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Well the idea was to build a marketplace in the hope that we would get lots of different itineraries for each location, with each one tackling the city from a different angle. It would be up to the individuals to write itineraries how they deemed fit, and the review/rating process would make sure the best ones were highlighted.

Unfortunately, so far we have had to seed the marketplace with itineraries which are costing us $100+ each, so we dont have the luxury of making many itineraries for each city.

Also, each itinerary takes many weeks to write - $20 just wouldn't cover the expenses of bespoke itineraries.
A bit OT but would be nice to have a [video] tag for these autostarting videos.
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It's things like these that make me not want to add commenting to any blog/website I work on. It's bad enough when someone anonymously makes a comment and people actually believe it. When the DOJ start raiding your home because of comments though... That pushes it over the edge for me.
20 years ago a friend of mine proposed me to buy one (almost new) for the ridiculously low sum of 7000 euros (equivalent). Unfortunately I was utterly broke back then, like every time I had an incredible bargain opportunity :)
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My 11" Macbook Air setup is a bit unconventional:

* Debian Wheezy (I haven't been able to create a customized and focused OS X setup)

* Puppet (For managing the installation and configuration of all the following applications)

* ssh

* zsh (beats bash in my book)

* ufw (best alternative I've found on Linux to BSDs pf)

* tmux (obsoleted screen for me)

* vim

* ack (intelligent recursive file search)

* git

* rsync

* curl

* keychain (stores password decrypted ssh keys in memory)

* awesome (tiling window manager configured in Lua)

* urxvt (running in client-server mode to save resources)

* spotify

* mplayer (for playing videos and audio not streamed from spotify)

* unclutter (hides the mouse after X seconds of inactivity (I rarely use the mouse))

* firefox (with pentadactyl for vim-like browsing)

* chromium (for testing on webkit)

* mupdf (lightweight pdf viewer)

* sxiv (lightweight image viewer)

* rdesktop (if I need to connect to a Windows machine at work)

* rtorrent

Most puppet modules and application configurations can be found here: http://github.com/uggedal
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The Music app can play MIDI? More importantly, the Music app can send MIDI commands over Airplay to an Airport Express, which can then send them (over what? audio? USB?) to the piano?
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If you were to stare at the sun your pupils would contract too - doesn't mean less eye strain.
Why is the "not enough women and minorities" question even on the radar? Did I miss something?
The iPhone doesn't natively support playing MIDI files. Is it using an app to do this?
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Thanks for the great ideas - some of our thinking has been along the same lines. One of our biggest barriers is funds, which means we have to push as hard and fast as we can before we are totally depleted.

Design is something on our list, but neither of us are designers, and getting a good design will cost a fair amount.

We have tried to provide them in physical format, but the price significantly exceeds that of a travel guide - I'm not sure if it makes sense.

We haven't considered the fandango route - I guess it is a revenue stream that we should investigate.

The iphone app is coming... but its not feature packed, because we had to outsource it, and as always, funds are limited.
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Lovely :) I guess we'll be seeing tons and tons of clones; I've seen many Minecraft like games and engines appearing in the open source world in the past month. If now only someone could explain what is fun about this game: I tried playing Minecraft but didn't get it or something. It didn't appeal at all. That might be just me though :) I do love coarse voxels though; the logo for my company is a little voxel guy (made before this game).
$1.4 billion, mates. $1.4 billion for a business with manufacturing plants, complicated global logistics... Now let me remind you that Facebook is valued 85 (!) times more.. o_O
It looks like the joint UK/US investigation has run out of leads and is going after the bloggers' computers in the hopes that the hacker had some communication with them. Or the police might have evidence that we won't hear about until trial. It will look the same to us either way; we weren't at the warrant request hearing. In the meantime, a few bloggers are without their computers for the foreseeable future.

There was apparently another hacking last month. This might have influenced the police to act aggressively.
http://www.desmogblog.com/climategate-hackers-slither-again-...
Android is taking off here in India because it's creeping into the low-end. I'm sure the same thing is happening in most countries.

Last week I got a Samsung Galaxy Y. It's small, sturdy, has swype input and has great battery life. Gmail, reader & facebook over 3G or wifi.

The price: just $140!!!

I used to try high-end phones and then go back to low-end Nokias. Now, I'm not going back to my $40 Nokia and I'm definitely not going to pay $700+ for an iPhone that won't even have Swype.

edit: extra sentence
Ah, the good 'ol iPhone bundling tactic. I'm definitely not an opponent of sticking to what you're good at, and doing it best. And with this deal, I guess that's what's happening with both companies!
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You didn't get the point. Government is also working with leading institutions in country, they will provide the material mostly in PDF format free to download. Other than that, internet itself is full of education material like youtube, khanacadmy.org etc.
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We have done many tests with Adwords - our margins are tiny, and adwords doesn't seem to work for us. We are still testing this, but we are not even close - we are many, many miles away. I'm sure we are missing something with adwords, but we have tried a lot, but still not succeeded.

We have a very basic discount/promo system, but building an affiliate system takes time, and we haven't had any requests for it, so it is not at the top of our roadmap.
A lot of people are buying, just for the hell of it, Androids from Chinese outlets like Aliexpress as well. Those are not brands, but they are really cheap; so cheap you don't care at all if they break/fall (I don't agree with that sentiment, but I know a lot of people do). There are Android 2.3 pads there for $50 (not to mention hackable Linux phone watches). Now if only you could upgrade Android without restrictions.

And, while there still is crisis everywhere, I see people selling them here on markets; they buy them from Alibaba in sets of 20-50 and sell them on a sunday market to 'fortunate but not as fortunate to pay for a $140 phone'.

Edit: added Linux phone watch, disclaimer; never tried one, but a friend did and he says it's great fun for tinkering.
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One possible way is that, if you are in the position to make decisions based on, or make use of, the research results of others (e.g. you're the FDA, or the journal Nature) you require that companies publish/register the methodology of any research they intend to conduct before it begins. If someone submits/relies on the results of a study which was not pre-registered, the data is ignored.

Any by pre-registering, you can follow up on research that has been silently "forgotten about". If too much research is forgotten about, you stop trusting the results you do hear about.
Poor excuse. (But "lack of time" almost always is a poor excuse.) Even assuming the ridiculous credits*2 hours outside of school for school work, and assuming 8 hours of sleep every night (haha), and assuming the standard 1 credit = 1 hour in class, you still have 32 hours of free time across Saturday and Sunday that you could probably spread around if you wanted.

"Lack of time" is such a handy excuse, I'd try hard to investigate an underlying reason since there are so many. As an idea of just a few, it could be that you really have no interest in other subjects (probably not if you enjoyed the article), or that you don't want people to think you're goofing off, or that all your free time is unwittingly sucked away through passive relaxation like t.v.

"Perceived poor allocation of time" seems like a real thing to me. Lately I've noticed myself beating myself up for spending time "reading/making things I don't have to", since I love random Wikipedia walks or interesting pages from google searches or reading online papers or books (even paper ones from the library sometimes), I love reading things that aren't necessarily computer related (and especially things I know they don't teach me in school or at work).

But if I beat myself up over it and/or spend time with "passive relaxation" such as entertainment (whether because humans need a certain amount of passive down time or because I want to avoid thinking about [meta-]berating myself), suddenly I can't focus enough to read those interesting things since that background thought is always present. This happened a lot last semester; 20 credits is the average at my school. (People still find time to play lots of video games.)

My current solution is to take a reduced load in the spring (possibly a gap year if my grades continue to suffer) and massively inflate my free time such that spending a large chunk of time reading about quantum physics doesn't feel like something I shouldn't do, and such that my free time isn't used up hating 6.5/7 of my classes since it'd be reduced to maybe 3/4. (There are only two classes left in my program I actually care about.) I'm glad my burnout is localized to school, though, since even some of the cruft work at work is 100 times more interesting than any of my previous semester's assignments.
So this means if now they want to search your home and seize your computers, all they have to do is use a proxy to post just a LINK to this zip file on your public blog, maybe even your facebook - boom, instant seizure without judicial review.

Also works if a blogger is your competition or you just don't like them.

Kudos to Matt for not obeying any kind of gag order.

I guess the future is government hassling people for having knowledge, can't have that.

Did they use a "National Security Letter" for this without judicial review?
This is exactly the reason why I keep my mobile as long as possible (years). It is a shame to see all the waste we ship to counties like Ghana and Nigeria and call it recycling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste
People don't want to pay period. That doesn't mean we should accept this fact and just let the whole world take, take, take with impunity. At some point you have to make sure people who create things can benefit from it. It doesn't mean they're entitled to a living, but certainly nobody is entitled to their creations for free, and trying to educate, prevent and enforce copyright is important to artists, while protecting the rights of people to take products that they have not paid for is not important at all.
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Thanks! I think Minecraft does a great job into giving users superpowers[1] and let them show how awesome they are, instead on how cool the product or the company that created it is.

Having that said, the fun of Minecraft (besides doing survival mode's challenges/killing monsters) is being awesome: take a peek into Minecraft top 5[2] creations for mindblowing spaceships[3], castles[4], roller costers[5] and circuits[6]!

[1] http://konigi.com/notebook/kathy-sierra-creating-awesome-use...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/show?p=QfGZKvRNom4&tracker=show_a...

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKEbBX21igc&feature=sh_e_...

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTgmEB0IHcY&feature=sh_e_...

[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noa-z3pqEL8&feature=sh_e_...

[6] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgY7IpZtVNY&feature=sh_e_...
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Thanks for the suggestions. We are currently giving our itinerary authors 75% of the sales - and that has got the word out a bit (just not enough I guess).

Trying to build a social community is something we should possibly try, but it will take a lot of time - and we weren't convinced it would catch on.
I've been thinking about this a lot recently and it seems like a big concern to me. Ideally, consumer products should last a person for more than a couple of years but with smartphones the product life is about two years.

I wonder how long we can go at this rate until our rare-earth minerals start reaching alarming levels.
With Mozilla's downward slope in browser share, it seems smart to keep the relationship going for both of them. If Mozilla keeps losing ground to Chrome, Google wins. If Mozilla grows its userbase somehow, Google wins. Not to mention Mozilla keeps getting paid for what they do.
Back in high school, I lost 1st place in the Weizmann Safe Cracking Physics Contest over this. You had to build a safe that anyone with a sufficiently advanced knowledge of physics could open. The winning team had placed a magnetic switch in the middle of a long tube inside their safe. You could toggle the switch if a magnet fell down the tube slowly enough, but it never worked no matter how you dropped it. The solution was to first insert a roll of tinfoil inside the tube.

They also used a gauss cannon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coilgun

http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/14th-safe-cracking-contest

http://www.weizmann.ac.il/zemed/upload/13(3).pdf
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Question (as someone whose deepest depression was a 'bad day' at work ;)): the article states that

But also it goes with realising that a lot of human activity is really pretty pointless, and when you realise that and internalise it then you become cynical and also a bit sad - because you yourself are caught up in this machine and you have to play along if you want to get on. Teenagers are really good at spotting this kind of phony nonsense. Its also the seed of an illness; a melancholia that can deepen in later life into full blown depression.

I think that purely rational reasoning will easily lead to this conclusion, but emotionally this does not feel true: we all want to avoid suffering and live in happiness. So, the eventual goal becomes making yourself and other people happy.

I seems to me that such reasoning can only get to you if there already is an emotional imbalance (e.g. due to bipolar disorder or stress).

So, isn't it a trigger for illness, rather than a seed?
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1.4B .. money they will need to keep investors happy while burning money on smartphones
Listened to the audio while browsing web, the condescending tone of overvalued tech for privileged white people was all I could hear from her.

Paul, on the other hand, is a class act as always.
I think you and I have different meanings in mind for the phrase "hit on". If I'm at a conference and meet a woman I'm attracted to (and likely has similar interests since she's there too), why would it be bad to try to get her phone number? I may never see her ever again.

Below you talk about "not taking no for an answer". I don't call that "hitting on", I call that pestering and, yes, that would make someone a dick. But in my opinion that makes you a dick no matter where you do it, not just in business scenarios.
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Could we see this code as well then?
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I understand all of that and if we want to change what I've suggested from an independent board to an accelerated prosecution by the government of companies with high scores, that's fine. I'm inclined to trust the right board of directors more than our courts, but that's just me. I have a feeling Wikileaks's fate is better off being determined by our citizens than by our government. That's why I proposed keeping the organization independent. But really, my only goal is to have a transparent method of keeping tabs on the infractions of companies, so that each violation perpetrated on small rights holders without the resources to sue can add up and have consequences. The current problem is that all a company needs to do is make deals with the companies large enough to sue, and then abuse those too small to do so, and they can avoid the penalty of the current laws. What I've proposed allows for the overall behavior of a company to be transparent and acted upon. If it needs to be acted upon by our government, then that's okay, but I suspect that puts real free speech havens at risk.
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There is definitely some resistance to paying for travel information when so much of it is available for free - I totally agree with you on that. However, our product is more aimed at short trips, where investing in lots of time to research the destination just doesn't make sense.

I feel like $4.99 is a reasonable price considering the amount of time it saves you.

What would you consider a reasonable price? Or specifically... what would be your own personal "too expensive" threshold?
Cool video, but nutjob submitter?

"I have always wanted to show that there are many different "types" of "Magnetic fields" as the standard science says that there is only one "type"... THIS IS JUST VERY WRONG !!"

"Magnetism is the primery force and electricity is the product of that effect, science says that is not so.. THEY ARE WRONG again.."

"When a potential is applied a vortex is formed around the magnet and a spin of water takes place show through the gas bubbles.. This is very IMPORTANT as this will allow scientist to develop better, faster and more powerful machines to help the human condition.."

Uhm... clicks button to collapse video information again - well, I have to admit that the video is nice. Without sound. And text.
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Seems like this is written by a conspiracy nut. Facts are wrong (Michael Mann isn't a professor at UPenn) and the story is one-sided. There's no mention of what else Tallbloke wrote on his blog or the fact that the equipment seizure was due to the email hacking that occurred (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/uk-police-seize-e...), not because of any comments.

Here's the opposite side of the story with its own biases: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/computers_of_crimi...
So she is of Chinese ascent. How weird, I couldn't tell. And her strong American accent, so strange. Sorry.
+1 for the cartoon, but is HN seriously going to be a platform for this kind of non-story story? Polite Yorkshire policemen enforcing a search warrant? Would that Occupy Wall Street had them to deal with instead of the pepper-spray brigade!
Far more courteous disagreement back in the day ;)
He's far too generous to OS X. But my experience is very similar. Once I switched, the amount of maintenance time dropped and I was more productive.

Momentum and the niceties of Apple hardware and software keep me on their platform.
This is my feeling, too. I never took any serious CS course during my studies, not more than maybe an hour a week at best on Mathlab, Caml, Prolog or Pascal, a tiny bit of assembler or LOGO, and these courses were almost always tied to other scientific disciplines, using the computer as a tool in the exact same way as we would use a ruler, an erlenmeyer or a LED.

I learned programming at work. I was working in a startup that I joined shortly after the internet bubble burst, in 2002, as their first employee. I was taught, beyond syntax and flow, to find my own "Way of the Programming Fist", as I like to name it, and more importantly to keep an open mind for other ways of programming. The key, and possibly the only lesson that is still relevant today:

"When in doubt, remember that your Way of Programming is complete, which means you can eventually build anything with it, anything. Whether you want to display a barchart from a static printer spool log or light up a bulb with a handclap, your Way of Programming can eventually do it. For every goal, there are probably faster, stronger or easier Ways, but these are never 100% better: there's always a tradeoff. For that reason you don't need to learn the other Ways - but make sure you acknowledge their existence, learn and remember these pros & cons your whole life."

You're talking about "Quality Code" - I didn't get it through people looking at my code, but through me looking at other people's code. My brains designed some abstract "compiler" of sorts, used in my very mind to parse an alien piece of source. For me, "Quality" in that domain is the amount of work I need to do to be understand the "Way of the Programming Fist" of the coder, and use it in turn for my own programs. It has a lot to do with conventions, design patterns, formatting, naming and of course the programming language's "family", whether it's procedural, functional, object-oriented or whatever.

A decade later, it feels like it's still only the beginning, but I'm now proficient enough to understand the pros and the cons of some of the various conventions, design patterns, algorithms or programming languages I've met along the way, the way they fit with various goals and requirements, I'm mature enough to make my own choices, and I actually have my own programming business.

I would absolutely describe myself as a self-taught programmer, but like the above poster said, I would have gone absolutely nowhere on my own. Programming is all about knowledge transfer - "Here's what I use to do this, and here are the benefits, here are the tradeoffs" should be every programmer's favourite sentence.
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> bits are the cheapest commodity on the planet.

People who put bits in an order worth caring about are not. Protecting the bits is not the point. It's protecting the people who turn them into something meaningful.

> Find a way to create value that isn't inherently rooted in the order of your bits.

Sounds like a plan. Let's just abandon all efforts to create value out of information and ideas, and assume that the quality of creations will continue to be the same, even when people cannot spend their full time on them, and others will no longer invest in them. This sounds like a much better idea than making whatever effort we can to protect creators and discourage people from taking what they're not entitled to.