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The comments here are more negative than I expected (because my sense is there is a lot of positive Hipmunk love/hype/PR going around and it is a YC darling). Anyway, just an observation. I too have tried to use HM at travel booking time and so far have never found or booked a flight through it.
What did PG say? Build something that 10,000 hackers would use and everyone else would come screaming in.
The winners from here on out will the ones who make the Web functional and simple.

On a site with lots of ads (including a popup ad), social media "sharing links", a sidebar with unrelated content, and persistent top- and bottom bars.
I'm not sure if I'm the only one who finds their UI confusing as hell.
> Are the patents absurd? Blame the patent system, not Apple for using it.

I think viewpoints differ largely at this point. While I agree that Apple has every right to use any and all legal ways to defend itself and potentially harm competitors; given that everyone is aware of the absurdity of majority of patents, it does seem wrong to use them offensively. There is no law against being douch-stupid-ignorant; laws are not always moral/right - they follow morality only slowly and caters to only the most easiest morality questions. Rationality allows Apple to do whatever it can, only the current morality doesn't.
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Plainly they're not immune to _all_ failures; I think you've made a parsing error there.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-...
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/03/18/netflix-how-we-...
http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-simpledb-dyn...

There's also all the "soft" statements they made; I'll let you search for them yourself.
And just found a bug. I started from 2000 and it got stuck at 378. It is miscalculating and thus going into an infinite loop. http://paste.ubuntu.com/1067434/
I mean come on, mathematical miscalculation for a game like this?
Ok it's not as crazy as it sounds. Keep it simple. Enter "Martin Luther king" Into Google. Based on page rank KKK page on king does not rank number one.

Because Google choose a specific algorithm which means most reputable people on the Internet don't link to KKK.org

But they could have chosen a different algorithm to select the results. they chose not to select the one that puts KKK first.

So if google has a controlling mind or an editorial policy should have protection of speech.

Alternatively they are just reflecting with no editorialising at all the Internet of links. They are simply a machine. But if so then what right do they have to keep page rank secret - to prove they have no editorial control.

This does deserve a bit more thought.
Are there any video demonstrations? I found nothing good on youtube.
Yes, I can see the "many, many resources" Amazon is making available to you in this situation. Did they send you a rubber ball that you can squeeze while waiting for your servers to come back up?
I wouldn't be surprised.

Some fairly large banks here in Norway have at times ran with a not-completely-valid SSL certificate - making the bank login indistinguishable from a man-in-the-middle.

Answer from their phone support? "Oh yeah whenever you see that warning, just click 'allow' or 'ignore'."
Parent is asking for a spam program, don't fall for it. Sending bulk email isn't trivial at all and there are already good solutions for it such as Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor.
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I moved because Rackspace was unable to resolve performance problems and outages with the interaction of the LBs in front of Cloud Sites and the Cloud Sites PHP nodes in DFW.
Apple still prevent users from choosing what software to run on the devices they own.

Obviously there are some people that want Kama Sutra apps, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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Discussion about this tiny script I wrote already started on G+:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113250814961864918365/posts/b3VS...

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113250814961864918365/posts/16Qo...
To be fair, if your application revolves around producing a tweetspam-filtered copy of Twitter's stream of tweets, it's not really possible to make that twitter-independent. Competitors like facebook and google+ don't really have a spam problem.
Thanks for the link. I often don't care if I arrive a day earlier or later, and the quick day switching is something I miss in Hipmunk. Kayak is alright, but momondo seems to do an even better job.
Dedicated servers anyone?
> [..] in the mobile space everyone is suing everyone else. [..]

> Because of that and as a German I wont ever buy Android and also telling my friends.

So you won't ever buy anything ever again?
As you say yourself it's the whole industry that is playing this game, so it seems unfair to take it out on just one company. Biased much?
I think you're really on to something here. A root problem of this is that a lot of legitimate software communicate via random popups out of the blue - training users to just "do what the computer says".

People are used to the computer being in charge and commanding them. This is bad from a UX point of view, but now I see it also affects security.

Yet another reason popups of all kinds should be forbidden.

When all application-initiated communication come from the OS notification area, this kind of dialog will make people wary. Which is a win.
How about a front end to MongoDB?
That's not in any way cynical; that's business.
> Time to vote with your wallet is way overdue.

Damn right! So I will never buy anything from that court again. And from USPTO for that matter. And from US legislators.

As for Apple—I enjoy using their products and I enjoy developing for iOS. As for Google—as I get older I start to hate ads more and more. I want to pay myself for the products I buy and use. A little more privacy is a nice side effect of that.
So yep, I will vote with my wallet.
Nice read. Congrats on finishing pgbovine! Did you ever encounter other PhD students taking a similar "entrepreneurial"/independent approach to getting a doctorate?

Off topic, but I chuckled as I'm interning at Microsoft this summer and actually came across a paper on Klee this last week as I was doing research to guide my own testing project. I did a double-take when I saw the name.
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Nice work, from what i can tell! How does this compare to open cv? Are there python bindings in the works yet? Congrats!
Yes, but often not just one. Now we can use links (mainly symbolic), but this can be a mess.

Tags may be a better way for an end user to sort out the data. You don't have to lose the hierarchical structures that directories give us. But it may be simpler to think of a file as some atomic stuff that just lies at the root of some disk, and belongs to a number of (sub)categories.
Awesome stuff man...looking fwd to more challenges.
I have an immensely hard time believing someone is the "best programmer in VS" without knowing how to use more advanced tools.
Had to do (to build on ubuntu 12.04)

sudo apt-get install clang libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libfftw3-dev libgsl0-dev libblas-dev liblinear-dev libblas-dev
cd bin/
make

Then add -lgslcblas to lib/.LN and run again,
make
No, it isn't another way to word it. Force majeure includes acts of nature _and_ acts of man. Acts of God is only acts of nature.

It's somewhat important to the original spirit of the comment since Acts of God might indeed happen anywhere (1) whereas acts of man might not. For example, disruption caused by on going war in Syria wouldn't be covered by an Act of God clause.

(1) I think that's BS though...there are definitely some places where nature is considerably more stable than others.
What are you running and what version of Firefox? I can only see this on Safari/Chrome.
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When you say front end to MongoDB, what exactly are you thinking of? This makes me think of something along the lines of phpMyAdmin, are we on the same page here?
Ask HN: Please review our StartUp agendam
Please review our StartUp agendam: http://agendam.com/invite/861981 .We are in private beta right now. I would like to know what you think about the idea? Agendam is basically a social network where you share your agenda with your social network. You can share things that is keeping you busy recently or just open a thread to discuss trending topics. Its also like a public to-do list. Its still early and in very active development and we are trying to iterate over the main idea. It has a web version and its also available in iOS. Your feedback is appreciated.
The Google+ API is not designed to empower third-party developers. Maybe they're still searching for a way to do it right, but currently it's too limited for an ecosystem to flourish. Why should a challenger come from a big company anyway? Both Facebook and Twitter were small startups during the fall of Myspace.
You want ITA Matrix:

http://matrix.itasoftware.com/

They have an incredibly powerful query language called QPX. Your search would be as follows:

LHR VS,AA ORD (nonstop)
LHR VS,AA+ ORD (zero or more stops)
LHR VS,AA NYC,IAD ORD (with at least one stopover in any NYC airport or at Dulles)
LHR VS NYC AA ORD,MDW (Virgin to NYC, American to ORD or Midway)
LHR F+ ~IAD ORD (any number of legs, but don't stopover at Dulles)
LHR VS ORD / f bc=J|bc=W (nonstop on Virgin in full-fare business class or premium economy)

You can get even more complicated by specifying booking classes, operating airline, specific flight numbers, etc. All this, and it gives you the same time-bar interface as Hipmunk (it's where they got the idea, in fact) which is a fantastic way of visualizing the length of flights, stopovers, different airlines, etc.

For someone who travels a lot (like me) it's indispensable.

The only caveat for me (and this applies to all US-based travel search engines) is the lack of data from low-cost carriers (Southwest, AirAsia, etc) and only Y (full-fare) fare data for many Asian carriers.
I probably missed it but how do you train more faces with your library?
I hope that before doing that you will do a little bit more research who was trying to get ban on something and after that will save some money.
Especially sad considering how people in the tech industry use and promote Apple products. Sadly, I'm a user of MBP too. All of the "hackers" these days use Mac laptops to write in Javascript/Ruby/other_todays_hyped_language. All to satisfy the consumeristic needs of population. And frankly you can't do much with the platform anyway - Apple disallows JIT and other low level stuff on iOS. They move towards the same restrictions on MacOS X, starting with Mac App Store Apps. I wouldn't be surprised if in few years they disallow installing apps not through the app store. Fuck you, Apple! Your soul interest is to make more and more cash.
You're right. I feel sheepish and proud and part of a bigger effort, but I do not feel nothing.
Perhaps they meant to block Kama Sutra App™, Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, Kama Sutra! - Manual of Sex, Kama Sutra: Manual of Sex, Kamasutra™, Kamasutra 3D, Kamasutra by Vatsyayana, Kamasutra for iPad, Kamasutra fun, Kamasutra Museum 3D, Kamasutra Museum 3D HD, KamaSutra Posiciones, Kamasutra The Game, Kamazootra, Kamazootra Lite, 101 Positions of KamaSutra, Kamasutra (Deutsch), Kamasutra - Sex Positions Guide and Kama Sutra, KamaSwami, or KamaSwami for iPad.

Perhaps it was only through confusion that they blocked iKamasutra.
As an aside, being British I recognise the suggestion that I could "lose twenty pounds" as being a solicitation for a bribe...
"What the hell? How is the PageRank patent not protection to Google?"

Because it belongs to Stanford University, not Google.
Oops! Yes, it should!
What about the SIFT and SWT patents?
For all those "I am not buying Apple product anymore"—will you please also shut up about Apple then? Thanks.
Because if you truly cared you would go for fixing situation with pattents.
You really can't express immutability and pureness in C++, because you can
still modify global variables and do any kind of IO everywhere, regardless
of const.

const_cast isn't the big issue, because there's also unsafePerformIO in
Haskell. For both you could say, that they shouldn't be used, that it's
bad programming practice to use them.

The point is, even if you follow good programming practices in C++, you
can't express them and your compiler can't help you in the verification,
if you're really following them.

That doesn't might seem like a big thing, it's also not related to your
smartness, because it mostly depends on the size and complexity of your
system.
Well, fix the courts then. They should make sure laws are applied as intendend, shouldn't they?
American males are characterized by an overabundance of confidence. Other cultures discourage self-expression in this fashion without any "emasculation."

This isn't about fundamental gender differences, it is about a subculture's expression of dominance and cultural norms, and it is exactly the kind of thing that us older geeks should be imparting to younger geeks.
So, what else was stolen?
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"Because the FRAND abuses originated by Motorola and supported by Google is some of the most disgraceful behaviour seen in the industry since the days of Rambus. You don't participate in the creation of a standard and then turn around and sue companies who adopt those standards in good faith. It undermines the entire industry."

You do if you're grasping at straws to defend yourself against the initial patent aggressors. Can't really blame them.
I think the bragging part of the bug that brings the system down for hours and requires significant efforts in RCA is that the initial work was important and the bug likely to be non-trivial. Non-trivial bugs happen. I will not be proud of small stupid bugs I make but non-trivial bugs, the discovery of which brings sort-of an excitement - that is something I can be proud of.
Funnily enough, I covered exactly this point in an earlier article, though this one wasn't so popular with the hn crowd..

http://swombat.com/2012/6/18/entrepreneurship-safest-career
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"Virtually all Groovy work involved Grails. There's no other reason to adopt Groovy."

There are plenty other reasons to adopt Groovy, other than Grails

Your other statement are opinion, not fact.
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> Every other language I've learned either has as many warts as JavaScript or isn't practical.

Time to learn some more languages.
Ask HN: Best setups to avoid availability outages on AWS
Using only AWS services, what do you put in place to help prevent disruptions when a single availability zone goes down?

The most simple would be to set up your instances in a multiple AZ's and then configure the ELB to round robin requests until the health of one of the instances is poor.

Any other thoughts?
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The ability to cast a function pointer to a regular pointer is an implementation behavior (supported on every machine you'd want to use, but nonetheless it's not standard C)
No you absolutely, unequivocally do not. Under any circumstance.

Because it sets an example where every tiny little contributor to a standard can hold every implementer at ransom. It would be the unravelling of the entire IT industry.
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A good geocoder.

Geonames has a good dataset of locations, and OpenStreetMaps has the regional boundary data.

So given something like "Boston, Massachusetts, USA" would take all the locations within the boundary box of "USA" and find the closest match to "Massachusetts" (using something like soundex), and then within Massachusetts find the closest match to "Boston" and return the long/lat.
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"Tomorrow's pivot" :) I think you summed up all of it with that phrase.
Or because it's a bought article. Forbes has zero integrity and I wouldn't doubt for a second there's some sort of back-scratching/kickback/payola situation going on here.

And because, quite frankly, Hipmunk just isn't that good.
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Thanks for the link. While that looks interesting I was talking about English writing by Argentines, whereas that subreddit is almost entirely in Spanish.
It's great to see a high quality piece of hardware brought all the way to market by a startup. Within the realm of hackernews/ycomb there is a huge focus on software because of the relative cost of bringing it to market, it's understandable. But I would love to see some more stories on HN about some of the behemoth industrial plays that happen outside of the software world, this is a nice example of sorts although it is still a very software heavy company.
So cloud is not ready for storms? (troll face)
So cloud is not ready for storm? (troll face)
Nice work, but you need to add a license for the library, if you want people to start using and improving your library.
Can you please tell us about your product where you got 300 people on you pre-launch list? How you promoted it - simply through blogging? I"m doing pretty much the same thing right now and wondering how to attract people to my landing pages for my pre-launch product ideas.
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Do check the list of sites they search:
http://www.momondo.com/we-search/
I don't remember how I stumbled upon these guys, but generally their flight results are the cheapest. They don't do too well in hotels (I tried US ones) though.
Any thoughts about putting this on a smartphone?
This is a waste of web space. No one will be using them three months from now and their web page will be down this time next year.
One time I took a job at the offered salary. I was contacted by another company I had done some part time work for and they offered me a full time job at a considerably higher salary. I told my current boss and he said there was a company policy of max 15% increase in any year, but he gave me the 15%. I think the point is that you need to give your boss some numbers based on current rates at other companies. You don't have to give the company names unless he presses you very hard.
Quite right. There's a lot of people that just start one business and then stay with it for the rest of their working life. Then there's a lot of people that start something, decide that it's not for them, then go back to join a company. If your news only comes from techcrunch and venturebeat, you're missing out on these stories.
Thats sort of what some large storms can do - esp when they come with a large amount of electrical activity in them. You can easily suffer all kinds damage to power system that generators can't deal with.
Hmm, a good geocoder sounds a bit ambigous to me. As far as I can tell geonames has an API with both XML and JSON for getting longitude and latitude off of city names, so I am not sure what exactly you believe can be improved by crossing data from OpenStreeMaps. Could you maybe clarify exactly what you had in mind?
Route53 uses UltraDNS.
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+1 more software should say what the copyright is.

On their github page, COPYING has a licence ( https://github.com/liuliu/ccv/blob/unstable/COPYING ). Looks BSDlike
Hmm. What's the main motivation to use libccv as opposed to OpenCV?
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From what I've heard, you're on the right track. However, I'd want it to not round-robin but go to the nearest working node. I don't use AWS, so I don't know how to configure the ELB, but I would assume that this is possible.
Hipmunk has the best interface of any travel site, and displays the same information in a easily understandable page than other sites take 15 pages to do so - but I've always been able to find cheaper prices elsewhere. Sometimes much cheaper!

If the pricing isn't right, than it's algorithims get thrown of to, so some flights which are better and cheaper aren't even displayed as it will have instead display some other flight which Hipmunk for some reason thinks is cheaper and so displays that instead.

The hipmunk interface is light years ahead of everyone else in terms of displaying information - but flights and pricing - not so much. I wish it was though, as I hate booking through sites like expedia where you have to fill out 15 gazillion things each time and it's a pain to compare different flights.
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I had a Sony smartphone running some sort of Symbian OS which did just this well before the iphone came out.
1) Isn't this a problem with all dynamic languages? And isn't this why the '===' operator exists?

2) Explain - seriously. To me this level of thing isn't the realm of PHP but rather the web server in front of it. If someone is doing something that requires multi-threaded programming, they clearly don't know what PHP is used for and they chose the wrong tool. Their choice doesn't invalidate PHP for it's intended use case.
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