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The painting and the love affair are interesting, but, as a landlord, I found myself wondering: How does an apartment remain untouched for 70 years? How was the rent paid without i…

The people who get their coffee to go and the ones who sit at the tables are different segments (although there is some overlap). Also, the sitting customers can be segmented as we…

Good to hear there's a HN meetup in Toronto! Any idea why it's set up as a private group? All the other HN meetup groups I checked on this page are public.

I found the tldr link to be useful. I think that if the content is relevant then there's nothing wrong with self-promotion. I looked at the comment history and he linked to tldr in…

I've found MT results quality to be a problem. 95% of the workers are great, but you do have occasions where you get a bot completing the task or someone being deliberately careles…

There's an interesting book called After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre that does a good job of going through how these confusions over language arise. I haven't read it for years, b…

I've been a landlord in Ontario for 10 years and had a sublet request a few months ago. In Ontario, there are 2 stages: a tenant has to make a general request to sublet, and then a…

I had an hour-long chat with a guy from Canada's Federal Economic Development Agency who I met at a startup event and still keep in touch with. I suggested to him that they should …

My understanding is that this comment is stating that there is a trend towards products having more or less identical functional features, but at different price points and that th…

Can you give us some examples of who has done this and how they avoided getting caught on Mechanical Turk? I've had legitimate HITs removed for apparently violating policy recently…

There's no way to guarantee you won't behave like that (I don't specifically mean you, but anyone in a similar position). People have the best intentions, but things change as time…

The other week I went to a cool meetup about using EXPLAIN to look at MySQL queries to make them better. Here's the presentation: http://files.meetup.com/3640402/ATT_2012-06-13_Opt…

My first start-up was a medical tourism company. It's basically an affiliate business model: you get 5-10% of the cost from the doctor, hotel, and airline (depending on your negoti…

It's possible that instead of going after happy DB users, they'll go after current non-consumers by offering them something that meets an unfulfilled need. I can't provide a specif…

Agreed. The tutsplus series was useful for me because you can watch someone code web pages from a blank editor using jQuery along with HTML/CSS. As a hacker without a programming b…

What's a typical percentage rejection rate for your tasks? I find that for some classification tasks my rejection rate is around a third (this includes careless/sloppy answers, so …

In addition to the iterative approach, you can also offer a base rate and accept all the tasks, even if they're not quite perfect, then pay a bonus to the workers who really nailed…

This article reminds us that you can't just look at historic growth rates and extrapolate economic prospects. Environmental sustainability, the effectiveness of political instituti…