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If I were expedia, orbitz, priceline, travelocity, kayak, hipmunk. etc. I'd be very very afraid. Sure, google won't actually do the sales, but they are linking direct to airline websites for now. Also this doesn't exist for hotels. Yet. The odds that in 1 year that any of those sites have a better UI or superior search capabilities than Google is low. So, what will they bring to the table?

Also, what's up with all these people saying that it's so limited because it doesn't do international and such. It seems very obvious that this thing will get better and better and like others have said, eventually end up on top of the search page. This is assuming it gains traction quickly and doesn't get nuked.
pet projects answer a thousand questions that a cv and an interview cannot.

What type of work does this person enjoy, are they building libraries for developers or products for end users, A lot of time people will open source their side projects, you get insight into their working practices, how clean their code is, do they test, do they get caught up in details and not the end product.

Sometimes people pets projects are working on a large open source project, for employers I believe that is the jackpot, you have their communication with users and peers, the output of their work and the thought processes that go along with it.

Employing people is not about giving every developer in the world an equal opportunity for a job, its about finding the best people for your team in a minimum amount of effort
If you're interesting in this, you should also check out Octopress, which sits on top of Jekyll and provides a nice default theme, handy addons (for google site search, disqus comments, twitter/facebook sharing, etc.), and deployment scripts.

http://octopress.org/
It seems like the default search is just for people who want to see "about how much is a ticket between X and Y?" Anyone doing a real search has real dates. By placing the time frame a few weeks out, you avoid including very expensive last minute tickets, and do a better job getting general flight prices.
This is the first thing I thought as well. Good programmers can have a wide selection of choice when it comes to their work, so I think they will often choose work they enjoy and can even get paid to work on 'pet projects'

At the moment the stuff I enjoyed writing the most I also got paid for. Does that indicate a lack of 'passion'?
More women in the workforce->More women with more money->More women buying stuff->Market grows to accommodate new demand

edit: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+unemployment+rate+si...

I'm trying to think up a way to link those spikes in unemployment to notable events in the history of the women's rights movement, but it's not happening.
Fixed the header "Modules are where its at" Thanks for bringing this up.
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even if it has lag. you have the option.

do you rather wait 2seg for an feature to finish executing or not have the feature at all? (as it would be if you had bought an iphone 3G instead of the G1 at the time)
Chrome only? Why not Firefox?
Remote.

And turning down enough business to employ someone else full time.
I still respectfully disagree that there is almost any purpose at all for using a pie chart. We're just, as humans, not terribly good at making visual comparisons on angular scales.
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My First Impression:

No international flights yet: Fail but not surprising

That's okay I want to fly from NY to Vegas next year. No flights for April 2012: Fail that was not expected.

I don't really understand why Google launches stuff like this when it has a lovely user interface but is a bit halfbaked in terms of the data that they've put in.

I guess I'll go back in a years time when they remind me about it.
I'll definitely be looking into that. Thanks.
Why does one imply the other?

Productivity is measured in $GDP per man-hour, and is consequently skewed by the effects of capital. Giving someone better tools increases his productivity, but it doesn't mean that he's a better worker or deserves higher wages; the person who deserves the increased income is the guy who provided the tools.
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Free time is not equivalent to passion. Basing relationships on the internal emotional state of other people is pretty risky The passionately wrong are usually harder to deal with.

It's hit or miss, but a Great Deal of Robin Hanson's blog is about social signalling and the biases inherent thereof.
Worthwhile effort, that.
Will I have to do a clean install of the OS?
The penalty doesn't have to be high: make it easy to bump an 'accidental friend' to the acquaintance list e.g. a context menu on their news entry.
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Ask HN: 30 yr old+ Startup Founders
Any successful 30+ startup founders out there? I'm 33 (considered a dinosaur by most startups) and just dipping my toe into the startup space, but am straddled with a fulltime job, mortgage, bills and a wife, so I'm finding it difficult to pursue my passion while balancing life and keeping the lights on. I realize that being in your 30s really isn't any different that any other time, but I assuming that byt then you have additional responsibilities that limit the amount of risk one can take on. I can't simply stop what I'm doing and put all of my eggs in one basket, and while I could pursue consulting work to free me from my job, it seems as getting that going would take up time, if not more than my current job. I'm looking for honest advice, tips, wisdom on how to make it work. Thanks in advance!
What if the developer repackaged the app without the URLs for CBC included? If the user had to put the stream URLs into the app himself, would that placate the technically-challanged CBC?
I've either broke it with my postal code or this website isn't supported in Canada. I'm guessing it's the latter.
I don't get that. Reddit nor Digg has this problem..
I agree. This weird phrase is still an exposed 'system code'. There still is no reason to expose a system code, no matter how cute.

If you've managed to log the error and displayed a payment page, you are in a good enough state to automatically send an email and/or file a ticket. You can refer to the ticket since that is the actionable object.
Lol. If I were Google, I'd probably have bought all the tickets in advance ;)

Thing that gets me is, do they really send their employees SFO to LA on United?! Southwest's like a third the price... And why isn't SW listed, anyway? Did Herb take issue with something here?
;) http://www.google.com/search?q=travel%20api
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Ask HN: How would you find a niche?
It's a dumb question from the outset but please bear with me!

A general piece of advice I've seen when starting a business is to scratch your own itch. In the highly-unlikely situation that you hadn't an itch to scratch, how would you go about finding a market to serve?

The first thing that immediately jumps to mind is to scratch a close-one's itch.

Another is looking at who I work for now, look at the faults and do it right. For example, conversion-rate optimisation is not really used at all where it definitely could be. Essentially just copy the company I work for and one up.
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Let's be clear: it's only discriminatory against people that don't have pet projects. Having a family or other hobbies and having pet projects are not mutually exclusive.
Do you guys have a plan to make a revision control system here? I really think it would be great to be able to fork projects, look at diffs of projects, and so on. If you already have this, I would suggest highlighting it on the tour page, as I have this suspicion that such a feature would make you guys a killer app.

Other than that, this looks really awesome!
Real Answer: the majority of startup founders.
Not really. The chart type that incorporates that information is called a mosaic chart, and is one of my favorites.
Just the other day I was wondering "why isn't there a flight option in Maps?", well here you go then, there soon will be.
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Here's the classic presentation people usually refer to when talking about flight pricing complexity.

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...

I'd love to know how Google's doing it - it's a really hard problem.
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Looks good. Downloading it now.
I believe you are correct upon re-reading. I'll re-word this statement as soon as I have time. Thank you for bringing this up.
I think you've misunderstood. Someone said that the issue is due to the app author charging for the app. Someone else said that even a radio isn't free, since you have to pay for that.

This has nothing to do with licenses.
As an alternative, try pretending to be an iPad.
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You own the copyright on everything you write. The site can only claim copyright if you transfer it to them during the comment submission process.
1. My old Soviet wired radio could only "receive" one station.

2. On the screenshot you can see four stations, not one. They are from a single broadcaster, but they are different "stations" (URLs).

3. How does the number of stations make any difference?
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ for anyone who hasn't heard of it. It looks fantastic, and now I want to rewrite my current pet project templates to use this instead of what I already have...
If you have evidence of fraud contact the FTC or the FBI. If they aren't committing a crime then let it go. You will not win any favors by bashing your competition.
> pet projects answer a thousand questions that a cv and an interview cannot.

If the answer is 'no' you'd have to ask a lot of follow up questions, some of those may be illegal, to decide whether or not having pet projects is even a possibility for the applicant.

> What type of work does this person enjoy, are they building libraries for developers or products for end users, A lot of time people will open source their side projects, you get insight into their working practices, how clean their code is, do they test, do they get caught up in details and not the end product.

Yes, that may be true. But having pet projects is not a pre-requisite for employment anywhere.

If you can not assert the ability of your applicants during an interview by asking them job related questions then maybe you should let someone else do the hiring?

> Sometimes people pets projects are working on a large open source project, for employers I believe that is the jackpot, you have their communication with users and peers, the output of their work and the thought processes that go along with it.

That is absolutely the wrong reason to go for this particular applicant because that is simply none of your business. You get what you pay for, the time they spend on the jobsite and the output they generate during that time. You have zero title to 'their communications with users and peers' and so on, and if you lay any claim to those then you're a very bad company to work for (yes, I know there are companies that do just that).

> Employing people is not about giving every developer in the world an equal opportunity for a job, its about finding the best people for your team in a minimum amount of effort

Surprise. Employing people is all about fairness and treating your applicants - and your employers - with dignity. What they do or do not do during their time off is none of your business.

The reason I would not want to work for a company like that is because I would doubt the long term viability of a company that sticks their nose in places where it does not belong.

Typically this is indicative of a 'we hire people like us' mentality. You will likely find that places like that employ just stereotypical copies of the person that runs the place instead of being representative of the workforce in general.
I'm going out on a limb and making an educated prediction - it might well be too early. Then again, there's so much time between now and W8's release that we almost need to assume major launches and platform breakthroughs from Apple and Google (hey, Google announced Intel compatibility during the Build keynote). So to predict how things will shake out, we have to be a harsh on Windows 8 - it won't look any better next spring next to the iPad 3 and Android 4.0.

It's really weird for anyone that's followed technology for more than a decade, but Microsoft computers will have almost no special appeal to the average consumer. I don't think that Best Buy will have a special "Windows 8 Tablet" section like they do now for desktops and laptops - they'll be mixed in a sea of Android and Blackberry tablets (much like WP7 Phones at any phone store). Why not?

Windows 8 is in real danger of being second class in the consumer space. The lead development device is a Samsung, for example, but how much more profit would Sammy get if they made the same hardware with Android? Are the hurdles really great for Acer, Asus, Samsung, Sony or Lenovo (all Android vendors!) to put Android in any hardware that's running Windows 8?
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For what it is worth, couple of things I regret about that post. I was terse, and the tone comes off arrogant. Mainly, my use of "You're" instead of "Your" which I'm usually careful not to mistake.

I'd like to think those are the source of the down votes--as I'd hate to believe we've forgotten the golden rule "customer is king". If their client comes to them and says "I want a pie chart" they should not give them 48 reasons why pie charts are terrible. They should just give them a pie chart.

I'm not suggesting that when ever they have data to convey their first thought should be to use a pie chart. I'm simply reminding them pie charts are a commonality of customer data visualization requests--hate them all they want they still will be using them.
I've said this before on related submissions: I enjoy my work, and it consumes all of my cycles allocated towards programming.
To me, that map seems like a very confusing bit of UI. The cities themselves are really tiny interaction points, I'm a relatively experienced FPS gamer and hitting those points accurately involves more fumbling than it should. You cannot drag departure/arrival pins. Streetview kind of taught me that this should be a mechanism for manipulating this sort of location reference.

The big one, though, is that layovers are not reflected on the map. Granted, it may push me slightly towards more expensive flights, but I would appreciate the ability to see the grid of ugliness and waiting I'm buying into to get that super cheap ticket.

I don't think that map as it is now is worth the screen real estate.
Make the audio unlistenable unless you pay for special headphones/audio adapter?

</sarcasm>
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I've heard good things about this one, as well as _Linear Algebra for Everyone_. http://amzn.com/8847018382

From the book's intro:

>But, suppose we asked a professional mathematician to step back a bit from his habitual way of speaking and write in a more linear fashion? And suppose we even asked more, for example, that he make his writing lively? ...
The purpose of this book is to furnish the reader with the first mathemat- ical tools needed to understand one of the pillars of modern mathematics, i.e. linear algebra. The text has been written by a mathematician who has tried to step out of his usual character in order to speak to a larger public. He has also taken up the challenge of trying to make accessible to everyone the first ideas and the first techniques of a body of knowledge that is fundamental to all of science and technology.
You can also write your own software without having to purchase a license to do so.
These are developer devices - meant for compiling code. Therefore, they are high powered, chock full of every hardware feature that Win 8 will support, so that devs can play around with them, compile code and use them as their primary machine. This is a desktop replacement machine for development, not an iPad replacement.
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Github would have also gone nowhere if they only supported code written in one text editor.

Most EDA software is written by companies who have no interest in letting you see how their proprietary formats work.
Yes, the first site that has JetBlue and SouthWest comparisons with the major airlines will have my traffic. I usually prefer to travel on price when it's not business so I love how Google has made this clear - that's my core problem with Hipmunk and I'm not sure why they don't just tell you the cheapest days to fly, like Kayak at least tries to. I also like how http://skyscanner.com does it.
I wish I could offer you advice, however I am here to see what advice others offer :) I am 31 and am in the same boat. While I have heard it is true that most founders are in their 30s, I have not heard is how many of those founders have a wife, children etc. I would love to hear advice/stories from individuals in that situation.
The google ecosystem is headed the same way. Chrome + Android + Amazon MP3 gives me all that stuff anywhere I log in (including windows / mac / linux workstations). I assume Google Music will do the same, which would put all those services under one roof and one login.
It's a cool in a geeky sense that destinations drop off the map when I click back and forth. How does this solve my problem as a customer though? I know I need to get from A to B. How does the map help me choose which flight from which carrier on what day?
Would it be worth it, or even possible, to find a few other families in similar situations and create a dummy corporation which "employs" all of your families? All of you could collectively pay for a share of the group premiums -- ironically, I think this is similar to how health insurance was originally intended to function.
I'm merely providing evidence that this may not universally be the case. No offense was intended.

As a personal rule, I don't spoil events (books, movies, etc.) when friends ask.
Can you really imagine an average consumer being impressed that a tablet, identical in almost every way to the Android next to it, is running Windows? If not, it's really time to rethink Windows' dominant consumer marketshare.
Does GitHub support Jekyll plugins? I doubt they'd be willing to run arbitrary code for everyone...
Care to link to some of the lots of demos? It would be interesting to compare the performance.
could see this coming with the recent takeover of t.co in all url tweeting etc..... but wow...how are they going to do this....sites have to register ala google webmaster center?......so much work. Bit.ly save us!
I would normally nod your love of subversion, but you're off base today.

Their website has the terms and conditions displayed on it, so your ignorance of their terms of conditions is not their problem -- it's yours.

The streams are owned by CBC and they have the right to decide how someone uses them and they have the right to make sure nobody profits off their use who has no affiliation to CBC.

You know what's awesome here is that CBC didn't attempt to claim the money the guy made. That really says something about the kind of people who work at the CBC, especially their legal team.

I have nothing but respect for those people.
Probably for the same reason you don't see Southwest flights on any travel website. Southwest doesn't allow their flights to be booked outside of their website.
I took the tour on their site and it looks neat but the first thing I thought was, "Where's my layout tool?"

Open source hardware is no good if I can't manufacture it on a circuit board. Yes, breadboarding is handy for small stuff, but 256 pin BGAs don't fit on breadboards. And repeatability isn't so grand.

With a nice, reasonable to use layout tool (even with just simple routing assistant type features [push and shove]) and tutorials on how to use it, what DRCs are and how they're used, and maybe videos showing people who know how to do this stuff teaching, upverter could be really cool. Heck, for a full-ish featured EDA package in the cloud targeted at open hardware, I'd even pay to use it (provided we're not talking Cadence or Mentor money, more like GitHub paid account money).
So if I'm using that app, I'd have to check the developer blog, or some "news" section, every week just to see if one of my favorite features might get axed? It sounds like a really annoying thing for a user.
According to a twitter answer, yes. At least with Virtual PC. (See reply to question by
MrComputerRevo on http://twitter.com/#!/windevs )

Edit: Direct link: http://twitter.com/#!/windevs/status/113690827217313792 (Thank you, Simon.)

BTW: How do you link to a twitter conversation?
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We already have forking, both for the current version of your design and previous versions. We cover it on the community tour page.

Diffing has been talked about internally and it would be pretty awesome.
In Germany there's something as a "real name".
What Google "wants" as an entity is different from what the individual component humans want.

(i.e. the agent 'Google' is distinct from the agents that it is composed of)
If your startup is involved with search aimed at the consumer market, watch out...Google is coming.

In a few weeks/months Google will be featuring this search result when you type "nyc to sfo" and take a big bite out of orbitz, kayak, and whoever's lunch that's in this space.

EDIT: The counterargument to this, is that orbitz, kayak, and friends are some of the heaviest purchasers of PPC ads. So Google be at risk of cannibalizing if they push this too hard.
hey SABmore, so my experience is very much the same as yours. Granted I was a little younger when I started (28) I was in the same boat, mortgage, wife and great job I didn't want to give up for nothing. So I decided I would make it work. At this point I should note I have been blessed with an amazing understanding wife who has been very patient over the years.
My strategy was simple, dedication in the evenings and unlike many startups by a younger founder where fly by the seat of your pants, I made a very clear plan first which took over 2 months in the evenings. This way when I was ready to start development my work was very concentrated based on the plan I had developed. In addition this proved to be very beneficial when I brought on another developer. They could be working during the day without having to call me.

One thing I will say... do it, work your butt off and it will pay off in the end!
Ok...now I got it :)
Is there anyway to change the username?
lol "major news (i.e. an engagement)"
Genghis Khan went on to reign one of (the?) largest empires in history in his mid to late forties.

Not exactly what you are looking for, I know, but I hope I hope it gives you some encouragement.
That's an interesting idea. I'd be surprised if this was true on the simple grounds that this kind of cross fertilization and business unit coordination is very agile and the times doesn't strike me as agile as a parent company.

BUT... if it is true it's a very canny maneuver. Again, this kind of inside view of the process (the business end of getting this through) would be great to hear about.

(are the times ad sales coordinated across BUs? this would be the big tipoff... if so then I can see the redesign being coordinate)
Interface was confusing at first: you click the "x from $xxx" then you choose a return flight by clicking the sub="x from $xxx" with the time you'd like to return. Then you can book.

This is cool though
The biggest surprise for me was never having to compute the inverse. I never saw such gymnastics to avoid computing things like I saw people avoiding computing the inverse of a matrix (for obvious reasons.) It's really amazing to work in the numerical computing field for a while. You leave it though because you can't stand the code.

But you learn a lot.
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