skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality is that JFK-LHR and JFK-CDG were not really very long flights to begin with. I'm not sure why the Concorde was used for those routings.

But for routings like ORD-HKG or JFK-NRT, I think a faster airplane would be a good solution. These flights, when I've flown them (actually PVG-ORD and ORD-NRT), have been completely full in first and business class -- and first class is over $10,000 one way. I think people would be OK with a smaller seat if it meant they were in the air for 6 hours instead of 13. 13 hours is a lot of time to kill, even if you have a fully-flat bed and laptop power. (For me, anyway. I can't sleep on planes at all, even in the good seats.)

I don't completely agree with your numbers about travel time to and from the airport though. It takes me 45 minutes to take the subway from my house to ORD, and then 30 minutes to get from check-in to the gate (10 minutes before departure, of course). So that's 2 hours on one end. On the other end, it's never taken me more than 2 hours to get from an airport to city center... even in Tokyo (where the airport isn't even in the same prefecture as Tokyo). London is particularly easy; immigration is pretty efficient, and the express trains to Paddington are very fast.

Anyway, I think the Concorde discontinuation was due to "maximizing shareholder value" rather than revenue issues. Concorde was considered the "best" option between two cities that had Concorde service, but it was usually less expensive than "real" first class. That is a lost revenue opportunity, Concorde resulted in less profit per passenger-mile, and it cannibalized the super-profitable high-end business.

(That's what's really holding society back -- shareholders.)
the semantic web has nothing tod with semantic markup or html5 or xhtml2.
Could you rephrase?

(What is "a 5 mile tall mud"?)
Why is the scribd version 1) ugly and 2) in Flash? I thought they were all HTML 5 these days, and I'd clicked the scribd link to give them another chance.
I have never noticed much difference between iced coffee and hot coffee, but I am mostly an espresso drinker. In the case of iced espresso beverages, most coffee shops around here (megachain or otherwise) typically add an extra shot of espresso to the iced drinks, presumably to compensate for the melting ice. This adds to the cost, as more coffee is going into the drink.

Now, whether or not a shot of espresso costs a dollar is a whole other issue, but it does make sense. You aren't paying for coldness or the different cup or "seasonal rarity", you're paying for that extra shot at the usual extra shot price.
It's the largest file uploading service on the planet.
Imagine, just for a moment, what would happen if the did release their data.

People would criticize their decision either way …
Nice post. The world is lacking tons of culture (although you don't always need to go to university to get it, especially if you are a self-learner). Enjoyed the post though.
> if you don't have the network to handle the packets, lower caps or raise prices, don't start making people pay based on the kind of packets they send or receive.

> "clamping down on (VOIP|Gaming|long-lived downloads|P2P streams)" is

P2P streams and long-lived downloads have two major things in common: heavy bandwidth over long periods of time. Those activities, in particular, are considerably heavier on the network than, say, downloading a single, or even a series of webpages.

One way the major carriers can do this is by disallowing certain kinds of activities. For example, as seen on the iPhone, users are not allowed to download files more than 10MB in size. That isn't a case of "what" a person can download, but instead an issue of "how much" a person can download in a small period of time. Is that still 'net neutrality'? And, if not, then how is VOIP any different?

(This is under the presupposition that the price increase was ATT's doing, and they're not doing it because it's taking away from their profits; but instead they're fearing that VOIP will cause an even greater tax on their already strained network.)
The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.5 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
I thought this bit of the license was hilariously draconian:

You can type the programs from this book directly into your
computer. In this case, the only kind of license available to
you is the free “immediate license” (see below). You are not
authorized to transfer or distribute a machine-readable copy to
any other person, >> nor to have any other person type the
programs into a computer on your behalf <<.

Do I also have to shield my screen to make sure no one else can see the programs I've typed? :)
Ira Glass on killing your startup idea
Some of the obvious things that come to mind are: programming help, MSDN, Windows OS information and comparison between flavors, MS Office info and comparison between flavors, support, product help etc. These things all add up considering that they are on 90+% of desktops.
Yeah... we're talking about miles of rock... There's no way you're going to blow an opening between the reservoir and the sea-floor.
"Site search that suggests frequent phrases" made me think how awful most site search is. I'm waiting for a startup to make it simple and easy to add weighted faceted search to any website.
In New York and the northeast in general, they usually brew, cool, refrigerate and then ice the coffee.
New York City scores second highest here, but in actuality only ~27% of people have a college degree (US average: ~24%). In San Francisco (the highest score here) a whopping ~43% have a college degree!
Iced coffee or cold-press? There's a difference, though both are served over ice.

Cold-press is actually brewed cold, and it takes hours to have a well-brewed batch. That is a major reason the costs are different—prep time is much longer, and there are risks associated with preparing food in advance.

Iced coffee, real iced coffee (not cold press), is crap. It's hot brewed coffee refrigerated and/or poured over ice. This messes with the composition of the liquid, and generally causes it to become bitter. (Though if it's espresso, the results are different...)

Mystery solved, perhaps?
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Isn't that msn.com?
I bet it has to do with our psychological willingness to pay more for a cold drink on a hot day.
Google has mapped every WiFi network in Britain
> What people on a forum are trying to do, is not to make their text look "strong", whatever that means to the person who made the forum stylesheet, but to make their text bold, whatever that means to them.

Well, no, not really; that's like saying that I'm trying to create a grilled-cheese sandwich when I go shopping. Unless I am a professional chef (and thus looking to experiment with the form rather than the content), what I really want is the experience of eating a grilled-cheese sandwich: the taste, texture, aroma, visual of grill-marks on bread, etc.

What people on a forum want is the experience of seeing a bolded or italic word: that they mentally emphasize, or add importance to, the term so marked-up. The bolding is just a mechanism by which to achieve that experience, a communication tool similar to speed lines in a comic book. If a particular comic book does something other than speed lines to indicate movement—or if a particular website does something else to indicate emphasis—then that is what will be sought out, as that is the word used in the "vocabulary" of the site's design to describe emphasis.

Strength or emphasis are the real goals; people just aren't used to stating their real goals, rather than "what they're trying to do." (The bane of IRC help channels everywhere.)
I thought it went to Microsoft.com/go?fwlink= etc. And them pushed you to wherever (no idea if that counts, but if it did it could explain it)
If I invest my money in a stock, I'd feel safer if other people in the market had had the opportunity to short the stock prior to my investment.

This is because when someone shorts the stock, this results in a sale of the stock, thus pushing the price of that stock down. Thus when they short, their actions help to prevent the price of that stock increase to a level where it is unreasonably highly priced.

So by preventing the stock price from being unreasonably high, this helps prevent me from investing in the stock at an unfairly high price.

People shorting the stock can cause chaos in certain situations where lots of players are highly leveraged and there is significant counterparty risk (in naked short scenarios). However, I fail to have too much sympathy for highly leveraged players because I want them to get burned by the market so they realise it's an unstable and dangerous situation for them to be participating with unreasonably high leverage.
Berkshire Hathaway class A stocks, i.e., Warren Buffet's bets.

SPY = S&P500 Index ETF. That was actually a minor error on my part. I meant to link you to a comparison of BRK-A versus the SP500 index, not an trust that tries to mirror the SP500 index. Thankfully, for comparative purposes, they are virtually identical.
If there was a realistic chance I'd get to do some of the exploring myself, I know I would, short of my life (and by that I mean dying for it, not making it my life's work which would be cool. Whether I'd risk my life for it, I'm not sure).
Unlikely to be cost-plus pricing. It's about what the market will bear
Why Mobile Apps Aren’t Going Away
I would love two things in a plugin:

1) let me "flag" stuff from the main page or /newest -- make it ajax so it doesn't interrupt my flow.

2) Add a "block" function next to each post and comment. One click and I never see that persons submissions/comments anymore.
How to make a lake with an Atomic Bomb
one approach is to try and target a niche of the market, where you can get closer to the customer (ideally a high-frequency niche) and get more social, and use a social campaign to get key influencers on board. it may take a bit of brainstorming on that one though.

there's a good book on marketing strategy by some ex-microsoft guys that explains 3-5 standard market entry strategies. i suggest finding that. can't recall the name. has a picture of a football play on the cover i think. enjoy and good luck.
It's a really good problem you have here. If you're self admittedly not good at the business/management end, I'd encourage you to think about what your real goal is. That is--I often find myself building products because--well--I love to build products. It's my hobby.

On the other hand, I've been involved with enough startups to know that most of my attempts to commercialize my products will probably fail. So back to goals--you say yours is to escape your cube. Do you mean:

1. I want to escape the type of job that puts me in a cube.

2. I want to no longer work as a developer.

3. I want to no longer work--since I'm filthy rich.

Those span the gamut of goals and without knowing what you are really after, it's hard to give you advice on how to proceed. For the sake of adding some direct reply, let's assume it's #1 above. In that case, I'd say--keep honing your skills, demo your product and use it as a calling card for a job search with companies you think you'd be a fit with (maybe even Square). Don't bother the commercialization path and don't sweat the competition--since this is lateral to your goal of a better workplace--and a lot more achievable than a commercially successful startup.

Hope that helps.
Is it just me, or is there a fair bit of inconsistency on that page? Notably, the fireball is listed as being: 8km diameter, 3.5km radius, and 2.3km radius.

could have caused third degree burns 100 km (62 miles) away

That's big, all right. Wow.
Make sure you watch the next video in the series. It's about the gap between the ambition of what you want to make and the reality of what you're actually producing, and how the good taste that got you into creating will result in you feeling disappointed with your output while you're honing your craft.
I hope this is viewed as a last resort. Not because I have any fear of the nuke itself, but because if it fails it could easily make the leak quite literally unstoppable / uncontainable by spreading it.
Why does it need to be fast anyway? How many programs will this one-language-programmer be writing that needs to be fast?

Programs are generally constrained by just one thing: either CPU, network bandwidth, network latency, user latency, disk I/O and so forth. Why focus on the CPU? Is this hypothetical programmer really going to be writing another git or a program to fold protein molecules, or is he more likely to be writing glue, user interface or one-shot data manipulation programs?

Similarly, multi-threaded programming is hard. If this hypothetical programmer is only learning one language (and thus, by the admission of the article, not very good), why is this suddenly a requirement?
People always seem to think that things are priced according to the cost to the supplier, that is wrong. Goods and services are priced to what the consumer will pay for them. Skype are providing a service and people are (they hope) willing to pay for the convenience of having it on their phone. Welcome to the free market.
It's called, plug in a USB camera . . . oh look, you can't do that with the iPad and its raped OS.
Right. It would have nothing to do with the tangible increase in labor and materials: electricity, space, more grounds-per-oz of coffee.

Come on, really? Yes the price is dependent on what people are willing to pay, but there is a very real and legitimate reason for the drink to cost more.
Thanks!

I'm still not a fan of trying to tell machines about the meaning of natural language elements. Doing useful things with the information is equivalent to natural language processing, which is a hard problem. I once found a completely marked-up English dictionary and thought Oh, this will make it easy for the computer to understand English. Ha ha ha no. What the mark-up nerds call semantics turns out to be a microscopic subset of the full semantics.

What is useful is marking up the structure of documents. Knowing what the title is and where the sections are turns out to be useful for search scoping, even if the machine has no idea what the title means.
I'd suggest everyone itching to push their pet theory first READ the informed discussion over at the theoildrum.com. Industry knowledge, not eco-hand-wringing, gives this a BIG thumbs down.

"Suggesting an idea that has been consistently rejected for its several weak points literally dozens of times on this site alone, is an indicator that you havent been really paying attention. In short, explosions will not work because the bottom of the GOM is mud, for thousands of feet below the surface. any explosion at the surface will only make the problem worse. any explosion in the well shaft will only make the problem worse. Its been suggested to think of the bottom as a bowl of pudding, there is no way to use explosives to seal it up. it just doesnt work that way.

While its a common lust for most people to wanna blow up any problem they cant solve and seems to work pretty well for America in the past, it will not work here." http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6531#comment-634447
The article said it was based on Toolbar logs, opt-in Google Analytics data, and a few miscellaneous sources like customer panels. I'd imagine that most of the big sites don't use Google Analytics (or don't opt-in to letting Google use that data if they do), so I'm guessing that Toolbar logs are the primary sources for most of these.
Full-fat-dairy for cardiovascular health
Interesting study that suggest full fat dairy is actually healthier than low fat alternatives.
Jobs was an electronics hobbyist at the time he met Woz--in fact, that's how they met. While it's true that Jobs wasn't as talented as Woz, that's the reason he gave it up.
If that's it, I wonder why BlogSpot (Google owned) is #7 on the list, and Orkut (also Google owned) is a few places lower.

I'm guessing that they filtered them out because they aren't of interest to the intended audience of this list (display advertisers). Only Google runs ads on Google search, and they aren't display ads.
While its a common lust for most people to wanna blow up any problem they cant solve and seems to work pretty well for America in the past, it will not work here.

I'm convinced! This sure sounds informed to me!
Browser of Choice: Firefox 54%
Mobile Browser: Mobile Safari 29%
OS of choice: Mac OS X 51%
Javascript libraries: jQuery 78%

Anything surprising to you, or is it about on par with what you expect?
Oil could start leaking into the ocean.
Is your product solving or seeking a problem?
Or you can use the real thing:

http://weitz.de/cl-who/
Yeah, OK, that sounds about right.
We are at last resorts.

But this is no sort whatsoever.

It would cause less harm to set off a nuke at a randomly chosen location to symbolize our frustration.
"I personally would never be the first programmer in someone else's company, many other hackers are similar."

Including myself; the one time I inadvertently violated that it ended in tears (the idiot penny pinching salesman who was the founder tried to put off really hiring the first programmer until he got at least 1 other programmer ... and the first got a better offer; I think the only benefit I got out of that was by the end of it I could port code between subtly different versions of UNIX in my sleep (1H83)). In that case, it turned out to be impossible to hire the 2nd programmer and the start-up never started up.

As for your sequencing recommendation, I think it's better to learn foundational CS with something like SICP/6.001 and then reifying it with C (this CMU course looks damned good: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/index.html). I think it's easier to make your mental tool box bigger if you can do it this way.
Love the post. Having done college and then post-grad, I have to say that I missed out on the immense opportunities of learning about culture, art, history and so many more things.

Additionally, One thing that that the article did not mention is the environment in the CS departments(just for hanging out... and getting new ideas) which is way more better then the things you'll learn in class.
I was really hoping for drop box or git integration...
It's sort of arbitrary how they decide to label things. They label two sets of ailerons, two sets of flaps, and spoilers, but not the elevators and rudder?
It's pretty straightforward and not very "nice":

> why should Skype arbitrarily charge us a second time?

1) because they can; 2) who's going to stop them (definitely not carries who gain on that agreement)
From my understanding OT was a POS software provider first and only launched their reservation system after they had achieved a certain level of market penetration. As a result they didn't have to try and convince POS providers to integrate with them (the hard part) because they were already running their own platform.
Column, I'm guessing.

The mud gets pressure from being piped down from the surface - if it is twice the density of water, then that's the double to ambient pressure on the bottom.

Of course, the failure of the top kill didn't necessarily come from an inability to get enough pressure but from the limits of how to pressure could be applied - but of course, we don't know for sure why the top killed failed and possibly neither does BP. It's miles into the ocean where methane-oxides become solid.
Square has secured at least $10M in funding (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/square) and are pretty far along from what I can tell. That said, there's almost always room for competition, especially in the payment gateway market. If you think you can make something that is better/cheaper/simpler/etc., I'd say go for it (since you've already been working on this for the past few months). Find a partner to help you out and if you need money, try pitching to local angel investors. If you can seriously compete with Square (and convince them of that), it shouldn't be hard to get some kind of seed funding.
I suspected pressure was too high, but how exactly high? Wouldn't a nuke blast essentially shut the vent with rocks? So there must be a threshold for how heavy that concrete slab should be. Also, what is '5 mile tall mud'? A column of mud 5 mile high (how wide, how dense) equivalent of pressure?
Did Amazon Miss The Boat On Social Commerce?
This one is interesting for philosophical reasons: Fixes to the way Snap handles accept-encoding headers in the GZip code — requests from Konqueror and Links are no longer incorrectly rejected.

There is a sort of epic conflict here -- Haskell encourages you to strictly validate all data structures (and reject anything that's not exactly right), while the Internet encourages you to find meaning in any message. Of course, you can do that in Haskell, but you feel bad about it. And then your web server doesn't work with Konqueror or Links :)
Come on, really?

Umm, yes? A lot of coffeeshops will charge say 1.50 for an Americano, but 50 cents for an additional shot of espresso in a normal coffee. The only explanation is: That's what the market will bear.
Thoughts on Wrapping Up Microsoft's FY10
Well, in all fairness that's the no muss no fuss you don't have to pay extra to get softcopy from them license. Hardly the end of the world if your're something is limiting you to that.

For that matter, the subtle errors you're likely to introduce into the code gives them a strong reason to require you to keep it to yourself.
Unfair because they have the exact figures for themselves where they don't for others. It would be kind of slimy to know you have X visitors and then guess for everyone else. If you were in the same vertical as a Google service and were behind them it would seem very unfair, more so if you knew your traffic was actually higher than estimated.
We are at last resorts.

After trying a couple things (or is it just Top Kill that's been attempted)? Hardly. According to [1], they've spent ~1 billion so far, and part of that is paying people off, not fixing the problem. Surely the damage will be many many times higher than that, especially when factoring in ecological damage and future repercussions - they could get more groups involved, it's pretty much just BP doing all this, with their money. They have no interest in fixing it as-fast-as-possible-and-damn-the-costs, just in saving face (ie, "fast enough") and surviving the costs (ie, don't over-do a solution).

Not saying they're deliberately delaying, just that they don't wish to commit economic suicide if it can be avoided. Meanwhile, everything dies, and hurricane season is coming.

[1] : http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-busin...
Allows a Pythonista to implement something that compiles into fast code, while retaining a lot of the compiler-unfriendly capabilities of Python.
Seems like your information is well out of date, then. Profiling JITs can produce better code than the best optimizing C compilers.
My impression is that the Haskell community is tired of the lack of github-like darcs hosting, and are switching to Git for github. After all, you can losslessly convert between Darcs and Git, so even though the code is on github, they may be typing "darcs ..." to work on it.
Posting Readable Source Code to Wordpress.com
Setting an EntityRef in LINQ to SQL for Unit Tests
It could be. It's been 7 years since I was in a company that produced a VM.
Interesting point. Though I thought I read recently that their planned switch to SIP would end p2p functionality.
They should have titled it the 1000 most-visited sites except for porn.
A good way of enticing new users could be to build a bit more of a story/value proposition around your overall approach/system (versus the tool/app - I'm not looking for tools, I'm looking for solutions).

Maybe you could write a couple of articles about your system, how you might use it, why it's better than other systems and who it will work well for (or maybe an ebook would work). Then use the description of your overall time management system/apporach to lead people into your tool.