skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you visit the homepage, there's a "Get Started" button. The next page is a form asking for your trip details. Once you complete the form and pay the finder's fee, experts start competing to build you the best itinerary. You can communicate with the experts during the process to specify preferences. Clearly it works best with higher-value itineraries.

A more high level explanation is that Flightfox is a marketplace for freelance travel agents (and flight experts). We're bringing human travel experts online with a new crowdsourced model. Because customers pay a fixed fee upfront, we hope to remove the dependence on commissions. With diminishing commissions on flights, it's difficult to find agents who'll take the time to find you the best flights. That's what we're aiming to fix.

For frequent flyers like yourself, we're currently building out features to also earn/spend miles. I'm not sure if you do mileage runs or book award flights, but this is where we could become much more interesting for you.
Not sure if it applies to this particular one, but there are a lot of pricing quirks in international, multi-airline itineraries that one can exploit: airline fare rules are fairly complex lists of requirements/exclusion/combination/stopover rules etc., and the combinatorial complexity and ancient IT infrastructure it's all coded in sometimes produces results the airlines might not have intended had they realized it. Particularly lucrative combinations tend to get shut down once airlines notice them, so there's sort of an ethos of not talking about them openly in public. One exploit that was going around for a while, for example, was that certain combinations of cities/airlines would result in the fuel surcharge not showing up on a fare like you'd expect it to ("fuel dumping"); you could sometimes purposely add weird legs to make that situation come about, but weren't supposed to publicly post such a leg if you found one, lest it go away.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Unite...

According to the table on that page, 11 US Presidents had no prior military service. This goes all the way back to John Adams, President #2 and our first Vice President. That's a full 25% that were not in the military. Many of the others were in the militia or national guard, which until fairly recently was not the same thing.
The HN title is misleading. According to the article, Google Maps hit a milestone of 1 million public transit stops, Google didn't recently add 1 million stops.
In my opinion comments are a bad idea for your site, unless you're fortunate to have an exclusive audience. Yes, I am aware of the irony of this comment.
Sorry, but you're wrong.

26 million bags were not lost - most were delayed in connection. Which means you ran to your next flight and made it just in time, but your bag travels slower than you do. In any case, you got it back a few hours or a day later, all contents intact (or did you cheat the insurance? haa? :)

Few (although some) baggage handlers have the time to ruffle through your bag ni the short time they strive to load, unload, and transfer hundreds of bags from one flight to the next twenty.

The fact is that most baggage handlers are honest, while a few are not. Like in any business.

Sorry, but you're wrong.

26 million bags were not lost - most were delayed in connection. Which means you ran to your next flight and made it just in time, but your bag travels slower than you do. In any case, you got it back a few hours or a day later, all contents intact (or did you cheat the insurance? haa? :)

Few (although some) baggage handlers have the time to ruffle through your bag ni the short time they strive to load, unload, and transfer hundreds of bags from one flight to the next twenty.

The fact is that most baggage handlers are honest, while a few are not. Like in any business.

Edit: Thanks for the downvotes. Lovely. For refuting the OPs ridiculous claim that:

"The fact is that baggage handlers at airports are criminals who make money stealing things. There are exceptions, I am sure a few are honest. Not many though."

I worked in baggage handling for 10 years. I never saw anyone steal anything from any bags. Nobody opened any bags without witnesses (supervisors). I saw delayed bags due to - in order by reason - 1.) misconnection due to delayed flights, 2.) baggage airport system failures 3.) Weather (indirectly causing point 1, 2 and 4) 4.) Human error (rare).
> But think twice, because people opposing US interests (and the interests of some of the most powerful lobbies, like MPAA & RIAA) are increasingly being afforded the treatment you'd expect for a terror suspect.

[citation needed]
Sonora, a new Mac music app that aims to make listening beautiful again
Not wrong, but Facebook is hardly the only big fish in Ireland. Most large US corporations locate their European HQs there.
I find it interesting that Apple is adding driving navigation with no transit or bicycle directions (apart from third-party apps) while Google seems to be really putting a lot of effort into public transit. This is all while car ownership is plummeting among youth, the people who I thought were Apple's core user base.
"Romney is simply the better bet for a free Internet."

Didn't Romney say something to the effect of 'Porn should be banned on the internet'?
We can't do any drone-strikes because we do not have drones (that are equipped with firearms). We just bough some from the US but I do not think that they have arrived already. Would be interesting to know how many parts in these drones are actually made in Germany.
FYI, that isn't a newspaper, it's published by a right-wing lobbying group.
Office to finally fully support ODF, Open XML, and PDF formats
"We were over-hasty," Karl agreed. "Whole space effort has been. Those early scramjets, they were deathtraps." He shook his head. "Both sides. The Yankees kept trying to model the airflows with inadequate computers, and we, we built a gigawatt of nuclear power stations, used the whole Dniester for cooling, to get that damned Mach-18 quarter-scale windtunnel. And we still had disasters."
Credit Card Application Study - 2012
The way I interpreted the word was more "doing lots of things" and less "doing lots of a few things". Either is legitimate in retrospect.
Can someone describe better (than pando) how this is different than a traditional video advertising platform?

If I am reading correctly, Virool is trying to tie into existing, engaged user bases and publishing there? Are there any requirements for becoming a publisher?
UK Apple Retail Reductions Not Affecting U.S. Stores
Even so, it still reflects badly on the EFF. It might not have been their idea originally but they accepted the suggestion and gave it their approval.
Game development is about trade-offs — great games don’t have to do everything, they have to do a limited number of things well.

Might as well go and remove the game qualifier from that statement, and its still true.

Even as someone who isn't particularly interested in game dev, this series is fascinating and I eagerly await more.
Call me when MySQL has a working insert statement.

One that doesn't randomly truncate your data, or allow insertion of nulls into not null columns.
QUEL was pretty clean. Far more consistent than SQL.

It died, mostly because SQL was used by Oracle and IBM DB2 which were better marketed than Ingres. The DB world ended up standardizing on SQL because of this.

Worse is better, once again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages
I think it's meant to be punitive, or maybe preventative. Basically you are making yourself more expensive for them than you are worth. They probably reasoned that if you've made this request once, you're much more likely to make it again.
This stuff is hard, Google has been doing it for years. Apple is just getting started.
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Another blog that talks about an ambiguously-named product and provides no links to or descriptions of said product. I had no idea what Cheddar was after a couple minutes of skimming the blog posts.
Oh yes anandtech is the best review site out there. But I specifically meant analysis of various factors and breaking down rumors, long-term trends, stuff like that.
Hi tayl0r, yes, you can mention your extra flexibility in the description section of your contest. We're working on better handling flexibility, such as in your case around dates/times.

The best time to submit is sooner rather than later since, for the most part, fares go up, not down. 1200E is a fairly good price. However, if you want absolute rock bottom prices, make sure you say that in your contest and our experts will really go to work.

As you can imagine, not everyone wants the lowest price, especially traveling with an infant. But I highly recommend you give Flightfox a go and see how our experts can help you.

The great thing is it's often just $20 or $30, which is not a lot compared to the price of your trip. At worst, we can refund your fee, but more likely, you'll see how the experts work and may save a couple of hundred dollars.
I am an Australian now living in Canada, but in my Australian business I always "employ" people as a contractor, which simplifies things a lot. You do not have to pay superannuation, although I still pay workplace health and safety, but that's only a few hundred dollars. All the contractor has to do is register an ABN (free and can be done online) and send you monthly invoices.

Also be aware that in Australia people usually pay for their own health insurance if they want private health insurance.

Just be careful to set things up so it looks like your contractor is really a contractor. Even if you have a contract agreement the tax office will declare him to be an employee if that's what he looks like to them (paid like an employee, works full time, you're his only client etc).
Google Maps Now Features Schedules For More Than 1 Million Transit Stops
I think its more an issue of platform maturity. Google has years on Apple in terms of building up these data sources. Apple (I believe) will be licensing map data, whose cost is not cheap. Google uses mostly their own maps, and have spent years and $$$ building data.
Who needs comments? My take on a recent HN discussion
What's wrong with navigating to the product's homepage to learn more?
Yeah, I was interested until I found that part.

I think for most people, if they could afford 4 months off work then they wouldn't be too concerned about finding the cheapest possible flights.

It's still interesting in a theoretical way, but far less useful than the headline makes it sound.
Yes: you can achieve high quality with only a few respondents because the workforce is higher quality and the data is reviewed by a human in the crowd.

Drop us a line and we'll set it up: support@mobileworks.com
I agree and was really surprised to see the rider in the video not wearing a helmet, even though it is legal to do so in California if you are over 18 (it is not, however, smart). The answer is to just carry one with you-- they aren't heavy, and you can usually strap it onto a backpack when not in use.

As an aside, riding on the sidewalk in the business district of Mountain View (the video is clearly Castro @ Villa) is not actually legal (http://library.municode.com/HTML/16508/level3/PTIITHCO_CH19M...)
It would be nice if Google opened this up in some API, but having an API for this doesn't really align with their goals.
Maybe in other contexts, but I'm not sure that Def Con was a bad place for it.
If they had not sold the company they could have just kept running on the revenues and distributing dividends back to the owners. That's a lot different than a business that needs to "sell or die."
@dcope - FYI, its really hard to figure out what you app is based on your blog. And there's no obvious link back to the site root to get more information.
I think you should realize your comment - in a thread about counteracting sexual harassment towards women at conferences - is about how incredibly difficult it is to be a man.

Yes, I'm fully aware of that. I believe that part of solving the larger problem here involves both sexes having a better understanding of the position of the other. This is not as simple as "guys suck, you all need to change."

Nevermind how difficult it must feel to try to fit in as a minority group at a conference only to find yourself sexually harassed by a stranger.

Sexual harassment sucks whether you're a minority or not. I'm very sympathetic to the plight of women at conferences (and elsewhere) but not going to sit here and apologize for being male either.

Appreciate how privileged you are when your worry isn't "i hope some random man doesn't try to grab my ass" but instead "how am i supposed to know if this random woman wants me to grab her ass?".

Meh. We all have our own crosses to bear.

Is it really that difficult to be a guy?

Absolutely.

Is the line of sexual harassment (especially in the context of the articles examples) really that hard to figure out?

In the context of the examples cited in this article, I'd say "no." Which, if you read my original comment, I'd already made that point. In the more general sense, the absolutely is pretty much "it depends." Men have absolutely been accused of "harassment" for behavior that other people (including other women) would shake their heads at and go "WTF? That's not harassment at all." There's definitely an element of subjectivity in all this.
It's not my product. I merely submitted the blog post here since I know there are people on HN that use this service.
Just a quick one: I didn't knew SendHub before and it took me a while to understand what the company offer. Only with the video I've understood the product. I think it would you used some of the text from the video, like "separate your personal life from your work life" in the front page.
Other than that, looks great!
SEO Techniques & Violations
Indeed. Google's European HQ is in Ireland too.
The Linux Kernel Poll
Most apps, particularly games are limited to a few dollars, which requires them to basically be hits. Reaching out to tons of people to make a hit, is difficult and expensive.

Giving a game away for free seems like an easy way to gain some marketshare. In practice it isn't enough. In other hit based businesses, companies use multi-faceted marketing strategies to get the word out, each one a lead bullet.

Unfortunately for app developers, measuring marketing efforts through the iTunes funnel is almost impossible. Where do they come from? What's working? Nobody knows. Its difficult for marketing pros, let alone a pair of developers who spend all their time developing and not marketing.

They just need to keep at it. Being an indie developer requires more than just developing. Marketing is part of the job. If they are determined enough they will get there. Its just tough to put 2 years into a project, thinking you are finished, and only realize you're at the halfway point.
I'm interested in seeing how this will fare now that many of us using OS X on Mountain Lion are using the native "Reminders" app that already integrates with iOS.

Although I've yet to try Cheddar, I can see how the ability to use markdown and hashtags can make it a viable alternative to the "Reminders" app.
He meant it in terms of calling people stupid.
Playing on a 1 gb/s network
How secure offsite backup is one part of a complete backup solution
I didn't say that nor imply it.

I'm just asking if the problem is the conference, or the parties, or if they're indistinguishable. The OP says that this boorish and unacceptable behavior is stopping women from attending the conference. And that it doesn't happen at other hacker conferences.
How about we let women attend these conferences for free? Like a form of affirmative action to help balance the sex ratio. Would that help?
Is there a better way to share delicious food?
I see. Ebean looks interesting! I'm kinda stigmatized because of Hibernate and therefore avoid any persistence library that calls itself an ORM :)
If the "somebody" is a woman and the "I" is a man? Rrright.
The startup that feeds other startups - literally
Building Innovation Globally With MoonBots
Have some Beats (Studio) that I got as a gift, but if its for working I would aim for comfort.
I'm not at all familiar with video encoding/decoding processes or what they entail. Can you explain how hardware support for it would drastically change power requirements?
Marvell co-founder: Combo chips are the future
Rule #1 of a release announcement: don't assume we already know what your product is. Every time you fail to give a 1-sentence elevator pitch in your blog post, hundreds of potential customers say "meh" and hit the back button, taking their thousands of friends, family and colleagues with them.
It's fascinating to watch how tech companies react to restrictive EU privacy laws. Many of the EU requirements (e.g. 'right to be forgotten', mandatory opt-in for cookies) could become a real hindrance for companies that want to build intelligent services and minimized user experiences.

Call me crazy, but it seems like when you get to use a free service or website that costs many millions of dollars to develop, giving the company access to your data is a fairly small price to pay.

I'm waiting for one of these legal actions to cause a company like Facebook to just shut down their service in the local area, and leave a landing page with the email addresses of all the politicians who provoked the outage.
HelloFax / HelloSign (YCw11) is hiring a web developer
We're building the paperless office. We first built HelloFax, which is taking off. Now, we just launched HelloSign, which solves the print, sign & scan problem. We have a lot more in the pipeline. Help us build it!

About you:

- You are an all-around web developer. That means you're comfortable with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (jQuery), HTML, and CSS.

- You care about our users and take pride in your work.

- You enjoy brainstorming (especially when it involves drinking company beer).

- You love finding bugs in open source libraries (and patching them).

- The only thing you hate more than Internet Explorer is fax machines.

- If you are knowledgeable about sys-admin work, that's a plus.

- You're based in the Bay Area and are okay with commuting to San Francisco.

What we offer:

- A competitive salary.

- Health and dental insurance.

- Solid equity.

- A big vision.

- An awesome work environment.

Interested? Email us at jobs (at) hellofax.com
Mass. Governor: We're going to find a way to let Uber operate
If you're evaluating databases based on their replication capabilities, don't stop with what MySQL has built-in. Take a look at http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2012/sessions/h... The advice boils down to "You probably want to ignore the built-in replication and use Galera".

You can get Galera integrated with an otherwise vanilla MySQL from http://codership.com/products/mysql_galera or integrated with Percona's XtraDB fron http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtradb-cluster/
I'm in no way saying that Apple's business practices are above scrutiny, but I think it's unfair to claim they are "making developers fall over each other". When the App Store debuted, prices started out in the $5-$20 range, but the market has settled around the $1.99 price point because that's where it ended up. They're not going around telling developers how to price their apps.

It may be Apple's petri dish, but this is the culture that's evolved in it, for better or worse.
In October of 2000 I took a 5 month sebattical trip to backpack through SE Asia. The ticket was called a pan pacific ticket, it allowed for up to (I think 7) stops. You just called and scheduled the flight you wanted when you wanted it. It had no set itinerary, and the ticket cost $2,300.

I went from SFO to HK, and then hopped all around Tom Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and was planned to go to Sydney for the last stop, but had to come back early.

I spent five months total, most of the trip was in hostels and beach bungalows, I stayed in a hotel in hong long and spent nearly $3,000 there over two weeks.

I spent over a month on Koh Phangan in Thailand, at Haad Yao beach - all my meals, drinks and bungalow for that month, as well as all the meals and drinks for a girlfriend from germany who stayed with me a week: $250.

I'd love to do this again, but now I have kids and it will be until they are in their teens before I can take them on a similar trip.
0.5% upsell sounds about right. In the app business you want to avoid a one time sale and focus on recurring revenue. There is a cap on growth, and revenues must be sustained by current users.
"Those guys are the typical case of the "free" brainwashing. They see taking money as something filthy and immoral to do."

I don't think that's quite the case.

They went free because they saw a lot of profitable apps using the free + In-App-Purchase model.

The problem is they didn't think through what their own IAP model should be. They just focused on not being exploitative (the part that makes many of those free apps so profitable), when they should have been thinking about how much they needed to charge to be profitable, given the single IAP they had to work with.

They also might have gimped the free version a bit more to encourage people to buy the IAP.
The Invisible Bike Helmet: An Airbag On The Go
> Of course, in reality, people indeed do continue to fear being killed or starving to death

Really? I live in Denmark, and do not fear either of those things. I suppose there is a small chance of being murdered, but not a large one. And even in the worst case where I somehow was completely unable to work and suffered severe disability, I would be entitled to basic housing, food, and medical care, because those are considered basic rights of all residents. That's what I mean by a basic framework for society that removes that fear element, by guaranteeing to everyone minimum physical safety and sustenance. Once that fear is removed, people can make voluntary and rational decisions on how to interact with each other, which are less coerced than in the case where it's an "offer" to do X or starve.

To me, that maximizes individual freedom and decision-making capability. Essentially the only downside is that if I make a lot of money, more of it will go to taxes than would if I lived in the United States. But paying some taxes doesn't seem like a large imposition on freedom to me, especially in comparison to the gains.
Also, screenshots.
simply put. We don't do pre-rolls (traditional online video advertising).

Instead, we do in-app video advertising on Facebook and Mobile. So next time you play Farmville, you might see our videos when the game loads, in-between levels or in exchange for virtual currency.