skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's no 'big deal', it's just that people that are not technically oriented don't even realize that it exists.

The problem here is - or rather was - that duckduckgo is differentiating itself from other search engines in a number of ways, and one of the more important ways in which this is done is that at duckduckgo.com you can search for things in the knowledge that they take your privacy seriously and that they will not sell your soul to their highest bidder.

On top of that they try to limit inadvertent exposure of your private information to third parties.

And that's where the problem came from, if you state loud and clear that you are secure, and then you're found to be insecure you have an immediate problem.

So, since duckduckgo.com is setting itself apart from the 'pack' by providing this useful feature and because it is part of their image of being trustworthy they had to address it.

If browser manufacturers would think a bit they would drop the 'Referer' header on https requests, but since it's been there for years now you can expect it to be there for years to come, to step forward and fix it was the right thing to do, and I'm very impressed with the way Gabriel responded to the publicity around the issue and how quick and thoroughly he fixed it.

I wished all companies would be that professional in their dealings with the public.
Indeed, the numbers I know about indicate that France is owed 66% more than Germany, but that's not very distant. It's also somewhat hard to find a breakdown of debt numbers private and public, owed to entities in other countries.

For example, I understand the lump of debt owed to Switzerland was because of a Greek bank being HQ'd there:

http://www.read-news.info/financial/switzerland%E2%80%99s-no...

The bank's deposits are backed by Greece; it's now HQ'd in Luxembourg.

Was Switzerland the one you had in mind for second?
In now looks like Interpol is no more than 15 steps to all of these bands. They must have just updated their data or algorithms.
For Vim I use tab as esc, and s-tab as tab. Auto-indent turned on.

Caps as right arrow is an interesting idea.

Basically, caps lock is silly.
Their business model is to give you relevant ads based on information that you give them in exchange of using their service. They even let you opt-out[1] of their system so that they can't track you and give you relevant ads (enjoy tampon ads on programing page).

Better yet. Use noScript, ad-blocker, flash-blocker, don't use Google services (or at least use privacy mode on search), in addition to opting-out from Advertising cookie[1].

[1] Google Advertising Cookie Opt-out: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Double-click Advertising Cookie Opt-out: http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

As for me, the least I can do is to support a company, while not with a perfect track record, has championed and fought for an open web with plethora of free and exceptional services.

I can live with that, knowing that I have the option to opt-out whenever I want to.
Will .TV domains be in high demand?
Medical.
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Most of the kind of wealth that can be consumed by consumers is stuff that takes real energy and resources to produce, transport, and dispose of.

As for thrift, I subscribe to the notion that it's a virtue, and I reject the supposed paradox. We're not going to settle that in this thread, though. That argument has been going on for a hundred years. The Wikipedia page covers the history.
Drivers sit outside the OS and the BIOS get you to the point where you can install drivers so at the OS level it's really just a question of # of BIOS's per instruction set * number of CPU cores.

PS: Consider when you need to install a RAID driver before installing the OS.
I'd agree that Java isn't inherently better than Objective C. There are things I like and dislike about both. It's not like comparing Ruby to C. However, you do get other advantages to using Java. In Android, every app runs in it's own VM, so multi-tasking has always been a no-brainer. I guess Apple solved the sandboxing issues, but it probably wasn't easy, and I wonder what tough decisions they had to make. Plus, it's at least in theory possible to compile any language you like to Java bytecode. So, we could see Ruby or Python apps for Android at some point. That's never going to happen with Apple for about a dozen reasons, the least of which is probably Objective C.
W.R.T. humans, the predominant evolutionary theory does have an explanation, and it's exactly what jwegan said. Your scenario is only relevant to organisms who live in niches very far from our own. Humans have always lived in ecosystems large enough that our kids' share of the burden of our claims on resources is infinitesimal, and certainly no comparison to benefit that kids derive from their alive parents.
I contacted a lot of publishers including MS Press and O'Reilly was the first to respond. Besides, I really like O'Reilly books and thought it would be great to be a published O'Reilly writer. They've been amazing to work with.
The whole leapfrogging thing implies (to me) that you are not only doing more things than someone, but also doing them better. Yes, FroYo has added a ton of great features to android, however I still feel that Apple has not yet been leapfrogged in the most basic parts of design for core parts today's mobile experience.

The most obvious of these to me is text entry via touch screen. There can be no claims of leapfrogging until I can use an android device's touch screen to SMS someone without pulling (what little is left of) my hair out.

Next is the whole activity response/switching thing. Yes, blah blah, tradeoffs for multitasking, whatever. Why not have a way to turn off non-system multi-tasking in favor of super lightning quick responsiveness on android? It's enough to almost throw the phone across the room when you are trying to answer the phone and key presses don't register.

In terms of industrial design, there have been no great leaps by any of Google's hardware partners - Every single android handset I've used has felt like a cheap, disposable piece of junk (G1, Hero, N1) or a giant tank (Droid) compared to the first generation iPhone. I haven't played with the incredible yet, so I still have hope, but not much.

Google and Apple have taken two different approaches to mobile. Google is trying to throw as many different features into android in as short a time as possible, and Apple is set on perfecting each detail before incorporating more. This is fine, it's two different philosophies.

After my prolonged experiences with the G1 and the original iPhone, I'd much rather live day to day with software and hardware that has been developed to Apple's design and usability standards. (I'm talking about the system software here, not 3rd party apps) I hope in the coming year Google has a chance to go back and spend time polishing what they've accomplished so far instead of continually heaping feature upon feature onto android.

If Google can get back to user interaction basics and stop mucking around with some of their other tangents, they could make android great, not just passable.

Or maybe I was just too abused by my time with the G1 to judge this argument fairly anymore, definitely possible.
I love how it apparently stands for "What a terrible failure".
Yes exactly! With choice comes decisions and with every decision there is an opportunity cost. Both phones are great! It makes choosing one over the other a more difficult decision.
Yes but one of the main reasons it is so competitive is that it benefits from an unnaturally low exchange rate. If germany still had the deutschmark it would trade at a much higher level, making the economy less competitive. The european central bank has kept the interest rate low for a long time, benefiting mainly the german economy. Other smaller european economies were left with interest rates that were much to low. This resulted in a flood of cheap credit, leading for exmaple to a housing boom and subsequent bust in Spain/Ireland.
As it is, your expected lifespan is based largely on a finite clock, so any fatal risk factors are of limited value--if your odds of dying in a car crash are 1/1000/yr that barely affects your life expectancy, and if your odds of birth control failing are 1/100 you can go your entire fertile lifespan (30-40 years) without expecting to conceive.

If you get rid of aging (and other time-clock issues like menopause, though it would be stupid to get rid of menopause if people are going to be essentially immortal), life expectancy will be dictated almost entirely on these remote risks. Being more risk-averse might change your expected lifespan from 100 to 1000 to 10,000. And the less risk-averse people will die sooner, while the less risk-averse people (who are still unaging) will have free reign to change social norms in the long run.

This doesn't only apply to fatal risks. If you can work for 100 years at a day job and save up enough salary to live off the interest perpetually (and quite well), people are going to think it's crazy to do a startup. There's no sense of urgency when you don't age.

I think a world of immortal people would be very boring. And I haven't even gotten into the "slow-to-change" part (if someone living in the Middle Ages was still alive today, they'd probably be some kind of violent religious fanatic or something).
Each snippet is too brief and breazy to have much redeeming value. For instance while Washington was the richest man in the 13 colonies at the time of the Revolution, he was land-rich and controlled some significant means of production, but like everyone else in the colonies he would have difficulty raising cash.

Also it's easy to overlook the significance of the several presidents, Lincoln included, whose peak assets, including the equity in their residences, was less than $1 million in today's money. Can you imagine electing a president like that today? Also note how they are clustered around the Civil War. I don't know what the significance of that is, if any.
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Indian entrepreneur creates low-cost tampon
> Could they do this without Apple's approval?

AT&T sells more smart phones than just the iPhone.
Why couldn't they do this without Apple's approval?
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The name Viaweb was also generated by a program, though back then (in 1995) practically all domains were still available and it was simply a matter of picking. We were originally called Webgen, but we had to switch because someone else had a site generator called that. So I wrote a program to display all the names consisting of "Web" plus some short English word.

One thing I learned was that most short words are negative or at least excessively blunt. Webpig, Webzit, Webfat, Webdog, etc. But one name the program generated was Webvia. That wasn't so great but if you switched the words it became a reference to the fact that our software worked over the web.
Great. So Apple will support Flash now that is it up to snuff? Please.
Facebook to launch privacy overhaul
I came across this last night, PURE AWESOME!
>Maybe it's time for some stricter flagging.

I've only been flagging spam, in faith that HN is self correcting. But I've been getting annoyed more frequently, and am about to re-consider my position on flagging. Maybe a "flag more" culture should be encouraged?
Talk about reverse engineering an acronym :)
My impression is that they arrived at that based on what it would take young people to live frugally in the area until they built their product and got funding.

They have a very large pool of applicants to choose from even with the small amounts the invest. I think if they decided that they needed to increase the size of the talent pool to get enough quality groups, they would look into ways (such as increasing the investment amount). As it is, they don't seem to need to, so why would they?
I'm also freelancing, looking to bootstrap one day. I'm an UI/UX designer. Feel free to contact me design ATpmura.com, or just have a look at my works http://www.pmura.com/labs.

Fortunately or unfortunately for you, I'm the type of guy who likes to be involved during the development process (even from the idea/concept if possible).
caused by the fact that early printers in England were Dutch

This is the first time that I've heard this; could you supply some further reading?
Here's a suggestion: figure out the 'topic' words in the subject (shouldn't be too hard to do a moderately good job by looking at word frequencies in the titles submitted so far and whitelisting/blacklisting some); start attaching a penalty to each topic word based on how many stories were submitted recently, how many votes/comments they got, and a time decay. The goal is to make it so that a story about a very frequently seen topic will need more upvotes to climb higher in the rankings.
How can the features debate be old and boring when Froyo was just officially unveiled yesterday? It's a very relevant debate.

There's always something new... how does that make the discussion of "features" versus "execution" debate change?

A very well engineered product, but not the revolution that a lot of people seem think it was.

Precisely. The iPhone has been successful because they only included the good features. Competitors always talk about new features, or fewer dollars. To the average consumer, neither of those are as important as execution. Google will only make a better phone when they make a better phone.
The network of alum really helps.
Having access to so many startups that have already optimize the hell out of the steps needed to start a company is a big value add.

The reality is that if you want/need PG's time you can get at any point during YC.
Ask PG: Do you think the YC Model could scale to other industries?
Do you think the YC-Model could be applied to other industries, such as providing resources and seed funding for the bealthcare or biotech industries.
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Disclosure: I'm the other half of the startup. :)

Being specific sounds like great advice, but it still prompts the question as to how to advertise yourself -- should I just roll around and tell people how I can massively improve the performance of their Ruby (Rails or not) web stack, or are there some specific tactics that you've employed that work well?
Eek. You mentioned people can say your name multiple ways. When naming stuff, I always try to avoid this. Particularly in cases where people's intuition is 50/50 for what is the "right" way to say it, as is the case here.

It will be the chalkboard screetching against your ear for the rest of the life of your company, when new hires, new customers, or colleagues continually pronounce the name "wrong."
Newton wasted the bulk of his life on theology. I don't think giving him a few more hundred years would have given the world anything else that was useful. I suspect the others would have been disappointments to keep around as well--except for Shakespeare, all of them did a finite number of interesting things early in their lives and already seemed to have retired. You can't conflate indefinite lifespan with indefinite creative steam.

But even if you could? Shakespeare as a Hollywood screenwriter makes for an intriguing idea, I admit. But I think we would get sick of even him.
"...Unlike introverts, who prefer to be socially withdrawn, shy people want to be social. Making matters worse, shy people are often misunderstood—thought to be snobby or aloof."

I wish people would do some research about introverts before labelling us all as social outcasts.
Doubletwist?
Aren't the costs to get to a minimum viable product in those markets much higher than in web applications / software development ?
> 1) Germany creates wealth better than other countries

No, his basic argument is that Germany creates wealth better than others in large part because EMU has allowed it to benefit from unnaturally low exchange rates. If it still had the deutschmark, it would be trading at a much higher level, reducing its competitiveness.

I think he's pretty much spot on with his analysis, but who knows what the solution is.
I mean, what is the music software you can use on the desktop, given the list of phone music players presented?
I can't find anything on what Clinton's worth was before he became president, but I don't think it was that much. My understanding is that most of his wealth came after.
Any music software you would like? Including whatever you are using right now?
Chrome Chikitize, make tiny url from Chrome
US accuses BP of cover-up
British Petroleum stand accused by US Govn't of covering up of the extent of the leak... by hundreds of orders of magnitude.
Can you back this up? I've never seen anything beyond voiding warranties.
How great leaders inspire action
YouTube/Viacom suit gets nasty
The contract expires after 3 or 5 years, depending on who you talk to. Most of the details are a carefully guarded secret, AFAIK.
It is and that's probably the biggest reason the model works well for internet media. It's cheap to create, test and deploy.

Sometimes even traditional markets such as Healthcare could use web innovations to suite their bottom line. i.e. Health care registry, patient filing systems, etc.
Only in industries where you could get started cheaply. It might work for bands, for example. I doubt it would work for biotech.
Someone mentioned http://www.reddit.com/r/coding/ in a comment a day or two ago. I've been enjoying it.

Edit - I found it in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1365094 which has a bunch of other suggestions.
Apple could've put some restrictions on this kind of move in their exclusivity contract.
$20K worth of investors money might get you to the point where you have the functional requirements of a health care registry or a patient filing system specc'd out, you will still have to go through all kinds of regulatory stuff, make sure that you abide by the law wrt to who has access to which bits of data and so on.

By the time you have it built you're well in to the 100's of thousands of $.

Just to find the expertise is going to cost a bundle.
afaik, in the millions. Mostly, once enough progress has been made, the money should pour in because people will now know it's possible and demand it.
Ruby is something people learn because they think programming is cool.

In my experience this is a myth or a at least a stereotype more prevalent in the marketing of Rails than reality.

I had the strong impression during my stint in the Rails world that Ruby was mostly learned as a signaling device. Young developer slaving away at some random Java or PHP job dreaming of making it big in a startup, with the mistaken believe that simply hanging around the in-crowd will magically catapult him in the top 5% of their profession.

Sure there are good people in this community, but they became good by working hard for a very long time and not by writing a trivial Twitter client using the currently hot testing framework/NoSQL database on their MacBook Pro in a Starbucks after skimming through the pick axe book.

wanting to be a cool Rubyist like _why causes a lot less damage than wanting to have a high-paying job

Why should chasing fame be inherently better than chasing money?

Just speaking from my own experience, I learned way more from cynic mercenaries than from wannabe rockstars and I can't see why emulating e.g. Obie Fernandez will cause less damage than aiming for a position as a technical fellow.
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Bear in mind that at least supervisord and daemontools expect to be the parent of a running, foregrounded process. Monit expects processes to run in the background and generate a pid file, I'm not very familiar with the others.

I really enjoy supervisord personally, it feels similar to daemontools in execution but has a somewhat friendlier interface all around.
While we are at the subject ... Has anyone had experience or insight on detox programs ? I'm currenlty eyeing this one : http://www.cleanprogram.com/ Comments will be appreciated.
search.twitter.com is still a separate app all-together (purchased from I-don't-remember-whom). Twitter officially intends to roll it into the rest of their internal apps and API at some point. You're right, it is inconsistent, but at least there is some sort of excuse.
Google unveils its best doodle yet: Playable Pac-Man
They determine how I am allowed to display the Tweet. That just plain sucks. For me it is a biggie.

If Twitter wouldn't own the Tweets, how could they make the rules for the way I am allowed to display them?
Some of my family works at biotech startups, and if their experience is at all representative, I would guess it wouldn't work in that area. The kinds of people who are best placed to start them are usually people who have access to some sort of research that has already demonstrated at least plausibility, but not yet been scaled up and commercialized. The alternative, doing blue-skies research in the startup itself, is expensive and risky, since it can take years for things to come through.

The ones I know of are almost all spinoffs from academic research, where a few professors who have something that works in the lab join up with a few people from industry to work on scaling up to industrial volumes and with industrial processes: dealing with somewhat less precise and less sterilized equipment than the stuff used in a lab, getting yield rates up, automating anything that requires human babysitting, etc. They usually already have the connections they need, and aren't in a financial position where $20k would make much difference either way, so the two main YC benefits wouldn't do much in this setting.
Google secure search forwards to unencrypted local search in non US countries
Wow. We have profiles?
If you want to add it to your chrome URL bar:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Agreed. The features and progress demonstrated in Android was great, but the continuous "open blah blah" and snide Apple-Flash-whatever 'jokes' were tiring and lame.

Did they really think they wouldn't get media coverage pointing out the obvious comparisons if they just demo'd and explained rather than explicitly mocking?
I get redirected to the http site. (I use Duck Duck Go---which is encrypted---but I just wanted to let you know.)
I have always hated this really, really bad practice of web sites forwarding me to local versions depending on my location. It's the reason I don't usually use Google.

But I think now they really screwed up, as https://www.google.com (encrypted) forwards to http://www.google.de (unencrypted) for me.

Anyway, this extremely nasty habit should just die. If I want a German version, I am capable of typing .de instead of .com, thanks.
>There can be no claims of leapfrogging until I can use an android device's touch screen to SMS someone without pulling (what little is left of) my hair out.

This is almost certainly what you are used to. I haven't had any difficulty with my nexus one. The iphone drove me to insanity everytime I tried to type on it.

>Every single android handset I've used has felt like a cheap, disposable piece of junk (G1, Hero, N1)

Everyone I know who has seen the nexus one in person found it much more attractive than the iphone. (sampling bias, yadda yadda)

>Or maybe I was just too abused by my time with the G1 to judge this argument fairly anymore, definitely possible.

That's the only reasonable explanation I can come up with for your post. (I feel your pain on that one. ;)
In general I agree, but pocket-reference e-books on your mobile shouldn't be scoffed at.
A lot of these 'soaps' can be rolled in to one, if there is a significant overlap between stories linked on the front page and a new entry it could just count as a comment in the existing thread and an upvote for that thread instead of getting a new thread of its own.

That way the number of stories is limited to one per soap per day.

Tricky to build though. But at least that would concentrate all the relevant discussion to a single thread.