skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I may have misunderstood quotes like this...

"The tension between us (the cofounders) eventually arose and grew. I paid less attention to ours conflicts because I felt it was useless to waste energy."

I took 'cofounder' to mean an ownership stake. Therefore at least as regards my limited experience, a seat on 'board' and therefore access to management accounts.

Were you an employee? (I'm the one volunteering to proof read the blog post, so its best if we are clear).
Couple of points: Comcast isn't buying bandwidth from Level 3. "Settlement-free peering" means no money is exchanged. The reason they don't charge each other is because it is mutually beneficial; Comcast gets to charge it's customers for access to content that passes through Level 3 and Level 3 gets to charge it's customers for access to the Comcast subscribers.

The problem is that there is only a market solution for the Level 3 customers' side; if Level 3 can't accept all the traffic that their customers are sending it, they have other options with who to connect to, as there are other backbone providers. It is in their financial interest to maintain their network capacity, or their clients will go elsewhere.

Comcast, on the other hand, has no market pressure. If they can't handle all the data that their customers are trying to access, their customers have no other option. They are stuck with Comcast.

And therein lies the rub; what both Level 3's and Comcast's customers want is access to each other. Neither company can provide that service on their own; Comcast doesn't have a global network that can send data around the world, while Level 3 doesn't have a last-mile network that connects to all the end users. However, only Level 3 has to worry about losing its customers to a competitor. Comcast can essentially hold all parties hostage; they can demand payments from every party: end users, Level 3, and Level 3's customers. Of course, holding everyone hostage hurts everyone, including their own customers; however, since their customers have no other options, they aren't really in danger of losing them. They can hold out longer than Level 3 can, because if Level 3 doesn't agree to pay Comcast's ransom, someone else might, and Level 3 will lose their customers to whoever pays Comcast's ransom.
Vurb’s Contextual Search Engine Blows Away Those Stupid Lists Of Links
You're not the only one, but I think this look will work better with people who are not me (people like me are already a pretty captive group for DDG), and who currently use other search engines. It's very trendy. I prefer growth for the search engine over the old look.
You cannot pull anything from the Internet. Merely request that someone sends data to you.

EDIT: I understand it's an emotional issue but it's true. You can only send packets and hope others will talk to you.
Curious, could you elaborate? The wiki page is long, not sure what I'm looking for... It seems like "triple-entry" is often used alongside "momentum accounting", but its not clear to me why they are conflated. Disclaimer: I'm no accountant, so the simple terms are good. :)
The #freeandopen Documentary: Your Internet rights are at risk [video]
Check out this short documentary that raises awareness of the threat to our internet rights. Feel free to discuss the subject in further detail in the comments.
Technically, you could say that you're looking for an hash with N zero bits at the beginning. But yes, a lot of people seem to think that you're looking for N zero bytes instead.
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Personally, I don't mind. I assume anything I give to a social networking site [e.g. GitHub] is public knowledge or might as well be.

I mainly value my privacy about non-public information [e.g. lovers, close friends, current location] and that isn't acquirable without violating the privacy of my phone/email/etc.
Right, but having more last mile networks would create pressure to resolve the connecting last mile ISP to infrastructure ISP issue.
Hahaha, yeah along with every service that runs on AWS? Yeah, don't think so.
Great thread andkon. I'm essentially a single founder, but I have a contract dev and there is always so much to do. There is a lot of good advice here already, but to me, the marathon analogy is best. In other words, take the long view.

I know a man who built an engineering company up from nothing to a billion dollar exit over 30 years. I'm in week one of having my app available to the world.

Am I in a hurry? No. I have a long time to build a business. I cannot live or die each DAY/WEEK/MONTH based on users who joined, or users who left, or any other metric.
Good Luck!
Ask HN: What sort of hash is this: 6u5m6u6t3b2y9n9x
I'm wondering whether easy or challenging to decode this hash.
that part of the problem is partially solved. not every node has to "mine" all blocks. in fact in PoS there's no mining at all. the big problem is that you create all coins at genesis. there are a bunch of proposals and work in this direction.
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I use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine and have had a positive experience using it.

This redesign incorporates two of the worst design trends today: very low contrast text and gratuitously, obnoxiously large fixed headers.

I dislike fixed headers on any non-phone/tablet UI because almost all laptop and desktop screens are widescreen. Fixed position elements on the sides of the screen make much more sense, although poor implementations are very unpleasant and can create a jarring parallax effect. Unfortunately, fixed elements on the sides are soooo MySpace and have fallen out fashion, and many sites waste most of the space on the sides. The header in the redesign in obscenely large and the new page shows me less results at a time.

I have young and healthy eyes with 20/20 vision. Even so, when I use my laptop for coding and reading text, I turn the brightness down because it is easier on my eyes and does not give me headaches. I believe that the best practice is to make text #000 on a white background or very light background (like news.yc does), and to let users adjust the brightness of their display if this is uncomfortable. There have been assertions by that lighter text with white is better (and unfortunately this is the latest and laziest design trend), but I have seen no formal evidence of this and believe that this is mostly a combination of overbright display screens and poor text rendering by OSes and browsers. If you turn the brightness of your screen down, you solve the "too much contrast" problem (if it ever truly existed) and can tell when any text isn't #000. For me, DuckDuckgo's current snippet display color is to light at #333, and ridiculous at #595959. If I set the brightness of my laptop to the maximum setting, the snippet text is more tolerable but still uncomfortable.

I dislike the neo-flat, iOS-like buttons, but they don't really make the site any harder to use. I find that neo-flat buttons are almost have an underlying hypocrisy. The idea behind the flat painting movement is that you can discern what was called "optical depth" without using traditional perspective to mimic the depth you see with stereoscopic vision. The neo-flat movement is based on the idea that you don't need to underline hyperlinks or add perspective based shadows and gradients to distinguish what a button is because you can just use colors alone or make everything a link. If this were really true, then you wouldn't need to make the neo-flat buttons change colors when you mouse over them, because it should be obvious that they are links. You can see similar hypocrisy in Google's A/B testing of non-centered labels in certain neo-flat buttons on their websites (especially YouTube).

Edit: I rewrote the first sentence of the third paragraph to make it more clear.
I hate to say this, because I am a BIG fan of DuckDuckGo, but I think your ranking algorithm can be improved.

I collect domains for my open source project, OpenDomain. The sites do not actually have too much valuable content - just placeholders so people can find them.

I just checked, and quite a few of my domains are listed very highly on DDG. Not that I am complaining, but I think they are rated high just because the keywords are in the domains themselves.

For example, "NoSQL", "JSON", "Free TV", "liposculpture", "WebPlatform", and "Helpher" all scored top hits for my sites.

I am not asking for my sites to be removed specifically, but we should try to get better results - I have done NOTHING for SEO on these domains - just owned the keyword.
I think older people focus on solving problems ; younger interviewers focus on techniques and APIs.
Tracking bug for this (in Firefox): https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/issues/11
It's unfortunate that the system for paying taxes has become so complicated. It's no wonder that people complain about rich people exploiting tax-law. Whereas they simply have the inclination/money to hire accountants that do the books properly, and give them the advice they need to keep their affairs in perfect-tax working order.
It's already a problem. Bitcoin is around 20GB right now - it means you can't have a full bitcoin client on a cheap USB key anymore. (A common security recommendation to avoid hacks.)

If you have more than one currency installed on your computer you might use 100GB or more for them. It fits, but it's starting to become a significant % of a typical hard disk. (Although presumably people with lots of wallets are not typical and have larger disks.)
I'm not up to date on what kind of algorithm you're using, but last I checked you were still mostly relying on Bing, is that true? Are you guys working on your own search/indexing engine so you don't depend on any of the big guys that might eventually pull the rug from under you?

I guess what I'm saying is, if Microsoft were to deny you access to Bing tomorrow, would DDG still be a pretty good search engine, or would it fall apart?
It does. Click the "i" button: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA
His main argument boils down to: there is a risk because I don't know and/or understand the code; but with the reference source code being public, this is his limitation, not the system's.
On the other hand, the submitter gets to signal "I read the WSJ and pay for a subscription!" to HN.
200 bar is an inflection point in the regulatory landscape for above ground tanks. A sweet spot. There's another sweet spot around 300 - 400 bar due to the physics of air.

Salt caverns melt at high enough temps (above 200 C) and injecting hot air into a methane reservoir is not terribly advisable...
Oh wow, finally! The pain of remembering what I need to buy has truly been relieved. All that app switching, password typing. I can guarantee this innovation will save me tens--perhaps hundreds--of seconds. As an added bonus I'll also be able to share with my friends all the weird shit I'm buying on Amazon. Publicly.

Thanks Amazon, your innovative spirit truly knows no bounds.
Have you tried Time Machine and found it wanting?

It supports both network and impermanently attached usb disks.
Across the Potomac, DC also tracks plate information. They at least use this technology to track new DC residents that fail to register their vehicles with the District. I once received a "warning" because my car had been parked overnight on the street X number of times with VA plates. I was told to either register my car with the city or get an Out Of State Registration[1]. My girlfriend lived there at the time.

[1] http://dmv.dc.gov/service/registration-out-state-automobiles...
There's always going to be some conflict of interest when the company who builds the OS is the same one that runs the advertising platform.
And in case you missed any of the others, this is a great list:

http://thechangelog.com/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits/
It's annoying, it disrupts the discussion on HN (there are several top-level threads discussing the paywall and accessibility of the content, dang has edited the URL to a freely available link).

I'm aware that the news industry has its revenue challenges (and just wrote a fairly lengthy comment on some of those issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7692730). But at the same time, if a particular news organization makes the determination that it's not going to provide its content generally, then general discussion sites are just as free to decide that they're not going to link back and refer to the site.

I'd argue that the vast decline in the already shaky standard of WSJ's reportage since being acquired by the Murdoch Disinformation Empire doesn't do much to favor it either.
It's odd to me that they have to take the blame for a disaster that was caused by the terrible security of how credit cards fundamentally work.

It is impossible to secure credit cards. They are the keys to your money in plain text. PCI is hell to comply with because of this, and doesn't even solve the problem because you still have to store them in plain text.

Target would be 100% right to blame the credit card industry for the disaster, but it wouldn't go over well with the public because the public does not understand security.
The reason Google sends you through a redirect instead of directly to the site is to prevent those sites from tracking what you searched to get there. When websites look in their referrer header they'll see http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rc...url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample... instead of "https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=example".

This gives them the advantage of you only being able to see what Google Searches brought people to their site through Google Analytics.
Refactoring Wordpress will make it even faster. Look at the difference between Drupal and Wordpress. It's amazing Wordpress is still used for big sites while a ton of recourses could be saved.

But great work on the PHP engine!
This post says that TextSecure implements transcript consistency in the protocol, and in a fashion objectively superior to that of mpOTR: the TextSecure protocol can provide continuous consistency checks, while mpOTR can do so only when the session is torn down. What the TextSecure client does not yet do is provide a UI for that feature of the protocol.

Further, it's hard to understand how transcript consistency could be a serious objection while lack of forward secrecy in the messages isn't, especially given the deniable messaging semantics of OTR.

So, to address your concluding sentence directly: it seems to me like Moxie has paid more attention to this issue than you have.
I don't see it; links on ddg are always direct to me; perhaps it's only for advertising links or something like anonym.to to hide some referer you'd send otherwise. What browser are you using?
I mean that the guarantee from an US-based company that they won't track you is meaningless, because they can be ordered in secret court to hand over all their information with a gag order.

After that the only way for us to know would be a whistleblower. And even then we would only know that we are unsafe, not that we are safe.
proof of stake was first proposed in 2011 on bitcointalk, the go-to reference for everything bitcoin/altcoin.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_Stake

http://wiki.nxtcrypto.org/

http://bitshares.org/security/delegated-proof-of-stake.php

If any coins make it you can see at watching the marketcap of the coins at http://coinmarketcap.com
I agree with what you say in general, but the new DDG page looks pretty good to me, because all of that stuff seems to be done purposefully, to put the focus on the search bar, and not let your eyes stray to other places on the page too much, every single time you do a search. I think all the other stuff is supposed to fade into the background.
I know in Seattle there are variable speed limit zones, where the signs are digital displays that can be changed at anytime to reflect appropriate speed limits for the current conditions.
PHP's success is the result of PHP being available at even the tiniest webhost. I don't see that happen for FaceBook HHVM, though. FaceBook HHVM performance results will spur on Zend's efforts in making the PHP engine faster, though.
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What would replace the technical interview if we killed it?

When I'm hiring a contractor, I need to know that they really know their stuff and that they can hit the ground running if they join my team. So far, I have found a quick technical interview to be the best "bang for buck" way of doing this. People can have great CVs, active GitHub profiles, etc, but it's only when you speak to them that you realise they aren't what you need.

Phone and Skype interviews can be good, but more often than not I'd like a candidate to write up some code for me. Maybe there are some good remote pairing tools that I'm missing out on?
Start-up idea? (Minus the piracy of course). I'm not sure of the market but it could appeal to companies and professionals. Say for some reason you want the raw 4k render of Sintel but don't want to download hundreds of Gigabytes. Simply queue your download and then the data is snail-mailed to you on physical media. If you could chain a bunch of 128GB microSD cards together and then place in a sturdy plastic case, you could send terabytes in a single stamp envelope.
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WikiWikiWeb users try to teach "C++"
Paperpile
Can we please stop cargo-culting the "fact" that /dev/random outputs raw entropy while /dev/urandom is the output of a CSPRNG? They are both outputs from the same CSPRNG algorithm[1].

Edit: I'm eagerly awaiting the tptacek takedown of this article. Comments like "even a regular user can run: cat /dev/random > /dev/null & cat /dev/zero > /dev/random... entropy will be degraded" do not give me confidence in this guy's understanding of the systems involved. Same with his blatant misreading of RNDZAPENTCOUNT and RNDCLEARPOOL, which simple research[2] reveals only clears the entropy count and does nothing to the underlying entropy pool itself.

[1]: http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

[2]: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...
Well, this is refreshing. With all the "Is ST3 abandonware??" threads out there recently, this is welcome news.

That said, only four items on the release log in 6 months? And sidebar icons, at that? Not that I think you need to crank out a new version every six months, but... I wonder what's been going on there since Christmas.

Hope this is just a sign that they're getting back in gear and we'll get some improvements soon!
I think that last sentence is the key point here - it doesn't sound like somewhere that would be a very friendly environment in general. This kind of thing wouldn't happen where I work, but either way, the technical interview isn't really at fault.
I stumbled upon this incidentally while casually browsing the WikiWikiWeb.

From what I can salvage, it is the discussion page to an article called CeeProgramsForBeginners, a very poorly written page ostensibly meant as an intro to C, but that instead ends up using plenty of DOS-isms, arbitrarily mixes C and C++ syntax, and pollutes the namespace.

The discussion page is then a huge mess where a group of people try to teach a beginner by the alias of SusannahWilliams the language, and walk her through examples. While trying to learn C++ (and from one of those poor “X in 24 Hours” books, no less), she keeps getting fed more DOS-isms, erroneous constructs like “void main()” that are never to be used outside of niche embedded environments, all while a tide of people rant, rave, debate language semantics and drift off-topic in the background. Later, they switch to poor C++ syntax and do things like forget to add semicolons after procedure calls, but at that point, the article had already devolved into mayhem.

One of the participants, ElizabethWiethoff, slaps a deletion candidate disclaimer by the end of the ordeal, and like that the article has not been touched since August 19, 2005.

I found it quite humorous, as it illustrates not only the chaos of using a wiki as a bazaar-based education model, but also how the programmers can’t seem to agree with each other and hold arcane (to the pupil) technical debates in the background. Stereotypical programmer behavior.
Is it WIP? Default one still looks the way it was.
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Pretty much everyone in Canada has the chip and pin system now.

I had a chip and pin card in 2007 and alot of merchants have had card readers capable of using them since mid 2005.
One or both of us is confused.

EDIT I was confused.
> Your first issue with Haskell is a plus! Everyone in #Haskell on freenode are incredibly helpful, and well, if they're all professors you likely to get some quality help, right?

Eh... The Haskell community is amazing and always willing to help. They get an A for effort, but they often have the curse of knowledge[0].

> The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that leads better-informed parties to find it extremely difficult to think about problems from the perspective of lesser-informed parties.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
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1. I search for "ng angular", which takes me to https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=ng%20angular
2. I've been to the top link before (http://angular-ui.github.io/ng-grid/).
3. I hover over the 'Visited Site' checkbox icon, and the hover text is obscured by the search area (specifically around the Image and Video tabs).

On a related note, I find the interaction with checkboxes a little bit confusing. They disappear on hover when the text shows up (seems unnecessary, I'm left wondering why my icon disappeared). You can also hover over them on unvisited links and get the same message. Personally I'd prefer to see them as static icons, only shown on visited sites. I can hover over existing ones to get a message "you've visited this site before", which is clearer than "your browser indicates...". They do send a very clear message and are a great addition to the UI.

Overall great job. Looks super clean, I love the image and video dropdowns... keep making it easy for me to use DDG!

Edit: also submitted through your feedback system. Just gotta grab those hacker news points while they're there for the picking right? ;)
Your two points are really the same point. The reason that people don't understand what mathematicians do, is because we've been referring to calculation as mathematics our whole lives. If we did a better part separating the two out earlier, people would understand which part mathematicians work on.
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Or, it could also be that Africans make up ~13% of the US population, and as much as 30-35% of the population in urban America, compared to 3% in France and less than 1% in Germany, and so we're just more familiar with African (American) cultural signifiers.
Please don't keep it to yourself! What is this privacy-protecting search engine that you've been using that is immune to US or other intelligence agencies' snooping?
Sadly, if you know what a design pattern is and can name two then you are head and shoulders above 95% of developers.

Source: Been interviewing supposedly senior level candidates for the last three weeks.
You can build your own spectrometer following directions from
Public Lab. Their goal is to develop open-source tools for citizen science.

http://publiclab.org/wiki/spectrometer
Please make the fixed header half as tall. Put "Images Video" to the side of the search box.

This is nitpicky, but I don't like how an entire result is a link with a hovered background color. I also don't like how additional content appears when hovered. Please don't trim the URL and hide it unless the result is being hovered on.
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