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Indian rail Travel Find out what visa requirements are needed
I am planning a trip to India where I will be going by train around the country.
I have heard the ticketing system of Indian Railways is a nightmare and the queuing system shambolic.
Can I book my tickets in advance or on-line? Can I use my credit card or will I need cash?
How far in advance will I need to buy my tickets? Grateful for all advice.
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no shit I'd say.
The fights around "tech X is better than tech Y" usually boil down to some kind of fear (of being replaced, of loosing the job) or biaised-validation of all the effort already invested in X.
However if you read it (though, IANAL) you'll see that it is a direct translation of lock screens from standard phones to those with touchscreens. It's on the same level as a patent for "standard thing X but with a computer", or "X on the internet", now it's "X with a touchscreen".
This is what as the triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. A lot of progress works this way.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis]

Thesis (established view): SQL/ACID solves all you data problems

Antithesis: Nobody needs SQL/ACID, let's throw it all out

Synthesis: By carefully considering data integrity constraints we can find a more optimal data management solution for a particular problem (alternatively: let's go to the pub!)
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I hypothesize that a large number of those people cannot bring them selves to believe that Obama is a citizen, too.
Everything after the number is just for humans.

...or search engines
I also used Cyberduck for a long time. It seems kind of ... suboptimal, though. Like that other commenter, I recently sprung for a license for Transmit. It works pretty well.
Icons for the multi-touch world
Hands up everyone who checked this user's profile (to try to see the picture).

We never change...
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Being in Digital Ecosystems research myself, I would say the author is missing one important point: Absence of single points of control and failure. Natural ecosystems are rarely if ever dependent on singletons (single species or single organism) to be sustained. Their adaptivity and resilience comes from that one fact. All the examples the author states are tied to a single corporate entity, often designed so, and therefore cannot exceed the lifespan of the entity that created them. A great example of that is napster. Once the central entity was shut down by way of courts, the ecosystem evaporated.

In a sense the Internet and the Web are much closer to the true Digital Ecosystem, even though purists such as myself can still find things that can be improved, single points of control/failure etc. but at least they are not as pronounced as the ones present in the star-topology twiter/amazon/apple ecosystems.
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I think you may be overestimating the standard of living and technical sophistication of North Korea.
Could you explain what you mean? I don't understand your subtext.
Activision announce new plans for Call of Duty franchise
The labels under the compaction graph show the four servers all running in the same slicehost datacenter (St. Louis-B).
I live in the UK and have made it to the Hacker Dojo.

If you really wanted to you can make it happen.
To those aggressively moderating me down, I suggest you re-read the HN guidelines - furthermore the parent poster doesn't dispute they said they'd provide a MacBook - read the linked article.
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I can't help except to maybe suggest you change the title. I clicked the link thinking you had a javascript, etc code review idea :) I suspect others did as well.
To a certain extent I agree with that.

But ecosystems are not only biological they are also physical and the sun is a pretty good candidate for a singleton then isns't?

To me the defining factor is the flow and exchange of energy throughout the system. In digital ecosystems the data is what needs to flow.

The internet is obviously the mother of all digital ecosystems but it is also restrictive (firewalls etc) which keeps data from flowing.
http://www.planeterlang.org/en/planet/article/Thoughts_on_an...

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IMO you should read more widely about solutions to the climate problem. There are plenty out there for energy production: solar, geothermal and tidal, as well as measures like energy efficiency or soil improvement, but apparently little political will to see anything actually done, or to put significant amounts of investment in.
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Especially if you have a 'balanced life' and nobody in your family or social circle does. (I speak from personal experience)
Accepting patents is a lot less paper work for the patent office than rejecting a patent. You need to give a good reason to reject a patent, but no reason to accept a patent. Their basic operating theory seems to be accept them all and let the lawyers sort it out.
Exactly, it's a silly "holy-war" because you can use both quite effectively, both have their place.
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Do you have ideas on better tools for designers? I do for programmers, but if designers are a bigger bottleneck it would be great if their tools could be improved too :)
can you summarize what the book says about fish?
is there an article similar to this about fish farming?
Were you alive in the 90s? I'm just wondering out loud.
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Actually, it's not really enough to simply admin one's own mail server. Virtually all email is sent plain text, so the owners of any of the hops the email goes through (on the TCP/IP level) on the way to the mail server could relatively easily read your email.

Of course, it's even easier to read someone else's email if you own/run their mail server. But the bar is not that much higher if you're and ISP, a colo, or any of the probably dozens of hops your email goes through before it gets delivered.

If you really want privacy, you should use encryption. The even more paranoid should use encryption and mixmaster remailers. And the ultimately paranoid should use encryption, steganography, and some carefully chosen channels for transmission.
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The earlier parts of this interview are here:

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/stevie-marx/
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It's also interesting what the company says in return: http://www.smithfieldfoods.com/RollingStone/
Twitter Speeding Towards 10 Billion Tweets
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Google, Kansas — the capital city of fiber optics
You might want to look at Dragonfly (Opera's competitor to Firebug):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1117798
You are lucky. There is an extract from the part dealing with fish farming on the Guardian's website:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/23/jonathan-s...
Opera uses the same open plugin interface as Firefox.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/the-opera-plug-in-interfa...
I'm at least glad the title wasn't "It turns out considered harmful", which would probably have crashed people's parsers for a while. :)
It allows for easy live migrations for maintenance, and allows us to build VMs that are happily 100% oblivious of the underlying hardware. While most of our servers are split into multiple VMs, we consistently deploy new hardware with VMs even if they're intended for a single function simply because of consistency and ease of maintenance.
I like to eat pigs and live in Italy. Salsiccia and polenta is particularly good, and I'd be happy to grill some up for any visiting hackers, served of course with plenty of good red wine.

What's this got to do with Hacker News, in any case?
After applying for Seedcamp me and the guys had a discussion about DRM and the posted video. Interesting stuff for everyone involved with DRM and their startup.
The data (and metadata) is definitely important. And yes the Sun is a singleton in our solar system. Closer to home, if anything goes wrong with the earth, (asteroid, LHC, some unknown weapons programme) we're all doomed, including all ecosystems on the planet (depending of course on the magnitude of the disaster). The field of global existential risks is devoted to asking such questions.

That being said, I would rather my work depends on the sun's or earth's continued existence, rather than on twitter's or facebook's or amazon's uptime/finances/goodwill. We should aim to remove SPOFs/SPOCs to the extent possible.
appreciated... and very sad that Apple are trying to monopolise the whole market. Competition IS a healthy thing and this completely stifles it. Or to put it another way, lack of competition is very unhealthy and dangerous, and without it, they can get away with a lot of misdeeds.

Apple are the spoiled child that goes to school and steals all the other kids toys.

It's a pity because they make great products.
Yours seems to be a knee-jerk defense of your favorite company

Pure prejudice on your part? Are you basing this on my other writings? Or is this just a stab in the dark? (I will re-read the claim, however.)
Skype for Symbian lands on Ovi Store
I agree with you. It is not the usual HN type article, and it is far removed from the usual articles that draw me to HN.
Kanye West On Creativity
I think he means the use of the word heretic.

Heretic: anyone who does not conform to an established attitude, doctrine, or principle.

The word plays on lots of negative connotations (when actually there is no reason that it is bad to be a Heretic). Initially it seems a weird choice of word: basically "hey, if your not with us your against us. Oh and were going to burn you out". On the other hand I think it's one used in science history books quite a lot (still in a negative context though) so perhaps it is because the guy is a scientist and that's how non-conformists are considered.

Or then again maybe it is just a political choice of words attempting to undermine anyone that does pick at the data.

(as an aside the guy is wrong - some of the biggest scientific advances come from "heretics" making big and controversial discoveries)
He is using touch, that would give him an advantage over using a mouse. You can buy graphics tablets for the PC/Mac which also support touch gestures, basically a graphics tablet which allows you to finger paint. The same things with touch and a screen are not cheap, the cheapest one I can think of is the iPod touch actually, and if the guy already has a smart phone which can do it, why not reuse it?
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Science can't have "heretics". Science is about theories and the attempts to break or validate those with data gathered from controlled experiments.

Heresy applies to religions. By using the word the way he does, he implicitly acknowledges that climate science is a faith-based rather than fact-based system. Which incidentally is a central point of criticism for many sceptics.
All patent suits are evil.

From what you are saying, it only follows that most patent suits are legal. I am sure one would eventually find the odd legit patent suit after a rigorous enough search. (Analogous to real avail among spam.)
If the article is incorrect then Smithfield can and should sue Rolling Stone for libel. But they're not going to because it's true.
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Father of the moderm tiling WMs proposed for deletion in Wikipedia.
One Café Chain’s Facebook Experiment
Good post - an additional feature you could consider incorporating within your application is, adding something to your application which helps to 'spread the word' - such as (opted in) automated tweets (see tinychat - http://search.twitter.com/search?q=tinychat) or sharing widget (such as plaxo - http://www.plaxo.com/api/widget) where you can share with friends email addresses. You could also add the ability to share the link or your application/product through Digg, Facebook, Reddit, Delicious, Stumbleupon (which you now see on most blog posts).
I find it hard to believe that the amount of shit we have been pumping into the atmosphere has little effect on it.
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Kanye West found a way to prevent his content being made readable, even via readability.
Peeping Tom: A free (open source) site pinger
Do you agree with the answer to #2? He goes on to say that some former JPL employee named Ron attributed his high productivity to Lisp but, when he joined Google he found out C++ programmers there that were more productive that he in Lisp. Then he realized it was the programmers that mattered, not the programming language.

Now, isn't this a bit stretched? I'd believe if it was Python against Lisp, of course...
Upvote the commenter who makes the point you wanted to make. If no one else says it, you say it.

For instance, I upvoted Calcanis' comment (to rescue it from negative number territory) and upvoted the people who pointed out the insincerity / inconsistency. Both kinds of posts advanced the general knowledge.

I didn't have to upvote the more personal attacks on Calcanis. But it did feel pretty good. ;)
The interest for me is mainly in the view of this giant industrial process, and the surprising ways in which it isn't as efficient or streamlined as I would've expected. I can see how it's a bit outside the usual range, but for me it seems more technology focused than most of the TechCrunch articles that get linked, for example.
For further comparison, BBC article about the Polish farms operated by the same company here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4035081.stm.
True. Gary Vaynerchuk talks about this in Crush It. Health and family should always come first.
Pretty solid analysis. Yes, Facebook may be effective in changing the behaviour of a very small bunch of diehards, but these are a very small percentage of customers. Facebook as (very) niche markeing channel.
If you want to see the continuation in Eastern Europe (Romania):

http://www.awionline.org/www.awionline.org/pubs/Quarterly/07...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/business/global/06smithfie...
Microsoft Hops into Infrastructure 2.0
Cool idea.

Both the article and other sites (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2230 is an example) suggest that 3-20x performance improvements are typical.

I've worked on this problem before, and it seems like there are also simpler (and less memory intensive) ways of speeding up the computation. For example you can use properties like string lengths (or character distributions within strings) to get results that are just as good if not better. If you have a corpus of 1 million strings and you want to find all strings within an edit distance of 2 to a query, you can automatically eliminate any strings among the corpus whose length differs by > 2 from the length of the query string. Also, if you are willing to store 1-2 bytes of metadata about each string, you can use that metadata to very quickly generate lower bounds on edit distances, avoiding the O(N^2) distance computation whenever the lower bound is greater than your max tolerable distance. A good example of metadata would be to store (for each string in the corpus) the number of characters with ascii codes that are 0 mod 5, 1 mod 5, ... 4 mod 5.
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Ask HN: C++ as productive as Lisp (from Norvig interview) ?
Regarding Norvig interview for reddit...

Do you agree with the answer to #2? He goes on to say that some former JPL employee named Ron attributed his high productivity to Lisp, but when he joined Google he found out C++ programmers there that were more productive than him in Lisp. Then he realized it was the programmers that mattered, not the programming language.

Now, isn't this a bit stretched? I'd believe if it was Python against Lisp, of course...
8 Ways Startup Visa Will Change the World
Best of luck to you! If I can make one suggestion: move up the value chain from affiliate and site flipper. (Moving up the value chain means you offer more complicated and valuable services of the level of the people who were previously buying your services. For example, right now you're doing something fairly unsophisticated -- making "websites" -- on the behalf of affiliates who are not very sophisticated. One step up the value chain is making websites for yourself and being an affiliate. Another possible step after that is selling whatever the affiliate is marketing, for yourself. It is not unusual on the Internet to have chains which go half a dozen or a dozen stages deep, and your competitive position gets better for each stage you climb out of.)

The kind of people who buy websites for less than $1,000 are disproportionately going to be very, very difficult clients for you to work with. If you're capable of operating a website in a commercial or semi-commercial niche, just go ahead and do that -- you'll make far more money and won't have to spend time grinding out more websites to flip every month.

This requires transitioning your focus from "I make websites!" to "I have a business which happens to be based on the Internet." That has been a rather jarring transition for a lot of newer SEOs and software developers I've known in my day. Best of luck with it.

Incidentally, just because you are from Eastern Europe does not mean you need to charge your customers cheap prices. Charge based on the value you provide them. You are able to live on probably a third of what I can, but if you and I are able to do the same thing for some American customer (who is an ocean away from either of us), then we're able to charge the same amount of money. You can just enjoy it three times as much.
A couple of for-show plants in US to cover the madness in now exported to Mexico and other countries with lax or unenforced pollution laws.

Remember the original swine flu? Not the 2009 H1N1 human outbreak, the ones before that killing vast numbers of pigs in industrial farms.
Non-tech stories are hardly unprecedented: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1155108

If you're an inhabitant of Earth then large-scale environmental damage driven by global spending habits concerns you too. Sorry about that!
Novell gets buyout offer from hedge fund
Where can you get the ISO C++ standard, and what does “open standard” mean?
Analysis: Apple turns the flamethrower on Android
Delhi or even Noida/Gurgaon...
Yes and it's awesome, thank you. We owe Linus TWICE.
"What concerns me" does not make it hacker news, IMO. There are plenty of other sites where people can discuss what concerns them ad nauseam.

Edit: let me expand that a bit more. There are many things that I think are far more important than startups and hacking. Politics (in the US, Italy, the EU and worldwide), the economy (as above), the environment, child rearing, and so on and so forth. However, these tend to be "flame-bait" topics which are best left to other sites lest they overrun this one.
There reminds me of Second Life, but I only just heard of it. This may explain why it's going broke.
Find a hole in the Internet. Fill it. Preferably, a hole experienced by your customers.

Then, do it again.

Then, figure out a way how to repeat hole identification and filling, except at scale.
As it turns out is quite innocuous
$1000 is not hard to beat at all. I used to work on rent a coder back in the day and I made $2000 easily with two weeks of dedicated work.

I would suggest also building some easy web based tools that does something for which there is a clear market - for example making a picture polaroid, or diagnosing some disease. You will make some amount of money every day. See my post about this: http://blog.cubeofm.com/how-to-become-rich-even-if-nobody-is...

Alternatively, just go for shareware software. It's really really easy to make $500 a day on a piece of software if you are willing to do the manual labour of keeping it updated across the download sites.
I agree, and so I collected most of them. I had a count of 36 just using the links on your essay page.

For any interested, I just submitted it to HN here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1163918
Sort of.

The YC founders are a pretty cohesive group, so if you get into their circle you get a lot of the benefit. This goes for SV/SF based startup founders generally, too.

Since it's such a closed group, if you make friends with people at one meet up you'll end up expanding your circle to several. There are some open meetups (e.g. Hackers and Founders) and also meetups on technologies (e.g. SF Javascript).
And Also: "Cornell: Where If Your Best Hasn't Been Good Enough Since 1868 Then You Should Probably Leave"
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To clarify: by 'concerns' I meant 'is relevant to', not 'causes to worry'. IMHO, Hacker News is a site for discussing issues relevant to its readership; my point was that this article is indeed relevant, even though it's not explicitly technology-related.
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What's impressive about Kanye is that when he reached the peak of the particular art form he was in (his music), he was willing to start on a whole new art form, where it was sure that he would initially have to go through a pain process.

That's what we all have to do. Not just keep repeating the same shit in slightly different forms, but go somewhere else and do something new.

You can't know what you don't know till you've been somewhere you haven't ever been.
The difficulty with this advice is that many great books start slow, particularly since they were written in times where people had plenty of time spare for reading, or they were published in serial form where the author was paid by the word, and so stretched out as far as possible.

This doesn't make them any less great, but it does mean that if you filter them because "I'm a little bored 100 pages in", you're losing out on some of the best stuff.
"The excrement of Smithfield hogs is hardly even pig shit: On a continuum of pollutants, it is probably closer to radioactive waste than to organic manure."

This made me go woooot!? Clearly an article written to raise emotions than discuss anything serious.

PETA crawling to HN, scary shit.
It's a lot easier to do multichannel mixing, like he does, if you can tune up many channels at once. This is way easier with multitouch.
Nokia adds Skype to Ovi Store, foreshadows death of regular phone calls
I find it hard to context-switch b/n marketing n programming; How do you do it?
I find it hard to context-switch b/n marketing n programming; How do you do it?