still gets 14 mil uniques (!):
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/lycos.com/
Step 1) Compel owner of givhub.com to do something meaningful with their domain.

Step 2) Humbly request the wizards of Github to port a suitable form of the site suited to this endeavor.

Step 3) Contribute!
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http://www.dogpile.com/ is still out there too.

I wonder who their demographic is. What type of person still uses dogpile or lycos? Is it hardcoded somewhere?
Having moved, with a stop over in Toronto, from small-town Ontario to San Francisco. I put this post together reflecting on how well the experience matches with years of dreaming about it.
Also still around:

http://hotbot.com/

http://www.altavista.com/
Even though the article mentioned restaurants specifically, I believe the point about Yelp being fundamentally flawed extends much beyond food.

I have heard similar reports from doctors saying that Yelp is filtering out their 5 star reviews unless they advertise with them.
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Still, I think it's unrealistic to expect GitHub to parse through all of their logs. First, it would be non-trivial to detect the malicious behaviour in the first place, and secondly, keeping logs that go back multiple years is certainly non-standard, particularly at the info level.
By your reasoning, since tons of C programs can't use strcpy() correctly and thus contain buffer overflows, it takes a C master to use strcpy() correctly.
I'd say instead that the kind of reasoning is wrong and that even experts can make beginner-level mistakes (not so often). But these are the kind of mistakes a good framework/language/etc. should try to prevent - especially if security-related. Tons of research tries to reduce error-prone programming activities.
To pick a place to eat, look at the guests. If it's a bit run-down outside, but has tonnes of repeat customers, it's probably good.

You can spot a place with a local cliental by the way they interact. If all the tables look like circled wagons fending off marauders, they are tourists. If everyone is well dressed, it's a trendy place with good marketing - people go their once to impress their friends, but don't come back. Expect pretentious overpriced food, if that's what you are looking for.

If everyone is casually dressed, and seems familiar with the place, it gets repeat business. While you can't guarantee you'll like it, some people do.
GET parameters I understand, but POST as well? As in the form contents? I'm finding it hard to believe you. By default?
Asking programmers for a resumé? Why not ask them for their Github profile or something like that instead?
No, it was creepily relevant for me too. It seems to know what I've been typing into Github over the past 24 hours.
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Also http://www.metacrawler.com/

This was my go-to search engine before I knew that URLs could be saved and loaded in another place to the same effect.
However, iPhoto (for OS X, also updated today) definitely still is. I wonder how soon Apple plans on completely severing ties with Google Maps.
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Apples call it the "iPad 2" on their online store.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad

(look at the bottom of the page)
Data is much, much cheaper in Germany. I can get 5GB on e-plus for €15/month (~$20).

I'm pretty sure no carrier in the US offers a better deal than $10/GB.
I gave an old version of this a go a long time ago. It was really very time consuming. I would be interested in doing it again though now that I have more of an idea about compiling from source.. I was still very new to it then. I felt that you have to be pretty switched on to this before you start.
I wonder what the source is. It had access to a lot of keywords for which I searched on my company's internal code search system.
I thought the same thing initially, but that's what the person I was interview said. He is the most knowledgeable person I have ever talked to about this sort of thing, as he provides administration services to many, many TLDs: http://www.pch.net/technology/anycast.php
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How about Ruby vs. CoffeeScript?
OnTime uses location and traffic to intelligently remind you for meetings
Echoprint – Open source music identification
I am SO fucking sick of douchebag angst driven attacks by sniveling failure-driven wannabees on legalese in terms of service that are essential to make any and every successful consumer Internet site, application or platform work.

If you don't like it, don't use it. Go back to the pre-social web with your mom and grandmother. If you are going to criticize it or upvote it, think for a moment about the reasoning behind it. Yesterday Path. Today Pinterest. Let's hope someone else makes something great for you to kick in the teeth tomorrow.

Shut the fuck up already.
Wearable Android: Coming to a Wrist Near You
Try the very first wiki ever: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors

Also, aside from reading books I recommend reading (and using) well written source code. I learned more picking apart the Symfony2 framework source code that any PHP book. Adjust for whatever programming languages you use. Find a well-written project, tear it apart and figure out what makes it tick. Just like you did with things when you were a kid :-)
Cucumber - documentation, automated tests and dev-aide rolled into one
I'll bet he was as an employer of 12 people.
StartupBus: Day 1
If posting an image with a comment is fair use, then arguably the combination of the image and the comment constitute the Member Content for which the poster is claiming ownership.

If I publish a review of a work of art, including a reproduction of the work, in a magazine, my copyright would cover the entire article including the reproduction. I wouldn't be claiming copyright on the original work.
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I don't think so, unless readability grants itself rights to reproduce and sell every article that passes through its engine. Does it?
Fair enough. I think saying OS X is "the worst offender" about resolution independence is at best hyperbolic, though. They're not good, but neither is anyone else.
Using the term "hacktivist" for Anonymous is a little much. They are nothing more than a digital terrorist group. Power corrupts and we can see it has been corrupting Anonymous for awhile now. Anyone that pisses them off in the slightest they take offline using D.o.S attacks (which btw takes very little skill). Any script kiddy can find the tools to do this and it's pretty easy to hide it in a file and get unsuspecting users to install it.

It reminds me of when I was 13 or 14 and I used to use the old win nuke/smurf attacks on people that pissed me off. The only difference is that these guys are adults and they still think that this is going to solve anything.
For some things I really don't. Think internal tooling and such.
http://www.webcrawler.com/

First search engine I ever used. In high school Spanish class, about 1995. Still there! But, no more cool illustration of a spider.
Other forms you've filled out in your browser with an <input name="q">
The Hardest, Most Rewarding Job I’ve Ever Had.
> I get the impression that there's much wider public acceptance of sharing (pirating?) pictures than music, movies, or software. I don't have a good answer as to why this might be, but I'd be curious what HN thinks.

Anecdotally, it's because photographs and images are seen as "easier to reproduce" (whether this is true or not is another matter), and therefore possibly easier to justify by those doing the sharing.

That, and there's far less friction to sharing photos/images than video and software.
It requires a facebook or twitter login. Plus it should have some kind of IP log somewhere. Pinterest won't have the entire identity, but this is how e-discovery works. You keep sending subpoenas up the hierarchy until you get to the ISP. The ISP provides the subscriber information.
FWIW this just depends on your definition of social network. A friend of a friend's recommendation could show up as well.
Depends on where... I don't know anyone who is going to make masa harina from scratch, and you're probably not finding too much of that in Europe. Welp, there goes corn tortillas. :)
London - Kout (Full-Time & Interns welcome)
http://www.kout.me

Kout is part of the latest AngelPad class. Our investors include six ex-Googlers and two top Silicon Valley VC firms.

We've just raised a large seed round of funding from top US investors.

We're looking to hire our first employees. Offering a real equity stake, competitive salary, and a chance to revolutionise eCommerce for the long tail and the bureaucracy and experience associated with the payments industry.

Kout is a dead-simple eCommerce platform that enables anyone, anywhere to be a merchant across any platform with ease, elegance and simplicity. We make it fast & easy to both sell items and collect money online and do this by generating a simple one-page checkout that corresponds to a unique URL. We're also doing really cool things with dynamic pricing, payments, as well as social & mobile commerce.

We're simplifying eCommerce and removing the barriers to entry, enabling anyone to be a merchant. We'd love to do that with you; let's talk about the details.

Contact devan@kout.me. Mention you're from HN :)
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I freely offer givhub.co and/or .net to the cause. (I will maintain their registration or will gladly pass that responsibility over, need be.)
In this case, Pinterest even acknowledges that the images are not the property of the user, "When you pin from a website, we automatically grab the source link so we can credit the original creator."

And that's fine - their ToS says you need to be either the copyright holder or have consent from the copyright holder. For example, if I "pin" a CC licensed image, I have such consent.
There is already an app that does exactly this that is much better than yelp:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ness-dining-guide/id454869181...
Keep up the good work Byuu.
You still need to do some research, but it helped me focus on what I wanted to learn. Why was I using that command? What does that package do? Crap, I typed that wrong - why did I get that error message?
Just print the pictures and send the photog a tip via Paypal or buy something (anything) the photog is selling.
I volunteer at a non-profit called Crossroads, in Hong Kong (http://crossroads.org.hk/). I'm a Ruby on Rails programmer.

Our software department runs a website called 'Global Hand' (http://globalhand.org/en), which is a matching service between businesses who want to donate goods, and charities who need them. We created a similar service for the UN, that matches business resources with needs from UN organisations (http://business.un.org/en).

We really do need more help. Please email [enquiries@globalhand.org] if you have any Ruby on Rails or design skills and would like to donate some of your time.
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infoseek.com appears to redirect to go.com

Still around, kinda.
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As suggested by Stanford's NLP course.
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That's the browser's autocomplete, probably triggered by the field being named 'q'. It tracks what you've entered into other fields (I assume named 'q'), hence I get lots of testing data from my current project's search field.
I second chow.com, though I end up looking on Urbanspoon if I just happen to be out and about. I'm a bit surprised that it hasn't been mentioned much here.
Apple ditches Google Maps display tiles in iPhoto for iOS
BTW, you mean "I trust the person who told me to take the image from a third party."

Imagine calling AAA to tow "your" car, and they show up and tow it, only to find out later that it wasn't your car at all.
I agree, some recruiters are borderline scam artists so you can't just take it at face value that they have a job to offer and are interested in you, there can be more to it than that
The thing is that pinterest makes most of its money on copyrighted material uploaded without the content of the original owner, so it encourages and makes money on copyrights infringement for the main part. Just like the Pirate Bay...
And that's why you can send a DMCA takedown request and they'll have to take it down. I fail to see the problem here.
IOS 5.1 update changes "3G" indicator to "4G" on iPhone 4S for AT&T
That's pretty much how I see it too. Yes, you own the review, which includes the right to the image for the fair use purposes of explaining the review only. There is no transitive right if you sell that review to use the image for any other purpose.

I too find this insane. If anything qualifies for fair use, surely pinterest does. "Hey look at this cool thing!" is about as close as I can imagine to the platonic ideal of discussing a copyrighted work.

No one freaked out over /r/pics, so what's the deal here? I hesitate to point out that pinterest differs mostly in the gender demographics of the user base, but... yeah.
So continuing the analogy... Apple mobile products will switch to Android in about five years and their marketing won't miss a beat?
No, cos then they wouldn't be allowed to teach writing, which is quite a fundamental technology for education.

Is just that I view issuing smartphones or consumer tablets in a classroom to be about as useful and productive as issuing games consoles.
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Slippy map with the Apple Tiles:

http://www.refnum.com/tmp/apple.html
I thought Google refused to pay that. There was that whole twitter-tiff over it.
I have a curiosity. Would it be better to register a domain as a person or as an organization? Are there any major differences in liabilities associated with each entity? (And I'm thinking .ch and the like domains. I don't think for .com would make any difference.)
The problem with things like this is who is going to pay for it? Its a rather small market (software developers).. I'm not sure its a viable business model but more of an idea for an open source project
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I really appreciate it, thanks :)
I've (302) redirected those domains to the blog post for now...
How much would your usage cost you with AT&T's current metered plans?
There is no moral hazard when they are claiming the right to sell material that might be copyrighted.
These are not eccentricities, this is serious stuff. Last time I checked US law allowed for damages of up o $150 000 per violation for copyright infringement. This EULA includes an indemnification and hold harmless clause, which means that if pinterest gets sued for something you upload you get pay for their defense and for any judgments if they loose.

So if this EULA holds up, it means it can easily expose you to millions of dollars of damages. Yes there are many exploitative EULAs out there but this is the first one I have seen that can get easily get you on the hook for millions of dollars for an innocuous action.
123-reg in the UK go one better. Passwords on there have to be eight characters long. No more, no less, exactly eight characters. I couldn't believe it when I saw it.
"commenting" is only one aspect of fair use, and it generally is interpreted to mean "copying a small snippet as an example" or "reproducing a low-resolution copy for reference" to provide context.

Another aspect of fair use is "not depriving the owner of their own commercial use of the work".
But of course, to be allowed textual format for asset metadata, you have to buy the pro version. Or did they change that in 3.5?
That's not "missed optimisation," that's "generating ridiculous code."
the watermark isn't for legal purposes, it is for communication and content-devaluation purposes
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What's wrong with just forking a project in Github instead?
Bootstrap is for programmers
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Not all MMOs fade away. WoW still has over ten million subscribers and doesn't seem to be fading at all. And I'm not surprised changes they made in 2005 took so long to kill SWG. People who have put literally years into a game are emotionally invested and have online relationships they don't want to abandon, at least not casually.

What actually kills a game is the lack of new serious players to balance out the slow attrition of the veterans. The temptation for companies running these games is to make them more "accessible" to more casual gamers. But there's a fine line between "accessible" and "not addictive enough to flip people into paying customers".
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I believe that all the spam prevention measures are done on a per-subreddit basis, meaning that if you only submit to other subreddits, you will look like a new user to the proggit spam filter once you start submitting. A couple users have been plagued by the exact scenario you pointed out, where they had a ton of other sources, but they only posted their own content to /r/programming, which is problematic.