skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finnish military has also this kind of weird "no hat while eating", which comes from Finnish civilian tradition. The only exception is below -20 Celsius temperature.

At least in my country it's been tradition to take your hat of inside, because it's disrespectful to the house owner. Like a statement that your roof is leaking. Nowadays this culture has faded, but personally I don't like to wear a hat partly because of this.
Same here. To compensate, I load my memory up with "interesting" anecdotes for interviews. Including my most embarrassing moment, which luckily happens to center around a bug. (Failing that, I'd probably grab a recent bug and dress it up to be interesting. I guess you can always riff about techniques which prevent that particular class of bugs.)

But now of course, if I ever go on an interview again, I'd dredge up some funny bug. Just in case. :)
Part of the acquisition's worth comes from cross-promoting other Zynga apps through Draw Something.
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I doubt it's a reaction - it was just that, at the time, a domain name was a symbol of newness, coolness, and gobs of money. "blahblahblah.com" was something that even the most clueless IT executive knew meant "the internet". So both companies would want to exploit that.
Google had a funny name in 2000. And Yahoo! had a funny name in 1994. I'm sure once they get some cash they'll buy ddg.com from Donoho Design Group LLC and that'll be the end of it.
> and/or a portfolio (github for example)

This can be cheated. They could get someone else to create the Gibhub portfolio for them, perhaps a friend who's an unemployed "real programmer", just like they could get someone else to sit an aptitude test for them if only HR people are at the test and no photos are taken.
If the page hangs loading, with nothing displayed, try adding "127.0.0.1 nik.io" to your /etc/hosts. That made it come right up for me, and the script it loads from there (/v1/nikio.js) apparently isn't essential to the page.

Anyway, I question the accuracy of this. MIT #8 in engineering (it should be in the top 3), Stanford not in the top 10, and Caltech does not even break into the top 25?
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http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.
Maybe the hat-killer was the discomfort of steel helmets in WWII. Any movie from that war, and all the guys are taking their helmets of all the time because they are annoying.
How is your life different now than it was during your 2 years at university? How long ago were those 2 years - a couple years ago, or more than a decade?

Most universities like to talk about the rule-of-thumb of 2 hours study per hour of instruction. Full course loads are 12-18 hours of instruction per week in this part of the world, so the university would like you to spend 24-36 hours per week studying. In reality, study time may be 30-90 minutes usually, and 2-3 hours once or twice per quarter; this means 6-18 hours of study most weeks, and 24-54 hours during finals.

To break it down:

Sleeping - 56 hours

Working - 40 hours

Instruction - 15 hours

Study - 15 hours

Transportation - 20 hours (1 hour to work and 1 hour to return home, 1 hour to and 1 hour from university, including buffer for leaving late or being stuck in traffic * 5 days a week)

-----------------------

Total - 146 hours

1 week - 168 hours

Surplus - 22 hours

During finals, you would have no time. Even people who really enjoy college find a schedule like this almost impossible to keep.
I think you're saying two things, so I'll address each.

1. "Google" and "Yahoo!" seemed funny in 1994, but we're used to them.

It's possible. This is what most people answer about DDG. I think this is wrong. Google and Yahoo!, while funny names, sound "cool". DuckDuckGo doesn't. My memory isn't great, so I can't be sure I'm right about this, but I'm pretty sure that the first time I heard "Google" or "Yahoo!", I had a much better reaction than the first (and every) time I hear "DuckDuckGo".

I also think it's not smart to cling to the "people will get used to it, Google was the same" defense. If it's true, sure. I think it's not, and it's just misleading and true-sounding enough that DuckDuckGo keeps going.

2. The domain name itself is a problem (long, annoying to type, etc.), and once they get ddg it will be better.

I agree on this point, although I do think the name is still an important point, not just for the domain. It's a brand.

I'd like to reiterate that I'm not saying this things to be a critic, or just to be mean. I really value the work of DuckDuckGo, I think it's great that there's good competition to Google, and I'm a fan of Gabriel Weinberg. I'm only saying this because it's an issue that keeps coming up, and I really think it has a bad effect on DuckDuckGo.
Like the thinking. Sounds more plausible than other ideas.
I don't think any hosting company is "well known" by the statutory definition for trademarks. AWS, EC2 are probably not well known trademarks. A few businesses with ancillary hosting might be (Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, etc.) but not hosting providers themselves.

(I've known of/used pair for a very long time, and yes, pair networks is the first thing I think of when I hear the name...)

Well known basically means it is unthinkable that anyone would not strongly associate the word with the famous company. You couldn't be "Coca-Cola Automotive".

Since the standard is what the "general public" would think, I think it's also basically impossible for any b2b or non-consumer company to have a "well known" trademark. "DuPont" is a borderline case.

This is a technical term; similar to a mathematician's "trivial", which doesn't mean what you'd normally think in plain language :)
The form data is being auto-saved to Local Storage using the Sisyphus jQuery plugin. So if you are using a modern browser, you don't have to worry about losing any unsaved data.
It is a commercial query though, organic results are often less relevant.
"2. The domain name itself is a problem (long, annoying to type, etc.), and once they get ddg it will be better."

Actually, you can already use www.ddg.gg, which redirect you to the HTTPS version of DDG.
Personally, I liked it because of the refreshing UI. I think a lot of blogs are very hard to navigate (especially when the blog posts are listed by month on the side, or have previous/next buttons, but theres no easy way to just view a complete list at once or search through posts), this wasn't. The idea of multiple pages in a single blog post was awesome! I didn't try creating a blog myself, but if you can make it as easy to create blogs as it is on other sites while providing the UI/multiple pages, I think you have an advantage.

That said, it's also a very easy idea to replicate. Perhaps you need to identify the people who would be willing to use this a little better and offer a few more advanced features targeted towards them. I see this product as filling a nice somewhere between a full-blown CMS like Joomla and a simple blogging engine, and understanding what the users of that niche want will help.
But chrome and firefox provide it for years, without giving up your queries to a 3rd party search engine.
I'm confused here. Posting "LOL!" is not spam in any way, at least how i define spam. It might not subjectively be appropriate (if it's not appropriate to find it funny), it's debateably irrelevant (if it is not important who finds it funny). But it's not spam.

Spam is broadly defined as unsolicited bulk advertising. An example spam comment would be "LOL! Also check out this great pharmaceutical company: xxx".

The latter is certainly something that should be filtered out, if it's irrelevant advertising that marketers are using to peddle their crap. It's mostly unsubjective and uncontextual and its appropriate for filters to automatically detect.

But filtering out the former is a form of censorship that is often best left to humans (like downvotes to bury bad comments). I don't think this should be the job of the comments system to determine what is considered "appropriate" or "beneficial to the discussion."

A "LOL" or ASCII art image or "no u" or any other meme can be anything from a well-timed ironic offhand jab, an appropriate affirmation or response, to totally irrelevant and inappropriate noise. It depends on topic, context, parent, and existing noise in the thread and is inherently objective.
I actually knew that, but ddg.gg seems to never stick in my memory.
Exception performance is pretty obvious: you need to unwind the stack everytime you catch an exception whereas checking an error return value is one instruction long.

If you try to catch your exception at every statement, you're not using RAII correctly.

Returns values are less bug prone because behaviour is obvious (boost::system::error_code is a good way to encapsulate information).

Exception is a goto statement because basically you're breaking the flow and saying "go to catch in case of error".

For all these reasons, exceptions should be exceptional.

Use exceptions for abnormal behavior that you cannot properly handle in the program (out of memory, i/o error...).
Thanks. I designed the site myself.
I'll fix the links shortly.
Just configure a keyword for your browser, you also get a clean url.
I suspected as much; I mainly mentioned the "source" because I don't entirely trust it.
How to deal with difficult customers?
It's a one-time payment. But thanks for letting me know. I need to make that clear on the PRO page itself.
just proves that having the most expensive (per capita) healthcare system in the globe does not really contribute to health(y) results
Are buddhists sensitive about imagery? Somehow I don't think buddha would be upset over images of himself - why should he be? As for other monks, why should they be? Why should an image be considered an insult?
Actually, if you like DuckDuckGo but sometimes want google search results, you can use Startpage, which provide the same results that google, but "privately" (like scroogle).

You just have to add the iBang !sp in DDG.
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But for us this is like jesus as my mascot.

....what? Excuse me for coming off as blunt here, but are you actually Buddhist?
Yes, actually. I don't think you understand just how pervasive Google's presence is on the internet. Install Ghostery or similar sometime. Then watch where Google Analytics shows up. This will be some rather surprising places, including porn sites and things you might find yourself feeling rather sensitive about.

Remember, not only does Google have records of every search associated with your IP, but they've spent a lot of work trying to differentiate and distinguish people as their IPs change. They also index all email you receive using their services or if your place of employment uses those services.

In sum, this is actually a very detailed picture to paint of someone. It's not a matter of simply not using Gmail or Google, they've infested the internet with bugs that still provide detailed information of where people have visited and it's actually a bit of effort to slip under their radar. More effort than the average person will ever spend, anyway.

And it's not like you can have them remove what they already know about you, you just have to write that off as a matter of record now. If you still think this is a good thing to hand this all over to a company that owes you absolutely nothing and whose existence largely depends on holding this information about you...
Essentially, this is an artist directly listening to his audience, and working with them to create art.

This is a new way of storytelling in the sense that Agile practices are a new way of running a software company. The underlying idea is the same, (tell a story / write software) but iteration is much faster and output is tightly coupled to input.
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Apparently so; one of the comments said they realized what was happening as it would crash when all the input lines were zero.
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What a fantastically reasoned comment. People don't often praise good comments enough. I didn't see decimalisation this way until now. Interesting.
Sounds GA black hat methods to me. But I'm not quite surprised about this. Monetization is the master word.
I'm wondering whether selenium would fit their need. ( I believe one have to change the UserAgent to look more real ).
Google's mission at a very early stage.
Do you know if google is able to detect such behaviors? Is it even possible? Maybe detecting patterns issued from a particular IP. Or using smart cookies to track down users with definite patterns.
While i'm a big fan of privacy. I think DDG's biggest advantage over G is the lack of bubble. Which gives users better Results.

Us techier people knows that it's a more complicated, but there's no need to bother users with grey areas.
"I upgraded the Search Engine for everyone, it's a bit better now"

Google changes so much these days that most users wont notice it's not G anymore.
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I disagree that #2 is necessarily smart, Apple is doing it because they have no other choice. They don't have a low end competitor to bring into the market and so their previous high end device has to fill that role.

The needs of a high end consumer 3 years ago is different from the needs of a low end consumer today and different technologies age at different rates. The iPhone 3GS is still using a 65nm processor which means it's using almost twice as much silicon for the same number of transistors as an iPad 2, driving up cost. At the same time, features introduced into later phones like better cameras or the gyroscope would probably be worthwhile even in a low end phone.

Additionally, high end finishings like steel and glass might be attractive to a high end consumer but low end consumers would rather take the cost savings from using plastics.

At the same price point, the iPhone 3GS is not at all competitive hardware wise with modern low end phones. The only reasons they sell so well are because a) They grant exclusive access to the iOS ecosystem which trumps performance issues and b) the modern American way of pricing phones confuses most consumers. If the phones were priced at $649, $549 & $449, a lot more consumers wouldn't find a 30% discount for 2 year old technology that good a deal.
Beautiful piece of technology!

Also bridges the gap between sci fi themed nightmares and reality!
Great tutorial!

Many thanks for your effort.
I recall a commentary on a stargate episode where they commented that the USAF was always upset if any of the actors didn't follow the rules about hats to the letter.
Thanks for your inputs. I just wanted to get the first version up and running quickly so I believe that I still need to fix a lot of things.
I will definitely pay more attention to the consistency and the overall look and feel of the design in the next iteration.
> Watches? I am not wearing any since I started to carry phones.

Watches get secluded from utilitarian+jewelry to purely jewelry. Rolex sounds like Dior, Prada or Louis Vuitton. Swatch on the other hand struggles in the lower segment (but they're pivoting into jewelry and higher end more and more). For youngsters, the cheap McGyver watch is dead, while Rolex still make (some) people dream.
> But I don't think so. One of the reasons for this is that Jakob Moss removed his web2py bashing from this thread. Didn't edit - removed it: https://www.quora.com/Is-web2py-a-good-Python-web-framework/....

What did he remove?

https://www.quora.com/Is-web2py-a-good-Python-web-framework/...

This isn't the first instance of Django/Flask people not agreeing with web2py design and implementation, and they have been vocal about it a couple of times.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/ex54j/seeking_clarif...

Look for comments by mitsuhiko(flask dev) and jacobian(django dev).
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They own the DUCK.CO domain, but use it as a community forum. I think they should use that one as a shortcut to their main product, but probably they don't want to cause confusion.

The funny thing is that the registrant of DUCK.COM appears to be Google when you do a whois lookup:

Registrant:
DNS Admin
Google Inc.
I read the T&C page but didn't see any words that promised that my resume remains private and protected, under my control to share and display. Did I miss something? Actually it looks like from the T&C page that any resume entered becomes your property to do pretty much anything with. This doesn't encourage me to use your site, I'm afraid.
They don't require you to login before voting?

Many sites with voting or upvoting require login specifically to prevent frauds.
Without schema constraints, your data will slowly corrode due to bugs in your codebase until you can’t depend on any fields being populated.

Don't tell that to the NoSQL people.

use :limit => N to size your string columns appropriately. Strings default to 255 characters and phone probably doesn’t need to be that big, does it?

Is this a Rails limitation? A lot of DBs, like Postgres, treat all strings as varchar anyway.
Yeah of course you'd bring them in for an interview to talk about those projects if they show a promising portfolio.

I just can't imagine hearing someone say
"Yeah this guy is a great visual designer, look as his gorgeous portfolio, and look at all this great stuff he did at smashing magazine (or whatever good place for design, I don't know..) But he's not a team player, he is sceptical about doing 'pair-designing' for 8 hours a day with other randomly chosen incompetent designers. No hire."
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$1K is really not enough -- it gets you a fraction of one attempt. You really need to budget for multiple attempts.

Change your employer so you're not under that "on or off the clock" clause. Then save up some more.
Also, http://pow.cx/ (Ruby I know, but it shows such things can be done.)

Also the argument of python/ruby requiring lots of configuration while php would not is just plain bullshit. Making PHP run with Apache (esp. on a windows machine) without stuff like EasyPHP (and this is where you stop comparing apples to oragnes) is by and large tough on the beginner.
The centmin.sh script is designed specifically for that install: CentOS + Nginx, MySQL, PHP. If it works well for you and that's what you need, then definitely keep using it.

rayburst sets up a framework to allow for more customized installs. You can pick the various apps and services and the modularity of the build scripts/recipes handles the install of the configuration. Part of what takes place is figuring out the build dependencies (ex Rails depends on Ruby) which would otherwise have to be hardcoded in a bash script.
I wanted to do that now but did some lego with my kid instead, will keep you 3 informed when done.
It's not clear that this strategy is possible within the the framework of the game show though. The host instructs both players to look at the concealed choices before they're allowed to talk to each other. To employ the blind strategy you'd have to explicitly not look at them (and probably say something at that point to make it clear you don't plan on looking at them). This would be directly contradicting the host's instructions. While the host might allow it, I think it's more likely they'll say "sorry, but you have to look at them".
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A secondary issue: the price of clothing.

Clothing used to be really expensive. Studies of retail pricing indicate that, after correcting for inflation, a good pair of workmans' trousers -- jeans, in other words -- would have cost the equivalent of roughly $400 in 2001 dollars in 1901. A reasonable quality man's suit would have cost the equivalent of $2-3000. Clothing (and food) accounted for a much higher percentage of household budgets than they do today. Women's attire was similarly expensive. Prior to the 20th century, poorer working people had to make do with second and third hand garments and patch them until they fell apart; even in the 20th century, being able to afford new clothing on an annual basis was seen as a luxury.

There are a couple of corollaries of this. One is that fashions were far more conventional, than they are today -- you didn't want to pay the equivalent of a modern automobile's price for an outfit that would be seen as weird or outlandish within 1-2 years. Another is that they were much slower to change because people needed to get their full value out of such an expensive asset.

In fact, if you look at automotive fashion today, you see much the same constraints. Cars are expensive enough that sensible people don't generally change their vehicle every year; they get some miles out of them, and they tend to buy vehicles on the basis of perceived utility. Which is why the boring silver saloon or SUV is more common than the bright pink, retro-styled sports convertible, or the monster truck with jacked-up suspension and six foot diameter tires.
It's hard to answer that question because so much depends on your specific circumstances but I'll try. I'm assuming you're able to do your own programming because $1000 won't get you very far if you need to hire developers.

Find an area where you think you can provide something of value. It could be a hobby or a problem in your community. Figure out how to solve it and have a go. Get feedback early and keep an open mind try lots of things and understand what's working and why.

If you don't already know patio11's Bingo Card Creator story, then probably the best advice you will find is on his website:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/

Read the earlier ones on how to prioritize your time and validate your work (the more recent posts are more geared towards SEO and marketing).

Also Eric Rees's blog about the Minimal Viable Product approach:
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/

But you've been on HN for a while, so you probably already know all that?
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How big do you think an index on a 255 character string is (at least in MySQL)? And if you're not putting limits on your strings, do you think it's likely you're putting limits on your indexes?
“A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.”
― P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
Indeed. The chemical properties of the elements will make some easier to extract than others. Metals that have been known since prehistoric times (copper, tin, lead, silver, zink and others) easily combine with sulphur in the crust, and can be found as easily extractable ores, while the rare earths are as abundant as these, but do not concentrate much in specific ores. The same goes for Uranium, that is surprisingly common in most minerals.

What matters is how easily the elements can be extracted and processed. Aluminium is 13% of the crust by weight, but was not possible to process before after around 1880, because electrolysis and large scale electricity production had to be in place first.
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One horrendous bug me and my friends came across with infuriating frequency was that the game would randomly change the word with another one of the same length when asking you to guess it. Effectively making it impossible to win unless you went through every possible word in the dictionary.

Needless to say I don't play any more.
I don't think I've ever met anybody who thought America's health care system was better than that of many/most Europea countries - certainly not of any fellow English/Europeans I know, but also no Americans I know and have discussed it with.