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"I searched the keyword on twitter for a few days"

There, you have used Twitter in the fashion of the "traditional" web, you just went to a RTW source thats all.

My point is i generally don't have any use for what "now" is happening, anything that is of importance generally has a longer time span and relevance to me and i don't "need" to know it straight away.
Aside from wondering where you get all of these ideas, why not make it more exciting than that? Make users bet karma points on the likelihood that other HN'ers will upvote what they submit.
Yup, click settings at the bottom.
I like the preview feature. I wish this had more features though. It would be neat to divide the search results into some higher-level buckets, so I know which links are blog postings, mainstream media, forums, etc.
Sorry for nitpicking, but using a pie chart for your first graph is grossly inappropriate. It's notoriously difficult to differentiate small differences using pie charts.

If you're comparing revenue per day, a line graph or even a bar graph can convey that information a lot better.
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I think your user interface is great, but you could probably figure out a better brand.
Alternatively pay select students at the university to be your ambassador for you (minimum wage kind of dealie) and reward the most prolific.
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So what kind of information did you include as part of your market testing? I'd be interested to see what that looked like compared to what your product has (so far) actually turned out to be. Did your idea evolve much between then and now?
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About flu - when you have really serious consequences after a flu it's because some bacteria get a "free ride" on your immunity system compromised by a virus, so antibiotics are sometimes good thing to take when having a flu.

Still - I agree, doctors are prescribing them too often.

Anyway - Polish emigrants (immigrants from you POV:)) are commonly returning to Poland to go to doctor, and that means it's in some ways better, so two way ticket is worth it. Sometimes they return to go to private doctors because private healthcare is much cheaper in Poland, but they also return to go to regular NFZ, and there must be a reason for that (maybe immigrants in GB are given worse treatment?).

Anyway - http://polandian.home.pl/index.php/2008/09/24/english-patien...
I've had the same experience with one of those cheap "mobile broadband" USB dongles that have flooded the market.

Windows: plug in the dongle, wait for it to pretend to be a CD drive and auto-run an installer, wait for the flaky Vodafone installer to put on various drivers and bits of proprietary software (took about 15 minutes on my machine), reboot, plug the thing back in again, wait for Windows to recognise it, load up the slow Vodafone software and connect.

Ubuntu: plug in the dongle, wait for a dialog box to appear, select your country and provider (eg. UK, Vodafone), connect.

I find with Ubuntu that if it works, it works better than Windows. But if your piece of hardware doesn't work straight away, it'll be a bugger to get working.
I don't see a compelling reason to use this over google/wikipedia/dictionary/etc.

Is there a compelling reason?

edit: Also this page http://duckduckgo.com/?q=computer&v=d just seems like bad flow - "ERROR!". If I want to search for computer, I want to search for computer. If the results are not what I expect, I'll modify it. At least show the results in a standard layout every time.
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Back in January, a guy at the coworking space I was at that day announced that a plane had crashed into the Hudson. We were like - what? He said his girlfriend worked in a building overlooking the Hudson and saw it - and instant messaged him via AIM - and we tried to verify it. It seemed so out there. A plane in the Hudson?!

Twitter didn't have any info on Flight 1549 for a minute or so. In fact, the real time Summize search engine backend - seemed to be lagging in its indexing that morning. CNN and the other news networks were still reporting the same political/celebrity news of the moment.

Personal word of mouth just barely beats Twitter for real-time* information but it's very close. It's true crowd-sourcing (though questionable why people will tweet they are in an earthquake while it's happening - and not be safer).

* - My hardware/software RT engineer friends scoff at the mis-use of the RT term.
I think that paraschopra is right in the determining whether there is an existing need for this. Though, my approach is - what's the application that this could be really great for? Whether it exists, or is exactly on-site billing at a client -I think the answer is - where is this a killer app? Isn't there a great application for pop-up sales events? Fairs, trade shows, etc?
Sorry. :)
You replied why I was editing my reply to make it clearer.
Shouldn't Safe Search be the default? Normally users have to opt out of Safe Search to see NSFW content.
You're missing the point: try searching for something you want to know about the Droid...
"droid preorder"
"droid screen"
"droid apps"
"droid keyboard"

All of these subjects are covered in their Flash and they have content for but Google can't index or link you to any of it. So instead of Verizon owning these terms, which they easily could be, you're taken to 3rd party sites on the internet.

Even in their first result of "Droid" their misuse of a meta description (it's way too long) means you get 0 relevant information in the result Google displays.
Paul Buchheit in Founders at Work (p. 162): "AdSense, the content-targeted ads, was actually something that, if I recall, I did on a Friday... Everyone hated it. Many people were kind of mad at me because they didn’t really go for the whole concept. It was something that had been talked about, and people agreed that it was not workable, it was not a good idea. So, to some extent, they were agitated that I wasted my time."
of the limited searches I did, it seemed to have worked. I think the best was when I searched for "schema migration django" and it came up with South at the top, whereas google has South at #4. I think I'm biased in these results because South was mentioned in the article about how django devs said no to including South, and not any of the others,which makes me think that it's the canonical one.

This is the first time I'd consider using duckduckgo for my searches, since they had a better showing on some searches I cared about, which makes me wonder what else they'd be good at. To be honest, I'm surprised.
That's correct. thank you.
Interesting architecture but the amount of information available publically is limited? For example, I was trying to find out if it will be suitable for parallel floating point workloads but I don't see any mention of floating point performance on the company webpage. Would also be nice to see some benchmark numbers done by a 3rd party. Never believe what the vendors say about their own products.
But don't trains run on electricity in a lot of places? So doesn't that make a comparison to diesel truck efficiency bogus? It's like that 400 mpg plug in hybrid we heard about a while back.
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It has first match because of massive in-linking and parent domain trust.

Search Engine Optmization is closer to standards compliance than it is to snake oil. Most developers are just too lazy to do it. Or they grant it the same amount of thought that was spent on the comment above. As an SEO Account Manager most of my job is cleaning up these messes and client education so they don't get ripped off by SEO shysters or lazy developers.

As for the craptastic Droid Flash site, it doesn't validate and is a nightmare in terms of usability and accessibility. As stated in the article, it won't even work on a Droid phone. It still ranks because just like anything else, you can concentrate resources in certain areas and make up for shortcomings in others. AT&T has abysmal customer service, but they spend enough money in other places, like iPhone exclusivity deals and FCC lobbying, that it doesn't matter. You're seeing something similar, here.

Verizon can give the big finger to standards compliant, accessible web design because they've spent enough money on a traditional marketing and PR campaign that the URL has hundreds of thousands of incoming links with the keyword "droid" in anchor text. That page could be blank and it would still rank for on a "droid" SERP, that doesn't mean there's no such thing as SEO or that it's a "good" website.
Just took a quick look at the plan selection page, I noticed the following:

- The numbers for the basic and premium plans seem to fade into the background and are hard to read.

- The "Serious" name for the plan was a little off-putting for me. To me it implied that the other plans were for amateurs, which was even a bit more confusing since it is the middle plan. (I'm not really your target audience so take this advice with a grain of salt.)
Funniest part is, you can't view the site on an iPhone. First thing I tried when I saw it was a flash site, seems like a terribly obvious oversight.
Not what he means by SEO. Did you read the article?

The description of Droid from Google:

"Get to know Droid a little better. Droid Does the Network. Droid is exclusive to Verizon Wireless, the most reliable network available."

This tells me Droid is Verizon, but nothing else. Two of three sentences are useless. When I search for iPhone:

"iPhone 3GS is a GSM cell phone that's also an iPod, a video camera, and a mobile Internet device with email and GPS maps."

iPod, video camera, mobile Internet, email, GPS. If I don't know what an iPhone is, I do now. Meanwhile, a personal test I've run suggests the average college student doesn't know what Droid is, and this search doesn't help.

Subdomains for the Droid link:

{nil}

Subdomains for the iPhone link:

Buy iPhone
Features
Downloads
Support
Apps for iPhone
A Guided Tour
How Tos
Software Update

I can't think of anything else I'd need to know on first glance. Apple gives me everything.

I think parts of SEO are bullshit same as you, but this article made some great points and it bugs me that you're getting upvoted for saying something that had nothing to do with the article's point.
Yeah, but who expects to need a special library for uppercasing some seemingly Latin text?
There is much more technical information on charlie's page
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/29/look-100-core-tilera-...

Although generally the posts there are just rants this one is quite good
I've been running KDE4 out of svn since pre-4.2, and it's really shaping up nicely. I actually finally built 4.3.2 out of Gentoo's package system last night, so I guess the 4.3.3 announcement was inevitable.

Anyhow, not sure if anybody's still sitting on 3.x waiting for 4.x stability, but if there is, I'd say to go for it. 4.x is really nice now.
It's also much more demanding of system resources than it used to be.
Honestly, I haven't done any formal market testing. My original test site explained the concept in about three paragraphs, and the concept hasn't changed very much.

The idea started simple and has stayed simple - i.e. it hasn't changed much. "Web-based invoicing that you can use from your mobile phone."

I anticipate changes in the future, though, as people actually get a good look at the idea and how it turned out. I'm thankful that I have a fairly flexible framework (Kohana PHP) and design philosophy for what that happens.
I love what you guys are doing, but the gray color of your default text is a little hard on my eyes. Could you darken it just a tad?
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Compare their results for "a* search" with Google's. One has a video about police searches in the first page of results, and the other is Duck It.
I like the 'take a peek' feature. It reduces the number of times I've to return to search results.

One suggestion, on the results page, when I click the "Duck it" icon on left corner, it takes me to homepage. It's a bit confusing since I expected it to toggle my 'normal search' results to 'duck it' results.
So, if I asked you to meet me for coffee at 5:00 PM EST, and I showed up when my watch said 5:00, I would be an hour early, b/c we're in DST right now.

I though that was interesting, b/c I will put EST in an email to people in another timezone, just thinking it means "Eastern Time Zone" or something like that.
It really surprised me, the searches gave extremely relevant results, I might say better than Google.
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Didn't Apple come down on Google with a legal hammer for the dock-like icon-zooming behaviour on their front page? (Can't seem to find the reference at the mo..) Also, "I'm Feeling Ducky"? DuckDuckGO seems to like walking those legal thin lines, eh?

That said, at first glance this seems better than Cuil :-)
Tmux's splitting is nice, but not quite as useful to me as screen's version. Screen will let me put any of my existing windows in a "pane" while tmux won't (or maybe it does and the docs aren't clear enough for me).

Another thing I found useful with screen was having multiple terminals attached to the same screen session, with each terminal viewing different windows. Tmux will let multiple terminals attach to a single session, but they all see the same thing (again, maybe I just haven't figured out how to do this yet).

Neither of these are deal breakers for me though. I switched from screen a couple months ago, and I've been a happy tmux user since.
These are all good points. I didn't notice the number fade until you mentioned it. I'll play around with the colours.

And I have worked quite some time at coming up with names for the plans - it's hard! I have competitors with plans names like "Time Machine, Limousine, etc." and I wanted something a little more professional than that. But on the flip side, I wanted something better than the traditional "Bronze, Silver, Gold".

Also, there's the pricing advice that I keep hearing, that you have a premium option so that people buying your middle option feel good that they saved money, and you have a cheap option so that people buying your middle option feel good that they're not cheap.

I think the first and last tiers I have are good, but yeah, the middle one needs work.
How about every term that they use to position themselves against the iPhone in their ads?

"droid keyboard"

"droid apps"

"droid camera"

"droid development"

"droid customization"

"droid widgets"

"droid batteries"
Was this under the auspices of enterprise agility?

Exactly. If a customer called in an order at 6:30 a.m., it didn't even get to the data base for 18 hours. So there was no same day shipping and if it had to be scheduled, the schedulers weren't even aware of it until the next day. Real competitive disadvantage. Worth spending millions to solve.

Real time Accounts Receivables paid for itself by reducing Days Sales Outstanding by one day. But real time Accounts Payable? Made no sense.

The IT solution was a blanket decision made multiple levels (and cities) away from the people who actually did the work. Go figure.
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The Droid site is bad because it's poorly designed, not because it's Flash. As a Flash developer the site makes me cringe.
You should have a 'free plan' option. I use Freshbooks for all my invoices and I used their free plan until recently. Their free plan really sold me because I was able to use it for 6 months to make invoices, and when I needed to do more, then I was more than willing to upgrade to a paid plan.
They both have the same first result :/ I don't see a vid for police searches either... Google loads quicker and gives consistent result layout.
Who is the targeted audience of this product? The UI reminds me a little bit of Ask.com

While I don't understand why people need this search engine, I am impressed by the traffic this site is getting.
The prime number detector is quite clever. It reminds me of the number based logic constructs from Godel's incompleteness theorem. It's essentially maps a mathematical concept to a string and operates on it.

For any unary integer greater than 1, the regular expression /^(11+?)\1+$/ matches it iff the number is not a prime. In other words, if there exists no integer less than the number itself and greater than one (first capturing group) that is a divisor of the number. The non-greedy + is also a nice touch, it will start out from the smallest factors and build from there.
(disclaimer: i'm the author of a competing product - http://corduroysite.com/ which has an iphone/mobile interface in development)

i've also been told by my customers that a mobile interface would be great and generating invoices at a client's location would be useful, but i think the important thing is that it's just a feature of a bigger billing system. when they get back to their office, the normal web interface to the system still has all of the tools they need to work quickly.

do you see your product as being a company's only billing system where they do everything through a mobile interface or is it intended to be a small invoicing system that works in tandem with their existing billing system like quickbooks? i ask because your site is heavily pushing the mobile part without really detailing the rest of the system.
I felt a little overwhelmed. Kinda like not knowing what is going on. But may be I'm in a tiny minority going by the other comments.
Honestly, I don't need well-drafted prose or a happy email to alert me of a server outage. I could care less. They should have a pre-drafted document that let's them fill in blanks based on the problem at hand. I was one of these affected customers and can say that not being notified of the servers being down cost me a few hours of uptime. I would say that customer communication during chaos is nearly as important as fixing the problem itself. Just my two cents.
Every programmer working with dates should read http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html - "A Long Painful history of time". And also the Dave Olson paper referenced therein.
I find the name memorable, at the very least. This must represent some value.
the SSH daemon which unless modified remains running with default users root and mobile, using the same password on each and every device.

I'm not sure I'd want to be known as the elite security expert who exploited this subtle vulnerability.
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it's guessing PGP passphrases

Also, if you can brute-force a PGP passphrase using a cluster of EC2 instances, it's trivial to brute-force it in hardware (using FPGAs or, ideally, ASICs).

If you want to protect something with a passphrase, use scrypt!
Good read...
"Damn, those Google guys are fast!" ;)
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This is a microforum application that makes it super simple and easy to start a forum about any topic. No users accounts are required to do free shouting, just a one-time captcha. Forums are called Reels and you have to login to create one.

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Man, props to you guys and Cuil for trying, but this has got to be an incredibly difficult market to break into these days.
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Who is hiring (remotely)?
There have previously been "Who's hiring" type of posts. Those attracted much attention and many people either found or changed their job thanks to those posts. However almost 100% of offers were for onsite work and most of them were in Silicon Valley.

There's world outside of Silicon Valley though. Even outside of US. And it's a big world out there, with many talented people who just happen to live elsewhere.

I'm Ruby on Rails freelancer with 3.5+ year experience, living in Poland. In a week or two I'm about to finish my current project and I'm looking for exciting opportunities. I believe many, many people are in similar position to mine so many companies and individuals could benefit from this.

So if there are companies (and I know there are many) who hire for remote positions, let's put it here and make good companies and talented people meet and work together.

As for me, I'm looking for an opportunity to work where not only coding is required. People too often think that developers should just pump out code. Their creative or strategical input regarding the company is mostly disregarded, if at all taken into consideration.
I don't want to work for somebody. I want to work with somebody and make a difference.

So let's see all those opportunities for everybody who just cannot physically be where the most is happening.
Someone should combine the new proposed transit routes and park/neighborhood information with real estate data.
This is how much time Buffett spends choosing fonts - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=914065
Blog spam, no useful content, just ripped from kde.org with no link
Interesting that they'll be airing on Virgin flights.. I'd rather watch random pitches than most of the movies they show..
I have to say: some great stuff going on there.

but

Too jittery, too complicated results page and too many bright icons for me.

It might produce awesome results but at the end of the day search is about information not a fancy UI. This is one reason Google are so successful - because there is nothing daunting about viewing their results page.
I second Inc. They have some good articles and much of the content is relevant to internet startups
Interesting slip on my part. I wonder if there's a word for that?
It took about a year before I finally started to remember that "Duck Duck Go" was a search engine. Before then I'd see the name and frown, unsure whether it was a social networking site or a web app for tracking doctor visits.
The term is nebulous, but I don't see the value as questionable. For example, google "new ubuntu release."

The result isn't even close to what you want--the real time web will be a good thing.
Honestly, it would be odd for a tmux article to go without mentioning screen but there is nothing odd about a screen article not mentioning tmux.

Speaking of which, I would like to see an article on tmux. Every now and then a screen article pops up and a few people chime in with the vague advantages of the BSD-licensed tmux, but I haven't seen any actual articles on tmux.
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This is so so true!. Rediff can't even copy well. They tried to rip off facebook platform in june 2008 and they have not launched it till now. (It never will). More info here
http://www.manu-j.com/blog/rediff-rips-off-facebook/25/ and here http://www.manu-j.com/blog/rediff-platform-is-dead/34/

The ripoff was so bad that it was painfully hilarious. Their documentation was copied directly from facebook and they just changed FBML to RBML etc but there were places where they had forgotten to make the change!
I hope they continue and expand the practice. It seems like a cool initiative, though I'm a little fuzzy on what the products of the initiative are. For example, you can get the foodbank data, which would be great for finding the exact locations of the nearest foodbanks...say, if you were homeless and had an iPhone.

Could be great for transit times and getting around the city too.

If I'm missing the point of the open data please enlighten me.
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note to self: Someone else compared ZFS dedup to compression on Slashdot and it scored 5/Interesting.

On HN, it is downvoted and reply with technically wrong claim gets 4 points.
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