skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make a comparison more directly to AOL's stature, it'd be like saying I had an enormous fleet of cars and I wouldn't even notice one missing. I'm not conflating Eric's situation and encouraging everyone to be a criminal, but I'm not going to call Eric a criminal and get behind people's attitude that he has an awful moral compass because of petty theft (which is still unclear to me; did AOL not give him a badge? Did it not continue working?).

AOL is probably going to up their security because of this. It was something they should have done in the first place if Eric was allowed to do this the whole time. He's an entrepreneur, he got a few free meals and lifted some metal weights around at AOL's petty expense. I think people need to lighten up and appreciate the resilience and creativity, rather than scrutinize the individual who wasn't doing any real harm.
Social network for the antisocial?

I don't think that would work.
> It's well known housing pretty much follows inflation

I'm curious why you claim that while providing a reference that clearly contradicts you: a reference house cost $100k in 1890, went down to under 70k in the 1920s and then up to over 200k a few years ago. Note that this is already corrected for inflation.
That's one question ,but another one is:

How far can I drive per $100?

When looking at the car in part for discretionary uses, that's a valid question.....
But linear vs inverse depends entirely on what questions you are asking.

If I want to know how much discretionary driving I can afford, MPG is a better measure. If I want to know how much the car will cost to operate over fixed driving requirements (commuting, etc) GP100M is a better measurement. Maybe we can just have both ;-)
That site crawls like a dog on my Firefox 12, Linux i7 quad core system.
Needless, ridiculous, digressionist pedantry. The point was (and you can verify this yourself) that the page reports visually identical content regardless of which browser hits it. So it's not telling you that "your" browser is unsupported, it's a redirect target for some other page.
alarms were going off when I read "pitch deck"...
I posited that warming came from CO2 emitted from volcanos. After all, they do emit massive amounts of CO2.

We can do things to counteract that CO2, such as making carbon sinks. We can do other things to affect the warming.

I find it interesting that you accept the consequences of "nature" without question.

> then reducing or stopping it is comparatively easy: reduce CO2 emissions.

This is a definition of "easy" that I'm unfamiliar with.

Let's see how it works in other areas. "Heroin use is bad for most people, so let's just stop using heroin". Hmm.

People engage in CO2 producing activities because they get benefits from those activities. And, those benefits don't have the costs of heroin.

And there's still the "what's the right temperature" question (which isn't that simple). Why not 5 degrees warmer?
Rogue Amoeba is a long time Mac developer, known for making high quality software. I believe they have won a couple design awards from Apple.

Even if you don't like Gruber, this could easily be a case of a well known Mac developer buying ads on a well known site in the Mac community.
What's wrong with using Kickstarter for songs? How would a specific service be better? It's worth noting that bands are already using Kickstarter.
You need to be connected to the network. From their website: "Can I work on my site offline? Not Currently. Diet Coda's focus is editing files on your staging server; if you want to build a whole new website while you're there, that's also cool."
It has been found empirically that people are worse at reasoning about MPG than L/100km. That's the argument this post should have made. Source: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/the-illusion-of-m...
An anti-social network.

Google should be like a bank. Does your bank let other people "Friend" you and "Like" your transactions? Would you even use that kind of bank if they were stupid enough to try?
Thanks for the advice :)

I haven't programmed in any substantial quantity or quality since 2004, so I'll start with a more approachable language (Python), but I'll definitely keep an open mind.
The division in the first will always be x / 100km while in the second the division will be x divided by your mpg ratio. The first division is way easier as your mpg ratio is more likely to be something random.
How does the fact that someone else squatted make it any less unethical?
>>Perl is just a scripting language

And its amazingly great at that. I don't know any other language which as powerful as Perl for back end work. There is whole world inside that 'Just' which many other languages suck at.

>>"those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl." Definitely learn shell, awk, sed, and co. But avoiding Perl won't do any harm.

The only harm you will incur is never understand what Perl offers and try to recreate the same magic in some other language. Often writing highly verbose pieces of code to do what Perl offers in a more neat, concise and better way.
Then just buy an Windows Phone! There you can combine Facebook + Twitter + LinkedIn + you name it ;)
To be honest, CoffeeScript feels a lot more like python than it does Ruby
Agreed. Even YC explicitly says they look for the "naughty" factor in entrepreneurs, and this is exactly the type of quality I saw in Eric from reading this article.

"Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination." http://paulgraham.com/founders.html
It's not just simplified, but more secure. Your version doesn't write to predictable filenames in /tmp like the original does.
Am I the only one that struggles with the name "DuckDuckGo?" The unprofessional name makes it really hard for me to want to use the service, even if it has nice targeted results that may be more relevant or higher quality than Google's. Maybe "unprofessional" is not the right adjective, but I can't find the right one. I have the same problem with "Bing" - the logo is just such an eyesore, and the marketing is so obnoxious ("Decision Engine?").
Privacy is Awesome. Kill CISPA.
I beg to differ.

At that time Apple was selling the iMac, remember this was years before the original iPod.

The running joke amongst VCs that were funding companies like Google, VMWare, and Salesforce.com was that Apple was "selling colored plastic"
The userbase is almost always more valuable than immediate monetization.
Don't tell the economists...
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It looks like a cheap knock-off of Google and doesn't give me the hit count for "Ubuntu" (or I missed it). Google gives me over 200 million, Bing over 44 million.
Relevant search results is all I care about when I use a search engine. (Oh, and I don't see how "Google" sounds professional.)
"It was time to stop being an entrepreneur by association but rather by action. "

And the title of his blog: "Musings of an entrepreneur"

Thing is he isn't an entrepreneur. And there is no such thing as an entrepreneur by association. He's an armchair entrepreneur and yes he should move off the coach and actually do something.
The reason drugs are so expensive to develop is the FDA testing. So instead of patents the FDA can just enforce a rule to not allow generic drugs unless they've gone through the same rigorous testing process the original guy did.

This is probably something the FDA should do anyway. Generic drug makers can look at a drug's signature, but there are so many other variables that can affect how a drug performs (quality control of the factory, quality of ingredients, recipe, procedure, etc.) that the FDA should require generic makers to go through the same testing process because they're different drugs.

The generic drug makers will have less overall expenses to bring a new drug to market (because someone already figured out a particular protein sequence that works in XYZ manner), but the original inventor will have time to milk the market as the first-to-market, encouraging innovation, and we can still get rid of our awful mess of a patent system.

Generally if you've built up a whole system (like the patent system), and it's really only beneficial for a select few (pharma), then maybe it'd be better to design a different system just for them (like the one proposed above) and don't make everyone else suffer the consequences.
I'm not sure it was particularly unethical, unless somebody can demonstrate that there was any real harm done to anyone by his actions.
Interesting that filestube (a web search service covering links to filesharing websites) comes in well above the torrent search sites as no.1 for 'top targeted domains'. It seems a very abstract way of tackling the issue, preventing one search engine from linking to the results of another. Especially as (according to Wikipedia) filestube are happy to take down DMCA offending content themselves...

Also - it makes me wonder whether web-based piracy (through filesharing websites), which seemed to hardly exist a few years ago, is becoming the 'dominant' form of piracy...
What I want to do with the data is largely irrelevant; I care more about being free to analyze this data--data that belongs to the public.

But to answer your question more precisely, I'm interested in identifying trends in the courts with respect to litigated issues. It'd be interesting to determine whether certain pre-trial motions have a higher propensity to be granted/denied in a particular court, before a particular judge, etc. Additionally, I'm interested in tracking cases on which attorneys and law firms typically rely when writing their briefs or other documents submitted to the court.
I've never seen someone describe a middleman so enthusiastically.

Not that there isn't enormous added value in presentation or that duckduckgo has a poor offering at all - but your search result quality will always be limited to that of your partner-competitors' (Bing index in this case). And the more you succeed, the more expensive your partnership grows: see Netflix.

Wait a minute. I just remembered the other added value: privacy. Now that I think about it, I know a few middlemen/middlewomen that I'd describe enthusiastically myself!
The question I have is as to their business model.

There's a saying--- if you aren't buying a product, you are the product. So they have one paid link per page. Is that enough to make them profitable eventually?
You may need to setup your terminal to do that with:

stty status '^T'

fsck also responds to SIGINFO by printing its status. I had to hack up rsync to do it (http://jcs.org/patches/rsync-show_current_file.diff), and I wish more utilities supported it by default.
I agree that the content is what matters, but I just feel like it's a crying shame that a service like DuckDuckGo will never be taken seriously because of its name.
On Red Hat based systems, ls is an alias for ls --color=auto which means that colors are used only on terminals, not pipes or files.
I think it's an OSX-ism.

Most OSX devs I've seen treat their command-line utilities like their GUI utilities, with nice looking albeit chatty output.

These utilities then get released into the Linux world, where they often work without any modification.
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And drug research is largely nationalized. Drugs for "important" diseases are typically discovered by academic researchers and the R&D of a pharma company is either focused on a) how to scale up production of the drug b) how to market the drug c) drugs to cure lifestyle issues and psychological issues. Anything else is too risky or requires too long of an investment timeline.
1. False. Define "great" and "rules" and I or others will happily provide no shortage of examples.

2. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're a reasonable person, and you were merely exaggerating, but I don't even know what you're trying to say. Are you trying to say that in order to do great things, rules generally have to get broken...and therefore it's ok for entrepreneurs to do unethical things?

3. Consider reducing your consumption of entrepreneurship porn.
Same here when trying to update the bot.
I just assumed it was instagram people, and the two products would eventually become one.
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I'm always amazed at the immediate discounting that is given to WebVan. They had a long-term vision that will eventually be realized by some other company or companies-- to have a van come regularly to your home, not only to deliver things (like groceries, but also consumer goods, electronics, etc) but also to pick things up while they are there-- your drycleaning, movie rental returns, film rolls to be processed (it was 1999), etc. The long-term goal was essentially a combination of Amazon, Netflix, FedEx, and lots of other companies.
It's a problem of pitch. You're entirely correct that the original poster's technical issue may have been resolved automatically, but it's not the technical issue which prompted the post. Accounts don't need reassurance, but people do - particularly when they have placed trust in Google regarding something which may be critical to their business or social life.

When my credit card is compromised, just by acknowledging my inconvenience, it makes the time between the cancellation of one card and the arrival of its replacement seem reasonable.

I get the issue of scale. What I don't get is why Liza isn't wired up to the forum and the email doesn't say "We apologize for the inconvenience." It's only a handful of bytes.
Don't forget that most people in Congress are lawyers. And lawyers will see the patent system providing a lot of value... because you typically need lawyers to file for a patent.
Somewhat related, trickle is a good user-space bandwidth shaper if you aren't sending data over a pipe: http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle
the same can be said of gold. if you pick gold anytime from 70-95 it loses out on stocks. Also, I don't see the big downward trend in 98, as we didn't peak until 2000 ;-)

The real takeaway is to not try and time the market. don't just buy all at once. if you continually invest over time you will have much less volatile returns, and continually investing over almost any period the stock market has higher returns than the other asset classes mentioned.
Thomas, I'm in the middle of evaluating document stores and am perhaps getting stars in my eyes from Riak's easy-to-scale story. I'd love to hear more about your experiences once your cluster has had time to marinate a bit.
My guess is that he's talking about direct investments in particular stocks.

I'm another person who worked for financial traders. I would never buy individual stocks. All my money is in low-load funds (e.g., index funds). I'll probably buy some income property soon. But I know exactly who is on the other side of stock market trades, and I know how hard it is to beat them.
I see there's a limit on how long the moving function can run. Is there a similar limit on how long the new_game() function can run?
Nice to see DuckDuckGo get more media exposure, however that article was disappointingly short and lite. Seemed to cut off abruptly.
> "It's the same faulty logic behind the supposed superiority of the metric system."

In grad school (applied math) it was always good for a laugh when we heard someone make a big deal out of metric. We always scaled out as much as possible to get nice dimensionless equations with the minimum number of parameters.

That said, sometimes one choice of units or basic quantities is more convenient than another for a particular application. Not right or superior in a general sense, just better suited to some specific context.
How is that in any way a useful statistic? Who cares about 200+ million results vs. 44 million? Most people don't look at the fifth result, let alone the 200 millionth one. What matters is the first page and whether those top results are the best and most relevant for a given query.
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>> Google gives me over 200 million, Bing over 44 million.

Is that relevant to your evaluation of a search engine? I don't care how many hits the engine shows, just what it shows in the first 3 links or so. The rest is noise.
I dont get what point you're trying to make with the relation between the quoted line and the title of the blog.

As an aside, arent you being too quick to judge ? I quit my 6 figure job and have been working on my product for the last several weeks. Still a few more weeks away from launch, but I'm 100% invested in it.
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I'm so sick of these DDG stories. The truth is no one uses them, 99.9999% of people outside SV have never heard of them and currently there is no reason to switch to them.
Same problem Mamma.com and Dogpile have (not comparing search quality).
As many others have pointed out, two character gTLDs are not allowed, as they are reserved for countries and super-national entities like .eu.

Also, Kickstarter is a terrible model for something like this. Kickstarter is for funding a single creative project. People are giving money to someone they trust to be able to execute a project, for that specific project. A gTLD needs to be run, constantly, for the forseeable future; and thus needs to be a real business, with real investment, not a one-shot project like Kickstarter is designed to fund.
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Hey, honest question here, is it impossible to brute force this and consider (almost) every possible move and get to a non possible to loose point? Given that the board is restricted to 15x15 and the fruits to 81... I'm not saying this is easy, I'm asking if the game AI has an upper limit so to say...
Posted on Hacker News earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4020222
There is something crazy going on at Quora. It seems hellbent on driving off all of its best posters and keeping the mediocrities.
I don't quite think that its a "gnuism" to do that. They generally take a --color option which of course is off by default.

They did sometimes put the license everytime, a long time ago, but I don't see that anymore unless you ask the version or help.
I don't see why not. Their costs are probably minimal (some servers + salaries). Beyond that they're just leveraging all the work of Bing and others. Also, they've taken barely any VC money, so it's not like there's a huge return expected in the first place.
You aren't. I've seen the debate a few times on HN, and I've had it with friends who also opt to use DuckDuckGo.

It's "a bad name." It isn't evocative, it can't be (easily) made into a verb, and it lacks brevity.

I don't really like the name, but I'm oddly comforted that I can shorten it to ddg (and use http://ddg.gg). I can deal for now, but I do think it should change.
There's one doing that, but only for Kickstarter - check out http://www.kicktraq.com.
This would be wonderfully true if only their search results were anywhere near as good.
They also libel you after you have been banned because you cannot respond.
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The question of whether something is ethical is very different from the question of whether it causes any harm.
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Just so you know, at least Google's hit count is usually off by several orders of magnitude. It's comforting to see it, but it's almost entirely inaccurate.
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I switched. For 80-90% of my queries it gets me to the same place as Google just as quickly, or more quickly in some cases. For the other 10-20% there's the !bang syntax, which also lets me search images and maps right from the Chrome address bar without ever hitting the mouse.

Use the tools that make you most productive. For me, that's DDG. For you, maybe not. But I think "...there is no reason to switch to them" just isn't accurate in general.
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I think middleman is a bit harsh. DuckDuckGo is providing a service. It isn't something that someone else can easily do themselves.
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> "setting up a budget in months per thousand dollars"

A lot of people actually do that: given the amount of money they have saved up, they figure out how many months they could get by without a paycheck.

Big improvements to inconsequential expenses aren't going to help you save a lot more money if you're gainfully employed, but they can help you last a lot longer if you're unemployed. Huge mpkd improvements matter in that situation.

Similarly, with the MPG or GP100M question, use the measurement that's most convenient for answering the question at hand. If you want to know how much fuel/money it'll take to go to Chicago, use GP100M. If you want to know what destinations are within reach for a certain amount of fuel/money, use MPG.
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What's Interviewstreet?

Our goal is to build an engaging platform where as many programmers in the world hang out to solve interesting CS real-world problems across different domains and have fun. We're just getting started with some really good algorithmic challenges.

We're hiring a Product Hacker to focus on two important
metrics - Engagement (time spent and interaction) and Retention (churn factor). We listen to our users a lot and been doing a bunch of experiments on our site - categorizing problems into different levels, loginless view to solve problems, introducing AI games (summergames.interviewstreet.com) which has made a ton of users happy.

There are thousands of programmers every day solving challenges and having fun.Imagine if you grew this number by 10x or say, 100x?

We've a very big aim - building a Facebook for programmers, building a platform to bring together all hackers to our site. It's probably like saying all the gold mines of the world is at one place.

If you're looking to join a young and an exciting team in Mountainview, hop in.

What're we looking for?

> You have coded extensively in the past (or continue to) and have built stuff on the web

> You understand the way programmers think and know what they enjoy and able to translate ideas into how it should reflect on the website

> Explicit mention of some of the earlier products you've worked on - what changes you made and how they affected the business value

> You are very numbers obsessed and the first thing you wake up to is an analytics dashboard.

> You are able to code up little things/changes you want on the site and not disturb the developers for quick changes.

If this sounds exciting, send us a mail: founders@interviewstreet.com

Interesting trivia: Why the name "interviewstreet" and are we planning on changing it to align our goal? Ping us to know.