skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great discussion where I don't necessarily see that one point is right over another as much of this is on preferences for how to view information. I'll try and add some color from my knowledge of the travel industry and having been at Bing Travel and currently at a travel-focused startup.

1. Both of you agree that the core intention of removing just plain bad flights is a good default for users since you're looking out for what most people would consider unreasonably painful flights. The difference is whether or not calling it "Agony" makes sense to most people. A good solution is to call out for new users that "we have removed flights with 3+ stops or out of the way connections. to see all flight options, clear filters" and remove the pre-set filter conditions.

2. I would agree with Durga here that "From.." sounds like a lead price and is normally looked up on in retailing with some skepticism. However, in the case of Hipmunk, because you are picking one leg, it makes sense since there is a wide range of pricing that begins with that base departure leg.

3. On Kayak, see a departing flight you like? Hover over and click on it and it'll now filter and show only flights with that departure leg so pages of results become usually just one or two pages all with the same departing flight. Maybe one way to solve this without a second click is to show all of the return options on hover over a departure leg on Hipmunk.

4. Durga's point is that for flights with multiple stops, it's useful to know actual time in air so for people who hate flying you can optimize your price-vs-fly-time tradeoff.

5. Agreed, you can do some basic grouping like most travel sites do with early morning/morning/afternoon/evening/night.

6. I've been thinking about this a bit as we work on our product and the pros of the tabs are: You can see a better layout of the information vs. the default display in a browser tab but the cons are heavier weight within the browser especially if your site has multiple views/layouts. Also, if you start creating too many searches, the tabs start breaking other elements of the layout. By default, you could make "new search" open a new tab landing on an optimized search page w/ your last search parameters pre-filled.

7. Agreed to a large degree but I can see how they might want people to know that there IS live help available, just not right now. Maybe put more useful info like "Offline - back at 8AM" or "Offline - Email Us".
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Actually, you should also always indicate the character encoding, for reasons I explain here:

http://shiflett.org/blog/2005/dec/google-xss-example
Apple offering gift cards for old Windows PCs and displays
I'm probably not the only one with a mountain of pain-to-recycle computer parts.
One more point to add to the "pro" column for starting a company in a down economy: your opportunity cost is typically lower. Fewer promotions and larger numbers of layoffs occur in large companies during the bad times.
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Am I mad, or was this actually 120 seconds of a 60-second loop?
As someone learning, I figured out pretty quickly from many forum threads about this topic, that I was simply too ignorant to be confident in writing solid PHP. I am in no rush to do anything useful (just having fun), and I'm trying to concurrently learn Vim and Git. so I chose Python. I might try PHP, if I ever feel I have learned to write OO code competently.

tl;dr: Too many gotchyas for a beginner. I need discipline imposed on me when I'm learning, ymmv.
All I really need to be happy is a comfy couch or hammock and a Macbook. The rest is superfluous.
One of the big concerns that Marco raises though is that an app direct from the Internet has the potential to really ruin your day, especially if you don't know anything about the field you're searching.

With the App Store, you have a reasonable assumption that it won't be a trojan for malware.
Were Rhodesia and South Africa ruined by a sudden and deliberate demographic shift that decimated the region's tax base and created dysfunction in the regions politics, followed by three decades of setbacks for core economic engine for the region mixed with offshoring?

Because I thought that's what did Detroit in. Not drug dealers. We have those in Chicago too, but also Boeing and stuff.
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I learned myself specifically SVM from here http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3a... (already had a good background in linear and abstract algebra).
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Ask HN: What was the first website you ever built?
The very first website I ever built was a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater cheat code site (for the first N64 version).

It was around 2000 so I was 12 years old at the time and created it with homestead.com. I eventually expanded it to include screenshots of the other upcoming tony hawk games and links to other tony hawk related sites. Eventually I grew out of my teenager skateboarding phase and stopped updating the site, but I've been involved in web development ever since.

Let's hear what everyone else's very first website was like. What was it? How old were you? Is it still around?
It was http://blog.getsocialize.com/what-is-socialize ...but it's back up now, maybe just a server hiccup. BTW, I forgot to say that the toolkit looks quite nice, and that's a clever marketing hook.
Would anyone from ZeroCater care to comment on whether there were additional difficulties in raising money due to the recent stock market crash?
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I agree, but you've clearly had one cup of coffee too much.
- upvote for the Curb Your Enthusiasm reference
I look forward to using this. Great job!
#define memmove memcpy
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Downtown might be okay. However, if you go outside just a little bit, you are in the danger zone. This isn't speculation.

Even 8 years go it was bad. I worked downtown and could regularly hear gunshots from my office during the day.
It was March, then I took a nap, and now it's November.

This is what you get when Republicans are in charge (and they still are; look at Congress): short, puny expansions and punishing, horrible recessions.
Congrats Arram!
Urban renewal and racial integration are to blame, and not the destruction of the entire regional economy? Or, not to put to fine a point on it, did black people kill the auto industry too?

I grew up on the south side of Chicago, by the way, and I don't know what you're talking about, unless your suggestion is that any metropolis that has bad neighborhoods is evidence of the failure of racial integration.
Emulators are mostly what you'd use it for, but there are a few other good ones, including an awesome port of Syobon Action.
Hah. Detroiters are in denial. Right. Detroit is in revival in the sense that there is a very small amount of investment occuring in a couple of small areas. Before this, there was NOTHING. They've gotten three or four major companies to move downtown, including the major league teams and it appears that cobo hall might even get some help from the suburbs. Seriously, prior to 2003 there was very little to talk about. It's been slow going, but I think the "revival" is real.

The thing that people miss when comparing Pittsburg and other cities to Detroit is that it is square MILES upon miles of complete ruin. The "ruins porn" is good for the city because it raises awareness of what destruction can take place when you remove the underlying economic structure from a community.

In terms of "startups", you are free to do -- there are city taxes, but it's probably doable in some areas, but keep in mind the lack of city services and that it is still a very, very dangerous city.
Seriously! If you haven't given Fireworks a chance for web development, you may be wasting a good bit of your precious time.

I still receive web design comps in Photoshop from time-to-time and it drives me nuts. Especially if you have to resize a bunch of stuff.

Photoshop is great at photo manipulation.
Fireworks is great for vector-friendly web work.
I use YankRing (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1234) which takes care of the problem of remembering yank history. Just map :YRShow to a key and you are good to go.
im running droidx/gingerbread and get almost 48hrs battery, and NEVER have a reboot. your a bad user. best to stick with apple and youll be protected by the walls around their garden.
And if you stay in the Green Zone, then Baghdad isn't all that bad, either. If you stick to the embassies, Addis Ababa is actually rather safe. Stay away from the favelas and Rio de Janeiro is a lovely place.
I'm not an expert on CouchDB (and I would love someone to correct where my approach is wrong).

I could see having a CouchDB cluster per co-location, recording a document per logging event. Then back haul through replication to a central service for analysis/dashboard use.

The only tricky part I see is to delete old logging data requires a compaction period and according to http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Compaction it's entirely possible for the compaction process to be slower then write data and never actually finish.

Edit: Also the back end server doing analysis may need to be a BigCouch cluster to handle the load (depending on size) https://github.com/cloudant/bigcouch
Twitter Comes Alive With Realtime Activity Streams
Ideas:

1) Allow pasting images

2) Make a simple gfx JS editor to let users make simple drawings, it's fun

3) Personal ban list + spam reporting

4) Flood control
guess what? You aren't going to stop me from my opinion, sorry. You sure as hell aren't stopping the mass amounts of people from down voting my above comments for merely stating my opinion on frameworks.

oh and btw, my point has pretty much been proven.
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Why This Crisis Isn't Like 2008
I just went to the Apple Germany website. It's not there.

And, the image quality is a bit shoddy in the video, though this could just be because the site is a mockup... assuming of course that this is real.
I suppose your own interpretation of it had the same content - maybe you're familiar enough with wccrawford and can guess what he's thinking - but objectively they don't. HORRIBLE and UGH were dropped without an actual explanation, and you comment doesn't just sound nicer: you explained how to improve the sample.
That begs the question: What caused that sudden and deliberate demographic shift? What shifted in? What shifted out? Whatever caused millions of people to move out of their neighborhoods must have been intimidating.
Sure, but the founders (and the rest of the board) made the decision not to sell. You can call them fools, but they're laughing all the way to the bank.
The suburbs of Detroit are also in decline. For how many years now has Michigan been in the bottom quartile for unemployment?

The fact that Twelve Oaks Mall is nice and has an Apple Store doesn't mean that that the Detroit Suburbs are proof of a functioning greater Detroit metro economy.
Put a standard of 8 character minimum, and hackers will start targeting 8 characters+

For example, if they are using brute force they will start it using 8characters, or use dictionary words with 8c +. Still 8c is better then 6.

Just install a password manager, or "develop" your own "algorithm" of how you create your passwords. For example a password "Hackernews"; move each character once to the left, which would give: Jsvlrtmrd. Obviously this "algorithm" has to be change every few websites, or somebody will find out your pattern.
Super quick rejections is all that great either as it would show that they didn't really take a close look at your blog, cv, cover letter, etc.
What my money manager sent to explain this crash is not 2008--believe him?
Fairly sure we're still AAA here in the UK. Sounds like sour grapes to me ...
I am a newbie when it comes to mobile things, so I was surprised when I saw that some streaming websites "weren't available on mobile" when I tried to access them on my tablet. I could understand if they wanted to sell me some premium account or something, but typically they seem to just bar the gates.

Why do publishers do that?
Whatever force caused people to sic dogs on elderly women marching for the right to vote must be very powerful indeed, because it sure would take a lot to make me do something so horrible.

Are you sure you want to chase this conversation down this path? I'm happy to just have us agree that economics are what fucked Detroit over.
Your comment is closely connected to what Paul Graham wrote about in his essay, "What You Can't Say."

If no one has the courage to describe what is in front of our faces, then pointing at it must suffice.
Ask HN: What's the best way to model projections for concurrent users of an app?
I have a user acquisition model that projects DAUs, MAUs and Registrations over the next 6 months. For infrastructure planning purposes, I want to model projected concurrency during peak time given DAU/MAU data. Is there a reasonable way to make assumptions around this?
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You may be pig-headed, but you're right!

If you want to start a business, start a business and forget about waiting for the "perfect moment." The situation will never be exactly right. You work with what you have, not what you wish you had.
I'm curious: what optimized or special-purpose containers did you replace your std::vectors with?

A co-worker once joked that "real world" programs have only two container types: hash tables and arrays.
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Ask HN: bfore things like(mixpanel)how apps measure engagemnt beynd vanitystats?
So the question that remains after reading the README is...what does it do? :)
Are administrative assistants either really expensive or ineffective at meal purchasing in the SF area? This seems like a tasty service and all, but back-of-envelope I would think it hard to compete with ~an hour a day of $15-20/hour labor. Especially since even with this service I still need to pay my admin a half hour for door open/setup/cleanup.

Unless this service is targeted mainly at companies that eschew personal assistant-style employment? I'll admit I've only run teams or worked at companies in the Seattle and Chicago area, where there is an abundance of "young liberal arts grads" to handle straightforward tasks.

I've never done the startup thing, so please feel free to correct me if C-levels are really handling this sort of work themselves (as the testimonials seem to hint).
> It might be a matter of order.
That's exactly what John Mayer was saying. He was telling people not to prematurely publish and be distracted from the creation process.
I would guess that they almost certainly had all of their commits before the past week and have just announced them now. Too early to see the effects of the crash on VC's in funding announcements imo
I find it disturbing that the author of this piece is having his on-topic responses censored:

richarmstrong 5 hours ago | link [dead]
You are not alone. I wrote that blog post while sitting on
a Humanscale Freedom Saddle Seat stool ($300). I
considered getting into it about Aerons, but thought
better of it.
Plenty of folks here dislike them, too, and have the
choice of any chair they want us to order.

richarmstrong 5 hours ago | link [dead]
I'd love to do that, but our offices are glass-doored, so
not sound-proofed, though that's a good idea.

His submissions are both dead as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=richarmstrong

What's happening here?
"That is a different problem that they are now signing up people who aren't really interested in buying a coupon."

If that's true, then they will have a hard time bringing their marketing costs down later.
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> That is NOT a result of the language.

Considering PHP is more-or-less designed to be a templating language, I'd say it is. Partly.

On the other hand, PHP is a pretty good templating language. People should just learn to separate business logic from presentation logic.
No, that's now what these exploits are used for.

I've used these exploits, along with an external drive formatted to wbfs and used as a "backup drive". (Read as piracy storage)

Ive played the emulators on Wii, as well as video players. They stink because of excessive lag, even mplayer. If there were cool things one could do with a Wii, Id like to see them. Aside from Wiimote Blackboard and other controller apps, its a rather unimpressive boring system.

So its back to piracy.. and cheating.
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I had totally forgotten that I had put "research" in scare quotes. You're right: it turned out to be unwarranted.

That having been said, I think you misunderstand me. I'm quite eager to learn from people who don't share my beliefs; it's the only reason I spend any time slogging through these comments in the first place. The spirit of my original reply, and what I should have said, is that bringing the Heritage Foundation into the discussion can only serve to muddle things.
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Sorry about that. The tips weren't listed in any sort of "priority" order. The reason the traction one was last wasn't because it's the least important, but because I thought it was a good way to "close" the article.

Often, the last item in a list like this gets read much more often than the middle items.

In any case, it's a fair point.
Ah, didn't realize that was ambiguous. I edited the opening - does that make it more clear?
It was 96 and I was 6 year old. I built offline pages, by modifying websites in the web after I found that I can see the html source code. Though back then I didn't know how to read yet so it was more about testing out how the layout looks nice instead of the content. Would still have the pages if my really old laptop's hard drive would still work.
How do great design thinkers define innovation?
Give regbuf a try too: simpler implementation and features a buffer for previewing and editing registers.

[1]: https://github.com/tyru/regbuf.vim
The best one has to be running your site from a git repo.

I'm not sure why running old code on an old server that has support for the old code is considered a good thing about PHP. I love BASIC because I can boot up a C64 and the code I wrote 20 years ago still works today!
Perl does the same thing with type coercion, and "0" in Perl is false. However, the thing that Perl does that PHP doesn't is have different operators for strings and numbers.

Don't get me wrong, I think conflating strings and numbers is a bad idea, but if you're going to conflate strings and numbers, then having separate operators is the right thing to do.
A subscriber is someone that is signed up for emails. A customer is someone that has ever made a purchase. The number of people that have made a purchase is growing, and the amount they buy per quarter has been steady at around $40 for the past year. The number of people that get the emails, but don't buy has been exploding so revenue per person on the email list has been steadily decreasing. You reached the conclusion that they will require more marketing spend based on a decreasing revenue per subscriber. I draw the opposite conclusion, that spending money to get more people to signup for the email list is probably counter productive becuase incremental customers are unlikely to purchase a groupon, and thus marketing expense should reduced. Same data, opposite conclusion.
That sounds like it could be useful to the PHP community. Are there plans to open source it?
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I must have been around 15. It was summer and my school had set up a course in basic web design. I was heavily into sci-fi so naturally I decided to make my site about sci-fi literature. I actually borrowed an entire drag bag of books from the library and brought a selection of these to class so I could create a database of sci-fi books. Now, the course didn't cover databases and server-side coding just basic html, but my god I was thrilled none the less. To finally learn how to create web sites was a dream come true.
OK so we should come right out and say it then rather than beating around the bush. What you're trying to say is the one thing Detroit, Rhodesia, and South Africa have in common is large numbers of black people, right?

If we're going to be racist dicks we might as well get to the point, eh?
Yes now I got it. :)
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The SF2 docs have really come along since the early beta. As a beginner looking at both for the first time SF2 seems more clear.
I was afraid it might be a little less interesting to this crowd due to it being a desktop app as opposed to a web app.

I view that as a feature rather than a drawback -- Many of my classrooms at school don't have wifi (and my school is rated on several "most wifi accessible" lists). Quickly navigating to a site to take notes isn't always possible.

That is a very astute comparison between this and a wiki.

It is similar in that you can create pages, organize them, and link between them.

It is more accessible to the average user than a wiki is - setup, administration, confusing options, etc.

This has fewer options - To do list, calendar, notebook.

1:The notebook is organized by one category (typically semester or subject)

2:Then you have a second defining category (typically class)

3:Finally, the entry for that individual lecture.

So it has fewer, more succinct options.

It is also more dynamic than a wiki. No university curriculum is limited classes where all notes will be in easily typed language. Imagine trying to take notes for a calculus class with just word.

I looked at my notes and realized that the reason I used a notebook to record my notes is because I needed to be able to draw graphs, write math formulas and chemistry equations - stuff that doesn't translate well to text editors.

So I build something that was as similar to notebook paper as it could be and still allowed me to save and organize my notes.

On the better grades front - I am convinced it was due to ease of studying that this afforded me. Usually before a text, quiz, or essay I was frantically flipping through hundreds of pages trying to find relavent notes. With this, I was able to simply search "LaGrange" and was greeted with a wider understanding -- Notes came up from both calculus and economics. I was able to understand the whole much easier since I was so much more organized.
If you are really sitting cross legged on the floor 8 hours a day I predict a lot of joint pain in your future.
I really, really don't like it. It's like bringing a mini News Feed to Twitter, and the layout just doesn't work for me. I'll try to give it a chance, but my early impressions are that it's just a messy, cluttered News Feed implementation.
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