skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shafting Uber with pricing requirements is excessive regulation.
I'm still trying to get anyone to care that vmware.com and a few other sites are doing it.
A quote: "'This data is one for the history books,' NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist John Grotzinger recently told National Public Radio, while adding that he could not divulge more until scientists had a better chance to vet the data. Hypotheses have ranged from a discovery of complex organic matter to chemicals indicating the presence of water."

Well, if it's something meriting mention in history books, then it's not "chemicals indicating the presence of water", because we already have many examples of that, from present and past rovers. That leaves something not seen before, and organics are at the top of the list. It's a pretty exciting time -- and from a scientific perspective, a nice follow-up to the Higgs findings from the LHC.
Guardian interview with Peter Norvig
>Yes. He's the reason the Apple II had support for the Dvorak keyboard layout, hidden as it may have been. That's a big UX thing for me.

That's just adding a feature, and one designed by someone else (well, Dvorak) at that, not UX design.

Plus, the Dvorak keyboard was an elaborate scam, an early version of "bio-magnetic bracelets" and such:

http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html

It's popular with guys that like the exclusivity of using it and enjoy the placebo effect, but has never been conclusively shown easier or faster to type. Not to mention that for programmers its case is made even worst, because something designed for regular typing is not at all necessary to also be good for programming languages, where the common characters change, and even include ones like {} and such.

It's the ideal keyboard layout for the guys that make optimizations without profiling.
> "If an employee or a cracker has access to the user database, doesn't he already have the user data?"

You sound like you may not be aware of how attacks happen in real life.

Most of the e-mail addresses that people sign up with are either yahoo or gmail. Most people are lazy and choose for this third-party site the same password from their yahoo or gmail accounts.

If the passwords are in plain text ... well ... then people's yahoo and gmail accounts are at risk.

Recently, yahoo notified me that someone has been trying to brute force my yahoo mail password. Luckily I use a different password on third party sites, but the thought of someone taking over my e-mail account was rather scary.
While Wozniak was the technical wizard at Apple, I don't think he had a real vision for Apple's products. Jobs had the vision of what Apple products had to be about:

- hardware internals: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

- hardware externals: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

- user interface: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

I believe if only Woz was Apple, it likely would have been an hardware manufacturer like so many back in those days. Steve made Apple unique.
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Without hating on apple, Woz does make an interesting point (regardless of whether or not you think he's relevant). Sure apple have been innovative and have released some really ground-breaking advances in product design and standards, but he's commenting on the fact they have been stagnate of late.

I'm not suggesting that what Microsoft is putting up is any good (I'm really not), they have been experimenting releasing a more varied range of products than apple has lately. That's the point Woz is making..
> If you're doing 70+ hours a week, you're working for the wrong company. Move.

Or maybe you're working in the wrong industry. The cynic in me cannot help but label enthusiasm for creation of games as a severe economic handicap - one that many companies have no qualms taking advantage of. You love games? That's great, you'll also love unpaid overtime.
"Serious question: I know he's the Woz, but is there any other reason that we care about his opinion?"

No offense but I am almost certain, you will not be asking this question if Woz was praising Apple and dissing Microsoft.
The original title was much better. Why was it changed?
Golgo 13?
Yes, you can. But you have to think about it, and put a little bit of effort into it, at a moment you really want to do a quick search.

It makes switching a step with some friction, instead of making it possible to 'ease into it' by simply starting to do some search with ddg quickly.

(Heh, notice that many people in this forum write ddg for duckduckgo? I just made two typos typing that in. It's rather unlikely this is not costing them badly).
Misleading title, not a giveaway.
Most people definitely use whatever is preset in the browser, at least until someone shows them something better. But regarding the name, the situation is very similar to the one with Microsoft Word: if it isn't called that ("MS Word" ... or "Google"), it isn't "the real thing" and somewhat suspicious, people will refuse to use it on that grounds, no matter how many experts will tell them the other one is better, more secure etc.

Also, I'll mention it again: if you set ddg or anything else as selected search engine in FF Nightly, typing in the location bar will still search with Google. To change that, you need to mess with about:config. Justification? Money, I suppose...
I used K (well, actually the combination of Q and kdb+) in my previous job at an investment bank, and I've used it (to a lesser degree) in my current job at a hedge fund (disclaimer: I have a PhD...).

K/Q is a beautiful language - it's uncompromisingly terse, extremely powerful, and very fast. The interop with kbd+ (a lightning fast, column-oriented, in-memory database) is gorgeous.

It has an unfortunate reputation for obscurity, stemming mainly from the people who think it's fun to write your entire program as a K one-liner and remove all the whitespace. You can write perfectly clear code in Q - super modular, concise, and well documented. It's just that a lot of Q programmers don't bother.
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Hope someday, when I visit Silicon Valley, you would host Thanksgiving too. Would love to join you then.

For Now, Happy Thanksgiving from Nepal :)
Did you notice that you keep abreviating their name? DuckDuckGo is just not something you want to type in, and that will stop people going there.
And Haskell now, I believe.
WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders
They do if it gives them what they perceive to be better results. (Specifically the lack of filter bubble)
The Geek Syndrome
Yes, that is true. Another example. I have seen so many people who installed Firefox and never changed the 'by default Mozilla version of Google' to the real start page of Google (where they could see the different Google Doodles and have more search options to click on directly), when they open the browser.
It is Roman Numerals for 30 as the 2012 Olympics was the 30th Olympiad.
>just like opening the door to them without explicitly denying consent is enough for police to legally enter your house.

That's another example of where the US fails on human rights.
If it was written entirely in JavaScript -- yes, that would be pretty cool, and very useful to have something like that hosted online.
The "we should sell this" is far more building Apple than designing one specific computer.
Well, that's getting the details right-er, or closer to right.
English is not my native language so I cannot comment on the quality of it but Apple includes some basic grammar checking.

It looks like it is able to catch some basic things like "is" / "are" or "a" / "an". (This counts as grammar, right?)

Someone who knows the traps of the English language who can test / comment on this feature?
I read the book and watched the movie. I would not say heavily based on the book. I would say loosely based on the book. If the book was fiction, the movie distorted the picture much, much more.
Does everything have to be about mainstream audience? I don't know if DDG's goal is to take over Google's market share, but I can say that, as a (wannabe) hacker, I've been using it as my default search engine for the past year or so.

What seduced me was the reasons stated by my grandparent comment (and the fact that good ol' Google search is a "!g" away).

Not everything has to please the mainstream. Discussing whether DuckDuckGo is a good name is one thing. But to questions the features of the engine on account that it's not "mainstream" misses the point. I think.
Agreed. But my reply will be a classic "try explaining that to my mum".
Bingo! name needs a pivot
Those are really funny.

There should be a website aggregating stuff like this. It would cheer me up.

And yes, if you're doing any kind of work that you pour your personality into, you need to develop a rock-steady sense of self-esteem, or it will destroy you.
Yes, but how much did they offer for Duck.com? Duck.com being now with Google, they should just rebrand to something else. Forget the duck. Go with something else. PunchBowl.com or whatever brandable name.
According to this [1] article the message reads:

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[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9697929/Wante...
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It's fairly simple.

A crime is just a crime statistic. The more police you have the more crimes are recorded so crime goes up. CCTV is like adding an extra cop (sitting in front of 30 cameras).

CCTV generally does not deter any crimes but it acts on the the kind of crimes that are usually ignored: mostly public order offences linked to alcohol.

CCTV operators spend their nights following couples and women hoping to see sex acts. Occasionally they spot someone urinating against a wall and call the cops.

Urinators, drunken vandals, soliciting prostitutes are seen and logged where they would mostly be ignored—crime goes up.
I would not so quickly recall 'ddg', if I didn't have 'duckduckgo' as a memory aid. But when I visit the site I always type ddg.gg - so maybe that should be where duckduckgo.com redirects instead of vice versa?
Software I love - what's your favourite software?
Woz created the Apple I and Apple II. Great, but that was 30 years ago. And if it was left to Woz he would have stayed at his cushy job at HP and let the bean counters their shelf his computer.
They might both be true at once. The truth of one doesn't invalidate the truth of the other.
It's much easier to crash a plane than a train, with much bigger consequences.
While I wouldn't put it that way... I think it's true that Google is not a disinterested beacon of freedom. They align with it for their own purposes.
I dont want my boss see me using duckduckgo. He would ask me what the fuck i'm doing.
it is for tech products, not the general public

It is for the British Indian Ocean Territory. Any other use is a domain hack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
Try putting a bigger SSD in your Air sometime. It's possible, but far from easy. Even the Macbook Pro's are becoming more difficult to upgrade with each new generation. The Retina Pro is rather similar to the Air in terms of ability (or lack thereof) to upgrade.

Also, your 2008 macbook probably isn't worth as much as you think it is. Over the last few years Apple has done an excellent job of driving their prices down. A typical macbook pro from 2012 is more than 25% cheaper than one from 2008, if you're okay with a smaller screen an Air would be lighter, faster, and even cheaper.

What is true is that hardware requirements, in general for all OS's and software, have been stuck in neutral for the last few years. Whether your computer is a desktop Dell, a home-brew gaming rig, or a Mac, you probably haven't really needed to upgrade for a period of more than twice as long as you would have even just five years ago. That's why your 2008 Macbook doesn't seem like a hunk of junk, not because it's particularly powerful. While other manufacturers are being bitten by the slowing obsolescence cycle of computer hardware, Apple is very deliberately speeding the obsolescence cycle of their hardware up with a combination of marketing, reduced ability to upgrade, and price reduction.
Someone in Canada has figured out how to enable LTE on the Nexus 4
Unfortunately. However, to trust a company is very risky, for obvious reasons.
Then create a magnetic field? There's no limit to what we can do.
"UX can mean 'ls' just as much as it can Metro just as much as it can MATLAB."

True, having Dvorak is a nice feature, but it's not the whole thing. You can certainly have a UX expert pouring over Matlab commands, then you would be considering several aspects, and would get a friendly command line interface, but not only one aspect as in that case.

"There's a presumption here that this has limited impact on the design of the overall product. It doesn't"

For the Apple I, it was certainly essential, since every part saved could save something like $10, $20 or even more (in 1980 dollars). Nowadays, not so much. Today you can fit the whole Apple I inside a FPGA (around $10) with room to spare.
Then get a better boss.
> but you don't seem that confused.

> your take on things made me think an adult opinion was warranted.

This is one of the most arrogant and patronizing comment I've read on HN, you should have read your comment before posting it, you really sounded prickish on this one.
That excludes all available .com domains.
I like this. On point
I'm not sure what it's about, but here's the ITU website: http://www.itu.int
Imagine if Bill Gates were to give interviews like this commenting on Microsoft. Woz is one of my heroes, but I can easily see that the Apple PR department cringes every time he gives an interview.

And they can't do anything about it either, they're damned if they're quiet and they're even more damned if they would speak up because they could never meet him at his level, straight to the point and with an honesty that is probably disturbing them greatly, and responding would likely result in something akin to the Streisand effect, further increasing the visibility of his words.

For those that wish to belittle Steve Wozniaks' contribution to computing: you likely would not be on this forum right now if not for him, the IBM pc only happened after early Apple validated the market.

Steve Wozniak is more of a tinkerer and an engineer, which makes him one of the hacker crowd, something that most business guys have very little empathy with (engineers are tools in their toolbox). As such I listen to what he says because he speaks my language more than the marketing and sales guys and I'm happy I don't have to parse it, all the meaning is there in plain sight, no hidden agendas.

Such transparency, even a sense of naivety is quite rare in the business world, where spindoctors will twist words until they have a meaning far removed from what I would normally get out of them.
Woz created the computer. The idea to sell it was what created Apple.

I'm not sure that's the point people are making though. No-one dispute's Woz's genius back in the late 70's and early 80's. The question is more does what he did 30 years ago qualify him to speak more authoritatively about Apple than any other random tech commentator?

Yes he's probably done enough to warrant being listened to, but I don't think his words carry any particular insight any more.
As a matter of fact, not everything has to be about mainstream audience, it depends on the product.

http://scholar.google.co.in is not meant to be a mainstream product.

Where as http://google.com/search is a mainstream product.
And DDG thinks itself as Google's competitor with a heart for privacy, that's their USP.

So yes, as far as DDG is concerned, mainstream matters. It's a generic search engine, not a vertical for scholars or the like.
The Swiss then do not count as an example, what with them not actually being armed in any sort of public-ish space.
This is just Google running FUD campaign to protect its own business. Strong enforcement of intelectual property laws means problems to any company that indexes or hosts user generated content, but I fail to see how it could endanger free speech.
If they're already hand-raping you because you don't want to go through the scanners (the only x-ray you can get in the US that's not run by a professional, btw), what makes you think they wouldn't let you go through the scanners and then grope you anyway if you wear such a shirt?
The biggest help for me to switch would be for DDG to produce a fork of Chrome that plugged DDG into the Chrome Omnibox as much as possible.

I use the Omnibox for almost 100% of my interaction with the browser, mostly typing in URLs to visit and accessing search history, all integrated with searching as I type.

If I could use the Omnibox like that with search as I type on DDG instead, that'd be excellent.
It's "based on Nix", but what's the difference, and why fork?
> Are there airport-style security checks in train stations London?

No, of course not. It's just not realistic, for the same reasons that you gave.

There are spot checks. It has only happened to me once, since I don't fit the profile. That also has drawbacks that you mentioned - it's far too close to racial profiling, and though it's often under the banner of "anti-terrorism", it mostly confiscates knives.

Notwithstanding the 7 July 2005 bombings, Terrorism isn't a major threat. More people die from far more mundane, accidental things.
I am sorry but, speaking as someone who was there and who knew the early Apple people, you're entirely mistaken. Woz wanted to do something more interesting than work at HP. He presented one of his early designs to HP management, hoping to inspire some interest, but getting no encouragement, he began to look elsewhere. He wouldn't have stayed at HP no matter what happened with his private project -- he was way too talented for that position.

This isn't meant to address Steve Jobs' role, only to correct the historical record.
> it’s not a bootable distribution yet, but rather one to be installed on top of a running GNU/Linux system.

For a moment there I thought the GNU Hurd had been finished, I misread it as GNU Unix :(
Thank you, I believe that _crucial_ is the perfect adjective for this feature. As far as you know, is it going to be in the finalized ES6?
Then why are American's crying about China's human rights violations and imposing sanctions against them ?
I have spend some time researching good names for products and startups (see here http://www.quora.com/What-are-good-company-and-startup-names).

Good names are effective and accomplish a goal:

1: describe the offer: who you are - does the user get a sense what you offer?
2: or explain your mission: what you want to be, or how you want to achieve that
3: inspire to action
4: celebrate the benefit, the relevance, why you matter to consumers
5: describe the user
6: easy to spell and pronounce
7: trigger an emotion related to your mission
8: simple and sticky

DuckDuckGo is at least sticky and it triggers an emotion in my case. DuckDuckGo is not a perfect name, such as: "ChatRoulette", "YouTube", "BurgerKing", "PatientsLikeMe", "TripAdvisor", "OpenTable", "YourMechanic", "RackSpace", "Codecademy", "SoundCloud".

But I had never the problem to remember the name, DuckDuckGo. It is whacky, but is cool. Their logo is stylish. I like DuckDuckGo.

Blekko is a much shorter name. If you don't know, yes Blekko is a search engine. Go check them out. But I have the feeling more people start to use DuckDuckGo therefore either the quality is that good, or they like the brand, despite the very long domain.

They could buy the domain MegaSearch.com before Dotcom does it :) But that would be a lame name.

No, they should just stick with the name DuckDuckGo and try to become the default search engine for Firefox and other browsers, so people don't even have to type in their long domain name to search with them.
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No! Keep the TSA away from everything. Just get rid of the TSA and less people will drive, exposing themselves to this higher risk.
Sometimes you need a slap to make you listen. I think his comment was spot on.
Cucumber: Scenarios are not acceptance criteria
I can only think of 1 successful game that was built as a part time hobby (Cave Story).

Development of even a simple game takes so much time I don't know how practical it is on 10 hours a week. Game studios have armies of employed people on 60+ hours a week each.
Especially when you consider that TSA is yet to catch a single terrorist in their entire history.
With the prevalence of other TLDs, I wonder if that's really true these days. Gut instinct says you're probably right, but what makes one TLD more serious than another? Just its de facto position in public perception, or maybe its age?

Interesting notion, especially since .com is incredibly crowded.
Guix & Nix
~~~~~~~~~~

Nix is really two things: a package build tool, implemented by a library
and daemon, and a special-purpose programming language. Guix relies on
the former, but uses Scheme as a replacement for the latter.

Technically, Guix makes remote procedure calls to the ‘nix-worker’
daemon to perform operations on the store. At the lowest level, Nix
“derivations” represent promises of a build, stored in ‘.drv’ files in
the store. Guix produces such derivations, which are then interpreted
by the daemon to perform the build. Thus, Guix derivations can use
derivations produced by Nix (and vice versa); in Guix, the cheat code is
the ‘nixpkgs-derivation’ procedure. :-)

With Nix and the Nixpkgs distribution, package composition happens at
the Nix language level, but builders are usually written in Bash.
Conversely, Guix encourages the use of Scheme for both package
composition and builders.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2012-07/msg0000...
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Then you just stand up and point out that TSA never caught a single terrorist in its entire history so there's no reason to believe it would have handled this incident.
> Do you know why CCTV increases crime?

1. See "Perceived security compared to real security" at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security

2. CCTV moves the community's mindset on a crime/non-crime level - "You are (or not) a criminal", "You are a suspect until proven the contrary" (aso.) - and this generates thoughts which aren't always good ones ranging from curiosity/challenge ("wh/if I'll try to overcome this...") till repulsion. An educational way of keeping the criminality rate low is way better than "Big Brother" way. Note, that I don't preach Anarchism here but another way of community management. The force and surveillance must be in the background.
Unreadable, prevents pinch/zoom.

Are there FF Addons to acccount for that level of (insert swearword)?
I cannot even begin to imagine why anyone would think that this is a good idea. Wired, really?

Edit:
To answer my own question: Yes, the addon 'Always zoom' fixes utterly broken and annoying sites. Like this.
You only get robbed in public?
No, actually the TSA is completely useless. Ask actual security experts like Bruce Schneider.
It's kinda sad that, in order to protect himself, he has to put a disclaimer on his blog about four paragraphs down from the start.
I don't understand Google.. they have best cloud infrastructure on web, and still their cloud products are s*it

It's unbelievable that Amazon is leader in cloud business and not Google