skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As always, you can see the actual ddg traffic numbers on their website

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
The 'hello world' example is a good comparator: Presumably the Node developers have optimised the `http` library as much (if not more) than the author's Tcl equivalent. Given that they are therefore doing the same thing, it seems a fair test. Beyond forking new Node processes to handle more requests, I don't think you could make it faster (likewise with the Tcl version).

That said, while it's a fair test, I don't think it's a particularly useful one. It would be interesting to see how the two compete when they do something equivalent but non-trivial.
This is very different in the US from what I understand; I can't help you there. Locally:

Acquired employees legally remain on their original employment terms and usually have rights to continue uninterrupted work on those same terms. This right also applies if a company is liquidated and reforms.

Given that employees have this legal right, and that acquiring employers must know this (employees tend to be less aware), an acquiring company holding a new employment contract should be treated with extreme suspicion. The company must negotiate what they need, or the employee can just continue on the old terms.

I would suggest an employment lawyer is necessary in that situation. Particularly, since just ignoring the employment contract may constitute implicit agreement.
Oh absolutely Babel is awesome, just wondering.
Yea, solarcapture is essentially, i think, ef_vi consumer off to another thread.
Singapore is the safest place I've ever been. You get prejudice everywhere but in Singapore you have to be a special type of crazy or incredibly unlucky to have your safety threatened.
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i wish more companies innovated like these guys! the world being a happier place would actually be possible.

Good on you'll
Also, many places state that any probationary period lasts until X months after the contract is signed, so you are extending the period during which they can change their mind about you without notice. (that works both ways of course: you can change your mind about them for the same amount of time)
I am so looking forward to this! It's going to be a huge improvement to the Internet and the privacy of everyone.
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so why am I failing to learn lisp ?
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In the slow-motion video, there's a dark area to the top right that disappears partway through. What's happening to cause this effect?
What is HN's opinion on the quality of the search results?
This has nothing to do with Shirky's essay. You said "The New York Times (primarily) really replaced the Catholic Church as the cultural maypole."

Please demonstrate the validity of that statement.

In the "whole history of Western Civilization", when did the NYT become "the cultural maypole" of Italy, Mexico, and Brazil, and have more cultural influence than the Catholic Church?

How is it that The Times of London did not have similar sway on the world stage in the 1800s, nor the the BBC (especially with the BBC World Service) in the 1900s?

Why do you pick "Western World" when the Catholic church also has a big influence in Africa (140 million members) and the Philippines (80 million). Which has more social influence in the Philippines, the NYT or the Catholic Church? Which has more social influence in India, the NYT or the BBC?
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Stalking requires a target and an obsession or questionable intent. If we're stretching definitions that far, then I'll say that this is just thinking - recording inputs, correlating them and possibly acting upon them. Should we ban augmentation of thinking?
Engineers get paid very little. My Singaporean brother-in-law thought I has lost my mind when I decided to become an Software Engineer after my last startup. No money in it in Singapore. The reason being that tons of Indians/non-Singaporean SE Asians come to Singapore and take any work they can get at any price. If you are an especially good engineer and prove your worth then this could be different but for the average engineer it's tough.
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My bad: I was reading 'that' as a demonstrative, rather than a complementiser. Thanks
Why? What is the thing you can do in ES6 that you can't in ES5? Features that affect execution speed or real memory consumption positively. Leave hipster features out.
This is a global pattern and not unique to Sinagpore.
No, that's not the very definition of stalking.
Pretty mixed. A search for my project (MikeOS) brings up a highlighted Wikipedia page at the top, even though that page was deleted over a year ago...
As a British English speaker, I'd say "yes".

Technically, I'd drop the "th of" and just say/write "11 September 2001".
I have left my macbook pro unattended in Starbucks for 15+ minutes on multiple occasions and it is still there when I come back. In no other country would this be considered ok.
I wonder why the API queries are decreasing while direct queries are increasing.
There's a lot of self-censorship going on from both Singapore's journalists and its people [1], mostly because there's a culture of fear.

Have a look at this recent case where a teen blogger was jailed for making offensive remarks against Christianity, and for circulating obscene imagery. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OB_marker

[2] http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/teen-blogger-a...
As a governmental spy organization, why wouldn't you just put surveillance on the search engine that is used by people that have "something to hide" (in their mind) and also put a gag order on the operators of that service?
I think that we had it in the past in the USA.

Almost a hundred years ago an electronics market sprung up in New York City, and electronics manufacturing factories in the city and suburbs. I think it was Robert Moses who decided to raze Radio Row to build WTC. After the war, our electronics industry was mostly driven by the government's war on communism. When consumer electronics innovation picked up again, US companies were already looking to buy from or build in Asia (Japanese CB radios) or Asians were already here doing business themselves (Sony Walkman).
I switched to using DDG as a default a long time ago and have experienced improved results over the last few years. I would say that ~97.5% of my searches now go over DDG, if the search fail I add "!g" to the query to see if Google can do better. About 40% of my searches are research related, 40% software development related, and 20% "others". Searches that tend to fail are usually for local news in my country of origin or very exotic configuration/library errors. For the former, Google still does better than DDG, for the latter, it is about 50/50 if Google will fail to deliver as well.
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So it's now possible for two people to send and recieve local currency through coinbase without touching the blockchain? See what you can do when you have a money transmitter license, suddenly all the electricity spent computing and discarding hashes is no longer required.
Not really. I.e. they don't have to do something repugnant to want that information blocked. The military may not want to provide free intelligence about their forces to other nations. And "the wealthy" are pretty much at constant war with each other; tracking when a CEO leaves and where they go in order to gain advantage on the stock market is not unheard of.
shhh! But you're right. AFAIK, that's still well within the governments legal bounds.
New Safari (in iOS 9 and next OS X) will support most of the ES 6 features. I guess it depends on what you're developing for.
If Singapore wants to become the next big tech hub it needs a cultural shift that encourages more outside the box thinking. There are moves in the right direction in the education sector but Singapore on a whole being very hierarchical is better at churning out workers rather than creative leaders. If they do make the switch to creativity they will be a force as the level of quality expected in work is high and they have a culture of competition. As it stands traditional industries such as finance are more prestigious and well paying and are draining the talent pool.
>the ceiling for a super-duper dev at hiring time seems to be around 65k

Not in London. Don't get me wrong, £65k will get you a decent developer but £60k is the starting point for good quality developers in London right now. I'm currently hiring a senior iOS developer and our aim is to hire someone around the £70k mark but I honestly think we'll need to pay more to get the calibre we need.

I've spent the last few years hiring developers in London and I also help run the HN London meet-up and based on first-hand experience along with the huge number of developers I've met through HN London, I can assure you that I'm not exaggerating the figures.
Check out http://www.cloudharmony.com/benchmarks for something with more current data.
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We use GitLab CI to build the binaries and push them. The binary build is triggered by a developer setting a tag.

We want to integrate the mirror bot into GitLab itself, allowing you to track external repo's.

We would love to have the permissions of gitolite if we can implement them without complicating the settings for users that don't need this. I would be happy to look at prototypes how to implement this in the UI (I'm @sytses on twitter).

GitLab is open source, so if someone wants these advanced permissions the best way is to build them.
This is a very silly comparison.
There's a huge difference in terms of features and reliability between node's http module and this - http://pietersz.co.uk/software/dandelion-server

I'm sure an equally minimal http implementation using the net module would match or beat that, but since you'd never use either of them in production, the results are meaningless.
Are you failing to learn it? What have you tried? What's holding you back? I'm offering a free Clojure workshop next Saturday if you're in the Philadelphia region. http://www.meetup.com/Clojadelphia/events/221835485/

Otherwise, I worked through SICP a couple years back, and I found it invaluable to getting familiar with Lisps and functional programming in general.

I remember sitting down one day (before working through SICP) and saying, "I'm great at PHP, I'll probably just be able to write a Clojure project off the top of my head!" Cue clown music as I beat my head against a language much more expressive than anything I'd encountered to date.

It was a few solid weeks of effort before I could get anywhere, but I remember remarking at the time, "if I can learn this well enough, I'll be a wizard!"
> lists, dicts

Clojure does them right, imho.
> ...and no, I don't recognize a right to "privacy" that is so tentacular as to prohibit people from walking around with a camera, running some computer vision on it, and sharing the result with like-minded hobbyists doing the same thing.

Exactly. A lot of people seem to think they can have (and therefore expect) a world in which they can cover the eyes to make themselves invisible. Like little kids, they say "I have my hands on my eyes, you can't see me!". And when that fails for obvious reasons then, unlike kids, they want this magic to be enforced by law. "How dare you look at me? You're not allowed!".
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Actually it's quite possible to run a full Cloud Foundry environment in a single VM, as seen with Stackato (http://www.stackato.com/), which can then be scaled out as necessary.
For things in English, I would say it's acceptable but relevance is still below google and I find myself switching to google for about 10% of my searches, being unhappy with what DDG got me.

For things not in English, it's quite bad.
I just really want VPCs type resources.

I'm happy to use object storage and CDNs from other providers but I'd rather not have to do foo to make my interal connectivity private.

Please do correct me if this is a solved problem now though.
That's an extraordinarily reductive view of improvements to a programming language. A basic example: cleaner syntax for anonymous functions will have (presumably) almost no effect on speed/memory either which way, but will make code more readable. Which is not a 'hipster' concern.
Sure; it's not considered an evil thing generally; it's just that the subculture of people who go out of their way and pay more to get organic/local/etc. generally aren't eating much of it: they're paying more for the AOC-certified, locally-produced real cheese.

They're also (in my experience) buying a ton of homeopathic remedies for just about everything, which I have trouble not rolling my eyes about, but that's another subject.
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when I began work at a startup once there wasn't explicit language that said they would own what I came up with outside of the office but the language in the contract was vague enough to me that I felt it could be interpreted that way. It also asked me to disclose any existing items. I had them change the language to specifically mention that they would own anything I worked on while inside the office on their computers but I would own anything I did outside of the office not on their computers. I didn't really have anything going on personally at the time but I wanted it clarified just in case. So they key here is that you can negotiate and get them to change things to fit your needs. Like everyone else is mentioning here, take the contract to a lawyer.
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On average worse than Google but not without its pleasures. Much worse on "long tail" searches and non-English terms. I went back to Google.

To be fair what really made me move away was that their page load times were much slower. Now that I live in a country that is closer to DDG's servers I may give them another go.
I don't see anyone arguing that there wont be IP related clauses. What I see people taking issue with is the idea that the extremely restrictive example given by the poster is "standard".

I've given you a counter-example. I worked for a venture funded Silicon Valley startup. I didn't sign anything that gave them rights to anything created outside working hours on my own equipment. Neither did anyone else there.

I don't doubt it is common, but I've also not seen anything to indicate that it's something you'll meet often enough that I'd consider it "standard". Maybe my company was the one single exception in the entire US, but that seems unlikely to me, especially given the other comments here.
How would that even look like? Like an MS Surface? What do you mean by "foldable keyboard"?
Ok, if you have `sum` defined:
(sum (range 1 11))

If we refuse to normalize the languages by defining `sum`, then it’s an API battle... And Clojure/Clojurescript has easy access to Java and Javascript. (Plus if we count Clojure on .NET...)
A major annoyance are the endless clones of SO sites polluting my searches.
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Pretty okay for most stuff that has to do with work, never mind that often you can "bang" to where you really want to go anyway (github, wikipedia).

I often bang to google for longer queries or almost anything that's local to Germany.
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IMHO 600% is meaningless number.

What's the estimate market share of DuckDuckGo today, that's the real question.

Do they dominate a niche? I think they have significant market share among HackerNews users.
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I try to use DDG every once in a while, because I really would like to use them. But after a while, I almost always switch back and vow to try them again in a few months.

If you compare a query like "static webserver", you'll see why Google's results are much more diverse, than DDG's:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=static+webserver

https://www.google.com/search?q=static+webserver
I have been trying it as default se for a while and had to turn back to google recently.

It seems to be decent at first but after a while, I get the feeling that I'm not finding good matches that comes with google and loosing precious time on searches instead of studying the resulting pages.
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Oh I'm sure in London it's likely to be the case, but I'm around the Thames Valley here. Just the train ticket to London offsets any gain I would have made tho :-)
Yeah, even for a benchmark it isn't that good, but I still get sad when I'm reminded that Tcl had all this event-loopy stuff thats' the selling point of Node for years and years. So much wasted opportunity with that language...
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Thank you for that link. I knew the old stuff didn't work with new ipython, but I didn't realize development kept going somewhere.
Whilst the search results are generally quite good, Google is often far better for highly specific or technical queries. Google also shows genuine intelligence and understanding at times whereas I find that DuckDuckGo does not.

One big problem I find with DuckDuckGo is the search suggestions. I found that with DDG they are very poor and that I used them with Google far more often than I thought.

That said - give DDG a go! I think that for many people, the results are more than good enough. They have improved dramatically over the past few years. Even if you're not ready to use them full-time, I'd recommend trying them out on your phone first, perhaps.
About time! I asked several times to be paid in Bitcoin but the fluctuations from the time the coins are bought until they arrive to me was too high.
Why do you say it doesn't touch the blockchain? Aren't they buying and selling bitcoin for each transaction?
What is wrong with cases that can be properly stacked up? I find these cases with odd shapes and curved tops a total waste of space.
If you have four of these on a shelf you prefer to stack them up and save space. Why can't designers be more sensible and give practicality more importance than looks? Computer equipment doesn't exist to be admired. It exists to be put to work.
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Most, if not all, embedded SoCs I have laid my hands on as an EE were either OTG or slave
Who would like a grid compass case for the Novena laptop ?
sicp is pretty hardcore

I tried reading lisp courses or tutorials, it really did not help. It's either too steep, or it just talks about simple things like adding numbers like (+ 5 9) I'm more into what makes me understand lisp as a better language.
Strange. In France you don't have to contribute VAT for the services you invoiced abroad (well, outside the EU. Inside the EU is another matter). You don't receive it, you don't pay it.

It seems absurd to make a company pay back a VAT amount that it has not perceived.
No, it allows Coinbase users to send or receive money to/from anywhere without a long wait of fluctuating prices. I'm not a Coinbase user but I'm affected by this.
Maybe because google have spent years compiling data about me, but I had to switch to google search yesterday to get a result that wasn't showing on DDG.

I have ddg as my start page on my main computer at home, I was looking for a military paint code so typed "military paint code A6" and all I got was Audi A6 sites (non military and I wan't looking for anything to do with Audi). Scoot over to google and my expected results where at the top.

I continue to use dgg because they won't improve otherwise. Google need the competition, frankly.
Works great for every day stuff.

If I'm searching something code-specific sometimes I might need to defer to searching elsewhere however.

Overall I would highly recommend DDG.
Upvoted your comment so that everyone can see it.

ES6 has template strings, destructuring assignment, Map and Set data structures (and more). While you're right and it is not NEEDED, this is something that dramatically improves on the weakest aspects of ECMASscript.

Based on your comment, it feels like no addition is ever a good addition if you can express it with the building bricks you already have. With such a way of seeing things, we'd all be coding with assembly language, cause nothing really affects speed or memory consumption for the better.
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Even if they bend, they will get pissed off and will likely retaliate in some passive-aggressive way. And there are a million ways to screw you over, especially with equity, bonuses or promotions. If things don't work out smoothly, that's the end of it.
MIT went from scheme to python. I heard an old lisp based recursive class went to python too (people want numpy and other libs, too much pressure).

Maybe the next wave will have some sml/haskell/idris.
a laptop, essentially. I don't like the surface because you can remove the keyboard, it feels fragile.

Also I'd prefer something much thicker to have more battery and a more powerful CPU. Thicker means easier to dissipate heat since air can circulate more.
I'm not surprised that researchers aren't eager to commit career suicide for the admittedly noble cause of open access publishing. They should unionise, because if they don't, it'll always seem like it's each individual researcher taking the stand on their own, risking their career. Academia is a cut-throat environment, there are hundreds of people vying for that one tenure position, so it's not so simple to just "decide to boycott evil publishers".
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The main point you're missing is that people were tied to local produce. Cold snap during summer? Potato blight? Sorry, you're going to starve. Even when the harvest came through, staying healthy through the winter and spring was a major problem, with all sorts of vitamin deficiency diseases like scurvy, beriberi, pellagra and rickets endemic.
where is

times(range(1,11)) ?

---

(apply #'* (-range 1 11))

python is weirdly halfway on 'math oriented' abstractions.
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We would normally refer to that as September 11 because it's much more talked about in the US, and that's the phrase used there.

Any other dates will likely be in the same order as written. For instance, the rhyme for bonfire night is 'remember remember, the fifth of November'. I believe that many in the US also talk about the fourth of July, rather than July fourth, so it's not like English has the hard-and-fast rule you were proposing.
That's why MS gives out Win10 for free: there are zero reasons to stick with 7.
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Both results seem of extremely poor quality to me.
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