skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DDG is supplanting labor intensive algorithmic improvements with manually manicured search results.

This sentence is a paradox.
Debian and Arch are my two favorite Linux distributions. If only Debian distributed a version compiled for an i686 also. I know it probably wont make a huge difference for most programs. But it niggles at my sensibilities that I am not using the architecture to its full. Arch is pretty awesome in that field, but I would be wary of running it on production servers. For me Debian testing has been the best compromise, and I have never faced stability issues with that.

Edit: corrected by removing "and x86-64"
can't you share photos on dropbox? and you would still have complete access to your original files.
The problem with Wikipedia is that many of their articles are poorly regurgitated versions of other source articles from the Web and that these source articles get no Google credit at all, even if they are linked from the Wikipedia articles, since Wikipedia uses no-follow links. Wikipedia ranks near the top in Google for almost any term for which it has an article, regardless of its quality.
People laughed at Cuil because it was laughably bad, not because nobody is allowed to make a search engine.
It may not require Flash but with NoFlash in Chrome I can't get any of the demos to load - not sure why.
Me too. I usually include wiki in the search to make sure I get wikipedia heh.
I'll save you the $500.

http://www.company-name-generator.com/advanced-company-name-...

Here are a few from that link:

Puvsi.com
Fivozu.com
Tihha.com
Sogki.com
Sijaa.com

Not great on your #1 but it's all about how you brand it really.
Can you list a couple of the worst parts about Facebook's photo service?

I'm not a Facebook user, but I do know that photos are one of the main reasons why people use (love, are addicted to, etc) it.

Maybe even compare your improved solutions to the poor features of Facebook's service. Thanks, and good luck!
Yes, I think it would be laughed at today too.
Toolkit: View memcached keys during development
Needed an easy to use interface to view a list of keys that are currently present during development.

Created a python class to gather keys from memcached via the memcached telnet interface
99designs is good. So is hatchwise.com

The best ive found is going onto digitalpoint forums, and posting a design contest for $15-25 (in the contest section)

The first 5 submissions are going to be god awful ms paint logos, but then the guys with real skill come in. You can even message some to enter your contest.

My favorite designer on there is "Ideosmil".
If and when he tries something else, he'll probably figure out exactly how much he learned. Until then, there's going to be a lot of regret to contend with. Especially if he keeps looping "I can not believe I was so stupid to think an idea I had could make it."

Good ideas often fail. Bad ideas can lead to ones that win. And persistence makes a hell of a difference. In that regard, he's got a lot going for him. Right now, he's burnt out. That should be treated like a health problem (i.e. one from which you can recover, given suitable time, rest, and diligent self-care).

I'm betting that, if he focuses on his personal life for a while, and just makes a point of enjoying his days one at a time, the itch to try something new and daring will return sooner than he expects.
I'm sorry but I have big problems with calling DDG a real search engine. Their page states "DuckDuckGo is a search engine like Google." BS. It's a meta search engine that relies on other real search engines, such as Bing, to get the results. If ever becomes a threat to Bing, they'll cut them off in a second. DDG doesn't do the hard and resource-intensive work of crawling and ranking the pages, they just tweak the results of others in ways that gets them publicity on tech blogs.
I would send you a UR NICE star for this comment but since HN doesn't have that you'll have to settle for an upvote.
It's still opt-in, is still fairly transparent about what enabling PageRank does, and still points to the full privacy policy.

Personally, I would have blown through the "Read this carefully" screen as another EULA. Even with the additional warning, and I'd bet other users do too. On the other hand, having it ask me, after being installed, about an incremental additional feature that could be enabled, but shares additional information in a quick easy to consume blurb of text... I'm much more likely to read it and ponder what clicking "yes" will do.
do you have contact info?
It's vertically integrated to be social. As such, the following are not considered important:

> Original photo size (additionally, optional sizes)

> EXIF data

> Compression

> Sharing as a link, embed, BBCode, etc. -- anything outside of Facebook can be done by copying image URL, but that URL can change without a moment's notice.

It's designed for people who take snapshots, not for photographers or artists.
Uploadify requires flash, the submission's script does not. Sorry if that was confusing.

Uploadify uses Flash's multifile upload whereas the submission uses the new File API (I believe, I'm guessing, I haven't looked at the source)
Debian userland on top of the FreeBSD kernel? Was there demand for this? Or, was it primarily to sidestep the GPL stuff and incorporate ZFS?
Wouldn't pay. I don't feel the pain from any of these photo sharing service. The storage is not the issue, I think its distribution. Imgur, flickr, picassa, facebook.. all work fine in my opinion. The magic of facebook is that I can upload and have to do nothing for distribution because all my friends and family can already see it.

If you are speaking of a tool for developers then I would like to know more details, but yes I have paid for image services that will resize and dump them into my bucket.
Don't forget Eli!
>"...but I wish the author had done more research instead of going for a gotcha."

That's a bit of irony right there, isn't it?

--wow, Matt, I guess it cuts both ways, eh?
It's common, though not acceptable, to conflate language with supporting tools/libraries, sometimes even the OS? It's very hard to draw the distinction when the language is not standardized, and/or heavily used (as language implementors are also its consumers.)

It should be a good exercise to take the public StackOverflow data and see how many "Rails" problems are actually Ruby, httpd, db, OS, or wetware problems.
Daughter of Tiger Mom responds to controversy
well, that is the whole point of saying it
Dealing with rejection is a core competency
jaretmanuel.com/hackerville The further you can dig in on the technical side the better advantage and more value you will be to your endeavour. Good luck.
His English figure of 75,000 is for the century between 1530 and 1630 while the Aztec figure is yearly.
Did some hunting for a good jQuery upload plugin a week ago for (self promotion warning) imgscalr.com.

valums ajax-upload seemed like it would be the best fit, but I couldn't get a full-screen Drag and Drop target working and had a hard (impossible) time customizing it to behave differently.

Wanted to use uploadify, but as mentioned it didn't work inside a browser with Flash-blocking enabled which turned me off immediately.

I actually wrote an HTML5 DnD + File API tutorial a few months ago: http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/html5-drag-and-drop-and-file-api...

and decided to get down and dirty with the whole process since everything else out there seemed relatively new to the scene anyway. Some things I found out:

1. Opera and Mozilla (thank the gods) seem to behave almost identical to each other... at least with the HTML5 DnD behavior/events and File API functionality.

2. Safari 5 (on Win 7) doesn't seem to understand Drag and Dropped native elements at all. I also scrubbed through the Apple HTML5 site and found no mention of support for the File API anywhere... so even if DnD was made to work, it wouldn't know what to do with the resources.

TIP: There is a great tutorial from 2009 online, and seems to be for Safari only, where you can hack the styling of an <input type="file"> dialog and MAKE it a drop target while hiding the default file box here:
http://www.borismus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/drag_drop...

3. Opera, as much credit as it gets for being so great, doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with some of these native HTML5 APIs -- I believe I read somewhere (this has all become a blur) that they are sitting out from these 2 APIs until the dust finishes settling... probably the smart move, but still annoying my app won't work in their browser.

4. IE 8/9... what can I say. I don't think I expected any of this to work, and probably plan on a Flash-fallback for IE only as some longer term solution, but damn, I sort of hoped it would have.

5. There is a massive post on all the things wrong with the HTML5 DnD API at quirksblog that made me want to give up HTML5 programming and go back to embedded Applets: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/09/the_html5_dr...

My point being (12 paragraphs later) that from a week of working on this problem there doesn't seem to be a sure-fire solution out there yet for someone wanting to go the "pure HTML5" route... there are some awesome starts to it as linked below, and all the JavaScript from imgscalr.com is heavily commented if you want to take a look at it, but it seems we are still a far way away from some drop-in/jack-of-all-DnD-upload experience that we were hoping for.

Made me realize HTML5, at least in the aspects I'm most interested in, is still a long way away from giving me exactly what I need.
Nothing like competitive tension between 2 or more acquirers to drive up the valuation. So let the current acquirer's competitors know that you have an offer from XYZ.
How about portable installs of notepad++ or Sublime 2 Alpha?
Web development, or web design?

Development could mean code ignoring the front-end design to the OP.
Websites and books on technology-based startups beyond the web-focused ones?
HN focuses mostly on web startups. Could you guys recommend any resources on startups in other fields (like medicine, chemistry, material science, manufacturing automation or sensors) ?
I'm surprised you can so easily equate illegal loggers with mass murders.

I'm actually a bit shocked at a lot of the comments here. This story has brought out the crazy in a lot of posters that's generally suppressed by the focused theme of HN.
He gave up legal control of the company in order to get investment money. It's most likely that the board of directors controlled the company, and the investors controlled the board.
Sure it was bad - but was every decision* they ever made so fundamentally wrong that they couldn't possibly have improved? The world wrote them off completely 8 minutes after they launched, and they were a meme like the next day. (* in search, not their ridiculous perks etc)

When I search for online games on DDG I get stuff like this in the first 'page' of results:

- http://onlinegames.innovative-solutions-group.com/

- http://onlinegames.webfreehosting.net/

- http://online--games.com/

Did DDG and Blekko both independently, really stumble upon formulas that beat Google, or are we actually open to the possibility of not using Google for search now?
Grindr app goes straight – but there are different rules for women
Ask HN: Made for Adsense (MFA) Sites
It's hard to get the skinny on exactly how viable this business model still is considering the amount of outdated information on google.

Does anyone currently operate an MFA site(s)? Can you do an AMA? Is it still a realistic business model if you're just looking to generate say 1-2K per month?
I'm surprised that no one replied here. At our office which isn't a startup at all btw we use clocking it. Thing is that with most of the free alternatives you have to live with self hosting. But since a lot of them also run on open source you can get it for pretty cheap.

http://www.ilovecolors.com.ar/basecamp-alternatives/

Really good list. Good luck :)
Thanks again, I love Swype! The times when I can go scrawling like mad and it recognizes the word - it's like wow, it's a game. Then again, it hates new words. But I like that it can let you still type words keystroke by keystroke. I find I'm not capitalizing a lot of my texts and emails because it requires extra effort.
Consider going without. Do you have a brand you're enforcing? Then a colorful logo will do little good. Get functional first, worry about making it pretty later.

...and I'm a designer who makes Logos all the time. I turned down my last 'logo for a SAAS' job, because I knew it would be a bad investment of my time.
Infinite Photo Mozaic -- Zoom in
Oh, I see, thanks. So, as I understand it, he had just one vote on the board, and thus couldn't veto the decision. Thanks for the clarification.
The minor design tweaks I’d make aside, it‘s creative and I love it, but having tried the creative cv route before, headhunters and/or HR always come back with “Can you send us something formatted for Word?”
There must be thousands of jobs that want just that.
Great to see the White House, the President and now Senators shining the spotlight on entrepreneurship and the central role it plays!
If Google doesn't screw you over and shut down your account for some reason without telling you why or giving you someone to talk to, then yes, you should be in the clear.

I'm just in the bitter, vocal minority here, though.
Wouldn't this mean DDG is giving amazon information about it's users?

I love DDG, but this seems shady putting the affiliate code into search results. Amazon ranks great, but it seems this would encourage DDG to rank Amazon even higher. Google would get in quite a bit of trouble for doing this.
Not too long ago I read Haruki Murakami’s What I Think About When I Think About Running and Christopher McDougall's Born to Run : The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners , and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.

Both are quite good, worth reading.

Running these durations and distances is just plain amazing. I liked Murakami for the inner thoughts of a runner, and he talks about marathon runs as well.

McDougall's book almost seems unreal, and the coverage of appropriate running style and footwear is very interesting.
Why do America's police need an armored tank?
Thanks to all who joined! That same link will work for our next broadcast later this week as well.
Who developed the app?
I suspect a developer had an itch to scatch. See http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_why
Thumbtack want’s to be this Generations Yellowbook
While I'm kind of frustrated by the anti-Google marketing, I'm impressed by how productive Gabriel clearly is.
I think the focused nature of HN content generally hides the crazy. Even though the site is populated by techs and businessmen we're still pretty much just a random cross section of society, only linked by our common interest.
Yea, that's a pretty good synopsis :).
Readability Just Became Instapaper’s Publisher Payment Layer
So you're operated MFA sites before? How was it? Do tell!
Here's a good answer by someone else :).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2184735

As far as target, I'd presume people who want to keep control of their photos and keep them for the long term (10+ years). Who knows what's going to happen with all those Facebook photos 10 years from now.
I tried operating a normal site using AdSense; it got a decent amount of traffic before Google killed my AdSense account. I never got any of the money out of it, Google never responded. This was about six, seven years ago now. To this day, I am unable to use AdSense.
"This could very well cause a potential employer to stop and spend more time on the resume, and end up getting to know more about her than the person whose first couple lines of plain text did not catch the employer's interest."

Or it could cause the employer to stare at the bafflingly unfamiliar format for the alloted 30 seconds and then move the application into the not-selected pile.

One of things that bug me about most resume recommendations is that it's incredibly difficult to make a truly general one. For every screener who will be impressed by your cover letter/section X/feature X there is another one who holds the exact opposite opinion, and most of the time you don't know who will be screening your application or what their preferences are. Very few of these recommendation/good resume template/excellent resume showcase posts mention this.
> If only Debian also distributed a version compiled for an i686 and x86-64. I know it probably wont make a huge difference for most programs. But it niggles at my sensibilities that I am not using the architecture to its full.

Um, I think they do have a x64 version...

$ cat /etc/debian_version
6.0

$ file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically link
ed (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped

$ file /lib/libc-2.11.2.so
/lib/libc-2.11.2.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dyn
amically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped
I wouldn't have to bake that into the price. If you signed up you would have your own AWS account and get billed for storage directly.
Google would do well for itself to stop horsing around with attempts to find 'algorithmic solutions' (if that's actually what they're doing), and in the short-term doing what's necessary to make a perceivable improvement in the quality of their product. Even if the content farms were changing domains regularly, Google could probably kill them faster than they'll find a way to algorithmically drop the ranking of their results, in aggregate.

For all of the recent noise that Google has been making about fixing this problem, the number of gamed search results in their index is still insanely high. Take plant diseases for example...every time I've made a search for some specific problem related to my houseplants, the results are so loaded with content-farm crap that I have to go at least a page or two in to get to reliable sources of information.

We're not even talking about relevant webspam from plant stores or online merchants...just eHow garbage, which is poorly regurgitated from the other sources that come lower in the results.
Probably, but you don't really have a great interface for photos. Dropbox is for files and works for photos but photos have such different properties than most files.
If you really want to read about technology startups in other fields, MIT's Technology Review is legendary

http://www.technologyreview.com/

Classic books before you go outside software hardware

"Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft"

http://www.amazon.com/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generati...

"Money from Thin Air: The Story of Craig McCaw, the Visionary who Invented the Cell Phone Industry, and His Next Billion-Dollar Idea"

http://www.amazon.com/Money-Thin-Air-Visionary-Billion-Dolla...

Any bio related to blockbuster drug discovery like:

"Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories behind the Drugs We Use"

http://www.amazon.com/Laughing-Gas-Viagra-Lipitor-Stories/dp...

Kinda off-beat but
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe

And if you've read many references to "Founders at Work" and do not yet own your own copy, it is the best startup book out there.
There is x\in R such that 2=x^x^x^x^x^... Furthermore, I believe it should be possible to prove there is no field S such that R\in S, whereby 2=x^x^x^x^x^.... Complex numbers don't help.
Oops my bad. I know, 'cause I am running one. What the hell was I thinking.
No, we're not giving any more information than would otherwise flow by clicking on a link in the SERPs. And actually, we're giving less information than if you would click on the same result in Google because we're not sending your search terms via the referrer header. We've stayed away from things like commission junction because then you would be giving away information as it is routed through a third-party. For more info, see the privacy policy: http://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html. In the other direction, Amazon doesn't share any personal info.
My first paying programming job was adding peer-to-peer multiplayer to an already fairly mature game that was not designed for it. This gave me a LOT of experience debugging other people's code. That style of multiplayer, common in RTS games, requires every computer to run the same calculations in lockstep. This particular code base had complex AI... with a surprising number of uninitialized variables. I guess it wasn't THAT bad looking back, but tracking them all down took me months, and I learned a lot about developing and debugging large projects in the process.

(The game was Close Combat, if anyone was going to ask)
You said that lots of scientists wrote papers on gravity. Can you cite a few ? I'm eager to see them. Thanks..
It's definitely plenty to get started, one of our uni subjects on a microcontroller we barely got past using registers.
Unfathomable, I have marathon friends who run a marathon every month. I thought that was crazy.

Before this guy, I thought these monks were the ultimate in mind-and-spirit-and-body physical endurance:

> Only 46 men have completed the 1,000-day challenge since 1885. It takes seven years to complete, as the monks must undergo other Buddhist training in meditation and calligraphy, and perform general duties within the temple.

...The final two years of the 1000-day challenge are even more daunting. In the sixth year they run 60km each day for 100 consecutive days and in the seventh year they run 84km each day for 100 consecutive days. This is the equivalent of running two Olympic marathons back-to-back every day for 100 days.

http://www.howtobefit.com/tendai-marathon-monks.htm
The europeans are on a complete different level. The Tour du Mont Blanc is insane, a lot of mountain/ultra runners go there and can't finish it. I've done it in 5 days and was exhausted (had a bad fever one day, heel problems, you name it.) But the elite guys do it under 22hs!
I would suggest checking out the WaSP interACT curriculum:
http://interact.webstandards.org/curriculum/
It's a bit on the academic side, but it does do a good job of listing the many different competencies involved in web development, as it's easy to forget how much is involved.

I just helped in putting together a proposal for an advanced web dev course for a university, and it involved:
semantics, offline/storage, graphics/3d, device access, multimedia, performance, cross-browser debugging/optimizing, user experience (web apps/mobile), SEO, and analytics.
That course is frontend-focused and presumes previous experience with basic web dev technologies (HTML/CSS/JS).

Also, if you need HTML/CSS teaching materials, I've put some here:
http://www.teaching-materials.org/htmlcss/
(JavaScript materials coming soon)
China has a number of options for killing the internet.
The most effective thing I did to improve my programming skills was to join a team that was accountable for a goal with a real deadline.

If you don't have accountability, you don't need to make progress. No one knows or cares that you didn't work on your software project if you don't tell them. But if you have people counting on you, you have to make weekly deadlines.

Accountability is the key to success. Especially one it is accompanied by a strong desire to gain acceptance and approval from the cool kids (e.g. the really good coders who you are working with).
Using vi key bindings in bash and zsh
Might work. They all have USB sticks to keep their stuff on.
...because every one of us reading these reviews is thinking "I don't want my app to suffer the same fate. Let's make a note about what not to do..."

It's also easier to remember tips and dictums when given an example to ponder than if provided in a vacuum.
Get ready to be ignored in the software industry.
>but even as a designer she has failed to demonstrate good design sense

Can somebody explain what's wrong with this design?
'fulsome' means the opposite of what you think it means.