skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just used Hotwire to book a hotel in Toronto. Basically I found it to be similar to what Priceline is (minus the ability to "bid"), while still offering ridiculously good prices.

Essentially, I googled something along the lines of "Hotwire hotel list", and was given a list of hotels in each major Canadian city which are offered by Hotwire.

So anyway, when you're booking with Hotwire, you select a city, a date, and a star-rating for the hotel you want to stay at. From here you can just cross-reference the list found on the web to determine potential hotels you can get if you pay for their service.

In my case, I selected 4* hotel in Toronto between August Xst and August Xst, and was given an "average" price per day based on the stars selected and how long my trip was.

The hotel I ended up getting only cost me $92/night on hotwire for this period of time, which was a savings of around $60/night overall from Expedia. The list of hotels is surprisingly good too. In Toronto, they list hotels such as the Mariott and the Hilton downtown, so it's pretty awesome.
What's ironic is that Windows 7 was designed to be more Mac like and less like Windows XP and now they want to claim advantage for Windows 7 as being "more like the computer you know to use."
Second the steelcase leap. It has a nice "recline mode" which I make copious use of. Make sure you get the version 2.
All that observation does is move the question slightly, from "Did the ROI on the litigation make sense?" to "Did the cost of the litigation scare off $64 million worth of file sharing?"

It's pretty clear that the ROI on their litigation did NOT make sense. It also seems unlikely to me that they got $64 million worth of "scare" from the litigation either. But I'm not an RIAA member.
It's a pretty neat idea, I just created an event to see who wants to go see Inception.

I'd add optional time/date and location fields for events that actually do have a set time and location. Looks like it might be Rails-based, so you can use the Chronic gem for easy natural-language time parsing (sort of like Plancast does).
It's not a binary choice, you can have uncapped benefits hand Bill G 5 million a year, and give them exactly as crappy a ROI as I get.

Edit: This would also really help out aging athletes / rock stars / actors who make a lot of money when they are young and then run out.
Sure experimentation is great, but they're doing it on people. Those food aren't even labeled as such in the markets in the US and the effect they are having on agriculture is enormously problematic. e.g. Monstanto suing farmers. And how do they modify those organism? With radiation. This is not your father's brand of genetics.
Tell HN: Launched my first real start-up (Commerical video hosting)
I launched my latest start-up, http://www.sproutvideo.com , on last monday. It's a discount commercial video hosting platform. I built the service in a little under three weeks because it needed to get done ASAP.

Back Story:
A little over 5 months ago, I left my job at Motionbox.com. Motionbox ended up getting bought by SnapFish who had no interest in keeping any of the pro users (people hosting commercial content). So, in order to not screw over those customers, and to make a bit of money, I decided to build a comparable service and migrate over all of the users. We just started migrating users on last monday and things seem to be going well. We have about 150 users as of today.

So, if any of you need cheap commercial video hosting, you know where to go!
Fun is MIT licensed :)

http://github.com/marcuswestin/fun/commit/05870f3f54fda43090...
This is actually the economic argument for low levels of inflation.
Google, Verizon Pitch Neutrality Plan That Includes Tiered Option - PCWorld
You probably should to check out http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/
Has anyone done a fine print analysis of this?
I completely agree with you WRT downvoting... I'd much prefer a discussion like this to a buried comment, regardless of the merit of the original comment. Perhaps it was due to the perceived tone of your comment: "I don't understand why anyone would think it would be impossible" ~= "Who would be dumb enough to assume this isn't possible?" As for why anyone would claim the task is impossible - not enough imagination! :) Although it's more likely that they meant they thought it was impossible to achieve at a decent speed/framerate, which is a pretty reasonable assumption at first glance.

Technically, I think you're right - you could implement a pseudolayering system with only one canvas element. The limiting factor, however, is redrawing speed. You have essentially two options - every time a layer moves, you could redraw the entire canvas, which is conceptually easy but slow. Or you could do some calculation to determine exactly which pixels need to be redrawn - as you say, a matrix operation to determine a delta matrix. This may be faster than redrawing the entire canvas, but it gets much slower as you increase the number of layers. Speed may not seem like a huge issue here, but imagine clicking a layer and dragging it around - this would require constant (un-hardware-accelerated) canvas redrawing at ~10-30fps, which is probably pretty difficult to achieve with any significantly-sized canvas.

The brilliant canvas-on-top-of-canvas implementation avoids this problem altogether. While the layer being dragged still has to be redrawn, the process of doing so is made a lot easier because you don't have to shuffle around the data in the other layers in the process, you just have to worry about one layer at a time.
This is the best characterization I've ever read of the Green movement.

I've joked for years about how nature has replaced god for some people, but it was always too vague without the connection to atonement and suffering.
There's a cynical side in me which makes me wonder if companies that embrace all of open floor plan, fixed working hours (implicit requirement due to practices such as daily 9:30 stand-up meetings), required physical presence are specifically trying to make sure that engineers aren't solving any difficult problems: to make sure the engineers are interchangeable components, as well as that the company adds as little value as possible to their customers (while still wringing profit out of them).

Incidentally, no sane software company that I know off is rigorous about enforcing all three in all circumstances. The places I've seen hailed as successes of upper-case-A Agile, on the other hand, are typically gluing together software other people have written (without modifying the software itself, unlike legitimate open source companies) with very little value being added.

Disclaimer: I have nothing against lower-case-a agile, that is developing software iteratively and ensuring a large suite of tests to allow for rapid refactoring; it's the right tool for many (but not all) problems. Upper-case-A Agile (Scrum, XP, etc...) and "TDD", on the other hand, just smell wrong.
"I think it's properly classified as a species of religious conservatism, and doesn't even belong on the left."

No, it like or not it belongs on the 'left.'

The difference between 'left wing' and 'right wing' ideologies isn't the presence of a religious nature, secular or otherwise, nor does it have anything to do with any specific policy. The difference is this: 'right wing' ideologies take for their inspiration an idealized past, 'left wing' ideologies take for their inspiration an imagined future.
1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20679559 (No difference with carb restrictions vs. fat restrictions)

No difference?

"A low-carbohydrate diet, which consisted of limited carbohydrate intake (20 g/d for 3 months) in the form of low-glycemic index vegetables with unrestricted consumption of fat and protein." (emphasis mine)

"During the first 6 months, the low-carbohydrate diet group had greater reductions in diastolic blood pressure, triglyceride levels, and very-low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, lesser reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, and more adverse symptoms than did the low-fat diet group. The low-carbohydrate diet group had greater increases in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels at all time points, approximating a 23% increase at 2 years."

That's a pretty big difference if you ask me. The low-carb group was not calorie-restricted. The low-carb group had more positive changes in the most important heart disease indicators (VLDL and HDL). Notably, the HDL increase is very important.
I wouldn't call anything he did unethical, but check out this interview with Gabriel Weinberg (DuckDuckGo guy) about his previous startup: http://mixergy.com/gabriel-weinberg-duck-duck-go-interview/

With all of the respect I already had for him, his candor in this interview gave me even more respect for him.
clickable link: http://www.sproutvideo.com
It would be great if someone out there did a blind test of Word vs LaTeX layout. It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult -- just get a few pages of text from Gutenberg and render it in both Word and LaTeX.
Intermittent fasting with nutrient timing:

http://www.alanaragon.com/an-objective-look-at-intermittent-...

It seems that the research points that body comp levels are either unchanged or lead to more fat with the more meals/per day. The benefit of spreading out calories has to do with satiety and hunger not the gaining of fat. From the well researched article summary:

§ A haphazard/randomly variable meal frequency, not necessarily a lower frequency, negatively impacts thermogenesis, blood lipids, and insulin sensitivity.

§ Within a day, a higher frequency has no thermodynamic advantage over a lower frequency under controlled conditions.

§ The majority of controlled intervention trials show no improvement in body composition with a higher meal frequency.
OK, maybe I misread it. The way I read it, he got out of paying for the shoes by not collecting them - even as I write that down it doesn't make sense! - You're right.
I have trouble looking at the data (not a bug, more like usability). There are huge sections of the chart without relevant information, just long curved lines. This causes me to scroll horizontaly/verticaly with a little lag until I find interesting text. Maybe something more compact would do the trick without ruining the layout.
Rumors of a verizon iPhone get louder
Lol

I was hardly thinking of taxes and I am not American so I do not care much about that aspect, but it would cost more in taxes as the FCC would need to become a much larger entity.

I simply think that all of it kind of sounds like a compromise but when you look it from the perspective of a lawyer it has no teeth. It is a bit like saying the judiciary is independent but the president can set the salary of any individual judge.

I do not quite understand to be honest why would we need the FCC to be a middle man and why would the Non Discriminatory paragraph not grant rights to individuals. Any other entity than the court is very different. A court has the protection of contempt of court, it has the luxury of developing the law through applying it to specific cases, and its independence is enshrined in law and in the culture of the judiciary.

The whole statement is engaged in double speak and you would really need to be a lawyer to understand they are fooling people. The FCC might take test cases to court, but being a test case the court would be much more confined than if it was a specific case. So it would have to interpret the provisions strictly, including what does meaningful harm mean, which was downvoted in another comment but when you are dealing with the law such a thing as meaningful has quite a significance. You aren't talking to your friend and yeah we get the idea. You are trying to apply the law to facts and the facts can be very diverse and to find that meaningful threshold where it differs with insignificance takes many years and many highest level court judgements.

That is only one point. Each sentence if scrutinised carefully shows you how the statement has more holes than cheese and just how fundamentally different and much the worse the internet would be.

Finally, it is a matter of principle that no differences whatever should there be on the internet. I do not understand why anyone would support any traffic prioritization at all. Performing surgery one might say, I say let us get to that point first. To make a phone call to your granma, what is that more important than me getting the research when the paper is in due tomorrow and otherwise I would fail? To invest in the infrastructure and make it better! Why I'd much rather it develops as it has been. My internet is quite fast and it is just average package.

I do not understand why would anyone support any deal whatever between two giant and self interested companies which clearly have in mind screwing the public. If you think that is merely speculation, I repeat again the FCC has stepped in and stopped the talks because they, and as it seemed rightly thought, were conspiring against the public.
Windows 7 is more like the computer they know to use, even if it is slightly more "mac like"
My 7th attempt at a startup: Selling layer styles to Photoshop users.
Where does this earth saving "religion" come from. It's not like Mother Earth is in trouble. The biological system on earth has lasted for about billion of years and survived several mass extinction events.
In EVE, players can pay real money for an ingame item called a PLEX. A PLEX can either be sold ingame to another player for pretend EVE money (called ISK) or used up by the player for an extra month subscription. In this way, players can either pay real money for ISK or pay ISK for extra subscription time. A recent patch allows players to move these items about in the game world (before they were locked in the station).

In EVE, players fly spaceships about. There are different classes of spaceship, but the smallest and weakest ship are called frigates. They are also by far the most common ships to see in EVE as they are the only ships that can be flown by new players.

EVE also permits (and encourages) player on player combat. When a player's ship is destroyed, there is a random dice roll for each item in cargo to decide if the item will survive. Surviving items are dropped into the game world and can be taken by other players. Therefore players can attack other players and steal their items. This is normally done by a gang of pirate players who wait at the stargates that act as bottlenecks between areas. These pirates scan passing ships to see what cargo they are holding and if it's worth it, they attack. Mostly they attack large cargo ships, not beginners frigates as the loot you get from a beginning player doesn't outweigh the costs of attacking a ship.

What's happened here is that one player (probably working for some sort of large ingame player run group) was trying to move PLEX around (probably for profit, the market is player run and prices are different from area to area) in a weak frigate in an attempt to avoid attention, assuming that pirates would not bother scanning a tiny frigate. If it works it's a very cheap and easy way to move items about. In practice the pirates much have cargo scanned the frigate and then attacked it, seeking to steal the PLEX's. However the PLEX's were destroyed by an unlucky dice roll, robbing the pirates of their loot.
I am a developer, and have been using PCs for 20+ years, always wanting to throwing out the windows whenever MSFT crashed the thing.

Bought a Mac two years ago, and to tell the truth, I never knew how bad Windows was really until I used OS X.

My wife started using computers two years ago, and she just loves the Mac, I am professional developer and can honestly tell you that developing on the Mac is just awesome to developing on Windows,the Mac rocks inside out!!!.

Pc's are old school, Macs will rule this new century in computing.

Macs are rock solid easy to used by both experienced and unexperienced users.

This Microsoft site seems quite lame, and is obviously targeted to users who have never used a Mac.

Best regards
I quit my job in tech support about 4 years ago. Since then, I've made at least 7 attempts at starting a bootstrapped business.

My original idea was to build "a live-video youtube" but Justin.tv and uStream showed up just a few months after I got started, and the dream died. Since then, I've launched four search engines (two of which are keeping me ramen-profitable), a twitter app (wasted time), and a "viral" site based on comparing movies (didn't go viral).

With income from my two main sites dwindling, I decided I would try moving away from web apps, and focus on building a product. Patio11's success with the bingo card niche has been my main inspiration. After a few weeks of iterating through various ideas, I decided to put my skills with the camera to use, and started building a collection of layer styles.

My goal is to corner the high end of the layer styles market. Launching this site is the first step, but it will probably take a few more iterations to get where I want. Based on my research, there's at least 250k in yearly revenue up for grabs, and room for growth.

I finally launched the site yesterday, and now I'm looking for feedback. Please check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks.

PS: If you have a design related blog/forum/etc, and you want a review copy or a free copy to give away to your readers, just send me an email (john.at.blamcast.net)
Marvell's Plug Computer: A tiny, discrete, fully functional 5 watt Linux server
Keep in mind with Hotwire there are no refunds. If your is cancelled you still pay.
Perhaps, we ought to replace their Green religion with an inert religion like the Wiccia religion.
Another thing to think about: My mac is able to my TV without any bugs. (Major use case for my laptop) The screen just flashes and I'm ready to go. When I'm done I can be programming again just by unplugging the adapter. No more fixing my desktop icons.

(Don't get me started on how windows handles multiple monitors!)
Property taxes are actually at the root of much of the problem, but not because they're too high. Thanks to Prop 13, which prevented property taxes from increasing except when a property is sold, they're very unevenly distributed. In essence, we have a subsidy on old homeowners paid for by new homeowners. Not only has this starved local governments of revenue traditionally used to pay for schools, police and other municipal services, but it has badly distorted the housing market.

For example, my parents bought a house in Santa Cruz, CA for about $100,000 in the 1970s. Before the housing crash, the house was probably worth more than 8x that. This makes it very difficult to move, because if they did their property taxes would go up almost an order of magnitude. The problem is even worse with commercial real estate, which can stay in the same hands for decades.

Without repealing Prop 13 and making our tax system more equitable, we cannot reduce the high property/sales taxes that currently pay for municipal government.
I contacted a company to buy Sex Offender data. I called twice and then sent 3 emails. After a month of no replies I wrote a program that screen scraped their site.
I was amused by this key point:
On a Mac, out of the box, you can only encrypt your home folder. With Windows 7 Ultimate, you can encrypt your entire hard drive and even USB drives. So your stuff can be safer wherever you go.

Obviously, the problem with this statement is, any and every Mac you purchase will have encryption available - even if it's "only" the Home folder (which, I'd guess, is where 99% of my personal data is located...) The same can't be said for the PCs at BestBuy with Home or Professional installed.

Just amused by it.

Now the, "the mouse works differently" statement...I'm not even going to touch that one!
I think the crowning irony may be "PCs do what you want: they just work."
> It's not a binary choice, you can have uncapped benefits hand Bill G 5 million a year, and give them exactly as crappy a ROI as I get.

Crappy payout was assumed in the "Ross Perot gets $400k/year".

It has two huge political problems - folks will scream about large payouts to rich folk and rich folk will fight the crappy ROI.
>while the Russians have had some nasty accidents with fire extinguishers and torpedeos leading to mass casuality incidents.

I'm not sure exactly what this means but I have the image of them stuffing fire extinguishers into the torpedo tubes for the fun of it; only for it to all go horribly wrong.
I've never had a problem with microsoft word/excel for mac.

I'm not trying to say your wrong on all of these points or anything, I just always find it funny how companies use Marketing speak and omission to lie.
I'm not sure these studies support your case. I didn't bother to read all of them, but for example, according to the first one:

During the first 6 months, the low-carbohydrate diet group had greater reductions in diastolic blood pressure, triglyceride levels, and very-low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, lesser reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, and more adverse symptoms than did the low-fat diet group. The low-carbohydrate diet group had greater increases in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels at all time points, approximating a 23% increase at 2 years. Limitation: Intensive behavioral treatment was provided, patients with dyslipidemia and diabetes were excluded, and attrition at 2 years was high. Conclusion: Successful weight loss can be achieved with either a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet when coupled with behavioral treatment. A low-carbohydrate diet is associated with favorable changes in cardiovascular disease risk factors at 2 years.

Not sure what they mean by "adverse symptoms," but generally I read that as: low carb is better for your heart.

By all means, don't trust my personal anecdote or what Dr. Davis has to say on the matter (though I do recommend reading through his blog, as he does stay abreast of the literature and often refers to new studies, and he does have tons of empirical evidence via his patients.) Trust really isn't required, when it's easy enough to run your own experiments: simply eliminate wheat/grains/potatoes/juice/etc... for a few months and see what happens. (If you do this, do a lipid profile before and after.) If, like me, your LDL cholesterol drops dramatically and you lose 20-30 pounds, then that's the evidence that really matters.
If there happens to be excess inventory, the last minute bids can be quite good. That is a gamble, how big a gamble depends on knowledge of the high/low periods and any extra large conferences.