skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you guys must be using much simpler searches than me, because Google rarely has what I'm searching for as the top link unless the search is super simple (like a search for "wikipedia" or something).

Google also screws up constantly when it tries to search for what it thinks you meant rather than for what you actually typed. I hate that feature.

And, of course, there's the spyware keystroke monitoring when you type in google's own search form.

All these reasons and more is why I long ago switched to DDG as my primary search engine.

I tried using Scroogle for a while, which at least tries to solve some of the privacy issues with Google. But the search results were just not as high quality as those of DDG.
All great points.

For people that never played, it might be interesting to hear that at all levels, many programs institute reward systems for hard hits, amongst other accomplishments. It's mostly pride based, coming in the form of a sticker on the helmet, but it's part of the ethos of the game. When watching game film, coaches will replay hard sticks over and over to the great amusement of the whole team. Most embarrassing is being on the other end of one of those hits.

In pre-college football a certain class of players form their part of their identity around the ability to inflict and take hard hits, amongst their other duties. These also tend to be some of the most athletic kids. I'd assume just about any non-kicking NFL player has at some point in their life been one of those guys.
Great post. Much more eloquent than Mark Suster's[1]:

Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. But if everybody is looking for me to make their decisions we’ll never get anything done.

And makes a nice complement to Swombat's Making all the decisions yourself[2], and to Ben Horowitz CEOs Should Tell It Like It Is[3].

Also the same point of Delegate or Die[4]

[1] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/19/what-makes-an-...

[2] http://swombat.com/2011/7/13/taylor-drucker

[3] http://bhorowitz.com/2010/07/02/why-ceos-should-tell-it-like...

[4] http://sivers.org/delegate
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Great summary. This is also why the "end of football" is most likely to be "transition of American Football to something that looks more like Rugby".

The article says:

> the NFL keeps changing its rules, but it turns out that less than concussion levels of constant head contact still produce CTE

Sure, but that's not true, because eventually, they'll reinvent rugby.
Or they could change the rules a bit to be like Aussie-Rules or Rugby, which doesn't have this problem...
I don't think you can compare Mac OSX to Ubuntu in this way. The mac developer culture is different from the linux developer culture, due to the strong presence of the original UI design and human interface guidelines. When something doesn't match the OSX experience, its easy to notice- because you have that strong baseline, and there's a strong motivation to write software that matches that baseline experience. software that runs in OSX's x11 is obviously not as good as "real" os x software. There is no base for linux, so any widget set or toolkit is just as good as another, and there's no strong reason to pick one or another language, or "platform" or library. You're invited to install this runtime or that scripting language to get arbitrary programs to run. And linux people like it that way. That's what freedom looks like.
One thing to consider here is that it may be fast advancing because it is advancing from such a low positions. With more than a billion people, Chinese economic potential is enormous, far exceeding any other country. The fact that the have almost the same GDP as Japan while having more than 10 times more population and huge natural resources can be explained only by broken political and economic system. It is slowly moving out towards being somewhat less broken, but one would be deeply mistaken taking this as a sign that one should take it as an example to follow in its current state.
Although good, I disagree on just as well built
Is it more likely than say a polyglot, unix loving, vim user who automates even .NET tasks with rake scripts and enjoys long walks on the beach also being sexually attracted to destroying every software project by dragging and dropping in a completely broken visual design paradigm?

Thanks for almost RTFA

Have a nice day yourself ;-)
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I've been playing a lot with canvas recently and building libraries to abstract away all the low-level stuff and just deal directly with the entities you actually care about working with. Exciting stuff. Cool to see what other people are doing with it.
Hard hits are also glorified in rugby (or were where I played it), but you hard hit someone's legs with your shoulder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7J-q6vCeus
I went to a talk about Wayland at FOSDEM. What was most interesting was that everything they are trying to solve has already been solved by X. Furthermore, the only possible benefit of Wayland (rotating windows in non 90 degree amounts) is basically a bug, not a feature.

Then there's the lack of network support.

If this is pushed on Linux users, expect forking of distributions.
I use the Pentadactyl Firefox extension, which lets me control Firefox from the keyboard (in much the same way as vim), so websites which try to inject their own keyboard shortcuts really get my goat.

DDG does this too. But fortunately, there's an easy way to turn it off in the preferences.

Unfortunately, there's a problem with setting preferences on DDG (or any other websites), as your preference choices can be used to track you.
Apple CEO Tim Cook will be going on Live Stream today.
Well fortunately that won't be an issue for me anymore ;-).
I hate autocomplete features that run on websites. They're basically keylogging spyware.
Until the meme or whatever of people smugly laughing under their coats at people for trying to sound smart or understand difficult concepts (and sometimes getting it wrong) changes, which exists for whatever large number of various mostly individualistic reasons, this will not change.

Rather the politician (silver tongues) who can convince both the aforementioned types as well as those truly caring for reason will be elected. The reason is large and without making too many blanket statements, I think they are merely trickier to defeat when the game is all about making someone look more wrong. The game is sadly enough, victorious for those who care more about merely looking intelligent by a definition more widely accepted (by being less wrong) than actually being intelligent (read:scientific, by postulation and diligence even in regards to self) -- and largely the same game is scrimmaged in courtrooms all day every day.
It's clearly possible to develop serious software without tools like rvm and bundler, the whole world has been doing it for quite awhile before they came about. We did things like putting library dependencies into source control and beating our heads against versioning problems. So I would view them only as steps to a better programming environment.

In fact, I'm not sure a much better approach exists for an environment like ruby. .NET issues patches all the time that magically show up and hopefully don't break things. You don't get side-by-side patch releases. The JVM does have patch releases, and it comes with environment problems similar to ruby. They're often transferred to dev tool users in the form of the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

It seems like the core issues that separate ruby from java come from the existence of rubygems and the fact that it likes to install things globally. So in this way, bundler could be a better solution to the problem that rvm/rbenv solve.
It really depends on your diet, but vitamin D seems agreed-upon to be worth supplementing, since most people don't spend enough time in the sun to get the appropriate dose.
Review: Nokia Lumia 800 – Achingly beautiful
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"Division 1 NCAA scholarships are restricted to something like 70 per school across all sports." That's not true. I've never heard of an NCAA total scholarship limit, only limits based on specific sports. Even if there were a limit, it would be way more than 70 (college football alone is allowed 85). Also, basketball would get first priority on being fully funded because it's a high revenue sport. Here is a list of the scholarship limits by sport, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_I_(NCAA)#Scholarship_l....

Are you saying he's a 2nd tier high school players because he played for a division 2 high school team? If you are, I don't think you understand much about high school basketball. California is some of the best in the country. As mentioned above, their division 2 state title win was over a nationally ranked team. Division 2 just means your high school is smaller, it's not the same as being an NCAA division 2 team.

"The guys getting scholarships were scouted out in junior high school." Although this happens (chris webber being the first example that comes to mind) it doesn't happen that often, and even if it does the player still has to prove things in high school because only verbal scholarships can be offered before a players junior year.
Wow, my post is down 4 points.

Yes, I was being extremely sarcastic.

1) there are far fewwer than 175m active users of twitter
2) a tweet compresses to far less than 140 bytes. Text normally compresses to (easily) a third its size
3) Wikipedia says there are some 300 million tweets per day...or 13 gigabytes per day (compressed).

A single 1 TB hard-drive is almost certainly good enough to store a couple of months of tweets. A year of Tweets should fit on a couple of thousand dollasr of hardware.

and 4) I added the Amazon line so that you guys would know I was being absolutely, 100% sarcastic in every way possible. I guess the clue still wasn't enough.

My point is that there are very few things that are as easy to scale as a platform built on sharing 0.13 kilobyte tweets (0.04 KB compressed), in an age where rendering many common front pages requires a browser to download 600-800KB in static and dynamic content. Come on.
There are typically more results on Google. But the extra results are usually of a far lower quality (often just spam sites, or other grabage).

I'm very satisfied with using DDG as my primary search engine. And when I feel my search results aren't finding what I need, I might go to Google and wade through the garbage to try to find the gem I'm looking for. But it's rarely worth it.
"I can't stand the guy and I think he's completely full of shit."

Then please, stop reading his blog posts, it's the only way he'll learn.
= What I wished and thought BitTorrent Live was going to be =

Pirated P2P TVOIP with 1 minute delay:

People with REALLY good computers and TV capture cards would record and encode video streams in real time and would seed them out through Bittorent Live. The video might not be in real time but even a 1 minute delay would be fine. Hey live TV and Cable over IP would be awesome. My mom's been wanting to watch the Opera Winfrey Network so badly I'd love to get it working on the laptop. Commercials and all. Hell, the woman in me would love to watch it too.

Yeah it's "pirating", but we do it because content creators don't give us what we want. I don't care about licenses I just want the Operah Winfrey Network, NATGEO, and the Science Channel.

Piracy is the only way to make it work. Television, Film, & Music are stagnant industries that refuse to evolve unless and until they are forced to. And the Pirates have to innovate here, I believe.
If you "rarely have performance problems in reality" that explains a lot. Speed differences between Ruby and NET (see the link in my previous post) translate to having one server instead of twenty. If you make low traffic solutions, that's OK. If you move bottlenecks to something outside of your responsibility (like for example, your app waits on sql server because no caching is done) OK, not your problem. If somebody doesn't have problems in buying more hardware, OK.

Still it's approx. 20-times (see the link before, it is for Ruby 1.9) trade-off between development convenience and the hardware involved.
Java and beginner programming courses at universities
Yes, you're right. However, given I said it's a place you can expand your knowledge, it's clear that by saying away from teaching environment, that I meant classical teaching (lecturing literally). Sheesh!
For one, i'd like to say:

It doesn't matter for Angela Merkel to have studied.
What far more important is to have knowledgable persons in the groups that make decisions and evaluate new laws and for the ministers.

For what i can see in germany, most of those politicians and decision makers are lawyers. It's terrible if you actually see what is said in a committee, just a bunch of old people not knowing what they talk about.
> But, you don't have to, and if you don't I can continue
not buying it for as long as I want - but I can not just
say, "I don't like your terms of use, I'll just pirate it
anyway".

I'll ask you what I asked someone else. What if me, you, and a few others are hunter gatherers living off the land. I somehow get the bright idea to build a house on some land, herd animals, and grow crops. Then I say, if anyone else wants to copy this, it'll cost you 10,000 bananas. So what's the verdict - is it right for me to have a monopoly on my idea? I came up with it after all. Is it immoral for you to copy it without paying what I ask?
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It's great to see serious traction on opening up government data in the US. Central and local governments around the world are beginning to recognize the economic and societal benefits of releasing data back to users for little or no charge.

In New Zealand, the Geospatial Office estimated that the government could expect to see financial returns of $NZ 100 - 500 million from reducing barriers to GIS data access[1], and in 2010 the New Zealand government issues directives encouraging data to "standardise the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons New Zealand law licences"[2]. Mid last year Land Information New Zealand released the "LINZ Data Service" (http://data.linz.govt.nz) to make it incredibly easy to get hold of national GIS datasets.

Similarly, the Australian Government disbanded the Commonwealth Copyright Administration, and "agencies are now required to release copyright public sector information under Creative Commons BY-licences or other open content licences, wherever possible."[3] Throughout Europe we're seeing the same trend.

It's a sign of how far things have come - and how far some have to go when you hear things like:

> The County's logic was that GIS includes software and data (citing ESRI's definition of GIS as "a collection of software and data")

It is shocking that this would be used as a defence - not so much because of the clear and obvious (to technical literate people) difference between a data format and the software you might or might not use to manipulate it - and nevermind the plethora of FOSS GIS tools that are available - but that the County believes it's in the best interests of their constituents.

1. http://www.linz.govt.nz/sites/default/files/docs/geospatial-...

2. http://ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/information-and-da...

3. http://www.ag.gov.au/Copyright/CommonwealthCopyrightAdminist...
I was being so extremely sarcastic to show how ridiculous it is to say "harder to scale than Twitter". Of course there are nowhere near 175 million users, of course they don't tweet ten tweets per hour, and of course the tweets aren't uncompressed. My point is that even with all these assumptions, you have a ridiculous lack of scaling problems. My mention of amazon was meant to show that I was absolutely 100% being completely sarcastic when talking about Twitter's "scaling" problems.
In writing this article I tried to stay away from drawing comparisons between sites, because that would've distracted discussion away from the actual topic.

Also, to be perfectly honest, there's a lot I could say about HN that would not be particularly flattering, not least of which is its superiority complex when comparing itself to other sites.
I had bookmarked this thread and had decided to give bootstrap a try. My other option was jquery (including jquery UI). I am mainly a programmer and not a natural designer.

After about a day or so of trying out to move my existing UI (of a fairly successful app) to bootstrap, I found it a bit limiting in some ways. The commonest one being to try and change the color of the nav bar.

Also the 'brand' style in Nav bar should support logos too. Perhaps provide a css code for it.

Also in general there is just one way(albiet good) you can do for all things, which I also did not like.

In a comparative way, jquery UI themes, give me a better default option over there. And I can choose a theme from several themes.

Another thing is that many of the bootstrap's components example 'TypeAhead' are again jquery plugins, for which you get competing options in the Jquery UI.

I also think, that creators of bootstrap are hurrying up with version numbers. 2.0 is a very aggressive call. In the light of, just a few months back, we just heard of bootstrap on HN. Opensource versioning has to more trustworthy than corporate versioning (a recent good example is node.js they are .6xxx . Jquery itself is still 1.7.xxx)

The above are my brief thoughts after playing with it for a day or so. Hope it helps somebody.
Depending on how much money you need to raise and how good you are at it, fundraising can take from 10% - 80% of your time. Note that even at the high end, you still get 20% of your time to work on scientific problems, which is better than 0% -- what you get in most administrative/political jobs.

[All numbers very approximate.]
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that's the part where I tried to show that I was absolutely being sarcastic. :/
People still go to lectures - or find them on YouTube, download them from the web or torrents, etc. And the debates are as much "attended" and more - people just don't have to be physically there anymore.
It's all right with Americans and thinking - it's just most of them don't turn their thinking towards government. Which is a blessing - it is brilliant minds who brought us the current financial crisis, for example, with their delusions about their ability to calculate risks and always stay on top of the game (check out Nassim Taleb about this). Mediocre people bring mediocre failures, brilliant people would bring spectacular - and catastrophic - ones. If a brilliant scientific theory fails, well, a couple of egos are brused, but nobody's hurt. If a brilliant political theory fails, millions die. Look what happened to marxism. They thought of themselves as political scientists building society on a rational scientific basis. No emotions, no stupid democratic politicking, just straightforward implementation of proper science. Worst nightmare of the century. I'd rather take the bumbling mediocrities in the government, thank you very much. I don't like them but at least they are less dangerous this way.
Careful, you are arguing progress for the sake of it. If it does not serve a lowest common denominator it's probably not worth it and only fancy.

Slightly interesting in this context:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9_6G8J6VJg (applications of simple sms based services covering Kenya)
This kind of technology should be integrated in the browsers, and obviously be open source. Google should've been working on something like this for Youtube. It would save them a lot of money. They wouldn't even need to use it 100% of the time, just for the more popular videos who are constantly watched.
> The genius is always puzzled by answers, it is the fool who is satisfied by them.

That's so true.

He must have noticed that confusion implies learning. After all, it shows that they've encountered unexpected input and are trying to integrate with all the other things they know. If they're not confused, they expected or ignored the answers.
The idea that gvt should be run by common people is quite old in the US (Jacksonian democracy). I am not American, and this traits always made me wonder every time I go the US, as this is the only developed country where I heve been to where this is so pronounced. This article by Fukuyama was quite interesting in that regard: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/fukuyama/2012/01/31/w.... He explains it by the fact that the US existed before a bureaucracy, which is the opposite of pretty much any other developed country.
It started stinking from the time CrunchFund was announced and I couldn't understand all the "moral highground" support bullshit that Arrington was getting - most notably from the TC staff.

Journalism is a lot about perspective - I dont care if you occupy the highest moral grounds, your perspective changes dramatically once you have significant interest and money invested into something you are talking about. What you would normally call a Spade now becomes a Diamond.

Arrington's and MG's responses to the Path issue is proof enough for this - can you imagine both of them so mellow and supportive if Path was not CF funded was not around? I think not. And ohh yeah, I nearly puked reading MG's "rant" few days back. For someone who is so hypercritical of anything on the borderline of wrong (except if its from Apple - or any CF company it seems now), it felt especially nauseous.

To their credit, they do have disclosures - which definitely make a difference - if that is enough, I'm not sure.

Credibility is built by calling a spade a spade. It also tends to take the fast route down if you stop doing that.
"One of the reasons I got fed up with Google was the constant link spam in it from the content mills like Demand Media."

Exactly. Half of the results for most Google searches I do are mostly garbage. DDG consistently returns far higher quality results than Google for me.

The litany of pro-Google posts in this thread really make me wonder if there are conflicts of interest the posters aren't disclosing (ie. how many of them work at Google?)

(Since I brought it up - in the interest of disclosure I'll say that I have no financial interest in or association with any search engine or web site.. or any company whatsoever, to be honest)
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very nice, i like the dark colour scheme however i would prefer to see a difference between the colours of the streets and the sea.
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I always find it funny when people believe anecdotes over actual science.

On-topic: these are the kinds of results from psychology that most people here should hopefully know already.
There is nearly 1 or 2 stories a day on the front page of HN from TC.

Please people. Stop. Upvoting. This. Crap.
How much memory do you have installed? I'm guessing most of that is taken up by /var/vm/sleepimage, not the swapfile.

There is a way to disable sleepimage, but I'd rather not say it, since you should really clean up your disk.