skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the actual negotiating position. Sometimes you are negotiating with a second stringer who isn't empowered to do what needs to be done.

If the other party needs you and knows it, the "fuck you" or "walk away" tactic brings things to a head quickly.
You don't get it. Getting billed for storage directly is not a feature 99% of the people on the Internet want.

Make it simple for your users and don't get cute with pricing models.
Thats how Linux started :)
This looks like it is either a hoax or wishful thinking from someone looking for feedback on a product concept.

1) At $99, the profit margins will be near zero or negative. Remember that Kindle and Nook are both subsidized by the sale of content and this is for 7 inches devices, so it would be hard to make money from an 13 inches e-ink screen with resistive touch at $99.

2) e-ink has a very slow refresh rate, so it won't be able to keep up with someone writing on it.

3) "wi-fi module on request with order", do they have multiple models? One with and one without wi-fi both at the same price, definitely a hoax.
I just installed Pomodoro for OSX, seems very well done. http://pomodoro.ugolandini.com/
Yeah, but dedication to the schooling environment and being a good employee are 2 different things really. Earning these credits might just be about cramming, I assume most of them are awarded based on exams? I've seen plenty of people preform well on set academic goals that can be gamed without actually taking much away from it. At least with college you usually have things like a software project, assignments and possibly a internship which are a bit harder to cram your way through.

It really tell you knowing abut how the employee is going to approach problems and how creative their solutions will be.
Totally agree. I have a whole series of "Using ..." tutorials that I've written, just for the purpose of learning - having to write in a style where you're explaining something to others forces you to truly understand the subject matter. As an added bonus, you then have some handy reference materials.
Many hackers are "returning to vim" nowadays.

I'm working on the transition myself, and this is one more step in going cold turkey.
This is important. The relative frequencies mean that observer bias cuts all the harder.

Additionally, it's very difficult to take the winner and back-calculate the particular winning strategy. The pick-axe sellers won in this case. But one story is not statistics.

Finally, it's important to note that the story sounds good and that makes us believe it even more strongly...

(I bet it's even better to be a banker at the time of the gold rush, incidentally.)
Maybe it's to continue to encourage schooling on the whole, which makes their job of selecting a candidate that little bit easier.
It's flashy and harder to understand than more boring presentations?
Wow, Matt, I'm not sure if I should be flattered or scared that you're paying this close attention to DuckDuckGo :).

The $15,000 is less than my graduate school stipend was. Needless to say, we're not raking in the dough here.

I just added this to the FAQ, i.e. how do you make money (I don't see any ads)? We'd like to show minimal advertising and make the venture more sustainable, for sure, but haven't been able to find a good ad provider willing to work within the DDG privacy principles.
I guess it really depends if she is able to provide any code from her projects, the design work will be apparent just by looking up some of the sites she has worked on. Some sample code can pretty quickly give an indication of how well the resume stacks up on it's claims.
Anything can be improved — but in Cuil's case, yes, it would have required reversing pretty much every decision they made (or at least implementing them on such a different level they would be unrecognizable). It was just breathtakingly ill-advised. DuckDuckGo is more clear about the benefits it offers, modest though they may be, and it follows through on its boasts. And Blekko is just modest all around.

I said at the time and still say that Cuill released a very early stage experiment that still hadn't worked out what it wanted to do and called it a search engine.
Amazing video that talks about the concept of running and how it relates to evolution:
http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_mcdougall_are_we_born_t...
This chapter actually has a much cooler implementation of delta debugging that what has been discussed here. We're generally thinking of delta debugging in which we take the changes to the source as the search space and use some form of binary search to find the offending change (for which git bisect is great). The chapter in beautiful code begins with this but then moves on to runtime delta debugging in which the techniques are used to compare the memory in use by two instances of the program (one buggy and one not) until a specific piece of the programs state can be isolated as the cause.
When I'm writing code, a lot of the time the screen isn't going to change. This is not because I'm day dreaming, but because I'm thinking.
Thx for the specific example, always very helpful! But in this case, I'm having trouble reproducing. Do you have a region set or something? I'm looking at http://duckduckgo.com/?q=online+games and don't see those domains. I'm not saying the other domains are good :), but I just want to understand what you're seeing. We definitely have a problem right now of over-weighted the domain name in the url.
I've always used Debian on my servers, but like you, I also really like Arch Linux. So last year, I decided just to see what it would be like to run an Arch server. I installed it on a VPS using kernel26-lts, and besides having to do some diffs between new and old configs when updating packages, it really hasn't been that bad. I've never had the problem where a program would be completely broken when updating.

Only since last month, Arch includes glibc 2.12.2. Unfortunately, my VPS host only gives a CentOS 5.4 recovery image using kernel 2.6.18, meaning that since the newer glibc requires kernel 2.6.27, I'm unable to chroot into my install if I ever needed to.
My favorite part:

I asked one of them how pimping experience helps him in the legit economy: “You learn one thing,” he said. “For a good blow job, a man will do just about anything. What can I do with that knowledge? I have no idea.”
For the record, the vast majority of our content farm stuff is algorithmically based. In addition, we've made some manual blocks and since the beginning we've been promoting good content in our "Zero-click Info" boxes. Recently it has been a lot of programming stuff, e.g. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+split
I'm glad that everyone objecting that ideas are NOT worthless are so appreciative of irony.

There's a postscript to the article. "JT" actually found his technical co-founder. The lesson to take away from this is that if you want to find a technical co-founder, you have to sell yourself more than you have to sell your idea.
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I get your point, but I recall squirrelfish pushing the performance issue prior.
"people with real accomplishments would never, ever do that"

One might even go further and say that "people with real accomplishments" wouldn't bother having a 'resume' (in a standard plain format) in the first place. Their work/accomplishments should speak for themselves.
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The trick with douchebags is to 2x the price (or 1/2 if buying) or some other multiplier and make it clear it's non-negotiable. You don't loose your cool, the idiot will feel bad, and they'll think about it twice next time. Sometimes they get desperate and crawl back and close for 2x/3x the price and with a much more profesional attitude. YMMV
Negotiations is a required class at my b-school. The material is soft. The lecture itself only lasts a short amount of the time. For the rest of the class, you just practice. Negotiate with another party (using a case study to determine your role.) The class ended after the results were tallied and the class discussed different approaches to the problem. It wasn't a tough class, but it was useful and enjoyable.
I understand why it might not be a great resume, but what about the design. The Previous Work tree diagram is sort of neat, in text form the info that it conveys might be even harder to understand.
Seems like a lot of your advice...

I gave no advice. I shared my experience. Take it or leave it.

What do you think about YAGNI?

Never gave it much thought before. But after reading your referral, let me rephrase the question: "How do you know what you're going to need?"

After servicing hundreds of customers, I built a framework that provided what over 90% of had already needed. I figured it was a pretty good bet most new customers would too. So far it's worked out great. The framework has easily replaced one or two other programmers.

But then again, that isn't even what the original question was about. OP asked the #1 thing that made me a better programmer. This was the #1 answer by far. I think everyone should write a framework, whether you need one or not. You'll never think the same way again.
I'm in latin america (Nicaragua) which might hurt a lot if it's trying to pull localized results from this little corner of the world heh.

http://playtomic.com/ddg.png is what I'm seeing.

Edit:

I'm doing a search from one of my US-based servers and seeing those same sites?

http://playtomic.com/ddg2.png
This sounds similar to what Jungle Disk offers, but focused on pictures. The way they approach it is that they give users 5GB per month for a $2 per month fee for storage. On average, this should cover the AWS costs and leave some margin for Jungle Disks. I think any additional storage charges after that are billed at the rate of AWS or Rackspace since they are compatible with both (I believe they are owned by Rackspace). I think this approach makes it less intimidating to consumers who have no idea what AWS is.
The difference is Matt_Cutts, moultano, nostrademons (Google employees) et al. are all over DDG threads, but weren't on Cuil ones as much, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=258737 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255122.

I agree though, that DDG is a blip -- a teeny tiny blip in the search engine market -- so, quite frankly, I'm not sure why they care so much, or at all.
Gaming may win the battle, but habit will win the war
If I was Apple Inc, I would be happy with people who came up with ideas like the "The Daily." It provides Apple another source of high revenue for almost zero cost. The only thing Apple would need to setup is a payment system for this type of content.
mutual optimization!
Can you not just re-make a new google account with a different credit card?
On IE, it doesn't even offer a 'No' but rather an 'Ask Me Later',

I freakin' hate shit like that. It's from the same play book as, "Are you still cheating on your wife?"

It's not just kinda sneaky, it's bullshit sneaky; it's not a yes/no option, it's yes/yes for two related, but different, things.
I've been telling managers that the concept of multi-tasking is idiotic for years. But bad managers like the idea, so they thought they could just tell you to multi-task and then everything would turn out hunky-dory. It's nice to hear other people saying die to the concept. I feel validated. Now, back to drinking coffee and posting on HN while driving and eating a ham sandwich. Cheers.
For a while, I was doing marathons or above every month. It kind of worked out perfectly with the healing/ready-for-the-next-one balance. I never did long runs (>22mi) for training unless I felt like it.
What was the project? I find that one one problem with beginners to embedded systems is that programmers are now so used to desktop computers with huge amounts of resources that they think too big for a first project.

Not just in terms of memory, but CPU speed, availability of I/O (e.g. Ethernet), languages, etc..
I've applied, and regardless of whether or not I'm accepted, this is an outstanding offer. Kudos!
Ahh, thx. Turns out I was the one with the settings set :). Duly noted!
They care because maybe tomorrow you're not just a tiny blip and they're not as entrenched as they are today. Unlikely? Sure, but it does happen.
I suppose I could, but if they realize I did it (same address, same name), I'd just get banned again. It doesn't seem worth it.
On a related note, Ian Sharman apparently just won (today) the Rocky Raccoon 100 miler in an amazing 12:44:35. That's 7:38 per mile for 100 miles.

Even as an ultrarunner, I find this mind-blowing.

The physical limits of humans still keep on progressing.
Debian's website also received an upgrade[1]:

> On the occasion of the release of Debian 6.0 Squeeze, the Debian website team is pleased to publish a new design for Debian's web presence. After roughly 13 years with nearly the same design, the layout and design of many of the websites run by Debian changed together with today's release of Debian Squeeze. Debian's main website and its wiki, lists archive, blog aggregator planet and package information system now have a consistent new layout. The new layout is meant to give Debian's web presence a cleaner and more modern look as well as making the web pages easier to use and navigate.

[1]: http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205b
I can't comment on the quality of the application, because for some reason that I can't understand it doesn't seem to be available for non-US iPad owners. Well, not in the UK at any rate.

Ah well, I guess I'll get by with The Times, Guardian, Telegraph, NY Times, LA Times, FT, WSJ, Int Herald Tribune and La Monde.

(And from the reviews I've heard, seems the content is fairly shoddy anyway, guess I'm not missing much.)

edit: I haven't yet had time myself to bother reading anything, but for anyone who does want to read the content without downloading the iPad app, check out http://thedailyindexed.tumblr.com/ which links to all the day's articles, as they are available on The Daily's website.
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You can't outsource and offshore sales.
Annotate PDFs in Google Docs -- An open letter to Matt Cutts
Matt

You don't me from Ghandi. But I have the utmost respect for the work you do and for your involvement in the HN community.

I am not a fanboy by any stretch of the imagination. However, I have enjoyed seeing the evolution of Google Docs. There is still one thing that is missing from a mass movement to Google docs. That would be annotation of pdfs.

See, I use Google docs to quickly disseminate these pdf documents to people, but I have to use a clunky client-side interface such as Xournal to annotate. To save the annotations to a pdf, I have to reprint my annotation, which then has to be OCRed for people to read my annotations.

This is rough.

So my letter to you is, if you like the idea and have any sway with the team, to please, please, please work on getting this feature, or let us know if something is already in the works.

Much regards with all you do,
TomRod
Fix my own bugs.
There shouldn't be any deal made when the latest browser performance charts come up. Every major browser maker is always trying to make their browser faster. In a short amount of time, Chrome will outperform IE 9, then vice versa. It's a constant battle for number one which benefits consumers in the long run.
"I want to help people make things, and I want to become a better hacker, teacher, and writer. Teaching people to become hackers over email kills all three birds with one stone. :)"

No ulterior motives or schemes, I promise. But now that I think about it, you can add "wanting to talk shop" to the list.
This. Having a toddler has given me a lot of practice in how to negotiate. Also, a negotiation book (The Secrets of Power Negotiation) helped me with the toddler.
I started with 48 credits and it does get the basic math and general ed requirements out of the way. That way, I could start graduate physics and math course by my 2nd year at the university....

But, we take students from some magnet schools here to intern and they're amazing (multivariate calc, AP physics, and a year of Java--before senior year. The student had worked on a team project and was commenting his code unprompted...). I invited a Canadian colleague to a group meeting where they presented what they were working on she was stunned...I think that in the US when students have opportunities, it's great--the difficulty is how to improve the average....
Probably the wrong crowd considering HN's readership is probably too young to worry about raising kids... But, as a father of 2 little ones, this "tiger mom" concept is very intriguing to me.

I don't think there's any doubt these kids will be successful in whatever they choose to do.
My question (and probably for many westerners too): is this education the best way to raise happy individuals? There seems to be a big divide between most well-off Asian families and most educated Western families when it comes to what is the most important thing in life.
No doubt there is a correlation between being happy and successful but one hardly guarantees the other.
The Boston Marathon is the most prestigious marathon. There are only a small amount of spots for charity runners, the rest are qualifiers.

At that phenomenal pace of 2 hrs 56 min, 49-year old Engels is beating the qualification straitjackets for elite (non-professional) runners in ALL age groups.

http://www.baa.org/Races/Boston-Marathon/Participant-Informa...
People gave the Tiger Mom death threats? Really? Come on people.
Don't build a business on top of a sand castle.
> If someone offers you what you want, why waste time negotiating for more?

Because you can use the extra amount to provide additional security for your family, or runway for your next startup?
"The iPhone and iPad have to work a lot harder to display JPEGs than they do to display the equivalent PNGs"

That is a myth. It is the pixel format of the CGImage that matters, not the compression format of the source file. 32bpp premultiplied CGImages are the only format that the GPU will render natively as the contents of a CALayer. Since all JPEGs decode to 24bpp and most PNGs are saved as 32bpp, it's easy to see why this would be confused. Simply copying to a 32bpp CGImage is enough to make drawing quick again.

Coincidentally, this blog post also scrolls poorly on the iPad.
I thought two letters domains are not sold anymore? (i.e 'bi' is 2 letters) Or this is a restriction only for certain TLD like .com, .org?
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What kind of smartcard are you using?
"I don't think there's any doubt these kids will be successful in whatever they choose to do."

Based on what? Academic performance through high school? The ability to play the piano? Are these really good predictors of success?
Man! You're like the MacGyver of bridge-related quotes. It's amazing.
For the record, I've been crawling the Web since the beginning of DDG (and before the BOSS or the Bing APIs existed). Yes, a one FTE, self-funded search engine, does not have the capacity to spend millions of dollars on crawling (does Google spend billions?).

I now focus my crawling efforts where I see they can add significant value, namely on spam removal and zero-click info. Our index actually shows the top result about half the time, which is not from any external API. Given that most people click the top result most of the time, this is not an insignificant addition.

We of course use external sources, but I think your comment is too dismissive of the intelligence we've woven on top and through them. I'm not interested in sharing all of DDG's trade secrets just to prove a point, but needless to say, you can simply compare the external APIs to our results across a swath of different types of queries and see the differences.

Finally, I find the premise of your comment a bit short-sighted, but I'm actually OK with being dismissed as a toy. In the eyes of the average user, they don't care where results came from at all. They just want the right information faster. So quite frankly, I think it is a reasonable move to use external APIs and focus on things like the top result, UI, etc. More recently, Yahoo and Ask seem to agree. Most people are dismissive of them too, but they've been doing a lot of innovative UI things, which matter a lot to end users.
"The current popularity of facebook is also inherently causing a lot of people to stop sharing their personal lives on facebook."

This is troubling to me. I feel like I'm looking at a bunch of ghosts when I view people's profiles now. Anyone else? Their photos and a bit of their bios are still up, but they've mostly moved on to other forms of tech to post anything dynamic because of the logical fear that they will no longer control what aspects of their personal lives will become public record. What, I wonder, is the company doing about this issue beyond just pr stuff like funding privacy-related nonprofits? If they don't address it in their core functionality, they've got a potential wasteland on their hands.
"If I knew they spent 70% of their time on Java and they have around 5% familiarity with Ruby now that's telling me something of value. (...) While obviously nothing is perfect I think the idea of adding weighted cues for skill sets is something missing from the current resume model."

Odesk includes the hours worked on a given project. Even so: I'm not sure that tells me if the programmer has any real fluency. I suppose measures like that and/or certifications are the closest thing to what you're asking for... But maybe a Topcoder ranking and/or contractor satisfaction index for the sought-after skill set would be more relevant...something/anything which quantifies narrative comments from hiring parties, or contextualizes a programmer among their peers...that would be more valuable to me.

"If you were to pair this with a data output that is machine readable, google's problem of 75,000 resume's per week could be significantly made easier to wade through. HR people in enterprise companies look for keywords, bottom line."

People who sift through resumes look for keywords. Interviewers, hiring managers, business owners look for something else... How many interviews have you been on where the interviewer picks up the resume, glances at it, sets it down, and then proceeds to ask questions clearly indicating they did not read the resume? That's the real disconnect in the present resume model. Rather than build a machine readable way to screen fluency, or allow oneself to be charmed by the most visually disruptive document, why not build a better way for employers to simply test--en masse--for certain personal qualities AND technical qualifications? (Heck...deficiencies in psychometrics and testing methodology is a real bottleneck in America's capacity to suss out competency...in any number of domains. I love tests like the GRE which offer questions, for example, like "An Apple is to an Orange like a Doctor is to a A) Veternarian, B) Osteopath, C) Architect, or D) Accountant." How the hell is someone who's not a native speaker supposed to answer a question like that?) Often what's needed to get the job done is too subtle to communicate on any number of pages...or "pages" as they exist now, and it'd be a stretch for any machine to vibe out a candidate to such an extent. It's probably why video resumes are so useful.
I registered and came out from lurking to comment.

As someone who, professionally, works worth only VBA and a form of LISP to do numerical analysis, this sounds great. I've been itching to expand my coding horizons for a while now and this seems very interesting.

I entered my email address and look forward to launch.