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re: variety of trips -- we think the magic lies in providing our users with suggestions they may have never thought of themselves, but that end up being exactly what they've been looking for. We hope to do so by learning as much as possible about exactly those destinations out of the 'mainstream' (like Paris, London, Berlin) and subsequently translate that to the categories of interest we offer. We currently serve 220 destinations and think that achieving a certain level of variety will certainly be possible, especially as we learn more and more about our users and how they like our suggestions.

re: making money -- We don't plan to rush monetization. Volume is key in the travel industry, so we plan to focus on building a great, differentiated, user experience first. Once we've ramped that up significantly, we aim to move down the funnel (from the 'inspiration' phase towards the 'transaction phase'). Having said that, we're exploring multiple paths to monetization. For example, we think that Wanderlust will have an interesting advertising opportunity, with 1) high ARPU, 2) high purchase-intent, and 3) a user still open to suggestions (a bit like Pinterest's opportunity). One other stream we're thinking about is offering hotels an annual/monthly flat-fee to be featured on our platform.

re: similar attempts -- Wanderfly did this in the US (we're in Europe), but got acquired by TripAdvisor and shut down. There's quite a few different start-ups that launched either this year or in 2015. We feel they haven't quite gotten it right for several reasons, but it probably comes down to a not being able to translate technical complexity to a pleasant user experience.

re: user acquisition -- definitely a key point. As pointed out above, I think no-one has gotten the concept quite right so far. I think there's some mindshare to be won if we're the ones who manage to do so; if we're able to connect to the feeling of 'I know that I want to travel, but don't know where to go'. Initially, we'll be focusing on the channels the bigger players won't/can't focus on because of their scale (e.g. blogs, offline communities).
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Curious: how do you eat your muesli?

I eat my unsweetened muesli with yoghurt (like the Swiss do), and find it quite tasty.
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People could simply incorporate into a single person corporation, then make sure the corporation makes all of their money and just happens to provide services that help the person (like buying food and shelter).

What's stopping people from doing that now? I'd love to incorporate and call my salary "revenue" and deduct all of my expenses from it. But I can't due to tax laws.

I don't think anything would change.
Experience, mostly.

I have a high IQ (so I'm told) and when I work at companies like these, they're managed like absolute hell. Metrics for miles and using technology rather than proper management to manage people.

Building social skills to identify intelligence is much more effective and significantly more personal. Yes, it can be gamed, but so can intelligence tests. The last one I took had 50% questions similar to, "If you rotate this paper 120 degrees and flip it, where does the dot end?" You bet your ass I took that test with a piece of paper in hand.
Javascript already had lambdas/anonymous functions since the beginning.
Moderately curious: do you really believe that there is a tax rate greater than 0% that would prevent corporate tax avoidance? I mean, at 10% why wouldn't someone just make the argument that it should be 5% instead?
Thanks a lot for the confirmation.

The Chrom(e|ium) name is tainted for me and while Electron is Chrome I'd be less hesitant to install an 'application' than something that might want to be the default browser or end up being launched by guests / my family.

You explained at length on HN that the target demographic doesn't include the random nutjob like me, and I understand that the average person doesn't care (or runs Chrome anyway already): I'm not trying to say that this release, this work is bad - I'm just trying to explain why I'm not putting on my party hat just yet.
The social aspects of this are awesome.

But the actual modelling functionality itself is really lacking. The lines joining the entities don't even indicate cardinality (does a ninja have many ninja_nelts? Or is it the other way around?). That's pretty much 101 for any visual database modelling.

Also the lines overlap, meaning you can't see whether ninja_weapon is related to ninja, or to ninja_belt.

I can answer these questions myself by perusing the foreign key columns - but that makes the lines redundant. Since several decades ago, Chen, Bachman, Grady Booch and a bunch of others have given ways to denote cardinality etc., and these are widely used. This tool should use one.

(apologies in advance if I have this wrong and the tool does support this but the diagram authors elected not to use them).
Great post, thanks for sharing!
I am sympathetic to the notion that prop 13 is a massive distortion that is driving all of these problems ...

But I have a hard time reconciling that with the relative pricing in other equally desirable coastal areas that do not have prop 13 (or anything like it).

I am simplifying greatly, but in a broad sense, SF housing is as expensive as Boston housing is as expensive as NYC housing ... and certain hot-or-not inspired pic sites[1] lead me to believe that Vancouver beats all of them.

Are you suggesting that, all else being equal, if prop13 was not extant, SF housing would be markedly lower than the aforementioned areas ?

I can't imagine it would be ...

[1] http://www.crackshackormansion.com/
speaking of getting tied up.. I wonder how this program applies to MIT's intellectual property policy:
http://web.mit.edu/policies/13/13.1.html

Quote:

ownership of Intellectual Property developed by faculty, students, staff, and others participating in MIT programs, including visitors, with the significant use of funds or facilities administered by MIT will vest with MIT.

From my reading of the policy.. it sounds like if you accept this small sum (1-5K), MIT gets the IP rights to everything you make. Good deal for MIT.

If they own the name (trademark) of your project; the content on your website and marketing materials; copyright on your code; patents... you're basically working for MIT for $1k.
Yeah, there is a lot of different studies about artificial sweeteners, it's a pretty controversial topic...

They probably aren't great for you, but I don't think it's near as bad as consuming 40g of sugar/High fructose corn syrup per soda...

Ideally you stay away from both, but If you are going to drink a soda/sweetened drink, go with the one with 0g sugar and 0g carbs...

Its too easy to intake an stupid amount of carbs and sugar from just liquids...3 sodas in one day and boom...140g of carbs/sugar already...even worse, their "empty carbs", which is to say, it provides you with no nutritional energy/value.

Note: I'm not a dietician/nutritionist. Just someone who has used the above methods and have had great results.
Protecting tax revenue is not an answer. Accountants can move faster than lawmakers, and lawmakers may or may not prioritize this kind of a thing at any point in time.

The solution is to encourage and foster economic growth. The outliers like Apple with large cash reserves being held offshore should be dealt with individually. (Not calling them out, it's just that they are well known for it) You don't penalize them for being smart with their money, you simply incentivize them to use the money in-country.

The news this election cycle seems to be a flurry of anti-1%/anti-corporate propoganda. There seems to be a feeling of take-take-take from these entities that took-took-took from us. That mindset simply does not work long term. Without real economic growth tax revenue is a finite and dwindling resource.
I hope you mean bytes. On a 128bit architecture that would be a single instruction compare, just like a 32 or 64 bit compare. Performance would be roughly the same (minus maybe a cache miss because you blew it out with your fat ints).
Anyone that's tried doing anything modern with Lamda is smiling as they read that subject line. Bye bye repacks!
How does the platform qualify external HR consultants?

What level of error and omissions insurance is required by the consultants should their advice expose a client company to employment law liability? [even payroll and leave policies are often subject to regulation]
>less popular disciplines of CS

Graph Theory?
Back when I used aria it seemed to work with the default one mentioned in the man page (I think).
>Blizzard have right to control the history and evolution of the WoW universe.

Do they? They have the right to profit off of it and are allowed to set the only profit, but others are allowed to create evolutions of the universe in other directions as long as they don't profit. And if any of those are more popular, Blizzard has no recourse.
It's also bigger than necessary when a sequence will do. Large PKs mean larger indexes. For very large databases or very high volume every little inefficiency adds up.

As I always say, if we don't split hairs now, we'll be splitting heads later.
This "breach" happened a year ago and all sources indicate that it was an inside job.

Seeing Wordfence using this to promote their product does not create much confidence.
You are seriously underestimating the difficulty of producing the hardware you're envisioning.

Have you gotten input from roboticists and industrial designers?

Consider applying lipstick. You'll need a real-time high resolution scan of the person's face (you can't just take a single scan and be done with it, a human is never still), be able to accurately find the lips and their borders, have an articulated robotic arm, grasp the lipstick, have enough of the lipstick out to apply without breaking, apply the right amount of pressure, and finally follow a constantly moving contour on a person's face.

You could probably do blush with an airbrush, but you couldn't do a base or concealer because you'll have to brush or smear that on and you're back to following contours with an articulated arm.

I just don't believe the necessary technology exists for this to do it in a consumer device for less than several hundred thousand dollars.
I agree this is great stuff for JS, but it is nothing new if you have been using a modern dynamic language like ruby.
Could you please update your HN profile. Usually a member checks it to get in touch. Interesting policy and I do agree that qualified engineers should be able to deliver within a reasonable time frame. That said, the time spent on the problem isn't the best measure to gauge productivity. Each person approaches problems differently and usually well knit teams solve problems faster than geniuses in isolation.
You mean the "One weird trick to lose belly fat" tips are not bonafide nutrional expertise? :)
I think an enormous amount of money has been made in virtualization technologies, yet they rarely get the kind of attention that AI / ML gets. Probably because the primary customer of these products are very large enterprises who use them in their private data centers.
No one can enlighten anyone; you have to enlighten yourself.

Where did you get this picture of the pre-1968 world? For instance, your picture of classical Europe as "hardcore unrestricted capitalism" is frankly bizarre; you seem to be projecting 19th-century classical liberalism, a left-wing ideology in its day, back two or three centuries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Colbert

My turn: feel free to undarkly enlighten me. Watch this movie, or even skim it, then tell me that all is for the best in this the best of all possible worlds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBZ6hgA-Cc4

When this film was made, most women didn't have to work; now they do. When this film was made, African-Americans had a 25% illegitimacy rate, which Moynihan thought terrifying; now they have an 75% illegitimacy rate (with whites at 25%). When this film was made, women in college were treated like ladies; today they're treated like Casanova's whores. When this film was made, Detroit was America's third-largest city; today it's a ruin.

Tell me again what your abstractions have done for women and African-Americans? For Detroit? For anyone, for anywhere? Can you find me a population that was struggling in 1966 and is thriving now? Can you find me a place that was a shithole in 1966 and is gleaming now? I can sure as heck find a lot of examples in the other direction...
I would say no if you are specifically looking at VC. L3Cs are pretty uncommon and un-allowed in a majority of states. In structure they are like LLCs and thus cannot issue stock.

As of now they also don't get any of the tax exemption that a 501c3 non-profit would. If you plan to go the "full" non-profit route rather than a hybrid for-profit/non-profit, you would be best off forming a Corporation (C-corp) and then applying for 501c3 status.
We've used the beta releases for a few small class projects already with good results. No major issues.
I work (as network engineer) from home around 1 year and I am very satisfied. I have project based position and am the only one (within department) who is taking care of specific role. I have global customers so they don't care if I sit here or 500 kilometers over-there. Provided service is still the same.

Here are my experiences from last year:

1. I have own workplace with stand-up desk, big screen.

2. I have silence for thinking and creating.

3. In case of lower workload I can work on some side projects or get some home-tasks or child-care.

4. I am out of noisy open-office.

5. Nobody is staring at my screen and asking silly questions what are you reading? What is it? Can you send me a link?

6. I didn't get any open-office illness.

7. I don't have to fight for air-conditioning/heating temperature.

8. I am home from work after 1 second.

9. Since I don't travel to the office I save a huge amount of money

10. I don't feel lack of social contact. I have neighbors at our street, family near to us. I am introvert. Maybe sometime I don't have someone with same technical expertise but never mind.

11. I am living in area with lower cost for living so I am saving money, I have higher quality of life.

12. I don't need afraid that my car will be scratched (as happened a year ago at private parking, of course no camera records, no witness).

13. Sometime it's hard especially if kids are getting insane and make huge shambles.

14. Relationship with your spouse require higher attitude because you are threatened by marine disease. You are together very often without break.

I would not change it back to the open-office insane workplace.

In regards to blogpost...I can confirm point #6 - third culture kid. After 5 years living abroad I moved back to my domestic country.
__inet_lookup_listener could be modified to use a two level hash that only kicked in for buckets which exceeded a certain threshold. The second level hash tables would xor the parts of the destination IP address modulo the hash table size. Special care would have to be taken for listeners on 0.0.0.0. This would solve the problem with negligible cost to the general case but at the expense of added complexity.
Even though I'm not using CloudFlare myself, I always enjoy reading their blog posts, these guys are amazing hackers.
I think (a) and (b) only lead to taxes if the stock holders are American. I have a lot of non resident alien friends who hold the same stock as I do and their tax rules for dividends and capital gains are very different, it isn't clear to me that they have to pay anything. Much of corporate war chests are spent on R&D abroad, which is necessary to garner favor in some countries. The money wouldn't necessarily flow back to the US even if it could unhindered.
I respect the work these researchers are doing. But to be blunt: if I had that kind of sensitive data, there is no way I'd even consider having a WordPress on the same network. I'm not a security expert, but I like to think I avoid the most obvious pitfalls. And WordPress strikes me as a security pit the size of a continent and there are many reasonable alternatives.
Definitely true! Ditto for a lot of plants and animals we eat.
Do you have some link or contacts in/to this community? I am in process to develop a quite interesting application on Erlang and I am struggling to find a community (in Germany) where I can either ask questions or have a pool of possible people to hire.
I played on Nostalrius for a bit. The sense I got was that the community was mostly populated by older people (by internet gaming community standards, at least) who quit WoW years ago and wanted to relive the experience. So the baseline of maturity was a bit higher than average, and people got along well. On top of that, while there were various 4chan/reddit/insert-notorious-community-here guilds, they mostly kept to themselves outside of world PvP.

I played a tiny bit of RO back in the day, and instead got the impression that the community was mostly populated by teenaged anime fans, so of course the baseline for maturity was lower. And with the way the web was so much more fragmented back then, most of the kinds of people that today would make a thread in a notorious community saying "hey there's a new private server launching, anyone wanna start a guild?" would instead have to be obnoxious in the in-game chat until they found like-minded people.

I wouldn't beat yourself up too much wondering about how you could have done things differently, because at the end of the day the intrinsic appeal of certain games to certain demographics has by far the greatest effect on what kind of community will develop around it, and if you're making a direct clone of an existing game, your hands are obviously tied. In all likelihood, it was out of your control from the moment you turned the server on.
yes - which means I can't use the chrome app it seems :(
How does this compare to running Android in VirtualBox via osboxes.com? I pretty much have to do this in order to make my setup work (unless I want to use my phone for testing).

I have ArangoDB running in VirtualBox to provide backend data. If I try to run the emulator, I can't because VirtualBox and the emulator don't play well. The only think I've found to get the emulator to work is to use an ARM version of the emulator, which makes it hard to use.

An all VirtualBox setup works fine. I'm not sure how to make the emulator phone like rather than tablet. Other than that, I'm ok.
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It is driven by both capitalism and consumerism.
Somewhat related: Does someone know what happened to the official AMA app for Android? It can't be found on the Play store anymore, but I still have it installed. I tried googling for info about it disappearing but came up empty. (It's a bit broken nowadays, questions and answers aren't loading. But I can still see the AMAs.)
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You are correct. As evidenced by the mention of "each OS", I mangled that sentence and wrote containerization where I should have said virtualization. I meant something like "While containerization wouldn't have helped here, would virtualization (perhaps with each OS pinned to a different set of cores) have helped?"
This is certainly something useful for Go, but it's only one aspect of Erlang.

You still don't have to guarantee of thread-safety, you still don't have the immutability, you still don't have tail-call optimization, and perhaps most importantly, you don't have a REPL for hot-code updates.
Yup, sounds like press-release marketing. A terabyte+ of crown jewel dbs doesn't sprout legs, even from an APT.
Sure, it's not very good for task parallelism (though some of the extensions that AMD is introducing for APUs are very interesting!) But if you've got an embarrassingly data-parallel problem, you can't beat its performance.
Fantastic work Moxie, thank you. My best to you and the team. Let us know how we can help contribute to the project (code/$/etc).
mangeletti, may I refine your scenario? Chuck Klosterman style + additions.

>>>

Suppose that the Enigma Machine had never happened (but the rest of history somehow came out the same--any innovations that came directly from the Enigma or related work at Bletchley Park, etc, those innovations still happened, so all of our tech and history are the same, sans Enigma machine).

Now suppose that some organization (ISIS? USA? Anonymous? China? The Mafia? Russia? Whatever you like.) suddenly obtains enough Enigma machines (they have wifi now instead of whatever they had before) to carry out all their sensitive communications.

Further suppose that you are a leader of some sort and your organization is in direct conflict with the Enigma-using organization. You can intercept the messages, but as of yet you are unable to read them. You must find a way to read those messages!

What are your first orders?
This probably is way way off-topic, but....

While on the face you seem to be decrying the polar tribalism that characterizes contemporary politics, you are using that very tribalism to make your argument. But the fact that some folks who label themselves "conservative" have advocated something does not obligate all people, or even any other people, who also label themselves "conservative", to also support it. Or will you criticize other Republicans for failing to get on board with Trump's nonsense?
Yes for sure someone like you should head to Summerlin.
This is really outdated IMO. Why not just build using latest and greatest with gradle?
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I read this twice and... I'm afraid I still don't understand what it is trying to get across. I feel like the paragraphs were strung together by a Markov chain.

This is my summary of the article:

"Reads, sentences, phone. Work/Life balance. Feeling limited by mobile devices because grammar. Remove words. Cyborgs! More mobile devices, we've become cyborgs. Grammar is clumsy. Good user experience. Library searching. Latin sentence structure (SOV). Virtual Reality - technology needs to adapt."

Either I'm at fault here or I advise Ms. Megan to run this past an editor because whatever meaning that was meant to be conveyed was completely lost on me. I'm left completely confused.
Supply side market pressure. More housing, lots, and lost, and lots of housing. Also, corresponding infrastructure (including civic utilities like parks) to accommodate the additional residents.
I argue that the secret deals between the big labels with Spotify and Youtube rip off the artists just as much as before. *

They are trying to reassert control over distribution by shutting down those who won't pay what they want (grooveshark) or attain censorship power even in excess of copyright- like Youtube & DRM ( trumps transcoding rights & fair use ).

There are just as bad for artists as fans, just as bad as they always were, their death grip has slipped because they were too set in their ways to comprehend the internet was the future.

They also stop or cripple technologies they don't like.

They big label cartels are a social ill supported by monopoly lobbying and governments doing their bidding.

They extended copyright for so long that they own the rights to nearly the entire 20th centuries cultural output.

It will only get worse, monopolies should be broken up they destroy free-markets and build barriers to entry.

* https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150204/07310329906/yes-m...