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by wbeckler 11y ago
I've read both and Influence is far more useful if you're trying to, well, influence someone. The art of influencing is complex and involves more than just a few behavioral economics insights. Influence is a total framework for un
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by wbeckler 11y ago
I felt the same way as you and I built a site that aggregates accommodations, including absolutely everything, not just companies paying commmissions. We have couchsurfing, Airbnb, all the main hotel sites, Groupon, Hotwire, and most other
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by wbeckler 11y ago
There are some formal methods and rules of thumb for avoiding trouble in this regard. Take a look at bayesian and entropy-based maximization strategies. Hyperparameter optimization can be looked at using either strategy. Also take a look at
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by wbeckler 11y ago
Not only is the high price considered a positive as per your link, but Veblen specifically used university culture to explain his concept of conspicuous consumption. So much of university professor culture has nothing to do with learning an
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by wbeckler 11y ago
Almost exactly but not as good. FlightFox doesn't make you link to the ceiling price, so you can pick a price you don't want to go over and then you don't pay if they can't help you. While Flystein makes you prove your p
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by wbeckler 11y ago
AllTheRooms ( http://AllTheRooms.com ) | New York, NY | ONSITE | FULLTIME We're geeks who love to travel. We've built the world's largest accommodations search engine, combining hotels with Airbnb, couchsurfing, and
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by wbeckler 11y ago
Could this be used within email messages? I know that some CSS is allowed in emails.
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by wbeckler 11y ago
I think jdimov9 was trying to make a little joke. But it's a great TLDR
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by wbeckler 11y ago
This pre-investment spike for startups reminds me somewhat of the pump and dump marketing tactics of a more mature company looking for a sale or an IPO. I've been in companies that have done this: go overboard trying to game some unsus
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by wbeckler 11y ago
The bestselling minivan only sells 110K units in a given year. That's not millions.
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by wbeckler 12y ago
Their hotels searching is still pretty rough. It's not very googly, in that it's mostly pay to play. You have to look hard to find nonpaid content. It also leaves out all the lower cost options like Airbnb. I built http:/&#x
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by wbeckler 12y ago
There's lots of travel sites popping up all the time, including accommodations sites. That's why I built http://AllTheRooms.com , which aggregates all the different accommodations sites and deals sites, like Expedia, Gr
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by wbeckler 12y ago
Does anyone know if there is a way of doing the same thing in node.js?
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That's 100 times better than anything else I've seen produced at a weekend hackathon. You guys are amazing!
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If you like McLuhan you'll love Castells, the world's top communications scholar today. His stuff is hugely relevant to the internet society. Start with Communication Power.
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Same problem existed in accommodations with the rise of Airbnb and Homeaway and Booking.com, so we created http://AllTheRooms.com , which has turned out great. Aggregators still make a lot of sense.
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We try to show the same price as the site we're linking you off to. The common practice of 99% of the sites out there is to include the taxes in the price for non-USA destinations, but for USA destinations the taxes are added later. Of
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Price is per night. I guess we need to message that better!
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I wanted a site that gave me the confidence I was looking at all the places to stay in a destination, including the actual prices from every site. Nobody was combining airbnb with hotels and Hotwire and all the other sites I checked. I ende
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by wbeckler 12y ago
I also wanted a map with both Airbnb and hotels, so I made one myself. It's now an aggregator that includes all the hotel sites and a bunch of airbnb's competitors too. The site is http://AllTheRooms.com .
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Free trip to NYC for aspiring travel entrepreneur(skift.com)
3 points by wbeckler 12y ago|0 comments
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by wbeckler 13y ago
Another great twist on the meetup is the http://houseofgenius.org format. One of the challenges to open discussion is the way in which people conform to roles and hierarchies. In House of Genius gatherings, there is a veil of an
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by wbeckler 13y ago
Maybe you can "force" people to contribute. If someone signs up to attend a many-to-many gathering then they are agreeing to be more than a passive observer. One way to facilitate this is to have "go arounds" in which ev
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by wbeckler 13y ago
Can't you scale realtime queries by just timestamping everything in the database so you know if something comes back in your query where timestamp > oldtime, then it's new?
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Also, if there are fields you'd want besides the usual ones we show on the results page, please let me know.
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Ask HN: Download as CSV on a travel site?
1 points by wbeckler 13y ago|1 comments
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You had me until "3000 visitors/week" Can't you get that more easily with $200 in Adwords each week?
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by wbeckler 13y ago
How did you arrange a roomshare at a hotel? friend or online service?
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by wbeckler 13y ago
Then I guess we used "extreme dogfooding" with our travel company. We colocated other roles with our offshore developers and we used our own site ( http://AllTheRooms.com ) to find accommodations for designers and produc
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by wbeckler 13y ago
It sounds like travelers to Vegas, the hotel capitol of the US, are savvy enough to check airbnb. And VRBO it seems as well. This is a big pain for searchers. Hipmunk shows each of these, but not very well as they only have a handful of the

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