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The article is actually this long --

BY DANA MATTIOLI

Orbitz Worldwide Inc. has found that people who use Apple Inc.'s Mac computers spend as much as 30% more a night on hotels, so the online travel agency is starting to show them different, and sometimes costlier, travel options than Windows visitors see.

The Orbitz effort, which is in its early stages, demonstrates how tracking people's online activities can use even seemingly innocuous information—in this case, the fact that customers are visiting Orbitz.com from a Mac—to start predicting their tastes and spending habits.

Orbitz executives confirmed that the company is experimenting with showing different hotel offers to Mac and PC ...
I think he would have been really savvy to sell a large percentage of the tickets up front for the standard price, and then auction the remaining bit off as the time for the event nears. Cut out the scalpers, give a fair shake to the people who love you and will jump in line day 1, and get a good bonus from the few who prefer the convenience at the expense of cost.
Now you are trolling, but since the community has long since moved past this news item, I'm just going to point it out and move on myself.
Couldn't agree more.

However, there is a slight snag to that: its unlikely he could have pulled this off with out first getting a huge following from the traditional media and all those middle men.

Don't get me wrong, what he is doing is brilliant. And Im so glad that it is Louis CK doing this who I was already a fan of. That down load of his gig for $5 was the perfect example of what we want, an artist in control selling his art of a damn reasonable price, and making good money too. Plenty of people did pirate it, but more than enough bought it. But what we need to see work is people working their way to a similar position, making the same sort of money, but with out having traditional media putting them there first.

What Louis CK is doing is brilliant, but it needs to grow and spread. Im rather hoping that somewhere in the back ground he is passing what he has learned on to fellow artists and this thing can grow.
Thanks for the bug report on the paths. I was relying on os.path to generate the urls, which obviously doesn't work on Windows or Mac.

The rest of your issues seem to be with the template - you're free to develop your own if you don't like mine, or don't like bootstrap, or whatever.
Even if they didn't automatically hide my old email address, merely making the @facebook.com one visible on my profile is an anti-feature. So no, the problem isn't that they automatically switched my visible email address, it's that they enabled a "feature" for me at all that turns out to be an anti-feature. Removing my real email from my profile was just the icing on that shit sandwich.
If you're running AdBlock you won't see the "click here to subscribe now!" pitch.

The ellipses isn't the end of the article!
This reminds me. I got to ask for a raise.
It's unnecessary. Why would someone email my Facebook instead of emailing me? If they want to send a Facebook message, there's this nifty button called 'Message' for that very purpose. Facebook is Microsoft circa 2003.
I was giving chad_oliver's anecdotes the benefit of the doubt. This is getting a bit meta...
Didn't this guy rip Joe Rogan off awhile back and even had Joe publicly call him out on stage?

Why is this guy still attracting people?
Didn't know that one :)
Note that although Simon won the bet, "if you re-round the same bet on a rolling basis.. [Ehrlich] has won by such a big margin in the last decade that it has more or less undone the price gains of the previous century." (quoting Peter Thiel in a debate with George Gilder: Accelerating or Decelerating? The Prospects for Technology and Economic Growth http://youtube.com/watch?v=XRrLyckg8Nc)
Are they simply showing pricier offers, or are they showing the exact same offers but with the prices raised? The former is annoying but not inherently evil, but the latter would be terrible.
False. I am a fan of this heatsink.
I hate the term 'unlimited'.
It sounds like it was meant to be used the same way as Bump.
Einstein fled Nazi Germany due to their anti-semitism. Are you actually trying to claim that Nazi Germany's oppression of Jews was not necessarily a big deal?
You obviously have never been to China. Those kids, especially pre-school are indulged beyond belief thank to the one-child policy.
Oh wait, that was Carlos Mencia...

:-)
See also: http://openbook.org/
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Java is not the only runtime with automatic dynamic memory management. I could run comparisons against "tcc" and conclude that java is an order of magnitude faster than C.
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Watch Magic Mike Online Free
Watch Magic Mike is produced by Reid Carolin, Gregory Jacobs, Channing Tatum, as well as Nick Wechsler which is written by Reid Carolin. The movie is distributed by Warner Bros. under Nick Wechsler Productions studio which is expected to be shown in cinemas on the 29th of June, 2012.
1986 - Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk."

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...

Once you're optimizing the runtime performance of Objective-C code, you're suddenly writing in C.

The "close to hardware" thing is an illusion created by the "-C" part.
If I thought they meant it. But I actually think it's just an aggressive thrashing about on having their sacred beliefs threatened. The closed epistemic system of that crowd shows defense signs similar to those of Christianity.
I also find this fascinating.

As someone involved in creating recommendation systems for web sites based on various user behavior signals, I can see adding a "what type of browser do they use" and "what type of OS do they use" intelligence in the future to further segment users.

Mac ownership must be a proxy for "household income". Brilliant.
ACAD/Medre.A – 10000′s of AutoCAD files leaked in suspected industrial espionage
Reminds me on the who-is-not-at-home syndication from Facebook and Twitter. Even so these are scary, I really think they provide excellent privacy teaching moments. Hope you are going to keep this up for some time and enhance it with other categories.
Have you ever taught a public school? You'd want police too. Thug culture has infiltrated most public schools.
Is the world in risk of Oil Oversupply?
Haha, my heart momentarily jumped out of my chest when I clicked that.
NO!

Gamers need ig, high power (electrical as well as compute) systems.

Try running Revit on a even the latest laptops opening a project file 1 GB in size will kill any and every single laptop out there.

Desktops will certainly decline on the consumer end - but will continue in enterprise and business (towers cost less than laptops, are much more serviceable and take a wider range of commodity 3rd party parts that are easy to get)

There will always be a market for tower/desktops because of speed, capacity and latency requirements -- at least for the foreseeable future....

(We have tried to Revit to a VDI in the cloud - but still way too laggy)
Does this means that Linux users get the best deals? Or maybe it's Windows users with cracked copies of Windows.
Spanking has decreased in schools. Violence has increased in schools. Just sayin'
Ask HN: I know how to build, but not what to build. I can haz help?
Title is pretty self explanatory, but the catch is that the following are NOT acceptable answers:

Anything related to the Lean Startup
Anything related to Customer Development
Anything related to any other form of fanboy, wantrepreneur bullshit

Disclaimer: I'm not saying that these above references are bad (except maybe the last one), nor am I implying that the third is descriptive of the first two, I just think they are overused. Trying to tease out some new ideas here.
It's quite common for corporate boards to be comprised of outsiders, with the CEO as the only board member who is also an employee. I wouldn't call it unusual that Sandberg is not currently on the board, nor is it unusual that she is now joining the board. For example, Oracle has four employees on the board, Microsoft has only one (Ballmer), and Apple has only one (Cook).
I'm curious... I went through to the buy page and there was a big notice saying that the tickets might become Will Call tickets.

Do you have a ticket you can print out now, or are they telling you to turn up on the night of the show with ID?

(I'm seeing him during September in Toronto - tickets available exclusively through Ticketmaster! http://jfl42.com/ )
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There are plenty of systems that give those willing to pay more a better chance at securing tickets.

But what it really comes down to, is that it's hard to square any of those systems with many artists' desire to keep ticket prices as affordable as possible, so that their 'true' fans aren't priced out by profiteers, suits or yuppie douchebags.
Maybe paywall sites should be banned from HN.
There has to be a corollary floating around about sufficient user bases.
Well, Orbitz certainly understands its audience. If you're willing to overpay on laptops, hopefully you're also willing to overpay on hotel stays.
The biggest difference is Yammer has a reasonably stable revenue source in its customers. Instagram has 0 paying customers that I'm aware of.
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The final answer.
You have to fight power with power. No, he probably couldn't have done this without gaining traction using traditional means, but so what? He's using the power he's gained in that system as leverage to improve the system.

He's in a position to improve the system because he's a part of it, and only because he's a part of it.
I wish to debate for a bit. You're technically right on so much of this but keep coming to Apple-sucks conclusions that I don't feel are warranted.

Let's grant this: if malicious code can start executing on OS X as a regular user, it's game over. There are so many ways through the floor it's almost trivial. (the presence of BSD tools being largely irrelevant since there were far easier ways in the door that are guaranteed to be installed)

And let's grant this: Apple has been very late in rolling out an explicit malware detection and removal systems.

And let's grant this: Microsoft understands what they're up against when it comes to security. Malware damaged the Windows XP install base to the point where it was necessary to stop production on their #1 moneymaker in order to rescue it.

I can't support your assertion that Gatekeeper is a power grab. The defaults on 10.8 allow any and all signed software bundles to be installed regardless of where they came from.

Mac App Store can at the very least "prove" that apps are only able to call public APIs, there's a minor but real financial and logistical barrier to entry, and developers and apps can be revoked. All apps must be sandboxed (for better and for worse) and updates must come through a known source.

As for the argument that Apple is doing security by obscurity, I think they've been doing fine. To review the ways I know of to trash a Mac: Drive by web plugin attack, network attack, e-mail attachment attack, tricked into authenticating Installer.app.

I think we can all agree that all major OSes are a lot better about controlling ports open by default nowadays.

Web: Safari is sandboxed. Flash is sandboxed. Extensions are sandboxed and signed. All out of date flash plugins are purged automatically at system boot. Java has basically been disabled across the entire Mac ecosystem. In-line PDFs are handled by the OS.

Disk Mounter refuses to mount known bad .dmgs. Installer.app has a blacklist. Both of these update nightly. System Update will shortly match the default policies and cadence of Windows Update.

PDFs are handled by a sandboxed built-in App, short-circuiting the nightmare that is Adobe Acrobat Reader. There's no AutoRun concept for mounted volumes. ASLR at multiple levels is in use. Signed frameworks are in use. Etc, etc, etc.

I'd argue that a Mac out of the box being used by an novice operator is pretty well protected, with more to come. And these novice operators are the ones who do the most damage to software platforms by blindly installing shit. Apple's straightjacket provides better results for them.

Finally, iOS: the ivory-est of all ivory towers. Name an app that's done real-world damage, because I haven't heard of one.
Microsoft Enters Office Socializing With a $1.2 Billion Purchase
I posted the same article a few minutes earlier using the Google cache link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4159481
Absolutely. I agree that honest 'victims' will happen. Outright ticket fraud happens all the time when people deal with scalpers.

I was just trying to explain why I don't think it'll be a notably larger problem than with any other event nor do I see the victims getting even the usual (low) amount of sympathy.

There are simply too many people who agree with Louis' efforts to keep his work as affordable as possible for there to be notable blowback on him.
It's a PR release. Don't get too excited. It's meant to be spread around.

The board is founder controlled. Sheryl Sandberg is heavily invested with the founder. Adding her to the board further cements his position and gets PR points for having a woman on the board (which many boards don't have).

I have no opinion as to whether or not this is a good or bad thing - but that's what I see from my more or less limited view point.
Not to mention #1 OakPacific.com is actually mop.com which is alive and very valuable.

From wikipedia:

Oak Pacific Interactive is the second-largest operator of social networking websites in China,[1] after taking ownership of one of the most viewed Web sites in China MOP.com.
The former, and it seems to vary by location. from the article:

[...] search results for hotels in cities including Las Vegas,
Orlando, Philadelphia and Boston were the same for both Macs and PCs.
A New York search turned up more expensive hotels for Mac users, but
only after the first 20 listed.

[...] A Mac search for a hotel in Miami Beach for two nights in July
displayed costlier boutique hotels on the first page of results, such
as Sagamore, the Art Hotel and the Boulan South Beach, that weren't
displayed on the PC's first page. Among hotels appearing in both searches,
some pricier options (such as the $212 Eden Roc Renaissance and the $397
Fontainebleau) were listed higher on the Mac. [...]
Full Article -

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230445860457748...
Go looks very cool but it solves only a subset of C++ better than C++. For example, I doubt very much Crysis, Battlefield or Modern Warfare could be written in Go on consoles assuming Go even existed on consoles.

Similarly I'm not sure how great it is at client side apps where you need certain code for OSX and different code for Linux and yet different code for Windows. Or how about iOS and Android games, two places that use lots of C++?

So at least for me, while I'd love to get the benefits of what Go is trying to achieve, until it solves the problems I personally need to solve it's unfortunately off my list.

When I am on a project it fits I'm looking forward to checking it out.
I agree. In the end, it's not really surprising that C/C++ continue on. Replacements either include too much to be a strict replacement or do too little to warrant the change.
We have park benches available now.

Note: - Guests may be required to construct their own bench
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Yes. http://www.housingmaps.com/
They're redirected to the habitat for humanity site where you can find plans to build your own hotel, and possibly enlist some volunteers to help.
Seems reasonable - next time you are at the dentist check out the Yachting and golf magazines. They aren't advertizing Timex on the back cover.
I never suspected that, too.
Retroactively cancelling tickets is a non-starter. Labour intensive and prone to embarrassing false positives.

There are two simple, proven ways to avoid ticket re-sale. The first is to use "print at home" tickets. People are unwilling to repurchase these as there is no guarantee that they won't be sold multiple times. The second is to use a registration system and personalised tickets, ideally with a photo provided by the customer.

I wish Louis CK every success, but operating a ticket agency is a complex business. Not just the ecommerce side (which is a nightmare in itself given the bursty nature of the traffic), but marketing, fulfilment, customer services, reissue and an understanding of local rules and regulations are all essential components.

I'm in the UK where the market is more fragmented (and competitive). I do understand the frustration with Ticketmaster in the US, but good ticket agencies can and do add value to the process - and leave the artist free to concentrate on their art.

I work for a (non-TM) ticket agency in the UK.
AFAIK OKCupid has never considered craigslist to be a competitor
I think you're confusing incompetence for malice here.
Mac users just love to pay more, says Orbitz
This is really sweet for a beta. If an inner function throws an exception, you should show the exception there, not just next to the toplevel function call.
Tie the tickets to a credit card, require the old and new credit cards to both be part of the swap transaction online. Ask both how much the transaction cost.

That's a lot of infrastructure for a single tour, but if he got it working well, he could turn it around to other performers to use.
So do we, I know lots of fellow google devs that work from home a couple of days a week. Some of us also work on the shuttle during our commute so we can count that as work and therefore get home earlier and spend more time with friends and family than those with similar commute times but no company shuttles.
In Econ, the latter is called differential pricing and there is nothing evil about it at all.

http://www.pricingforprofit.com/pricing-explained/differenti...
Apple could see U.S. import ban following ITC review of Motorola patent win
I'd like to second the request that someone test this who is in a place where they can easily do so. Thanks in advance.
How many people on HN have kids?
That depends on your moral code, of course.
Are you trying to build a business, or do you just want a hobby project? If you want a hobby, I can give you all sorts of ideas. If you want to build a business, I have serious questions about your mindset if you think "lean startup" principles or customer development are "fanboy, wantrepreneur bullshit."

That said, there have been several similar questions in the past week or two, with some good answers. See:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4119534

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4106655

among others.
I'm still of the opinion they made a mistake by not having exceptions. When programming in Python exceptions are wonderful because they let me put error handling code in the appropriate place without having to litter all the intermediary code to where errors happen with error flags. (Panic is not the same thing.)

The usual complaint about exceptions is "expense", but the same claims can be made about gc. The Go FAQ is more concerned about people labelling non-exception things as exceptions (so what?) or that try/except/finally is ugly. I agree with the latter, but even worse is littering code with if statements doing the manual equivalent of try/except/finally.
A company called Livenation spent the last few years going around buying all the venues that were big enough to hold large acts. They then merged with Ticketmaster to form one big monopoly.
Protip: many paywalls, including this one can be circumvented by using Google's URL redirection service:
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB...

Simply use 'www.google.com/url?q=' and paste in the address of the article which has a paywall.
I view the former as helpful, not annoying. Featuring semi-personalized offers saves me time and energy.

With e-commerce it only makes sense to put the best-fit offers in the front of the store, for everyone involved.
This is a big problem. But the only way it will be known as a big problem is if G+ puts some money behind a PR effort. I think this is a great opportunity for G+ to increase it's user base.
It sounds to me like he doesn't want people to have an essentially guaranteed seat as long as they have a lot of cash. He'd rather people all pay the same and get in or not based on factors other than their wealth or spending. What you're implying is a bug, I believe he sees as a feature. If you fail to get a $50 ticket and then can't buy your way in at $150, that's the system working as intended.
"X-" deprecated for HTTP headers
You are a troll.
Except when they killed that feature, they killed a community of people sharing. I'm friends with the same people on G+, but we all share a lot less now. Why? So that Google could promote G+.
At some point there is always, I believe, the need for the 'middleman' in terms of curation - if everyone sold tickets on their own website you might not know they were around, or not ever hear about them. But I hope that when these new kinds of curations sites evolve (and I'm sure they will) there is a way to monetize sufficiently to maintain a human presence.
The theoretical flip-side is that scalpers may create an artificial demand, which is what causes high prices. Obviously it's more complicated than that because price is also driven by demand & if the show isn't sold out then the scalper inventory is not worth more than face value. But when you do hear about scalpers in cahoots with ticket vendors or even the promoters - showing up getting escorted to the front of the line and buying up all of the front row seats - it's questionable whether they are doing a service or disservice.
Thank god, I don't have a Facebook account.
Atlassian is on that list but I know that last year we rewrote our Go code to Python after our main Go developer left.
> That the abused don't feel abused doesn't mean they aren't being abused. It just means they're rationalizing or denying;

Telling people you classify as abused that they are fully incapable of speaking for themselves unless they agree with you is pretty despicable, and a kissing cousin to victim blaming.
It’s not called “Red Green Red Green Red Green Spend A Whole Day Refactoring”
After using Go for a while (and Python and Java and many other languages with exceptions for years), lack of exceptions is one of my favorite things about Go.

Handling errors is not something magical that you have to worry might happen when and where you least expect it.

Exceptions are specially bad in Python, because often they are not even documented as part of the API, so you are never sure when you call a library what it might or might not throw and when.

And that is without going into how they are abused for convoluted control flow.
Other people clearly agree with me. Is there a reason you feel this way? You can still subscribe to and read RSS feeds. As I said, the sharing aspect you mention, while a part of Google Reader, had nothing to do with RSS (the idea OR protocol) and was an add-on.

Naturally as Google wanted to unite social strategies they shifted "Sharing on Reader" to "Sharing on G+". I don't see why that's shocking or terribly hard to cope with.

And most of all I don't know why me expressing that makes me a troll. Or are you just angry and unable to articulate yourself outside of calling me names?
Apparently he wasn't talking about the length of the article.