skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so, the people using DDG are still a tiny tiny minority. If they did what google did with the browser market when they released Chrome then you would be warranted in saying they blew it wide open, but for what DDG has done with search? I don't think so, not yet anyway. Maybe when they've penetrated beyond the tech "elite" they might get somewhere, but right now if I ask any of my friends (who are relatively in the know about technology) they haven't heard of DDG.

Personally I don't think DDG will show wide success because the majority of people don't care about the added extras it provides, it's just other search engines (I think their major source is the bing api? Not 100% sure [1]) data with pretty labels and positioning, which very few care for. I search a relatively large amount and what DDG adds doesn't make it worth switching for me because I've become accustomed to how Google displays search results and adapted my behaviour to that.

[1] http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/duck-duck-go-arc... (potentially no longer accurate which is why I'm not sure)
Is DDG one person?
Idea is interesting. I don't think I would pay for the service, granted I'm not your target audience (I don't use flickr, photobucket, etc.).

Also, I'd go with $12-$24 a year instead of $1-$2 a month. Just looks nicer, and converts a lot better.
"you could say well, from the other people I've been talking to it looks like positions like this one pay between $45 and $65 an hour"

Or you could just say "well, from the other people I've been talking to it looks like positions like this one pay about $75 an hour."
Ask HN: A Syllabus for Modern Web Development?
How would you outline a one semester syllabus on Modern Web Development? Which are the key technologies, concepts and languages to include?
I don't think it's as big a chance as you think. Young people are (a) cheap, (b) an unknown quantity, and (c) to a large degree, their future growth will be shaped by what they apply themselves to when they're young. That is, they're a relatively cheap bet on unknown odds, but odds that you can affect by what you encourage them to try.
Where did I say that the situation was binary? Vaccines obviously don’t have to be 100 percent effective and they can kill kids and still be worth it. (A 0.5 percent chance of dying from the vaccine and a 0.5 percent chance of dying from the disease is obviously better than a 10 percent chance of dying from the disease. Numbers for illustrative purposes only.)

Oh, and in the case of, for example, smallpox the situation was actually binary. As late as 1959 two million people were dying from smallpox every year and millions more contracted the disease every year. There have been no deaths from smallpox since 1978, it has been completely eradicated.

The smallpox vaccine saves millions of lives every year.
Unless he went with $1.20 a month and pointed out that it's only 10 cents a month (echoes of Sprint's old 10 cents a minute ad). Then not only would he have a robust feature set to compete, but also a pricing advantage over Flickr.
Pearls before swine.

I have no bias against Mr. Murdoch but why waste the limited amount of time and energy afforded each of us by freely offering unrequested and uncompensated advice?
Do you happen to know how DDG is making money, then?
You need to eat the S3/CloudFront costs and bake it into the price. Almost nobody has an AWS account. The people that do are either using it for work/startup stuff, or are like me and get annoying $0.12 charge every month.
Out of curiosity, which feature from 1.2.2 do you need that 0.9.8 doesn't have?
I'm sure if he had a serious problem he would have been injured months ago.
What are the prerequisites for the course? Do they already know HTML? CSS? Will there be other courses after this one?

Definitely teach about accessibility, standards compliance, and the necessity of bending to the browsers your audience uses.
I don't think the question is about non-technical business people 'showing chops...'

This is about smart people - there are brilliant business people and there are brilliant hackers.

They don't need to worry about showing chops (whatever that means) - they'll worry about ideas and creating greatness one way or another.
Then where's HN's DMCA policy? Or are they just not worried that they'll turn into a link dump for tv shows and thus be targeted?
I really appreciate something like this. I have been looking to start learning programming, and seeing something like this makes me hopeful that it's not as painful as it looks.
Gabriel has money from previous businesses :p
Yeah, Gabriel Weinberg: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/
At 9:40/mile my heartrate won't go below 180, I'm 27...
It's not really an oxymoron--it just means it's a standardised way of interacting with something ("API") that isn't officially condoned/supported by the original creator ("Unofficial").
Well, you might be disappointed if you switch to ubuntu: http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/openssl

edit: the latest OpenSSL release is 1.0.0, not 1.2.2. And development on the 0.9.8-series seems to be still active, as latest version on it was released on the same day that 1.0.0c

edit2: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578376
Configuring and maintaining a deployment environment is really, really hard.

You need to set the thing up in the first place. You need to secure it. You need to configure monitoring. When something breaks, you need to know how to fix it.

Virtual servers don't help that much - at least you don't have to build the thing with your own hands, but the sysadmin angle is pretty much the same.

It's a ton of very specialised knowledge which a great deal of web application developers don't have - and if they do have it, they may still not feel confident being the person on call.

There's a good reason the Heroku guys earned $200 million for making that set of problems go away.
What kind of “unpredictable subtle way” do you think leaving out semicolons can break things? The only way I know is what was mentioned in the article “Semicolons in JavaScript are optional”, where this code is incorrect:

a = b + c
(d + e).print()

. The author of the article says you can fix this by always putting a semicolon before any line-starting parentheses, like

;(d + e).print()

. Are you saying that you expect that rule to be too hard to remember for developers? If not, you should be able to give an example of another case where leaving out semicolons breaks things.

Also, I agree that showing off your understanding of JavaScript parsing is a bad reason to leave out semicolons, but you imply that that is the reason everyone leaves out semicolons, and that is false. As you said, there are aesthetic reasons to do it – but having good aesthetics of code can (slightly) help one understand code more quickly, so it’s not pointless.
That may be true, but losing multiple file upload in IE and Opera is a pretty big deal (if broad support is needed). An ideal solution would use HTML5 and fall back to Flash.
Google also has weird requirements over a candidate's schooling, more than just about any other employer I've ever seen. People with 20 years of experience get quizzed about their schooling decades before during interviews.
I won't say it's common, but it isn't all that unusual in the US either, at least among my group of friends. I came in with only 20-something hours and was on the low end (really focued on my math, finished all the necessary credits for my Comp Sci. degree before leaving high school). A friend of mine, on the other hand, came in with just under 70 credits, but they were all the gen-ed with some upper level math thrown in. While that'd normally be a little over half a degree, she added a second major that balanced it out.

A number of my friends did this though, so I don't think it's quite as big of an accomplishment in the US than elsewhere. Though I'll be the first to admit that my group of friends tended to be the high achievers in high school/university.

-- A undergraduate in CS/Mathematics
Yeah, that's what it was like in the US 10-15 years ago. AP courses were still pretty new/unique when I was in high school, but these days they're as common as clubs or intramural sports.

One thing I hate about bragging about that sort of thing is that it's (unfortunately) more of a reflection on the quality of the high school you attended than it is on your character. The best students at the worst high schools in the US don't have the same access to AP courses as the average student at the best high schools.
It sounds like you're saying you don't believe a protest can be effective without a confrontation with the police.
Here you go!

https://bitbucket.org/pnathan/uirtos

Turned out it was a preemptive RTOS. I had forgotten that.
Bing for...
I don't get the reference. The search engines don't turn up anything relevant either.
Using GAE Cron to get SMS Alerts from Gmail
Right. Specifically, at least the x86 CD/DVD images use isohybrid, which makes them simultaneously valid as burnable media images and as bootable disk images.

Also, Debian has combined 32-bit and 64-bit x86 images, so you don't have to decide in advance which one you need. Just download the multi-arch image and it will autodetect: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/multi-arch/iso-cd/...

And this release also coincides with a Debian website redesign, which makes the site both much more usable and much shinier. Notice that http://debian.org/ has a prominent link to the x86 multi-arch image in the upper right corner of the page.
If neither is more important, why do the business monkeys get paid significantly more than the programming monkeys?
Why You Shouldn’t Trust the uSamp Verizon iPhone Survey
I'm not convinced that that's a good enough reason not to do it.

If you are that much more concerned about getting the best possible price (or whatever) vs. getting a set number you actually want, then you should go into the negotiation with enough information to already know what the best possible price should be.
Some businesses are run by engineers and are really successful because they solve difficult problems really well. They have sales/marketing people, but their main focus is in engineering. Google is a great example of such a company.

Other businesses are run by businessmen and are really successful because they can sell and market things that other people/businesses are willing to pay a lot of money for. They might have a few coders, but they focus on sales because their business is in exploiting the difference between the value some software brings and the cost it takes to produce the software. Oracle does this, and they're tremendously profitable, too.

Engineers make things. Salespeople get people to pay money for them. They're both necessary, but the importance of each really depends on the industry. It doesn't take a few thousand of the brightest minds in the world to make a mediocre database. And it doesn't take a giant marketing team to sell ad space through an auction.

But if you're going to change the world with new technology, you'll want a company run by engineers. If you're going to exploit a niche in corporate bureaucracy, you'll want lots of sales/business guys.
They've been working on the important features first such as gopherfs
I know of a couple ways:

- Adding affiliate codes to the search results: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html The relevant part is "we may add an affiliate code to some eCommerce sites (e.g. Amazon & eBay)". It looks like this is where most of the revenue comes from, according to http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/01/26/can-a-start-u... . Relevant part is "The site is self-funded and saw about $15,000 in revenue last year, mostly through Amazon’s affiliate program, which pays whenever a customer buys an Amazon product after clicking on a DuckDuckGo link."

- Sponsorships where the sponsor banner displays on all search result pages: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/05/duck-duck-go-tra...
Andromeda, the TV show. On some episode, on some planet, they build a bridge to the moon and I think somehow also to the future. When they open it, the Magog from the future come pouring out. The Magog are a race that eat humans and also lay their eggs in them and the eggs feed on the (still living) humans until they hatch out. Not exactly pleasant stuff.

Or at least that's what my mangled brain recalls from watching it a zillion years ago.

It was the first thing that came to mind in response to "never burn a bridge". I am disinclined to burn bridges myself. But I find sometimes that trying like hell to avoid burning the bridge just gets me into huge messes that have me wondering if so much politeness, manners, respectfulness and what not is really a good thing. It has helped me make my peace with incidents in my life where other people torched the bridge. At least it's been put to rest.

Edit: Link: http://andromeda.wikia.com/wiki/Abridging_the_Devils_Divide
I understand what you're saying, but I don't think I'd feel like I lost. Getting the other person to agree to your terms is winning.
AFAIK, Mobile Safari does not support file uploads, so this (or any similar plugin) will not work.
I guess what works for some people doesn't work for others; most often when I'm looking for something I enjoy the wikipedia article on it and think that it's relevant. Also, a lot of times I don't actually go to google but type my query into the search bar (google is set as my default) so a search happens. It takes me to the first site, and most of the time it's wikipedia I want / get.

But I may just be an edge case. Hm.
What are some examples of what you would like (if they were available)?
That is really cool, but there are a couple of problems with this:

1. An IP can have many domains, (and a domain many IPs), so it may not resolve to the right page.

2. Many sites benefit from the network effect. Ten people seed, 100 download initially, then continue to seed, allowing 1000 to download, etc. Without mass adoption of snooping for who-is information people are basically going to move on anyways.

But I think I've thought a partial solution. What we want is two things: Have a significant portion of the semi-technical (a hacker's girlfriend or boyfriend, for example) internet population be able to get back to the site they want. Secondly we want the government to not be able to take down the server that we are communicating with once we found out where it is.

All that is really needed to make domain name seizure irrelevant is a little browser addon "IP History" or "Website Time Machine" or something that will passively remember where the IPs are of sites you've browsed. Each time you try to go to a URL the addon will make a check to see what percentage of the internet browsers have reverted to the old IP address. If this % goes greater than a threshold, say 0.5%, it can slide out a window saying "Some people have used the time machine on this page recently, are you sure this is what you want?"

It makes DNS a less distributed thing. I don't think manipulation would be all that much of a problem, (I can think or 3 counter measures right off the bat).

As for the IP problem, if this browser addon becomes widely used enough then it could support some sort of standard that admins could solve the one-ip-but-many-domains problem.
I agree, and actually have open sourced my LaTeX resume in case anyone wants to use bits and pieces of it:

https://github.com/mdwrigh2/resume
Related article from a ccTLD perspective:

http://internetnz.net.nz/news/blog/2011/nz-right-choice-Kiwi...
Modern versions of ssh support the "HashKnownHosts" file which prevents people from discovering what hosts you have ssh'd to in the past - and, as a side effect, prevents tab-completion from discovering what hosts you have ssh'd to as well. ssh_config(5) says the option is disabled by default, but Ubuntu at least enables it in /etc/ssh/ssh_config.
There is a significant link between the health of a population and its economic growth. When societies are ailed by preventable diseases, the labor force productivity remains hindered. By working to improve the health of people within impoverished countries, they can better spend allocate (which includes time) to education, industrialization, etc. The goal is the increase the labor force productivity.

Eventually, with growth, people find that it's not as much of a necessity to have as many children, so they produce less. http://www.doceo.co.uk/background/riesman.htm The key here is to get to the top of the 'S'-shaped curve, and the only way to do that is to first improve public health.
Accidental satire cuts deepest.
> There are not 10 herokous or similar

1. Salesforce's Force.com

2. Amazon's EC2

3. Google's AppEngine

4. Microsoft's Windows Azure

5. VMWare/Salesforce's VMForce

6. Makara

7. CloudBees

8. PiCloud

9. PHPFog

10. DuoStack

I'm not sure it's obvious that PaaS is "winner take all", but even if it is, right now there are several deep-pocketed companies fighting to be that winner. Sounds pretty good if you're looking for an exit.
Hmm, I don't understand how an investor can demote you as CEO of your own company. Can someone explain?
Great!

BTW do you know any similar effort regarding Goole Reader?
The Go project has a pretty good way of doing this.
http://golang.org/doc/contribute.html

Posting a changelist for review also posts to the dev mailing list for discussion and approval.
My overall impression of this resume was that I wanted to go see the actual websites this person made. Which is a far better impression than a cookie-cutter bulleted list of facts that flower what you actual did at your job. As the meme states, "Haters gonna hate" - which certainly remains true judging by the lengthy responses here.
do a contest to select a group of people where you give them a make over and a perhaps a couple dating lessons.
then pair up people on dates. Document everything in videos. what kind of fashion advices were given, what kind of places you should take people to along with dating tips that were given to them. and then post the videos on the website. your dating site could also serve as a goto resource on dating etiquette and tips to improving your odds in dating success.

A big percentage of people go on dating sites because they don't have time to actually go out and meet people. But I believe there is a bigger percentage of people that just lack the know-how of doing things in real life.
My first embedded chip had 256bytes of memory and 16 instructions
Probably related to the lifestyles they are content with.
I think it's cute how people like to shout when a browser out-does Chrome in Javascript performance but neglect to mention t hat before Chrome started making performance an issue, nobody was inclined to work on it at all.

Also, the above is true when run in VMWare Fusion... Is it still true natively? And with other game frameworks?
No, I'm in your boat too. I almost always find the answer I'm looking for in the Wikipedia article, if there is one.
You can check if they have an agent registered by going here:

http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/

It's a pain in the rear to find a given site because they give you PDFs and they're out of date, so I'm not going to look it up. You can find other hints on finding someone's registered agent here:

http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2009/07/16/6-steps-to-find-a-...

So I don't know whether or not YC has one, but you do not get safe harbor protection if you don't have one. That means you can be blamed for something your users do.

Hopefully, HN's users won't make that into a problem, but as a pure business decision, it's unwise not to. Has anyone ever submitted news from the Las Vegas Review Journal? They're going around and suing people right now for that, looking in particular for people who don't have a registered DMCA agent and who can, therefore, be held liable for their users actions. HN links to tons of news sources. If that case pans out for them, I'd expect it to turn into a legal gold rush for enterprising lawyers. $105 to register your site is pretty cheap insurance.

IANAL. This is not legal advice. Copyright lawsuits are very expensive, due to the high statutory damages. Talking with a lawyer is cheap in comparison, so be sure to get proper legal advice before taking any legal action.
Really magnificent results. This is not result just of exercise but probably genetics, there is no many people that can do what this man does.
Yes, there was a cultural gap. Thanks for explaining it to me. I knew there was such a thing as a baby shower, but I didn’t know that it was customary to create a wish-list for them, or for weddings.
It's unclear whether you agree with the g'parent or disagree. Perhaps that was intentional. :)
Agree totally, Vineet.
I would definitely pay for a service like this. It would be even more convenient if you handled billing for S3 for me while me still retaining ownership. I would pay a premium on top of S3's services. It would also be neat if you could frame this as a Mozy or Backblaze for photos only... Emphasize storage rather than community like Flickr and Facebook do.

I don't know if I'm your target demographic though:

> Hobbyist photographer

> Flickr Pro account user

> 29 years old

> Upload ~15-20 photos a month mostly because I use flickr as a showcase rather than storage

> Shoot in RAW

EDIT: Also... Please do not use a dark background. Or, if you do, please give users the option to customize the theme. Dark backgrounds are extremely irritating to me.
I think the difference is the attitude is different now - when Cuil launched the world laughed and said nothing could be as good as Google. Almost 3 years later a small, insignificant yet maybe not, number of people are starting to use alternatives.

A good parallel could be Firefox - Internet Explorer was the way to browse the internet, now they're just a way.

If Google wants to be the search engine a decade from now they may have to earn that right all over again.
DDG is supplanting labor intensive algorithmic improvements with manually manicured search results. Compared to Google's vast network of resources, it is a logical step for DDG to take. It is, essentially, a fast fix to a real problem.

Google has to do things the hard (and dare I say... proper?) way.
Your description is uncomfortably spot on.

I think an apt adjective for many of our courses and assignments is "contrived".
http://torrentfreak.com/us-resume-file-sharing-domain-seizur...

"Rojadirecta is an unusual target for several reasons, not least because the site has been declared legal twice by Spanish courts. The site’s owners have previously fought a three year legal battle in Spain, which they won, but a single seizure warrant from US authorities has made this victory pointless."
After the first 30 marathons, his body has probably settled into a pretty efficient, gentle way to run, out of necessity. There are, in fact, ways to run that put less wear and tear on your body.

It's probably possible to go out in a single day with poor form and do more damage to your body than this guy did in an entire year.
If it's dual-enrollment credit that would be a bit more meaningful than AP credits. Still kind of a silly thing to put on a resume, I think.
If I may ask without myself attempting to accumulate the history, have you kept up to date on the whole Sage not being maintained, Sage / XSS vulnerability, Sage-Too fork, Sage-Too being abandoned due to feelings in general about freeloaders (or was that Sage?), someone's custom patch........ thing? I checked out of it all year or two ago when I rebuilt the system it was installed on.

If Sage addressed the XSS concern(s) and is being maintained, I'm tempted to reinstall it.
What Debian released is an stable distribution that is going to be maintained for the next 3 or 4 years. It is better to release something stable and well tested than bleeding edge stuff.

Many people don't get Debian. This is a released aimed for servers and stable workstations. If you want or need bleeding edge stuff you can use Debian testing/unstable or Ubuntu as you suggested.