skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be a grumpy old man, I think these type of searches were possible in 2009. http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2009/03/11/how-to-find-cheap...

Blame the US Department of Transportation for flexible date searches going away; DOT was requiring headline prices to include all taxes and fees included, but you need to know the full route details to calculate those; and flexible date search was based on fare rules. I hope these guys don't get caught up in that, because flexible searches are awesome.
I don't think any clients from Steam or other distributors need to run in order to install or play some game. And as the other commenter pointed out - you don't want suddenly to lose your whole collection if Steam terminates your account.
I made a watermarking plugin for jQuery/canvas mostly because someone asked if it was possible to do entirely in javascript (for a Business Catalyst client, so no backend was available) and after I explained why it was a terrible idea I went ahead and tried it anyway.

Most of my projects are like that... experiments and self-education which are probably useful just to myself.

https://github.com/kennethrapp/cmark
Yes, the search is very, very slow. Here from Japan it took at least one minute to get the results of a search. That's "fail" for a service like that. Too bad since the options for search are interesting, but it's way too slow for me to consider it usable.
Square COO Keith Rabois Departs Company
What I (not previous poster) am mostly against when it comes to Steam and it's DRM is that in any kind of conflict with Valve, they will ban access to your _complete_ steam library.

This means, if you ever have a PayPal-froze-my-account issue, you are guilty of Fraud, and thus they take back all your bought (Erm, rented?) games.

This is something I do not like and that always gnaws at me about the platform. Especially combined with their very poor customer support. ( Approaching Google-level of user hostility )
I think the biggest advantage an app like this has over something like ConvertBot (which is very nice), is that you can get any conversion in no more than 4 steps. Press the category, type in the number, and select the "from" and "to" from the dials. The screen stays the same, the buttons are big, and it auto evaluates. Easy to read, and use with one hand.
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So you think Amazon will drive everyone serious enough out of business and then be able to raise prices? Personally, I doubt it. They will not surrender that easily

I love Amazon by the way, and do a lot of my shopping there. But, IMO, its hard for investors at these levels to see a decent return.
Agreed, especially if you are using this app a lot, number of steps is more important than any aesthetic. More apps need to take this into account. I like it and look forward to seeing if you can find any other ways to simplify the conversion action.
>> "Avoid macros like death"

Macros are arguably one of the most standard and simplest parts of C. They are much more dependable than, say, gcc inline functions (in my experience). Just don't try to do bizarre things with them. Study how the best C programmers use them, and imitate.
I wish it could be var editor = now Behave({
But, how is an average person supposed to tell the difference between iTunes, Amazon, and a "download this song for free" site they found on Google, that just so happens to use BitTorrent for distributing those files?
Asus is increasingly my go to company as they make great routers (and other gear too) and are very open to the open source community.
Thanks for the feedback. I wrestled with the iconography for a while. I know the instance your talking about (old google maps mobile used it for 'I am here') and was wondering if anyone was still conditioned to that. I'm not sure who else uses a crosshair icon to good effect.

Daniel - Adioso Interface Designer
Well given (a) Valve's distaste for Microsoft's strategy and (b) their anyways insane profitability per employee I could see them at least releasing a title a few weeks earlier on linux and OSX than on Windows.
Appreciate the kind feedback ctruman, want a promo code so you can play with it?
Consider it a short vacation. Maybe bring a couple bucks to tip if you are getting some free service like bellhop or limo.
I hope it's more comprehensive than the filibuster "reform" they've just passed.
Then it's even more of a reason to avoid them, since they view DRM as positive, and not just something they tolerate because of some games producers.
Some good points. Our 'branded official news source' is already up and running on a subdomain using WP.

I was thinking of writing blog posts that go into more detail about the technology stack we're using, A/B tests, customer acquisition strategies etc. These types of blog posts don't seem like a good fit on the official blog.

Your comments about focusing on the community vs platform/technology is a nice practical insight. Cheers
Following up on my search: Sao Paulo, BR to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US early March 1 stop return 26 days later

I am going on about 10 minutes now with no results. So it isn't slow, it is unusable.

Also, it seems to make me choose either direct, 1 stop, or 2+ stops. Which seems odd. Why can't I leave that open-ended so I can look for best price?
What's the difference between these queries and the ones already available on ITA Matrix?
I wonder why Antigua picked that particular industry, actually? There is simply no god-given right to profit from organized gambling. Why don't they organize an alternative banking system instead? That should be much more profitable, and nobody would object to getting rid of the current politician-controlled banking industry, unless they engage in charging usurious interests or in similar abuse.
French Union Of Jewish Students Wins Twitter Anti-Semitism Suit
I've been running searches like this using http://matrix.itasoftware.com for years but I've built up my own lists of what constitutes "Eastern Europe" and "US West Coast". ITA provides software for the airline industry so has high-speed connections - anyone know what system they're using to get the flight data?

This could be a great tool that allows people to do powerful, meaningful searches that have been limited to more technical folk. The business model is there, the big question is whether the queries are allowed to run long enough to find the best results.
Singapore's $13.1 billion attempt at creating a tropical Silicon Valley
wow, that's awesome o.o I played NS1 a ton in high school, there's something so satisfying about swallowing a marine whole as an onos.
>You are talking about how currently HTML5 is implemented, but there is a long road of optimizations, HTML is a new technology and HTML5 is not yet here

What exactly makes a "long road of optimizations" incompatible with having one engine? As a matter of fact I don't expect any competing engine to disrupt of surpass Webkit in overall speed for the next 10 years (except maybe by some inconsequential amount in some neglected area).

>Do you remember anyone talking about hard javascript engine optimization until Google Chrome "attacked" with their implementation and anybody tried to catch up.

Yes. In fact SquirrelFish was the first new gen Javascript engine, started long before Google Chrome came out. Plus "two weeks after Chrome's launch, the WebKit team announced a new JavaScript engine, SquirrelFish Extreme, citing a 36% speed improvement over Chrome's V8 engine."
And, as of last month, in 6th place behind Huwei:

http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Falls+to+6th+Place+in+Chinas+...

But really it's the Apple apologists that keep saying nothing is wrong that are doing the most harm. If you care about Apple then you should be doing what you can to help put a boot up their backside.
No apology needed. Just keep doing cool stuff and I'll check back from time to time.
Sure, you can email the code to cleetruman [at] gmail
I think it is Google Maps that I'm thinking of, but Google Maps had damn near 100% mobile marketshare until this year.
Closures? It would most likely be a frustrating and unrewarding one, but sure.

One thing I would like in C is a more programmable preprocessor. C++ templates are on to something useful -- metaprogramming removes some of the drudgery from writing fast native code. Templates are fatally flawed, though. I think it may be possible to get some of the benefits from a smarter preprocessor -- if it was done conservatively in the C style.
Long before the name change reported in the article to Alex Stone, and long before the video resume, there was an earlier name change to Aleksey Vayner from Aleksey Garber.

Before the spike in notoriety from the video resume, there was a much smaller burst of unflattering notoriety for Aleksey in the May 2002 edition of Yale's Rumpus magazine [1] by one Jordan Bass titled “Craaazy Prefrosh Lies, Is Just Weird”.

It starts out like this:

“Maybe, once, you lied about your age, or your weight, or your location the night your unfaithful boyfriend was stabbed to death. Maybe you lied about your criminal record when applying for a job, or your sexual history when donating blood. Little things. Everybody does it, right? What's the harm? Maybe your slight deviations from the truth even give you a little thrill, a mild buzz gained from subverting the truth and risking discovery. You're a badass, right?

Aleksey Garber, who has been accepted to the Yale class of '06, is not impressed. When you're a guy who tells the truth about as often, and with the same reluctance, as the average person goes to the dentist, you've got no regard for those who dabble in tall tales.”

It ends like this:

“What can you say to that, really? This is the man’s life, as he tells it. Is any of it true? Well, what is truth? [...] In the end, all we can really say is that “Truth” is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements, and if you look at it that way, then it’s all true. We who have encountered him should feel privileged that Aleksey Garber has deigned to include us in the epic adventure that is his life. I know I certainly do.”

[1] http://www.yale.edu/rumpus/archives/pdf/rumpus_02may.pdf
http://www.osqa.net/
http://opencomparison.org/
etc.
have they [the US gov't] ever done this for any website?
Maybe you could market it as a tool for Boy Scouts to learn the knots required for each rank quickly.
> I read this as a hint/signal that Half-Life 3 may be available

I stopped reading here. Lies.
Thank you good sir. It is a constructor, I've fixed the sites
You should have the option to make backspace delete a full level of indentation, if soft tabs are on.
I didn't have a choice, according to CFAA I was probably breaking the law just viewing the page!
Have you thought about the WP install on your own domain, then seeking input/thoughts from people on the appropriate linkedIn group or g+ community?
Category representation in the brain
Being a big fan of SpaceX/Elon Musk and having the deepest respect to Buzz Aldrin, the video still reminds me of 'Tom Corbett, Space Cadet': http://archive.org/details/tomCorbettSpaceCadet-RunawayRocke...

All the best to LSA, though.
>> all they ever get from N. Korea is instability in the region and propositions for handouts

that and a perfect proxy for shady stuff, should they ever need it. proxies can be quite helpful in this age
As Graduates Rise in China, Office Jobs Fail to Keep Up
Sounds more like a hotel search than a flight search.
Pretty shocking. Although Square is well on its way, I think there is still a lot of good COO work to do. But I am definitely looking forward to what's up next for Keith (who clearly had a tremendous run at Square).
Cisco was always a poor fit for Linksys as they were scared of cannibalizing their own high-margin products. This market is getting hammered by TP-Link which provides consistently good quality products at low prices and many are DD-WRTable. Why buy a mid-range Linksys when you can get a very powerful Draytek et al with extra WAN ports and 3G backup for the same price?
Great landing page. Just add syntax highlighting and it'll be perfect.
Please make it more clear whether the results are round trip or not. The best way to do this is to put a big ROUND TRIP right next to the price, instead of making us guess. I understand the price is shown in a box that encompasses two flights, but I don't know if this is a design mistake, trickery, or an actual RT price. It's good to be more clear than you think you need to be, when it comes to stuff like showing prices to fickle comparison shoppers.

Nice stuff though! I look forward to using it when the load isn't so heavy as it seems to be right now. And please don't sell out to someone (cough, Yahoo!) who has a history of cutting the features that users love.
My view is that these days, DBMS vendor lockin just isn't a problem if you're using an open source database.

So you might as well take full advantage of the features that are available.
Are gravitons predicted by the Standard Model?
You have had a way to write unreadable C for more than 20 year ... its called C++.
I'm curious what people on HN believe the future holds for Bitcoins.

I expect the US government will step in in the not to far future and severely restrict the ability to legitimately exchange Bitcoins for dollars. I'm not passing any judgement on Bitcoins themselves, it just seems unlikely to me that people in places of power will be ok with an independent currency.
This just verifies my experience that Corey Haines is a fake.

His cult of personality is defined by lots of high-fives, 'that's awesome', 'i am such a positive person' statements.

So, he like to pretend he is really positive, nice, friendly... but this event shows that is all fake.
MySQL didn't become popular because it had multi-master.

It got multi-master after it was popular.
Fedora project may expel MySQL
So someone like you? Got it.
email gives me an error. Here it is 7NN4YRA9NPKX. If someone snatches it out from under you, shoot me an email (profile)
Facebook Is Done Giving Its Precious Social Graph To Competitors
Unfortunately your experience is pretty common. Australia is pretty much the same (if not even more difficult).
didn't Sequoia just lose a partner?
Hey, this looks handy! I just wrote something kinda similar as part of an ad-hoc UI layer that just had to be done in HTML/JS. At first I was horrified, but by a couple hundred lines in I realized how nice it would feel to finally tame those meager input boxes into full on forces of good. ;)
I believe Matrix uses ITA which was recently acquired by Google http://www.google.com/press/ita/comp.html
Maybe you'll like http://kueblc.github.com/LDT/examples/generic.html?
but if you fix undo, add bracket matching, etc it will become huge too.

Also wanted to ask why do you think that ace is a pain? I agree that it's big, but seems to work ok?
There are double taxation agreements in place with a very large number of countries so you never effectively have to pay double taxes, you generally have to pay the higher amount since you can deduct the tax already paid in the other country. Check what the regulations are for wherever you are.
A magnate is a person that can afford to buy a GREAT house with 3 bathrooms whereas a magnet attracts ferromagnetic elements (iron, nickel, cobalt, some rare earth metals).

Magnate is from the Latin magnas for 'great man'. Magnate goes all the way back to PIE and can be traced to the Sanskrit for "great".

Magnet shares the same origins as magnesium. They derive from (Med. Latin) magnetum. Origin is in the Greek for the native Magnetes (Thessalonian) people.

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My guess is most people prefer not to work with assholes. And its a pretty good guess.
technically, baudehlo is mostly correct. Most new phones: androids (HTC, Samsung, etc), iphones and whatever, are able to be used around the world as long as they're unlocked and have SIM card slots because these countries are at least using one or more of these frequencies: 850/900/1800/1900/2100, which most new phones are capable of.

The parts that he's wrong would be those few "dumb" phones that companies still sell that aren't able to use the other frequencies, but this is rare. Also, some countries don't use the same "LTE" or "4g" frequencies that the US uses, so if you were to bring your phone there, it would still work, but it be limited to "3g" instead of "4g" speeds, but this varies country to country and it also depends on the network and plan that you choose.
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And, again, the people they're really hurting are the users.
New Title: Unlocking Cellphones Becomes a Much More Lucrative Endeavor Saturday in the U.S.
Dwolla was shitty to Bitcoin users earlier on. That's why I still have a bad taste in my mouth when hearing about them. Fortunate for them, I still hate Paypal more.
From 2009 but a good read and I'm sure as valid as ever.
There are dozens (at least) of sources of music on the internet, with authentic sounding/looking web-fronts. I'm not really sure whether, prior to downloading music from that site, it's (A) reasonable to expect someone about to download music to do a full court-system search in all relevant jurisdictions to determine if a copyright suit has been filed against said web-fronts, and (B) even more complex, make a legal assessment of the validity of that lawsuit.

While I think the vast majority of us would agree that there is no practical liability for downloading music from iTunes/Amazon/mp3.com/etc... without doing a full legal assessment of that activity, I'm genuinely interested as to whether there is any De Jure legal liability (on the part of the downloader) associated with purchasing/downloading content in which the distributor had not fully obtained distribution rights.
I don't think you understood the GP's question. Obviously matrix.itasoftware.com has an affiliation with itasoftware.com. :)
Why would you go to his code retreat? Seriously? I am stumped.

As far as I can tell he is just some guy who has engineered a healthy social media profile / following, and goes around beating his drum. Basically an agile-coach charlatan.

I suspect it is very likely you already know just as much, if not more, about software development.
Agreed - it's a beautiful site, but way too slow. I get the following results on a search:

Adioso Wingtip 31035 ms, Expedia 82331 ms, Cheapoair 38141 ms

And the home page takes about 20-30 seconds to load.

I'd love to hear about Adioso's backend - anyone from the company here to discuss it? Do you have any caching?
nabbed it, awesome thanks! App works great. I admit the number of touches and simplicity of the UI makes this a nice standalone utility. Its a little hard to be specific with the UIPickerView, but thats not exactly anything easy to fix. It would be interesting to see if there was a better UI component for selecting the units.
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As long as you can exchange bitcoins for drugs delivered to your front door in first-class packages, it will be fairly trivial to exchange bitcoins for cash if you really need to. Legalization of all narcotics would hurt bitcoin far more than anything else the government could manage.

As far as I see it, it is not really a currency but rather a tool. A tool that remains operational so long as it has any "value" at all.
Great tool and I'm enamored with the layout- scrolling background, AP stays with you.

Not sure how to repeat it every time but weird artifact quirk if one scrolls to the bottom on iPad safari & scrolls back up: http://i.imgur.com/Hby2ZsL.jpg
Yeah I'm a co-founder, though not an engineer - they're all busy spinning up more servers :)

We'll be writing more posts about the core tech in coming weeks, but feel free to let us know what you'd most like to know about.
On a Galaxy S2, the popup is too big and its hard to find the close button.

When I found it and clicked on Gdansk, Kiev started loading but then hung.
There are a number of startups that do exactly that. However there are some complex trade-offs that need to be made under the hood, and businesses whose goal is to make things simple, naturally tend to shy away from educating their customers on those issues.
I'm not so sure that it is that obvious that the iPad mini was in response to competition. My personal theory is more that they recognised that there was an unfulfilled need for an iPad that was smaller / lighter than the original. For example, many people find an iPad too heavy for long periods of reading, but an iPhone is too small. As this is one of the biggest use cases for tablets, it is not surprising that Apple wanted to make a product that is optimised for that use case.

Another way to look at it - if competition was the motivation for the iPad mini, it would have cost $50 less.
I'm sorry but I fail to see your point and the need to write with that tone. Prostitutes have been around in civilizations for far longer than doctors and lawyers and yet they're still not getting paid as much. And the statement that software engineers "do nothing but programming" reeks of ignorance.
I've been doing some work with AWS/Heroku recently - just interested in if you're using a cloud service, VPS or physical servers, and what kind of tech powers the site.

I'm looking forward to reading more posts and using the service when it's a bit snappier!
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SCADA password-cracker targets Siemens gear
Just started it up (personally), but I blog about...shit, don't really know yet. Likely programming, personal life (dad, husband, etc), and the like. http://blog.gigantuan.net

My professional blog, mostly about Python and Django, is at http://brack3t.com
Yeah, agreeing with victorhn. Any frontend developer worth half their weight in chocolate can replicate an amazon page in a about 3 hours (making all the adjustments he has).

I'm all for creative new approaches to resumes (I did it myself to find in internship while in school), but this is lackluster at best.
eye of the beholder.
How this will impact US programming job market?
"If we sample a moment from music and analyze it in terms of its fundamental frequency and associated harmonics, and then apply that sample to, say, a circular latex membrane of known elasticity, known diameter and fixed edge, present mathematical techniques cannot predict what pattern will form on the membrane."

If you knew the resonate frequency of the membrane I wouldn't think this would be that hard to figure out using Fourier analysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_analysis
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> I've never been satisfied with any Belkin product I've owned.

I've got a Belkin N+ router and boy is it bad. Have to restart it every two days to get to the maximum download speeds. Wlan(s) just drop at some point during the day and have to restart the whole thing. Argh.

Googling just now it seems that you can push the dd-wrt firmware onto it though. But I hope this move to buy syslink will bring something more to the table.
What evidence do you have that a propensity to "slut-shame" isn't distributed evenly between people who are and aren't good at things?
After Hundreds of Millions of Dollars From MS, Nokia to Start Paying Redmond
Right. And you can also ratchet up the statistical power you want, at the cost of increased sample size requirements.
I've been using Google Flights (http://google.com/flights) lately, which lets you graph prices depending on departure date and length of stay. Click "flexible dates" in the date-picker. Extremely useful and fast.

Seems like adioso is trying to do something similar. Really well designed, but it seems like your servers are stressed with the load right now. I'm looking forward to trying it for my next trip :)