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Providing accommodations with employment seems like a slippery slope. You are a little mistaken about "no tax benefits to people who rent apartments anywhere in the US" though. There are some states that allow state tax deductions or credits for rent - Massachusetts is one of them. That only reduces your state tax liabilities though, not federal.

(And for what it is worth, California actually does have a renter's credit. Unfortunately, to qualify your adjusted gross income must be less than $35,659 as a single filer, or $71,318 for a married couple filing jointly.)

The real news is that NY state is prosecuting fake paid reviews as fraud, the WSJ is reporting on it, and that HBS released a study with quantification of it. Also, this is another sign that the "Wild West" days of the Internet have ended.

That's a perfectly reasonable suggestion, but I don't foresee it happening. They've been there for >10 years, and have been very successful. The name isn't actually similar, and they're in very different parts of the city. There generally doesn't seem to be any real confusion except for a few Yelp reviews.

I'm sure there will be a lot of discussion here about the accuracy of the 20% figure, but that actually doesn't seem as important as the other findings from the research this article cites ("Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud", http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/FakeItTillYouMakeIt.pdf).

The interesting points from the research include:

1) Low ratings increase incentives for positive review fraud, and high ratings decrease them.

2) Having more reviews reduces incentives for positive review fraud.

3) Chain restaurants leave fewer positive fake reviews.

4) Businesses who have "claimed" their Yelp page have more interest in Yelp and therefore are suspected as being more likely to commit review fraud.

5) Negative fake reviews are likely posted by competitors, and show little correlation to changes in average ratings over time.

6) An increase in competition encourages negative review fraud.

Another problem I've seen with Yelp is reviews that aren't actually for the intended place. My father-in-law owns a few restaurants. One of them has >300 reviews (solid 4 stars), but shares part of its' name with another restaurant with >1500 reviews (3.5 stars, with a heavy downward trend).

Most reviews posted for his restaurant are either 4 or 5 stars, with the majority of lower reviews referencing the other restaurant either by name, menu items, or decor. I'm not sure if the issue is one of UI design, mobile app, or poor search handling - although I heavily suspect search is the culprit.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to address these mis-posted reviews, that I've seen. I would love to hear any suggestions that would help though.

They've probably been doing it long before Docker, as most people who use LXC have been. Also, it makes sense to skip it because Docker adds relatively little for their use case.

Electronic ACH is often used in the US, which is basically the equivalent to an electronic check. Actual wire transfers usually have fees associated with them both to send and receive (~$25), and are thus more rare.

For a perspective from the other side of the border (I'm from the US): I've been to Canada a few times as a tourist and on business over the past decade, never staying more than a few days. Every time, without exception, I've been on the receiving end of "aggressive", extended questioning, ranging from such oddities as "You're here for our free health care, aren't you? Admit it! Just tell us you don't have insurance!" to lines of questioning that suggest involvement with a drug cartel.

I've also been subjected to extensive physical searches of all my belongings. (And just to be clear, I'm a healthy, Caucasian, 20-something, US born-and-raised, male.)

I often think of most Canadians as being friendlier than a lot of people around the US, but immigration and border control aren't one of those areas.

Lots of people have known this for quite a while - nothing new to see here. Here's a blog post by a friend of mine, from 2007 ("Bypass a wifi captive portal"), which includes an example of a script to handle it all: http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/2007/Aug/11

The basic idea is as follows:

1) ping the broadcast/multicast addresses to quickly fill the arp cache

2) change your mac address to that of the detected nodes

3) see if you can access the internet now [repeat step #2-3 until you can]

Docker doesn't add a whole lot over what basic Linux containers (lxc and vserver) have offered for years. Having said that, the main benefit to Docker is a change in viewpoint from "virtual machine" to "application". Docker aims to make applications portably deployable to any Docker-machine. Since Docker uses lxc (aka Linux containers), it helps to understand a little how containers are different from other virtualization.

Conceptually, they are similar to Linux's chroots or FreeBSD's jails, which offer process isolation. Basically, they work with a lightweight virtual machine instead of a single process. Containers have lower overhead - they are virtualizing on the operating system level. Other virtualization technologies like Xen and KVM work on the CPU level, and provide a fully virtualized hardware setup to the virtual machine[s].

$25/hour seems astonishingly high for an independent maid service. You should be able to find similarly high quality maids for $10-15/hr, or fixed rates that are far below $25/hr ($25-50 per cleaning).

Metrics measurement and tracking of some sort, depending on your area of interest and existing expertise. That could be Graphite and statsd, or a particular type of web analytics like Google Analytics or MixPanel. It takes roughly 40 hours to get a good basic understanding, implement, test, and start tracking useful things with each of those.

Round Pond Estate has some wonderful olive oil with citrus aromatics, including one with Meyer lemon that you would probably love. If you're in the SF area, they also do tours of their winery + olive oil press/facilities.

I found my favorite olive oil, Alfar La Maja, in a small shop in San Sebastian, Spain. It comes from Mendavia, Spain, which is part of the Navarra region and is well known for its' olive production. At the time I bought it I had no idea it would be the best olive oil I've ever had, but I had two things working in my favor: 1) San Sebastian's residents and tourists are incredibly serious about food, 2) it was fresh, single source, small production, local, etc.

Later, I looked it up online, and found this gem -- according to the NY Olive Oil competition, "Alfar La Maja is one of the world's best extra virgin olive oils for 2013."

The safety of modern cars is amazing. I was also in a rollover accident, and only had two main complaints immediately following it: my head hurt slightly from falling on it when I unbuckled my seat belt while hanging upside down, and my knee was sore from banging against the dash when the car rolled. This was in a "cheap", "plastic" 2006 Hyundai Accent. However, I don't recommend trying this to find out -- although the driver and I crawled out of the car and were standing there when the police and ambulance arrived, they were shocked that we were basically unharmed (as were the nurses and doctors at the hospital we were taken to for examination).

Although you're right that the razor-razorblade model still applies to these laser printers, the cost per page is far lower than inkjets -- and they are much more reliable. Like Pogue, I had one of this printer's predecessors, the HP 1012, and loved it. Look into re-manufactured toner for a better value. I usually use toners like http://www.4inkjets.com/CE278A-HP-Laser-Toner-Black-Compatib... and with that the costs fall to under 1.5 cents per page ($31 for ~2100 pages).

Congratulations on launching. Suggestions seem like a good place to start. For revenue, you could partner with venues to offer discounted ticket purchases/admission, promotions, merchandise sales, etc.

Etsy has a great engineering blog-- http://codeascraft.etsy.com/

If you are interested in using this for your own project look at the previous version at https://github.com/overshard/pinry, which has more friendly licensing terms (BSD, vs AGPL).

AeroFS is awesome! I've been using it since the alpha release and have had nothing but positive experiences. Like rdl says, it does everything I want in a file sharing system.

I gave a presentation on zero downtime database migrations at a devops conference in Boston in November 2012. Slides are here: http://www.completefusion.com/zero-downtime-deployments-with...

I also wrote a more detailed post about it for SysAdvent 2012 - http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2012/12/day-3-zero-downtime-my...

I downloaded the Auto Refresh Plus Chrome plugin, set it to auto-refresh the 16GB page (https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16g...) every 1s and set the "Popup notification once FIND the target" option using the word "STOCK".

I went through 3-4 false starts of trying to add it to cart and having it fail, but it eventually succeeded and I was able to add to cart and complete the purchase at 3:04pm EST.

While the article is interesting; the following image may bring tears to the eye: http://i.imgur.com/WOCaQ.jpg

There are lots of other great places to work in Boston. Email me (see profile) if you're looking.

Curacao is a gorgeous place to visit - not sure if I would want to live there for more than a few weeks. It is incredibly small -- maybe try a bigger/more populous island? I loved St. Kitts, although that's still quite small and there are lots of gorgeous, secluded areas.

Good luck!

Interestingly, this is the second time the reactor has been shut down in a month. The first time was on August 22 following a leak caused by "micro-cracks" in a diaphragm in a pressurized heater bundle within the containment barrier.

http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story/UPDATE-3-Thursdays-TMI...

To clarify, bug 678648 was logged in 2011 and is marked as a duplicate of bug 215450 (the one from 2003): "uploading files that are larger the 2GB fails" @ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215450

A $300 meal can be 10x better than a $30 meal. Most $30 meals are fine, but a $300 meal may be the best meal you have ever had.

I think they are still going strong. (I'm friends with one of the co-founders.)

Here's a video from a BayLISA talk Jordan gave on fpm, which might help clarify things: http://vimeo.com/23940598

Also, see "Use Case - Package something that uses 'make install'" on the fpm wiki at https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki/PackageMakeInstall