skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the hotel screws you around in any way it's now the OTA's problem

We're just in the process of trying to sort out a dispute with a hotel we booked via booking.com. It doesn't feel like it's booking.com's problem, but rather ours. We were essentially forced to pay for full 7 nights even though we stayed only one, after it wasn't possible to stay any longer with a non-functioning toilet. Not to mention false information published on booking.com.

> or make sure you have somewhere else to stay because you're now their customer

That's interesting. In our case booking.com has never offered any such help. We went by ourselves to try to find alternative accommodation. Not that it makes a huge difference, but it is our honeymoon so I'm sure yo'd agree there are many better ways to spend it...

So far you guys are trying to help, but I can't say that the problem is resolved or that it feels like you're treating it as your problem. To quote a part of the latest email from booking.com on this:

> ... the hotels themselves are responsible for all the information provided to you. Booking.com acts as an intermediary between the guest and the hotel and is therefore responsible for delivering the reservation correctly to the hotel. Once the hotel has confirmed the reservation it then becomes their responsibility to accommodate the guests.
Because I can. And because it's not enough for me to tell apologists for the entertainment industry that the internet is a blessing for artists, it's better if I just show them.
>>>I already have an account there

Good for you. I would have tried it if I could have logged in with Twitter or my WordPress account.
Cython wrapper for SVMLight support vector machine library
more technical again? good. but has he learnt to portray real people and emotions yet? i guess i will try it anyway...
Thinking with type gives you an in-depth view into what are the roots of modern typesetting. At first I was pretty amazed in finding out that Italy (which also happens to be the country where I am from) gave a strong contribution to type design during Renaissance. However my purpose of reading wasn't about history. It was about going less random when having to choose a font from a set for a presentation or a website. At least having in mind what are the basic rules to follow when mixing type and setting paragraphs. This is what the second and third part of the book deal with and I would say that the book helped me to get acquainted with that altought much of the experience comes with practice and further reading.

For what concerns the book about color the main reasons for reading it were that I wanted to know what color fit well together and even though I am at 75% of the book I would say that I am still not 100% satisfied with the book because it lacks a bit of exercises for the reader.
So far I particularly appreciate the highlights at the end of each chapter and the part of the book dedicated to light

Since Illustrator is a great playground for color and type I thought to give it a try. As it appears a bit complicated at first sight I decided to
If you already have some web design technical background this book flows very fast and I would recommend it together with vector tuts for getting your hands on illustrator in a fast way.

I have been eating a lot of information since I got online.
I have 1000+ RSS feeds, 1000+ facebook pages and 500+ followed people on twitter, 1000+ subscription to newsletter which crowd my inbox.
But what is really important to me?
The Information Diet gives a framework for healthy information consumption by comparing information consumption to food consumption. The gist is that you should consume more information from the source and less from re-posting content factories which chase the synonyms just to get better SEO ranking.
What I particularly didn't like about the book is that the author has been writing too much about American politics as an example. As a non-american I would have preferred more international topics. But I must admit that politics is a good example to get concept like self reinforcement of your own truth across.

In Gamification by Design I got some best practices for design patterns that make websites more stimulating for the user to participate.
The best concept I got were: walk the user throught all the steps from beginner to master, useful stuff to do this are leaderboards and badges.
The book however is a bit of advertisement for ruby on rails and badgeville.

Last but not least Enterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business has a lot of concepts which are probably already known to a web designer but not to a manager in a manufacturing enterprise but is still a good way to get started with gamification for people who don't have an extensive experience with online tools.

Hope you will find my comments useful. I'm now thinking of editing the post....
Umm, is there supposed to be a link here?
"Here at Lockheed, we know just how much is involved in making a successful launch like this and we'd like to congratulate SpaceX. Well done, and we welcome your competition. Ultimately, new competitors push us and advance the market as a whole. Over the course of our 66 consecutive successful missions, we've blah blah blah..."
You are amazingly pedantic!
here you are :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4966546
Oops. My comment was written before the post was submitted. Please disregard.
What plans do VMWare have (or already enacted) to profit from CloudFoundry? Any implications for the project?

Looks like Red Hat have followed their Linux model where OpenShift Origins is like Fedora, and OpenShift Enterprise is like RHEL. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27/redhat_openshift_ent...
Raspberry Pi seems ideal for people who want to build Linux from scratch, including tinkering and compiling kernels - the known set of hardware and number of people running it helps. With a bit of luck this might help filter people into low level development. (Until they get yelled at for making a mistake or having a different opinion or having a child.)

Some of the projects look amazing, and could potentially get picked up commercially:

(http://hackaday.com/2012/11/01/one-button-audiobook-player-m...)

Audible should look into a vision-impaired friendly hardware player for audio books.
You are making most of that up. There are more than 1 way to look at something, and you seem to be focusing at the smaller part.

There are also "white people" that have ended slavery (something done by every race since the beginning of time), fought for other races giving them full rights, helped integrate those races into their society, made programs that removed barriers to schools and jobs while discriminating against their own kind, and funded integration to the tune of 100s of billions dollars a year (and now a trillion dollars / year).

…Something that no other race has done in the history of the world.

> whites fled to the suburbs to avoid having to integrate

No, that's only part of it, the human part (that likes unity of race, culture and behavior). They also fled because they were scared that crime and violence would follow.

Your blame of the dysfunctions of the black community is seriously misplaced. White people are not responsible for the care of black people anymore than I'm responsible for you having a life. Until you figure this out and stop the blame game, that dysfunction will likely continue.
Ton is a meassure of weight not counts.

Nope. It is both. From dictionary.com "ton" entry:

"7. Informal a. A large extent, amount, or number. Often used in the plural: has a ton of work; gets tons of fan mail."

Also, please provide a reference.

Since you asked politely, here's one. Manhattan, which I don't consider an "inner city slum" had 88 homicides in 2005, 102 in 2006, 68 in 2007, 62 in 2008, etc.

That's comparable to Ireland, Switcherland, Denmark, Austria, countries of 3 to 6 times the population of Manhattan (1.6), and 3 to 4 times the percentage of murders in Germany (adjusted for the 80 million population).

http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map
If their budget gets cut, then they will be concerned.
"Grouped: How small groups of friends are the key to influence on the social web (Voices That Matter)" by Paul Adams.

I think this is an amazing book for entrepreneurs.
I'm not familiar with how hotels inform 3rd party websites about room reservations. Could it just be that smaller independent hotels simply don't have the technical chops to correctly set up or manage such notifications?
Nassim Taleb's "Antifragile", Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov", Robert Greene's "48 Laws of Power" were some of the good books I read this year.
I'm still wondering how someone like ph0rque or myself could invest in some of these companies. Deciding which one to invest in is part of the process, but what next?
"HTML is fast to develop relative to native apps"

I know how to write HTML as well as Android XML or Dalvik (Java) code. I do not see where pounding out HTML code is faster than say pounding out Android XML code.

The only thing fast about it is theoretically you can use it on both Android and iOS. Most companies go native. Facebook tried doing this before running into massive problems and going native.

I also do not see what the frequency of app usage has to do with anything. I might have two app ideas - one used once a month by 60 million people, another used daily by 2 million people. If they are ad based, they will both probably bring in the same amount of money. Why should I go native on the 2 million app but not the 60 million app?
Where can I get E0? Ethanol in gas means I am burning food and tax dollars.
I will try to learn:

1. A programming language.

2. A natural language.

3. Work/Life balance.

4. To enjoy my life.
Eric Ries: The lean startup

Steve Blank, Bob Dorf: The startup owner's manual
Or the Retina display, or the 'more powerful GPU'...
There's not much room for improvement. It's a little over 5000 miles from CA to the Netherlands, so light takes about 30ms to travel that far on a vacuum. That means a 60ms round trip minimum. Light in fiber goes at 0.6-0.7c, so the fastest round-trip you could have with a straight fiber line is 80ish milliseconds.
"The Century of the Surgeon" by Jurgen Thorwald http://www.amazon.com/The-century-surgeon-Jurgen-Thorwald/dp...

"Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-Joe-Bentley/dp/8177...
All my 2012 reads http://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/336049

The best? Probably Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, but I can't say all the other books (most non-fiction) weren't great
All those things you have listed (types of jobs to do, types of jobs to avoid, sourcing parts, not ordering the wrong parts, making money after paying mechanics really well) were all big challenges. It took us a while to figure those things out and now its our competitive advantage. There are still occasional problems, but we are getting better at it every day. Our model assumes that 2% of the customers will have unreasonable demands / ask for refunds etc. Happy to chat anytime art @ yourmechanic.
It sounds like you dealt with a rotten hotel, sorry for your experience. Unfortunately, the OTA is only as accurate as the hotelier filling in information about their property.
As a developer with diabetes, rather than battle with the terrible software that comes with each meter (or at least, each one I've tried in the last 10 years), it's simply easier for me to enter the result into an app[1] on my phone. Yes, I'd rather not have an extra step, but it's so quick (a few seconds) and I always have my phone with me, that it isn't really that much of an inconvenience.

This way way, the process stays the same independent of what meter I use, the data is easily exportable and I don't need to use Accu-Check 360°, which is dire.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wonggordon...
Short of quantum entanglement... not much.
Free as in beer or in freedom (under a free license)?
Everyone loves Apple hardware. The iPhone hardware has always been the best, but I think the latest Nokia and even HTC phones for WP8 finally provide some great alternatives. I've never been very impressed with the hardware for Android from an aesthetical standpoint.
First of all, kudos to you for thinking about contributing to bigger projects, and open source ones at that!

Projects with large codebases always take some time to figure out. Therefore, it's wise to start with a bug that a more experienced programmer has labeled "bitesize". Other commenters here mentioned Josh Matthews' super-cool "Bugs Ahoy" tool for Mozilla -- http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/. I'll chime in that I'm a maintainer of a similar thing that covers even more projects: https://openhatch.org/search/

If you want a general roadmap of how this works, we (OpenHatch) have also written up a step-by-step guide here: http://labs.openhatch.org/foss-contrib-guide/ . Work through it as a checklist, clicking the box next to each step as you do them. We've found that works really well with people.

The two big things in my opinion, as you start out, are:

* Find a project that you care about. Otherwise, you'll lose momentum. It's cool that you want to work on Mozilla-y projects! My only warning is that the long build time means you are going to have to plan to wait a while (about 1 hour) between downloading the code and actually running your local build.

* Find a task that is doable, so you can actually get it fixed, and you actually enjoy it!

Some things to watch out for:

* The build process could be super slow, for big projects like Firefox.

* Eventually you're going to have to get used to navigating enormous projects. This might sound daunting, but actually I think you'll find it fun after a bit.

* Make sure you have a place where you can reach out and get help. You'll probably be running into all sorts of new things -- version control tools, patch submission guidelines, an enormous codebase -- and you're more likely going to have a good time if you can get your questions answered.

For that last one, feel mega free to join #openhatch via IRC on freenode.net (more info on that here if you don't know IRC -- https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/JHU/L... ). OpenHatch is a community of people welcoming to newcomers in open source generally, and we can usually help you straighten out whatever problems you're running into.

There's also #newbies on irc.mozilla.org; I'd recommend joining there, too.

If you want a quick tour of what it's like to submit a patch, you can work through the OpenHatch training missions at https://openhatch.org/missions/.

You asked for a "flexible time framework" -- the good news, it's all on your own timeline. You can show up whenever you want. If you can explain more about what you wanted with that question, I'd be happy to explain.

Good luck! Welcome aboard!
I like your book. Have read about a 100 times. Its good. But its not perfectly marketed. The title does not fit the book. You are not teaching Ruby on Rails per se, but web development and deployment with Ruby on Rails. There is a difference between the two. Imagine a beginner, who has no experience with actual web development, but wants to try out RoR to find out what the big fuss is. He/she finds your book, and starts reading it. Only to find out that he/she has to learn about n different things before learning how to include a field in a model. Its frustrating. I know because I went through it. Even though I knew git/heroku deployment beforehand, skipping over those subjects proved difficult.

Though you do make a good point in your first sentence. It does depend on the goals and the audience. But I think your audience is a bit too widespread. People who have some programming experience are too wide of a net. I think if it were sold as a book for people who havea bit of web development experience then your conversion rate would be higher (from free reader to paying customer).

Now, I'm not knocking on your accomplishments. My approach is merely from the business perspective of marketing you book and videos. Have you tested other approaches? If so, may you shed some light? I used to market/sell books on the web, and find it fascinating. If you wish to continue this conversation through email mine is in my profile.
Not sure why, but Chrome/Safari are misinterpreting this gzip as a file, thus forcing a download (and there's no Content-Disposition header that I can see). Anyone else experiencing this?
The photoshop competition was all on IRIX, and was a LOT better. Matador and Amazon were great applications, and better performers on 64bit MIPS hardware. Some got ported to Linux, but were then not maintained, or integrated into other codebases.

Old / dead image editors (with deep colour) better than Photoshop at the time:

* IFX Amazon

* Alias Eclipse

* Da Vinci or something? Not the Colour/DI suite.

* Deep Paint

* Avid Matador

* I actually used Combustion for years. You can keep your photo-pap!

Alive alternatives:

* Cinepaint (Yes it works fine)

* GIMP 2.9 or GIMP 2.10 when it is released

* Node based compositing apps i.e. Nuke.
I believe the phenomenon you are referring to is emergence[1][2].

Most of the research in this area I have come across is related to education and epistemology. I would recommend reading works of Seymour Papert and Jean Piaget.

I think the mathematical theory you are looking for to explain "what understanding is", is actually the philosophical motivation for the field of mathematics itself. At least it is why I am really interested in studying it these days.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

[2] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/
Good to keep in mind is that even though we now have some kinds of workarounds for situations that cause this problem, Dropbox is still doing something seriously harmful and potentially misleading.
I like Dropbox, and I hope they rectify this situation natively, because the problems with having this kind of behavior in the app aren't entirely functional, but also ethical.
Still you're using it, because there is no alternative.

Since it's the best software for what it does, your idea that "Adobe must die" is based solely on a fantasy notion that whatever replaces it wont have bugs, and will be all unicorns and love.

Not to mention that the bugs you mention are mostly specific to your workflow (specific automated jobs et al), and don't mean that the most used software in the industry is problematic in general. I've never been biten by any bugs in other parts of 5.5 I use, like PS and Premiere, for example.

I also don't see why you were quick to jump to 5.5 since you "set up a workflow for InDesign CS5.0 and everything worked.".
Yea, it's a shame that a comment from someone who has barely used WP is at the top of this thread, as opposed to the people who have actually used it and iOS or Android heavily.
> The history of desktop applications is full of examples of clever or unique applications that never took off or failed to gain widespread adoption. Sometimes these applications had a superior interface to the dominant app (and sometimes not).

The scary thing is that some of these great features can never be used without fear of a huge legal attack over patents.

EDIT:

>Does the lack of serious competition against Photoshop keep Adobe from re-thinking the interface?

I don't think so. I think the enormous user base prevents them from changing the interface. That's probably a good thing, even if the interface is sub-optimal.

AutoCAD has a very powerful interface, with a mix of WIMP and typed commands, with some scripting.

In theory GIMP being open source means anyone can give it a new interface, but even though the interface is one of the biggest reasons many people give for not liking the GIMP there are few projects that have given it a saner interface.
"Mastery" by Robert Greene. "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin. "The Icarus Deception" by Seth Godin.
I should have said "US Persons" not "US Citizen" above.

I'm not sure about SpaceX specifically, but if you were a Green Card holder. e.g O-1 Exceptional Ability, then you'd be considered a US Person for ITAR compliance.

From http://www.spacex.com/careers.php
"To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State."

It doesn't sound like SpaceX require a Secret/Top Secret clearance for most of their employees. Some other space companies (Orbital Science Corp, ULA/Boeing/Lockheed Martin) do because they work on missile systems like ICBMs in related programs.

From what I understood, most engineers who make the grade to work at SpaceX, would be O-1 visa eligible as well. The O-1 is not tied to continued employment at a particular company.
I can confirm I am. Not sure how to fix either.
Satantango, by László Krasznahorkai.
Retina display was something that had never been done. Totally worth talking about.

My original point was anecdotal, so continuing on that, I've only heard game developers discuss the GPU.

Most reviews of the latest windows tablet discussed the hardware. This processor and that amount of ram... I couldn't care much less.
Opera Mobile too.
As someone currently pursuing a CS masters degree, I've decided I'm a little burnt out on theory and implementation, so I'm getting back into my other love: history. With 6 or 7 new books about ancient history, hopefully I can get my brain to stop obsessing over the asymptotic running time of my roomba, and how best to get c0 coverage with cat toys as a variable.
Strange, to be on the safe side GZIP has been disabled.

Could be some Nginx config somewhere, had to install quite a lot of caching quick when this got on the front page :)

Can you have another check?
You are absolutely right. In my comment I singled out programs that I agree with.

I did not want to make this too political, but of course I object to the parts that I perceive as waste such as:
Financing two useless and expensive wars, bailing out banks that should have been allowed to fail, the "war" on drugs and other questionable law enforcement initiatives, much of the NSA and CIA spending, etc, etc.
I write image processing software, I'm precise, there's a difference.
> This blogger, eishton, investigates suicides in general and in the IDF in particular. He claims that suicides are more common in the military than among civilians.

This seems unsurprising. Aren't there more suicides in general in high-stress places?
So rather than dealing with one entity, the hotel which you have to deal with, and is represented by someone standing in front of you, you have to deal with two, one who is not,
1. Enough Spanish to be useful for travel

2. Salsa dance

3. Bayesian Statistics

4. Julia (julialang.org)
I feel I'm running the risk of repeating the standard HN response for this type of question, but here are my goals for this year:

* Greatly improve my functional programming

* Learn Japanese
Short of tunneling through the earth or quantum entanglement, nothing much.
As somebody on the verge of shipping software for the very first time and trying to make some money off it, I'm hoping I learn a lot about running a business and dealing with customers.
That's interesting. I think I need to go to a computer shop and play with it for myself. I'm not too fond of the way Apple are going at the moment, so if there's an alternative for when my imac dies I'm going to consider it seriously.
Looks to be a problem with W3Cache
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Fuck it, I can't even be arsed. There's so much bullshit and so many wankers that come out of the woodwork when this sort of topic gets raised. I've flagged the whole story. HN is better without this sort of shit.