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> Does your fare comparison site let you search by the availability of entertainment devices? Nope. Because nobody actually cares.

I would search by that, if it was an option. But in practice most (airline, aircraft) pairs all have the same entertainment options, so you can figure it out yourself with a little googling.
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For mechanical failures, such as flat tires, the car could just pull to the side of the road and fire off a text message to you and AAA (maybe we require you to have something like a AAA membership if you want your car to drive itself). They come and fix the tire, tow you to an auto shop, or whatever needs to be done. You're inconvenienced, but certainly no more than you would be otherwise.

As for cultural changes, here's what I imagine will happen: At first, people will be uncomfortable with self-driving cars. As another commenter noted, people don't feel safe with things they don't control. But most users of the cars will need very little time to get used to it. They'll hop in their car, tell it where to go, and proceed to pay no attention at all to what the car is doing. Once enough people have had this experience, it won't be difficult to convince the public to allow the cars to strike out on their own.
Google Maps now has schedules for 1 million public transit stops
it seriously does not matter. the pixel sizes are hardcoded so it'll look unreadable on any small screen, your particular OS does not matter. my resolution is 1440x900 if this helps.
I see what you did there, citing 3-year old articles on the start-up problems of then-brand new bike services. Of course, as you can see from other comments, those bike services no longer have those problems, and appear to even be quite successful. It's sort of like the difference between Groupon 3 years ago and Groupon today, but in reverse.

I hate the idea of promoting cycling (roads are for cars, not bikes), but there's nothing about what ViaCycle is doing that suggests it is doomed to failure.
"Harrassed for being a disturbed creep" did you call me "disturbed creep" without knowing how and why I was harassed? Lets say you meant something else.

And by the way, if that was woman groping some man and putting her mouth on on him without permission - noone would care. Simply speaking - sexism works both ways.
Well the article was actually mainly presented from the point of view of a commenter (as opposed to blog author). Notice all three points were about why he didn't like to comment via FB (vs. not liking to receive comments via FB). It was "I don't like commenting on FB, so you probably shouldn't use it" vs. "I have experienced less traffic when using FB comments, and thus am extrapolating that you might as well".

Thus, despite not visiting your site, he can still have an opinion about not liking to potentially comment on it if it contains FB comments. This is not some weird generalization or overstepping his bounds, its the same as someone saying "I don't like sites that have ads so think twice about littering your site with them" and then someone else responding "BUT how do you know if you've never seen my site?!".
Escalating to physical violence looks a lot riskier if you're smaller than the person you're striking. And you can't know that the escalation will end with your hitting them: they may hit back, and they may not stop. Moreover, assault is a crime: you may feel justified, but if you can't prove the other guy hit first, you can be stuck.

Finally, women in our society are socialized to be nice, to not make waves, to get along. Maybe you don't like that, but you can't just make decades of socialization that millions of people have undergone disappear because you don't like it.
Hi rj,

Here are the details for the economy itinerary, which was $1730 for 6 Continents. We're working with the expert of the business class itinerary to see what details he's happy for us to post.

JFK 18-Oct-2012 GEO 18-Oct-2012 Delta (New York, US to Georgetown, Guyana)
GEO 25-Oct-2012 JFK 25-Oct-2012 Delta (Georgetown, Guyana to New York, US)
JFK 14-Nov-2012 TXL 15-Nov-2012 Air Berlin (New York, US to Berlin, Germany)
SXF 29-Jan-2013 AGA 29-Jan-2013 EasyJet (Berlin, Germany to Agadir, Morocco)
AGA 05-Feb-2013 LGW 05-Feb-2013 EasyJet (Agadir, Morocco to London, UK)
LTN 26-Feb-2013 SAW 26-Feb-2013 EasyJet (London, UK to Istanbul, Turkey)
SAW 18-Mar-2013 IKA 19-Mar-2013 Pegasus (Istanbul, Turkey to Tehran, Iran)
IKA 29-Mar-2013 KUL 30-Mar-2013 AirAsia (Tehran, Iran to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
KUL 02-Apr-2013 PER 02-Apr-2013 AirAsia (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Perth, Australia - YAY!)
PER 07-Apr-2013 KUL 07-Apr-2013 AirAsia (Perth, Australia to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
KUL 09-Apr-2013 BKK 09-Apr-2013 AirAsia (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Bangkok, Thailand)
BKK 18-Apr-2013 KBP 18-Apr-2013 Aerosvit (Bangkok, Thailand to Kiev, Ukraine)
KBP 18-Apr-2013 JFK 18-Apr-2013 Aerosvit (Kiev, Ukraine to New York, US)
Damn. I should've asked for it before I deleted my account then, just to piss them off.
I'm just predicting that the executives will enter through a different door.
Because women should put up with crotch-grabbing and being licked by strangers? Yuck.

I know lots of really interesting people, male and female, who would stay home rather than put up with that treatment. Let's keep the interesting people, and revoke the badges of the weirdo predators who can't keep their tongues to themselves.
I honestly can't fathom the thought process behind burying the link to your sole source of income. And why aren't they considering fixing that, and reducing the amount of free content, to solve this?

In fact, they say normal IAP is exploitative, but the fact is, they can still learn from the technique to make money without violating their ethics. The question they should have asked is "at what point are we crossing the line?"

The accurate title should be 'developers bankrupted by their own incompetence'.
I've done that for a few forums and gaming sites to discourage myself from wasting time there. A lot of people used to trade lists of marketing domains for adding to their hosts files before browser plugins were created for the same purpose. It is not an uncommon practice and should not bother anybody unless they suddenly need to access one of these sites from your computer, which can be easily fixed for a short time.
All your points are duly taken! The reason I said this article was trying to "Rally the HN troops" is due to the second sentence of the post:

Upvotes on Hacker News would be greatly appreciated to help me beat Goliath!

I took that to be a rallying cry :)
Because being sexually harassed in the same manner as women do, regularly would give you some understanding and sympathy, not a point of pride to brag about as you are here.
I used to work with a group of developers in the MIT Media Lab who, honestly, were some of the most moral and upstanding individuals I've ever met. They spent a lot of time trying building software to help people in need.

But the one thing that I could never wrap my head around was the fact that they saw money as inherently evil. They went so far as to actively avoid using or accepting money, to the point that it actually hindered their Samaritan efforts.

The more "good" people who see money as evil, the fewer good people who will use it. Which means that a higher proportion of it will go to "evil" people and deeds. Which, in turn, feeds back into the loop to power the false perception that money itself is a bad thing.
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> Rape-culture and patriarchy are definitely major society-wide issues but they undeniably find a special welcoming home within geek culture.

Please cite your statistics. edit: Statistics that the geek culture provides a "more welcoming home" than society at large. I'm not disagreeing with the fact there are society-wide issues, I'd just like you to back up that particular assertion about geek culture.

>A culture which supposedly prides itself on merit and intelligence at first

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

>the reality is instead that we get a social group full of men's right's advocates and evopsych true-believers and other terrible terrible 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.
There is definitely a lot of things we can do with the bicycles. viaCycle is actually bike agnostic. It's a modular device we can retrofit to secure onto numerous types of bicycles. It's easy to add features to bicycles as well, such as baskets, bells, etc. Customization is part of the offering. We're just showing off the bare-bones test bikes for the most part.
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"Most of my time is spent doing relatively unexciting stuff like Safari, e-mail, calendar, weather, maps and the phone app."

Please tell me what is the exciting stuff then :-)

iphone was launched and sold on the basis of these so called unexciting stuff and this is how apple disrupted phone market.

I hope I did not get your sarcasm, if it was :-)
The app was released seven days ago. I'd say 200,000 * 0.67% * $2.99 ($4,000-ish) is a nice first week for an indie game. Now I guess I know how I can get Penny Arcade to feature my next app.

http://appshopper.com/games/gasketball

http://www.appannie.com/app/ios/gasketball/ranking/history/#...
I thought about paying into that, but I actually like the ads, and have found a number of good games that way, because I know they have a "no shitty games" ad policy.
A lot of the 10-bit H.264 videos out there are smaller than they would be if the same people had released them with 8-bit encoding. At some point, the quality difference between the encoded version and the source video becomes negligible, so it's natural to expect that better compression would result in smaller file sizes for any given raw source.

The time when this doesn't apply is when you're currently losing a noticeable about of video quality to keep file sizes down. Say that you're a movie streaming service, and you want to stream a fairly new movie. You have it at very high resolution, but if you wanted to stream it at Blu-Ray quality, that would really eat up your bandwidth, so you decrease the file size to something you're comfortable with, and get as much quality as you can within those limits. Better compression, in that case, would mean either better quality at the same file size, or bandwidth savings at the same quality, or some combination of the two.

So: I would expect this to make pirated TV rips smaller, pirated Blu-Ray rips larger or smaller (depending on what the encoding is optimized for), and streaming video either higher quality or smaller, depending on your connection speed and how much bandwidth they're willing to pay for.
Welcome to DC!

Sign up for CaBi - if for no other reason than it helps prevent you arriving at your destination looking like a sweathog from the walk from the metro.
Six continents for what I spend per month on rent? Pretty amazing. Even at three grand it would be a great deal...

This seems like a useful service. I wonder how often it produces results this good.
"It sounds like a lot of this stuff happens at bars during events, not at the events themselves.
How common is this behavior at bars in general, independent from a hacker con?"

This. Very much this. The formula is simple: Get a bunch of people drunk, and the lecherous ones will come out of the woodwork. This is not a problem unique to any particular field. In fact, I would go as far as to say this is a non-problem. If you can't deal with it, then stop choosing to hang out in bars.

Often, it is the women who cry the loudest, that crave and seek out the kind of negative attention described here, so that they can boast about their own attractiveness to other females, while pretending to be disgusted.

There are many more severe forms of oppression, that deserve our attention more than this.
It really depends on who you are marrying. Startups can destroy a marriage if your husband/wife doesn't understand or doesn't support you.
Does anyone know if the Mac app might be open-sourced in the same way the iOS app was open-sourced? I'm working on an OS X app that could benefit from both tight integration with their server-based service and I think I could learn a lot from their Mac app source code, as this will be my first Mac app.
I can't speak for Win8, but all the older OSes came with perfectly functioning product keys for activation.
Would it not make sense to enable public viewing for it on the site - at least in instances like above where you are happy to let people know?

I feel the rough cost should be promoted up front, I remember the last time you did one of these promo contests (or at least the last time one was on HN) I found it interesting, then was put off by the fact that you didn't allow viewing of the winning itinerary, and the fact that information on the service didn't seem to be as accessible as it could have been... I then completely forgot about you.

This time I clicked around, entered some information and saw the prices - and signed up to pay for a search. If the results are good, or even suggest promise for the future, I'll be sure to remember you. But I'm not sure I would have done any of this if a.) I wasn't sat here watching a football (soccer) match that's boring the hell out of me and b.) Next week I need to go on a trip to two cities in hopefully a single day, i.e. good timing

Edit: More feedback, would be nice to have more flexibility in requesting flight details. For example my trip next week, I don't care what day it's on (any of Mon-Fri would be fine), but I don't want to put +/- 3 days because I don't want one flight Monday and the next on Friday. Additionally I want to go to two cities, I don't care in which order. Maybe you could take a look at my notes on http://flightfox.com/contest/23238 and tell me a.) If it's OK that I specified them there and b.) If it might be possible to be able to specify them somewhere more efficient rather than just writing prose
Is this a problem that people actually have? I admit to being out of the loop w/r/t SMS, but … really?
I checked up on the Australian experience, a country known for strict enforcement of helmet regulations, and found this. Perhaps you'll find it relevant.

http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1192.html
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HN isn't letting me comment on the reply to this, but in response - our systems can be subsidized if necessary. We're a B2B business right now, and sell to organizations that own/operate the programs. We're working on piloting our own consumer programs in places that are ripe to support them. Ultimately, bike sharing needs to make financial sense in one way or another, and we're confident our system does that.
If they still store information on you, you are still entitled to see it. (Knowing Facebook, they probably still have the information). If you are not in US or Canada, you are covered by the EU law and you are legally required to get a copy of all personal information they hold on you.
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>No. If you assault me, guess what's happening? I'm going to hit you in the fucking face

Have fun explaining that to the cops (and the jury).

"After I touched her inappropriately she slapped me, so fearing for my life, I punched her in the face, breaking her nose"

Hell, if you do that you're likely to get punched in the face by a random passerby.
That won't work for pure javascript sites like Twitter.
I'd also assume that the bikes cost significantly more because they want to use custom parts so that they are worthless to thieves.
Thanks! In my personal opinion I think that seeing that actual itinerary really boosts the 'WOW' factor.
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I suppose "prolific" does not necessary imply breadth or depth.
I agree - if you could put this on the site, at least for your FlightFox sponsored contests, I think that would be pretty powerful marketing material.
"DON'T TRY TO HIT ON WOMEN AT CONFERENCES OR OTHER BUSINESS/PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AT ALL. PERIOD."

But that is in itself IS a generalization. I have family members and best friends who met their SO's at conferences or in professional environments. Or you can look at famous people who met their SO's working on the same project.
I really want to submit my upcoming trip to FlightFox but I'm not sure of the best time to do it and there also isn't a date range that is wide enough for what I want.

I want to travel anytime in late October or November (5 week window vs the 6 day window the site allows).
I have 2 adults and 1 lap infant.
I am going one-way from Berlin, Germany to Orlando, Florida.

When would be the best time to submit this trip?
Is it even worth it given the best price I can find online is about 1200 EUR total?
If I had to pick something, I would likely pick NYC as my next stop. There's enough cool people doing cool things and plenty to do in the city. Good luck, I hope it's a blast wherever you go!
And here are some of the details of the business class itinerary for $3,630. Keep in mind that a similar itinerary from the same expert came in at $2569. That itinerary didn't win because we couldn't verify it online. The expert suggested it required a quick phone call.

Los Angeles LAX to Sydney SYD
Sydney SYD to Bangkok BKK
Bangkok BKK to XXX
XXX to XXX
XXX to Cairo CAI
Cairo CAI to London LHR
London LHR to XXX
XXX to Bogota BOG
Bogota BOG to XXX
XXX to Los Angeles LAX

Apologies for the missing details, but these details are the experts' secret sauce. If you actually want to take a trip like this, let us know and we can hold a content for you and make sure the best experts know about it.
Yes, the cost of installing a Bixi-like system is fairly expensive.

However, when you're talking about transportation systems, Bikesharing is an absolute steal. Repaving a city street costs $338,000 per mile. A city bus costs anywhere from $500-750,000. Subway cars and commuter railcars run in the range of $2 million each.

A 15-dock bikesharing station plus 8 bikes costs as much as a Lexus.
http://www.capitalbikeshare.com/assets/pdf/cabi_station_spon...

Washington, DC built its entire bikesharing system for somewhere between $6 and $10 million. That's way less than the cost of a single 8-car Metro train.

If we're talking about a system for a large city, the infrastructure costs are low enough as to be irrelevant. If the system can cover its operating costs (which DC's does, even at a surprisingly-high $1,860/bike/year cost), it's basically a slam-dunk.

The bigger challenge will come from figuring out how to scale the system out into the suburbs.

The problems associated with a decentralized system such as ViaCycle (difficult to attract causal users/tourists, significantly more prone to theft, much more difficult to redistribute, similar maintenance costs, more expensive bikes) don't seem to compensate for the reduced capital costs.
Just listened to your podcast on Founders Talk. Great podcast!
If you're using git for revision control, it lets you "version" files without having all the historical versions locally.

Example: You check in bigencryptedfile.big, which is 100Mb. Then you modify it, and check it in again. Repeat 8 more times.

In git with and without git-annex, you can check out the repository at any time and end up with the local files from that checkout.

In normal git, your local repository is now a gigabyte (the encryption in this hypothetical file prevents git from being able to delta-compress; in reality git would likely be able to compress it somewhat, but it still may be hundreds of megabytes).

With git-annex, all the previous copies are stored on the SERVER, but not in git itself. Even if you don't care about local hard drive space since hard drives are cheap, consider that if I then clone your repository, I would only need to download 100Mb instead of 1Gb. The downside, of course, is that you need to be connected to the server to get historical versions of a particular file.

When you're dealing with, say, a game project with 20Gb of binary data that's been versioned 20x on average, you end up with 400Gb to clone your art repository, which is a non-trivial download size. And if, for some reason, you want your repository cloned to multiple folders on your drive, then again you're using 10Gb each instead of 400Gb each. Even on cheap hard drives, multiple folders of 400Gb each adds up quickly.

EDIT: OH, and one other advantage of doing it this way: If you just use rsync, and you accidentally overwrite a file and don't notice for a day or two, rsync will happily destroy your backup file as well, while git-annex will just store a new revision. Should have thought of that first. ;)
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Government is taking control. ITU-T (which is one of the standardisation bodies behind HEVC) is part of the United Nations.
"not a point of pride to brag about as you are here"

Bragging? Really? Pointing out obvious thing that you all knights on high moral horses forgot - woman is not always victim. And if she is perpetrator she more often than not goes free (woman drugs husband, cuts off his penis - not guilty.)

And I am "bragging" here BECAUSE "would give you some understanding and sympathy". I know how women fake their harassment to get attention I feel "understanding and sympathy" for men that was harassed that way.
Reading this makes me glad I don't ever have to interact with MySQL. PostgreSQL is bad enough.
Twas quite clever of Facebook to set up in Ireland (and not just for the 12½% corporation tax rate). It can be a large employer in a small fish, and the Irish government is desparate to be seen to be doing something about jobs (hence any job losses from a household name would be very embarassing).

As a result, I wouldn't be too suprised if some squeeze was placed on the Data Protection Office. "Oh you want more funding... Well..."

I wonder if this is one of the reasons the EU wants to overhaul the Data Protection law so that EU citizens can complain to their national data protection office, not just the one the company is in.
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Also, the email address (anon@prvt.org) in the post is dead and bounces with a 550 error.

http://www.securityweek.com/person-referencing-anonymous-cla...
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I slammed on the back button when I found out it was Facebook (can't stand the site) but on your second point, I totally agree. Flickr is such an awesome site. I'm happy to see Marrissa has good taste :)
Not personally interested in that deal, but wondering: what would it take to get that trip. Could create a contest, but would it need paying more than the minimum fee to get that same deal? Do some experts not get out of bed for less than $x?
I think there's a qualitative difference between a business model that can sustain itself and one that relies on rich backers to dump money into it every year, forever.

Isn't HN usually full of people saying you have to figure out what customers will pay for (meaning, what customers will pay more for than it costs you to provide)? Bike-sharing is not one of those things. End-user customers will not pay you more than it costs to provide.
When 1 in N women get drafted and killed during a war, I will start giving one iota of care about poor poor dis-empowered women.
Excellent points. Thank you for transmitting your wisdom.
if you made a freedom of information request

Clarification, in Ireland "Freedom of Information" is for government bodies. It's "Data Protection" law (which is the personal data of you held by anyone, government & private companies)
OK, I don't get it (granted I didn't spend a ton of time reading through all the details).

What I was hoping for is some way I could book the "winning" itinerary through some means. I was ready to buy 2 of the business-class trips instantly, but it seems this is more of a "bragging" site (in a good way), showing how cheaply you've managed to book a given itinerary?
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