skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yelp seemingly stopped innovating years ago – really, there's very little in the way of new experiences with them to keep the attention going. I say this as a former Yelp Elite user for 5? years, but no longer, though still an active user with ~350 reviews.

As a result, they've squandered their early advantage.

Ideas off the top of my head:

- Imagine all that they could have done to help small businesses gain deep(er) insight and understanding into their existing customers and/or potential markets.

- A (pay for use) tool that let prospective business owners size markets and get feedback from real, local "expert" consumers (aka: yelp elite users?) – all for a fee (and maybe a small pay-off to yelp users?)

- Revenue sharing to verified, top reviewers or test marketing that allowed reviewers to get something back for all their engagement

- Product reviews (really, can Amazon be the only one to own this?) Review anything with a UPC mark.

- A Yelp branded credit card – discounts/cash back for reviewed experiences (this allows: 1) Deeper consumer intelligence, 2) Prompting for reviews 3)Truly verified experiences/more reliable reviews

- Brokering partnerships between complementary businesses – e.g.: free Lyft rides between the dinner and movie/music/museum venues for consumers for special events, etc.
Uber campaign about Oregon ridesharing legislation
Really excellent suggestions in my opinion
I tried the same patch on 1.9a but couldn't get it to work (tmux built fine but no dice with 24 bit colours). Very curious to hear if it works with 2.0.
"Now I feel equally exhausted all day"

Not sure if you meant that to be hilarious, but it was. Do you mean it helped?
> My week and a half wearing an apple watch has taught me one big lesson about watches. A watch is only secondarily used to tell time... Watches are actually social signifiers more than time pieces, fitness trackers, or notification screens, they communicate the wealth and status of the wearer.

I have Pebble and I disagree with this comment being about all watches or even all smart watches. The Pebble is comparatively inexpensive compared to the Apple Watch and, for me, that is one of the biggest selling features. I'm much happier strapping a $200 smart device to my wrist than a $450 one. The Pebble also has a very hacker-friendly SDK. If it's a social signifier, it basically tells everyone that I'm a big geek.

That being said, I don't disagree with this comment as applied to the Apple Watch -- it seems exactly what Apple is going for.
If you chose to send an email. Why would you want it? SOA with diff services that may have diff requirements, such as creating a temporal rep of the user.

Everything is eventually plain text. Should you use this to blast something out publicly? Of course not. Is it useful internally? Definitely.
Keurig’s K-Cup screw-up and how it capitulated
Engineers don't make that much money. Yes, I live a middle-class lifestyle. But even without owning a car, not having a child, etc. After saving for retirement and eating healthy food, I simply don't have that much savings to start any business that requires a decent amount of capital to get going - at least not without burning through everything fairly quickly. At most I could take a couple of months off and destroy that savings the buffer against job loss and other emergencies.

I don't get why the world thinks software engineers are so rich...
Yeah I get that, and tbh as a mac user I considered it, but I don't subscribe to the idea that there can only be 1 incarnation for a word in software.
I don't dispute that old-school market economies involved the use of slavery. I just don't know what the point of the article is, beyond perhaps attempting to affiliate "slavery" and "capitalist" moods in our mind.
>There is very little evidence for the argument that capitalism or free trade was responsible for slavery.

Not only that; they were and are diametrically opposed. The Beckert quote implies a connection between slavery and industrialization when in fact the relationship was an inverse one.

A comparison between the confederacy and the north is illuminating. The concentration of wealth in slaves and land prevented industrialization during the 19th century, and the south fell very far behind economically. I think it's worth nothing that the vast majority of white people in the south were worse off because of slavery, because the system prevented capital from being allocated efficiently. And while the two areas have converged, differences still remain today.
Architecture Review: Facebook’s New Headquarters
And whoever's opposed to it can easily spin the action as a reckless disregard for America's security. (Nevermind I think the NSA could disappear tomorrow in a puff of logic and nobody would be the worse..)
> There is a lot of hate for the app store by developers, and i've dished out some of it, but frankly with over a million apps it's not an easy problem to solve.

Sure it is. Stop trying to funnel the entire marketplace through a single vendor-controlled retailer.
I've never seen an article offered in English, Korean, Chinese and Spanish all at once. Is this more common than I know or does the Times just think this is a really important piece?
That is a really good point about the uniqueness of the term.

Also, I had completely forgotten that "function" also means, like, cocktail parties.
Github isn't completely open-source. Source: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everyth...
“What's It Like Working at a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley?
"Text logs" is not a format at all, so it can't really be a universal format, either. But if there were such a thing as a "universal" format, it would probably by definition encompass everything in time and space. You think timestamps are a problem? Just wait until your logs get trapped in a quantum state. Talk about a heisenbug...
Do you have sources to contradict it?
I'm disappointed that the Uber page doesn't actually link to the bills in question: https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015R1/Measures/Overview/HB... and https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015R1/Measures/Overview/HB... .

Reading the two measures, though, this seems ridiculous. There are already laws about driving without insurance; drivers, whether commercial or not, already must have insurance to drive. What business is it to the state of Oregon whether that insurance is provided by the ridesharing company or the driver, as long as at least one of them have it?

Doubly so because the text of the measures explicitly includes companies like Uber ("engaged in the
business of providing for-hire transportation
by means of mobile application software") while excluding taxis and buses ("(b) “Transportation network company” does not include a legal entity that is qualified to
do business in this state and: (A) That provides taxicab services; (B) That is engaged in the business of providing transportation along fixed routes or at regular intervals;". Even if this were a reasonable step to take for some other reason, it's entirely unreasonable to target specific companies while giving others a free pass.

Now, on the other hand, if the targeting were dropped, there is one useful item in the legislation that seems useful based on issues ridesharing drivers have faced elsewhere: ensuring that the owner's insurance policy can't try to deny coverage to the owner when they're driving privately, just because they also drive for a ridesharing service. That still seems like a matter to be settled between the owners and their insurance companies, not a matter for legislation, but it's at least trying to address a real issue.
Follow up point, which I missed. You can control the entropy of the password. Do you need ~50b, ~80b, >~100b? It's just a parameter.
Why would you condemn millions of US gov't employees for the actions of a few. It is short sighted to make this broad statements about people considering you have no idea what they do, the bureaucracy that have to cut through, and finally the half-assed tools they have to use to do their jobs. By the time most are done with their work the last thing on their minds is how they can screw people over.

If you aren't interested in working for the government then fine, thats your prerogative. Also consider that some have joined the federal workforce to help change things as opposed to inaction.
variable Sales tax/VAT pegged to credit card and linked to SSN/NI

Cash purchases would be problematic. Maybe drawing out cash incurs the variable tax too?
It is very unlikely the IRS would qualify them as 1099 independent. Undocumented workers still qualify for minimum wage laws even if their unlikely to fight the issue.

As to the owner issue, that's possible, but everyone would need a near equil share or minimum wage laws still apply. AKA giving someone 0.1% generally does not let you dodge minimum wage laws.
It a tool like any other. It can be used for good or evil. What you are doing in the middle of a Baltimore street isn't in any way private information. It's a public as you get.

Sure, it could be used to perpetrate a Holocaust or something, but so could the 101st airborne.

If the government wanted to go all Hitler on us, they already can get google data, facebook data, medical records, essentially everything that is kept on you. Hell, I bet google location services tracks me better than a drone does (if the war in the Pakistan tribal areas is an example).

And drones are way easier to shoot down than googles datacenters.
Thank you for the response. No hard feelings. :)
Exactly, it's jewelry.
I always wish I could filter out vegetarians, and I'm sure they feel the same way about me.

I'll go to a vegetarian restaurant, but only if non-vegetarians say it's good.
Easily define your micro-service application in JSON with PM2
lol, what are you talking about, this isn't mouse-enabled?
Gregory Chaitin: Elegant Lisp Programs
It's not true, though. A list of numbers in R is not a vector until you imbue the position of each of those numbers with a geometric basis, or, alternatively, relate that list of numbers to the set of all lists of such numbers along with some algebraic operations which turn it into a vector space.

This is similar with tensors. It's even harder to talk about them, though, without the geometric/algebraic bits.
Yes but time marches on. The amount of compute power available on a commodity server node has grown far faster than the available disk io time.
- crawlers

- websearch

- google brain

- video transcoding for youtube

- appengine (think snapchat)

- gmail

Almost everything Google does runs on Borg.
Only if you view CPI in isolation as money from the sky.

Marketers estimate the CPI they're willing to pay based on estimated conversions per impression. Ultimately, the money comes from sales. It always comes from sales.

If I don't ever purchase anything from a website ad, my impressions are worth zero. My impressions, and impressions by those like me, will drive down the price a company is willing to pay per impression since the conversion ratio also goes down. In fact, my impressions incur a negative effect since it still incurs a cost to the advertiser.

In the best of all possible worlds, only those who will ultimately buy a product are displayed the ad. Resulting in a 100% conversion ratio. Each impression would be maximally valuable and the price paid for that impression would rise to reflect that.

Those of us who use adblock have removed ourself from the market and from the conversion ratio calculations and cost per impression to the advertiser.
A timed 20 minute nap followed by a shower. Sleep is the only thing that truly recharges mental capacity in my experience. Sleep is 100x more important than the next most important thing.
(Googler here)

In fact, every piece of feedback goes directly to our bug tracking, and a human being looks at every single one. That's not an excuse, and doesn't mean that we can't do better, but we track it all. The biggest problem is the conversion from item in the bug list to actual changes, and we're working on that!
Working from the IR surveillance mentioned in the article maybe they are operationalizing ARGUS-IR (http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/Autonomous_Real-t... and PBS video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=13BahrdkMU8). It is a sort of "dirtbag" system but for visible and near-visible light.

[Note to self: don't be lit from below when being interviewed on camera, see at min 1:08.]
Very cool tool. Just curious as to why directories are not selectable. I did "ls | fpp" and everything got listed (directories and files) but only the files were selectable.
Perhaps some way that Yelp independently verifies the identity of the reviewer (maybe some two-factor authentication such as an SMS message), but keeps the reviewer's identity anonymous from the public to prevent harassment of honest reviewers.

This identity would also include some additional checks such as business affiliation and location, so for example a restaurant owner in a given zipcode can't post reviews on other restaurants within a certain radius of their business premises.

Not sure how scalable or workable all this would be though.
Yelp has a history of salesmen selling business the right to mess with their reviews [1] [2]. I don't love Google, but I'm confident they will end that. (Yelp claims to have ended it already, but they have already lost my trust)

[1] http://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/02/yelp-shakedown/

[2] http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/11/business/fi-lazarus1...
That should be his choice though.

(For myself, as an avid Yelp user, I don't care. It's mostly easy to pick up good vs bad reviews IME.)

I also don't have a lot of sympathy for "small business owners" wanting to fight bad reviews.

I don't need or want your pointless TripAdvisor style feedback. It's antagonistic, and likely to discourage good reviews. The playing field is level. That's all that really matters. So you get a few completely bogus, unfair reviews? So what. You're in the same boat as anyone else.

Give me anonymized data. And while some few businesses will suffer, the amount of reviews encouraged will serve a greater good.

At least that's my theory.
Its nice to see a name for this. I am considering joining the Engineering Leisure Class this winter. My wife got a new job which will comfortably support our family, so I will have some flexibility. My plan is to look for jobs also, but only apply for ones I would love.

If that doesn't work out then I will find something fun to do that may not pay. This will be some combination of taking Tactition Programming seriously, and working on open source lab specific software that my wife uses for crystallography.
The cops are already flying their choppers all over Baltimore and back in order to keep track of the protests/rioters.

This is something a bit more insidious than simple crowd/crime spotting for ground units. As the article states, this airplane was likely utilizing a few privacy-smashing technologies such as an aerial Stingray (dirtbox) or an ARGOS camera suite, complete with individual identification and tracking for sustained periods of time.

Basically, imagine that airplane having the ability to identify individuals, then track their movements and actions around the city for the duration of its loiter time. Without a warrant. Without any oversight. See the problem?
Show HN: Pine – Buy and Sell items with a 15-second video
Free Internet on Trains
Motorcycles trail cars in emissions improvements & regulations, but they follow nonetheless. Things like electronic fuel injection was not practical on motorcycles until more recent times.

Part of the rationale with the 1975 exemption is that vehicles 1975 and older represent a very small portion of the number of cars on the road, and are driven far fewer miles than average. That beautiful 1966 Corvette didn't last fifty years by being driven every day.
Depends on what their gear is. If they're only looking at things an average person can already see, but on a large scale? Eh, can't really argue with that. If it's in the public eye, it ain't private.

If they're trying to read the heat coming off of buildings, or laser-micing windows, or otherwise trying to look into areas that are not public, they need to knock it off and get a warrant based on probable cause first.
Or in the places where a mostly capitalistic system provides it. I did something similar last year in India and the medical system was not a problem. (I did not by any stretch of the imagination get lucky and manage to avoid injury.)
> One tweak I can't live without is having the same key bindings to seamlessly switch between tmux panes and Vim split windows.

YES, THIS! Setting up directional pane navigation to work with both tmux and vim panes as first-class entities was a huge workflow boon for me as well. It was a significant change that helped kick my setup over into vim+tmux+zsh as IDE vs. merely a collection of separate parts.

It's worth noting that some relevant bits of @mislav's stuff has been packaged up nicely as a Vim plugin:

https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator

I also just noted that @tarruda (of neovim fame) chimed in on @mislav's gist with his own independently created version of the Vim-side of things. It looks worth comparing some of the implementation details from @tarruda's work, he's done some stuff to eliminate redraws in Vim, etc.
Well researched and typed article. This is a little tangential, and maybe I'm just now noticing it, but as of late the New York Times seems to have drastically shifted where it's journalistic effort is going. I've always been heavily influenced by Aaron Swartz thoughts on news[0], but as of late the NYT has been directly countering the primary complaint of Aaron, that "none of these stories have relevance to my life". While I don't get my nails done, there have been a significant amount of stories lately that I can directly relate to that have been front[1][2] and center[3][4] of the NYT, and HN.

I've never been that big of a fan of the NYT to be honest, but it really seems that the NYT has made (at least a digital) shift away from scare tactics, and un-relatable news. The first thing I thought of is that this was driven by a campaign or organization (an attempt to saturate HN with NYT articles) but outside of a few regular posters in the last month, it doesn't seem too irregular[5]. However, it is odd that the _whoishiring account (I know it's not official), posted one.

Outside of the conspiracy theories, what I do like about the articles is the long form dedication to researching a topic, visualizing some interesting portions of it, relating it to the reader, and making sure it's interesting and meaningful. This article in particular make me look at nail solons, which I drive past everyday, in a very different light.

[0] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/business/dealbook/bitcoin-...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/business/owner-of-gravity-...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/want-a-steady-inc...

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/business/dealbook/ex-goldm...

[5] http://pastebin.com/j7m8MD5r
There are limits to jurisdiction, well defined. For example, police cannot enter your home without your permission, unless they have a warrant from a judge. So if the airplane surveillance is being used to collect and act on data that would normally require a warrant, then "jurisdiction" is not sufficient. Even having the ability to do this is problematic in the eyes of many judges and many civilians (it would be the equivalent of saying "Well, we went into the house with a warrant, but we didn't actually search the house..."

So I am citing as a reason they should not do this the traditions and precedents of common law.
Interesting point in that you used a third party in step 2 of your AWS workflow. If you're going to use a 3rd party, have you tried Terraform?
Yeah, what's to stop somebody from just lying about their business affiliations?
The Cultural Construction of Drupal
That's cool that they are trying, but what's the opportunity cost of not doing it? How much effort would it be to simply optimize asm.js now and then undo the optimization later when the core JIT gets smarter?

Seems to me THAT is the way to go, but this is not my area of expertise.
Your project is GPL licensed. Is that your idea of a joke?

There is a place for the GPL, but this is not it.
The Never-Ending Fridge: Build Your Own Limitless Micro Kitchen and More
Kudos, never knew that!
Tried that before and with 2.0 but it doesn't work. You still have to release both 'Ctrl' and 'a' before pressing 'c'. In screen you don't have to and chaining works comfortably.
Abou.to, a simple way for online identity verification 
Hi suckers!

Fake profiles and social media accounts (like twitter, facebook, instagram, linkedin, google+ etc) are big problem for someones. If you're a celebrity, maybe you can do the accounts verified account. Still, the fake profiles are a problem. Furthermore, the fact is that everyone can not verify twitter account. Because Twitter has millions of members, and that means a lot of paperwork. In addition, Twitter can not confirm the legal documents in your country, maybe you live in an African country, or you are living fucking Turkey. Even if Twitter did, there are a lot of sites that have profiles on the Internet. A few of them, Twitter, facebook, instagram, foursquare, vine.co, vk.com, weibo, youtube, google+, flickr, yelp, linkedin...

I think we might have found a solution to this problem: abou.to

As a first step, you need to open an account in abou.to. This will be your user name like this: abou.to/john.

In the next step, add all profiles to the list on abou.to/john.

The last step is to upload video verification. If there is a mobile telephone, the last step is very easy. And this video looks like on abou.to/edipyuksel. To explain, preferably, wrote a paper with large size this: "abou.to/john". And say to camera, "Hi, I am John, you can see my verified profiles on abou.to/john". Now you can tell your friends abou.to/john address. You can share via Twitter and Facebook.

Here is a sample profile: abou.to/edipyuksel (he is a professor in my school: pima.edu)
Why learning Object Pascal could be a good career move
The brew install seems broken?
There are a great many things the federal government could require, but the US is in a constant tug-of-war between federal powers and states rights. Similar to the EU vs its member nations.

Emissions standards for new vehicles is regulated by the EPA.
The average person cannot rewind the cross-town movements of thousands of individuals simultaneously.
Capitalism is still a form of slavery were the capitalists benefit from the workforce disproportionally with regard to their investment. And what lifts people out of poverty is work, not an economic system. Capitalism is of course very effective at organizing the environment in a way to enable highly productive work but suggesting that this is a unique feature of capitalism seems hardly justified, we just didn't explore many alternatives. Finally judging capitalism by the number of people it lifted out of poverty seems also misguided to me, there are a lot of people that were negatively affected by capitalism. And a fair comparison should of course not compare the result achieved by capitalism with the situation before capitalism but with the - unfortunately mostly counterfactual - result achieved by an alternative system that started from the same initial conditions.

Fun fact: I always get my share of down votes for being critical of capitalism but no one attacks my position in a response. Do you have no arguments? (provocative face)
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