Imagine a florist who sells roses along with a air-tight cardboard box, and stipulates that the buyer sit inside this box every time he wants to smell this rose (so that others who haven't paid for the rose cannot not "steal" the smell).
That would be a good analogy for DRM (at least the way it is implemented today).
When I look for flights, I check bing, kayak, orbitz as well as hipmunk. Which one do I prefer? Simple: the one that gives me the best fare. Unfortunately it ends up being a different one each time.
Agreed. Hipmunk tries to be a good interface when there are a dozen similarly priced flights to choose from, but in my experience, there is one carrier with good prices and good connections for a given route, and then choosing which of their two flight options for a given day is easy enough with Kayak's tools.
But on mobile https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hipmunk.android "This app is incompatible with your Play HTC HTC Wildfire.". Well, all other work, I don't see a reason why a form to search results via an api shouldn't work on ANY device.
Agreed. Although I really like Farecaster on Bing. To me, statistical analysis of historical prices is a lot more important to visualize than travel times.
I like Kayak, too. Hipmunk is neat, but it's almost too slick. I essentially want to know the price, departure time, and arrival time. Everything beyond that doesn't really add much. What I'd love too see is something that simply allows me to see the cheapest flight between too points without having to put in the travel dates.
Without dates, do you mean you're flexible and you just want to see the best price in the next 60 days or something? Kayak explore might work (kayak.com/explore)
Incidentally Peter Norvig was the chief scientist there.
To connect to another recent HN thread: my negotiation with them broke down after they asked for my current salary and I was naive enough to tell them.
The positioning of the dropdown clearly has a lot of influence on the results. People are horrible random number generators! In this case, people are unlikely to choose the ends (1/9) or the center (5) leading to a bimodal distribution with two modes at 4 and 7.
Note however that different types of input systems were used. Refreshes show the following different types:
* A slider that need to be dragged to choose a value.
* A list of numbers shown with highlighting on hover.
* An input cursor that on hover changes to a list of numbers (within a curved border this time).
* A text field (enclosed in a circular border), allowing manual input.
I'm quite interested in how results varied depending upon input type (possibly more interesting than seeing how they vary by referrer).
I liked the tenant-rent analogy xlarge:large:small::house:room:couch.
tl;dr version: The author is insinuating that Reddit doesn't have enough money to rent a house, so its renting a couch, and so it can't complain if the other occupants have an all-night rave party.
That would be a good analogy for DRM (at least the way it is implemented today).