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My take. Disclaimer: I'm a fan for a while now (lesson to startups: If you reply to feedback quickly and friendly, as Gabriel did in Aug 2010 when I submitted a tiny useless bit of feedback to the site, you'll be hard to remove from my list of 'great things').

That said, I do understand the confidence issue every now and then. For me it seems to arise mostly when DDG only shows half a page or less of results. Those are usually good. But I'm used to all the bullshit Google puts above and below that and sometimes have the feeling of missing out.

A quick check every now and then by now convinced me that I'm just conditioned to expect quantity. Which needs to be corrected.
Why? Maybe he was paid by the linux foundation during that time? Other sources of income? The gratuit "of course" is not clear to me.

And Rails is sponsored by 37Signals. You'd be hard pressed to find very many large open source projects without commercial backing.

Are you saying that Yehuda should not make money from his efforts, but the Ruby developers in turn can use the results naturally for their gain?

That is generally how things work. Companies specializing in open source technologies have a business interest in their specialty software(s) becoming more popular. A core Rails developer will command the highest speaking and consulting fees.

I think the reservation many people have about all of this is that it feels backwards. Asking for sponsors is one thing, but making the open source project pay-to-play flies in the face of the spirit of FLOSS.
One difference in this story is....

Google was vertically integrated from the start: They sent out their own bots to scan the internet, they had their own reverse index, and created their own algorithm.

I'm not sure about DDGs backend---but if people use the g! tag, its almost as if DDG is simple chrome for Google.

Maybe that'll be the future: Google will become the maker of engines, and let everyone else make the car.
They have ads that are relevant to the search terms you just used.
Why would CSP be 'synchronous'? There's a difference between how things appear (API) and how the implementation works: it's certainly possible to have an API which looks synchronous, yet everything is async at runtime. Think about Haskell's do-notation with GHC's IO manager, the Erlang approach, something like Gevent/Greenlets in Python,...
The difference between Baltic countries + Poland vs. Ukraine, Moldova and Russia is a lack of independent juridical branch of government, ephemeral property ownership rights, no rule of law, and, in general, more paternalistically minded people (towards government regulation of / interference in business). All of this makes medium sized business almost impossible to survive; rapid privatization in 1990s (as per subject article) seems totally irrelevant factor to me as a person living here: I see a reprivatization wave of roughly half large enterprises after each election cycle here. Corporate raidership is run by judges, governed by executive branch of govt by phone, and local analog of FBI is just a tool to bereave tasty property, they have no connection to justice at all. So how capital can accumulate in such an environment? There's no way.
Ask HN: Suggestions to handle 1000x traffic?
I manage a web site that runs on a CMS on a typical LAMP stack (AWS, Cloudfront). Next week, it's possible our site traffic might go up to several million unique views per day, for about 5 days. Aside from 'boot more servers up' I'm wondering if the HN crowd can provide some advice or suggestions on how to handle a 1000 times increase in web traffic, for 5 days.
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I would take off the 'Gift Social' part of the tag.

I'm a customer, not an investor, so please use traditional English.
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The Today Show (in the US) recommends that people appearing on it first sign up their web site for CloudFlare to handle temporary massive load.
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For some reason, they didn't write a language mode. Something that just recognizes comments, strings, and keywords would be extremely trivial to do (for example http://codemirror.net/mode/vbscript/vbscript.js )
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the real wacoms have 1025 lines per inch, your Aus Eee Note doesn't have 1025 in the entire touchscreen

the component cost of the touchscreen in the Asus is around $40. I have the larger model here. the component cost for the wacom touch interface and controller (which you can't even really buy) would be in the hundreds of dollars (for a 7").

if you have used a real wacom you will know what I am talking about, the feeling and accuracy is simply awesome. I can't wait until the technology makes it into consumer tablets
Let’s fill London with startups...
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and if Google's allegations a while back are to be believed (http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-...), the quality of Bing's search results depend on Google.
Now that you have investors, they'll expect you to multiply DDG's worth. So how do you make money with it?
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I too find that for many 'normal' (as in: mainstream) search queries, Google is much better. Certainly after the first one or two results. For coding, DuckDuckGo gives better results.

So I use duckduckgo for coding or factual matters (or wolframalpha occasionally), and Google for searching things like Minecraft or a forum or so.

I try to use DDG as much as possible though for the privacy issue. Since I started to use it (because it was the default search engine in Linux Mint and I wanted to give it a go), my average Google searches per day dropped from hundreds to a couple dozen. I imagine DuckDuckGo ones went a lot up, but they don't track that!
ads in spa-owner-magazines (I don't know if that exists)

This may seem like a trival remark, but I'm making it because many people don't know: magazines exist for everything. No matter how small a niche seems, I have always been able to find a magazine or trade journal, either online or offline, that addresses it. Spa Management Journal: http://www.spamanagement.com/

One of the first places you should look when trying to understand how to reach a new set of potential business customers is a trade journal search.
You just hover over the spot of interest and then it tells you to one decimal place...
Many people feel the same way as you do, which means the information is very likely already in the current share price. Buying APPL stock today implies that you think apple will to better than current expectations, not current apple market share, etc...
I like the look of it, and I like the idea behind it.
It's not for me, but it's still nice.

I don't see how it's supposed to be a Panacea though. Are there people out there who have great difficulty blogging?
I recently switched to using ddg for all of my searches.

So far, I have been happy. I normally find what I am looking for within the first few results, and I find myself using !g less frequently.

ddg certainly feels faster and less irritating than google. I have been very satisfied.
You can pick standard Yale style pin tumbler locks with a penknife nail file and a paperclip.

Insert the nail file into the lock and apply turning pressure as if you are turning the key, then fiddle with the pins with the folded out paperclip. One by one the pins pop into place and the lock will open.

You can do this with practice in under 30 seconds. If you only have a Yale lock on your front door, fit a good quality lock instead, or at least a good secondary. If you are at home and only have a Yale style lock on your front door, then always lock the door and leave the key quarter turned in the lock.

This prevents anyone from trying to enter from the other direction. It also makes it easy to escape from the locked house in case of a fire if the keys are in the door already.
CMS that servers static content that isn't rotating lots?

You should possibly look at runnign a reverse proxy cache then. I've had fantastic success with Varnish.

I've been able to increase the performance of Drupal by a factor of several thousand by running Varnish.

Since you are running a CDN already then I assume you have moved all of your static assets off onto there.
I'm not accepting this real until a respected news network investigates it. That and the fact that they didn't seem to spell check / proof-read it first makes me suspicious.
There's the emotion, and things that cause the emotion. One of those those causes is the emotion itself. (Also works with anger and amusement. Anger begets anger. Laughter causes more laughter.)
I've certainly noticed a speed difference recently. DDG feels pretty snappy to me now, whereas before it was annoyingly slow, easily taking a second or so to load. I'm located in Luxembourg.
I have the same issues. Any ideas yet?
It is, but much less of one and not in the same way.

A job under 2 months should just be omitted. It's not illegal or unethical to do this; you probably didn't accomplish anything, so it'd just be noise to include it. A job between 2 and 6 months gave you enough time to accomplish something and it should usually be represented as a project-based/consulting gig. Describe the project; skip the politics. Between 6 and 12 months requires a good reason, but if you can describe a bait-and-switch (which is the most common case) in a professional and conservative way that doesn't disparage anyone, you're OK. Priorities shifted. For "Why did you leave?" advice, just go to a bar and ask 10 people why they left their most recent jobs (you're doing a survey). Learn what sounds good and what sounds bad. 12 to 48 months was a "short stint" in our parents' time, but isn't in ours, so don't even worry about that. You left for better opportunities.
Debian actually. It's now GNU IceCat though. The reason they changed the name is because Debian backports some security features to Firefox, and Mozilla denies the use of the Firefox branding to unofficial builds of the software.
Screw that! Just keep giving me the service I love for free!

Sorry, I know you need to make a living. :-) Just don't try to do it by leveraging my identity or trying my patience, please?
There are sponsored links - like on Google.
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The problem of input (reading, listening, watching) without output (writing, speaking, doing) is that, at the end of the day, you have nothing to show for your time. And since none of us are telepaths, to the outside world, it is like you haven't even existed that day.
No, companies are singular in UK English
Google generates four times more revenue from iPhone than Android
This is pretty cool, but it's so early in the drug -> product process that it's really difficult to get one's hopes up. The article indicates that they're nowhere near clinical trials, which often take 5 years by themselves - and most drugs get weeded out before they even get to this stage.
This appeared on reddit a few days ago, and the answer to your question is twofold.

First, this has not yet undergone human testing. In the history of pharmaceuticals, there have been many drugs that performed favorably in animal testing yet failed in human testing. It is simply too early to tell if this drug will be successful in humans.

Secondly, was the idea that eliminating all viruses, as this seems to do, is not the best solution. Our bodies would not get the opportunity to develop resistances in the way the immune system usually does so we would be susceptible to the virus the second time around.
The article also includes a good video ( http://vimeo.com/32678094 ) describing the process for non-technical folk.
Banned for being too awesome.
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I like the idea of having the screen pull out link window blinds myself. Need a bigger screen for something? pull it further. Don't need a big one to read on the bus? pull it out a little. it would even give you a convineint place as a manufacturer to put the batteries, and mount the control hardware for it. It ought to be even fairly trivial to determine how much of the screen is pulled out and adjust the display accordingly.
Link to the original research [PDF]:

http://goo.gl/jfAIw
I feel the one button thing is stupid, but I agree on the stylus.
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I know exactly what you are talking about. I have a tablet PC with a Wacom digitizer, and it is awesome. Also, it's been around since 2001.

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=tc1100
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Anyone here involved in the decision not to allow raw TCP/UDP/etc.? That would've really let us do some fun things. :)

(I waned to write a self-hosting webpage, but WS doesn't get you there--the real-time communication stuff might, though.)
> If they had gone with the traditional free lite version / paid premium version model, you would lose all of your drawings when you upgraded.

Wow...UX in systems with hidden file-system is so awesome.
just under 2k here which I have always considered average
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> but making the open source project pay-to-play flies in the face of the spirit of FLOSS

Ah, maybe I just do not agree with that spirit. The SBCL compiler fared well with Nikodemus Siivola's crowdfunding: http://random-state.net/log/3523852985.html

At the same time I do not get how this is a problem for people to accept wrt software, while it is the common suggestion to artists in copyright questions on HN: go crowdfunding!
Now I realize why Internet are full of stupid sites full of Ads. They´re money collect only. Start build a site that you proud of and you will never aloud shit ads pollute your creation.
I'm somewhere near 7. I find Stack Overflow extremely frustrating to use since I never seem to have enough reputation to do anything. If I remember correctly I can't even comment

I gave up trying to contribute and I now only leech. I wish they'd fix it because more than once I had insightful things to say but it wasn't worth the hassle.
1 - But I only use it as a resource and don't participate.
That's pretty much the most heartless thing I've ever read.

I work with children with mental disabilities. The medium happens to be theraputic horseback riding. Theres a lot reasons why this is a good thing for them (motor skills, confidence, etc etc) but ultimately for me I can tell it makes them happy. And I can tell over the course of a few months they improve. at motor skills and verbal skills.

But by your estimation, since the money spent upkeeping a barn and feeding horses could be "better" spent on malaria nets for people across the globe, this is a waste?

It seems like you think maximum efficiency is achieved by taking 'lives saved' / 'dollars spent'.

You aren't accounting for 'improvements in peoples lives'. If I don't save anyone's life, but I make 20 people's better, haven't I done some good in the world? Why is the only noble cause the one where it saves someones life?

And why are we responsible for everyone? There are a huge number of people in the world who would be saved by simple changes in behavior - whether it comes to mosquito nets preventing malaria, condoms preventing HIV spread, or sanitary conditions preventing chlorea outbreaks. I've done engineers without borders, it's not hard/expensive to improve sanitation, but a lot of people just have no interest in doing anything. Why do you have to shit on people doing good work here by pointing out they're not solving problems halfway across the globe?
People who downvoted me obviously never had to deal with documents that you have to process with TeXLive greater than something, and then only with particular fonts properly installed in the system (ever tried to install an OTF font? ever seen UTF-8 or ISO-8859-2 character encoding in a document?). Not to mention obsolete versions of packages that the author had on his system.

Well, I did have to deal with such documents, hence my comment. It was an informed rant.
How about, "We want to create a more exciting(fun?) way to say Happy Birthday"
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One of the most interesting things I learned from lockpicking was how the physical size of the lock actually has little to do with how easily it can be bypassed.

Another cool side effect is learning about lock mechanisms. There are so many different designs out there (many of them are hundreds of years old), and it is neat learning about how they work.
I had a colleague who got into trouble for picking a lock for a coworker, even though the coworker had the right/permission to access what was locked up -- they'd misplaced the key and the colleague was simply trying to help them keep from losing time to the problem. The colleague had formerly worked as a locksmith.

So... if you have the skills, be careful as to when and where you exercise them. Even if you think there is no issue, if bureaucracy is in the neighborhood, best to keep it in your pocket.

P.S. Unless your name is Feynman -- real or in spirit! ;-)
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Google Arizona v. California. It's the reason states like Arizona oppose 'environmental' legislation. Because it always seems like what's good for the 'environment' is whatever allows CA to steal more water for itself.
I don't keep statistics, but my perception is I have to click on one of the 'Try Xxx/Yyy' links maybe 1 in 10 times.

I don't mind since it saves me from having to go into "privacy defensive" mode to interact with the big G.
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I wish to thank you for DDG. I left Google 1 year ago and have never looked back. DDG is better in every way for me. You provide a great service and a big peace of mind for all the hackers of the planet. Now we can compete with the empire without worrying for the empire to copy our ideas. Your courage in competing with this giant is an example we should all copy!
And it's signed: Posted by John "More CPU in Your GPU" Bauman and Brian "FPS" Salomon
FYI, Eclipse also does partial the way Resharper does out-of-the-box: semi-partial and abbreviation.

I believe Eclipse also does "best match based on previously opened files" (sort of heuristic/guessing) just like you guessed the way Resharper does it.

I wouldn't be surprised if Resharper added Eclipse's features that are missing from VS.NET being that JetBrain makes IntelliJ that competes with Eclipse.

Of course the best part of Eclipse is that it's free and you get everything :)
Based on the screenshots: I like the UI of this a lot, and the use of badges / points.
Not unheard of at all. In dry countries today you'll find all the ingredients in one spot of the grocery store to brew your own beer/liquor/wine, but nobody really says it's for brewing they're just conveniently put together
Some of the best developers I've worked with have come from academic maths background and the development they worked on was the first time they'd written any significant software.

It's easier to teach a mathematician to code than it is to teach a coder some maths.
I was there when Chad launched Testosterone back at PyCon 2006. Good times, indeed.

I don't think naming a test app "Testosterone" is particularly sexist, especially next to a lot of what we've seen happening recently, but I think he's making the right decision by renaming it and publicly acknowledging the issue.

Sexism is a continuum. This clearly isn't as egregious as the "CouchDB + Ruby: Perform Like a Pr0n Star." talk at gogaruco or last weeks' Geeklist kerfuffle, but we need to recognize that there is a pervasive boys club atmosphere in much of the programming world.

Testosterone and projects/attitudes like it set up this association of "doing X, which is tricky and requires great knowledge or skill from the programmer" is "manly" and "manly" is a positive thing. OK, Testosterone also makes a play on using curses as being manly, which is clever, but this is certainly a pervasive attitude (I remember Linus Torvalds famously making a statement to the effect of "Debugging with printk puts hair on your chest" as justification for not including debugging facilities in the Linux kernel). This kind of language is common and many of us (even women) are guilty of using it in varying degrees. Individually, these aren't a big deal. But the overall atmosphere is off-putting to many and we need to at least be aware of that.

I applaud Chad for responding in a professional and respectful manner. We need more of this and less of the "I'm sorry you found that offensive" non-apology apology attitude that's been the typical response. This should be the template for the tone of future discussions.

That said, "assertEquals"? Really? camelCase for a Python library? :(
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Not sure what you are saying is correct.
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The first you. The second you needs to run far away from what he's doing. :)

I was in that situation before -- bad agile is BAD. I was on a team of 4 developers with literally 8 project managers. I know how that daily 1 hour crappy stand up goes. I also know how it feels to have deliverables for half the project managers in any given week, and what it's like to get constantly interrupted by 8 different people during your minimal development time to answer non-urgent questions.

But you know what? Not everywhere is like that and you usually have a choice to find something else. You're obviously competent enough to find something else; you already have two things going on.

If they aren't doing it right and they aren't listening and you aren't happy, GTFO.
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"Some economists argue that mass privatisation would have worked if it had been implemented even more rapidly and extensively." This is always the argument about any failed policy. These researchers should do a wider study that includes privatization efforts before 1990.

We could conduct some pretty sweet experiments in virtual worlds. Would libertarianism really work if it were the law? A real welfare state? Privatization of a communist country? Start a virtual world with those laws and see what happens. Some obvious drawbacks include:
- self-selection of participants (you could get around this by controlling who is allowed to participate)
- lower motivation (being unable to pay your actual rent has a pretty different effect from having a low virtual bank account balance)
- natural anonymity of avatars (there are plenty of things people do online they'd never do in real life)

But a well-done research study could probably account for a lot of those things.

Maybe the IMF should conduct some virtual world experiments before shoving their current pet policy down the throats of millions of people whose government just collapsed. This isn't the first complaint I've heard that goes, "The policy forced on X country by the IMF turns out to have ruined everything. Oops."
Hovering at around 12.5k for a while now... SO is fun. I've only asked 2 questions, answered 592. http://stackoverflow.com/users/353988/fosco
Way cool. Going to try using this as my default search engine for a while.

I really really like the "alternative to" feature. What could I do to help you get better at alternatives which are not as popular? (eg, "alternative to cheetahmail" or "alternative to grubhub" or "alternative to xkcd"?)

Also, what kind of feedback would you need to help improve the tech-related searches? Like "ebcdic table" or "1010 in hex"?