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Ask HN: What are some of the better tech magazines or online publications?
8 points by benkarst 10y ago|3 comments
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by benkarst 10y ago
Another possilby dumb question: What kind of app would use this?
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by benkarst 10y ago
Only, after he was caught trying to pass rules violating it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler
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by benkarst 10y ago
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
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by benkarst 10y ago
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
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by benkarst 10y ago
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 websoc
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by benkarst 10y ago
A better version can be created in 5 minutes with Thymble: https://github.com/bkarst/thymble . Clever idea though.
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Ask HN: Open Source Project for Udemy/Coursera Functionality
5 points by benkarst 10y ago|1 comments
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by benkarst 10y ago
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?
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Thymble, Hacker News in Rails 5(github.com)
2 points by benkarst 10y ago|0 comments
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by benkarst 10y ago
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!
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Show HN: Thymble, a Rails 5 Open Source “Hacker News”-esque News Platform(github.com)
6 points by benkarst 10y ago|2 comments
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by benkarst 10y ago
"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
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by benkarst 10y ago
Why?
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by benkarst 10y ago
Congrats. Don't fuck this one up!
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by benkarst 10y ago
Agreed. Does any make use of that?
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by benkarst 10y ago
You have a lot of karma for being banned often. ha.
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Ask HN: What features on HN do you use the least?
13 points by benkarst 10y ago|37 comments
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by benkarst 10y ago
Missed a paren in the title.
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by benkarst 10y ago
Would an email signup alternative be a more friendly option? Google Plus, Twitter, or none at all?
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by benkarst 10y ago
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 speci
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by benkarst 10y ago
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 i
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by benkarst 10y ago
This article helped clear things up for me. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/07/court-violating-terms-...
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by benkarst 10y ago
From my habits, I've found you really don't get the full picture using one platform. Google Users will review a restaurant in a completely different way than Yelp users. Zomato users are looking for different things than say a fac
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by benkarst 10y ago
I actually posted a question to quora, "Is it legal to use review information from websites to calculate an average score?" Replied: "In the US, so long as you have the legal right to access the data to begin with (i.e., you
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by benkarst 10y ago
I don't disagree. It's a great name until you have to start spelling it out to people. :\
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by benkarst 10y ago
Thanks. I think you're right. I will give the user the option to skip in the next release. The app was originally designed to have more user interaction (voting on favorite dishes from a menu) but now it's core value is in the Hap
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by benkarst 10y ago
Thanks. Will fix in the next release!
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by benkarst 10y ago
I have legal concerns about displaying other platforms review information in my app. I link to review websites and their info is used in the calculation. Agreed that it'd be great visually for app. I hadn't heard of Cinesoft. I li
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by benkarst 10y ago
If you ask me, it's hypocritical coming from a company that scrapes the entire web, runs it through an algorithm (PageRank) and puts the data thats in a form that easier to understand. They make 10s of billions per year scraping other

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