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Seems like a great idea to me. Creating a market where one doesn't currently exist. As a weekly passenger, I've always wondered why the airline can bribe someone to take the next flight, but I can't.

If I want to get on a full flight and another traveler is willing to sell his seat for [Cost] + $50 and I'm willing to buy it for [Cost] + $75 everybody wins. The traveler gets $50, the airline $25, and I get home a little sooner for a price I'm willing to pay. I don't know why people are casting this as "airline greed".
It's about the cost: 2GB RAM, 2-core 2GHz ARM CPU, GPU, 160GB hard disk, for just 100 US$. Add another 100 US$ for a case, keyboard, mouse and a cheap monitor... the whole desktop computer for just 200 US$ (!)
The price people pay for seats when the plane is full is usually extraordinary - 3-10x a "normal fare". Thinking on the margin, the airline would get - say $700 - for the "overbooked" ticket in your example, and profit as long as someone will volunteer to be "bumped" for <$700*

* Actually, the airline would probably profit even if they had to pay $700 to compensate the bumped person - since they're only giving out travel vouchers. Additionally, they can involuntarily deny boarding to someone for a cost lower than $700 (at least in most situations).
Do read the fine print though. Usually you sign away all rights to your algorithm and source code. You might be OK with it, but just be aware of what you sign and for what kind of compensation (not necessarily monetary).
Microsoft does have a license to customize the ARM architecture, so maybe they are planning some x86 compat layer. It's an interesting technical challenge but what business problem does it solve for Microsoft? This lets them run Windows on other processor, but it doesn't give them a better mobile platform to compete with iPad, for example.
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Ye olde friend, ridiculousfish.com:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+rid...

:-)

And couldn't help but notice in the results:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=734727
I hope they did; We tried this app, but ended up having to roll our own because of missing features. Of course, we were using it for hex display, not hex editing, so what we came up with was mostly better visualization of binary wire data (specifically, more custom data types than int and float)..
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In finance-speak, industries with rapid change that are difficult to forecast should be valued at very high discount rates.

This requires even more extraordinary growth rates to justify a given valuation, since future cash flows become worth that much less.
You're missing the definition of a good institution.

A "good institution" is one that does not interfere, but also stops others from taking over and interfering.

Innovation is as natural as breathing, but so is conquest. After innovation, the winners often use their power to conquer and close the door behind them. This is history too. It is the innovators who tend to shut down the environment that was open enough to enable them to innovate.

Winners close the door behind them because they underestimate how much luck went into their success. As everyone knows, the first $20 million is the hardest.
SLC, but good guess. I suppose ATL is often considered the worst.
Very good point. I was in much the same boat as the OP. There is a lot of respect out there for people who've worked their way through school.

Be careful not to emphasize it too much though, lest it seem like you're making excuses. Maybe the person considering you for a job did the same thing.
Obviously. But people need performance on the desktop. With cheap AMD / Intel QC CPUs do you think ARM will offer better performance at significantly lower cost than AMD/Intel? I doubt it. And just cost is not going to play well in the desktop market.

EDIT : At that configuration, without a monitor, when desktop sales are all time low compared to laptops in the PC market - why wouldn't one just buy a AMD Fusion Netbook?
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I've been selling $5 apps for Mac and Windows for over 3 years now already, completely independently and homegrown, so this won't impact me much. :)

There was a point in the past where I did a lot of research in the traditional PC/Mac shrinkwrapped boxed retail bricks-and-mortar software market, and the pricing model was rather shocking. Speaking in very general terms, and especially more about PC software, what I found was that for a say $50 priced unit of software, in a box there at a retail store, about 50% of that went to the retail store, about 25% or so went to the distributor, 20% to the publisher, and then only about $3-5 went to the actual developer. (Approximately, details varied.) Add-in traditional publishing industry shenanigans that try to turn developers effectively into sharecroppers, and almost require huge hype-driven sale numbers, and the situation is even worse.

Now with things like Steam and the App Store and with PayPal, etc., developers can publish software directly, much more easily, and the distributor/online-retail middleman takes a smaller cut, so say the retail price can be $5 and the developer takes home 70%-97% of that, depending on if more like App Store or PayPal model, respectively. So the take home income per unit for the developer can be about the same, but at a much much lower retail price point, which is a net win for consumers. And since there are less publishing shenanigans with compensation structure, it's actually possible to sell a small number of units per month and achieve at least Ramen profitability. Which at least buys you runway to develop additional stuff or work on side ventures, so it's a virtuous cycle/snowball effect.
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As uncomfortable as the thought is, I think I'd give this a shot. Regardless of the reliability of these claims, I respect people who question what's "normal" in society.
Finance data is definitely one we're looking into, I'd love to see what some clever hackers could build with access to something like that!

A few others: Sports stats, nutritional info, science figures (melting point of titanium, etc.). There are quite a few things we could offer, which is why we're interested to hear what developers would want to use.
Facebook has been 'covered on TV news' also, and hell a movie has been made about it. Would you call an interesting article about Facebook something that shouldn't be on Hacker news because it was covered on TV?

"if they'd cover it on TV News, it's probably off-topic"

Keyword being probably. In any case the OP is right. This post gratifies one's intellectual curiosity (or at least mine, though it seems like most of HN thinks the same), and is a breath of fresh air in comparison to the dozens of Vim tips type of posts you find throughout the day.
I used to work at NVIDIA as a hardware engineer and would go to nearby university career fairs to recruit new college grads. There's no absolute rule regarding GPA but generally 3.5 was the minimum cut off.

NVIDIA was also the only company I knew of that required candidates to take a written exam on the spot at the career fair. Scary stuff. The problem is there are too many applicants to look at so any kind of filter (administered fairly) is better than none at all.
If you can't be loyal to the institution, be loyal to the "favourable conditions" of the institution. Support those conditions.

Because those conditions DO give back to you.
I can't stay away from work more than a week. And I'm not sure I'd be welcome at work during a no-soap experiment..
I'm still paying off my medical school loans (30k remaining). No kids, Corolla (paid off), rental apt (split with girlfriend). I have savings ~100k liquid and available to me now (much more is invested) and my girlfriend would support me. My annual expenditure (outside loan payments) is ~40k. Without vacations 30k.
You know what would be awesome is if TextMate 2.0 appeared as well. I'm happy about Tweetie though. I've been growing a bit frustrated with Nambu.
Airlines usually offer 200-300 dollars for someone to take a different flight. In this case, instead of losing 200-300 dollars because of the overbook, they lose only 120 (since that is the minimum someone has bid for the seat)
>physical distances

I imagine we can just bounce VHF off the sky or something. People solve harder problems every day.

Also, never underestimate the bandwidth of a hard disk in the mail :)
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You don't necessarily have to create a hash using a literal string. You can also do this:

dict(
key="value",
dr_nic="The Comedian",
ttl=42
)

...but that is a bit different syntax.
Can this be selected only for some entity groups?
At least in the US, I don't think that's true other than for New York, Boston, and Chicago. Are there other cities that have good cheap public transportation to the airports? For a long time, it was basically impossible to have a direct connection due to federal regulations.

Not that it's always extremely expensive, but here in the Bay Area where we have better than usual public transport by US standards, it's $8.40 from downtown Oakland to SFO on BART, or $4.75 (with a nontrivial bus transfer) to OAK. From SFO, it's also about $8 to SFO, $7 to OAK (same transfer).
We've done all sorts of strange things to it over the years; 'yan is planning on embedding it wholesale into one of our projects, so that may be the direction we're going with it.
He is a Life Master

http://main.uschess.org/assets/msa_joomla/MbrDtlMain.php?120...

(As a U.S. resident, he probably hasn't had much exposure to FIDE-rated events... and in fact his FIDE profile says only 10 games)
I never thought the new Mac app store would have free non demo apps. In realize that the iOS store has free apps, but there, it's the only way to get apps onto the phone for most people.
IDA and Burp, maybe? Not everyone uses IDA and not on every project. Burp's definitely #1.
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Did you lift her pictures off the internet or did you have her approval? From the comments it sounds like you did not have her approval.
Rand's philosophies are far from universal truths.
Where were you during that year? I mean, did it get hot?
We're an all-Mac shop, and HexFiend is the best hex editor on the platform (0xED is more featureful, though... but "lots of features" isn't what I want out of a hex editor).
package.el is slick stuff. Those guys convinced me to make some of my packages ELPA-compatible when it was first starting out. It's super easy to use as a user, super easy to use as a developer, and makes it really nice to install and use dependencies for extensions.

It's totally awesome that it's in the main codebase now.
It's not clear how enforceable these provisions are. As a private company, is Facebook subject to insider trading laws?

Obviously GS could stop doing business with said person, but what other recourse would they really have?
This was very much seen as a fiasco in Israel, by the general public and reportedly by Mossad itself. Mossad director Meir Dagan had to step down recently, almost certainly as result of the Dubai debacle.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/mossad-chief-m...
Flip off apple? Really? Apple sell them a device, they own it and do what they like with it. I don't think achieving something non-trivial like getting windows 8 running on an ipad is flipping off apple.
I imagine 45 minutes of your time is worth at least 10% of the cost of a typical airplane ticket, and if you don't get the ticket and want to fly eventually, you have to make at least one additional round trip, so it's an hour and a half of your time.

I'm in Ann Arbor, where the only efficient way to get to DTW is by car, which means bribing a friend (still not free in terms of friend's time), taxi ($50), traditional airport shuttle (~$30-$40), or shorter taxi plus regularly-scheduled airport bus (~$25). All cited costs are one-way, and a one-way trip is at least half an hour.
That's like saying the government is responsible for all business because they printed the money.

The "internet" that the government created would be nothing without the private organizations that actually built it. When did the government start Cisco? Google? USR? Even the early iterations of the internet were built by private companies. It's more that the government was the first buyer of this type of technology.

Edit: The idea that the government can take responsibility for the internet is gigantic hubris. In fact it's governments that are continuing to destroy what the internet has become.
They are porting Office to native ARM, it was mentioned in Sinofsky's presentation.
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Is there "software engineering" engineering at all?

It is more like "social engineering" or "financial engineering". More to do with ingenuity, than engineering as a practice.

Engineering is an application of scientific - mathematical and physical knowledge to create something. If you don't do the Math, you probably are not an engineer. There is little room for subjectivity.

So, I guess most programmers (if not all) are software technicians. They have practical knowledge, but not the proven theory behind it.

So you will have "Fact and folklore in software engineering", until you can synthesise "something-driven development" using knowledge mathematics and science.

Currently you have some ideologies and studies on them.

In control engineering for contrast to solve a problem, for example a controller regulating the flow of fuel in an engine you have the following procedure:

1. You make a model of the open and closed loop system. You know how do the processes look like in derivatives and you can make transfer functions and state-space representations.

2. You correct the system according to specification, adding to the models.

3. Knowing the physical properties of the different parts of the system you are left with some choices of implementation, but they have different trade-off (physical and economic). You talk with the client and make the appropriate choice. :-)

So, you have the heuristics to solve the problems all build on both practice and science and you don't have the engineers split in schools or ideologies :-)

I guess it should be the same with programmers.
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Can one of you clever people explain what is meant by the term "system on a chip"? Is it just a marketing buzzword, or is there more to it than that?

I've tried wikipedia, but just got even more confused.
The real magic is probably the Windows app store and new app packaging format that are also expected to be introduced with Windows 8. I'd imagine apps will be required to support both ARM and x86.
It appears his Fide rating is about 2200, which is comparable to about 2300 in the USA. For non chess players, his rating places him in the top 2% of rated players in the world.

Here is his US Chess rating history:

http://main.uschess.org/datapage/ratings_graph.php?memid=120...
Am I the only one who thinks adding more syntax is a bad thing?
> they see it as a choice between success and success

And that is absolutely baffling. It will be studied for decades after Microsoft is gone and be the ground upon countless doctoral theses are built.
:) Matz eventually implemented my 2002 proposal. See http://virteal.com/RubyLanguage
And that's why there never was an Office for MIPS...
The website is great, really simple and original.
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The idea is sound and it seemed slick when I tried to use it. Unfortunately, I got several errors when trying to install packages like Slime, Paredit and Clojure-mode. I've since manually setup those packages for myself and they work fine, so I wonder what the problem was that I encountered.
The study's author "misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study." Oh, and he was paid by a law firm which was looking to sue vaccine manufacturers.

The net result: vaccination rates dropped, and measles cases have gone up sharply.
With Remote Desktop you are running Office on the machine that has a fast network and only transferring the pixels that change. That's not, probably, what jawee was saying.
How old are you? And do you plan to have kids in the near future?
Once you get past a certain number of tabs[1], neither horizontal or vertical works very well. I'd like to see a browser that worked along the same lines as Emacs' buffers, where you have no tabs, but an ability to show a list of open pages, and a quick way to switch directly to the page you want.
'C-x b gmail', along with an IDO clone would be great.

[1] I have 103 tabs currently open. Writing that makes me feel like an idiot!
But surely Intel's performance lead is basically a matter of process, not architecture. Presumably nVidia is going to strive very hard to narrow the process gap - and if it doesn't succeed at that, it's not as if an x86 arch would have saved it.
I would scale down your medical operation bit by bit while spending more time building the skills necessary to launch your start up. Only once you are confident enough of pulling it off, would I work full time on it. Basically, not only you have the risk of your start up being a complete failure but also that you might not be able to pull it off technically. The latter risk can be completely hedged away by my first piece of advice.
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Really glad to see this at last, but there's a negative side as well… Loren was actually never supposed to give the app to anybody. His 'testers' were never supposed to exist. All this story has done is cause him trouble- people have admitted that they've had the application for weeks, and that's part of the reason why you'll see a few people freaking out on Twitter.
> it would be more difficult to write an x86 emulator for ARM

Building an x86 emulator is easy. Building one that can run Windows 8 software at speeds comparable to then current Intel or AMD x86 processors will probably be impossible. There is no such performance gap between ARM and x86.
No, you aren't.
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Not quite. Take MySpace again: if they can monetize well the traffic they have left, then they are worth quite a bit, despite the fact that their traffic is shrinking.

Growth in early stages is a good indicator of the potential to make money later. As growth stops, it's time to actually make money from the peak you attained. You are not dead at all then, you just can't delay any longer making actual revenue.
If any component sucks you can always offer a replacement. That will still be the case I presume?
A system on a chip is a single chip that integrates all or almost all other chips on a motherboard into one chip. So this chip will have a cpu, graphics, memory controller, network controller, io such as usb. That way you can have basically one chip that is all or most of the computer. Sometime RAM and normally storage is separate chips but you basically end up with just a few chips on a very small, normally low power motherboard. It is great for system integrators as they don't need to spend as much development time to build new machines.
Then there is a real simple solution for you, don't claim that your site is compatible with Firefox 3.0 + ... because it clearly is not. Say what you do, do what you say.
The look and feel remind me very much of Bumptop. Looks like a more complicated, although more effective way to organize the tablet versus the iPad.
This is a silly and naive sentiment, akin to "This new factoring algorithm has DRM-breaking applications. We'd better outlaw it."

Downvoted accordingly.
someone need to invent a html tag for that :)
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Agree. Hardware design is a much slower and deliberate process. The EEs and CMEs I know who are the best at hardware really are completely different from the best software people I know. I don't think there's a great deal of overlap between the two groups.
The sad thing is even though the study has been thoroughly discredited[1], it continues to hang around and be cited by anti-vaccine activists.

[1] Even sadder is that they cite Wakefield being exposed as a fraud as evidence of tampering by "Big Pharma".
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Ouch. Thanks for pointing that one out.

PS. Ruby 1.9 does have a native OrderedHash, the same as the one from ActiveSupport.
> I wonder what ARM has to say about 64-bit computing, though

Bad news on that one, at least for the first generation of nVidia chips based on the Cortex-A15. Segmented address spaces? They're baa-aack!
have you thought about hiring a contractor to mock up your idea before you quit your job?

is the idea for a medical start up?
I agree that the empty space in the western US distorts the population density, so just claiming sparse densities doesn't answer the question well. But isn't it obvious that there is are far fewer regional services in the US because Americans travel within the US more the Europeans travel within Europe? Lots more of the smartphone-carrying population travels from New York to California than from Spain to Poland.

Honestly, do you have any ideas about what causes these high prices other than density? The competition among the providers is pretty healthy, as far as I can tell.
Legacy airlines have revenue management departments that use sophisticated mathematical models to price discriminate between passengers to obtain the maximum yield from each day's operations.

Airlines without such advanced techniques to rip off less price sensitive customers have a hard time competing. F9 and WN* and the like have much less complicated models and more predictable pricing. To compete, they have to go after loyal bargain hunters like vacationers and small business commuters. They have no effective scheme to squeeze big businessmen with expense accounts. By building a reputation for transparency, they can charge stable prices and make money. It takes time and commitment, though.

DL, on the other hand, makes money by offering to bump regular coach passengers even off very oversold flights in favor of expense-account men on full-fare coach tickets. DL no longer advertises the guaranteed seat benefit for very profitable Platinum Medallion customers on the Delta web site, but you can call the medallion line and get a ticket on any Delta flight any time. It will cost you, but you will get it. Delta will just have to pay to bump someone else at the gate.

Two revenue models. Both survive in the market. Neither happens by accident.

*(Frontier and Southwest)
Which begs the question, would you publish on the Mac app Store?

I agree with what you are saying about the traditional bricks and mortar approach being an exercise in rogering the developer. Which was why when the iTunes App Store opened up I thought it was a huge deal that they were only taking a 30% cut, and yet were doing all this other stuff effectively for free: hosting, payments processing.

But - if you already have all that set up and in place, is it still attractive to you? If only for 'marketing' purposes? E.g. to say that you're on there, to be searchable etc.

NB: I realise that the walled garden is very restrictive, so your particular apps might not apply, ignoring that, is there any aspect of the deal that appeals to you?