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Apply HN: 128Highstreet – A Trip Planning App
Problems:

1. Planning a trip to a new place is usually tiresome, with reading a lot of reviews on TripAdvisor, asking a lot of relatives or friends for suggestions, using the existing trip planner websites that suggest pre-generated itineraries - that probably worked for someone else.

2. After carefully considering a lot of choices, the user finally decides on a trip plan. But things may change - there might be new events coming up in the travel destination which the user doesn't want to miss or there might be last minute issues like a traffic jam or a bad hotel experience. The user is forced to stick to the previously decided plan and compromise!

What we do:

1. We do all the painstaking work of understanding the reviews on TripAdvisor and similar sites, learn what the user's network is speaking about various travel destinations, the ones the user like the most - take into consideration the user's budget, seat preferences, meal stops, gas stations, driving time, sleeping habits, previous travel history, nationality and visa requirements etc., and build the most suitable & easily editable trip plan for the user. (The final aim of this app is to make sure the user won't press the edit button. i.e., the itinerary generated is perfect for the user). We track the user's trip and suggest Plan B, just in case

2. We want to offer the user with hotel/car/event/flight bookings with no booking or cancellation charges.

Is this even feasible?

1. Yes. We are in a process of building an AI engine that makes the trip planning possible. The aim is to get the user choose a perfect trip plan without spending hours to input all the details. 128HS aims to capture the user's family members'details as well and keep learning when to show what!

2. The same AI engine calculates the probability of a user cancelling a hotel, a flight or any event, and tries it best to minimize such a probability. Minimizing this probability would mean ensuring the quality from the partners, using historic data and the likability by the user.

Sreyanth

http://128highstreet.com
Romania I think is a good case study in a country that has a oppressive regime that gets removed, suddenly gets given loads of money to improve itself (EU in this case) and then corruption sets in. Loads of examples, in both Eastern Europe, Russia itself and Africa.

It has shown in the last couple of years that the people might be trying to change that with the way that it got rid of its previous president but it is a long process to change peoples mindsets.
If you run on desktop hardware you can use VM with VFIO GPU passthrough. It's much less pain in ass than reboot or work on frankenstein OS.
A friend watched "That Sugar Film" and it had a profound effect - I'm told that it's very difficult to avoid sugar these days in processed food (especially in fat-free products). I was blown away to learn that even low fat milk from the supermarket contains sugar.
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Oh, I don't have a dim view of Romania though, I loved my time there, I fell in love with Sibiu - actually, a big chunk of what I said/think comes from a buddy from Cluj who I've known 25 years or so - and I hadn't heard about the anticorruption initiative, that's good news.

I had a knife stuck in my back at a cafe and had my camera stolen, and the police officer I found then took my passport and wanted (and got) a bribe to return it. Not a unique experience, I've been held up and hijacked variously around the planet, but it did go to reinforce the Cluj guy's "don't bother with Bucharest, you'll get mugged" anecdotes!

Oh, and driving around rural Romania on single track roads, I guess the donkey carts kinda stick out, as you get a nice long view of the back of them! Selection bias...

Anyway, cheers for the education.
"But instead of becoming healthier, [America] grew fatter and sicker."

Complex topic, but this sentence to me was the most interesting from the story; in part, because of how much focus is put on solving problems that do not harm nearly as many Americans being over weight & unhealthy.

It be curious to know if this topic has even come up once in America's election.
I think that simplicity still applies, even in interfaces which aren't considered simple.

It's just a matter of how you conceive simplicity. John Maeda talks about "thoughful reduction". It's not less for the sake of less; you take away while it makes sense to take away. That's simplicity. Clutter isn't the opposite of simplicity. Simplicity has to be conceived always factoring in the scope of the design. If something is necessary and you remove it, you're not making your design simpler, just dumber, limited or crippled.

tl;dr: simplicity will look different in different apps. Photoshop will always look more cluttered than the prospective and portfolio-enriching weather app which is featured on Dribbble.
So HMRC is dodging paying tax on it's offices - to itself? I'm confused as to why they'd bother, couldn't they just take a bigger slice of the tax pie if they needed it to cover the cost of the offices?
Those aren't ugly or messy, they are complex, but functional. These are ugly messy interfaces: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php?mode=original

Also GIMP.

P.S: The article is missing Blender, as it's a go-to for "ugly, messy interfaces", even though (after learning the concepts) it's highly usable.
at least artists in other realms get to enjoy some permanence, very little in software get's preserved, more so now, but still, I don't expect anyone to be putting my stuff in a gallery any time soon...
Not quite the same thing, but I have a friend who naturally has a Midwestern accent. She told me once that when she used to be a waitress, she got way better tips by faking a British or Australian accent.
Erlang is easy compared to CSS quirks.
No there is no CSS property text-align:smart or smartly

I laughed out loud at this
"We replaced steak and sausages with pasta and rice, butter with margarine, eggs with muesli. But we still grew fatter"

Check mueslis and the sugar most of them contains. It's _horrible_. I try buying a no sugar muesli once in a while - within regular european supermarkets, it's next to impossible!
I do hope so. But the tobacco companies are still around and are still selling their shit.
Excellent. The more vim the better. I would like to see many of the core vim patterns replicated in other editors:

- modal over chords
- text objects
- the vim "language" which ties it together
- all the other good stuff, did I mention text objects ?

There is a reason vim has more users today then ever before: once you learn the deceptively simple language you can have deep conversations with your editor.
What would be the advantage of using it over vim? I am just curious. One thing I found is huge file support that would be definitely good but not sure about the rest.
You examine the packets received by the client in response to a discrete action by the client. Recorded enough of these, and you can emulate the server!
In a more liberal sense the opposite of "open standard".
What about Windoze & Linuts users?
Neither Photoshop nor Craigslist are messy. Everything is very well organized, framed, boxed and so on with a logical hierarchy (which in PS's case can be collapsed almost entirely to display only a simple interface). It's the very opposite of messy.

In other words, you want the simplest interface that allows you to do what you need to do.
Glenn Greenwald made a similar point and drew a connection to the NSA's spying: https://theintercept.com/2016/04/04/a-key-similarity-between...
I was asking the same thing. After thinking about it for a bit and reading more about the case, I think the short answer is no.

I think it could be argued that the nature of Ingress and the main purpose of it is NOT to exploit pictures to the public without paying the artist/sculptor in question. However this could obviously be up for debate, and I guess part of it depends on whether anyone sues Google over it.

Another important point to make is that the suing party in this case states in their press release, that Wikimedia could just have paid the organization a few 1000 SEK per year (~a few 100 USD) in a license fee and it would all be deemed legal.
If you're replicating a design based on the "Draw a picture in Photoshop and use the crop tool a lot" thesis, this is probably why you're having to use CSS tricks. Starting from markup first, and then considering styling, makes your life a lot easier.
Segolene Royal .... not really a reference in realistic politics. Still it is interesting that a country with strong conventional car manufacturer would invite a disrupting company like Tesla to invest on its soil.
> it is actually ASCII, you can copy paste stuff out of it

No offense to your texteditor, I'm a vim enthusiast and after installing vis just now I really liked it, but that I can copy paste from that screencast caught me really off guard, and it's the height of my day today.

Sure, in hindsight it seems obvious, but ... that's pretty cool!

... not sure what that says about me, maybe I don't wanna know.

thanks for pointing my eyes that way!
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"(the point is that people have confirmation bias even when things are 'easier' to prove)"
Is there evidence for that in the article, or supposition?
They don't?
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Since Popcorn Time I've been confronted with a rising number of people who have no idea that those "streaming" portals are also uploading. I'm being confronted because they got a letter from a friendly lawyer telling them to pay a lot of money.

I hope you are communicating that fact properly.
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Sorry for that :(

Romania actually has a lower crime rate than the US, so you were unlucky.

The cop part is what they're working on with the whole anti corruption initiative.
This post makes me sad. Where we should be encouraging others to join this field, this does the opposite. These are the golden years of computing where we mere humans can still make worthy software (before AI writes our software for us). I find it to be a privilege to work in this industry and actually be paid for what I do. Yes I consider writing software to be a form of art and I pity others who don't have the same job as us. I think that the author's career path has more to do with is adversity to risk than the decision not to go into senior management. Leaving apple when it was shaky, leaving startups when there were problems. If I was lucky enough to work for a startup or any business that had a sound business model but was suffering from managerial incompetence I would leave and compete.
> very poor country.

One upside, from an outsider point-of-view, is that an apartment in Bucharest goes for about the same amount as a downpayment for an apartment in London.

For that reason alone, I can imagine some Europeans (especially Londoners) would seriously consider giving up their 400 sqft place and going to Romania to own three large apartments.

Or at least I would.
Well. Having a terminal as a buffer makes it possible to copy/paste into/from the terminal.

Also autocomplete from all the buffers is working.
It's really convenient.

And implementing a repl integration is trivial.
The promise is that given it's a new, modern codebase, it could quickly outpace vim in capabilities and usability. Vim's legacy is what is holding the editor back from major improvements.
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Please, don't do this!
We do that a lot; for technical stuff it is often many times more efficient than talking.

Edit: And easier to search, remember, read again and the less nice variant of that; 'you never said that to me' 'I did: ' copy/paste.
All of this will disappear within the next 5 years, as the distinction between programming and consumption narrows down.

It seems like a vast majority of software developers, consciously or not, do not wish for software development to improve beyond a certain point as they fear it would become too accessible and therefore lower the value of their skills. The truth is that we actively make programming as difficult as possible, and everybody loses. I can understand that writing code as text would make sense 50 years ago, but there is no excuse for this today.

Consumer UI is now reaching the 3rd dimension with AR and VR, while software development is stuck in the 1st dimension. A long linear piece of string. It is difficult to believe that those who have the power to create great consumer UX are completely blind to improving their own. Software development has some of the worst UX ever.

The solution to all of those issues has been known for a while, and is dead simple to understand. We need to create a new communication platform, powered by ideas from logic programming and the semantic web. Think of it as 2 huge semantic knowledge graphs, the first describing the real state of the world, the second describing the ideal state of the world. Build a UI on top of it (which should feel more like a graph-oriented Excel than RDF/Prolog) to let people, agents and IoT devices communicate "what is" and "what should be". Then, all it takes is an inference algorithm that can match providers with seekers, get them to commit to some set of world changes (through some sort of contract), and let people manage and track the commitments/tasks they're expected to get done. That's it, that replaces 80% of software needs. Thank you very much.

Knowledge Graph -> Semantic Marketplace -> Smart Contracts -> Task Management
Agree with this premise, Users will not necessarily appreciate simplicity over functionality.

It's also worth noting that Facebook, Craigslist, Photoshop, etc are not necessarily optimizing their UI for new users, but rather those users who have been using their software for a while. I imagine that one's design considerations will change based on the prototype of the typical user.
I have it on good authority that W10 Anniversary Update will go live for the general public before the end of July if all goes to plan.

I think you will still then have to enable dev mode and install it as a feature as per the OP link.
No, HMRC rents its offices from a commercial company - it just happens that the company is headquartered offshore. HMRC themselves aren't dodging tax, and I'm sure there is no suggestion that the offshore company is doing anything improper either, the article is more about the irony of HMRC seeming to endorse or validate such offshore behaviour when of course a big reason for companies to go offshore is to - legally - avoid tax which would otherwise have to be paid to authorities like HMRC.
The lactose that's a component of milk, or added sucrose/HFCS?

As I understand it, food manufacturers are going away from sugar a little. Sucralose provides a similar sweetness at no additional calories and with a longer shelf life.
I think opensubtitles integration can be a good feature too.
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That's a fake account.
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Meta: I don't get HN's new deduplication algorithm. I submitted the same link yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11434195
I totally agree with this philosophy, I am also a developer, many times my relatives asked my why I don't start my own company.
Your words totally relate why I don't (yet?), I am good being a programmer, I can travel, eat at restaurant, hangout with my friends, I do something I like on a daily basis. I like it that way.
> I'd wager most of the players are unlikely to pay for a retail subscription if they aren't already simply on the merits that they were actively looking for a 1.x vanilla server.

I can only speak for myself, but back when I played WoW (2005-2007) I started exploring the private server scene after the first expansion. I liked BC and continued my paid account for it, but I also missed Vanilla so I sought out ways to play it without having to pay for two subs.

Needless to say, it was a whack-a-mole affair back then, with private servers popping up and others disappearing constantly. Fun, but too much work for a game that was already taking too much of my time. I quit playing altogether when my then-girlfriend and I broke up (she was the one who got me into the game and was really the only reason I kept playing).
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Thanks for brining this up. 'Flow' seems such a great state when I am in it, but I sometimes wonder if I'm missing out by not trying to create memorable experiences instead...
Do people use bootstrap for anything more than a landing page? I see what the author is trying to say - but the kind of design that they're highlighting as the "new simple. beautiful" interfaces is rarely used for any thing but something nice to look at before you get into the meat of a product.
I myself have around eight of C64 waiting for better times :)
Go ask teens with a smartphone at a restaurant but I've been doing the same myself sometimes. 1-1 or group chats.

A more specialized scenario: I was copy/pasting stuff to a colleague in the same room yesterday.
I always find that comments like this are doom and gloom and never celebratory that we might reach a point where computers are finally stable and secure enough to be treated like appliances. The first automobiles required dozens of steps just to start the engine, did people back then lament the difference between "cars" and "mechanics' cars"?
Very good points! c) goes hand in hand with two other things: many managers are former programmers with little or no appreciation for good product and good UX. And second, romanian designers are still pretty much artists, drawing candy stuff. I know some very good designers with good UX skills, but they are a minority.

Only where you have good managers, good devs, and good designers thinking solely about the people using the product, you'll have a community that gives birth to real software professionals. We're still in the age of Angular v React, Dawn of Outsourcing.
Wasn't Ballmer's "developers, developers, developers" chant more than five years ago?
Yes. That's exactly right. The Fed has a mandate to promote maximum employment. But employment isn't the only (or even the best) way to provide people incomes.

In the last post I wrote on my blog before I came up with this idea, I was complaining about the Fed's employment mandate:

http://www.suncho.com/blog/20150326_morality.html

But that's far from the only reason that the Fed won't provide a basic income. Another reason is that the Fed doesn't have the facility to do it. The way the Fed normally injects money into the economy is by buying assets from the banks. Normal people don't have the kind of assets that the Fed would want to buy, and poor people might not have any assets to speak of at all.

So, in the U.S., at least, you'd need this kind of multiple-step approach. The basic income would be fiscal spending funded by Treasury borrowing (issuing bills/notes/bonds). The banks would buy the Treasury debt and then the Fed would offset things by buying the Treasury debt from the banks.

That's a complicated process. You have to get a bunch of different parts of the government to all play nice with each other. And it goes against what most politicians and economists think should be done anyway!
So, the better question would be what advantages there are over Neovim :), but it has already been answered in another post.
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I fail to see the point of making that point, sorry.
wow. this is really unprecendented. i know some guy who works at a different startup accelerator. one which is funded with EU money. he made some comment about his acc being a lot better on a value-for-equity basis (like obviously). i tried to explain yc would continue to be the #1 not just because of its size or the amount of funding per share to its startups but because of the way it is run. this is an excellent example.
Personally I think that if 'facts' were noticably easier to prove in Physics then we wouldn't have consumed the last third of a century of physicist brainpower on String Theory (et al), blocking students of competing theories from funding/tenure, with no useful results to show for it. The stuff that's easy to prove has broadly already been proved... but... I don't think that's relevant.

People have confirmation bias regardless of being shown evidence, it's the central feature of confirmation bias that you interpret new information in a way that supports your pre-existing view. It's a human trait not a feature of the subject matter.
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> Eventually, he tracked down a copy after submitting a request to his university library.

Unrelated to nutrition, but libraries and inter-library lending can track down all sorts of things and your taxes already pay for this service, so take advantage of it.
For this submission, I can say I'm definitely not working for Tesla. I found the link in my twitter feed ( https://twitter.com/chrismatthieu/status/717797775912480772 RT by Brendan Eich ). Didn't realise it's been posted before, apologies for that.
I'm not sure that's always the case. Take a look at the PAL-V, which is in production right now (there was a short item on it on Dutch TV, they're currently looking for investors to boost international sales).

According to their specifications [1], it can do 6 km/l when flying, and 12 km/l on land. The specs they give aren't directly comparable sadly, so I had to do a short calculation to get the flying mileage (180 km/28 l), but it suggests that your 20x figure is one order of magnitude too high. The vehicle's range also suggests a 3x difference, not 20x.

[1] http://pal-v.com/the-pal-v-one/specifications/
Of course milk contains sugars! It's got a sugar named after it - lactose.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440708 yesterday was quite upbeat on the off fossil thing.
Agreed, this would also look bad if a caption was just a few chars short of the width causing it to look indented compared to surrounding multiple line captions.
Use left, right or centre, not a mishmash.
Private Eye's been on about Mapeley for years.
Time for a quick rant:

Because

* when I ask CloudFlare to stop resolving phishing domains with their nameservers they don't care.

* when I ask amazon to remove the content from their networks that's clearly against their TOS, they don't care.

* when I try to get in touch with PrivacyGuard about this domain, they don't care either.

* I ask aweber.com to cut off this customer who they are providing mailinglistservice for, they don't care.

These are all at least semi-reputable companies, who through inaction continue to allow criminals to abuse their infrastructure, and do not allow me to directly contact this offending customer.

So there is no way for me to find out which entity is responsible for actually creating this phishing operation. Granted, they'd probably fake whois data anyhow, but it's my last straw :-)

Now, I'm actually all for anonymity, I'm just frustrated with trying to remove this phishing site that's been up for months now.
>Oh well, there goes the planet.

I hate this flippant defeatism that is the millennials calling card.
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