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I think curated experiences are the way to go for profitable travel niches. A site like AirBnB can connect people to places that are somewhat alternative, yet desirable locations: think Williamsburg, Wicker Park, etc..but adding experiences such as adding Free Parking, tickets to a play, or a prix fixe dinner in to a package you can purchase with one click seems to be a good value add on top of the accommodations.

Sites like Orbitz will recommend things, but usually AFTER you have already expressed interest in your hotel and destination. And Jetsetter has some very interesting deals but I don't think the average couple/family can just go on a 7 night expedition milking their own goat milk and doing yoga on the mountain tops of Nepal or whatever experience they're pushing. Give me a nice pad in a cool 'hood with free parking and maybe a dinner at the latest Michelin recommended restaurant. That would be a site I would check frequently.
Absolutely agree with this. Two sides of the spectrum:

1) I've noticed that of all the remote positions in various departments, marketing is the one that is almost always co-lo. They tend to have the most say in product direction (duh) and in turn strategic, company-wide policy changes.

2) Sales is the counter-example here. I've seen talented remote sales people rapidly and deservedly climb the corporate ladder. However, the catch is that they tend to have brutal travel schedules (which they'd probably have anyway if they were in corporate HQ), so it's arguable whether they are reaping the same benefits of working from home as other remote workers.
CPU can easily be the throughput bottleneck if you add enough network bandwidth.

It doesn't just happen in Java, it happens in C++ stuff too, and it can even be the throughput bottleneck for data going from the right kind of disk to the network -- that's why zero-copy I/O exists.
Not if they are used to prevent someone from creating a new version of something that implements some pattern which looks like a previously patented thing.

Turns out this classifies most innovation ever.
Actually Oracle only made two patent infringement claims against Google -- rangeCheck wasn't one of them -- and Google didn't argue prior art against either of them.

ETA: They argued non-infringement.
Unless you have a unique culture that was founded by remote workers (admittedly rare), or you have a large enough company that needs to have a sizable field organization.

I guess this is why living close to work combined with a flexible teleworking schedule would be the best of both worlds. You'd at least get the option of dialing up the social hobnobbing on an 'as needed' basis.
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Biomedical autism intervention specialist physician, Dr. Kurt Woeller, talks about how there are many supplement options to help fill in nutritional gaps of a limited diet but also that specifically address certain core issues in Autism.
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Your site (http://www.getkeepsafe.com/) should link to download links so that I can download your app straight off the bat.
The article does a good job of going over a few (seemingly obvious) biases, but I also expected an honest discussion of job duties (implicit or explicit) that get missed when one works from home. I'm disappointed that part of the topic was skipped.

I know the HN crowd is fairly pro- working from home, and I am too, but I was wondering if some of the more experienced (than myself) people here could chime in with examples of implicit/explicit things that are "missed" when team members work from home.

The only major one I can think of is mentoring, of new hires and interns, which seems to be done much better in person than over email. I would think that mentoring these two groups is an implicit duty in most companies, but it would seemingly always fall on the backs of those who are not working from home.

I would also think that actually being there in person for new hires and interns also helps shape company culture for those people, or otherwise make them feel like more of a team. I suppose that all of this could be mitigated by not working from home for the first month+ of interns/new hires starting.
Marco.org referred to this product as the Nexus Ball - much better.
I agree. Room 77 is actually doing free WiFi in all of their properties this summer, which is a pretty savvy move. As far as curated experiences go, I think some mashup of Gilt City and Jetsetter would be a wise move for Gilt.
That's fair enough. I don't know a whole lot about these things but I guess my intentions as to what I was trying to say were pretty clear. Thanks for clarifying that for me though.
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Have you spent your time reading the archive on kalzumeus.com?
sadly, that is DOCSIS. You get to see very little (some modems provide signal levels, some debug info, etc) if anything at all. Everything else comes from/is controlled by the CMTS. Even in the enterprise grade modems like cisco hwic's, the docsis portion is almost entirely hidden from you.
All this assuming the majority of other employees or managers don't work remotely too.
Sure, not saying that part isn't stupid, it is. But a device that lets you stream music to it _and_ offer decent amplification at less-than-Sonos prices is a pretty good idea.

If the Q was $100 and let you stream in a fashion similar to AirPlay (ie, any media on an android device), it would be unstoppable.
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I don't mean to double post, but I noticed that Stephen Wolfram (no stranger to physics) has even come out saying that he is disappointed and believes the chances of another discovery in this lifetime are pretty low. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/why-th...

We've proved the simple model, but as I said I don't think anything else will come of this and even if something does come of this I doubt you or I will be alive to see the results.
Code should be self-documeting. You're proposing we remove something that serves to differentiate between properties in favor of simply adding the exact same information in the form of a comment.
RubyConf Argentina's Call For Papers is open
Hi Rubyists!

We want to let you know that the Call For Papers is now officially open!

The second edition of RubyConf Argentina will be held October 19/20, and, just like last year, will be dedicated to Ruby and other related technologies.

Submission of proposals is through rubyconfargentina.org. Don't forget to provide your contact information and a brief abstract of your talk.

Keep in mind that the talks should be no longer than 30 minutes, and should focus on Ruby or similar technologies (Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, JRuby, Git, automated testing, agile methodologies, javascript, NoSQL, mobile applications, etc.) Also note that you will need to make a copy of your slides available for conference attendees.

Just like last year, we are going to have a full-day complementary event, specifically dedicated to workshops and tutorials. These sessions will last between 2 and 4 hours and feature much smaller audiences.

The Call For Papers ends on August 17, 2012. We're waiting for your proposal!
As far as I know, before 1989 or so there were hardly any patents on software, and that didn't inhibit innovation or the breakneck pace of software development in the slightest.
I can't see this working at all.

R&D is an incredibly risky proposition. The drug company I worked for had a success rate of 0.69%. That is, less than one drug that ever entered formal testing in animals, ever made it to market. Note, all the work done up to the point of testing it in animals is a tiny fraction of the overall cost of getting a drug approved.

So combine those two issues. You have an investment that requires huge amounts of capital, typically in the several hundred million dollar range (to get a drug approved). You also have a very low chance of a positive result. What does this mean when you are trying to raise capital? A very large pay out.

If you reduced the return on this investment by 80%+ (which is what you'd do if you added a 5 to 10% royalty to the current generic prices), you'd have all that capital moving to investments with much better risk/return profiles.

I don't have the source available, but I remember reading that of the drug that are approved, only 1/3 of them actually ever make a profit for the company overall. It's the massive blockbusters like Lipitor that not only pay for all the R&D that failed, but also all those drugs that didn't fail, but didn't even break even.
I was going to go on this tangent as well, but the article and the comments are focusing on teams that do mostly work in offices.
I dont think the "view sample issue" link should be so small and hidden. Make it as big as the subscribe button. Its the first thing I looked for on the page.
Checking it out now, seems like a great site.
You mean something whose features were oversold, and laid the groundwork for whatever it is that will ultimately be remembered?
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I have found that certification courses can give a proper introduction to specific technical areas. Of course, if the goal is to just get the cert, then one would probably miss most of the learning aspects of the certification process.

The cert curriculum can be a great learning tool, in addition to just plain playing around and learning from other social networks.
Nice weekend project. Fortunately for mankind (unfortunately for your app,) it seems most people (as scientifically sampled by my friend list) do not consider Facebook the canonical representation of their relationship status.

An ex-girlfriend who recently was married still has her status as single (not making that up.)

Personally I never have, and never will, assign a facebook status to my relationships unless I am married.

Interestingly, the once popular "open relationship" status now has zero takers in my friend list.
Or you could get the code, rip out the parts you didn't like, recompile and install on your router.

You might be breaching the terms & conditions of their cloud stuff, but you could simply choose not to use it.
This question is not "junk, abstact and bs", it's concrete though terse, and substantial. It is also clearly a problem he's faced. Perhaps the fact that he's not hit this issue while producing a product or experiencing this problem in everyday working life is the concern? Or lack of generality? In any case this is within a reasonable interpretation of the guidelines, and as Jeff points out in this thread, within the spirit of what he intended for the site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm shows serious research into a similar problem. It is depressing that useful questions and answers like this are judged on whether they are homework or interview questions, not on the quality of the response.

The discussion on meta shows no appreciation of the quality of btilly's contributions to the site. I'm not surprised he's leaving, and I agree StackOverflow will be worse without his answers. What do you think?
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Black and white ideas can be expressed succinctly. Shades of gray require detail.

Short and sharp writing is like candy for the brain. It feels rewarding to consume, but ultimately has little educational merit.

Taking a chainsaw to grellas' posts would remove the detail that makes them fantastic and educational reads.

I've written short posts about patents before. One of them got 72 upvotes this week. Nobody learned a damn thing from it.

Hacker News needs more of grellas, and less of me. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
As much as I love seeing some straight talk on the patent issue, it seems dangerous for a judge to have the appearance of injecting his opinions about what laws ought to be into the judicial process. He specifically requested to be put on a high-stakes patent case, then immediately threw the case out and started making public and vocal arguments against patents in tech?

I'd love to see him be our champion for sanity for this system (since our squabbling legislature can barely keep us from defaulting on our debt, let alone tackle patent reform), but this just seems to draw a huge target on his back for complaints of "judicial activism."
I guess this post by MG Seigler is relevant here: http://parislemon.com/post/15604811641/why-i-hate-android

Before anyone makes any Ad Hominem comment, may I please request to focus on the point in that post relevant to the thread here?
"They [Google, Apple, etc.] would, however, be expected to support it with generous donations. If the large players in the tech would each donated ten million dollars a year (a rounding error in their revenue stream) to such an entity, the organization could easily raise hundreds of millions in no time at all."

Based on my admittedly limited perspective, it seems that the Googles and Apples of the world actually benefit from having smaller companies getting picked off by patent trolls, by reducing the strength of their competition. Why would they want to fight on behalf of their competitors?
Thanks for the feedback. We have been meaning to do something about that for awhile, as well as add an about page and a bunch of other things.
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How do the patent extenders work? I mean, what's to stop the generic from just continuing to make the original formula, if the alterations don't actually do anything?
Mozilla and Google are allies towards an open web only insofar as Google has that as a goal.

Unfortunately, they have it a lot less as a goal now than they did a few years ago....
It depends.

A crap Linux cert will be crap. There are some good ones though, like RHCE. You can be Linux admin for years and still not pass without heavy studying. That's because there's a lab component to it.

Is it worth it? Maybe, if you're trying to sell your services, either in the form of a HR bypass filter ("Look, he's certified in Linux!") or as a consultant ("You should trust our team because we're all certified"). I know only 2 people with certs, and they fall into the latter category.

Most of the time though, I think it's not going to be worth it. If your current work will pay for it and you're willing to put in the work I can't see any negative aspects to having it, but I don't necessarily see the return on investment.
Write code, get paid, learn, teach the willing, move on when it's right.

Learn? Of course. There's a huge difference in asking people here what to do in your situation, compared to living your situation with open eyes and mind. You'll be much better able to avoid creating situations like you're in now, after having lived it. Hint: it wasn't caused by poor coding practices.
They're more concerned with making sure the claims are watertight

As far as software patents go, if their claims are "watertight" it must be in some technical legal realm that is utterly removed from the field of invention. As software designs, the vast majority (that I've seen) are risible.
Really you could ask the exact same questions for the phrase "better for the economy" and doubtless many other things.
I can't speak of other jobs, but developers shouldn't care about raises and promotions, because if they are in an organization where those matter, there are going to be non-technical ladder climbers who will promote each other and take all the money allocated for raises. The only real choices for developers are a) start a business b) job hop c) work at valve. 360-degree evaluations are a farce because these evaluations just go directly to one or more non-technical manager to 'help' with their decisions on advancement and raises. It's lip service. If you don't have a budget and hiring authority, all you really have is the ability to quit, and the wealthiest developers hop often. In instances where developers become too powerful and high up on the tech ladder they are going to be given fancy titles and isolated anyways, so why not work from home?
Note that sales people are usually trivial to measure. Look at their quota and their sales and you are pretty much done. With other departments it is considerably harder.
A lot would need to change with the language to make it suitable for OS development

I keep hearing this, or statements along these lines. But I never see an explanation for this. Performance? Managing memory from other processes? Bit twiddling required to create device drivers? Something else? Are these insurmountable?
This really depends on how difficult it is to replace the firmware.

On a consumer linksys router for example, this is a very simple process.
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I'm quoting Wikipedia's summary of the Report:

* The stall warning deactivates by design when the angle of attack measurements
are considered invalid and this is the case when the airspeed drops
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* In consequence, the stall warning stopped and came back on several times
during the stall; in particular, it came on whenever the pilot pushed forward
on the stick and then stopped when he pulled back; this may have
confused the pilots.
* Despite the fact that they were aware that altitude was declining rapidly,
the pilots were unable to determine which instruments to trust: it may have
appeared to them that all values were incoherent.

Personally, I'm not sure whether to believe that the copilot simply made an amateur mistake .
You could ask/pay/sleep with a person of your choosing and have them do it for you.

To the second point, if you had a world with mostly open source software then people would start to assume that things like that could be done.

It's like arguing that you should design cars to be only serviceable by the manufacturer simply because not everyone is a mechanic.
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Personally, I overwhelmingly dislike working from home, although it is nice to have the option to do so occasionally when I'm sick, waiting for something to be delivered to my house, the weather is poor, etc..

The main ways I think it is harder for you to contribute remotely are:

1) Whiteboard sessions

I've spent a lot of time sitting around a whiteboard, talking out a (software) design for something and collaboratively working it out on the board. I've yet to see software that can come close to this, and even those that sort of do involve a bit of overhead vs just walking into an empty conference room.

2) Debugging/working through things on someone else's machine

Sometimes you can solve a problem or work through some design much more quickly by just sitting down at a computer with someone and walking through the code. This is certainly possible to do remotely, but it always feels a lot more clunky, and I tend to avoid it.

3) Office talk

Not office gossip, but simply overhearing co-workers talking about something and either learning something or offering them a better way to do it. This adds happens fairly frequently in my experience, and it is hard to duplicate remotely.

Sure, if you have everyone working remotely, you can invest time to figure out ways to mitigate these losses, but if it is just one or two people working from home full-time, I think either way you are adding less net value than if you were there in person, all else being equal.
The conclusion kind of falls apart if you're able to evaluate potential mates at a rate several orders of magnitudes faster than one per week. For example, it takes a split second to determine whether or not you're physically attracted to someone. That alone cuts it down to ~80 weeks to find someone.
Rock solid point :) It's in there now.
But does that add or detract to the image of it being a "hippy OS for geeks"? I would wager most people know even less about particle physics and what the average practitioner does than they do about software engineering. It very much preserves the idea of it being an OS for geeks, by geeks.

If what you meant by "[most people do not] understand the reach and dominance that Linux has in a huge number of areas" was more in the sense of "Linux is a viable platform for building our business on" than "It's almost the year of Linux on the Desktop!" I apologise :)
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It might be worth considering that some people just work/study so much that a normal relationship just isn't going to happen. I imagine grad school and early startup life is like this, to some extent. Personally, I just don't balance my life that well; too much time goes into studying and hacking.

A "pickup artist" did math similar to this and concluded guys should spend very little time on girls that aren't interested in them, as it's emotionally taxing and numerically daft.
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There's not a clear line here, no, but you're not going to hold and point your white driver's license at a cop the same way you might a black iPhone running the app.
Ask HN: chromium vs chrome
I am not that persnickety, but I thought it would be cool if everything I did w/ browser was not somehow channeled back to google. It was my understanding that chromium does not do this. Is this true? How can it be true? Thanks HN!
"rant on a story that is not about journalism and is being reported by Simon Johnson"

Johnson is the real deal I have no issue with him obviously.

Catherine Rampell is founding editor of the Economix blog.

"ad-hominem attack against a reporter" It's an attack against the New York Times the paper of record not Catherine.

"has nothing to do with this story" afaik she decides what gets onto the blog or not. She is the gatekeeper.

"you apparently know a lot about for some reason"

Not really. Just what I've linked to. Took a second to do the links after a search.

"It's kind of weird."

Why?

Edit: I might add also I love people who imply someone isn't being nice to someone "ad-hominem" by not being nice ("it's kinda weird")
That seems like it only applies to WidgetFactories and not FilmCrews.

Read more here; http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/45814

I wouldn't make my career in a WidgetFactory anyway.
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