skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sense is that this has improved a lot recently, perhaps as a side-effect of trying to stay competitive in the travel-planning portals that can stitch together itineraries from multiple carriers.

To wit: when switching in Kayak or Hipmunk from roundtrip to one-way and vice versa, the fares roughly or exactly match what you'd expect from decomposing/recomposing the parts.

This was hardly ever the case in the past when using the airlines own portals, or Web 1.0 aggregators.
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Wouldn't distrust and lack of credibility be a check for this moral hazard?

Surely someone at News Corp understands the value of keeping sources confidential and the the value of a scoop? People might not agree with their prevailing ideology, but there's no evidence that News Corp double crosses sources.
Invested in a Herman Miller Mirra and couldn't be happier.
Ha, I was just about to suggest this! It's the chair I have at the moment (6 months old) and it has "fixed" my back problems (as much as something can fix) that were caused by years of a terrible chair that caused me to lean forward all the time.

The way this chair reclines and fits my back makes it super comfortable and helps my back.
Why do you believe camelCaseIsBetter and more readable then using_underscores_in_variables ? While you're entitled to your opinion, calling one "good" and the other "bad" is a bit overboard.
Sorry, Google has more raw twitter data than that.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/replay-it-google-sear...

"For our initial release, you can explore tweets going back to
February 11, 2010, and soon you’ll be able to go back as far as the
very first tweet on March 21, 2006"
Is there any explanation as to why I should do this?

Suppose it's a good cause, and OP's post is successful at getting head.js added. Do we really want HN to turn into a votebrigade-for-hire?
I have a standing desk so I try to stand most of the time, but I also invested in a pretty comfortable padded bar stool with a back as backup.
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Seconded. Having owned an Aeron and multiple other high-end chairs, I wholly believe that the Embody is the best option out there. Considering how many hours we spend on average in front of the computer, buying a chair that encourages a proper posture and relieves stress on joints is easily worth the money, imo.
Excellent, mind-opening article.

Still reading, but I disagree with this point:

If your response to question two was "False," you chose to interpret the word "Congress" to refer to the President of the United States and the word "law" to refer to an executive order.

Wrong. I chose False because the executive branch's job is to enforce the law, and the President cannot issue an order to enforce a law that does not exist.

He still got me with many of the other questions though. This is quality stuff.
I think it was Amazon that used doors as desks (apparently some folks still do for the novelty factor)

http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/when-petscom-had-aeron-ch...
Perhaps all carriers' in-flight magazines will retaliate next month with front-page "How To Beat The NYT Paywall" articles.
Spain is probably hovering around 20% unemployment, and you won't like the pay they're offering. You'd think with all the startups doing mobile/cloud computing there would be more of a market for telecommuters. I'd keep looking and try to line up something before you leave.
Is there a gray area between this project and normal source protection by reporters? I'd say on the face of it that the WSJ Fakeyleaks is less protective than contacting a reporter directly, since the investigative reporter's reputation hinges on not burning their sources.

So, if you already want to leak things to the WSJ, that mechanism already existed. If anything this is probably just Rupert being butthurt over his loss of control over the mass-media news landscape and "me too!"'ing on WL. Nice try, old man.
Most interesting - thanks for posting this, as it answers several questions about a similar case.
I don't think the unattended bag part is a big deal. Who would check a bag to some city they're never going to?
Is not having JavaScript really a problem?

I never even consider it anymore.
I totally agree with you, look at my post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518927
anyone know how the flushing/template streaming works? Is it automatic or do I need to turn it on? How does it know when the head ends?
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Here's the triad which must seem attractive to billionaires:

High Risk -- High Capital Cost -- High Impact.

By risk I refer to financial risk. By impact I refer to the changes the new thing would wreak and the concomitant profits that would follow.

Fusion fits the bill nicely. With a few billion bucks I reckon I would happily sling a million here and there for a low probability of obtaining still further billions.
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Ya there are. I've had planes take off fairly delayed because of folks doing just this. We just sit there as the airline tries to reconcile why the number of checked-in passengers doesn't match their passenger count.

I'm guessing this is some sort of security rule? It doesn't matter tho, it absolutely sucks for everyone else on the flight.
This looks good - however some of the language used is a bit interesting. I laughed when I read "chain like a sick bitch" but I believe most people (especially young kids, who will benefit from this the most) may see it as a bit aggressive / over the top.
I would definitely be interested in buying something like this, or even smaller as long as it was something of decent quality. There should be a marketplace for lifestyle- midsize businesses that wasn't full of junk like flippa.
As a database consultant I can assure you there are great many servers on which I have a user, but no ability to "su root".
"Isn't there something inherently wrong with society when an industry that [b]provides little value to society make so much money[/b] that they can afford to pay better than anyone else?"

I dont think I misunderstood you there.
That makes sense, but you could argue that there is a cost associated with upsetting and frustrating your customers that maybe the airlines aren't taking into consideration. Something can't be right with their models if they are going bankrupt again and again.
Mine cost me nothing. I got some wood scraps from a local kitchen factory and built a couple of tables, at the right height, to stand on top of my standard desk.
You're not alone. We are a minority though.
After going on workers comp. because of all the wrist problems I was having from years of hunching at a computer, I was given a Steelcase Leap. Now I'm like one of those rockstars who demands only X brand of water in their dressing rooms; just a Leap chair for me. It actually makes me want to sit back and sit up straight. Plus, it may lead to a 17.8% increase in productivity [1]. At least that's what the brochure says ;-)

[1] http://www.oneworkplace.com/images/dynamic/case_studies/leap...
The alternative is the way C++ was handled--for a very long time new stuff would be added to compilers in a non-backwards way and break all your code. This was happening pretty much every time you got a compiler update and was very frustrating. "gofix" seems like a pretty good compromise for using the language while it's developing and not having your code break constantly.
+1

On everything I'm responsible for, it's assumed that if you've got shell or if you've got permission to upload executable code, you've got the ability to get root.

I'm prepared to keep on top of server security enough to protect against remote-root exploits (with reasonably short zero-day exposure times), but there's no way I'm going to be able to keep every little utility shipped with a useable linux distribution up-to-date and secure.

If Tripwire or Snort or the logfiles show unexpected filesystem changes, we reimage the OS and restore the data from backups.
Well, the problem is that they insist on neither: that both the price stay the same and that the extra stuff is required. Rock - Me - Hard place.

BUT I do feel bad in these cases because I believe they thought it would be included. Plus it may truly be necessary for the final product to be useful for them. So I want to help them, plus, ya know, don't want them pissed at me :)
I wasn't aware Ocado was loosing money - they were definitely my delivery service of choice when I lived back home in London. I think something similar an independent company based on Whole Foods (rather than Waitrose) -- would be successful here in California.

For the record, their stock has almost doubled in value since they IPO'd last year (http://www.google.com/finance?q=OCDO)
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The business model is simple:

We've discovered an echo chamber. Let's sell them microphones, an amp and a speaker!
Yes, I know -- the question stands: why would you have both of these concurrently in the same system? Either you want a KDF, or you don't want a KDF -- pick one, and don't start reinventing your own (potentially poorly), please :-(
I'm looking to get a limited group of alpha testers signed up in the next week or so. There will be bonuses for getting involved so early and helping to shape Reactor, what will become a niche developer community. So make sure you're on the mailing list to find out exactly when the alpha stage is open

http://reactorapp.com/
I think it helps to figure out the system when you are trying to do one better.
You should reply to the clients when you provide the original quote with a very succinct summary/bullet list of what is being provided - SUPER SUCCINCT. and get them to sing-off on that

So if they come back with anything, and it is not boiled down into the bullet item list of features - its additional service request.

This might help them to further think about their product.

One thing that always pisses me off when getting a quote from a developer is when they say some large number of hours are required for some nebulous task.

"Setup development environment: 40 hours"

or something similar.

shouldn't your development environment be setup? or streamlined such to not require 40 hours?

so, make sure you reply to them with a super succinct understanding of what is to be delivered and this will be the go-to document for any discussion about scope.
I don't think any chair will give you great posture, (though the wrong one will definitely make things worse). You need actual exercise for that.

In case you don't have $$$$ to spend on a high end chair, remember that the reason chairs cost a lot of money is partly so that they can be adjustable to fit almost any one. However, the right cheap chair that fits you also works fine. In other words, go into a store with lots and lots of chairs and sit on them. I found a $150 chair that works great for me, but will undoubtedly be wrong for somebody else. Also remember that the chair is only one part of the ergonomic equation.
I bet if you were an "evil database consultant", you could get yourself a root shell on _many_ of those servers with a little bit of google fu. There is a startling amount of exploitable code waiting in just about every standard OS install for anybody with regular user privileges.
He almost had me, until he quoted Oliver Wendell Holmes favorably
As a journalist I find it really disturbing that the WSJ has this clause.

The #2 rule in journalism (after tell the truth) is protect your sources -- if you promise not to reveal your source, you don't reveal your source. It's not, "well, I promise not to reveal you -- unless I get a subpoena, then you're SOL." And yes, that means going to jail if you have to. Which is why as a journalist you have to be very careful who you give it to.

I realize that by the nature of what they've posted they're not promising it, so now there's two standards -- if you submit through the site, you have some protection, but to a journalist on their staff, then, you have the (assumed) full protection. But now there's that separate level of protection -- we'll give you anonymity, depending on some sort of arbitrary process if submitted through this site. And most people don't understand what a professional reporter will (or should) do for their source -- if they hand papers over in one or two cases, many people will assume that all journalists will just cave,and that will hurt everyone.

I do understand why they don't want to give blanket full protection for things unknown/unseen, but unless they're willing to do that, I really don't think a journalistic entity should do this kind of site at all.
EDIT;

You also need to make sure you inlcude a statment of what the quote/project IS NOT.

They need to sign off on this too.

So that when they ask for something, and if it is describe in what the work is NOT, then there will be no confusion about what IS included.
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"they need to check if your bags are flying unaccompanied"

For those traveling with checked luggage, this "hop off" tactic won't work, unless passengers want to lose their bags.

For those without checked luggage, the airlines have no way of determining whether your carry-on bags are still on the plane or not, short of emptying the plane and reboarding (which I have never seen before).
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2517136
Key question: are these new ads or ads taken from Google?

Otherwise put: are Facebook taking a larger slice of Google's pie, or have they grown the pie overall?
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It is my understanding that airlines going bankrupt again and again is a direct result of their relationship with their pilot unions:

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
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I work on the Google libraries CDN in my 20% time. Meanwhile I'm also the developer of Modernizr which is one of the other highly-starred issues trying to get onto the CDN.

In order for us to consider adding a library to our API, that library must basically get tens of millions of loads per day across millions of websites. Due to the details of how browser caches work, hosting on our CDN really only benefits the web for libraries that are literally all over the place.

So while it's important that we see there is user demand for both Modernizr and Head.js (and jQuery Tools, Underscore, Mootools More), so please do star... the best chance for them to be added is if we see that they are wiiiidely in use across the web.

Thx, bros.
Why are ethics and morality being discussed in the context of business? They have their pricing strategy, I have mine. It's my travel money, let me do what I want.
I'm guessing this is some sort of security rule?

It's a security rule if you have checked bags. If you're gonna blow up a plane they want to make sure you're at least onboard when you do it. Otherwise it's just a convenience thing -- they don't wanna close the doors and then have you show up two minutes later, because then you're a problem they have to deal with. The one time I actually did miss a connection I wound up with a free night in a very nice hotel, but the whole thing soaked up quite a few man-hours of time at the airline's end.
I just posted a comment about that elsewhere on this thread -- that's what disturbs me so much about this. It's creating a separate level of protection that people won't understand (journalism ethics proscribe that you don't give up your source, ever). The WSJ needs to stay out of this unless its going to protect these submitters to the same level as any other source (and you don't give people up because you're being sued).
This is good advice, and I think that's what went wrong in this case. We were told to estimate based on what we had, even though we needed to go deeper. The rationale was that we couldn't put so much time into a proposal that was so small. And on a smaller project, more risk was acceptable, which is okay, I guess, but then this is what happens.

"Setup development environment: 40 hours"

This is ridiculous, though, well UNLESS you are hiring someone to pick up work on a large existing project, in which case they may actually need the time to get all the dependencies and get it running. To be clear, our items are always in chunks of actual functionality, because this makes the most sense to ... well, everyone. And it makes it easier for them to pick and choose/set priorities/etc.
I use the scroll wheel at home, but at work, the scroll wheel is worn down on my mouse, so often it'll skip and scroll 2 or more increments when I only want it to scroll once. As for arrow keys, well, my hand is on the mouse anyway and I'd rather keep it there than scroll on the keyboard and go back to the mouse.
Tapping fusion power will solve the world's energy issues, and that is a good thing.

Is it though? Exponential growth always has to end in disaster sooner or later.

Global energy use in 2008 was estimated at 474 exajoules. At a 8% yearly growth rate in consumption, it would take only 120 years to increase that to 5 million exajoules, thereby producing more waste heat than the energy which the earth receives from the sun. It's likely that we would be in serious trouble long before that.

(If the 8% growth rate seems high, I took it from the growth rate in oil consumption before the first oil shock in the 1970s. This seemed like a reasonable model for growth in a world with limitless energy supply.)
> A sample size of one does not indicate an overall rule

It is, however, good enough to be upvoted on HN.
Yes you did and if you had just an ounce of integrity you would aknowledge and admit that I actually clarified what I meant in countless other posts removing any possibility of reading in between the lines.
On becoming a go-to guy:

There's a formula you can follow to achieve this. Select an area that is difficult, annoying, or otherwise undesirable to most of your peers. Dig in deeply to this area, and get to where you are an expert. Everyone else will run from those issues and you can step up with confidence. Management will notice this.

I had a coworker like that. He cultivated the reputation of being the go-to guy. He could confidently provide answers immediately. The problem was that his answers were nearly always wrong, to one degree or another. However, there were enough technical layers that his failures could be fudged and nobody on the 'outside' would notice. Said technical layers prevented anyone else on the team from intervening in time for the correct answer to be relevant. This was the same guy who was always busy at work, generally fixing bugs introduced by his code changes, or manually performing tasks that he couldn't be bothered to automate.

Within a few weeks of me leaving for a mail merge call and returning successful and unscathed after 30 minutes, word got around that I was the "go-to guy" for envelope printing and mail merges. All the tickets for this started to come to me.

Ah, so become the go-to guy by never documenting your findings and sharing them.

I think this is actually good (bad) advice: keep your value close to your chest. This, of course, runs contrary to software engineering principles (as well as my own), but I believe you can document and refactor your way out of a job, just as you can fail your way into raises and promotion.

By the way, I don't recommend the above at a 'true' startup, where technical output can and will be noticed. However, once you're at the oh-so-common 'startup' that's been around for the better part of a decade, it's game-on.
That, $100/barrel oil, and a mediocre economy.
Would you prefer that they raised the prices of the Montreal to Paris trip so that you can pay more?

Or do you want them to lower the price of the Newark to Paris trip so that it sells out early and people who would have been willing to pay $1400 for that trip can't get to where they want to go?
I think you'll start to see this more now that Twilio makes it easy to do.
It's not better protection, it's worse. The fact that they have that clause proves it -- journalists don't tell their sources they'll give them up in the face of a lawsuit, but this clause is saying the paper will to people who leak in this method = less protection.
Twilio should come out with a library
I've owned a few ergo chairs and used each for long periods of time. Here's my take as a 6'2", 185lb male:

- Aeron: be wary of considering this as any ergonomic standard. The mesh is great for air and comfortable on your butt, but the back support is weak and it's not very adjustable. You do need to make sure you get the right size (A, B, C). The PostureFit adapter actually hurt my back when I had it dialed in at all. Sold my Aeron after a month.

- Steelcase Leap: This one is also popular among coders and the first version ("v1" on the net) is actually pretty awesome. I've used it days on end, and realy came to appreciate the reclining support and the many adjustments which help keep things fresh. The v2 isn't as adjustable, and the front of the seat pan dug into my thighs so I sent it back after a few weeks. I've owned two of the v1s for about 6 months and spend 10-60 hours/wk in them.

- Soma Ergo. My top pick of the three. These are so obscure that I don't know if you can even find them outside of the Bay Area; I got lucky and found them back when there was a vendor in Palo Alto (they're made to order in Berkeley, I believe). If you go into a store that sells these, they custom fit each element and you choose from various materials. It comes out to about $1000 for a best-materials seat (this includes some fancy cushion material that is the most forgiving of any I've tred after long long coding sessions). I bought mine in 2006 and it remains my favorite chair. Aeron didn't come close. After sitting on the Leaps, my body always feels relief coming back to this one.

If you're on a budget, the fully-adjustable Patriot that they sell at Office Depot is also pretty good: it's only $200 and I'd take it over an Aeron without hesitation. I used these for about 8 years. Main limitations are that the seat bottom will hurt after long hours and you'll probably want supplemental back support if you're prone to back issues.
This is the wrong question.

Ask "Are you hiring a good designer?"
I do think that the disapproving and condescending attitude to sudo has changed though.
Ah yeah, a little js snippet that you can drop into any site would be pretty neat and a nice way for non-devs to integrate the feature.
Unfortunately, Thrift RPC is a pain in the butt for Python, especially if you want to code with Tornado (http://www.tornadoweb.org/). The Thrift-generated code necessitates either using Twisted (http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/) or writing in a blocking style. For Tornado users, the existing generated code is unusable, and the compiler doesn't facilitate generating client-side function stubs that support callbacks. Therefore, it is impossible to write a properly-working RPC mechanism with the tools that the Thrift compiler provides. The only way to get around this is to modify the compiler itself.

On the other hand, generated code from Protobuf allows you to slide in an asynchronous callback function (although yes, you have to write like 50 lines of code to build an RPC implementation).

I can't speak for other languages, but given Thrift's inflexibility with Python, I suspect the situation is at least as bad for less common languages.
The "contribution" percentages are a little funny. They certainly aren't based on lines of code, or number of commits. How is that calculated? Feels weird when you own a project and have done 99% of the work on it, and it says your contribution is 50%.
Who cares about delaying an entire plane of busy people when you can save $20? [/bitter]