So, fellow hackers please help this kid as to what he needs to know in image processing to be able to do the trick. Like how to detect uniform areas in an image... how to detect edges. For example if i have a photo of a shirt, I wish to detect where it is crumpled where it is plain. If I am able to do this, I will put big squares at plain areas and small ones at non uniform areas. I think that might reproduce the effect!\nThanks!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask YC: How to Dazzle?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/trying-to-dazzle.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_ideamonk","story_277808"],"author":"ideamonk","children":[277816,277849,277914,277969,278224,278360],"created_at":"2008-08-16T17:09:38Z","created_at_i":1218906578,"num_comments":14,"objectID":"277808","points":17,"story_id":277808,"story_text":"eversince I have seen http://tinyurl.com/6ddzjh , I have always wanted to automate creation of such images. such an attempt is http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/trying-to-dazzle.html\nBut I am wondering how to perfect it. Right now it's just a rand() doing the magic. But there is something more to the original art. It seems that \"the edges have a nice particle effect, the size of squares vary according to either luminance or similarity of neighbor area... and there might be a lot more to watch out! Boxes don't overlap much in the original work, and smaller tiny boxes play very significant role in giving life to the guitar kid...\"
So, fellow hackers please help this kid as to what he needs to know in image processing to be able to do the trick. Like how to detect uniform areas in an image... how to detect edges. For example if i have a photo of a shirt, I wish to detect where it is crumpled where it is plain. If I am able to do this, I will put big squares at plain areas and small ones at non uniform areas. I think that might reproduce the effect!\nThanks!","title":"Ask YC: How to Dazzle?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T16:24:51Z","url":"http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/trying-to-dazzle.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"choyongjoon"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["big","sequa"],"value":"Hi, I developed Life Tile for iPhone. It tracks your time passively and visualizes it as a Mondrian-style grid. It's a one-time purchase app with a 7-day trial.
I was a user of a similar app named Life Cycle. Since the app hasn't been updated in a while, I tried to make a better app with my ideas and experiences. I used a big square timeline instead of a donut chart. And I added more useful views: tree-map, map, and list. You can use categorized activities with custom colors.
The data never leaves a device. No account, No Server. It only supports data backup using iCloud. It was for privacy but it also makes the development easier. I added just one anonymous usage stat with TelemetryDeck. You can turn it off anytime.
There were many technical difficulties. iOS location API (CLMonitor) is not 100% precise. And many difficult cases can't be handled automatically. For example, GPS blackout inside the subway, too many venues in a small region, and a huge location like an airport. So I improved many heuristics and tried my best for easy editing.
Please check the App Store for the screenshots. Then you'll know why it's inspired by Mondrian."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Life Tile \u2013 Passive time tracker that shows your day as a Mondrian grid"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/life-tile-auto-tracker/id6767332648"}},"_tags":["story","author_choyongjoon","story_49029788","show_hn"],"author":"choyongjoon","children":[49030759,49032982],"created_at":"2026-07-24T00:13:40Z","created_at_i":1784852020,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"49029788","points":8,"story_id":49029788,"story_text":"Hi, I developed Life Tile for iPhone. It tracks your time passively and visualizes it as a Mondrian-style grid. It's a one-time purchase app with a 7-day trial.
I was a user of a similar app named Life Cycle. Since the app hasn't been updated in a while, I tried to make a better app with my ideas and experiences. I used a big square timeline instead of a donut chart. And I added more useful views: tree-map, map, and list. You can use categorized activities with custom colors.
The data never leaves a device. No account, No Server. It only supports data backup using iCloud. It was for privacy but it also makes the development easier. I added just one anonymous usage stat with TelemetryDeck. You can turn it off anytime.
There were many technical difficulties. iOS location API (CLMonitor) is not 100% precise. And many difficult cases can't be handled automatically. For example, GPS blackout inside the subway, too many venues in a small region, and a huge location like an airport. So I improved many heuristics and tried my best for easy editing.
Please check the App Store for the screenshots. Then you'll know why it's inspired by Mondrian.","title":"Show HN: Life Tile \u2013 Passive time tracker that shows your day as a Mondrian grid","updated_at":"2026-07-31T15:50:33Z","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/life-tile-auto-tracker/id6767332648"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"reacharavindh"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["big","sequa"],"value":"I'm planning to to compare a few public cloud vendors(AWS EC2, GCP, Digital Ocean, and a couple more). What would you like to see in such a comparison?
Why?
Doing it for someone that needs recent results.
So far, I have on my list:
1. Internal network bandwidth and latency within zone & region.\n2. External network bandwidth and latency.\n3. CPU performance - single threaded and multithreaded workloads.\n4. Memory bandwidth and latency.\n5. Local disk IO performance at various small to big, and sequential to random workloads.\n6. A few application benchmarks to give a wholistic view - web, database, logging etc.
What would you like me to add or remove to/from this list?
I intend to build it using Python, Terraform(provision VMs, and setup network), Ansible(test setup and execution) so that it can be reproduced by anyone on any infrastructure easily."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Performance benchmarking Cloud VMs: What would you like to see?"}},"_tags":["story","author_reacharavindh","story_17780719","ask_hn"],"author":"reacharavindh","created_at":"2018-08-17T06:34:53Z","created_at_i":1534487693,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"17780719","points":2,"story_id":17780719,"story_text":"I'm planning to to compare a few public cloud vendors(AWS EC2, GCP, Digital Ocean, and a couple more). What would you like to see in such a comparison?
Why?
Doing it for someone that needs recent results.
So far, I have on my list:
1. Internal network bandwidth and latency within zone & region.\n2. External network bandwidth and latency.\n3. CPU performance - single threaded and multithreaded workloads.\n4. Memory bandwidth and latency.\n5. Local disk IO performance at various small to big, and sequential to random workloads.\n6. A few application benchmarks to give a wholistic view - web, database, logging etc.
What would you like me to add or remove to/from this list?
I intend to build it using Python, Terraform(provision VMs, and setup network), Ansible(test setup and execution) so that it can be reproduced by anyone on any infrastructure easily.","title":"Ask HN: Performance benchmarking Cloud VMs: What would you like to see?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:56:56Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"PaulHoule"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["big","sequa"],"value":"I just followed a link to an ordinary YouTube video and timed six seconds between the page loading, me clicking on the play button, and the video starting to play. I could have clicked quicker. I could change the channel on an analog TV faster than that, but it takes much longer to take a DVD or Blu Ray out of the box and have it playing so YouTube wins.
I would say it is like this (fast) with a range of devices from Android phone to iPad to Laptop or Desktop computer over a good mobile connection, ADSL, cable, etc.
If I follow a link to YouTube Shorts, however, I see a template screen without any content, presumably the video is going to load in the big black square, but after 30 to 45 seconds I start to get antsy, think maybe it is stuck, try to interact with the UI. It scrolls down in a jerky way like a film strip in a projector to another video which starts to sorta-kinda play but really janky, then I scroll it back up and it takes a few more seconds to collect itself and finally the video plays.
I've had the same experience with the iPad, moderately powerful and very powerful Windows computers over better and worse internet connections.
If other people are experiencing the same thing it is no wonder that Youtube Shorts is not getting traction over TikTok?
Maybe if I had more faith and waited 90 seconds the video might have played but maybe the video isn't even 90 seconds long. I am not seeing a loading indicator or anything that makes it clear the application didn't crash silently or otherwise get stuck.
Does YouTube Shorts work for you?
For extra credit: what does this tell us about the state of the web in 2023? ... the state of Google? How did this get past QA? Where is the deadpool for Google Shorts? Does this have something to do with Progressive Web Applications?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Is it me or is YouTube Shorts broken?"}},"_tags":["story","author_PaulHoule","story_34549118","ask_hn"],"author":"PaulHoule","children":[34549166],"created_at":"2023-01-27T17:42:02Z","created_at_i":1674841322,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"34549118","points":1,"story_id":34549118,"story_text":"I just followed a link to an ordinary YouTube video and timed six seconds between the page loading, me clicking on the play button, and the video starting to play. I could have clicked quicker. I could change the channel on an analog TV faster than that, but it takes much longer to take a DVD or Blu Ray out of the box and have it playing so YouTube wins.
I would say it is like this (fast) with a range of devices from Android phone to iPad to Laptop or Desktop computer over a good mobile connection, ADSL, cable, etc.
If I follow a link to YouTube Shorts, however, I see a template screen without any content, presumably the video is going to load in the big black square, but after 30 to 45 seconds I start to get antsy, think maybe it is stuck, try to interact with the UI. It scrolls down in a jerky way like a film strip in a projector to another video which starts to sorta-kinda play but really janky, then I scroll it back up and it takes a few more seconds to collect itself and finally the video plays.
I've had the same experience with the iPad, moderately powerful and very powerful Windows computers over better and worse internet connections.
If other people are experiencing the same thing it is no wonder that Youtube Shorts is not getting traction over TikTok?
Maybe if I had more faith and waited 90 seconds the video might have played but maybe the video isn't even 90 seconds long. I am not seeing a loading indicator or anything that makes it clear the application didn't crash silently or otherwise get stuck.
Does YouTube Shorts work for you?
For extra credit: what does this tell us about the state of the web in 2023? ... the state of Google? How did this get past QA? Where is the deadpool for Google Shorts? Does this have something to do with Progressive Web Applications?","title":"Ask HN: Is it me or is YouTube Shorts broken?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T13:12:49Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"asdefghyk"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["big","sequa"],"value":"LArgest part crashed in Indian ocean. Lots smaller parts around a remote town with population of just 14 . It only had ONE outside phone line. So big squabble amongst all journalists attempting to file story.
https://www.watoday.com.au/traveller/inspiration/balladonia-skylab-crash-site-in-australia-how-a-fallen-space-station-caused-mayhem-in-the-outback-20200819-h1q49r.html"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"45 years anniversary of NASA Skylab Crash"}},"_tags":["story","author_asdefghyk","story_40931457","ask_hn"],"author":"asdefghyk","created_at":"2024-07-10T21:03:45Z","created_at_i":1720645425,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"40931457","points":1,"story_id":40931457,"story_text":"LArgest part crashed in Indian ocean. Lots smaller parts around a remote town with population of just 14 . It only had ONE outside phone line. So big squabble amongst all journalists attempting to file story.
https://www.watoday.com.au/traveller/inspiration/balladonia-skylab-crash-site-in-australia-how-a-fallen-space-station-caused-mayhem-in-the-outback-20200819-h1q49r.html","title":"45 years anniversary of NASA Skylab Crash","updated_at":"2024-09-20T17:24:49Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ctack"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["sequa"],"value":"Bit Tech squares off with EU regulators"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["big","sequa"],"value":"https://www.semafor.com/article/04/06/2025/big-tech-squares-off-with-eu-regulators"}},"_tags":["story","author_ctack","story_43629832"],"author":"ctack","children":[43629847,43629858,43629971,43629974],"created_at":"2025-04-09T07:51:06Z","created_at_i":1744185066,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"43629832","points":2,"story_id":43629832,"title":"Bit Tech squares off with EU 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I can completely empathize with this.\nSomebody recently linked a website that profiles all HN users, associating them with topics in the form of keywords, and even classifying their amenability to discussion. Scary right?
But is the risk that we inherit through the existence of these things greater than the costs of not being able to discuss things openly?
I'm currently in a situation where I want to start a personal blog where I write about issues that interest me. This includes everything from stances on big social issues, sexual behaviors and opinions on the nature of people (intelligence etc.)
These are obviously very contentious issues and having these things publicly associated with my name will make many people raise an eyebrow when considering me for a job or the likes. But is this really as good enough reason for me not to do it? I want to talk about these things and I want to put my opinion out there to see if somebody can intelligently refute my reasoning. I think it will let me grow as a person.
I think it's terrible that we should be afraid of expressing our opinions and as far as I can tell, the most effective way of doing so is by publicly saying: This is me, this is what I think, this is why I think it, I'm open to change should you be able to convince me - have at it."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How openly should you discuss your opinions on the internet?"}},"_tags":["story","author_silvat","story_20124909","ask_hn"],"author":"silvat","created_at":"2019-06-07T14:34:25Z","created_at_i":1559918065,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"20124909","points":3,"story_id":20124909,"story_text":"I regularly see comments on HN where people say they no longer wish to participate on the internet due to lack of anonymity and profiling. I can completely empathize with this.\nSomebody recently linked a website that profiles all HN users, associating them with topics in the form of keywords, and even classifying their amenability to discussion. Scary right?
But is the risk that we inherit through the existence of these things greater than the costs of not being able to discuss things openly?
I'm currently in a situation where I want to start a personal blog where I write about issues that interest me. This includes everything from stances on big social issues, sexual behaviors and opinions on the nature of people (intelligence etc.)
These are obviously very contentious issues and having these things publicly associated with my name will make many people raise an eyebrow when considering me for a job or the likes. But is this really as good enough reason for me not to do it? I want to talk about these things and I want to put my opinion out there to see if somebody can intelligently refute my reasoning. I think it will let me grow as a person.
I think it's terrible that we should be afraid of expressing our opinions and as far as I can tell, the most effective way of doing so is by publicly saying: This is me, this is what I think, this is why I think it, I'm open to change should you be able to convince me - have at it.","title":"Ask HN: How openly should you discuss your opinions on the internet?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T04:22:26Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"futurezoneat"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["big","sequa"],"value":"Austrian IT-Blog www.futurezone.at got an exclusive interview with Yelp-CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, who said that Yelp is not stopping it\u00b4s deals business, as other media reported recently. He\u00b4s not convinced of the push emails Groupon is doing and said that he found a more elegant way to sell coupons to customers. Stoppelman also tells new facts abut the \u201cInstant Personalization\u201d, which Yelp and Facebook partners on. He states that about 100 users are opting out of the \u201cInstant Personalization\u201d on a daily basis. Read more about his opinions on the ongoing troubles with Google, the new competitor Foursquare and his investment in Palantir Technologies here (german language):
http://futurezone.at/digitallife/4845-yelp-deals-sind-definitiv-nicht-tot.php
For all you non-german speakers, here\u00b4s the link to the Google translation of the interview:
53 million users, 20 million Reviews: Yelp is primarily in the United States to the fixed points of the social web. The evaluation portal expands in 2011, especially in Europe, has its own community manager in Vienna and employed in this country competes mainly with Tupalo. With online coupons, the company founded in 2004, has discovered a new source of revenue besides online advertising. Rob Krolik, although one with an experienced financial manager has hired as CFO, prepare half the rumors of the IPO, trade media are currently not fully convinced of the idea of \u200b\u200bcouponing. The Yelp HQ in San Francisco (just around the corner resides the short message service Twitter) is presented Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman the issues of future zone.
In recent days, there were more reports that his deals Yelp veers off-again deals. Is that true?\nNo. A small strategic decision has since transformed into a huge story because the media now appear widely on the idea that someone is a bad business deal business. We had 30 people who sold these deals, and we have reduced to 15, which deals exclusively sell and no ads.
But this means that the sending of offers via email, as it makes Groupon not work so well. Facebook also has stopped.\nIt does work, there are hundreds of companies offering this. But it really does not fit on Yelp. Groupon has \"Groupon Stores\" tried to copy us, but that also did not work. Groupon comes as an email to you, but the users come to Yelp. And there they can still buy vouchers, which brings us to the business owners and traffic and revenue. This is a more elegant solution, deals are definitely not dead
It is yet another feature to which there was about at Facebook Four Square and big hype, but does not want to really stand out: check-ins.\nCheck-in at Yelp bring an extra level of authenticity for the reviews, write the user about the premises. The introduction of functional activity has been even more users to follow. Make check-in additional data in order to find some popular restaurants. But Burton has believed that they build the next Facebook, a social network for mobile phones, but that's not the case. I do not believe that check-ins are something that everyone will benefit once the time.
Foursquare penetrating ever further into the social sector review. You see the New Yorker as competitors?\nYou obviously want to turn into a local leader, but that is hard for them. Because the core of the service is checking in, and those are not very interesting data. Foursquare has not yet proven that they can influence people in decision making, and currently there is no one who has such deep data shops and restaurants such as Yelp.
Yelp has a different, much larger rival Google. The search engine has recently local ratings from third parties, including Yelp, removed from Google Places. Yelp meets the tough?\nTo be clear: 2006 Google Yelp has licensed content to integrate them into what was then Google Local. We have allowed for some time, but then we have found that they are building a website that more and more like our looks. That is why we have opted out of the agreement and continued to grow organically. Then they have continued our reviews indexed for Google Places and recently stopped.
So that was in your best interest?\nYes and no. We are now out there, but in the Google search, we are now ranked as sometimes below their own products. From a consumer perspective, one could say that this is not optimal, not to show the best content and Google's own products against competitors to prefer. We do not like.
On the other hand, you are dependent on as a partner of Google, since Google Maps is integrated with Yelp. Could you change partners, to about Bing Maps?\nWe have an agreement with Google related to maps and prefer not to change, because we like maps. We will use it as long as long as Google, it makes available.\nYelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman the company's headquarters in San Francisco
Change of subject: The most valuable user content, the Yelp, are the reviews. However, you can buy positive reviews put five dollars on the Web. How do you fight this?\nSure it happens, that's just one of many way to get positive reviews and manipulate Yelp. We fight against this problem since our inception. That is why we have developed a filter so that only trusted content is displayed on the website. Bottom of a page users see a number that shows how many reviews are filtered.
How does the filter?\nHaha, that would like to know all the spammers, that's the secret ingredient of Yelp. In principle, we have to solve the same problem as Google: You evaluate all the links on the Web, and some of them have been manipulated in order to bring certain websites higher in search results. For Yelp is a little harder because we are dealing not with links but with texts.
What happens to a business that appear on the entry Yelp many fake reviews?\nWe are not talking publicly about the internal operations of scoring, but there are definitely incentives for local, they do not cheat.
For more than a year, Yelp is a partner of Facebook in the \"Instant Personalization\" to the Yelp page automatically personalized based on the personal details to logged in Facebook users. What brings the Yelp?\nTwo points: first, to log on Yelp has become very simple, so we get more users. On the other hand, we can you so that you have not Logged in you, show reviews, which have posted your Facebook friends. This is a bonus for the user.
I can imagine that not all users want this feature, since their unsolicited data between Facebook and Yelp are transmitted. How many users turn the \"Instant Personalization\" on Yelp again?\nNot very many, only a very small percentage of turns from the back, not even 100 users per day.
The personalization of Web content is increasingly being criticized about in the book \"The Filter Bubble\" by Eli Pariser. How far would go in the personalization of Yelp?\nI think the criticism comes as a bit too far. We live in a world of information overload, and when I get presents relevant data for me, I am a happier users. If Groupon me a deal for zuschickt Beinenthaarung, I will not buy the deal. If I live in a bubble filter, in which I'm not getting this deal, I do not care. I prefer living in a filtered world than in one where I am bombarded with irrelevant information. This also underpins the success of Google.
You can also watch with Yelp consumer trends?\nI do not invest much time in such analysis, but what you could see in San Francisco, is the cupcake explosion. Also booming \"Frozen Yogurt\" shops and food stalls offering quality food. Local organic food and vegan restaurants are also a growing issue.
Yelp has recently launched its iPad app. They already work on a version for Android Tablets?\nThe more we wait, it still lacks an outstanding Android-Tablet that can capture the market. Currently dominates the iPad or any other tablets.
They have also invested in the start-up Palantir Technologies, Data Mining technologies such as for the U.S. government to combat terrorism and cyber crime is available. Are you afraid of a cyber war?\nSome other former PayPal employees (Stoppelman was co-founder of PayPal, note) as Peter Thiel have invested in Palantir first, I have come later. But I do not spend much time with this company, and I do not know much more than you have just said about it. They have also sold data analysis software to the world of finance and hedge funds. But I have not been investing for fear of a cyber-war."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Yelp keeps Deal business running, CEO says in exclusive interview"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://futurezone.at/digitallife/4845-yelp-deals-sind-definitiv-nicht-tot.php"}},"_tags":["story","author_futurezoneat","story_2973627"],"author":"futurezoneat","created_at":"2011-09-08T12:32:40Z","created_at_i":1315485160,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"2973627","points":2,"story_id":2973627,"story_text":"Austrian IT-Blog www.futurezone.at got an exclusive interview with Yelp-CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, who said that Yelp is not stopping it\u00b4s deals business, as other media reported recently. He\u00b4s not convinced of the push emails Groupon is doing and said that he found a more elegant way to sell coupons to customers. Stoppelman also tells new facts abut the \u201cInstant Personalization\u201d, which Yelp and Facebook partners on. He states that about 100 users are opting out of the \u201cInstant Personalization\u201d on a daily basis. Read more about his opinions on the ongoing troubles with Google, the new competitor Foursquare and his investment in Palantir Technologies here (german language):
http://futurezone.at/digitallife/4845-yelp-deals-sind-definitiv-nicht-tot.php
For all you non-german speakers, here\u00b4s the link to the Google translation of the interview:
53 million users, 20 million Reviews: Yelp is primarily in the United States to the fixed points of the social web. The evaluation portal expands in 2011, especially in Europe, has its own community manager in Vienna and employed in this country competes mainly with Tupalo. With online coupons, the company founded in 2004, has discovered a new source of revenue besides online advertising. Rob Krolik, although one with an experienced financial manager has hired as CFO, prepare half the rumors of the IPO, trade media are currently not fully convinced of the idea of \u200b\u200bcouponing. The Yelp HQ in San Francisco (just around the corner resides the short message service Twitter) is presented Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman the issues of future zone.
In recent days, there were more reports that his deals Yelp veers off-again deals. Is that true?\nNo. A small strategic decision has since transformed into a huge story because the media now appear widely on the idea that someone is a bad business deal business. We had 30 people who sold these deals, and we have reduced to 15, which deals exclusively sell and no ads.
But this means that the sending of offers via email, as it makes Groupon not work so well. Facebook also has stopped.\nIt does work, there are hundreds of companies offering this. But it really does not fit on Yelp. Groupon has \"Groupon Stores\" tried to copy us, but that also did not work. Groupon comes as an email to you, but the users come to Yelp. And there they can still buy vouchers, which brings us to the business owners and traffic and revenue. This is a more elegant solution, deals are definitely not dead
It is yet another feature to which there was about at Facebook Four Square and big hype, but does not want to really stand out: check-ins.\nCheck-in at Yelp bring an extra level of authenticity for the reviews, write the user about the premises. The introduction of functional activity has been even more users to follow. Make check-in additional data in order to find some popular restaurants. But Burton has believed that they build the next Facebook, a social network for mobile phones, but that's not the case. I do not believe that check-ins are something that everyone will benefit once the time.
Foursquare penetrating ever further into the social sector review. You see the New Yorker as competitors?\nYou obviously want to turn into a local leader, but that is hard for them. Because the core of the service is checking in, and those are not very interesting data. Foursquare has not yet proven that they can influence people in decision making, and currently there is no one who has such deep data shops and restaurants such as Yelp.
Yelp has a different, much larger rival Google. The search engine has recently local ratings from third parties, including Yelp, removed from Google Places. Yelp meets the tough?\nTo be clear: 2006 Google Yelp has licensed content to integrate them into what was then Google Local. We have allowed for some time, but then we have found that they are building a website that more and more like our looks. That is why we have opted out of the agreement and continued to grow organically. Then they have continued our reviews indexed for Google Places and recently stopped.
So that was in your best interest?\nYes and no. We are now out there, but in the Google search, we are now ranked as sometimes below their own products. From a consumer perspective, one could say that this is not optimal, not to show the best content and Google's own products against competitors to prefer. We do not like.
On the other hand, you are dependent on as a partner of Google, since Google Maps is integrated with Yelp. Could you change partners, to about Bing Maps?\nWe have an agreement with Google related to maps and prefer not to change, because we like maps. We will use it as long as long as Google, it makes available.\nYelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman the company's headquarters in San Francisco
Change of subject: The most valuable user content, the Yelp, are the reviews. However, you can buy positive reviews put five dollars on the Web. How do you fight this?\nSure it happens, that's just one of many way to get positive reviews and manipulate Yelp. We fight against this problem since our inception. That is why we have developed a filter so that only trusted content is displayed on the website. Bottom of a page users see a number that shows how many reviews are filtered.
How does the filter?\nHaha, that would like to know all the spammers, that's the secret ingredient of Yelp. In principle, we have to solve the same problem as Google: You evaluate all the links on the Web, and some of them have been manipulated in order to bring certain websites higher in search results. For Yelp is a little harder because we are dealing not with links but with texts.
What happens to a business that appear on the entry Yelp many fake reviews?\nWe are not talking publicly about the internal operations of scoring, but there are definitely incentives for local, they do not cheat.
For more than a year, Yelp is a partner of Facebook in the \"Instant Personalization\" to the Yelp page automatically personalized based on the personal details to logged in Facebook users. What brings the Yelp?\nTwo points: first, to log on Yelp has become very simple, so we get more users. On the other hand, we can you so that you have not Logged in you, show reviews, which have posted your Facebook friends. This is a bonus for the user.
I can imagine that not all users want this feature, since their unsolicited data between Facebook and Yelp are transmitted. How many users turn the \"Instant Personalization\" on Yelp again?\nNot very many, only a very small percentage of turns from the back, not even 100 users per day.
The personalization of Web content is increasingly being criticized about in the book \"The Filter Bubble\" by Eli Pariser. How far would go in the personalization of Yelp?\nI think the criticism comes as a bit too far. We live in a world of information overload, and when I get presents relevant data for me, I am a happier users. If Groupon me a deal for zuschickt Beinenthaarung, I will not buy the deal. If I live in a bubble filter, in which I'm not getting this deal, I do not care. I prefer living in a filtered world than in one where I am bombarded with irrelevant information. This also underpins the success of Google.
You can also watch with Yelp consumer trends?\nI do not invest much time in such analysis, but what you could see in San Francisco, is the cupcake explosion. Also booming \"Frozen Yogurt\" shops and food stalls offering quality food. Local organic food and vegan restaurants are also a growing issue.
Yelp has recently launched its iPad app. They already work on a version for Android Tablets?\nThe more we wait, it still lacks an outstanding Android-Tablet that can capture the market. Currently dominates the iPad or any other tablets.
They have also invested in the start-up Palantir Technologies, Data Mining technologies such as for the U.S. government to combat terrorism and cyber crime is available. Are you afraid of a cyber war?\nSome other former PayPal employees (Stoppelman was co-founder of PayPal, note) as Peter Thiel have invested in Palantir first, I have come later. But I do not spend much time with this company, and I do not know much more than you have just said about it. They have also sold data analysis software to the world of finance and hedge funds. But I have not been investing for fear of a cyber-war.","title":"Yelp keeps Deal business running, CEO says in exclusive interview","updated_at":"2024-09-19T17:57:53Z","url":"http://futurezone.at/digitallife/4845-yelp-deals-sind-definitiv-nicht-tot.php"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"0plus1"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["big","sequa"],"value":"Hi Hacker News,
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My partner and I had a baby this year. For their first birthday my partner wanted to print a big (a0) sized square of 365 photos one photo per day, in order.\nAll existing solutions (including Canva) either crashed or outputted a very small, non-print friendly file.
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It\u2019s intentionally opinionated, you don't really design, you feed it photos and enjoy the output.\nI might add intelligent cropping at one point, the way we did it:\n* Crop photos, transfer to PC, run script -> print
I\u2019m open-sourcing it because heaps of people at the party wanted to do something similar, so maybe some of you will find it useful.\nThis has been tested in the real world and indeed produced an a0 poster in 500dpi.
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First post, hope it's all a-ok!
My partner and I had a baby this year. For their first birthday my partner wanted to print a big (a0) sized square of 365 photos one photo per day, in order.\nAll existing solutions (including Canva) either crashed or outputted a very small, non-print friendly file.
So I made her one.
* You give it a folder of photos.\n* It sorts them by EXIF date.\n* It lays them out in a square grid.\n* It reserves a center space for a title.\n* It outputs a print-ready file.\n* No uploads, no accounts, no tracking.\n* Works fully offline.
It\u2019s intentionally opinionated, you don't really design, you feed it photos and enjoy the output.\nI might add intelligent cropping at one point, the way we did it:\n* Crop photos, transfer to PC, run script -> print
I\u2019m open-sourcing it because heaps of people at the party wanted to do something similar, so maybe some of you will find it useful.\nThis has been tested in the real world and indeed produced an a0 poster in 500dpi.
Thanks for reading.","title":"Show HN: A script that turns 365 photos into a square year poster","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:22:32Z","url":"https://github.com/0plus1/oneyear"}],"hitsPerPage":50,"nbHits":611,"nbPages":13,"page":0,"params":"query=Big+Sequa&tags=story&hitsPerPage=50&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":12,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":22},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":1,"total":2},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":4,"total":4},"total":4},"total":4},"fetch":{"query":2,"scanning":3,"total":7},"total":12},"query":"Big Sequa","serverTimeMS":15}