skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
European startups have been feeling the cash crunch for a long time
This is biting me as well - I use search in place of the address bar a lot. Now, in DDG, searches like "asoiaf reddit" does not find the root-site.

I think I'm not alone in using the address bar less and less.

While I'm at it:

- I would probably change the color of the address in the results to make it easier to distinguish from the excerpt/description.

- Remove the green background that is displayed on hover. I find it hard to scan entries with that big green blob hovering :)

Edit: formatting
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We're charging for IgnitionDeck (http://ignitiondeck.com) and while we're still in pre-release, people seem very eager to support premium efforts. I'm not at all opposed to charging.
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No offence taken :)
I understand your point. Silk was something I was really interested in. Tough luck. I wonder whether there is still a chance if I can talk to the Silk team manager.
Is DDG still just one person? I assume he'll be building a bigger team then right?

Very cool that this is the Philly area, hopefully he doesn't move elsewhere.
I hope they teardown camera assembly also and give some details on new Apple designed optics.
No kidding. The emphasis on forced made it a little confusing. It seems extremely likely that the "forced" can be internal. When I'm at CrossFit, the criteria of the workout force me to exert much more strenuously than I'm comfortable with.
Not really OEM, but I'm running 11.04 on an Acer 3810T laptop. I am getting 6 hours on it with wi-fi, and the battery has lost about 10% of its charge capacity. With a brand new battery I could see it getting about 7-7.5 hours.

An OEM with a newer processor and an SSD should be able to hit 8 hours easily.
One thing I've been wondering a lot about is anti-warning signs - things that turn technical cofounders off that aren't necessarily bad things.

The first thing that comes to mind is arrogance. It certainly puts me off, but it seems like you need a good dose of arrogance to think you can solve a daunting problem.
Eloquent rant... that is unfortunately as applicable to itself as to its intended object.

Unix has its good qualities, but anyone who is not aware that systems before it had other good ideas that have been lost, is sadly ignorant of history.
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Mine is:
"C++ is to C as lung cancer is to lung".
Fair enough. I did just read this - "Various parts of Hadoop are executed using shell scripts that will only work on a Linux shell.". Sounds like you need Cygwin (currently). Guess those are the bits that will be ported.
Gruber is basing that on something mentioned by id when they were talking about the 4S, and mentioned the 512MB mark.
Programmers are arrogant
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As a nontechnical cofounder myself, I agree on all points. I've seen these kids at every tech meetup. Unfortunately, early on I've seen a few of these "qualities" in technical cofounders too.

This post reiterates a few keys points we all know. Don't hire or work with assholes (an entire book on it), and focus.
this is one of the coolest demo's i've seen. congrats.
There is some context based advertising in place already, via amazon (used to be thru some "invite only" ad service) but the volume of advertising is very low, only one ad per several visits, and I'd venture that the rate of adblock usage and non-clicking of ads is much higher among the DDG set. I hope they find a way to monetize!
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No, he got $47k, according to Envato. That was how much he made, not how much he sold. Evidently he sold somewhat more.
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Geekbench has been run on it as well, and its results were indicative of 512 MB.

Edit: actually I may be incorrect about the Geekbench part; nevertheless, 512 MB is reported from a teardown: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4964/ifixit-iphone-4s-teardown...
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I can't help but think it's more likely that these images are faked than that Apple actually designed Siri to recommend escort services.
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Wow, I literally had this exact same conversation last week. (Minus the domain name / equity portion.)

Warning sign 0: they're asking you to be a technical co-founder before you know anything about the product.
So running on a treadmill going so fast you can barely keep up actually makes you smarter? Great, quit my corporate job for nothing.
It got people effortlessly demoing the OS's UI, I think it's spot on.
Agree - google's UI is 1000X more pleasant on the eyes, DDG made me dizzy and hard to distinguish between each result, especially with their infinite scroll.
org mode clone.
No. He took home $47,000. This was after the cut.
> apart from toy apps which exist only to prove the opposite

They also prove it's possible to write portable code in Java. ;-)
Also:

What's new in Opera 12 (they've been busy)

http://www.opera.com/browser/next/#content

There is a follow up article on some hidden settings to tinker with the acceleration

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2011/10/12/hardware-acc...
I haven't had issues for a long time. It's a lot more integrated with the desktop than it was at first realease.
PLCrashReporter is great. We've built many things on top of PLCR. A sliver of the many things we've built on the SDK side:

- transparent symbolication so that you get the exact line of code
- compatibility with ARC in iOS 5
- we handle both fatal and non-fatal exceptions
- detect low-memory warnings
- and much more

We also took the time to make our small SDK compatible with others so mobile devs can just drop us in easily.

Beyond that, there's a whole other world to consider outside the SDK. For example, since we want to make sure devs don't need to ship with debug symbols built in (30-50% increase in app size), we have done all the heavy lifting instead of shifting that to the developer (and then to the user).

In terms of just dumping the logs to an S3 bucket, that may work initially, but once you start getting tons of crash reports, the real problem starts -- how to make sense of it all. We also wanted the filename and the line of code that it crashed on, but this wasn't terribly easy to do. We ran into these issues ourselves and decided to build an elegant solution to this problem.

We're excited about this space and have been deeply involved in it. Great stuff to announce soon that should shed more light!
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"What is juju?"

"Formerly called Ensemble, juju is DevOps DistilledTM. Through the use of charms (renamed from formulas), juju provides you with shareable, re-usable, and repeatable expressions of DevOps best practices. You can use them unmodified, or easily change and connect them to fit your needs. Deploying a charm is similar to installing a package on Ubuntu: ask for it and it’s there, remove it and it’s completely gone."

I have no idea what juju is.
It was actually Epic that said 512mb. The guys that created Infinity Blade. Not a big deal but figured it's something worth pointing out for people looking for more information.
Regard Ross Snyder, I distinctly recall a televised report about it on BBC News.
The reason most desktop systems copy Windows is simply because Windows is the dominant desktop OS. Similarly, most desktop GUIs ape Windows' white cursor rather than the Mac's black cursor and tile desktop icons from the left rather than the right.
Microsoft clearly doesn't get it. But that's ok, because they have no Internet-scale systems anyway.

Serious Microsoft hyperbolic bashing. The facts:

Hotmail: 369 million users, Gmail: 193 million ( around the end of 2010, does anyone have newer numbers? http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statist... )

Bing, 5PB per container: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/4870003098/

Lots of containers, "Microsoft's online operation puts big data into perspective. Bing's infrastructure is comprised of 250,000 Windows Server machines and manages some 150 petabytes of data. Microsoft processes two to three petabytes per day. "You really have to figure out how to process that kind of data to keep your index fresh," Nardella says." ( http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/bi/230700013 )

I could continue to go on but Microsoft is clearly running Internet-scale systems.
But don't you want to know the best cans to wear?

/snark

Look, there is a fine line between promoting your own articles (It's totally okay to link to your own stuff), and spamming.

Linking the same thing across a bunch of subreddits and having it receive no upvotes? That's spam.
I think you misunderstand me. Program composability is the property of being able to compose programs together, not to write a program from scratch. And the philosophy of unix command line is that pretty much everything is a CSV or fixed-width data file. Which is fine until you try to do something with a config file. Basically, the unix toolchain has a really nasty text processing gap between awk and yacc, which perl, to a certain extent, filled. Filled at the expense of throwing away the unix philosophy.

As they said in the UHH, Unix doesn't have a philosophy, it has an attitude. :)
512MB - to retain battery life despite the new processor / chipset.

The standby time seems to have gone down over its predecessor nevertheless.

http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-4s-ram-2011-10

[Edit]

In the iFixit teardown article, step 8.

How 'bout a close-up of that Apple A5 chip. 1 GHz Dual-core processor with 512 MB of DDR2 RAM... Yowza.

How do we know it's 512 MB? Check out the marking, specifically E4E4, denoting two 2 Gb LPDDR2 die—for a total of 4 Gb—or 512 MB.
It isn't the 80's anymore. People often have more than a single window visible on the screen. Refocusing to that window before hitting the menu is a waste of time, and especially aggravating and confusing if you forget.

But again, my main gripe is simply that, right or wrong, having the broad functionality of the window embedded in the window is what people are used to, and what a designer will have in his mind when putting it together, and old habits die hard.

I suspect that if you were to conduct that same experiment with current and prospective users of Unity, you would not get the same results
I love all of DDG, except its speed (might be latency, I'm in Europe)
The !bang syntax is definitely one of DDG's best features. Being able to access a few hundred site searches with a keyword is incredibly powerful, and saves time on creating quick searches in Firefox.

(The full list of !bang commands http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html)
Paul Allen on why the Singularity will be delayed.
Yeah, and the FSF and open source coders are totally okay with this.

Geeks are a strange breed. We'll code our fingers off because it's fun. Seeing somebody use our code (they like me! They really really like me!) is better payment than dollars.

(So long as we're being fed and can keep the internet from getting shut off due to non-payment)
I can totally believe it, we went with the family once to visit/snoop around the Google campus, but if Eric Schmidt or Larry Page had showed up, I don't think I would have recognized them. (And we use Google products every day.)
ISO C11 has been known as "C1x" until its standardization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C1X

Nothing earth-shaking. The _Generic keyword is probably the most exotic addition (at least among those listed on the Wikipedia page) -- it's basically switch(typeof(X)) for macros.
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I used to work in the financial industry, and while technology and business practices change, here are some things I found out that might be useful to you. Most large commercial trading sites do require substantial deposit to begin trading. Two main reasons why they do this are, to set the bar high enough to discourage tourist trading. People who know very little about the stock market and how it works that will poke their heads and just to try it out. Since the stock market is supposed to be based on knowledgeable people making knowledgeable trades a large influx of people trading haphazardly could have negative effect on the market. Given the past few years I definitely know the irony of this past statement. Secondly being that they have no history with an individual they have to make sure you have a sizable deposit on hand to cover all the different trading options. It is very easy to get in over your head financially we start to deal with options puts and calls.

On the other hand if you're looking to start your own trading you can always purchase software and not really be beholden to a commercial trading firm. However trading software is not cheap. So there is a trade-off with going commercial and putting the money on deposit or being on your own and buying the software upfront.

An option you may want to look into is your own personal bank. Many large banks now have a financial arm. Most not provide self trading accounts to the customers, but there may be some. But if you really want to try it out without too much of an investment, you can always use your bank's broker and make trades for him or her. While it won't be as exciting as daytrading, you can still do your own research and instruct them on what stocks to buy at what price and when to sell them at what price.
It's the first time they've done this sort of demo. I betcha the next realeses will not have as many issues.

Release early, realease often.

Most potential users don't go through the effort of downloading and running a live cd/usb. The web demo is a major hook, it just needs a couple iterations to be perfected. That is the way of the open source.
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Although as far as I can tell right now the only new "eye candy" is a swooping transition when you switch between map and street-view.
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This doesn't actually work on a phone, and supposedly the company pushes a solution for "creating responsive websites"?

Cool.
Thx! We should be getting some European servers in the short-term. We just added some in Singapore, and Europe is next.
My Arch with 7.11 works (sort of--it fails to render the road label text correctly). Did you --enable-webgl and --ignore-gpu-blacklist ?

It's a good improvement to Maps, I think.
> nothing but well-intentioned vapor.

Why do people keep saying this? It exists. You can use it.
We are a few people now, though officially just two employees: http://ye.gg/inbound

No plans to move. In fact, we're renting our first office in Paoli, PA (right off SEPTA/Amtrak) starting in Dec.
Actually, getting the backtrace sounds like a pretty difficult part:

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/objc/Reliable_Crash_Repor...
I wouldn't say they are consciously planting them. But when people are interviewed by reporters they often say that something they want to happen is already happening.
How many times throughout history have we heard this? I think that this is probably the most important part in any huge discovery throughout history, people refusing to believe or not knowing that it that it "can't be done".

(Of course the trick is knowing when something really can't be done, ex. alchemy)
What I like is no zooming car ads blocking content like on Yahoo or the unhelpful auto-entry and auto-guessing features that gets in my way like on Google (e.g. searching for what Google thinks I meant instead of what I actually typed, did Google buy Microsoft Bob and Office Assistant Clippy?)
It's not like they had a bunch of people sitting around a conference table thinking up the phrases people might ask it. It's a natural language parsing engine; it understands "horny" as sex, and pulled up related Yelp listings.
And if you've got your emacs (gnu) open:

M-x doctor

> rms probably doesn't use Siri or any other Apple product
< Does it bother you that Stallman is vivid?

Not quite sure what it means by that...

( M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead used to be amusing, until yow.el got pithed )
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Steve Jobs wasn't a conventional CEO and was widely known to micromanage the design of products. It's likely that he personally signed off on exactly how the tap to focus feature worked from a design standpoint.

Schmidt's no slouch though, he's just on the engineering side (he co-write lex!) instead of design side. I bet Schmidt has a great understanding of how Google's search software works.
Rush Limbaugh was right after all. Parkinsons "patients" are just faking an illness that (if it actually exists to begin with) can be cured by getting a job.

On a side note, couldn't we use them as a (forced) alternative energy resource or put them to use rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure? It'll be like the Matrix for lazy Parkinsons "patients". Instead of a computer generated dream world, we put them on stationary electricity generating bicycles and strap a few electrodes to sensitive bodily areas. (cue Morpheus and the Duracell battery..)

Megadittos.
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I'm hoping for a review from a real photographer's site.
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I'll try to explain how I viewed the story:

I think the story is better taken as a lesson in both humility, and finding happiness rather than an example of Steve's benevolence. The reason is that this man had very legitimate reasons to take this interaction negatively: He's the famous CEO of the company they are standing in front of, and they didn't recognize him. He's battling a serious illness, rather publicly, and they don't seem to think this could be imposing. His time is incredibly important to him, both in the fact that he is CEO, but also because of his health, he's working fast to try and get everything in order to secure the future success of his company. From his point of view, he could've viewed them as ignorant people who are wasting his very limited time, and he would be right on some level.

He could've said no or simply ignored them, and he would've have legitimate excuse to do so - but the fact that he didn't says something about him. I think a lot of people assume that what that says is "because he wasn't a jerk, it makes him a nice person" but I think it's more that he was able to take what very well could've been a negative interaction and instead of dismissing it, see the positive side of it, and get enjoyment out of it. He was able to take the humble route, and instead of ignoring them, lambasting them, or simply revealing who he was and risk embarrassing them, he simply fulfilled the request and went on his way.

I took this is more a lesson in ego, humility, and happiness than it is evidence for/against his character.
Raising capital lets them hire additional people.
Is this like TestFlight[1] but for apps that are already in consumers hands? (i.e. not BETA testing)

[1]https://testflightapp.com/
I agree with autocomplete. I created a habit in college of using Google as calculator. It was the fastest way to use and convert units like astronomical units and solar masses. My wife and I switched to DDG for several months (Nov 10 - July 11), but the lack of autocompute calculations drove me away. It's a ridiculous thing to want in a search engine, but there it is.
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My father has Parkinson's so I know a bit about this topic. The positive effects of bicycling on motor control are relatively well-known and there is special equipment available. Mostly, it's tricycles modified to accomodate a person with disabilities.

They are fairly hard to fall off of. The only downsides are cost and storage. They usually run upward of $2k and take more space due to the 3D factor.
Yeah, and Fugitive for Mercurial would be really big and twisty. I want something fairly easy but still useful/illustrative.
Ads. They are already running ads including amazon affiliate.
I agree with the basic hypothesis. Though wonder how it can be measured. I know my preferred term is awareness, but neither is it any more measurable. My experience suggests two tasks at a time is a reasonable substitute to make sure you are aware. For ex: counting the steps while running
You are 100% correct. Sorry, I'm on a very bandwidth-constrained connection while I'm on travel. It looked like a full-screen video to me.

Thanks!
You know you've got a shitty co-founder if they can't build a product or sell one. Real hustlers make it happen - "idea guys" need not apply.
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Yes, you're right, I mostly know about funding rounds raised by YC startups. It could be they are just unusually fortunate-- that YC's brand and connections are so powerful that they have insulated startups we fund from a downward trend affecting everyone else. But while I'd like to believe we had that kind of power, it seems unlikely.
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They want you to go full-time on it but they won't.
Well played. Probably right.
The original is here:
http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/12/siri-weird-things-iphone-...

I'm sure the joke responses are deliberate, just as Infocom text adventure games were programmed to be 'smart' enough to respond to predictable human input.
I generally run from non-software people wanting to be in the software business but not even want to learn or try to understand how software is built.

You might not do construction yourself but the more you know the better it will turn out being the non-technical general contractor.

I like the one rule a-lot: Ignore them if they have no expertise in the area they're wanting to startup in. Its fine if they don't program.

If you do get involved with a non-tech cofounder, don't take equity or deferred income. Startups are a little like dating in the beginning, there's no need to get married before you ever work together. Someone should pay for your time instead of expecting it for free.

If being paid for your time is working well it's easy to figure out ownership after. If the non-tech cofounder is not willing to put his money where his mouth is, it might be full of something else.

Even as a developer, when I've gotten help on an idea from a friend or colleague I always pay them and say do as much as you can for me, this is my money out of my own pocket. Since us developers are a egalitarian helpful bunch often they want to just help as friends but I make sure to pay because it's just respecting their time and saying hey, if this goes somewhere, we can always figure that out. I've never lost a friendship/colleage relationship this way.
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If they pay you full time could it be a bit different?
The arrow keys worked for me.
Uhmmm, nope, please do not propagate that attitude. It's demeaning to the rest of us software guys. Some may even say it's because of this we're sometimes patronized and taken advantage of.

Call me shallow but I like some of the nicer things in life. And I want to buy a fast car too. If a hardware engineer can do it, is it wrong for me to want to do it ?
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granny smith doesn't install ubuntu. her kid does. no operating system will ever be suitable for installation by grandma, nor should it ever be.