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Thanks.

What I am looking for is a simple, inexpensive (free), way to multicast a part of my screen to various unused monitors around my place. So I can pretend to be Best Buy, or a pub and have all my monitors from living room to bedroom to bathroom all be showing the same YouTube video or netflix movie.

For instance, for audio, I used squeezeserver. VLC can do something similar if it's given a VLC friendly source (which seems from my experience to basically be a hardware device.)

VLC doesn't solve the problem of synchronization that squeezeserver addresses, but it does make the multicasting and display portion of the problem easy.

I don't know of anything (for free or inexpensive) that can do that yet....
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It's an interesting theory, but it doesn't explain why the second Wednesday has more prostitution. And following your theory, I would think that those Wednesdays have more people around because they have more money to spend.
This sort of thing should go in the "about" section of your profile instead. (Click on your username.)
Very excited to play with this hands-on tonight/tomorrow. My only concerns are as follows:

- Multiple monitors. How does this play nicely with them, and how I traditionally lay-out several open applications across them? Can one monitor be Metro UI and the other be the classical desktop? Or, can I have a full-screen app on one monitor that doesn't brick the other screen? (Looking at you, OSX Lion)

- App windows that might not necessarily fit into the tile or fullscreen approach. The prime example of this is my chat/social desktop or space. I typically have a contacts list, tabbed chat window, IRC, and twitter feed all on the same monitor arranged around one another. I know they demoed a way to do split-screen apps while still in the Metro UI, but it seemed to be too simple for real use.

- How jarring is the switch between Metro and the retro desktop? If I'm going along fine at 90% productivity living completely in the Metro UI on my monitors, and then all of a sudden need to open a small window from a legacy app, is that going to completely monopolize my workspace? If half of my apps work in Metro, and the other half don't while programming, am I going to have to keep switching between the UIs every 30 seconds as I'm working? That would be a pretty big deal-breaker.
Yes, you're looking at ITA's InstaSearch product, which delivers near real-time results, compared to the traditional QPX product.

There were many articles about Google's acquisition of ITA, and various stipulations around InstaSearch:

"As a condition of the deal, Google must continue to license ITA's QPX software for airfare websites on "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms" through 2016. And it must commit to continued investment in ITA's QPX software and in ITA's unreleased InstaSearch product, which aims to provide near instant airline fare quotes."

http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/article/22940...

Disclosure: I worked for ITA until rumors of the acquisition.
Is that true, or just oft-repeated political rhetoric? (Telling the middle class that they're being ripped off is, of course, a time-honoured political ploy.)

I'm sitting in the middle of the income curve right now, and it looks fine around here. In terms of income distribution the main effect of the recession has been to destroy wealth at the top end of the scale, since these are the folks who owned all the assets which are now performing poorly.
> You can also expect that any woman with any reproductive health issue, no matter how common, will be automatically declined for private health insurance

Not so fast. If she never goes "bare", she can't be denied for pre-existing conditions.

Is it really that hard for people who know that they have chronic conditions to act as if they have chronic conditions?
I'll admit that "poor" is a tricky thing to define but pointing out the possession of random consumer electronics doesn't demonstrate that a household is NOT really "poor".

The presence of a social safety net, meaningful employment, food security, quality education, access to health care and the ability to save for the future are vastly more important considerations for determining poverty.

European living standards are different, but quite high if you ignore silly stuff like sq footage and consumer electronics and instead focus on real things that matter like healthcare and education.
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As a former freelance writer, and somebody who lives just an hour north of Danville, it's a really weird feeling to see an LA Times article about something in our sleepy little neck of the woods. Woo hoo! We hit the big time.

So naturally, I'm doing quality control as I read. Where are interviews with management? Couldn't get them. Where are the interviews with the politicians who set this deal up? Couldn't do that either (but no explanation). Interviews with the people who like the work? Nope. Any attempt to try to see if there was another side to the story? Unknown, but unlikely.

But more importantly: where is the context to the story? You know, where you look at similar plants in the region, talk to somebody who has seen this story occur before, tell us how these things usually play out?

You see, there is a great regional story here. But you wouldn't know if from this article.

I'm not saying Ikea is running a great plant. If the trend holds, it's probably just like it was described -- at least for some. For others it's probably a life-saver. It follows in a long line of plants where politicians made tax concessions and begged overseas companies to come use the lower wages and higher work ethic found around here. There's a big ribbon-cutting ceremony where your local politician gets to smile and be on the news, there's a big construction effort, there's a big story about management abusing the workers, there's unionization threats, and then -- unionize or not -- both sides work it out. I could tell you 4 or 5 of these stories myself, and I haven't written any news copy in over 20 years.

But you wouldn't know any of that from this article. All we get is some hack playing dialing for assholes from a phone hundreds of miles away. I'd like to know where he got the list of people to talk with. I'd also like to know where he got the story idea in the first place.

I don't know enough about Ikea to say this story is mostly correct or mostly incorrect. But I know enough about writing and the local area to say this story is mostly incomplete. Not a good article.
Nope, I don't think this one is about advertising. My guess is they want to move into the hotel referral sales game (it's not secret they've been trying to move into this space for a while). Before you can move into hotels though, you have to have a good flight search engine.
The choice of phrasing here seems interesting. "He broke a couple of teeth and four ribs in the process.", implying but carefully avoiding the conclusion that the police broke those teeth and ribs. The headline here on HN draws the obvious conclusion.
I get what you are saying, basically that the 'pie' itself is a sum of units. However, I expect that Tufte would tell you to include that information more succinctly (or densely). I actually re-did the graphic in Corel Draw to show this but darned if there is a way to upload here, so I've put it in a google 'drawing' : https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/11hLh7DarPLrRHwVOQAC6Semn... which may or may not come through.

The top bar, which bounds the bars with the axis label 100% conveys the same 'from a whole' concept that the pie does in less space. Its also commutive across all three bars :-)
Agree. Leaving aside the obvious issue with the fiscal (in)ability of the parents to care and support for a large number of children, I can't help but view something like this as grossly irresponsible just in terms of population growth, sustainability, and related facets.
I bought _Linear Algebra and its Applications_, but as I'm fond of reminding people on HN (come work for us!) my book budget is unbounded, so I'm happy to buy a different one.
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I was at a .NET user group meeting last week. Scott Hanselman showed off the current development build; guess what, it has the same support for HTML, JS, Jquery, and CSS editing that it has for MS languages.
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The map is misleading when showing result for flights with stops. It should show/highlight intermediary cities in this case
I was making $60/hr through odesk.com as an ios developer working < 10hr/wk. I imagine I could get more if I was pursuing clients actively (I live in San Francisco). I'm considering going back to it fulltime and was wondering what sort of business entity people are using (LLC, Corp, indy business owner etc.).
I think the post was a decent attempt to do something similar to OKcupid's insightful blogs.

The difference is that okcupid had data in their database that is deep, and the team has a bunch of MIT math guys, if I recall correctly.

I'm not sure about Uber, but I'm guessing to write this post they had to go out looking for this information, rather than infer it from their primary data. Still a decent post, but realize the objective here was to market Uber, and the rest makes sense.
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This had to happen sooner than later after the ITA aquisition. I wonder why it took them so long.
This is awesome. It's hard when working a full time job and attempting a startup to think that at the point where your business is your full time gig, that the freedom will allow for opportunities you can't have with a 9 - 5. May I ask what business you started?
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The whole article comes across very "nerdy and scientific" but indeed isn't at all. Just the difference between correlation and dependence are already something they should look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_and_dependence
> I can also see the exact route that the flight will take.

That's not the exact route the flight will take; it's the quickest (great circle) route. Airliners fly along airways.
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Crowdsourcing health insurance is a really interesting idea.

Why shouldn't I, and many other people, open our medical records and insurance information? I.e. post it to some publicly accessible database, anonymously or not.

Could we get insurance providers to make us individuals/families offers, then, instead of us having to do the searching?

It may take some time before such a social/industrial shift occurs, if ever.

In the meantime, a bot that submits my info to various providers and gives me their actual quotes in sortable format could expedite choosing health care based on actual quotes, rather than the (usu. equal or lower) advertised rates.
If I remember correctly a DMCA requires you say you are the legal entity or represent the legal entity that is holding the copyright. So a lawsuit would have to be placed against Warner, unless Warner can prove that they did not authorize the person writing the script to act on their behalf. If Warner wants to make the person who wrote the script liable or not would be up to Warner, not this lawsuit.
This is the approach we have been taking at CircuitBee (http://www.circuitbee.com). We have Eagle and KiCAD importing, with versioning on the way already.

We're not aiming to replace the tools you already use, just make it easier to share your work on the web. I do love the idea of a web based EDA tool, but I'm yet to believe it can be done with performance characteristics that will work for any reasonably complex circuit.
In case people miss it, this is probably fake. The disclaimer at the bottom reads, in part:

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No information contained herein is to be perceived as real,
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Decent initial release, but I wish the search was more flexible.

My common use case is "I will spend $X to go anywhere for under Y days any time in the future" and I haven't found a service that makes this easy.

Kayak's "explore" page is the closest I've found, but they rarely have the cheapest flights listed and have no way to set duration. Has anyone found a better solution?
That's because one of the side-effects of big data is the new definition "data scientist" = Ph.D. <graduate|dropout> in any field, no matter how unrelated to statistics or data mining.
It depends on the kind of traveler (business travelers have shorter lead-time, leisure travelers have longer), but 3 weeks is a reasonable guess—probably on the shorter end—for what Google customers will be looking for.
I'd be waiting for a "10 green bottles hanging wall" error.
Wait, is this actually the case with the Google product?
What do you mean, "goes bare"? My family has had continuous coverage since I get married, and both me and my wife had continuous coverage prior to that. Are you trying to say it's impossible to be denied coverage? You're wrong.

I'm not going to get into the severity of the "chronic conditions" we're talking about because they're none of your business, but based on prevalence in the population, it's crazy that they're auto-decline conditions.
I like the idea!

However, the people in the video all sound like they're making a sales pitch rather than really talking about what they do all day.

Are you going to encourage people to talk about the mundane or undesirable parts of their job? The paperwork, the late hours, the time away from family, the competition, the politics, the discrimination, etc?
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Chapter ever two weeks plus exercises sounds simple, doable, reasonable. Let's do it that way.

Once we feel like we've picked our book, let's decide on a date to start; 2 weeks from that date, one of us will just post a "STUDY HN:" post for the first chapter.

We can figure out the formalities, like, what do those threads look like, once we get started. :)
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> European living standards are different, but quite high if you ignore silly stuff like sq footage and consumer electronics and instead focus on real things that matter like healthcare and education.

US poor have free healthcare and education. (Actually, everyone does.)

The free healthcare or education isn't unlimited in the US, but it isn't free&unlimited anywhere.
"Just how quickly this was built (really, it was quick)"

Wouldn't this have to be thanks to their relatively recent ITA acquisition? Not too surprised since QPX runs a few popular websites such as Orbitz and Kayak.

(I'm not saying it's not a feat to do it in such little time as any project does take time, but I would like to see credit where due.)
He probably would not have chosen that. Another piece of Dijkstra lore is that he really hated the term "bug". He said that by using this term the programmer tried to avoid his responsibility for making correct programs by suggesting that errors somehow creep into your program out of their own volition through no fault of the programmer.

Dijkstra was really hard core in terms of correctness. He insisted that each programmer had to work out a mathematical proof that his program will always provide correct output for every single possible input, and submit that proof when submitting the program. Things did not work out that way.
A $700 development tool is not the killer app I was looking for.

Any tablet can already create documents and spreadsheets, surf the internet, check e-mail and calendars, access social networks, edit movies, Skype... Everything that %95 of the population needs. People that need higher caliber tools (developers, creative professionals) can afford another system.

So Windows needs a stronger reason to exist it's going to dissuade the average consumer from buying either the market leader (Apple) or the cheap alternative (Android). Android is the real threat. A $200 PC replacement is quite feasible within a year and really deals a blow to Microsoft's business model.
Yes, IRC is a misnomer. It supports a limited set of IRC commands. But IRC is an easy term for hackers to relate the usecase.
I'm willing to bet this is using ITA's software, which is written entirely in Common Lisp. See my comment above.
I did not really understand what was meant by this. What is it about Windows 8 that is going to provide a better user experience? It certainly looks a bit different from other offerings, but I cannot discern what it is that people think is better.
Well this is some interesting research. Out of my off-hand and roughly scientific research, my statement of "almost all" was quite off.

I found that all of the major carrier websites I could remember off the top of my head did not employ the date-ahead practice.

Delta - no
US Airways - no
Southwest - no
Virgin America - no
Continental - no

I followed that by a Google search for "flight search" and checked the sites that came up in roughly the 1st and 2nd pages. Where I put "yes" and the date range, this date range was pre-populated.

Based on Google for "flight search"
Priceline - no
Travelocity - no
Kayak - yes 9/27/11-10/4/11
Expedia - no
Cheapflights - no
Flightsearch.com - yes 9/27/11-10/4/11
Tripadvisor - yes 9/27/11-10/4/11
Farebuzz.com - yes 9/27/11-10/4/11
http://www.skyscanner.com/ - yes 9/27/11-10/4/11

Finally, I checked YC's own Hipmunk, and they do not do it either.

Hipmunk - no

So my original statement was at least partly false. It doesn't seem like "almost all" after all. And the ones that I could find doing the date-ahead practice all had identical dates. I suspect all of them use the same backend search product.

I don't care enough at this point anymore to follow up on this anymore, so I'll leave it at that.
> except that Hipmunk's interface is a clean clone of ITA's matrix search's gantt view

Why clean clone? Gantt charts are (technically) 115 years old, and it's not like there are 5 billion ways to display a gantt chart, especially one with no paths. Other flight search startup have independently stumbled upon the idea of gantt charts for flight, why could that not be yet another independent reinvention?

> I'm sure it'll be a matter of time before that makes it into google's interface.

Or not, ITA does not seem to have met much success with their matrix so far.
I have free healthcare? So why am I still paying every time I go to the doctor?
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> They do not, unlike the (European and American) middle class take foreign holidays, drive foreign cars, take trips to the movies, go to theme parks, go on school trips, shop at nice places, eat healithly, etc...just because they have a bunch of cheap electronics crap stuffed inside their homes it does not make them rich.

Actually, they do, apart possibly from take foreign holidays, and even that's a suspect difference. Remember, they that they live in the US, so visiting Texas from CA, which they do, is comparable to visiting Italy from the UK.
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As am I. I have an old extra C2D machine here currently running Ubuntu that I plan to reformat to Windows 8 (My laptop is my primary Linux machine these days). I'm looking forward to playing with the new dev tools.
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Nice illustration of how TDD leads to a more functional coding style.
I agree here. Doing that extra pet project at work is a zero sum game vs. doing your own pet project. I find that it's easier to "find purpose" with a side project at work (whether it's an util, or just fixing a bug) because it directly addresses a pain point for you and the people you see every day.
He'd rather not have it, see copy/paste before iOS 3.
Look at the company you work for. They probably do lots of things in archaic or inefficient ways. Hack something together that makes things easier, and then get your managers and co-workers using it so you can get feedback and make changes. Eventually you'll have a product that you might be able to sell.

Even better if you can solve a problem that is industry-wide instead of company-specific. That gives you a bigger market for whatever you come up with.
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Again, we see here the tension between the needs of the employers and those of the applicants.

An applicant needs to be judged "fairly". More precisely, a false negative is unacceptable. This is especially critical when he's just above the "hiring bar".

An employer crumbles over CVs, and needs to judge fast. False positives are unacceptable. False negatives are no big deal. This is especially not critical when the applicant is just above the "hiring bar". There are others.

Hiring processes aren't designed to be fair to the applicants. They are designed to work for the employers. It's like a spam filter, except with tolerance reversed: no spam in, some ham out is cool. My gut tell me that it definitely sucks, but my brain fails to come up with a solution.
Promoting intelligent, diverse discussion is definitely something we hope to do. It's something that becomes harder when you have a wider range of topics, which in turn, attracts a wider range of people. It may be better to promote discussion that is sensible to the topic at hand.

The name comes from combining the words Athena (the Greek goddess of wisdom) and syntax (meaning arragement).
I'm in. How do we coordinate? http://convore.com perhaps?
No probably not 0.000001% better, but if they make it 0.1% better that's $28 million per year. That 0.1% is probably doable optimizing ad placements after long haul flights.
Have you heard of finder.healthcare.gov? It provides more detailed information with a few basic questions. It also provides a range of premiums per hit, and most important (in my opinion) gives feedback on how likely one is to actually land the quoted premium.

The site was built by HHS, which had access to information provided by the insurance companies themselves on their acceptance rates, etc. I'm not sure why the insurance companies agreed to provide that sort of information, nor whether that information was made available to the public at large.
How about OpenStudy studygroup for MIT linear algebra course?
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To be fair, they were pretty clear that their data was a correlation, not a causation. But the stuff about prostitution on second Wednesdays is pretty crazily unsubstantiated, and controversial.
I'd like to join this.
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I think his goal was to see if one could use an activity proxy to predict where most rides would occur. Crime data is a fairly natural proxy because it's readily available in an easy-to-use format.

It doesn't seem all that useful — it's fluffy — but it's amusing nonetheless and I don't regret reading it.

I'm curious what leaps of faith do you see in his reasoning? Crimes "caught" versus actual criminal activity seems like the obvious one, but I don't think there's really anything in the piece that makes that distinction necessary. (Police activity might actually be a better proxy for activity than criminal activity.)
Great idea! Sounds cleaner but I think it'd be more code injected into the webview than the current approach.
These guys almost fulfil that requirement - I use their service pretty regularly. http://adioso.com/
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