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Great point re destinations. You can actually do wildcard destinations right now, but it's just not obvious. We have an autocomplete function on the airport box, but you can enter anything you want. As you'll see on the RTW contests, we just entered "Round the World" for 'from' city and "6 Continents" for the 'to' city.

That said, we need to make this more obvious and probably tease out more adventurous use of this feature. Thanks for the feedback.
From the comments http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassm...

I have been attending DefCon since DCIV and I've had my share of confrontations with drunk idiots who think their flirting methods are acceptable. A well worded put-down almost always keeps these guys at bay. A well placed arm-bar or knee typically takes care of the rest. I played Vanna Vinyl at Hacker Jeopardy for three years (and Beer Betty once). I had hordes of guys asking me for photo-ops when I was all dolled-up for HJ. 99% of them didn't recognise me during the day when I was in shorts and a tshirt w/no make-up.

I love DefCon and have no intention on not attending until DT calls it quits. It's the one week out of the year that I get to spend with my friends and adopted from all over the world. DefCon has never been a "professional" conference. It's a hacker convention/weekend long, cut-loose party with talks. (There are talks at DefCon? ;) If you want professionalism, attend the BH conference the week prior.
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Um. What?

"Somebody began physically assaulting me so I responded by defending myself."

Find me a jury that will convict somebody for that.
For those interested in other lightweight implementations, I have not yet had a chance to compare this but have been very happy with cJSON by @dave_gamble for extremely resource-constrained embedded microcontrollers.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cjson/
Cheddar Mac; I wish I had a bowl right about now.
> it took them about 5 years too long to transition from Carbon to Cocoa, even though it was clear from the very first OS X version that Carbon was going to be replaced and would never have a 64-bit version

Yet, they still managed to do it before Apple got around to making iTunes use Cocoa ("oh, the irony", right?). The reality of the situtuation is that sometimes, even for flagship products, even for first-party products, sometimes portability is a critical concern, and Cocoa's reliance on Objective-C makes it very difficult to nigh-unto-impossible to not simply end up with tons of code duplication.
When did they reinstate the draft?
The slut shaming is very ironic.
To get the business class itinerary, it would take a significant finder's fee. If you are seriously interested in an itinerary like this, please email us, team at flightfox.com and we'll work directly with you. Like we mentioned in the post, this would be an unforgettable trip without a doubt.
Right, but that’s during childhood, not as an adult going to work and attending technical conferences. I can think of only one person I’ve met since turning 18 who was, umm, skeevy to me in a sexual way, and that person was male.

(He didn’t actually assault me, but I later learned that one MIT fraternity had nicknamed him “the NAMBLA man”, and a while after that there was an article in the school paper reporting that he had just done time for rape.)
Wow. Do Democratic VPs always run the Internet? (In case you're wondering about partisanship, there's only been one Republican VP since the internet really took off, and he was busy running the world...)
So long OneBusAway....
Not only that, but I thought this was a crappy no-name blogpost until I took a second look. I thought the Penny Arcade column was supposed to be some a well-researched column, with a higher standard than most game journalism out there. This is not that.
Well, it is for almost anyone with a halfway decent/steady job.

What I'm saying is that it's kind of impractical for a lot people. I would expect a "contest" like this to have a winning result that was a little more practical from a total travel time perspective, or at the very least have 2 winning options, one for "Total trip time of 2 weeks or less" (granted this might have to be 3 or even 4 weeks if you're going to be spending at least 12 days away anyway) and one for "Lowest cost overall regardless of duration".
But it wasn't enough, which is one reason they're in the predicament now.
I drove from Alaska to Argentina in 22 months, and my expenses on the road were identical to what they had been for the previous two years going to work every day.

It's very common to go traveling the world for basically the same amount of money you spend just going to work.

http://theroadchoseme.com/the-price-of-adventure
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I recall the days where I'd start mp3-encoding a freshly-ripped CD and find something to do for an hour or two. I recall the days where I'd render the demo files for PoV-Ray at the highest quality at my PC's max VGA resolution (800x600) and then go to sleep, wake up in the morning to check the progress (half-way done -- w00t!), then come home from work to see one of Dan Farmer's eerie creations completely rendered.

I have no problem with processes that are so computationally-intensive that they are rendered impractical. Hardware will either catch up and it will be adopted, or it won't.

The proof is in the pudding, though. How does the H.265 encoded stuff look?

Perhaps the new spec is aiming to benefit huge media companies that can afford vast runs on a GPU cloud to encode, thus preventing us little folks (or the warez scene) from taking advantage of halving the bandwidth/space requirements (or doubling the video quality).
Not if we can all see them go in.

If some people are "above the law", not that they can afford good lawyers, but that the laws are simply not applied, rather than applied and failed, then that presents a crisis for democracy.

If it is visible that these laws are not applied (and presumably will be as everyone gets caught automatically) then society can either stop being democratic, or enforce those laws.
Hi ashbrahma, please email us at team at flightfox.com if you're interested in this specific itinerary and we can help you get booked. Alternatively, if you're after something similar, but equally adventurous, also get in contact and we can work with you to post a new contest.
Is there a way to achieve "guaranteed" high quality on non-easy tasks?

I have a binary classification labelling problem. The labels are very unbalanced (95% no, 5% yes). Answering each question takes a few minutes of web research.

I ran this job on CrowdFlower with gold standard data for quality-control, and using 5 annotators for each question. Nonetheless, I received 99% no answers.

Right now I have about 1000 instances to label. There could be more in the future, if I am confident that I will get high quality labeling.
OK, thanks for the explanation.

So, how exactly would I use the site for my benefit (honest question from someone who books about 50-70K flight miles per year)?
What? All that whining over one week? Sounded like it's been out there for months! Of course conversion rates are low - users haven't played thru the free content yet!

This is really gonna sour sympathy for future stories of actual failures.
There will not probably be a rover. It is going to be an orbiter mission with a small payload which is meant to crash into the surface. PSLV - the rocket meant to get the satelite into orbit is a war horse which was used for previous moon mission too. And yes, it is pretty cheap to build and operate.
> And that much of the time, the guy must guess where that line is and that he'll be wrong sometimes.

Violating someone's personal space or verbally harassing them isn't flirting, its harassment and assault. There is no conflation of the two, and those that do try to relate them are doing so to enable and excuse their harassing behavior. In cases where you don't know what is acceptable, honest and polite communication always works, and of course you could always DO NOTHING and stop worrying about it.
While it reports that it is incompatible, it works just fine on my Galaxy Nexus.
> When I used to travel with checked baggage, it almost always got stolen or lost.

Your experiences seem to be exceptionally bad.

I'd be interested to hear what airline and routes you traveled. And did you have connections? Also, do you mean that some objects were stolen or the whole bad disappeared?

I regularly traveled internationally with lots of expensive gear in my checked luggage and never had it lost or stolen. But usually I travel on direct flights with no connection.
So who are these "experts"? Travel agents? What is the motivation to them to keep certain details secret?
Just bought my first Bundle! Feels goooood....
Indeed, it's a shame that QUEL died. I recently daydreamed about Teaquel, a CoffeeScriptesque take on SQL. I'm afraid it would have little chance to take off, though...

Anything else?
That's like pointing out that iPod sales are down. Groupon revenues were up in Q2. Period.
Hi there, really it comes down to the size of the finder's fee. For a trip that will cost a lot regardless, it's worth submitting a large fee to attract the best experts. We have almost 1000 experts, and the ones who win these RTW contests aren't necessarily the ones that can help you. Some people know certains countries or airlines better that others.
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When it comes to cheating, duping, to thievery,
It is always good, upon my word
To have women with you.
And without them, the very lovely ones,
One never does anything right!
Sorry, but there is not a juror alive who would think the uncle was an innocent party to all that.
I completely agree! I just wanted to point out that the problem goes far deeper than a specific demographic. It's a societal issue on a national scale, possibly (probably) even more broad.
In this thread we find relationship advice from geeks (average HN reader I presume). It is funny because I speak as one and HN is the last place I expect to read such comments. But saying "I'm sorry; I didn't mean to offend you. Could you tell me what about what I said bothered you?" is the most technical and least pro-flirty (is that even a word?) thing I have read in this thread. As a more technical person myself, one part of me says it is appropriate to get feedback so that we can perform better next time. But the normal person inside of me screams in horror after reading it because somehow it kinds of seals the deal for it. That seems like one thing i should never say if I am interested in initiating a relationship of any kind. It just instinctively feels wrong. But hat could be just me.
You can click on dock icon to bring up Cheddar window before logging in ;)
Before the days of std::move, auto_ptr's copy modeled an ownership-transfer semantic in a more efficient way than could be accomplished by shared_ptr (no refcount churn). It wasn't broken; one must have simply known when it was appropriate to use.

Consider a helper function that returns a heap-allocated object and think whether auto_ptr or shared_ptr better modeled the function's intent of giving ownership of the object to the caller.
I've used cJson for a couple of projects as well. No complaints here.
I'd venture to say that for a shy person the difference isn't necessarily that large, I can understand missing social cues when you are constantly ignoring warning signs just because you are out of your comfort zone.

(that said I will never understand nor defend the scenarios depicted in the article)
I ran through the whole system, and I noticed that If I use the sliders in the info-graphic to change the down payment, it doesn't update that value in the "How Much House Can I Afford" Down payment text box. Is there a backwards refresh in the system?

Also, I didn't notice a "reset" button. Any thoughts?
From a distance, it's not easy to tell the difference.
The point is, there isn't a sharp delineation. Thats what allows any uncertainty into the discussion, there isn't a hard and fast rule on what behavior is acceptable.

The real rule, is to start off completely polite, and judge your behavior based on your reception. You start talking about an interesting exploit, impress each other, and the next thing you know you're talking about more personal stuff. Or, someone gives you the cold shoulder, talk is awkward, and you move on instead of forcing things into a sexual context.
Also a key play in Google Now. From my office I automatically get a card for the bus stop located outside- I switched it off because I don't use that stop, but I'm interested to see how close I have to get to the subway for it to work.
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Mangling the well-known quotation: SQL is the worst syntax, except all the others that have been tried.

What are you comparing it to?
There are tons of indie game success stories. Even more so if you count modest success from niche games. Jeff Vogel has been doing it since 1994, when finding an audience and taking payments on the internet was much, much harder.

Making niche games actually strongly resembles more "serious" software products, because you have a group of potential customers who have a decent idea of what they want and a market that isn't providing it. If you're lucky, you'll find pages and pages of forum posts describing the sort of things they like.

Expecting to make the next Angry Birds is stupid. But making games with the expectation of a decent income is entirely realistic, and just requires the same marketing skills as anything else.
Based on your other comments in this thread, it's hardly surprising that you are quick to dismiss women's issues. Your attitude needs adjusting.
Back in the day, I had a No Fear shirt with this quote on it. Good stuff.
Dotcom was arrested by New Zealand Police, cooperating with FBI. Copyright is governed by international agreements, one of which is Berne Convention, first signed in 1886. New Zealand and US are Berne Convention signatories.

To be essentially the same, first US would sign Data Protection Directive, then Germany would request FBI to cooperate, and FBI would raid Facebook HQ.
If I'm right, this was a fantastic job of link-bait. Users, especially parents, hate in-app purchases. But that's the way the app market has gone for now. So far I've been able to resist but except for educational apps (schools have the worst time paying for IAPs), I'll likely be doing a lot of freemium apps. So this hits a sweet spot to vent hate for IAPs and the freemium model. Great job guys.
> "Children must be governed. Free men govern the selves." That's silly rhetoric. The traits that cause children to require governance persist throughout life. There is no magic biological distinction that allows the latter to be autonomous when the former is not.

Oh ffs. you really think I was talking about biological children? Or that parents are always right, and children always wrong, just because those are the roles? nah. I was just being brief. So congrats on making up a silly strawman, and pointing out it's silly.

> "the latter is a means of implementing the former"

I disagree. Justified authority is a result of organization, not the other way around.

> "So long as we are animals, and the only biological fact in play is that we are indeed animals, authority with the threat of force will always be necessary to organize us."

That's silly rhetoric ^^ Actually, only total sociopaths would only react to force.

And where did I say authority is automatically and always bad? I didn't, I just made a distinction between two types of authority , which obviously went over your head. Authority needs to always be questioned; justified authority survives the questioning.
I believe an operating system typically implies both.
I'm writing my master's thesis on exactly that topic.
http://control.ee.ethz.ch/index.cgi?page=sada;action=details...

a) a heuristic for optimal routing of repositioning trucks based on anticipated (uncertain) future demand.

b) dynamic pricing using a model predictive control approach (receding horizon optimization on a model of customer reaction to (price) incentives).

Insanely cool stuff. And its working. A paper should come out soon..
The contest had a specific set of rules and a 4-month itinerary was permissible within these rules. The point wasn't to create an itinerary that would be advisable for a particular individual, it was to demonstrate that FlightFox is a good tool for finding rock bottom prices, so any set of fair rules would work.

If you were actually making an itinerary for someone, you'd probably have even more pressing questions than trip duration, such as "Where would you like to go?" Do you even want to go 6 continents? :)
Out of curiosity, what's the fastest JSON parser written in C out there?

Is it still YAJL?
Whoa, yeah. These guys have the #2 free iPad app and have been gained in sales rank every day the game has been available.

Freaking out because conversion rate on their IAP is lower than expected seems a little premature. If they keep getting 30k installs a day, they will end up with plenty of options for monetizing the thing.
So well said. When people don't take you seriously, clever hacks are the next best solution. The "What She Really Said" IRC bot story reminds me of this as well.
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Why not build what you describe, clamp it around the main feed to the house and have it join the wifi network, it can pubsub the data anywhere at that point.

This would be an order of magnitude better than just reading the meter.
> Please cite your statistics.

Rape culture seeks to describe why rape occurs and is promoted within a society. As per usual, Wikipedia has the overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture.

EDIT: Another good resource I use for this same convo that happen inevitably someone mentions sexism in a male space like Hacker News: http://www.shakesville.com/2009/10/rape-culture-101.html

> This is a hacker convention. Not a thing-PG-recontextualized-hacker-as convention.

I didn't realize considering yourself a hacker was a license to violate other people.

> The broad brushes with which you paint are not helping. Laying inaccurate generalizations like this on the very people in positions to help solve the problem disenchants and disinterests them.

That women are not in positions to solve this issue or be empowered to not have to deal with these situations is the problem in the first place. If someone can't be interested in being a basic human being that provides a safe space for a conference, perhaps they should re-evaluate what they are doing and stop.
> and sold to a corporate buyer for $120m.

That's a great business plan and not lottery at all!
Because Germany doesn't respond to the beck and call of the RIAA/MPAA.
What you're saying is this is how men behave and women should either put up with it and stop complaining, or stay home?
"because you're a nice guy"

"We need to make a conscious effort to be good at business."

Part of being good at business is resisting the temptation to listen to some of the things that are written on HN which highlight how wonderful sharing and giving away things are for free, and scorning anything that looks like profiteering at the expense of the poor users, developers or Aunt Jane.

There is what appears to be a consistent "don't be evil" meme where "don't be evil" takes on whatever the group think is jealous of that they can't do but perhaps makes money for companies and developers.

I've run several businesses and make money in many different ways. All above board. But I'm sure if I highlighted some of the things that I do I would be roundly criticized and downvoted on HN for, in the opinion of the group, taking advantage of people, developers, programmers who expect perhaps that everyone dedicates countless hours to helping others for the good of society. One example might be anytime I attempt to highlight how I've sold or help sell domain names for people. The hate comes out in droves from HN'ers who don't believe there is absolutely any justification at all for someone being able to sell a domain name. Of course if I tell the same story to regular business people I get looks of envy - consistently. While it is true that they don't have a horse in the race, they also appreciate the point of business is to make money.
If you had any idea about this issues, you'd realize that we've been tackling them on a global scale.

But pronouncements from on high can only do so much, especially in an age when authority is so easily controverted; to suggest that tackling it inside hacker culture is somehow missing the big picture is missing the fact that it's part of the global effort, rather than incidental to it.
Yea it's a shame that Hungarian notation has gotten such a bad rap. Done right i find it occasionally useful. Done the way most windows programmers have been taught is an abomination.
So happy to see Kippt going in this direction!

I have been using Evernote for storing/searching gists of interest. It looks like Kippt is more seriously looking at integration with other services, which has the potential to be awesome.

Keep it up!
Is it a public beta if you have to pay for access?
I think what agpen is trying to say is, "Statements like this are offputting to some people [women] who want to participate in tech." That's going to vary by the individual, but acknowledging that these statements have an offputting effect is proof in itself. Most people reading those statements aren't going to step in and say "this makes me not want to participate," because they know they won't be taken seriously. So instead they just leave.
Replace it with a Briggs and Riley bag. It won't be cheap, but they will repair it for free, for life, even if the damage was the airline's fault.
How much extra would you pay per flight? That's the bottom line.
Don't you generally cross compile on embedded platforms anyway?
It's fake, PSN twitter account: https://twitter.com/playstation/status/235824711601360898
Summary on IGN: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/15/anonymous-purportedly...
The answer is because they respect the rule of law, a better analogy would be why can't germany use drone strikes or extraordinary rendition against Zuckerberg.
> Who cares? There's no risk they are going to sell it or try to make some dirty money using it in other ways.

What makes you think that? All the big telecom companies make "dirty money" by processing the millions of warrantless wiretap and information requests. Facebook probably already does too, it's not much of a difference between that and utilizing a face database.
Those guys are the typical case of the "free" brainwashing. They see taking money as something filthy and immoral to do.

It's how you start thinking if you grow up with everybody giving away their $product for free on the one side and the opensource/libre software hippies who give you a hard time if you try to make a living with software products on the other side.

Now if the results were just some homeless developers that wouldn't be a big problem. But it's far worse because the customer base has been miseducated and now awaits almost everything for free or for $.99.

/rant
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AFAIK whole airline routes are determined only by business class demand, not couch (except discount airlines).