skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People care about privacy and not being tracked. I predict Google's arms race with Facebook to profit more from user's data will augment this growth. And/or dampen that arms race.

That's why I search with DuckDuckGo by default (previously Scroogle).
The problem is not the "global immigration system". The EU has extremely liberal policies with other EU countries, for example. It's the U.S. immigration system. It sucks balls.
I'll worry about it when I have it. But my current thinking is along the lines of: 10-20% in highly speculative stuff (much more so than stocks) and the rest in super-safe stuff (much safer than stocks).
Incidentally, I switched my default search to ddg 2 days ago. Use !g a lot but also ddg native frequently. Starting to get a feel for what type of search will benefit more from DDGs extras.
pg's analysis was spot on, then [1]. I recently realized DuckDuckGo would be a hit when a hacker friend who does not read HN started using DDG as his primary search engine.

To me, this means it is out there. I switched too, at least for a while, and now I use both google and DDG, constantly having the impression that DDG's results are getting better and better.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
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Maybe these numbers include search requests from browser-search fields and similar. Otherwise I would be very interested in those sources, too.
YaCy is a fanatic idea. I encourage people to watch the FSCONS video. Unfortunately YaCy will need a lot more momentum, developer interest and people using it to become useful imho.
Yeah, it is a known bug. The hterm terminal emulator runs on its own iframe, so you'll have to click anywhere on the screen (outside the terminal). If that doesn't work, then it's a new bug...
This is possibly one the most sparse infographics I've ever seen. There's only 5 units of information, and they aren't particularly engaging or related either.
Pretty much any foreign national who wants to do business in or with the U.S. needs to have an immigration lawyer. It will save you money. Lawyers are expensive but, trust me, a good one will save you money and hassle.
Looking through a couple of the comments, I see one of the most immediate reactions is disinterest in the product because it requires a Facebook sign-in. I think that attitude is a bit silly. Facebook has 845 million users. That's a pretty big potential user-base.

As for the site itself, it does look really nice. I agree with brackin's comment about it being a bit difficult to tell what a "gift" is at first glance. It took too much reading for me to figure out that this is different from all of those free Facebook "gift" apps.

I like the idea. I logged in, and was immediately impressed with how nice the site looks. The layout of events is really well done. Good luck guys, I think this could be really useful and fun.
As far as I know the reddit price has never be disclosed and the $15,000,000 is an "estimate" (based on what? who knows).
Why is Zynga making a secondary offering now?
Related discussion on the previous thread here, about a month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3661345
Fair point. Difference here though is that the 1% is not coordinating in an attempt to disrupt network communications, but rather using bandwidth to their definition of "normal". If you want to do daily online backups for a household, plus HD video streaming (what I would call "normal" behavior), you can hit several TB pretty quickly.
I generally stick to Google for programming related searches and use DDG for the rest. Hopefully DDG improves to the point where I can use it 100% of the time.
>On the surface, it feels great; learning, gaining knowledge and understanding is fantastic
[...]
>but I need to be a creator, not a consumer

But learning is also creative. All knowledge must be conjectured afresh in the mind that learns it -- the process is the same whether the knowledge is known by others or not.

Knowledge gained from TV and browsing and consuming is of value in life, including in creative projects.

If one is feeling addicted or jaded or whatever then what this really means is that browsing has been used to distract one from other, more pressing, problems, e.g. personal problems

There's no reason not to do both, in whatever ratio seems fit. Cutting oneself off from the culture would be detrimental to one's original work.
!g is the google killer. I switched to DDG, but kept drifting back to see if Google was doing better. I find myself using !g less and less, as I get used to the result format.

At the moment, DDG reminds me of Firefox (or was it WaterSquirrel then?) back-in-the-day. Its something that "feels" better than what is the standard - and it's something that I go on and on about to other nerds, when I'm drunk ;)
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Ask HN: Would you use functional programming jobs site?
I'm thinking of building a functional-programming specific jobs site. It'd be targeted toward jobs in Scala, Clojure, Haskell, Ocaml, etc. Is this something you would use? Is there a market for this?
Sorry for that - tweets work A OK. I had all scripts enabled but ghostery was blocking twitter.

See you added arrow to open site in question. Have fun.
I've been using DDG for quite a few months now and in general it works well. However I still find myself adding that "!g" at times when they find no results, and seeing what I was looking for at Google. I am also a bit disappointed with the "I'm feeling ducky"-results which are rarely what a person is likely to be looking for as soon as you get more complex than one word.

But that's the negative parts, and otherwise the positive outweighs those by far. I love the bang-syntax and I found myself using their information-box directly on the search page very often, mostly for converting currency.

I think better results will come with time and increasing usage, and I wish them good luck in the future.
A few years ago I was working on a spy-action game. One of the sub-games was a lock picking section. One of the programmers ordered a lock picking kit, along with several padlocks. This of course spread through the office like wild fire. Pretty soon there were several programmers crowding round each others desk picking locks of all kinds.

What became readily apparent was where the money went between £3 and a £25 lock.

I think I can confidently say that our lock picking sub-game was thoroughly researched.
I don't even care if people say it in person when FB reminded them. The only ones that count is from people that remembered it on their own!
They're also not accurate. The information is just taken straight from yclist.com, which is inaccurate in parts and not up to date. For example Loopt which was acquired 2 weeks ago for $43.1m is not included in this.
Landing on the moon and returning safely only 66 years after the first powered flight and only a few years into the age of transistors and computers was to put it simply, a completely unbelievable accomplishment and without precedent in human history.

Actually, I just plotted the flight distance records from Wikipedia, starting with the Wright Flyer record of .279km in 1903, to 18000km in 1946, to John Glenn's 3 orbits (~120,000km) in 1962 and Apollo 11 distance (~800,000km) in 1969. While the spacecraft points are clearly above the exponential extrapolation of the flight records between 1910 to 1946, they are much less dramatic than the improvement from 1903 to 1915, where flight distance increased by about 4 orders of magnitude. So while the distance flown obviously was without precedent, the rate of improvement was nothing like that of the first decade of flying.
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A coworker of mine was into this as a hobby for a period of time. He always carried his picks with two or three practice locks of increasing difficulty. With a few minutes explanation from him on how it works I was able to pick the easier locks within ten minutes without having done it before. I was almost tempted to get my own set and one or two of the more difficult locks just for the mental challenge. Seems it might have made for a good distraction to have during difficult times in a project and needing a break.
It's interesting to see how many requests are coming from the API, offhand I can't think of any uses that I've come into contact with. Does anyone know who is using the API?
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You certainly have advantages and disadvantages. I could say a lot about the different situations professionals and individuals are in, and I'd be happy to share any thoughts if you're interested. That said, I'd like to point out two things:

1. Most individuals do consistently worse than the market (so do most mutual funds, actually)

2. Most of Buffett's major successes, especially the early ones, have had nothing to do with his predictions of how a company would perform in the future. They were based on the difference between a company's current assets vs. its current stock price. Eg one of his major successes was in buying shares of Sanborn Map company when Sanborn had assets of $65 per share, but shares only cost $45 each [1].

It's still possible to invest using this method-known as value investing-but it's much harder today. The reason is that information is much more freely available. Eg in the Sanborn example above, it took Buffett a significant amount of research to find Sanborn and to realize that they were undervalued. Today all of that information is available to anyone online.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett#Business_career
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As a New Yorker who doesn't even have a car (and gets to take the subway everywhere), I've gotta say that I think we'll do alright.
My guess is that it was just a screw-up, and cost them $x0,000 over all the cartridges.
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One piece of advice, if you only have one practice lock and your friend decides he wants to try to pick your front door's deadbolt.. don't let him. Now I need a new deadbolt.
Submitters are suppose to add that, but it seems like they rarely do - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
DuckDuckGo is definitely pulling users from Google. By mimicking Facebook, Google has lost its mojo. Stepped right into the "social" honeypot. No news. The more interesting thing is the fantastic feeling more and more people have: that Facebook and Google will take eachother down the spiral.

As for the Google part, right now it's probably just an alarmist prediction, but it's going to be fun to watch un/fold. Especially if DuckDuckGo and other engines continue to get better while practicing their principles instead of a crude mixture of addictive search quality, addictedness to bucks and PR along the lines of "Don't be evil".
I think motivation can be a huge factor. It's a lot easier to help out if you really enjoy what you're doing.
I swapped to DDG on all of my browsers about a month ago and I've been really pleased. Like others, I find myself occasionally using !g, particularly for programming queries. Things like !so, !mdn and !msdn actually help out a lot in some of these cases, which makes me think that as I learn the bangs I'll rely on Google less and less.
Nice. If nothing else this proves that there is unmet demand in search.
"work hard and stay late"

That's only sustainable in short bursts. why do you need to do that ?
> he's tackling a non-issue here

IDK. The barriers to entry for RoR on the Mac are pretty high.

I was keenly interested in an open source open government project (Sunlight Foundation). I tried to get it running on my Mac, on my personal time. I had direct expert help (friends who dev using Ruby, Rails, etc.). I understand the tool stack was churning, something about mismatched versions, runtimes, whatever.

I gave up after three weeks.

I don't care care how "awesome" Rails is. If it doesn't work out of the box, like all the LAMPs distros, devs will find something that does.

I hate Spring, Maven, ORM and all the other webby enterprisey Java crap with the passion of a billion burning suns. But the RoR nonsense was a whole 'nother level of insanity.

I'd rather take a bat to the face, or use PHP, than try RoR again.

(I should add that my bad experience was ~1 year ago. Maybe things have improved. Alas, I've moved on to greener pastures.)
Interestingly I switched to DDG because I was having to quote too many programming terms in Google. All of them sometimes, just to stop Google from autocorrecting. I still have 'g' wired as my omnibar shortcut for Google though as I don't always find what I'm looking for on DDG.
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You don't have to sob to be burnt out. You just have to be sick of it all.. and not care.

It really doesn't matter how good the company is, or how well they treat you.

When you're burnt out you just don't want to deal with any of it anymore. You're sick of what you're doing, and you don't want any part of it -- no matter what they offer or how much they coddle you.

Been there.. done that.
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I've gotta say, Gabriel's tenacity is both admirable and inspirational. I remember long ago in its early days I tried it and shrugged it off as just another search engine, destined for failure after a few months of obscurity and being largely unknown.

It's now my default browser, and has been as of about 2 weeks ago. Gabriel has been very keen on picking up where other search site are slacking.
If Transgaming sounds familiar: their flagship product is Cider, a proprietary fork of Wine aimed at running Windows apps on Mac OS (just before Wine switched from a MIT license to the LGPL).
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See nyellin's post with the link, I repeat it for convenience:

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...

Tom Murphy calculates that with the energy needs increasing only "2.3% more per year" the whole solid earth would have to be covered with the solar panels in 275 years. 2.3% per year is 10 times more energy needed in 100 years, 1000 times more in 300 years.

If you don't agree please point to the errors in his calculations. Start from here:

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

"The irradiance at the Earth's surface to approximately 1000 W / m2 for a surface perpendicular to the Sun's rays at sea level on a clear day."

Then calculate that most of the surface is not perpendicular, factor the whole land area on Earth. I come to around 3e16 W falling on the land area of Earth. World energy consumption in 2008 was 1.5e13 W according to Wikipedia and the growth in 2010 was 5% which is much faster need growth -- approx 10 times in 50 years == 100 times in 100 years == 10000 times in 200 years!

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

So if we cover all the Earth land area with 100% efficient solar panels, we get only 3e16/1.5e13 = 2000 times more energy than we use now. With 5% per years growth, we'd need more than that in around 150 years.
I'll second southord, I got a lockpick kit way back and it's been really great all these years. I only use it to practice on my locks, but it's fantastic.
I built an OSS pusher protocol alternative, and have this same problem with the fan-in. I got around it by using a library called Hazelcast which does distributed data structures among clusters. It also includes topic subscription functionality, which is something I used.

There is another pusher protocol implementation called Slanger, and they use Redis for centralized pubsub, which has pubsub built in.
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The steps aren't hard, it's knowing which ones to do that is hard. And yes, you should learn what all those things mean and why everyone does them, but it shouldn't be the very first thing you learn.
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Video from the "Go The Fuck Home" Ignite Philly presentation.
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Malthus may still some day be proven right. It's a common fallacy to think that because something hasn't happened yet is a reassurance that it will never happen.

Don't forget there are a lot of people that have little or no food at all (according to statistics about 1/7th of the world is malnourished). We're really, really spoiled in the West ("plenty of food").

Earth is already a scary place. And it will still be scary place in 2050. Even scarier for those at the bottom of the social order, and probably slightly happier for those at the top.
Yep, another article about the perils of financialism.

Unfortunately the ability to raise money (or make it by trading) isn't well correlated with the ability to use money to make wealth.

Donald Trump, for instance, was recently voted "most respected businessman" by the readers of a major Men's magazine. Perhaps people are impressed by the lifestyle he leads and the fact that he's put his name on buildings all over Manhattan, but he's not really a businessman... he's somebody who plays a businessman on TV.

Back in the 90's, Trump lost money running casinos, back when the industry was booming and, for everybody else, running a casino was like having a license to print money.

So, if you're the kind of person who cares about profit and loss and who also thinks business can solve problems, delight customers and provide meaningful and renumerative work it's very frustrating to see somebody like that have a reality distorsion field that lets them live a lie and involve a lot of people in it.

Now the U.S. economy is maybe 5% or 10% B.S. and you can find many valid criticisms but it's basically on the level. That's why we're the world financial center.

You look at places like Russia where the physical and human resources are so great but it's a 80% B.S. economy and the government is 100% corrupt and that's very sad.
Would you be able to provide a reference for this? As a Quebecer, this is of interest to me.
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Hmh. The acronym is right - something very painful is shaping up. Batten down the hatches for Browser Wars 2.0!
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^^ Well worth the read. Foundation book.
When you d/l videos, it doesn't do those.
I guess they could make a "book" form factor with say 10 pages each made of the flexible e-ink sheets. That way you could still have a book experience and turn pages. Maybe when you get to the last page it refreshes all 10 pages for the next section of the book.

I'm not really sure if it would be useful but it would be a cool magical book.
Who are these other startups you're talking about? The closest I know of is Karma, which is more focused on physical gifts.
I don't think the Nexus tablet is a bad idea at all. In fact I think it was a bad idea not to do it before the Kindle Fire arrived, and before the Touchpad firesale. Instead they started out with the Motorola Xoom, a $800 tablet (at launch). Big mistake. Then the $300 set top box, and then the $450 Chromebook. It's like there's a pattern here, with Google not really getting what's the right price for an initial launch of a new product - and always going too high. But this $199 Nexus tablet shows that they are learning.

Besides doing this a little late, my other complaint is that this 7" tablet will do almost nothing to bring more tablet-optimized apps to the Android tablet ecosystem - unless Google is specifically asking developers to make "tablet apps" for that 7" tablet.

But other than that, this is very welcome, even if their partners might not be thrilled about it - but in the end, the Nexus line has always been about pushing their partners and setting new standards. Most of them still refuse to make such low-priced tablets, so if anything it's their fault for not doing it earlier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5726yg7-5js - BBC QI on "the best place to find an entirely new species".
I would say that helping him stay the same forever would make him be an "average consumer".
It was mentioned before, but I think it's more a kind of "different" and unpersonalized search. Like proposed by Paul Graham: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
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You don't need to learn those things as early as possible. You need to learn them eventually, as you're getting closer to gaining expertise. Accidental complexity early along the road to expertise is a hinderance not a help.

The complexities of setting up a system so you can develop rails on it exist to solve problems that experts have discovered through years of working with the system, but which people coming to it fresh don't, and shouldn't need to, know that they have yet.
He was diagnosed two weeks before Christmas (2007). The Make-A-Wish trip to visit Spider-man was the following July (they work quickly!), and last time he was healthy enough to be up and about.

He passed away three week later, just before his fourth birthday.

... and that's why an article about Batman made me cry.
Server-sent events (implemented in Opera by 2006) is older than Websocket (first proposed in 2008), but is less well supported by browsers. They have pretty much the same properties w/r/t scaling, but SSE is a slightly higher level spec, which could make your app either easier or harder to implement, depending on your use case.

Neither is any less “architecturally sound” (from the perspective of your comment) than TCP itself.

> Where multiple servers or threads will have to send nearby notifications back to a single process to have that information sent down a specific connection. This seems like it may become a bottleneck.

Every messaging platform has potential bottlenecks. But there’s been quite a bit of work in the last 30-40 years on scaling such systems. What kind of back-end architecture you want to use depends a lot on your intended use. I recommend playing with ZeroMQ if you want to make your own messaging platform, to get a feeling for how it should scale. A “safer” solution of course is to just pull some existing scalable message platform off the shelf.
Also consider the idea that Google may not exist in 20 years.
Two things this needs before it's the thing I'd want to use:

- Let me pick a specific gift. I don't want to give a $35 gift card. I want to give a remote control helicopter. Let me pick it out from Amazon and send it to somebody via email.

- Don't require Facebook. I want to send helicopters to everybody on my team the day we ship. I know their email addresses and that should be enough (it's enough to be able to send them money via paypal, so why not gifts through your thing?) I'm not going to friend them on Facebook[1], so at the moment there's no way to send them anything.

Fix that and you've got me. I've been looking for exactly this all week, so if you could do the things above I'd spend $500 through your site today.

[1] The important point here is that the people who you friend on Facebook are a different (though possibly overlapping) set of people from the people you give gifts too. I'm not going to add my Mother as a Facebook friend, but I'll send her gifts on her birthday.

Yes, there do exist people who add everybody they've ever met as friends on Facebook. But there are also people who don't. If you make it impossible for those people to send gifts through your thing, you're losing business.