skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes trust 3G (and now 4G) more than I trust the available wifi, even over a VPN. Admittedly it's not that hard to put up a fake base station, but it's basically unlikely. Sometimes wifi at events is just badly run or overloaded, too.

There are also sites with rules about what's allowed to be on the network or not. Often a consultant or guest can't put his device on the network, at least without a lot of work (BYOD isn't done on many networks), but having network access is useful. There are also sometimes IP considerations (using an iPad or 4G hotspot during a break from a day job is less likely to be "using employer resources" to manage your startup if you're moonlighting than if you use their wifi...).

For +$130, it's worth it to me to have the capability. It also makes GPS more accurate, and maps is a really cool thing. I only replace my iPad every second generation, though.
No, it's used as the backing store in many production applications. Some tasks lend themselves to distributed non-SQL datastores, other tasks work better with a traditional database architecture. MySQL is used for the latter.
Indeed – but it might well go far in the court of public opinion... that's gotta count for something...
I'm pretty psyched about the 1080p video. We just released our iPad app, which compresses video and shares it with people / teams, and my hope is that this will drive further adoption. Also, I want one, and I want to be able to share the video I take with it.

I do resent how poorly my iPad 1 performs now though. I only bought it 18 months ago!
I've been wondering about why people do this sort of thing, so thanks for answering that.

I found it curious that Startupbus, which I believe is going on right now, seems to never have had much traction on HN, and when it did, it appeared to be astroturf. It seems like an unforgettable and intense experience, but combining a hackathon with cabin fever and gross bathrooms just doesn't seem like a lot of fun.
Could this argument also apply to sites like Readability? Since it removes advertising (hence income for the writers) from articles.
>>A good programmer can put together a system with nothing but a stack of note cards, a pencil and a good eraser.<<

A real programmer uses a pen.
Mr. Larive is spot on in his opinion, and I think he offers good solutions to the dilemmas of business response and participation.

Yelp is representative of a fundamental problem with so many review sites, and our society at large -- namely that it attempts to coalesce many dimensions of data (a person) into a single score.

And, just like FICO, and the SAT/LSAT/etc, Yelp and its predecessors (BBB) attempt to do the same for businesses.

Worse still, they rely on the "Wisdom of Crowds" when it comes to qualitative measure and taste. An average 2.5 stars tells me nothing, especially because I'm an elitist prick and think the average Yelp commenter is an idiot.

I fear that people substitute a Yelp rating for their own critical-thinking, and that is wrong. It is just as wrong that schools judge students largely based on a single test score. It is wrong that lending happens based on a opaque algorithm.

I fear that Yelp is just another symptom that our society is sick. Our brains have atrophied to the point where we only look for one number that determines the succes or failure of our education, our lives and our livelihood.

Or is that a touch melodramatic?
Not only that, looking at the HP order page, there doesn't seem to be much difference between them all.
Resource consumption is growing exponentially. That is the real problem.
> "Most folk are happier minimising their regrets; review services should help that to occur."

Regrets is a bit of a strong word, no? If I walk past a nifty looking sandwich shop and pop in for a meal, and it turns out to be sub-par, is that really a regret?

I'm with jcampbell - if you are inclined to experience significant regret/remorse over having a meal that wasn't too great, it may be time to re-evaluate.
You need a cause to get to trial and then even more so to win. You don't need one to file the suit, get the attention, and cost them big time to address it. In America you can sue anyone at any time for anything. You don't have to win to win.
So you try to think of all kinds of speculative reasons why restauranteurs hate yelp, but do not bother listening to what they say. Restauranteurs are very clear and vocal about why they hate yelp -- it is because Yelp uses reviews as a way to blackmail them into buying advertisements in Yelp. That is pretty fucked up behaviour and has been confirmed by many people many times.

By the way most restaurants have always relied on customer satisfaction to attract customers. This is true for most small businesses but it especially true for small restaurants. And this was true before yelp and even before the internet. A restaurant where each customer goes only once is usually doomed to failure (the exceptions are places in tourist traps and high traffic locations ... these restaurants are usually reliably awful, but they are the minority).

If you are the usual non-franchise non-tourist trap restaurant, you cannot afford much advertising or promotion. Your best hope for customers is someone wandering in, being happy and coming back again. Or maybe even telling their friends.

So the idea that restauranteurs now hate yelp because yelp somehow forces them to up their game is silly. Most of them have always relied on customer satisfaction as their main driver of business.
Huh? Apple offers 1366x768 in 11", 1440x900 in 13", and 1680x1050 in 15". The only comparable-and-better that I know of is the 1600x900 HP something-or-other.

They aren't standouts (although the 15" at 1680x1050 is really nice), but they're no worse than anybody else.

EDIT: I misread the original post. Sorry about that. That said, OS X isn't appreciably worse as far as resolution independence than the rest of your options. (Not that that's praise for OS X, but neither GNOME nor Windows are particularly good either.)
From a high level, divulging the details could lead to the hole being patched up. Not having the details requires a much more thorough study being done to find out what happened.

i.e. if someone reports a working exploit for Chrome, but doesn't tell how, Google has no choice but to investigate as deeply as it can and root out any possibility it can think of, and perhaps do automated checks in all of the source where it could possibly happen.

If you instead point out it's a buffer overrun in file x.c, they'll likely just patch up that one file.
This is strongly reminiscent of Mario Galaxy.
the advantages are that it requires /zero/ effort to host and scale. takes server admin out of the equation. my main beef with 'em is that their downtime is pretty bad.
The hieroglyphs from Lotus Notes are rearing their ugly heads in disguise.
I think the benefit of something like Bootstrap is getting an idea off the floor with _some_ nod towards aesthtics. If I can't afford a designer, I'm happy to use someones idea of a 'default' to get it to the point that it is functional, relatively easy on the eyes, etc. Then, when the funds / time is available focus on tweaking things to not appear like the bootstrap default.
As someone who lives in Marin and goes to Sol Food, I can say that the 30 minute wait isn't because they have shitty service.

I'll also note that it's generally a better idea to phone in your order, unless you're eating at a non-peak hour. Alternatively, they have a second storefront on the north side of that block, on 4th St., that generally has fewer people.
I've done some hackathons and the answer is simple: it's really fun. Building something cool from scratch in one sitting is very enjoyable.

I don't think there are any serious health implication to staying up for ~30 hours, especially if you take short naps once in a while. This is actually gentler than spending about the same time awake in planes and airports, and travelling doesn't seem very strange, does it? If you only do this once in a while, it shouldn't be an issue at all.
$60k looks like a lot less when you don't know going in that you'll even find anything. It's potentially months of speculative work, and you stand a very good chance of coming up empty handed. For not much less, anyone with this skill set can have a guaranteed salary.

There is also the fact that anyone in the industry can make a few phone calls and have a bidding war on this type of exploit that will go well into the 6 figures, possibly as high as 7 according to some. $1M sounds high to me personally, but there is no doubt that it will fetch a few hundred thousand.
I hope all this is on your resume.

You're the sort of person I like to mention when folk come up with half-assed "encryption" schemes. The kind of person who reads hex for fun.
IPhoto for iOS Not Using Google Maps?
It all runs different software, but games are generally going to use the same amount of data.
For "content" creators, these are not absurdities, these are terms that can make or break your ability to get paid for your work and put food on the table.

A photographer having to go to court to defend his ownership of photos they'd exhibited through twitpic and get paid by newspapers who claimed the ToS said he'd released his rights, demonstrates this is not a "please not again" problem, this is ongoing, big corps are misusing these at the expense of individual artists, and the problem's getting worse.

Every day I talk to artists who have no idea that posting their latest music video to a video sharing site could give that company performance rights in other media, or, as in this case, that pinning their own photos to Pinterest would let Pinterest publish a "Best Pins of 2012" book w/o compensating the artist.

This needs to be called out and both consumers and creators deserve to be informed.
Maybe because of the overhead on rendering time and extra bytes.

On a couple thousand requests the latency is not so noticeable. But on the long run maybe the API user should have a plugin on the client side to do that kind of beautification.
The number of websites that bork on user+keyword@domain.com never ceases to amaze me...
Is that page TRYING to make me hate the internet??
<shameless plug>

I work for Foursquare, so I'm obviously biased, but I think Foursquare Explore is a great way to find good places to eat.

https://foursquare.com/explore

Our recommendations are based on 30 million tips (short recommendations, <= 200 characters) left by our users all over the world. They also take into account the popularity of the venue, the likelihood of people leaving tips there, the time of day, the day of week, and many other factors.

If you have a check-in history with foursquare, or if you have friends that use foursquare, we'll make personalized recommendations. We'll recommend things we think you'll like based on your check-in history and your friend's check-in histories, and we'll highlight which of your friends have been to the places we're recommending, and how often.

The product isn't perfect yet, and there are definitely some big deficiencies if you try to use it as a Yelp replacement (notably, foursquare lacks: hours, webpage links, whether they deliver or not, etc). But it's constantly improving, and it's already pretty good.

</shameless plug>
As a complete aside, one of the things I dearly miss about life in the US is good Mexican food. I would love to be able to eat in a dirty taqueria... sigh.
That's ridiculous. There are so many things that determine whether a candidate is good outside of how deeply they know language X.

There is only so much esoteric knowledge one person can know and you can't expect candidate's specializations to overlap yours. You are being lazy by looking for someone exactly like you (because you obviously know you're experienced) instead of trying to figure out if the candidate is knowledgable in their own right.
They could MVNO (basically being a carrier reseller, buying bulk bandwidth from the actual network operator.) This is how Virgin Mobile, I think Boost, and some other networks have operated. Then reinforce with their own networks in places they care about (i.e. SFBA and NYC).

I don't think it makes sense, but I'm sure they've evaluated it. As a customer, having Apple as my single point of contact for everything mobile would be amazing, even if I had to pay a premium. Still wouldn't get around the limitations on spectrum and towers, though, but given that Apple's cash on hand is probably 15x Sprint's market capitalization, ...
Heck, for me 3G is the fastest data available to me.

However, 3G (and 4G) are much more expensive, in terms of the price it costs to transmit a given quantity of data. And compared to glass and copper, the total number of bits available within a given geographic area at any given moment is a fraction as large. Unfortunately, cellular companies failed to realize that offering "unlimited" data plans would set up poor expectations. They (apparently) didn't anticipate seeing a significant percentage of their customers try to use the cellular networks for transferring large quantities of data, and thought that for most people "unlimited" would just be a marketing-friendly euphemism for "a couple hundred megabytes."

In turn, people who assumed that "unlimited" really means unlimited, and assumed that the prices that were originally offered for "unlimited" were realistic prices for high volumes of cellular network usage, now seem to think that the prices that cellular network providers want to charge for data usage are rapacious. On the contrary, it's not that the price they're trying to charge now is disastrously high; it's that the price that they used to be charging was disastrously low.

There's also a serious resource contention issue on cellular data. The towers can only be placed so close together before they start interfering with each other, and the bandwidth that's being advertised is the bandwidth you'll get if you've got the tower to yourself. Chicago's an illustrative story: A company came along offering household internet service through a 4G network, promising impressive bandwidth numbers. And they delivered on them for the few months between when they first opened for business and when they started getting serious traction in the market. Since then, they've earned a reputation as a pretty crappy ISP, simply because the technology itself couldn't deliver quality service to that many users at once. A wireless network cell is effectively a hub, and like on any hub resource contention can be a serious issue.

Which, I suspect, is ultimately why Apple goes along with the file size caps for cellular network transfers: From a user experience perspective, they would much rather allow everyone to transfer small files at high speeds, than let everyone's user experience suffer because the network is being choked by large file transfers.
While this particular example seems extra silly, it does fit the long tradition of carriers advertising amazing new features that are technically true but always hampered in some minor way as to make them functionally useless.

I explain it to laypeople in one simple sentence: "You can't really watch the game on your phone."
ugh, yeah the jobspringpartners one I saw in there.. I actually met with them at their office once as I was in town from out of state for another interview so figured why not (I didn't know much about them and figured I should squeeze an extra interview in even if it was going to be a dud)... it was definitely a weird experience, they had me meet with this one girl first, then they send me out in the waiting room to have five different people each come out to meet with me individually and they each asked basically the same stupid questions... and these were really basic questions that were all answered on my resume. Its just odd that companies like this can stay in business. There was no succession of meeting with different levels of managers, etc, they were all just basic recruiters (salespeople), its as if they were either so inept at communicating that they couldn't share information among one another (or take the time to actually read my resume) or that they were so ultra competitive that they couldn't trust one employee to meet with me, they had to add go directly to the source.
UAE, Singapore and Mauritius are all small countries. Singapore and UAE have a cozy relationship with US and the media is heavily regulated and controlled by the government in both countries. UAE even blocks Skype.

I dont think the top level domains of these countries are secure at all.
Chartbeat’s New Features: Up With Engagement, Down With Linkbait
I wonder what a formalized game theory representation of this would look like. Might make for interesting study.
Funny story. I recently was going to order out from a Chinese restaurant that I had recently ordered from before and recall enjoying. I had to google the number, and in so doing came up with a couple terrible Yelp reviews. For some reason I decided to listen to the toobz instead of relying on my own judgement. Ended up ordering horrible greasy food from a better-rated, well-known jaunt.

TL; DR: I let Yelp override my own experience, what's up with that?
I created a service a couple years back as a yelp alternative called www.hotspotrobot.com, that basically aggregates "best of" lists from zagat, michelin, local papers, etc. The coverage is best in NYC, but it also works in SF. Hopefully it's helpful!
The equivalent on the German Apple page seems to be "Sehvolutionär", literally "see-volutionary". (In case you thought it couldn't be worse.) Though I actually think it's a fun idea.
Apple increases over-the-air download limit for iOS to 50MB
I prefer my Nook Toucho the iPad for pure text reading because it is so ridiculously light. But it would be tough to make the iPad 3 lighter than it is, without major breakthroughs in batteries or materials (lighter gorilla glass).
> Your screenshot has the blocked cookies icon at the end of the address bar.

As well it should, there are third-party cookies from ten different domains that try to get set on that page.

> Chrome is probably also blocking local storage.

I don't see how that follows. As far as I know, I have default settings in Chrome for both cookies and local storage, yet I'm seeing the same thing as they are, running 17.0.963.66 on Mac.

EDIT: OK, if I uncheck the "Block third-party cookies and site data" option, it does work. You guys should consider this a bug.
I was the same, except I targeted a different portion of the economy. I became a resource dealer.

The resource spawning system drew my attention, and I ended up spending countless hours developing tracking systems outside the game to both keep track of the current and past spawns as well as keep track of my harvester fleet. I knew almost immediately when the best Rhodium Steel for a particular weapon spawned and would drop every harvester on the strongest vein I could find.

For those unfamiliar with the resource mechanics of SWG, there was a fixed hierarchy of resource types that different crafting recipes required. The more advanced the recipe, the more specific the resource requirement (e.g., Rhodium Steel instead of just Metal). Every couple weeks the current spawn of a given type would dry up and a new one would come along to take its place with different stats. These stats ultimately determined the final stats of items crafted with the resource.

Resources also spawned in "veins" similar to how they're found in real life. The closer to the center of the spawn you were, the more yield your harvesters produced. It was possible to effectively block out any competition by placing enough harvesters on a vein, and this is exactly what I did.

At one point I even started doing "contract" work for the high-end crafters. They would give me a quantity of a resource they wanted and I would deliver it daily as the harvesters collected.

At the end (sometime around when the Jedi questing was introduced) I had amassed enough credits that I was within the top 5-10 on the server I played. I sold it all on eBay and more than paid for my time playing.
On NPR recently, there was a guy talking about a startup that works like Tripadvisor, but only shows you reviews within your social circle. This eliminates shills and only shows you opinions that have a known value to you.

Maybe someone can steal that idea and apply it to restaurants.
George Takei Helps Facebook Debug MySQL
When I saw the /v1 prefix I was reminded of one of Steve Klabnik's blog posts[1], where he gives an alternative, arguably more RESTful approach to versioning an API.

[1]: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-07-03-nobody-underst...
I really don't want or need all my devices to have seperate data contracts -- one contract (for the phone) and hotspot capability is just fine.
Didn't Pinterest address this to a certain degree? At least from the content creators - http://blog.pinterest.com/post/17949261591/growing-up says that you can add a meta tag marking your content as not pinnable.
It's a nice dream, but would it actually make sense? Spend a lot of money to get an expensive capital-intensive business that is very different to any other business units in Apple and operates in only one of the countries Apple has a market presence.
Though Pwnium may (quietly) reveal exploits in Chrome, Google will conveniently not be featured in sensationalist headlines about Chrome being hacked more quickly or often than other browsers at Pwn2Own.
Nobody gives a crap that the restaurant has been there 125 years, but that's what the owner leads with in defense of his enterprise. Looking at the reviews for Fior d' Italia, it looks like service leaves quite a bit to be desired and the food isn't that good.

Maybe Yelp is polluted and biased...or maybe Fior d' Italia just sucks. Occam's razor says it's the latter.

My wife and I travel all over the country on business, often finding ourselves in cities where we've never been. Yelp finds us a great place to eat every single time.
Well technically it's not a bug - it's by design :)

But I agree completely, which is why I said you should be able to evaluate the previous work trough the interview, even if you don't know the specific technology (eg. If I was interviewing someone for a Django/Python gig and he has RoR experience ~10-15 minutes of interviewing about a previous project that he thinks is representative would be enough to figure out if he's winging it or he knows what he's talking about, it's cool if someone misses something but he should be able to reason about things on the fly, eg. in the above gotcha I expect you to figure out what's happening when I tell you the result if you didn't get it right away).

I'm just saying - some details can be useful, eg. if I knew Ruby or Rails I could ask about a few similar details that separate the men from the boys - but asking what namespace is foo located in isn't going to provide useful information and puts you in the PHB class of people who don't realize that their lack of skill is preventing them from creating good evaluation tools and can't delegate the responsibility to someone skilled - the kind of environment I would want avoid at all costs.
It's not hard at all. You don't need to recompile with LESS - just have a separate style sheet which overrides the default bootstrap one in selected areas.
http://wheelof.com/lunch/
Mexican food has got to be the easiest cuisine to replicate in your own kitchen.
I'm going to take issue with one of the companies on his list, Riviera Partners. I worked with this company for several months last summer (Hey Matt!) and, in my dealings with them, they were utterly professional. I hate recruiters in general, but the guys at Riviera were the definite exception.

First, their list of clients were very top-notch. I did a number of phone screens and on-site interviews with companies I was introduced to via them. Never found exactly what I was looking for, but met lots of cool people and companies.

Matt was my main contact after I asked to only deal with one of their people. Was always professional and helpful. I've had good interactions with some of their other employees too.