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OpenTable doesn't really have an official API. Urbanspoon has been touting Rez as an alternative but same story there. Will definitely let you know when we're ready for primetime.

Building something you might be interested in as far as wait times...

Link seems to be broken. What did it point to?

I think it has something to do with this submission's mentioning it (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2776254)

Personally I'd love to see replays of "impossible" scores. Similar to the speed run videos for games like super Mario on YouTube

What browser extension do you use?

Great news. Any plans on open sourcing or providing hooks/API (would love to be able to create automatic loggers to avoid manual data entry).

I'm hiring. iOS and/or backend. js gurus welcomed as well. E-mail is in my profile.

Hey tzm, wanted to contact you about something. Could you drop me a line at my e-mail ([email protected])

I had some ?s regarding Context and using it in my app. Could you e-mail me (check my profile).

In practice though, is the degree of connectedness really ever that high? I was under the impression that many real world phenomena (from social networks to biological interaction networks) exhibit small-world phenomena and you tend to get more well-connected subgraphs that are connected by important hub nodes. So it would seem to me like applying some careful heuristics (and keeping track of important bottlenecks/hubs) would still allow you to do computations in chunks.

Would love an expert on the subject to chime in.

this gets at something i am working on right now

Having found several restaurants with no OT availability to have reservations available upon calling, I think this is the case.

I'm pretty sure a lot of restaurants set aside a certain amount of tables/times as OT inventory.

I've always wondered, if we ever reach the Singularity or a cliched Minority Report like reality, what would the layers of software look like?

could you comment on the feature?

I forgot to say, awesome work and I like the visual look and feel and it does feel snappier than the real FB but still don't see why I should use it... maybe I don't "get" it?

If I try searching for a friend by using their last name (easier in this case), it starts to match the name in the autocomplete but drops out once I've typed the full name for some reason...

also probably not a typical use case for names, but I do have FB friends that go by their middle names although their facebook profile has their full name.. can't search for them using middle name in autocomplete search

I didn't mean to hate on IKEA. It'd be awesome if they adapted/improved on some of these designs.

yea I know, I was in a rush and I didn't want to give the impression that I was astroturfing with a title like "Resource Furniture: Awesome space saving furniture"

Yea, what about NYC?

I found the some of the terms confusing... "My Recommendations" I thought would mean movies that were recommended FOR me not BY me. Also Movies To Watch is ambiguous and same for Movies filtered. The tooltip popups when you mouseover help but the button names should be self-explanatory. Also, as far as the UI/UX is concerned, maybe color-coding them would make the buttons more 'intuitive'.

Also, while I understand the primary aim of your site is to let users manage their lists/recommendations, this feels a lot like 'expert-mode'. I myself would love an 'easy-mode' wehre I could get my automatic recommendations from other sources (implementing your own may recommender is probably not worth it at this point and would suffer from a cold-start) but ALSO be able to manage them at the same time (recommend to friends/filter/etc).

Also, maybe this may work well with a Facebook/Twitter integration (like tweet that I just watched such and such movie).

Also, as much as game mechanics have been played out, I think it would definitely be useful to have a system for ranking/rating people who make recommendations. You could create experts (if you want to rip off 4sq et. al, you could make people experts by awarding badges for things like watching 10 horror movies or making 100 successful recommendations that people watched).

All in all, I think it has the beginnings of a good product.

Yea for sure! Maybe around Winter Break or some time when people would be free! E-mail me (check profile)

whoops... meant to say I AM an ALUM who is back in Ithaca...

I'm curious about the YC event for Cornell alumni (link?) and meeting up/hearing about your research/projects. Check my profile for gmail.

I should clarify... I'm not an alum who's back in Ithaca. I am working on my own projects but that's not really my motivation for wanting to do this. It's more encouraging others to be involved in similar types of activities. Rhodes Hall (where the Theory Center is) is mostly the realm of grad students. Thanks for the encouragement.

I was planning on doing that, but how do you go about attracting the right crowd (or any crowd at all for that matter)?

About how much does this actually end up costing/employee? And how many actually take advantage?

sidenote: I did not know this but pg went to Cornell. I wonder what it was like for him then?