benkarst

I've heard of several people getting screwed over by Freelancer. I don't see them as being around too often. Maybe Upwork and others will displace them?

I recommend Open Door (https://opendoorconnect.com/) to market yourself as a consultant or contractor. It's appointment based so it's not a pure alternative to Freelancer but IMO task based sites aren't worth it for talented developers.

No, you're not an outlier. I want to know more about content marketing but that was next level smarmy.

I think we all want more women in tech but Jesus, their arrogance is cringe worthy.

When is AutoPi going to add the option to go keyless through facial, voice, optical, or fingerprint recognition?

I guess Ford already patented something like this but it would be nice to have it open source too.

http://www.biometricupdate.com/201502/ford-granted-patent-fo...

In the article, do you mean "world class" instead of "word class"?

OpenAI: https://openai.com/blog/

Does anyone have any comments about technical aspects of the documents released? Seeing how this is Hacker News and all...

My thought was to make the algorithm a bit less blunt by sampling routes that are relevant to your lifestyle.

Just might spice it up if you partition the bucket of all routes into spaces defined by your lifestyle too. It would be interesting to see what the best address in Helsinki is for hipsters. Or families. Or athletes. Or business people...

This is so cool because anyone who has moved has faced this problem.

Genius. My only comment is in how you measure the value of an address. It seems very likely that your algorithm would converge to areas that are only centrally located.

Perhaps it could be improved if the algorithm took an input of common routes and times, then tried to find an optimal location for these routes. This way the algorithm could be scaled as needed and provide a more realistic scenario. Is this something you considered?

The greatest minds in computer science worked out the math and theory long before the tech became practical.

There is value in the theory and I think some of us enjoy it, even if it's not practical.

The influence of tech companies isn't measured in how much they donate to each party (as the article suggests) so much as it is how they use their powerful technology to influence public opinion and collude with politicians in private.

The link is broken for me.

Some of my favorites are Technology Review and Ars Technica but I'm always open to new ones.

Another possilby dumb question: What kind of app would use this?

Only, after he was caught trying to pass rules violating it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler

This comment is outrageous. Read the "Net Neutrality" section on Tom Wheeler's page. It backs up everything I said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler

Straight from Wikipedia:

"In late April 2014, the contours of a document leaked that indicated that the FCC under Wheeler would consider promulgating rules that would violate net neutrality principles by making it easier for companies to pay ISPs (including cable companies and wireless ISPs) to provide faster "lanes" for delivering their content to Internet users. These plans received substantial backlash from activists, the mainstream press, and some other FCC commissioners. In May 2014, over 100 Internet companies — including Google, Microsoft, eBay, and Facebook — signed a letter to Wheeler voicing their disagreement with his plans, saying they represented a "grave threat to the Internet". As of May 15, 2014, the "Internet fast lane" rules passed with a 3–2 vote. They were then open to public discussion that ended July 2014."

Agreed. This is biased media click-bait.

"Wheeler’s tenure as the nation’s top communications regulator, a period marked by a variety of pro-consumer reforms, is coming to an end. "

Didn't Wheeler and co. try to overturn net neutrality???? The only reason they failed is because of the outrage of millions of concerned Americans. Best thing "Last Week Tonight" ever did was to report on that.

The working demo is linked on the github (http://www.thymble.org/).

I have several years experience using Rails so that would be my primary reason. Rails 5 has the ability to use Actioncable (a framework for handling websockets) which would be useful for notifications and chat.

A better version can be created in 5 minutes with Thymble: https://github.com/bkarst/thymble.

Clever idea though.

Over the past year or two, I'm becoming convinced Google's "Don't be evil" days are over.

Does anybody have any recommendations for alternatives to Google Drive?

I am a believer in the format of "Hacker News" for community based news but I couldn't find a decent open source version of it in Rails. Here it is. Contributions welcome!

"become more human" bothers me. First of all, you're either human or not. It a binary thing. Hopefully I don't have to explain that on this site. Maybe you could use that when talking about computers "becoming more human" or perhaps an embryo "becoming more human" as it develops in the wound. But I think we can assume the poster is a fully developed "human".

And according to his/her question. He's just looking for ideas for some cool things to do with his/her time off.

It's so vague. Maybe the phrase you're looking for is it "broadens your perspective". Maybe something else.

And there are better places than Guatemala. Like Costa Rica.

Why?

Congrats. Don't fuck this one up!

Agreed. Does any make use of that?

You have a lot of karma for being banned often. ha.

Missed a paren in the title.

Would an email signup alternative be a more friendly option? Google Plus, Twitter, or none at all?

Automation is necessary when you're talking about finding reviews for over 500K restaurants.

The best solution I can think of right now is 1) collecting valid professional review links from around the web 2) associating them with specific restaurants and 3) performing sentiment analysis to determine a rotten or fresh type rating.

These steps are straightforward and would not yield 100% accuracy. Even a 95% accuracy would be unfair to the few restaurants who's rating somehow gets messed up.

That's a hard question to answer since 1) it's been off and on for about a year and 2) I didn't start out with this idea.

The original idea for Hapibelly was to crowdsource popular menu items, using your mobile device as an interactive media-rich menu, voting on the menu items you like. It was done with just me as the designer. I created an entire backend that let's restaurants manage their menu, specials, and basic info.

My friend Sara helped me out with the updated look (https://www.behance.net/itssaramarshall). I have to give her a ton of credit for telling me letting me pick her brain and drafting a logo for me. I have another friend working on an Android clone.

The goal of this update was to keep all that in place and add more reason for people to download the app giving an aggregate score. The Hapibelly score became the main value add of this update. I spent more time gathering the data than on the app itself.

This update took me about 3-4 weeks. The first version about 3-4 months. Of course I have ideas for updates to make it more kick ass. With any luck I can pursue those ideas with a bit of funding!

This article helped clear things up for me.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/07/court-violating-terms-...