skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh, that argument is getting soo tired... even though I agree with it on some level.

you see, capitalism is based on confidence. lose confidence and you lose everything. buying time helps to restore confidence. does it make system more stable? no. but it helps to prolong system's life. it's like Ponzi scheme - we need to keep it running, because when it stops...

or do you have a better idea?
It's not just a false display, either; it's a real follow: I tried it against my main account using a secondary account, posted a tweet, and then checked Twitterrific on my main account. The new tweet was right there at the top.
The file model is only intuitive to you because you've been using it for so long that it has become a part of your existence.

Do some user testing with casual computer users (not even pure novices), and watch as you ask them to complete a two step task with a file (like, say, resize and then email). They can usually figure it out, but it takes them a long time and they become frustrated. It's not a natural experience to them.

You know when you first start programming, and you hack together snippets of code to make your first program work? That's kind of what using a computer is like to the majority of people.
Who Can Help You with Your Paper Editing
Do you come with brilliant paper ideas, but then find quite difficult to express yourself in your writings? Do you experience difficulties with grammar and spelling, even with the aid of automatic spelling check? Do you feel that your essay is ok, but far from achieving a really good mark?
The internet hasn't become any more serious recently. People are still using it for non-serious things (lolcats, 4chan, Reddit, etc) so a non-serious search engine can still attract people, I think.
Ask HN: Review my startup - XZ Backup
XZ Backup is a White Label, or Private Label, Online Backup Solutions stack for Managed Service Providers, Systems Integrators, Value Added Resellers, and Internet Service Providers.

Using an Infrastructure-as-a-Service model, partners benefit from a completely transparent turnkey platform that seamlessly integrates billing, support ticket, and account management consoles; with the added advantage of Branding the software with their company name and logos.

Software features include NSA-level encryption, archival management, incremental in-file delta, continuous data protection, as well as support for all major databases and operating systems environments.

No Contracts, No Branding Fees.

http://www.xzbackup.com
I think ddg is a great initiative and like how you are going about it. I have been following ddg quite a bit and also on the reddit ads/postings. With a slightly long term view and clear focus I think it has a decent chance to compete with the big guys.

Having said that, there are two things I noticed which I don't completely agree with.

1. The interface - the fonts, layout on the first page somehow is very unreadable. I am not sure what the motivation behind this is, but imho even a copy of hte exact google serp fonts/layout should have been good enough. The only way ddg will stand out from Google is the quality of data on your serp. There is very little incremental innovation possible from the layout that Google already has for listing a list of links and text, and it also doesnt seem to be your focus anyways.

2. I think the auto extension of search results is a bad interface choice. A pagination interface provides a clear anchoring and also for most people the first 10 results are more than enough - anything more and the information becomes too overwhelming. Again I dont think this provides any more value from the Google interface and is bad from a cognitive overload viewpoint.

Just my two cents. Best of luck on ddg.
Yes, this does work. Now what's the opposite verb to make someone unfollow me?
"...with microsoft I've never lost the feeling that they still don't get that they were in the wrong and are still just trying to dance their way around the real problems without admitting that they were wrong and bettering their ways."

Care to elaborate? I still do not understand some of the over generalized MS bashing, especially when it comes to software development. From my experience, they have had some of the best tools and support over the years. Perfect? No way. Bloated libraries? Hell yeah, but only use parts that you need. Able to get the job done? Yes.

[I primarily used their tools when I worked for a couple of videogame studios and at university - currently using both open source and MS tools and languages]
I don't think many NYC founders are looking for a technical co-founder. So if not a co-founder, then a highly rewarded developer, right? Nope, I don't think many of them are looking to part of with significant amounts of equity in their ideas unless you are an investor giving them money. Basically I think a large number of NYC founders are mostly idea-men that undervalue the role of strong technical employees, much less co-founders. It's probably culturally endemic to business in NYC and I think there is a gulf between to the two camps because of it.

The OP goes on to look to academia for a solution... in reality I think the business side should be looking at themselves for a solution, and that would involve giving up the goods.
"IMO, Python is farther away from the Lisp genotype than Java. At least Java has post-1980's scoping rules."

1) Why do I need post-1980's scoping rules? I don't seem to recall any huge advances in variable scoping being made since then.

2) Comparing Python and Java's scoping is like comparing apples and oranges. Python is a dynamically typed language where everything is built at run time while Java is a statically typed language where everything is built at compile time.

I can't help but think of these kinds of blog posters of being a kind of anti-Guido van Rossum: smart, knows a lot about their domain (but with functional programming instead of object-oriented programming), but makes absolutely stupid assertions about other schools of thought they know nothing about (but with object-oriented programming instead of functional programming). Do we really need to destroy other peoples' way of doing things to feel good about our way of doing things?
Alex Proj Chap 17: May the Force be with You
It works through the mobile web too
confirmed it works
Neat, but I can't think of a single case in which I'd actually use it. In almost all cases the icons are displayed with text under them that show the name of the app.
Also, except for popularity, Python didn't go anywhere as a language.

What sort of strange definition of progress is the author using for languages?
Link: http://www.xzbackup.com
An oldie but a goodie none the less. This kind of reminds me of Jason Fried's quote "inspiration is perishable"... which I interpret to mean: act now. Also, I'm also reminded of that Youtube video of the lady with cancer... "don't waste f*cking time..." she says. Very inspirational. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gePQuE-7s8c
I haven't looked at them, yet, but there is also a part 1 and a part 3. Part 3 has a scary title ;-).

The art of metaprogramming, Part 1: Introduction to metaprogramming

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-metaprog1....

The art of metaprogramming, Part 3: Enterprise metaprogramming

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-metaprog3/
Wow, Time has sunk to making a new window appear offering to tell me my credit score.
No news here.

1. More networks, more devices. It's like saying that Windows sells more than Macbook Pros.
2. Everyone and their mothers knows that in a month Apple will introduce a new one
3. Soon the big majority of cell phones will be what we usually call smartphones. It would be fool to think that one single device will maintain dominate the marketshare. The point is that if you look at the single device, no-one is even closed to Apple's number.
Google Android Outsells Apple iPhone In The U.S.
I've found similar results to those stated in the article. In my case I found that the Tomcat Http11NIO connector was actually slower than the default Http11 connector. In benchmarking my server I found the default Http11 had about 20% higher throughput than Http11NIO. From what I understand (and I may be wrong since I didn't delve to deep), but it is because there is a high cost when using methods accessed through the Java Native Interface (JNI)
As a side note, I really enjoyed attending the SD West conferences in the past. Alas, it has morphed into something focused on Cloud Computing and lost it's platform independent focus.
I don't think files are the problem. It's the folder hierarchy that's the problem.

The thing iPhoneOS is most intent on eliminating are deep trees of files. It does this by training the user to think of their files/content as being managed by an individual app that's responsible for manipulating it. This creates a single top-level "folder" for the user to use as a mental key to remember how to get at something.

Contrast that much shorter path to content to the standard desktop model of having a folder in your home folder, perhaps, to store documents. The ability to make sub-folders, sub-sub-folders, etc. and have all the contents of those folders utterly disconnected from the applications you use to manipulate and create that content. It makes sense to those of us who grew up/invented it, but for people just looking to use a computer as a tool in their non-computer-driven life suffer under the cognitive load of the foreign metaphors.

In my experience, people "get" that individual files represent their content. They do not "get" folder hierarchies, though, and find themselves easily lost within them. I think many non-experts consider an app as a destination and not as a program to run. It makes more sense to them to think of "going" to the app and then finding their content there than it does to "run" an app and then later point it to their content.
i thought tumblr removed the post, but it seems like it is working now.
just because it will doesnt mean it should, hence it being news.
What about "reject"? Can you get people to UNFOLLOW you as well?
Any() versus Count()
the goodies site is perfect thanks.
it would be helpful if it would be top3 if you search for "DuckDuckGo safari"
There were a lot of iPod Touch devices (and now iPads) sold too though, so the mobile application market is still heavily dominated by Apple devices. Good to see competition in the smartphone space though.
Massive oil spill on the social graph. Cleaning would be just as fun.
http://lmddgtfy.com/?q=Who+is+Tara+Ploughman&v=
Good lord, how would twitter recover from that? Possibly by undoing follow's between the moment this bug has surfaced and the moment they suspend following. Meanwhile they'll loose a huge number of legitimate follow request. Terrible stuff.
You should not be anxious about chart, maybe try Paxil, Xanax. lol

No, seriously, what's wrong with Gantt chart?
If you tweet “accept [Twitter Username]”, the other user will automaticly follow you.

eg. "accept snoopdog"
You can argue all you want that the laws are not just. I agree fully. But that isn't the issue here. The issue is whether it's reasonable to expect the Foundation to expose themselves to (possibly unjust) prosecution by displaying images that they believe may be illegal or immoral. If they were facing criminal charges at this moment, I would be the first to say that they have done nothing wrong, but you cannot fault them for not wanting to risk the future of Wikipedia by fighting a legal battle (using donations provided by people who thought they were just helping support an encyclopedia) against laws that you and I think are unjust.

If you feel strongly to the contrary, I submit to you the following challenge. I will tell you how to obtain the image in question, provided you agree to display the image publicly on web space you own and control, in perpetuity until its removal is requested by either your hosting provider or legal authorities, with text below that states:

- Your full, legal name and basic contact information (e-mail address is fine)

- That the image was presented to you by sources unknown with the assertion that it depicts a 13-year-old girl

- That you believe the photograph was taken for the purposes of legitimate scientific study, but you admit there is at least some possibility that it was taken with the intent of pornographic distribution

- Any other information or disclaimers you think are relevant

Let me know if this works for you. If so, you're more principled than I am.
Consistent Hashing in Ruby
Android is definitely picking up pace. I just hope Apple releases an iPhone for Verizon. I think that will give the iPhone a boost. Apple should also release an iPhone Nano, a smaller version of the iPhone. Maybe also have colors.
Latest Steve Jobs email: Printing will come to the iPad
Bad plan to try this out with an account you value - if they can identify who has used the exploit they will probably ban you when the dust settles.
I'd say get something that you can easily say, spell, and use as a verb.

bloip gibbit erdle jopple etc etc But rebranding does seem a big job to me.

It's amazingly motivating when you start seeing your startups name appearing as a verb on twitter searches :)
Finally...something for those of us who still like to wireframe by hand. There are some nice apps for this for the iPad now, but during a brainstorm I still find it faster to express ideas on paper.
I think Android outselling the iPhone (and eventually overtaking it in raw numbers) will soon become pretty obvious. Android is a pretty mass-market product - its flexibility means that manufacturers can put a wide array of products and users can make those products their own.

I really don't think a single product (especially a tightly-defined one like the iPhone) can meet even a majority of people's needs.
Someone should make one of those blind experiments where you pull in the search results from yahoo, bing, google and DDG, so people can do a blind test to see which search engine is better
> The point is that if you look at the single device, no-one is even closed to Apple's number.

Really? Is that what matters? It seems to me the more significant thing would be the OS and not any one device, especially for HN-types that write apps and build sites for OSes/browsers and not a piece of hardware.
It looks like this guy is the one who discovered it:

http://twitter.com/borakrc
Already happened. People seemed to have preferred the bing search results, and the Google-looking page. Perhaps somebody can even find the reference for this?
the user who found this says he was trying to tweet "accept pwnz" where accept is a music group name.
Does that matter to us? When I'm deciding what to support as a developer I care only about the size of the platform.
Based on GNU Emacs 23.2 if anyone is curious.
duckify! (?)
LOL... sorry but when you say it that way it's actually pretty funny.
They could be making the very best tools in the world, for all I know they are. But the toolmaker in question has a bit of a history and I haven't forgotten that just yet: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/BayStar-Confi... (sorry for the ads on that page), they just couldn't help not playing nice.

Then there was netscape, the media player issue, a bunch of FUD to various governments to get them to extend their lock-in rather than to go with open source and a series of briberies http://slashdot.org/articles/06/12/27/1423234.shtml and so on.

The tools and their quality don't enter in to it, it's the corporate conduct that I have a problem with.
Nice, thanks! These are helpful.
R commands and abbreviations explained
Ask HN: Feedback on my side project: upstreamist (thanks to pg for the name)
Howdy

So upstreamist (see name note at end) basically scrapes the front page of HN, Reddit, and Digg and then tries to show this data in cool ways.

http://upstreamist.com

The area people seem to like best is "where first" ..this tells where an article was posted first (and where else) if it made it to the frontpage of more than one source.

I would really like to get some feedback on what else you think I should add. Here's what I've been thinking/been told:

* parallel discussions
* making the data available in standard format (probably json)
* do something like nowmov since I have a building list of videos that I know are popular (at least to a certain crowd).
* scrape beyond a sources front page (then maybe concentrate on search?)
* I have an idea for hybrid between Google Reader and Google News (but I am a news/current events junkie...).

Thanks so much for reading all of this.

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On Name:

pg gave me the name upstreamist here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319455

I was totally pumped about that and it's totally re-energized me on this project. Hopefully it wasn't inappropriate of me to reference him in the title.
There could be notoriety for anyone who does this to Conan O'brien. He only follows one person AFAIK.

Edit: Looks like this probably already happened.
"Soon the big majority of cell phones will be what we usually call smartphones."
My guess here is, that this will be a major winning point for Android, as i think that the next-gen low cost smartphones (presumably the ones that will most likely be bought by current featurephone owners) will be Android ones. Vodafone in germany will sell an Android phone for 130€ (prepaid, 1€ with contract) soon, for example.

Even more so, this may be a huge advantage in the emerging markets like china and india.
Very initial impression:

* I like the zero-click info.

* Is disambiguation redundant? Can't you just infer from history and location? Or is this against your privacy policy?

The single most frustrating thing I find about search engines is iterating a non-trivial search. It doesn't seem like DDG has an edge against Google here. I long to see a search engine that makes it easy to send a question off to Quora, Vark etc.
Try _Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity_ by David Foster Wallace.
A "file" is a conceptual entity that implies certain functionality: the ability to rename, move, delete, copy, and classify (traditionally using folder hierarchies). Even consumers need to do these things.
and his account has been suspended.
Indeed, which is why I test for each of those necessary concepts, as detailed elsewhere.
I agree.

And I think this is why Adobe's anti-trust activity against Apple won't go very far.

Apple is very comfortable taking part of the market, owning it, doing things their way, and making boatloads of money. They are not trying to be everything to everyone.

Disclosure: I just switched from iPhone to a Google N1 because I was tired of the box Apple put me in.
Sorry, the profile you are trying to view has been suspended.
How to Force Anyone to Follow You on Twitter
Google must have disagreed since they just made their page layout look more like Bings.
A lot of DDG results look fundamentally different and so wouldn't work in a blind test.
That's an utterly insane bug! Some kind of debug accidentally left in? Or an admin phrase not authorised properly?
Macs have a home folder with the following sub folders

Applications - User version of /Applications
Desktop - Desktop
Documents
Downloads - Safari downloads files here
Library - Application configuration and data storage.
Movies
Music - iTunes library defaults to here
Pictures - iPhoto stores it's library file in this folder
Public - Documents visible to people on the network, not writable
Public/Drop Box - Publicly writable but not publicly visible
Sites - Web sharing uses this folder to share your website from here.
Fail. Whale.
Jerry Yang calls himself the "Chief Yahoo", and that is about as unserious as it gets.

Windows Live Search changed its name to something less serious to be more appealing to the public. I mean, really, Bing? How serious is that?

Ask.com is about the most sensibly-named search engine. I mean, what do you do with a search engine? You ask it things. That hasn't really helped them corner the market, exactly.

I am ranting. I should go to bed.
I wonder if they are going to be able to undo this. Do they have a two sided log of the follow process? If it's just one-sided, they may be able to fix the bug but not to reverse the damage.
Well, I'm not sure if this is what you mean, exactly, but...

I can take a photo with my camera, plug it in to the computer, import the photo into iPhoto (this is done by clicking the photo itself and clicking import - there's no generic "file" icon displayed or choices about where to save anything), then do some red eye reduction, maybe some cropping, and finally click Share/Email and send the edited photo to someone else. This is all done without ever having to care about any underlying "file."
ConanOBrien was following 190 a few seconds ago, now there are 266 and its rising.
The Discovery Channel didn't receive those images anonymously. If you sent them pictures of nude prepubescents and said they were were the wives of the King of Swazilands, they might not just take your word for it.
To be fair you'd have to include failures of EBS snapshots and of failures to multiple datacenters to gain parity with Google in your comparison. I'm sure the gmail app doesn't use its storage subsystem naively no matter what the numbers are. You're absolutely right in general though.
not really. I'd just say I'd "DDG" it, or "double D", or "duck" it.

In the same way, I just type I'd 'fb' someone for 'facebook' someone.

It only rolls off the tongue because you're so use to it now. Same with other brand named that got verbed. Kleenex. Xerox., etc.
Good thing they have OAuth.
The most significant thing is actually what kind of market there is for the apps/sites we are building. Market is not just about the number of users, it's about how much those users are buying. It's the reason that Mac developers can make more than their PC counterparts on many types of applications, because the Mac users buy more software. (at least I know I have since I switched).
you might, but not using reject.
Software features include NSA-level encryption

Really? Tell me more. What block cipher are you using? In which mode? How do you manage IVs? How do you manage keys? If you use passwords/passphrases, what KDF do you use? How do you guarantee the integrity of archives? What defences do you have in place against side channel attacks? Can I see the source code?
More of those: http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/10/she-is-certainly-a-fan-of-...
How would that work exactly in your mind? We already have a feature to send your search to hundreds of other sites, http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

Is it as simple as redirecting you to those sites, or do you mean manage the workflow, email you the results, etc.?
General purpose computers are system-integration machines.

My mother searches the web for content and drags/drops snippets into presentations; emails photos to friends; sends letters via fax. Those are all inter-app activities that she couldn't do on an iPad.

A friend with an iPad sync'd his Dropbox folder to it; clicked a file and chose "Send to Pages", edited it, and then ... Well, he couldn't save it back to his Dropbox because Pages doesn't support it.

I thought trapping content in apps was a bad thing.
Is RunMonster the RunKeeper killer?
This money is not being given to private companies, it will be used to purchase government bonds and/or guarantee existing debts of individual European countries.
Two use cases where it may be useful:

1- you snap an app from your friend's iPhone screen and tap on the Install button (i.e. app sharing)

2- snap an app from your computer screen (a review site for example) then Install/Bookmark
Wondering if there will be repercussions for people using this, or if they are able to track it? They aren't able to keep a lot of logs due to the volume.
It sure does!

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=accept+conanobrien