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I've been using DDG for the past 2 weeks or so.
First, the bad:
1. It's really slow. Latency is usually on the order of seconds, as opposed to 100s of milliseconds on Google.
2. Results could be better. Roughly 80-90% of the time I find what I'm looking for, but the rest of the time Google does much better (note: it's possible that DDG is getting queries that Google misses).

Now, the good:
1. The one-box is really, really good. A lot of the time, I'm searching for domain-specific queries, especially when I'm coding. DDG brings up a one-box with something like a stack-overflow link and often has exactly the code snippet I'm looking for.
2. I don't have to give more information to google. Admittedly, they already get my email and stuff, but at least this way I'm spreading my information so no one has absolutely all of it.

Finally, the things that are in principle useful but I don't use much:
1. Bang commands. Seriously, I'm not going to type !cplusplus to search cplusplus.com, I'll just click the first link. I also can't remember all of them. I do use !g, !image, and !video, but mainly because they take me to a better search engine.
2. The search suggestions in the top right. It's a good idea, but I don't have the cognitive capacity to keep track of those in addition to the search results.
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1. Post link on Facebook redirected through your web server.
2. Correlate ip/site coming from with individual.

Now you have stats on who is stalking/interested in you. (Disclaimer: I don't use Facebook)
It's roughly a six-pack of beer. There are enough people who drink more than that and perform just fine.

1/2 of 0.5L 40% alc. vodka = 100gr of ethanol

~20 grams of ethanol per 330ml bottle of beer.

or ~1 750ml bottle of wine.
No, it wouldn't. You can just as easily perform searches on those other sites directly from Chrome's Omnibar without having to go through a middleman like DuckDuckGo.
Not everything is a conspiracy theory. As a start-up we wanted to solve only one problem: giving users alternative for paying for the quality content. Where this leads us we'll see. As a species we already made a mistake thousand years ago when starting to mass produce the food. But today we're here and it's not that bad.
Are you the type of person who walks up an escalator or lets it take you up
so what's the spring for? why not just rotate the generator directly (as i suggested)? or, if the spring is to store energy, what is the battery for? it makes no sense.
Here's a story for you: There's a journalist from Saudi Arabia that's being threatened with execution for a comment he made on Twitter.

I'm sure you've heard. How would you like to have shown up in his address book? Or should we all rest assured that the all-powerful people at Path would refuse governmental threats?

>All Path did was try to use your data to help you

You don't really buy that...do you? These companies all make money from our data, in some form or another. I understand that Path isn't solely to blame here, but they played the game like everyone else and happened to get caught. I feel no pity.
It is also very important to know that currently there are many social activists working against mining in the region. Also it seems that the level of corruption in the relationship between the governments and the big mining companies is huge.
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you forgot to enclose your answer in a <sardonic> tag
it doesn't really help the point the author is trying to make that this post is flawed, biased and laced with logical fallacies and FUD.

Let me point out a few things:

- google says it analyzes gmail contents algorithmically, but do we really know what they actually do ?
- email being made out of secure or insecure protocols is irrelevant to gmail respecting privacy
- it is not about email security, it's about privacy.
- secure email is not a myth, see gpg
- one individual who could gain access to a mailbox is not the same order of magnitude than a transnational corporation systematically going through inboxes of milions of people.
- "Google becomes evil and steals all your email to do X "is not on your list of plausible threats because it's worded wrong, try "Google goes through all your email and adds it to the info they have on you to build a very detailed profile of you and your life" which goes on the confirmed list along with "people have been locked out of the gmail accounts without a valid reason"
- Google is obviously about selling ads [1] and has to maintain trust from their users for this to work, it does not mean they have to respect people privacy, actually it even means the opposite, they have to breach on people's privacy and make it look so it won't hurt their users' trust.
- gmail has default https, sure, but only after a high profile case of hacked gmail accounts made it to the medias. [2]

Lastly, about the advice to never use @gmail.com addresses, I wonder if using our own domain would protect us from google having the abilty to lock us out of our inbox.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-apple-and-google-wh...
[2] http://www.physorg.com/news182629293.html
I never get this attitude.

Without mechanisms for publishers to monetize visitors, publisher quality deteriorates or becomes untenable for independents.

In a world where nobody wants to pay for content, this is a minimally disruptive, novel way to pass revenue directly into the hands of publishers that are working hard to create content.
Andy Delcambre wrote a post two months ago about how Engine Yard handles zero-downtime deploys with migrations. Link here: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/zero-downtime-deploys-wi...
App store link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/duckduckgo-search/id479988136...
This feels like Amarok 2.0. Amarok 1.4 was great in its simplicity, then they brought in a so called UI Design Expert and the whole thing just fell apart.
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I don't think Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism[0] can be considered strange religions/edge cases.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
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arguably, arguably all the 'interfaces' needed to make code do a web site end up being a domain-specific language
Exactly. It's an issue because, if someone asks him for his sources, he can say no: if someone asks Path for his sources (via subpoena), they might not be able to say no. So this upload means he can no longer guarantee sources their name will never come out.
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can someone explain me why this problem is important?

or it just happens to be another problem to be solved?
Seems like a good opportunity for a honey pot.
I find it difficult to believe that it's a foregone conclusion that more than 2/3 of adults in the United States of America, my home, have involved themselves with an illegal drug.

I'm not doubting the study, I can't grasp the outcome.
You should change it to a capital s (%S) for your Wikipedia search bookmark:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches#Creating_bo...
Lithium can be recovered from seawater:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304386X879...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=lithium+seawat...

http://gas2.org/2008/10/13/lithium-counterpoint-no-shortage-...

While a lithium trading cartel can and will exist as long as prices for mining are lower than prices for extraction, the chance of a war over lithium are practically negligible. The price of lithium from the ocean is only five times the cost from mining, and the cost of lithium represents a small fraction ( < $100) of an EV.

>And that brings us to yet another issue: the fact that lithium ion batteries, despite the name, just really don’t use that much lithium. About 1.4 kilograms of lithium carbonate are needed per kilowatt hour of lithium-ion batteries. A kilowatt hour of bulk lithium ion batteries costs $300 to $500. Hence, lithium carbonate costs only make up 1/30th to 1/50th the cost of the cells! The price could increase tenfold and you’d barely notice the difference.
Source: Gas 2.0 (http://s.tt/12zDD)
My guess is that the generator can't handle the stresses (both physical and electrical) of someone cranking on the battery with all their strength. The spring would allow some slippage once it's completely wound, than then it would be able to feed a steady low-voltage charge into the battery.

That said, it doesn't seem likely that this would provide a significant charge. It would be nice, but when things like this seem too good to be true, then they're most likely a pipe dream.
Oh good, some design students have made a 3D mockup. That sounds like science. The next step in the process is to sit back and rake in the money! Actually producing or testing the thing is just a minor detail.

(Why a battery and not a capacitor?)
I believe multiple SAT attempts are reported to the applicant's schools.
If the paradox of choice is making the options an uncomfortable situation for you, just write down the top 6 and roll a die. Problem fucking solved. Or act like a grown up and evaluate your options.
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Bad science. This is unlikely to actually work.
I'll go one step further:

I don't even use Chrome's search shortcuts anymore. I just type whatever into the address bar, and Google almost always has what I want in the top 3 results. With keyboard shortcuts, I can launch the correct Google result with my keyboard, and I think it ends up being considerably faster than using a specific search engine keyword. It's also better at times, since some sites (like Wikipedia and some documentation sites) have terrible built-in search functionality.
Google's currently doing a similar thing with their new Customer Insights—on sites like ZAGAT.com, instead of seeing a paywall, the user is asked to answer a survey question.
smart people may or may not ask questions, that depends on the situation. professors, however, usually do ask questions; most of the time just to announce their presence and attract attention.
I began switching from VLC to MPlayerX for most of my media files because I liked the auto-hiding UI, showing only the video when not hovering the application. Will this be the same deal? If so, I'll switch back on release-day.
> I figured most hackers like to just crawl into a hole and code and not have to worry about anything else about the business - if that's the case, why not just stick w/ a 9-5 job?

Because a 9-5 job also involves doing tons of things that aren't coding. Mostly, communicating your intent and your results to other people--not to convince anyone of anything, but because they need information you already have in order to work with you. And, unsurprisingly, having business partners also requires this... but being a single founder doesn't. Obscurity is the price many pay for being able to avoid socialization (with anyone except their customers, and perhaps not even them.)
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Totally agree with the vibe of Berkeley that PG talks about in "Cities and Ambition"; it's all about quality of life. I lived there for a couple years and loved it (though I wasn't in tech at the time), and now I'm considering relocating there again.

For me the greatest advantage of Berkeley is the opportunity for amazing outdoor recreation, which is a boon if you enjoy nature and want to keep in shape while avoiding the gym. You can live literally minutes away from trail heads into the hills for hiking or biking. Lunchtime trail running? Not a problem. Also at Berkeley Marina you have one of the best locations for sailing in the Bay Area.

Access to healthy food is also a huge plus. I've never seen a wider selection of reasonably priced vegetables than at the produce section of the Berkeley Bowl.

And, there's far more sunshine than anywhere else on the Peninsula north of Millbrae.

Lastly, I agree with your comments and disagree with the author's regarding the commute to SV. An occasional commute to SV is very doable by BART and Caltrain, but a ridiculously stressful waste by car. Just bring your earplugs for those acoustically torturous minutes in the Transbay Tunnel.
For sure.

Most of the time migrations are developed in a feature branch, so the owner is responsible for splitting his branch into two or three before sending pull requests (as many as required to address issues with hot compatibility).

This means that we have two or more merges (and deploys) from master, each requiring a full run of the test suite.
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Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish for himself and he'll have fish for the rest of his life.

There is a time and a place for asking questions, and if you regularly need to ask questions to which you can easily find an accurate/complete answer to without help you'll probably learn more from "learning to fish".
Oh no it looks horrible.
One of my smaller sites is like this. Five short pages, about 30 page views per day, and makes $100+/month. I haven't changed the content in a couple of years.

Have got another that makes 20-30x that and I spend no time on it.
That's kind of surprising to me, patient confidentiality doesn't apply for psychiatrists?
Mainly that you don't need to set them up. I have set up loads of custom searches in Opera (which was the first to have this functionality, years ago), but there are always search engines you hadn't thought of.

Looking at the !bang help page for DDG, I discovered HN Search, for instance, which I did not know of before. Knowing this, I could of course set it up as my own custom search, but `!hn whatever` is easy enough that I haven't felt the need yet. Additionally, dunno if Chrome or FF do this, but in Opera if you select text and right-click it you can search it with a custom search engine. It's in a submenu of the context menu, and it's nice to not have it too cluttered :)

One additional trick with custom searches in the browser, is to key Google's "Feeling Lucky" to `go` (just append `&btnI=yes` to the search URL) and DDG's equivalent feature to `dd` (prepending `!+` to the query, that's a bang and an encoded space btw). Super useful if you know your first hit is going to be what you want anyway. For some reason, Google occasionally gives you the result pages anyway instead of redirecting you, btw. Didn't use to, but they changed something I guess.
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Perhaps I'm not using the search keywords functionality correctly, but in my experience, it works in one of two ways.

- Start typing 'wiki...' and it will autocomplete to http://en.wikipedia.org In order to search that site, I have to left arrow, space, and then type my query. I found that while usually helpful, the autocomplete was occasionally unpredictable/frustrating enough to me that it negated the times it was helpful. Having fine tuned control w/o autocomplete is preferable to me.

- Using the omnibox to enter 'wiki http codes', which will pull up google results. I then have to tab or otherwise use keyboard shortcuts to select the first link, all of which are a worse user experience than the bang syntax to me.
Generally speaking, though, dealing with things on a case-by-case basis is the appropriate and intelligent process. You're perfectly capable of analyzing a visitor's swastika tattoo within its own context, and determine whether that particular individual is, in fact, someone you're willing to allow into your house, without having to apply a hard-and-fast a priori rule.

Unfortunately, as the Reddit post describes, dealing with case-by-case analysis of pornographic material posted to reddit was simply consuming too much time and attention from the admins. They could either scale up their staff for dealing with grey-area cases, at the expense of other activities they might undertake to improve the site, or they could simply no longer permit grey-area material outside a certain boundary to be posted on the site. They chose to do the latter.
May I ask why? Just curious, my totally-non-startup employer is based out there and I've thought about pitching to work remotely / office there. I'm tired of texas.
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SolveMedia.com has been doing this for sometime now. What's different here?
I'm using it to build a world server for a multiplayer game. A lot of people suggest Scala/Java, Erlang, or Node.js for this, but I'm using Go. Go has a good, efficient memory model that lets me simulate a heck of a lot more of my world per megabyte of RAM. In today's world of hosting, that translates into a huge impact on how many dollars per user/hour we need to pay to run our game. That can have a direct translation into what kinds of business models can, and cannot, work for a game design. I've actually written rudimentary versions of my world server in all of the languages I mentioned above, and Go is by far the best in terms of what I can do with memory.

Go makes it very easy to communicate between nodes, almost as easy as what you can do in Erlang. Doozer is a library in Go for coordination of the activities of many machines, a lot like Zookeeper. Between Doozer and Netchan, Go is a really solid choice for making a system like a world simulator that needs to be distributed among many computers.

Go is also better than Node.js for things that require manipulating binary data. For example, I have some communications back and forth where the server is in Go, the client is in Python, and they talk using Protocol Buffers. Javascript doesn't do binary (at all? not very well?) like Go or Java can. There is an experimental protocol buffer library in Javascript, but in general Javascript needs to kind of bend over backwards to work with binary data. It's possible to do it, but it's not natural or efficient.

In general, if you care about memory usage, working with binary data, tons of simultaneous threads/actors, building distributed systems, then Go is a great choice, especially if you want to do more than one of the above.
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I switched from Google after the DDG redesign a few weeks back and the slowness is getting to the point that I am thinking of reverting. I considered Blecko, but the few queries I tried were far worse than DDG. I would consider Bing but the design is horrible.

One nice thing about the bang syntax is that if DDG fails I can easily rerun the search on Google. I don't end up switching back to Google out of frustration after a bad search.
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Ask HN: How to stop Google SERP url redirect tracking?
Hi HN,

I used to use http://64.233.183.132/search?query=keyword with javascript disabled to stop Google from tracking my clicks in the search result page, now Google renderes ALL links as a redirect link on server to track my clicks, it's dangerous and may cause me to click phishing sites as there it's not obvious URL in the status bar now.

How do I disable it while using Google anonymousely?

I don't want to use userscript trick. Google kept change its page format all the time so the userscripts fails sooner or later.

DDG is OK for the moment but still lacks content in minor non-English languages, so I still have to use Google.
Its not for the novelty. He is trying to support sustainable living and one of the things that the Anybot does is eliminate his usage of airplanes and fossil fuel burning.
On the flip side I don't think he would actually save any resources because of the things that was used to create the Anybot.
I find his concern about losing access to his account interesting because the only feature I get sad that that gmail doesn't have is an easy export/backup tool. Backupify has a nice service, and I realize I could run IMAP either locally or on a seperate server, but that's less ideal to me than the ability to set up incremental weekly backups to my dropbox/S3/box.net/etc account.
With DoubleRecall you don't prove that you are a human, but you prove that you've read the message so you get something in return = quality content.
Yeah, that's because you need to set up a search engine keyword in chrome's preferences. It's under 'Basics'->'Manage Search Engines'. After you do that, all it takes is typing a keyword you've defined into the omnibar, a space, and then your query. Works quite well.
Terrible. Complicated, expensive, fragile, and with poor performance. Look at the size of the actual battery! Hint: in normal batteries, the entire battery is the battery.

This is almost as bad as "solar powered batteries."

A battery-charging "shake light" would be more practical, ergonomic, durable, and affordable. You could just buy one, and it would work with your existing batteries.
I would much rather pay a few cents than watch an Ad on Hulu. It got so bad I simply stopped watching Hulu all together. Now yet another start up has tacked the hard monetization problem by crating even more annoying advertizing. And you don't see anything wrong with this picture?

PS: Advertizing is basically a zero sum game. It's a multi billion dollar industry, but most people spend most of what they make and better advertizing does not change that fact.
If not for novelty, why not just use video chat to make the speech?
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