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>>> "a long, detailed list describing our rooms"

Hint: a red flag right there. You're selling what's perceived as standardized commodity. If a long and detailed list made the job of corporate copy-and-paster hard, imagine potential customer confusion.
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The maps works all the way back to IE7 and the drawing application is totally open source and free.
The difference is still huge, to the point that there are still plenty of companies that ignore android simply because they can't monetize on it.
ULV chips are just the lowest-power top bin of all normal cpus. To get chips that can be called ULV, Intel has to bin hundreds of non-ulv chips. As such, ULV chips can not be mass-produced in the kind of volumes needed for tablets.
He might, but he certainly hasn't demonstrated otherwise. In particular, he's not saying, "I see where the REST crowd is going, but their crucial mistake is X." That, combined with DHH's well-earned reputation for arrogance, makes me think he's just doing his usual.
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> This is horrible.

Why?
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It's due to competition, and price discrimination. In highly competitive areas, other hotels will offer their rooms at a discount to Expedia/Travelocity/etc, to catch the market that visits these websites (due to the websites' marketing and reputation as being the place to go for online bookings). If a hotel doesn't offer their rooms on the third party websites, then they effectively lose those sales. I know some of the agreements will make it so that they can't advertise rooms at the rates given to travel agents, so that may be why you see it cheaper. Priceline has a different system, where each hotel provides three price levels, and if a person bids at or above a price level, then Priceline gets the difference between the price level and what the person bid.

At hotels that don't have problems selling rooms, they have no reason to offer rooms to travel agents, so you won't see any price discrepancies there. In fact, you probably won't even see the room offered on third party websites.
The diabetes market is already being disrupted, by Dexcom, which makes continuous sensors, and which appears to be iterating every few years. You calibrate them every 12 hours or so, they last a week, and they give a sample every 5 minutes or so, at a cost of about $600+$100/week of consumables. The software isn't great, but it gets the job done and it'll download data over an included USB cable and export to CSV if you just want a spreadhsheet.
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Lockheed and Boeing are both very capable of building planes at scale, and in a competitive environment. Currently their space vehicles are built on a cost-plus model, but I think that L-B can adapt. Musk has an advantage today in cost, and should be able to maintain that for a few years, but don't think that Lockheed or Boeing can't compete once they realize that the gravy days are over.

It should be an exciting next decade for space travel. Maybe all the sci-fi I read will start to come true. Getting anything into space is a big challenge and hopefully soon the market will have several private companies competing in a real market for space travel. For a nice short story, look up "The man who sold the moon" by Robert Heinlein. Then we can discuss whether or not Elon Musk is the re-incarnation of the fictional character DD Harriman.
You're making a huge assumption here, which is that the central point of the war on drugs is actually to stop people using drugs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_compl...
I stopped booking with Expedia when there was a problem with an incorrect flight time. Delta said they couldn't do anything and I'd have to resolve with Expedia. Expedia said they couldn't do anything, and I'd have to resolve with Delta. I had a clearly nonsensical flight plan (I was scheduled to be at the destination for 1 hour), and no way to resolve it. I gave up on both businesses.
When I first saw this ad series I was stunned by the hollow, almost cynical reasoning on display, only to then be even more stunned by the lack of reaction in others.

There's a substantial cohort of the population[1] that thinks If something is illegal it must be wrong. They wouldn't make it illegal unless it was. Getting through to these people, in my experience, is almost impossible.

[1] Probably not on HN. But we're not representative of the country at large.
> The problem? Price. Most insurances won't cover this, the initial purchase is not cheap and the maintenance cost a lot too.

I hear that a lot, but I think this may be a cached judgment and not be accounting for recent decreases in price and increases in CGM sensor quality. If you haven't asked your insurance recently, ask again.
I got a Kindle Fire HD. Very grateful for it!
If it was Nokia's decision then they are even more doomed than I thought.
Site appears to be down. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Fe4HrH3...
I should have noted that my experience is with Hilton/IHG/other American/British hotels. I don't have much experience with international hotels in other countries though. But I do know that it is not typical for hotels to sell rooms to Expedia/Travelocity/Hotels.com/Orbitz/Priceline. They may have a special arrangement, but I doubt it.

Basically, the hotel manager can decide to make rooms available to those travel agents, and then they are displayed on Expedia's website. If someone buys it via Expedia, then Expedia sends over a reservation to the hotel's Central Reservation System with just the guest's name, and Expedia's card, and the system is instructed to NOT print receipts or room rates for the guest, so that they do not find out what Expedia is paying the hotel.

What you were told may be true, but I bet it was just a desk clerk that didn't know any better.
Adrenaline addiction is physical, not just psychological. There are some studies which shine light on the underlying cause:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/02/01/us-dopamine-idUSTR...
Clothing, fresh food (meat, produce, etc.) prepared food (eat in and take out), and I think consumer staples (soap, toiletries, misc) that's just quicker to pick up on the way home than to order and wait for. Unless you're really well organized, you tend to buy that stuff when you've run out and you won't want to wait a few days for shipping.
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We're going to be stuck at workstations for a while yet.

Tablets are great devices for consuming media, but they suck for typing and suck for creating. Laptops are a lot better for creating but I still haven't found anything that can match a good, solid desktop with multiple monitors and a clicky keyboard.
I tend to find the story believable. I just replace "Expedia" with "Apple" or "Google" and hotel with "app" or "adwords account."

The screenshots of email is a feature of tech industry rants - an industry which tends to take email as more self verifying than the general populace.
This seems like the central misunderstanding of Alexander's work.

His patterns are about involving the inhabitant with the work of architecture. This is why Alexander's work is humanistic and beautiful, while stuff like the GoF patterns book is utterly uninteresting for anyone who's not a programmer.
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www.roomkey.com is the hotel franchises attempt to get control back of online reservations.

Also, the best method is simply finding out the hotel's phone number via Google or TripAdvisor, and speaking with someone at the hotel. This way, you can guarantee yourself a certain room at a certain location in the hotel, away from traffic noise, on the 2nd floor, etc. I recommend TripAdvisor for reviews, they have an option where hotel managers can sign up and respond to guest complaints.
Ask HN: Do you remember what you read on HN? (And if so, why/how?)
I read HN on a regular basis, spending anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours reading the articles shared. But I quickly realise that I rarely really remember all of what I read. I typically mentally summarise an article and what I got from it at the end, but often times I can forget it the very next day thanks to the huge influx of new news. What do you typically do? Is this an example of how we can appear to be productive, but are actually just cyberloafing?
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> I do not have diabetes, but I would rather have an insulin pump that maintains glucose levels by itself than a meter that allows me to monitor them.

This does not align with the practical reality of diabetics or the biological reality of what pumps and sensors do. The situation is much better now with continuous sensors, which display a graph with a sample every 5 minutes with alarms for high, low, and changing too fast.

But you cannot take the human out of the decision process because the most important information needed to decide how much insulin to give is what (ie how much carbohydrate) you're eating, because the effect of insulin is delayed too much. Trying to make decisions from glucose measurements alone is completely inadequate. People are trying to do this anyways, by using dual pumps giving both insulin and glucagon (glucagon has the opposite effect as insulin). This hasn't left the research stages and I don't think it'll work very well.
Let me try again: if he had stomped on an anthill to vent his anger you wouldn't have heard about it.

The media decide who gets to be (in)famous and by behaving in a certain way you can get your 15 minutes. Behaving in this particular way pretty much guarantees that. The link between gore and media coverage is firmly established by now so even if in the first few cases you could have said 'that's circular reasoning' after several such cycles you can no longer tell cause from effect.

Hence copycat crimes and other stupidities.

All it took for dumb, angry children to be set on this path was the attention given to the Columbine shooters. Quite a few of these idiots - if not all of them - think those guys were heroes and perceive the media attention given to them (movies, incessant press coverage) as positive.

They want that for themselves to compensate for some perceived inferiority or other shortcoming and so they go the same route.

I think today it is safe to assume that a hunger for fame is at least a component in these shootings.
Yeah, that must be it, it's not like a doctor could possibly just say: "take aspirin with this."
Wait, you told me that reddit made this possible. :)
I agree, touch screen devices are great for consumers but even just writing this message on a nexus 7 is annoying. We will be stuck for a while with desktops and laptops, but I can imagine surface like tablets to be common for developers and writers at some point,since it can be used like a lightweight laptop.
Insanity is distributed fairly evenly across mankind. Access to weapons is not.
All three times Dragon has flown, it has ended up in the correct orbit. SpaceX also put RazakSAT in the proper orbit atop a Falcon 1. The Orbcomm failure was only due to the extremely tight restrictions placed on the mission by NASA (the mission called for relighting the second stage to raise the Orbcomm sattilite's orbit, but since they had used slightly more fuel than planned due to the engine outage, NASA didn't let them relight, it's quite likely the rocket was _technically_ capable of completing the mission).

Obviously they have a ways to go before they can be considered 'tried and true,' but comparing SpaceX to a couple college kids putting together the next Instagram-for-Cats in their basement is disingenuous, at best.
There's also Cloud Foundry (Which is essentially becoming the standard for PaaS opensource) http://www.cloudfoundry.org/

And then the 'pay' version created by Activestate and supports PHP and a pretty GUI http://www.activestate.com/stackato
How big was your team? How much were your IT costs?
There is also a tax issue. You don't pay the spirits tax on yor solvents.
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A monopoly can also be seen as, a pioneer making something useful, others being unable to replicate or challenge with their own.

take gimp for example, it is nowhere near the dominance of adobe. its like windows-macintosh of the computer graphics world.
He shot a few more people than just his mother. He could have done that at home. All of these shooters have chosen a target they had some relation to, either they went to the school or they had some other prior history with it.

Still, the decision to attack the school, it's students and not simply one individual is why we are hearing about these.
Given the owner's complaint, I find it odd that when I clicked the Room & Amenities link at the bottom of lunabluehotel.com, the link was dead, or at least, timing out repeatedly.
Well, I am very sorry to hear your stuff is down, but I'd think you'd have learned this lesson a while ago. From what I have heard about Heroku they set out to build an easy to use app platform (which they did). Something like that is hugely complex to deploy. My suggestion would be if you must have a PaaS, service, you start looking at open-source alternatives like Cloud Foundry or Openshift.
With these kinds of historical examples you sort of have to understand the people who think that mass shootings are orchestrated by the government to move public opinion on gun control.
This is a known problem and I see no reason not to believe every word Tony & Cheri writes.

Check out this (poorly tranlated) article from Norway:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
Use Expedia to find the names of the hotels in the area. Then pick up the phone.
People have been paying tribute to leaders of the tribe ever since civilization has existed. Part of the wheat your ancestors reaped fed the army. The army provided protection, but probably did some pretty terrible things, too.

Unlike your ancient ancestors, you are free to emigrate to a country that is more in line with your values.

I find suburban zoning laws to be morally reprehensible. They create isolating, ugly, and car-dependent wastelands. If you go really deep, you could even say members of our military have died defending this way of life. Even though I live in NYC, I'm sure that some of my tax dollars end up enforcing those laws. Would not paying my taxes change any of this? No. This is not an with taxes, it's an issue with the law.
Yeah, like, Melbourne!
I've worked professionally with Photoshop and After Effects and access to Adobe software is the only reason I still have a Windows computer. I don't even want to try getting it to work in Wine, and dual-booting just to be able to use them seems like a waste of time.

And until professionals use it in large numbers and are comfortable around it and potential employers want to see it on a resume, other solutions aren't going to matter.
is there a easy way? different from this so called hard way?

its as they say: "you either get it or you don't, there is no easy or hard"
1) Your site's burning, pitty most people won't see your article/images.

2) The claim to "unlimited everything" repeated numerously in the article as well as "instant" anything is just hyperbole. There's no such thing in software. It might've been cleverer than photoshop about things, but unlimited and instant? No.

3) The claim to complete resolution independence is false. You might store editing operations/layers as parameters, but the source material is still resolution bound.

4) 48-bits is not that great honestly. At RGB (no word about alpha) that's 16-bit per channel. If it's normalized that's 64k graduations vs. 256 graduations. If interpreted as half float you'll only get 2 bits more per channel (half-floats use a 10-bit significand). That's cool, but not all that cool, either you get a non HDR format with a cool channel resolution, or you'll get a HDR format with 4x more graduations than 8-bpc. No you know what's cool? 32-bit single precision floats. 4 bytes, 32-bits per channel, 128-bit per pixel. You'll get 23 bits in graduations and HDR. Desktop graphics cards use this format internally anyway.
The death of the desktop is greatly exaggerated. For creating content you need lots of screen space and precision input. Also you need the same for stalk... I mean chatting with 5 people simultaneously on various kinds of social media and im-s.

What tablets are providing is good enough personal computational power.

Do you really care if your monitors will be connected by wires or by wireless streaming from a device.

Same is for input. Mouse and keyboard are precise.

So the workstation of tomorrow - you will have your own computation unit that you will carry with you and dock and connect to whatever peripheral devices are required for your current needs...
You are implying that SpaceX is in the business of hello world rails applications and not into serious space exploring technologies.

This company in less than a decade has accomplished what other nation states haven't been able to accomplish in over 50 years of investment in space related research.

The ULA record of successfully putting dozens of satellites into the _correct_ orbit has been arrived at after sucking at the teat of _Government_ contracts for over 60 years. Many many failures preceded their current successful_ record. We are just not keeping tabs.

Maybe we should step back and let the little dogs have a chance at it.

The Europeans, the Chinese, the Indians etc. don't see the ULA as the competition for the future. They see SpaceX as the real competition in the global marketplace.
In my opinion it is a gross misreading of Alexander to see him as advocating hedonism. His work is not based upon what people like, but what makes their lives better moment by moment. It is an approach to functionalism which is not task based but instead based upon consideration of universal social and emotional needs of each individual.

His patterns seek toward satisfaction not pleasure. Pleasure is a byproduct, of respect for the individual"s humanity and the emotional state of satisfaction that results. Pleasure is not a result of response to taste or fashion.
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I still have whitespace problems occasionally, though I know they're my fault and come from my bad setup.

Basically, my windows install of Vim and my *nix install are not using the same whitespace settings, and I sometimes have to fix a bunch of lines if I wrote them first in windows.

It happens infrequently enough that I haven't bothered to figure out exactly what the problem is, but I've been coding python for years without drilling this one down.
Type safe pattern matching would be my reason, followed by separation of effects from pure functions, and allowance for creating real data structure types so we don't have to do things like "(define make-tree cons)" as in the last example of your page.

We can instead give tree a proper type, give operations over the type proper signatures which help to explain what the operations do, and get verification from the compiler at the same time that we aren't mixing things up.

It's hard to beat
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You get to see only a limited selection of the chain hotels that participate with RoomKey which doesn't replace the primary function of the OTAs which is to compare many different options at once (vs looking them up, checking each website, etc.)

No hotel will guarantee a specific room but with any booking engine you're able to put in specific requests in the comments area that the hotel will try and honor. To have the best chance of getting those rooms, you actually have to talk to the hotel around the time of room assignment (24-48 hours prior to arrival) so that they can actually do something about your request. Check out the floor plans and virtual views we've compiled at room77.com for ~3,000 hotels to get some specific room numbers to ask for.
This is only reasonable to a point. You're essentially doubling your costs because things don't exactly work the 'same' between zones. It's not like you're putting a bunch of servers in the same platform exactly and spreading them out around the planet.... so you can't have four web-servers instead of four and send traffic two all four (with two sets at another AZ) without considering and also having a separate DB setup in that AZ, etc.... so costs quickly mount (not to mention it's a much more complex platform suddenly).
Even apps like Pixelmator don't quite get enough in there to adequately replace Adobe's offerings.

In fact, I can only think of Dreamweaver as the prime example of something that has plenty of superior competition, attacking from a variety of angles.
How's that subsidy working out?
Haha, yep!
xmlrpc_encode_request on this site should probably be fixed to use xmlrpclib.dumps (or loads if you need the other direction). This has existed in Python since version 2.2.

I realize this is beside the point, but I'm willing to fix it myself.
The numbers in this article are quite out of date.
if you are relatively the nobody: Android (people try stuff only when it is free, though Iphone does have free aps, the notion around Iphone is the opposite, that all apps are paid ones. the reason being android is a free OS, IOS is not.
I think it's more likely for your grandson to wonder how you're using a keyboard and mouse without a vim-clutch[0]. I think the future developer rig is going to have alot of physical doo-dads and whiz-bangs to allow you to work faster, but you'll still be using ssh and vi.

[0]https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch
I'm wondering if this outage will have Netflix looking at alternatives either for only running on AWS, or moving from them. While AWS is a great piece of technology, stable it is not, and Amazon has as surely proven this as I can imagine.

Basically after nearly 15 hours of downtime I'd consider that beyond unacceptable. With physical hardware even on Christmas Day you could have replacements well before that and spun up... just saying.
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Funny how we're already discussing the possible death of the mouse when I still can't say I'm 100% comfortable using it besides the keyboard.

Businesses brought us the personal computer at the scale that we've become accustomed to. Hobbyists prepared the road, business paved it and now we're all driving on it.

As soon as businesses will switch to tablets en masse to do their daily work we will see a move away from the desktop as a mainstream device. Until then the future of the desktop is secure and economies of scale will still help us.

Another element here is the gamer scene and the fact that servers share 90% of their architecture and components with high-end desktops.

Wires will disappear more and more but that's just a detail.

I think desktops will be here for the foreseeable future, but laptops will be more and more under fire from the tablet market.
I'm not sure this is what people usually mean when they say "cutting out the middle man." Here the hotel and you are actually using the services of a middleman without then paying.