skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then I claim that you are indulging in a "silly" refutation of things that I have not said and you are conflating concepts of necessity and sufficiency. I guess we all have our trigger happy moments.

Also keep in mind that optimal decision making requires that prior probabilities be taken into account together with the costs of false posotives, cost of false negatives and the cost of acquiring evidence. Evidence does change posterior beliefs but but Bayes' rule essentially dictates that stronger claims (i.e. low prior) require stronger evidence.
Your shop on Facebook does not work because your shop does not work on Facebook
Sol Food customers in San Rafael are like Apple fan boys. It's a strange thing. I've heard people raving about it that haven't been there before.

Chipotle is becoming much of the same in reviewership. I personally feel there's too much variation in quality from one Chipotle to the next.

I do agree, Sol Food is not worth the review points it gets. It's confusing for a first time visitor — communal eating isn't something I'm always in the mood for — prices are too high for the quality in my opinion.

I belive Sol Food gets the bulk of young teens to early twenty somethings that haven't yet really experienced a wide variety of eating establishments. Coming from fast food or the "Ramen Lifestyle" would indeed make one give a place like Sol Food a great review along with that cult following.

The trouble with Yelp for me is the tally of "x" stars review. That doesn't easily tell you about the place that has excellent food but is a 60 year old dump. Yelp needs to do something to change the way they average the star ratings with price, quality, service, atmosphere, etc. Do all this on one page, in as little space as possible, and they may hold out for the long haul without being relegated to something like eBay. eBay, Yelp, Pay-Pal... All the lesser of no other evils... Why change?

I personally care most about food quality/taste with service second in importance. The rest doesn't matter to me often, aside from special occasions like birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries. A preference that allowed simple weighting of their more granular star rating system could be a good start.

Even with everything fixed, there's been far too many reports of "shady" practices with ratings dependent on whether or not you advertise with Yelp or not for me to personally trust them.

Someone will come along with bark, chirp, squeal, or hiss soon enough.
> Regrets is a bit of a strong word, no?

It's not as though I'm saying people are having long dark nights of the soul over a poorly-made salad. But they still feel regret because it's easy to imagine what they might have had.

People will do a lot to avoid even minor regrets. Do you have a favourite restaurant? Do you have a favourite dish at that favourite restaurant? Do you ever feel even slightly reluctant to try a complete new dish at a completely new restaurant? Why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_heuristic
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No, if someone claims he has experience with Python, and I've seen a few of the self proclaimed python gurus, that question will provide a quick filter. And you don't have to get it right, but when I show you the result I expect you to be able to backtrack and reason about what's happening on the spot. And there are other advanced things, for eg. meta-classes, multiple inheritance and dispatch order, etc. Not things that you need to know on the top of your head but should be able to reason about when provided the context. And this really isn't that esoteric, it's the sort of thing that separates newbies from experienced programmers, if you've written a decent amount of python code chances are you will know at least a few of the edge cases. And that question is only in response to jpdoctor saying that details can matter, I was saying I agree that some details can help but others are just useless trivia questions that make you look bad.

Also the language was just the first thing that came to mind, you can use a common library/framework/tool quirk, etc. Anything that shows familiarity with the required tools.
Watermark the pictures in your blog?

By the way, I found out that you can watermark all of your images that you're about to upload to Picasa Web via Picasa Desktop (there's an option to do that before you Sync to Web). I found that feature very useful if you organize your pictures using Picasa (and show them on your blog).
How PowerShell 3.0 Compiles Scripts in LINQ Expression Trees
It's hard to argue with the systematic dismissal of highly rated reviews for non-advertising entities and the dismissal of low rated reviews for advertising entities. Just because it hasn't been proven in court there are more than enough stories about the extortion business model they run. I am sure they will get their day eventually. It's hard to prove when it's all under a mysterious guise, but just wait until they get a whistleblower, wikileaks or something similar.
Apple can't keep the Apple store up. Why are they surprised by the load?
Interesting indeed. Get the users to slowly get familiarized with their own maps solution before ditching Google Maps.
dup using a different source URL

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3675565
So it is okay for Yelp to exploit venue owners because they don't have a working viable system that protects itself from being gamed?
I've been running flashblock and variants for so many years, I'd almost forgotten YouTube even did that. Certainly most sites I visit with HTML5 video don't, even the ones with Flash I often have to click some sort of play button even after I've allowed it through.

I do occasionally run into a site that just randomly starts playing sound or video as soon as it loads, but those tend to be horrific ad-laden sites and the content playing is, in fact, ads, and the window gets closed instantly. Not an example I think you want to follow.

It's also very, very incompatible with tabbed browsing. I hate having to hunt through tabs looking for the one site so incredibly inconsiderate as to think it is entitled to take over my ears while it's sitting in the background.
Taking the 60k from Google doesn't lead to spending several years of your life in Federal prison, which is a significant risk with selling an exploit.
I wonder what the world would be like if the almost possible now became possible and someone started a Kickstarter campaign to hire a PMC like Blackwater to go and kill the guy.
Let me rephrase GP's comment, since I felt the same thing as them. Allow me to set out a hypothetical.

You find that Pinterest's terms are awful, and stage a very successful revolt with your own site, sans the offensive terms. Users flock to your site, and Pinterest dies a sad death. One of the copyright owners of your "pinned" content decides to go after you, and decides to sue the pants off you. So you freak out and hire a top-notch lawyer, who will draft a new set of terms for your users to shield you from the liability you now realize you have.

Repeat, iterate, and before you know it -- your top-notch lawyer guarantees that you will face no more expensive liability, but you now have the onerous terms set out in practically all sites that allow user-generated content.

Basically, these terms allow you to bump the liability from yourself to the user who uploaded it (because they have pinned the pictures in bad faith, in violation of your terms, etc.)

So there's really no point railing against the terms -- they aren't going away, and the best you can hope for is very minor modifications of wording with sufficient popular pressure. Good luck on that.
Not necessarily. You would only render the prettified version when the client has an Accept header that shows more capabilities than application/json.

Which, by the way leads to my single complaint with this API: it only renders JSON.

To call it truly "self-documenting", I should just browse to http://www.heyzap.com/api/v1/ (ok, second complaint: the "v1" also belongs in a header, not the URI) and get an HTML page describing the resource, and links to the other endpoints. Bonus points if this HTML allows me to run the queries with overridden parameters.
I usually skim a number of reviews on Yelp/Amazon, so that I can get a feel of the reviews for people who have similar taste to me. If someone gives a decent restaurant in DC or NY 1 star based on the price and then suggests I go to the Applebees down the street, I can just filter that out.

On the flip side, ratings are not absolute -- when I'm reading reviews of a take-out burrito joint, I'm not looking for an 8 course meal, and it's possible that the local chipotle really is 5 stars among available burrito joints. My expectations of Per Se are really high, so maybe if I go there and get a meal that's 'only' awesome, it gets 4 stars, without that being inconsistent.

Perhaps better filtering could be done by taking price more into account, or asking users to 'class' a restaurant? (Take out, family, sit-down, gourmet, etc)
I made a super simple chrome extension you may find useful
Best. Alert. Button. Ever.
Ruby vs Javascript
He's not talking about resolutions provided (and my Vaio has a 1920x1080 15" display if you're looking for examples there) he's talking about support for different DPIs.

Windows 7/8 "kinda" work in this regard - I have to use accessibility addons in firefox to make it play nice, IE just stretches everything, I have no experience with OSX.
Anyone know which of the chrome sandboxes this was? If it was NaCl, I would really like to know.
You paint restauranteurs' dislike for Yelp as fear of customer feedback, but I think their complaint is that Yelp has a secret (and seemingly extortionist) process for filtering positive or negative reviews depending on whether the restauranteur pays Yelp.
I'm not saying they don't provide a valuable service. I'm saying they won't be able to exist without making a profit, and angering the people you're trying to get to write checks is a poor way to go about growing your business. There definitely has to be separation between the advertising and reviews - because validity of reviews is top priority, but their system, from my first hand experience, and discussions with many other businesses owners is skewed too far in one direction at the present time.

They are bleeding money, and they're forecast to do so for the near future. Bottom line is they need to figure out a better way to make money off what they do, or improve their value proposition for those customers who are generating the revenue.
I think your problem is that your philosophy isn't catchy enough.
Wow an entire article about human extinction without a single mention of global warming or climate change. The Atlantic are such reliable whores.
A couple of quick clarifications:

90-99% of the mass in regular matter is due to strong force interactions. In things like protons, neutrons etc the Higgs is only responsible for a small amount. See [1] for a little more detail.

As a quick aside, gravitons aren't quite kosher science yet. We haven't observed them, and we don't even have a coherent theory of how they would work. Something to do with equations being non-renormalizable, I don't claim to understand any of it.

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/pd6wc/why_is_the...
Hey, I addressed this point in the blog post. I disagreed with that because a) its not self-documenting. b) On v2 the exact same URLs will have completely different data and probably break every API consumer.
Hello again :-) That is my site and list. Here is the context about how the list arose and why I block those recruiters:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3661261
> 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.

The relevant article and HN discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3660323
'The “pin” button remains inactive until the user types something. Anything. Might this count as “criticizing” or “commenting”?'

Interesting. I'd like to see a court case further define what constitutes a "comment" on the web. Other sites do this too, for example Buzzfeed.com's entire business model is based on taking content from bloggers and then hosting it on their own site, without providing any kind of insightful comment.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/if-both-of-angelinas-legs-wer...
If you click on "Trend" in the "Rating Distribution" panel you can see avg rating over time.
Love the concept. Let the spammers tear each other up in a race to the bottom, while legitimate users get real value from using the system. Looking forward to reading this paper.
Thanks for the replies guys. I don't think they're quite what I'm looking for. I'd like the features of time tracking, just not paying a fee for it since it's not for business.
"But unoriginal is exactly what most people want with most of their web applications"

You're kidding, right? What about emotional design, making something that connects the user to your app?
Do I really need strong passwords?
Outright hyperbole.

Service and location is one component of the eating experience just as food is. Service and location are ways for similar restaurants to compete against each other.

To call people "service and location whores" speaks to your own condescending attitude that you, ironically, accuse others of.

With that said, in my experience, most places with a decent number of ratings tends to be spot on. The thing is that people need to measure their expectations. If a place is highly rated for cheap sushi or cheap taqueria food, then, obviously, ratings are going to be based primarily on price and less so on decor/food. After all, that is the _value_ that cheap eateries provide.

Yelp features a price indicator ($, $$ or $$$). If one was looking for good, expensive sushi, they could easily search for sushi with $$$. If they found a result where the restaurant had one $, then their expectations should adjust accordingly.
In my case, it was 12 hours for 3 iPads. (1/team member)

It was fun. Got in a real zone for a while. Built something cool. Got to greenfield hack for 12 hours without dealing with any legacy code. There was a reasonable chance at winning. And all the people who would have been playing werewolf were hacking, so what else would I do?
Have you checked out Random Hacks of Kindness? (http://rhok.org) I had similar ideas with a project of mine 6 or so months ago and built a version/part of my idea at a startup weekend (https://github.com/bglusman/diffapp) before I knew about RHoK... I'd still like to do more with the idea, and am starting something hoping to help scientific research in the next few days with Mendicant University, but there are real coordination and management/leadership challenges I think... I had some ideas on how to work on them with my app, but I think it's easy to underestimate the problems.

Oh, also relevant is http://codeforamerica.org
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Are you familiar with the Chrome's history at Pwn2Own?

Its success at avoiding attacks has been a great marketing tool for Google.

Even with this Pwnium exploit don't make the mistake of thinking Chrome is an insecure browser. By any measure it is the safest (graphical, full featured) browser around by a long way.
Pinterest is caching these images on their servers, not their customers who are only pasting in links. I find it hard to believe that these end-users will be held liable for an implementation detail on Pinterest's end. And linking, I believe is legal.

These are images that are publicly available on the internet and have been made available, in most cases, by the owner. Is there really a case that copying these images off the internet is illegal?
Why I will not be buying an iPad 3:

- Resolution: Who cares.
- Camera: Who cares.
- 4GLTE with a ridiculous price and cap. No thanks

I don't think there's anything really compelling about the iPad 3 for the masses. Sure, they'll sell a bunch of them, mainly because, well, that's what they are selling now.

Being on WiFi most of the time I don't see any motivation to get an iPad 3 over my iPad 2. Most of the time the iPad 2 is used to casually browse the web on the couch, play chess and mess around with other games. In none of these use cases has the iPad 2 screen resolution proven to be an issue at all.

Once usage becomes more serious iPad 2 goes on the shelf and I/we switch to computers. All of our home computers are equipped with a minimum of two 24inch 1920 x 1200 pixel screens. There is no way the iPad 2 or 3 experience can compete with this at any level.

I think Apple needs to fix the issue of carriers gouging customers for connectivity. We have four iPhones and two iPads. Why are we paying six fixed-cost, limited usage data plans when the devices are on WiFi most of the time? Why is it that we can't buy a "family" plan, if you will, and pay one fee for connectivity. That's what you do with DSL: You pay one amount for a data rate and it doesn't matter if you have one or fifteen computers attached to the service.

The next revolution in mobile might not come until the recurring costs involved in using these devices come under control.
You don't care if your app / site leaves an impression? It's not just the user flow, it's also emotional - design is holistic.
Two common complaints I have heard about Yelp are (1) its ratings are not personalized and (2) it took bribes.

Google tried "hotpot," now "places" with personalized recommendations and no pay-to-play scandals but hardly anyone uses it. My recommendations are OK but not great and I suspect the problem is that they don't have enough data to predict well for me.

I hear (from this discussion) that ness does well with personalized recommendations. I have not heard of it before.

Why does everyone use Yelp rather than Google Places or Ness?
And here's a suggestion for you: don't tell other people how to live; it's unseemly.

You seem to be overreacting. Suggesting is very different from telling.

Would you randomly select and just sit through a movie? A TV show? How about buying a random car? Selecting a spouse?

I think you are conferring a level of undue gravitas to food. Can you really equate selecting where to have lunch with whom to wed?
You have a point with the rendering option from the accept header...

About the v1 versioning in the URL, I understand your suggestion. But I see that little characteristic as a "no developer left behind" program for developers with less experience.

Also the format as an extension for your resource serves the same purpose
One can filter search results based on price ($-$$$$) or other categories (waiter service etc) to weed out the cheaper places. This works well if you are looking for 5-star+fancy as opposed to 5-star+thrifty.
>a large price gets people to compete for the money, but Google may not be the highest bidder.

How exactly does it hurt the fame angle?
As you say Zynga proves it can work for some games.

But I can also understand the resistance to it. I only just started playing my first MMORPG (SW:TOR), and as a player I think it would bother me if they openly sold advancement to the people that would be in the PVP matches with me. I know a certain amount in the background is unavoidable, but that is fair easier to tolerate than having the company sanction much less be involved in it.

So, if the amount of money they would gain from the purchasers exceeds the amount they would lose from people with my opinions dropping the game, then from a business perspective they should do it, but it comes at a cost. Of course the middle ground is to do it on some servers and consider outside purchases cheating on other servers, but even that might turn off some potential players that see it as distasteful.
So you're cool with the "we're going to filter primarily good reviews" and "advertise with us at just about the worst rates in the free world and we'll clean up the bad reviews?" extortion angle?
All he did to prove his point was smuggle a small empty metallic case in his pocket and he expects all the airports to take down their scanners as a result... Makes total sense.
When you check out, it's referred to as iPad (3rd generation).
> The obvious compromise would be to set two rewards: one for showing the exploit, another for showing its source code, at the hacker's option. By not disclosing the exploit the hacker would give up a higher guaranteed reward in exchange for a chance to make a juicier deal, but they'd be racing against Google's reverse-engineering effort.

I'm not sure if I'm completely understanding your idea... but in your proposed scenario wouldn't Google be sponsoring a place were the actual attackers that want to screw their users can window shop for working exploits? All researchers would be getting money from Google for participating on their contest, to then sell their working exploit that would take Google a significant amount of time to fix to the highest bidding blackhat/government.
If you have two or more iPads, why do they make you pay multiple monthly fixed-price amounts for connectivity? This is even more ridiculous when you consider that most devices are probably on WiFi most of the time. So, you are paying $mm per month times N devices for, well, nothing.

It's time for these contracts to become more reasonable. Right now they border on being nothing more than theft. Imagine this: You pay AT&T for your DSL line and you also pay them for wireless access for your iPad. You are paying them twice but only using one of the pipes at any given time.
When you check out, it's labeled "iPad (3d generation)".
TripAdvisor has restaurant reviews and doesn't filter them at all: I've had good luck.
Given the numbers, I suspect that the cap was 57(.6?) kilobits per second, not kilobytes. Same top speed as a dialup modem.
https://twitter.com/VUPEN/status/177518987972849664
> ... when someone called because they wanted to get me a job

She overestimates the bad recruiters. Recruiters have been known to advertise non-existent positions so they can build up their folios. They have been known to alter resumes to make it look like the candidate is a fit when they aren't. They have been known to lie about candidates. They have been known to try to make the candidates do all the work. They have been known to take jobs posted by companies that do want recruiters involved and then repost them (it makes them look better having these jobs on their books).

My biggest grievance is them having put in zero effort to check if I am a match for the company or the company for me, despite the means to do so being readily available. ie they are wasting the time of everyone involved.

More personal context http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3661261
I don't know what "amerika" is, but there are a number of things I'd copy from America if I were creating a new country, including the Bill of Rights. Americans do have a degree of individual autonomy and individual rights that are largely unknown outside the US, and Constitutional protections are an important mechanism for maintaining them. Now if the government could just pay for people to get flu shots and some better trains, we'd really be on to something :)
Utilitarianism has long been a core principle of good design. When I travel around the country, I don't bemoan the lack of variation and design esthetic in all the street signs I encounter. Similarly, there is a broad class of utility apps for which Bootstrap is a great standardization influence.
I like backupninja.
It's not an issue of copying images off the Internet. It's an issue with redistributing it, which Pinterest does. Just because an image is on the Internet does not mean it's up for grabs to whoever gets it.
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If Yelp is no better or worse than a stranger on the street or hotel concierge then I think that just plays to the point that Yelp has major problems.