I have recently researched this field out of a personal need and there is a few companies that do fast, inexpensive and insured luggage transport. They even do it door to door, picking up at your home and delivering at your hotel (before you arrive if you send the bags early). They might just need to do more advertising.

In the end I did not try any of them but was pleasantly surprised that there are people working on fixing this.

I have been considering giving LuggageForward[1] a try. They seem to handle the customs aspect in a way that works the same as if you carried the bag with you. Their rates are quite attractive as well.

[1] http://www.luggageforward.com/

Disclaimer: no affiliation at all with them. In the end I never tried them because I now travel with carry-on only.

There's Hacker Retreat[1] in Berlin, which is inspired by Hacker School.

[1] http://hackerretreat.com/

edit: previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6450472

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Oppo goes as far as supporting development of CyanogenMod and ParanoidAndroid ports for their devices and are releasing a device in partnership with CyanogenMod.

I really like the design and I am trying it with a couple of tests, but it seems to be reporting the opposite of reality. Shows one of my sites as down though it says Keyword Found and it shows the response time, while another one which is really down is shown as up:

http://cl.ly/image/1Y1U3b0z2U0U

http://cl.ly/image/3c0e38312a2W

edit: If it is of any use for debugging, these sites' IDs are: 775909552 (up) and 775909549 (down).

6 hour update. Now both sites are up but they are both listed as down and with "Keyword Found".

http://cl.ly/image/2L1V1A2K180f

Liking the service a lot by the way! That's why I am reporting what I find.

Seeing the same here. Maybe the CNAME is tripping it up.

Neither domain has a CNAME set up.

In my experience all HTTP requests made from Google Docs functions and scripts are cached for at least a few minutes. There are workarounds to that but I would guess they do throttling at an IP and domain level as well (being that they know a thing or two about crawling the web).

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SEEKING WORK remote preferred, unless you want to fly me to your office.

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Here it is presented as a question used by Referly. But for historical accuracy; weren't early Google interviews famous for using this question years ago?

I heard about this questions while working at Microsoft in 1998, before Google existed. I am sure someone was asking it even before Microsoft existed.

Per the discussion I linked, Google used it; it was also used before that by Microsoft and Novell.