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Hi corin_5, coincidentally we're working on improved date flexibility right now. You'll be able to specify before/after and many more day period options. We're doing the same for passenger type. Not just adults, but students, infants, etc.

We can't enable public viewing because the experts don't want to divulge their most prized tips and tricks to the wider public. This is their livelihood, and we are mostly holding these contests to test their skills and proving something more interesting that the typical simple return trips.

Glad you're giving us a go. Please let us know if you have any issues or questions.
"If, after some time, the woman initiated some innocuous physical contact (shoulder & arm touching, for example), I would not reciprocate in kind. No, I would reciprocate with more platonic interest. This might be slightly disappointing at first, but it would build trust. Physical reciprocity only later, like a long-delayed echo."

At which point she would think you aren't interested in her and then move on mentally and physically to someone else.
So, because they're a free video hosting service, they have the right to handle DMCA takedown notices any way they want. They can just ban you right away, offer no appeals process, and decide they want to have nothing to do with you.

Being upset that the free service that you use is refusing to do stuff for you for nothing is entitlement.
Why not use http://www.orbitz.com/ ?
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So, this requires essentially being gone for 4 continuous months in order to get these prices?

I'm not sure how amazing that is really. That's also 4 months of living on the road, hotels, meals, etc.

If you wanted to visit all 6 continents, it seems like you could do it for a cheaper overall rate by just book 6 individual flights over time taking advantage of various promotions.
"Customers" includes businesses -- and governments, for that matter.

A lot of successful start-ups don't sell to consumers at all. And kazevedo comments that they are in fact structured as a B2B start-up. [1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4387770
It's not been there since the beginning, I believe they added it in on the second or third bundle.
it might make sense to just focus on the google and samsung phones at first
Hi brk, This was an in-house contest to test the skills of our experts. You can absolutely put up a similar contest to receive similar results. Love the idea about being able to book other flyers' itineraries. We're in a heavy product dev phase, so I'll share it with the team. Yes, in one sense we are bragging what real travel experts can do. The premise of Flightfox is, especially for high-value trips, you should leverage the skills and local knowledge of experts. Best.
Premium clients can singlehandedly make a flight profitable (and in some cases, pay more for their last minute reservations than all of coach combined), so there's a damn good reason to wait for them.
Very cool, but I'm not clear who your site targets. That price is amazing but the itinerary involves a lot of flying around on terrible airlines. I usually have a lot of restrictions: I want to fly on these dates, with the fewest travel hours possible, on good, dependable airlines. How much leeway is in there to save money?
Correction: they're legally required to give it to you - if you ask.
It's only ever a small minority that needs the correction.
Another piece of flexibility feedback - wildcard destinations, for finding a decent priced holiday (obviously with some guidance on rough location). I guess this is possible from the competition you just ran, but I must have missed the option.

As to the reasons for not enabling public viewing... as you've publicly shared here on HN, could you not at least share that much on the site? Alternatively could you not offer an option for people to "buy it now", to use an ebay phrase? Or would the necessary price tag be too high for most people to be interested?

p.s. The 5 was attached to the number of minutes, not my name! ;D
If I am interested in the business class itinerary - do I have to recreate the entire contest or is there a chance I can jump on this deal by paying the same finders fee?
Please go read the original post and pay special attention to the bit where con security gives out awards for people who run around demanding that women show their tits.
Great stuff Todd! Is there any way to ensure that the best experts bid on the flights submitted. Seems like a few people really are crafty with their details!
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This is pretty common in Europe, and as mentioned elsewhere here, somewhat doomed. I couldn't find anything in the linked article explaining how the founders hope to improve on those programs.

In particular, I'm curious to see how they plan to avoid the "Velib Extreme" phenomenon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7881079.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afE44cHNkEg
>Indeed, whether you regard that "omnipotent power" as being some ineffable divinity or some leviathan called "the state".

Personally, I regard them as one in the same. The State is just a proxy of the will of the community one finds himself in, and Divinity just a proxy of man's will subscribed to and enforced by other men of belief.

Neither are omnipotent, but rather omnipresent as long as one finds himself surrounded by other people, and while they are not omnipotent, they are plenty powerful, -especially compared to a lone individual in most cases.
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Why can't Germany just raid the Facebook HQ in the US for violating local law? Isn't that essentially the same that the US did at the dotcom mansion?
http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html

"GSF1 is one of the most common fallacies, and one of the most deeply held. Many geeks have had horrible, humiliating, and formative experiences with ostracism, and the notion of being on the other side of the transaction is repugnant to them."
We do weld the locks to some of our bikes depending on the intended environment. No matter what the method, the attachment is at least semi-permanent and can't be removed by normal means. Since our system can be fitted to multiple bikes, we can easily incorporate shaft drive or a different frame if people want them. Our Biria frames are very sturdy and people love them!
Run a different language that compiles to JS and runs in the browser. As it stands, the overhead of doing this is also too much.

Not at all--it takes some work, but especially if most programs are less than a few hundred lines long, the overhead is far less than you think!
Warning: This is not the most productive comment I've ever made on Hacker News. That said –

This is one of the stupidest and wrong-headed comments I've ever seen in my life. I'd like to understand more about how someone arrives at such a polluted worldview.

Can you tell me a bit about your upbringing, friendships and romantic relationships? I'd like to understand why a few women being mean to you means that 50% of humanity should go fuck itself and tolerate intolerable behavior.

Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.
They're not strippers, and they're not hired. They're volunteers, and it was their idea. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassm... and http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassm...
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If this is true (I have no idea, but trust Schneier), can you see why people are complaining about how endemic sexism is in tech?
You can meet a person and develop a relationship with them without hitting on them.
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It's one of our most requested features. Just like email, if it's not easy manage, it's difficult to keep track.

For example, we have use our own product to provide text based support and it receives hundreds of msgs a day - difficult to manage without a way to focus on what you need to deal with right now.
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Here's the discussion of the first part if you missed it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4292598
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You know what I don't find amazing? When websites and SAAS's don't operate on 100% availability time, even though that's what I'm paying them to handle.

I mean, seriously, this is the whole point of their job, and yet websites keep going down. Sadly, they fail at their job.

The physical world is much more difficult than the digital world. If the best and brightest can't maintain 100% uptime on a website, don't expect 100% success with something infinitely more complicated.
Yea, i did say i have seen it work, but that does not mean i envy them. I just meant that people are usually expected to adhere to rules that are not clearly defined and change from person to person.
From the article:

"In total, the Montreal operation will bring in $7.4 million. Bixi will spend $7.3 million on operations, marketing, administration and research and development."

That's for 2012. Projections aren't results, but things don't sound too far off. What are you basing your statement on?
4 months traveling the world, having to eat "meals"... sounds terrible! :)
Well, unless you are living, eating and travelling on each continent for free over the 6 months, it's going to cost much more than the stated price.
What's this all is about?
>We have discussed the possibility of incentivizing riders to help redistribute bicycles, although the effectiveness of this has yet to be proven.

This is almost certainly because no-one has the data or analytics yet. Seems like a very interesting problem algorithmically.

Even small incentives can have dramatic effects – look at the number of under-employed who recycle aluminum cans for 5-10¢/pop. It's by far the most cost-effective way to increase the rate of recycling. There are certainly quite a number of people willing to move bicycles a couple miles for $1-2. I know I'm beating the HN dead horse here, but markets do tend to be efficient at allocating resources when the basic costs are set correctly.

With your mobile app, you have the advantage that you know not only where a bike was picked up, but how far the customer had to travel to reach it. With so much data at your disposal, you should be able to get a pretty good predictive handle on the ebb and flow of demand in the system.

It'll be cool when I can subscribe to a higher tier to have my demand weighted more heavily. ;)
As someone who has paid upwards of $8K for a last-minute first class ticket (6 hours booking to flight), I don't doubt this at all.
Yup. Geeks (male and female) can be dense about flirting at times, though. I'd like to think that I'm more perceptive nowadays, but when I was a sophomore in college I was asked out and taken on a date without realizing it, for instance. So be aware that they might just be really enjoying the conversation and not realizing that you're trying to flirt. Which doesn't even mean they wouldn't be happy to flirt back if they realized how things were! So again, just always be willing to revise your assumptions about the situation, and always be polite and be ready to back out if you misread things.
> Yes, they are. Its just that any one isolated indecent of disapproval doesn't get much attention compared to incidents of scum. I'm not saying the levels of scum are acceptable, just that there is a disparity in which encounters get shared.

We know that people have reported their first hand accounts of receiving harassment at multiple cons and multiple times per con. These incidents are not isolated. There is a strong chance that if you are a woman and you attend hacker conferences you will be harassed at least once. Computer circles at large have a problem with sexism and as an overall community does not disapprove of sexist behavior, attitudes, and actions.

Other people may not experience harassment at conventions. That is their experience and that is legit. However, that does not in any way negate other people's experience of harassment at those venues nor does it excuse those incidents. Conferences need to take a firmer stance against this kind of behavior, more so than just having cards, but rather with a well defined and clear harassment policy that is actually enforced.
Uh, wow. This seems to be entirely true, which makes the article outrageously misleading.

That's a less than ideal launch if you've failed to monetize it properly, but obviously that was nowhere near the cause of homelessness.
No time to read this now but I'll definitely get to it later. The first part (http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/the-making-of-warcraft-part-...) was a treat to read, I wish there were more stories like this around.
Have you tried them? They're quite useable. The sturdiness is great on Montreal's pothole strewn roads.
It's a pretty young startup dedicated to letting people discuss stuff anonymously.
Of course they realize that the NSA already has a full copy?

You might think: so what, I'm not a terrorist.
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.
assault is harmful or offensive contact. The assault happened with the first inappropriate touch.
From a feminist perspective, it's not very empowering to a woman to have to resort to props and other crazy schemes to get unscrupulous men to fuck off.

People who already have power do not need props and schemes, because, well, they have power. I know that if I grab my boss’s crotch during a meeting and he says ”you have thirty seconds to convince me not to fire your sorry ass right now”, every witness to the event and everybody above him in the corporate hierarchy will back him up.

A man tempted to do the same thing to a woman less powerful than himself does not have the same assurance that he will suffer consequences for his bad behavior, and you can’t just create that sense of assurance by fiat. (As the Readercon debacle indicated, even written policies are no guarantee.) So people of good will are still trying to figure out how to hack the social environment to achieve a better culture, and until the rules of that culture become second nature to us all, then those social hacks will seem like, well, hacks.
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Does that mean that we shouldn't tackle it? No, this is our culture too, and we should fix it.
But, ultimately, everyone is a lone individual, and the "will of the community", to the extent that there even is a consistently identifiable thing, is the product of a complex of protocols and values that were already available to each individual in his own right.

Communities don't bootstrap themselves - they evolve out of the willing participation of individuals, and when the meditative mechanisms of that community fall to the manipulation of one faction or another, communities can and do break apart.

Taking the existence of a stable social framework for granted is very dangerous, and the concept of "rights" is one of the tools we employ precisely to protect that social framework's substantive foundation.
Incentives wouldn't have to solve the problem totally. As long as they made some users happy and redistributed some bikes, incentives would help reduce costs.
I suppose that would be possible, if the built in GPU has local video RAM and such. You wouldn't nearly be consuming the bandwidth compared to sending raw video to the display.

I do think it would be a little too complicated though, it's probably more likely there will be a faster Thunderbolt port before that happens ;-)
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While India is one of the poorest countries on the planet, and spends less than 1% of GDP on science and technology, India also produces largest number of engineers and a large number of science graduates every year. The country has more than 3million employed in IT jobs (not callcenter/BPO). India's space program is quite developed and ISRO's track record is not too bad. And yes, India produces more than enough food to feed its populace and more. The issue is one of primtive distribution chains, bureaucratic apathy and corruption. Foreign aid do not address these issues and is very meagre compared to India's GDP and government spending power. India needs to reform from within and that is a cultural journey.
Like... the bar at a Vegas hotel where people go to chill between talks and at the end of the day?
Who cares? There's no risk they are going to sell it or try to make some dirty money using it in other ways.
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You never specified that your backslash referred exclusively to comments that document what the code does. This kind of comments are in most cases the result of bad habits taught by introductory programming books and instructors alike, with possible one exception [1].

But comments are incredibly useful to document why code exists in the first place, what are the assumptions that must hold for it to behave as expected (including but not limited to preconditions, invariants and post-conditions), and possibly how to use it (if you are using some utility like javadoc to generate other types of documentation from source code).

[1] The exception I am thinking about is that in real life you cannot always deliver the best quality possible in your projects. You have to interact with horrible systems, make ugly tradeoffs and meet deadlines with limited resources. Things get convoluted from times to times, so the best you can hope for is to leave thoughtful comments explaining how some specially hairy component works. The maintainers of that software (including a potential future version of yourself) will be very grateful for this.
My $400 bike does me well enough.
Indeed. And it's not just about spying.

The Zapier people are probably decent and honest etc, however that's not the point. It introduces a new security threat and attack vectors unnecessarily

It violates the principle of needing just enough access, to perform a task.
To the startup founders who are defending this behavior (if any of them do indeed run one or are attempting to start one):
http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-sex.html

Next, imagine your sister/mother/fiance was the girl at the bar who got licked or had her crotch grabbed. How would that make you feel?

I'll never understand how anyone can defend this sort of behavior... I used to volunteer at the women's center on my college campus... if you heard half the experiences most of these women go through on a regular basis maybe you'd learn some empathy.

How would you feel if some guy started cat calling you as you walked home at night? How about while you walk to the store? Now imagine this happening on a regular basis.
Less leeway, but flightfox is about saving you time and money. Even if you build a 6-continent itinerary with a lot of restrictions, it will take many hours. The tips and tricks the experts provide, even for getting on better airlines or other perks, really comes in handy. There are of course sometimes we just can't help. That's normally with simple itineraries and inflexible flyers.
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. 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.

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?". Is it really that difficult to be a guy? Is the line of sexual harassment (especially in the context of the articles examples) really that hard to figure out?
Proof? Some research suggests women are turned off from the "hard" sciences before they reach high school.

It's likely a factor but you're putting the cart before the horse.
Pricing is $5 per worker per hour.
"A good part of the baggage process is in a part of the airport that is physically quite complex and, in many areas, dark." He adds: "Your bag may be traveling for several miles" in this maze, and watching it at every step along the way just isn’t feasible.

That's a ridiculous excuse. The police, FBI, or whatever law enforcement agency could put hidden cameras and microphones in various luggage--packed with expensive things that are worth stealing--as part of a sting operation. If there's a serious problem (keeping in mind that the average loss is 0.5%), then they'd be able to nab the crooked TSA agents or baggage handlers after just a couple dozen runs.

The reason this is not done is because this is boring to police. It is not a glamorous or interesting kind of crime to solve, and nor does it make money like speeding tickets or parking tickets.
The BBC (website) has a long, sad history of picking crappy media formats. They used Real Audio and Video long after that was clearly a bad idea, then when they had to switch away they picked Flash.
Even with GHz and GB of RAM, I've seen enough JSON C parsers which leaks memory over time. There are other issues like how efficient is the memory manager (either malloc or others), etc. IMO, getting rid of memory allocation is definitely an shift toward making a reliable json parser.
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I sure hope not, that would be pretty misleading.
In that case, I wouldn't worry about installing for all users. I'd build from source and configure with the --prefix argument. Then I'd start Django using that specific Python.

Or, since Django on Python3 doesn't seem production ready yet, I'd "upgrade" to Debian testing or unstable, and hope that by the time Django became production ready Py3.2 was in Debian stable.
It's awesome that they didn't want to engage in predatory behavior, but what they did was self-predatory, which is no better! The opposite of exploitative game design isn't a life of asceticism; it's value for money.

I'm not a big gamer, but on the first page of my phone's springboard I count $300+ of apps, some of which have ongoing subscription costs. That's money that I paid because I got value. I'm happy with every one of those purchases, no developer starvation required!

One objection I take to your post is that I don't believe the narrative that the App Store is just a lottery. As an example, Tripit raised $7m, built an app that makes my life better, charges me $40/yr, and sold to a corporate buyer for $120m. That's a fantastic, real business.

On the flip side, these guys built an app with ARPU of $0.013.

Tripit didn't win a lottery; they provided big value and got paid because of it.
Of course they realize that. But what can they do about that?
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Really great games as usual, but make sure you check out the system requirements. Most of them can be run on phone sized screens but a couple of them, such as Uplink and Space Chem, will only work on tablet screens 5" or larger.
Don't they have multiple options for "Post As"?
There is. It isn't an official policy, but dupe check only compares to values in some cache somewhere. Duplicate articles are FINE on HN, given that after a time period the ability to comment is removed from an article (unless of course, the suggestion is that there is nothing valuable to discuss about something n days after a conversation starts, ever).
It's SQL. Isn't that sufficient?