skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not to beat this to death, but the developer created software. You're paying for the software, not the content.

The software only allows access to CBC content. I don't see any way of adding additional streams to the list. That's what they're objecting to, probably.
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Seems they are only pre-computing for next month or so..

http://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=EWR,JFK,LGA;t=ORD;d=...

gives: Your search – New York to Chicago – did not match any results.

versus

http://www.kayak.com/#flights/NYC-ORD/2011-10-01/2011-11-01

1347 of 1347 roundtrips shown
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/08/20/forrester.sees...
Estimated 14% of the US wants to buy an iPad

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/13/survey-shows-unpreced...
see exhibit 4 - 85% of the tablet buyers intend to buy an iPad.

http://mashable.com/2011/09/12/apple-set-to-break-record-for...

the status quo may not stay the status quo for long... especially with people slowly admitting that, at least for moms and grandmas, tablets may be much more in line with their needs.

Paul Graham was even just on stage talking about how Microsoft likely doesn't see how bad its going to get for them...
There are two types of lists based on how they are managed - smart lists, and standard lists.

Smart lists are built based on information you provide - the places you worked, where you went to school, where you live, and your family. These get maintained automatically - when you become friends with someone who lives near you or who went to the same school, they will be added to those smart lists. Same thing if one of your existing friends adds new information such as what school they went to, or if your friend moves to a new location. You can also manually remove and add people to these smart lists.

Standard lists (ie, the type you have right now) are entirely managed by you.

When managing either type of list, you will get suggestions for who to add to the list.
In my experience, most people who think they don't have an itch to scratch are so used to living with their itches that they think that's just the way things are. Realizing that every time you are frustrated in any way represents an opportunity to make things better is a personal "Aha!" moment.

Have you ever:

* Searched and searched for a product or service you thought must exist but essentially found nothing?

* Searched for a product or service and had to wade through 4 pages of results until you found what you were looking for?

* Tried to do a common task and been frustrated at how cumbersome the workflow was?

* Thought "if only I could..." or "why can't I just..."

Basically any time you say "dammit!" or "sheesh!" is an opportunity. Not all of these things will be solvable, or maybe solvable but not by you. But some will be solvable by you, and of those some might have a chance of turning a profit. But none of that will be available to you until you start realizing that you actually do have itches.
When do you remove the feature entirely? Or do you just discourage users until, at some future point when a change breaks it, you don't get any complaints?
Yep, .NET has lots of things going for it.

I'd expect that the average .NET developer is a lot less likely to be sharing code on github than the average rails developer though.
Uber Blog: Correlation in crime/prostitution data and transportation
TrailBehind (Gaia GPS) is hiring
Ligers do exist. Lions and Tigers can breed and when a male lion and a female tigress mate, it makes a Liger. The liger is the biggest feline ever and they are extremely massive! To really see how massive they are, you can see an adult liger in this video next to a man : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zOWYj59BXI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
Exactly. When using Windows I have Firefox set to download to the desktop, from which I file things into their target folders or the trash. Otherwise, my desktop is icon free.
I think that would be fine. It's the exact same thing as iTunes or WMP.
> Most EDA software is written by companies who have no interest in letting you see how their proprietary formats work.

Oh boy, I know it, and it's been a pain in my side. However, EAGLE (lots of hobbiests use it) is migrating to a fully-documented XML-based format [1], and there are two open-source projects for schematic capture, kicad and geda, which would give someone a head start on parsing their design files, at least.

[1] http://www.element14.com/community/message/15751
is there a API or a way to affiliate model to integrate this on our own sites? i could totally use this on my travel related sites/apps :)
> I'm rather skeptical of any "workers at factory are mistreated, unhappy, et cetera" story that just happens to coincide with an attempt by a big-labor union to unionize said factory.

Unions don't waste their time trying to organize happy, satisfied employees.
MobileMe has been doing settings and contact and such for a while now. It's buggy, mind you, but all of that functionality is going to iCloud.

You buy a new iPhone, login to iCloud, and it pulls all your settings over, configures your mail client, calendar, installs your apps, and downloads your music. You add a contact on your phone, it goes to your MacBook and iPad, etc.
Why the death of email will immortalize email
The best way to hire people is and has always been by personal recommendation from somebody you trust.
The obvious question: if I take a job with you, will you guarantee that work will not take up too much of my time, nor demand too much of my creative energy, so that I can continue to have my pet projects?
You click on the timestamp (e.g. "6 minutes ago")
That's my biggest complaint about the iPad: I can't fully share my ipad with my girlfriend since it is tied to my email accounts, contacts, calendar etc. It makes sense that a phone is tied to one person, but this iOS limitation is annoying -- especially when traveling.
Actually, even a "prettily wrapped webkit with bookmarks for these streams on its default homepage" itself would be bordering unauthorised exploitation of their content, especially if you charged for it. This might sound weird at first but keep in mind that just because two things are technically very similar it doesn't mean that they are legally similar.
The first BIOS rootkit in the wild
If you use inverses then you can run into such problems, which is a good reason not to use them.
Sort the list by confidence when displaying it to the user, and make it easy to remove members - the potential false positives are most likely to show up with the least confidence.

After that, the incidence of false positives would be very very small.

Plus, what really is the penalty of false positives? FB already surprises people (at times in a bad way) by sharing things in ways they don't expect it to.
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I know sorta how you feel... albeit not exactly. I'm over 30 (38, actually), but I'm still single with no wife, kids or mortgage. So I can be a little more cavalier in my approach to things, since no one is depending on me.

That said, I think you can still make a startup work if you want it bad enough, and depending on your (and your family's) appetite for risk. But if your SO isn't on-board with the required sacrifice and with the risk, it might not be such a great idea. Tough call, best of luck to ya!
And if Bill Gates moved into your town, the average income there would skyrocket.
Here is the direct link: http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/tenthings.html
Again, I think you're being unfair. What people say and what people do are not always the same. People may say "Yes, that's a great feature!" and then not actually use it when it exists.
Mind if I ask how successful you were? Were you able to go full time on your venture?
In my opinion, one should never do a in place upgrade of a OS across major versions. Back up your files first and then do a proper install.
You could do that, but then you compound the problem of comparing the size of slices with an additional size of circle comparison. Humans aren't good at comparing size between these kind of shapes. We're much better at comparing rectangular shapes. You'd be much better off splitting the visualization into two bar charts - one for the % of group calculation and one for the total count of people calculation.
Then give them a coding problem that takes a short amount of time but allows you to evaluate their skills. I relish these opportunities and respect the companies that ask me to do them.

To keep with your metaphor, ask the carpenter to make you a cabinet door.

Again, I agree with others here... if you're passionate about the startup you're working at (and you should be), that is your side project. I distrust people who work at startups that have side projects.
Nuclear Energy
Sorry Apple, Windows 8 ushers in the post-post-PC era
The government depends too much on financial/technological hackery to prevent people from revolting. It's going to backfire.

Modern government will be remembered as being completely oblivious of the wealth of those they governed, ironically in their own name.

Or maybe we'll be remembered as the stupidest people who ever lived.

Either way, keep this off HN. I come here to get away from reddit.
How prostitution and alcohol make Uber better
Choosing a Framework for the Enterprise
Is jQuery (and all of its plugins) a comparable replacement for a component library (and component model) provided via something like JSF, Vaadin or the components available in Flex ?

Secondly, have you adopted the restful model w/an ajax frontend for large internal projects ? If so, how did it go ? Is this model well suited for enterprise development ?
Yes, using a shortest path tree [1], it is possible to efficiently (for some definition of "efficient") calculate the best path from a single origin node to all destination nodes in the graph. Dijkstra's algorithm is the standard implementation, but is not very amenable to parallel processing.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Google has a framework called Pregel [2] which does parallel graph processing. Their research paper outlines how it can be used to calculate a single-source shortest path tree (in section 5.2) in reasonable time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest_path_tree

[2] http://www-bd.lip6.fr/ens/grbd2011/extra/SIGMOD10_pregel.pdf
Configuring SQL Server in EC2
Yes. That is the only legal way of using this content. The CBC forbids packaging any content from their site... which includes URLs.
I think Windows 8 will be interesting. The one thing I don't like about Windows, since Vista, is the splintering of the client version (basic, home, professional, ultimate). I think MS should just make one client version for a flat $150.00.
The smaller the coloured areas, the harder it gets for me.

So a stacked bar is mostly fine, but a scatter plot where the points are only distinguished by colour is impossible to read.
AMD breaks Guinness WR for fastest processor frequency at 8.429 gigahertz
The only lists that are automatically maintained are those for your schoolmates, your work colleagues, where you live, and your family.

The family one is the one where the most sensitive information might be shared, and that requires a confirmation for one of your friends to claim to be in your family. (Or, you can manually add that friend as a member of your Family list, which won't add you as a member of their Family list.)
I'm 52 - a real dinosaur, but I've been hooked on startups since the late 80s - and with few exceptions have never stopped. The drag for me is that when I was 30 they said I was too young - now I get the looks that I may be too old. All BS of course, because being a start up founder is all about commitment, risk, passion and flexibility. You have to have 1000% commitment not just for yourself but from your loved ones - if they're not on board with belt tightening and living off credit cards at times, with you working 18 hours a day - 7 days a week, with the inevitable ups and downs, high probability of failure and willing to hang in there in the bad moments ( because a great start up founder must maintain a positive and optimistic perspective to their team - translation: you're family will bear the brunt of pent up angst). Then this isn't for you. On the other hand, it's thrilling to be in the middle of a hot space, building your dream, exchanging ideas with bright people, understanding a market better than anyone else, most importantly the joy of learning new stuff and doing new stuff every day and of expanding your skills beyond what you thought you could do then do it. Notice I never mentioned money - if that's what you want, then stick with your job because it'll provide what you need. Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, etc, never ever mention that they do it for the money - it's never about the money.
The manufacturing of radio recievers is nominally regulated by the FCC in the US and other state agencies in other areas. I say 'nominally' because they are generally of the form 'you cannot receieve frequencies used by celluar telephones' like this document: http://www.fcc.gov/guides/interception-and-divulgence-radio-... outlines.

There is also rule making about what radio broadcasters have to pay to rights holders when they broadcast said content.

And importantly, the FCC at least (and probably the Candian equivalent) don't put 'streaming audio' over the internet in the same category as broadcasting at all, rather it is a re-distribution of content. And permission to do that has no 'standard' for acquiring rights applied to it.

You need only look at Pandora's attempts early on to pay exactly what the radio stations pay to play music which was defeated in the courts. Pandora negotiated a separate contract for payments for that music.

Or to try to listen to a major league baseball game over the Internet by going to the KNBR web site and listening to their player app. (which goes silent when games are on)

Bottom line is, the content owner gets to make the rules with regards to who, how, and when their content can be consumed/received. All of this crap has been hashed out several times in the courts by several different parties.

Two things are very well established via litigation:

1) Streaming isn't broadcasting.

2) The content provider has the exclusive right to say who can or cannot use / listen / access their streamed content.

I understand that it sucks and is anathema to folks who feel like if they write an app that can pick up an audio stream and play it then they should be allowed to do that, however since I follow this stuff and its goings on I am familiar with how content owners have prevented folks from being given that right. Davander Mobile didn't understand that, because if they did their blog posting would be 'Oh darn the CBC figured out what we are doing and now we have to take our App off the App Store.' I speculated that their lack of understanding came from it being their first encounter with the world of intellectual property regulation and that was probably unfair, I have no basis for evaluating their cluelessness and should keep my speculation to myself.
I guess I could have been clearer,

"Sometimes people pets projects are working on a large open source project, for employers I believe that is the jackpot, you have full insight into how they communicate with users and peers, what work they produce and insight into the thought processes that go along with it."
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Well, if one narrows down the options a bit, it becomes far more tractable. Considering that Google's flight search only works for domestic return trips of 15 days or less (it didn't seem to give me results for anything longer than that?) and doesn't allow stopovers or open jaws, it's entirely possible that the complexity is much reduced.
sorry, but I think this is an arrogant and insulting attitude. I get the value of side projects, but assuming that someone who doesn't have any is an inferior candidate is bullshit. I know the blog post says "Not having pet projects doesn’t mean that you are a bad developer" but dismissing such people out of hand says otherwise.

you don't care about experience? so someone who writes ultra-high-performance code for a trading firm is worth less to you than someone who writes a 50-line rails app that lets you use the fabled "pomodoro technique"? good luck finding great developers with that attitude. but hey, at least they'll have "passion", right? because all salaried coding is generic and mindless, and anybody doing it is a drone with no skills or ambition.
The Changing Indie Game Landscape: Steam Beats Xbox?
I work for a company that makes millions a year providing health care plan comparison sites to major plan carriers.

I hate it because the industry is years behind. 90% of our clients demand IE6 support because their companies still use them. We constantly have to integrate with legacy systems and people don't understand how to consume our web services. It's very stable, but boring.... It's a bad place.

Nice to see competent tech people getting into the market. I wouldn't mind starting/joining a health startup but I signed a pretty damning non-compete.
It's helpful in places like San Francisco or New York, where you have options about which airport you can use.

For example, I looked at a ticket from SEA -> SFO. When I zoomed in on SFO, I can easily see how much it is to San Jose or Oakland as well.

It's also just fun to enter your departure airport and see "where can I fly and for how much?"
There's a giant search bar because it's part of Google Search. Like Images, Shopping or any of the other verticals. It's likely under testing, but I would wager at some point soon it will show up automatically in the sidebar as an option when searching for flight related topics.
The counterargument to your counterargument is that google could start taking over what they cannibalize and make more money directly.
I actually like the official answer: "We've seen it work, it should work, but it's not supported." Much better than "we can't comment, we don't support that."

edit: They seem to be collecting "pro tips" from users, so you are welcome to try any scenario and tell them about it, so they can tell other users.
This information is a decade old, but my wife told me that Southwest were the only American airline to make a profit. That could have something to do with it...

EDIT: This recent news article states "Of the five biggest U.S. airline companies, analysts expected only Southwest to report a first-quarter profit":

http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/story/2011/04/Southwest-m...
Obviously. But even after submitting a completed application, I still don't have a real rate until the carrier completes underwriting/medical records check etc. We're talking about the first 10 minutes of the process here.
Multitasking is toxic
And now you've actually used one.
Yeah, but Windows copied icons from ...

We could play that game all day long. Let's just save our energy for something constructive ;)
This is Robert Reich giving a great lecture at Google about this exact subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIxXZa5Fwzc
Honestly, the lack of a good API by any provider is one of the biggest barriers to entry in this space. I wonder if the Hipmunk guys might release one? I'd be thrilled to send affiliate traffic to the first company that makes good on this.
Login with Facebook would be nice. Also, have you guys thought about having some of the featured content on the front page? It's easier to get an idea of what it's about if you don't start with a clean slate and don't have to create an account..
///Even just the assumption that statements are to be executed in a particular sequence greatly affects the outcome of tests like this and you may have to specify such a thing up-front if you expect people to be on a level playing field.

I was guilty of forgetting this in a programming interview and gave an answer from algebra.Needless to say interview went downhill very soon.
Thanks everyone, encouraging so far. I'll be honest, one of the frustrations/fears is not being able to currently commit 100% of my time to my idea, which inevitably leads to it taking substantially longer (months) to get something out the door...in the mean time, I look on Techcrunch or HN and others has developed something similar in a matter of weeks and raised $$. If there is one thing I've learned, is that hard work does pay off...onward and upward.
Were those Southwest flights? I think SWA doesn't let any of the aggregators display prices for their flights - I was pleasantly surprised that I saw Southwest flights at all.
> 2011 poverty and 1959 poverty in the US are pretty much entirely incomparable

I'm a particular fan of using census data to make this point. Consider the "American Housing Survey":

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/ahs/nationaldata.html

Americans below the poverty line in 2009 are more likely to have things like complete kitchens, complete plumbing, automobiles, air conditioning, and dishwashers than Americans as a whole in 1970. Put another way, if we used the living conditions of someone at the poverty line right now and used that to define the poverty line in 1970, over half of the 1970 population would be below the poverty line.

That's not to say all modern Americans are comfortable. There are still some in true poverty. It's just not very many. (It turns out I've been "in poverty" for most of my life; I just never noticed.)
The whole thing has "designed by an engineer" all over it. From hidden UI that reveals itself by clicking/hovering on various elements, to the entire process being limited to one screen which various pop-out elements and transformations. There is little consistency in the design, and poor or no usage of contrast to separate information visually.

When clicking the large blue button to the right of a flight, several rows of return flights drop down below that. The only visual distinction between these specific sub-rows and the other departing flights below is a thin blue/gray border on the sides.

Going from A to B is called an "Outbound flight", while going from B to A is called a "Return flight". Copy is very important in UI design. It should be outbound/inbound or depart/return, not some mix of different terminology.

Durations are always "-- Xh -->". What is the point of the arrow if it is always pointing to the right? Why is the duration a lighter shade than the rest of the text?

The left column is a Gawker/Gizmodo style static column that locks in place when scrolling down. The Google search results page doesn't do that.

These are basics, and a company the size of Google with as many employees as it has should be able to get these things right.
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Protoyping: Learning to Think and Make With Your Hands
"Despite the rise of digital tools and rapid prototyping, it has never been more important for designers to make things with their hands."
We (Hipmunk) have Jetblue, and so does Kayak and Google. We also let you figure out the cheapest days to fly: just click "I'm flexible."
as a result, if better tools don't require higher skills/education (and thus don't naturally lead to higher wages), nobody wants to be the guy using the tools. In this case it is necessary either to still increase the wages for using the tools or outsource or bring cheap labor in.