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Would love to put up the accelerator you're talking about with clear information so future entrepreneurs applying can know about this upfront.
If you contact me at hello at accelerat.io I'll set it up for you. Rest assured, it will all be 100% anonymous.
Just trying to make sure for other readers: all reviews will be anonymously posted, so there is no disincentive for not posting because you don't want anything to backfire on you personally. Of course, the point still stands for not wanting to hurt the image of the accelerator associated with your company.
Also love your suggestions for better ones. I could do 3. and 4. relatively easy, 1. and 2. are harder but definitely worth considering.
Regarding verifying identities, I'm fully focused on getting real reviews. I've been gathering more than 100 reviews already by reaching out to people I know that have actually been through accelerators. As for the reviews that come in via the website, there is a verification process to make sure they are real.
Creator of Accelerat.io here. Just launched today and would love to get your feedback.
I built this site because when I was applying to accelerators some months ago I wasn't really sure which ones to apply to as there were so many of them but so little transparency about how valuable they really are. We all know Y Combinator is good, but how about all those others out there?
For the interested, the site's built in Python/Flask, custom design on top of Bootstrap (inspired by ProductHunt and NomadList), and makes heavy use of the DataTables.js plugin, which had been awesome so far.
Would love to answer any questions you may have and of course, if you've been through an accelerator first hand, I'd love to include your experience on our site.
There has been some uproar about this on (Dutch) internet sites, however I haven't seen anything about it in mainstream media.
On a related note, just today a small ISP that needed to block TPB has refused to do it and they are now sued by BREIN (http://tweakers.net/nieuws/81929/brein-daagt-zeelandnet-om-t...). The trail will start in June and is expected to last several months. I just hope this time maybe more uproar will ensue if the same judge is doing the case again.
However, this increase of course would also have been the case without the new laws (as you say, as people move from SMS to Whatsapp, they have to compensate). The only difference is that they now can't differentiate between different uses of the internet, but only on the amount of data you get.
I don't think the net neutrality isn't such a bad thing price/economic wise. I'd rather have this clear system which might mean slightly higher prices for the average consumer than a system in which different prices for different uses of internet make calculating your actual costs more difficult. In my opinion, that would only give more opportunities to telecom providers to screw you over with little details, rules and clauses in their contracts -- something which history has shown they don't shy away from (rounding up every call duration to a full minute etc.).
On a higher level, I am certainly for a free market, but don't dismiss government regulations purely because they can 'only hinder competition'. That is a very dogmatic statement as regulations aren't always 'bad'/hindering competition. No personal offense intended, but I always find the strength of belief in a purely free market for some people to be almost the same as how other people believe in religion, very idealistic and extreme. There are a lot of subtleties and nuances to free markets. Also, is pursuing a free market a goal in itself, or a means to an end in creating a 'good society'. In the latter case, other advantages of certain regulations should be considered as well.
Lastly, regarding the issue at hand, next to economical arguments, I think a large part of getting this regulation has comes from other motivations such as valuing equality and accessibility for all etc.
From their site: The DBpedia knowledge base currently describes more than 3.64 million things, out of which 1.83 million are classified in a consistent Ontology, including 416,000 persons, 526,000 places, 106,000 music albums, 60,000 films, 17,500 video games, 169,000 organisations, 183,000 species and 5,400 diseases.
Chapter 6: http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch06.html
Additionally, personally I prefer social media logo's to be their original logo's so they stand out more from you design.
On the whole, I don't really like the blue color in combination with the grey/white elements, it looks kinda 2004ish or something. Lastly, I think the email signup is below the fold for 1280 resolutions, you might wanna make sure it is visible immediately for those resolutions as well.
Thanks for pointing out the flaw, I'll try to implement some more descriptive error messages for different errors.
Furthermore, the words listed are certainly not necessarily words you used, but just the 50 most differentiating words between east and west coast. 'compton' is used way more in west coast lyrics than east for example. It's just there to see some fun differences not related to your personal twitter stream. At last, in total the classifier looks for not 50, but 1000 words in classifying your tweets. Hope this explained it a bit.
The program has analysed 300 east and 300 west coast lyrics and looked at the words used in those to train a Naive Bayesian Classifier using the Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Python. It then lets you put in a twitter name and loads its latest 174 tweets and classifies that bag of words to the classifier to let you know if you tweet like west coast or east coast rappers rapped in the nineties.
I finally got NLTK to work online after trying different hosting companies. Decided to learn Bottle to build the web version of the program and it was a breeze, which was awesome as I am really a beginner in programming.
Loved to getting my first real project done and working without quitting before it was finished. Extended my knowledge in jQuery and css a bit and overall had a lot of fun.
I wanted to ask you guys what you think of it and if you have any suggestions both content and design wise.
I found that after getting it to work I was kinda lost in the design. It's funny: when the code works it works, but designing seems to be a never ending job of improving and not being satisfied.