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Thanks for the feedback! Our current version also has a fixed header, and that can be turned off in the settings, which we plan to make work in this next version as well.

Noted on contrast. We will look into it more -- that's exactly the kind of feedback we were hoping to get.
I agree that we should prefer non-paywalled links where possible, but I don't want to risk missing the important, solid articles that do occasionally come up at those sites.
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I agree with most of that.

I also dislike that the search results do not really have anything differentiating their different sections as opposed to the current results where it's easy to see title, description, and url at a glance. (To be clear, I don't think change isn't possible or that things should stay exactly the same, just that some kind of differentiating factor would be extremely helpful.)

And I also use DDG as my primary search engine. Integrating it into Firefox and only using g! when my results are poor.
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How precisely are they providing access if they do not pass individual packets?

Edited to add: It's certainly true they are not rewarded for the marginal packet, but then neither is Netflix (given their subscription based model).
Probably because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that the amount of skepticism they exhibit is optimal given their different utility functions.
Having your feelings hurt and appreciating (and overcoming) the sense of wasted time and effort is actually valuable experience for someone who is focused on academia (which one could infer, as the student in question was involved in an Honors Conversion).

A Wikipedia edit reversal is frustrating, but not as frustrating as a thesis pursuit or academic journal publication rejection. The takeaway I get from this story is actually that Wikipedia could serve as a lower-cost learning experience for budding young academics; the student got a real taste of having their input considered and rejected by a semi-anonymous stranger in a position of editorial power, which is a valuable (and hard) lesson to acquire at a young age.
Easiest way is to remember that not making a decision is itself a decision, it's just one done with zero analysis, zero conscious thought, and usually zero positive impact on the world. In other words, most of the time it's the worst possible decision you can make. So do your research and just pick a course, even if it's not perfect, because you'll never have perfect information. You don't have to; you just have to be better than everyone else's information.
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Is there any chance in functionality with the new version or is it just the prettier search page?
> This seems to be a story that happens a lot these days

Which could be an indication that there is also a problem with wikipedia. In particular, I think when someone takes a genuine effort to improve an article and that effort is reverted, there should be a clear indication of the reasons. In this case, whenever malte pointed to specific issues with the article, the student corrected them immediately.

> if someone comes along and disagrees with the changes, they revert to the consensus version, then you discuss it and try to reach a consensus.

I don't see much effort to reach consensus on the editor's side. Most comments are in the style of "please read the rules before editing" - which is not very helpful.
There's nothing shameful about printf-style debugging.
If you're making your chemical fuel from whatever is in the atmosphere, you're going to have a pollution-neutral cycle (if you can keep a lid on the secondary effects, like unburnt particles).
+/- 50% wouldn't work in a consumer setting, but +/- 5% would work great. If you're in a lab, +/- 5% might be a disaster.
Yeah, that is my suspicion as well. Even just the difference between street tires and mountain bike tires is very noticeable on a bike.

This product might be worth it if you are using a wheelchair over rough dirt/ground, but I doubt this sort of wheel will become very popular with bicyclists (bicyclists already have shocks built into their bike frames, if that is the sort of thing that they need for their particular application).
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what would be the difference between people 750 year in the future looking at Kardashian images (or various adult Internet content of today) and us looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines ? Would they come to the same conclusions about Matriarchy and Goddesses of Fertility?
> My belief is - if one wants privacy - they should park in the backyard (i.e. area restricted to general public)

You should read Kozinski's dissent in United States v. Pineda-Moreno: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/08/12/08...

Kozinski makes a compelling argument that allowing police and federal agents to apply surveillance in publicly visible areas even though they're part of someone's curtilage disproportionately favors the rich.

Should we really grant privacy only to those who can afford gated communities, garages, or other barricades against the same state employees that are supposedly serving them?
I would love to have a console or even web client for this.

Or is anyone aware of a secure group chat application to replace IRC (or SILC for that matter)?
Agreed. Unfortunately no one involved with the project has the right combination of skills and motivation to do a nice introductory website. It's a pity because technically the tool is great, but the PR/design side is almost entirely lacking.
And themes. It's not unusual to see themes that cause 100+ database queries. Per pageview.
This reminds me of the CSS localization spec (published by Adobe on April 1, 2013)

http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2013/04/01/css-localizati...
Go ahead, compete with Google search. It's really not that crazy.
Is there any content to this post? All I see is "someone said something I didn't expect."
he's probably saying widescreens have less vertical room, so a fixed header then makes it even less. so a fixed header is more of a problem on them. thought experiment: if you had a 20" wide screen that was only 10" tall, you'd hate anything that took up your vertical space, wouldn't you?
I think the whole bicycle wheel thing is just a ploy to scam clueless investors. No one who had ever tried to ride one of these wheels up a hill would think they were a good idea on a bicycle. And the descending stairs thing? I've descended much steeper on my regular old hardtail.

Since motive force is applied to the rim of wheelchair wheels, it probably works fine for those.
I don't think the parent meant to imply a P2P implementation of Netflix streaming video, just that Netflix is perfectly capable of making that ratio balance out by uploading crap from the clients they have (partial) control over - which would then be traffic coming from Comcast's network.
Not impossible but it's a pain in the ass. The current state of backup software is atrocious for such a task too.
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Here's another example that showed up on /r/ruby

http://benlakey.com/2014/05/04/testing-is-science/

I don't think I'm overstating it.
XCode may be able to install it in the iOS Simulator but it certainly won't install on your device without the $99/year license (unless you jailbreak).
I'd be more on the Atom boat if it didn't still feel like the base installed packages were lacking. Having to install a package to get Atom to correctly indent Ruby was awkward, coming from Github, a Ruby shop. That's been fixed now, but speed issues, and the file search(Cmd+T) is just awful.

It's definitely getting better but I've moved back until it's further along.
"It makes sure the swipe data is actually yours"

Can't you generate the swipe data from the other information you have, i.e. name, the card number, the expiration date, and the CVV2? ISO/IEC 7813 also specifies that there can be discretionary data but it seems it's unused, so what is the significance of swiping in addition to taking a picture and it seems also entering in the expiration and CVV (and number?) manually?
> StartPage doesn't hijack links, it (optionally) uses POST and you never send a referer header so traffic looks organic

... and looks like MSN Search results from 2006. Not just ugly and cluttered, which I don't mind too much, but dysfunctional too: no keyboard navigation between results nor editing the search query without using the mouse to focus the box. That is an immediate no-go for me.
Apple does this too in all of their uses of OSM in their maps.

There is some OSM community discussion on the UX behind this here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21769
I don't really like the "doesn't track you part." How is it going to give as good results if it doesn't track people? Clicks is the best way to tell which results are good, and my clicks especially.
It's patronizing, but I wouldn't consider it crossing the line to bullying or abusive. I read it as someone who considers themself to be in a position of experience and authority counseling a newcomer on the rules of the road. Perhaps the "inner voice" that reads that text to me on the page differs from the student's inner voice?

It's hard to discern tone from text on a screen, and easy to attribute meaning to actions that did not carry that intent.

Disclosure: I'm a privileged white male.
Please don't apply any of these changes to the html version. It's my favorite websearch interface.

I would also like an option to disable r.duckduckgo.com redirects.
http://i.imgur.com/8ZyY4W2.png

Works on IE7.

IE6, well nevermind..
It's not really hard.. one choice with a multitude of options:

Choose Level of Location Access:
1. Full access (exact location)
2. Nearest [major intersection, city, state]
3. Fixed location [home, work, present location, choose from map]
4. Random walk [choose area from map]
5. Ask me every time
6. Deny

Go ahead and default/emphasize the most-desired and least-confusing options so that fewer mistakes are made. But treating users like children and restricting their options in the name of 'usability' is downright wrong. Your average person seems quite dumb due to disinterest, but give them options and abilities they didn't know they could have, and watch as their interest perks up.
You can read more about that here: https://duck.co/blog/https-on-by-default

It has no privacy impact since we do not store or collect personal information.
As far as I now, there is a in-browser client (a browser extension, iirc) in development.

Your second question is harder. I don't know of a better solution than a self-hosted jabber-server with https.
Yes I had shares in the company.

Technically, there were two companies:

- a holding where the cofounders owned shares as of 52, 30, 12 and 6 percent. This company had no business activity and no employee. I owned 6 percent of its 100K capital;
- a startup which was 100% owned by the holding, sharing the same CEO. I was employee and paid by this company (well, "paid"…).

I had a vote decision in the holding, not the startup.
And for some reason I had a reason not to work anymore for the startup (including being fired when we think about it), I would have to sell my shares. If you want to evict someone, this is a great system.

Also, the 12% shares were held by the spouse/partner of the CEO, creating a 50/50 balance which let all the power in his hands, whatever the scenario is.

That is a reason why fighting was useless. And making a viable platform was more a chance for us to get funded, to have an external observer who could eventually rectify the power balance.
I made similar experiences and heard stories worse than this all over the web.
It may sound funny, but Wikipedia could learn a lot from games like LoL and Dota 2 and how they deal with bad behaviour. Right now I don't see anything happen, and that's the reason why I willfully deny Wikipedia any donation.
>The idea that YC would choose african founders in africa after systematically excluding african founders in the US

is this true? I was unaware of this.
I applaud efforts like this. zmguy writes that we should work to defragment the world. But who are english speakers to expect everyone to speak english? I think we need more fragmentation. We've defragmented enough already.

Diversity is a great thing. The more diverse we are, the more diverse our worldviews are and the more creative we become. Maybe there is more conflict, but who is to say that more conflict is a bad thing? As I recall there were studies on different personalities in multilingual people. (Although I believe it's true observing myself, you know how every study can have a study disproving it).

When I started learning programming there were a few resources available only in russian on russian forums(RE related) same with chinese. At the same time people who didn't know any better think russians are technologically behind and still do.

I recently had a discussion with someone in the University who was blaming them(them including russians, chinese speakers and others) for not making information more readily available to him. China, Japan, Russia, Iran, probably a bunch of Arab countries, Germany(although this one is argueably moving to english as scientific language) have vibrant scientific communities, that you can only understand if you speak the respective language.

If the numbers are right [1] (which i doubt, i assume both the chinese and the english l2 speakers to be much more) then maybe it is us who should make more available in chinese. Also keep in mind that for a very long time Arab was the defacto scientific language of south east asia.

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

edit: i don't normally ask for explanations, but if you downvote i'd appreciate an explanation in this context.
You kinda have to put it together, but the other author comes across to me as disingenuous and dismissive. Look at the edit log and the talk page together.

Wikipedian, 4/19: Deletes one new section of the article that he disagrees with. Entire comment is: " (-1,214)‎ . . (→‎Typhoid Mary: not a super-spreader. she was an asymptomatic carrier; super-spreaders are symptomatic)"

Student: 4/19: "There was dispute about whether or not asymptomatic carriers could be considered super-spreaders." Defends her position with un-Wikipedia-esque speech, reverts deletion.

Wikepedian: 4/20 Deletes every single thing the student contributed. (This is where things go off the rails.)

Wikipedian: "Also, I'm not aware of any "dispute as to whether or not asymptomatic carriers should be considered super-spreaders", so perhaps you could also provide a source for that."

The source of the dispute is that he reverted her edit; of course it exists.

The student then comes back with a source to defend that Typhoid Mary is considered a super carrier by serious sources, and gets no response.

Further, if you look at what the editor excised, it was a sincere edit, well-sourced, and deserved at least a modicum of respect for trying to help his pet project.
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I've been thinking the same thing. As much as I like Chocolat, Sublime, etc. I think atom will trample them.
I doubt YC would want to enter India market. For all the talent and entrepreneurial spirit that Indians have our startup culture sucks. There are several reasons:

1. The infrastructure: India doesn't have the tech infrastructure. Take the 3 major e-commerce requirements for example: internet access, online payment and delivery. Even the basic internet infrastructure in India sucks. Most people access the internet over their phones because getting home internet is still a pricey affair for most people. A pretty small number of people have access to credit cards and for those who do, processing payment online is a huge pain. The postal infrastructure is also pretty bad. India post is flaky and other courier companies are pretty bad or expensive or both.

2. Government interference: Indian government is inconsistent, heavy-handed and has very little interest in improving the tech sector. Most state governments are downright hostile.

3. Lack of exit opportunities: Indian tech sector lacks big players who can provide the entrepreneurs and investors meaningful exits. The culture of acquisitions as a meaningful way to get market advantage is not there. Your only hope is sell to a American or a European company looking to gain a foothold in the region (rare) or IPO (even rarer).

4. Corruption and general apathy: To get anything meaningful done in India is a struggle. From getting setup as a company to getting a good internet connection. You have to fight corruption and apathy of the organizations (both public and private) you are dealing with.

5. Labor laws: Labor laws in India are a joke. They are a relic of the socialist times and are heavily biased on the side of the employees. Setting up any type of manufacturing or operations in India is a legal nightmare. If that's not enough, the trade unions operate as a mafia and its downright dangerous to deal with them.

There is a lot of opportunity in India too but until we overcome the problems that entrepreneurs and investors face, Indian tech startup scene would never take off.
What I do when interviewing candidates is do a standard face-to-face 'chat' to get their background and a sense of the person, and then give them a half-finished program (with some bugs). I say: "Go home, download the code, and finish it in your own time". They have all of the tools that they're comfortable with, internet access, etc. I also say, if you're not sure on anything to drop me an email and ask. Because in real life if I'm going to be their boss they'll have that opportunity too. I see that as a positive, not a negative.

It shouldn't take more than 30-45 mins for a competent programmer. There's also some instructions in the mini-design which are intentionally 'the wrong way' to do the task. This is to encourage the candidate to get in touch.

I think this shows their coding style, problem solving, but also how they can work with others. Junior devs tend to get in touch about the complexity of the problem, senior devs get in touch about the methods in the design.

This process hasn't yet let me down.
Thanks for agreeing to turn the discussion in a more constructive direction, Thomas.

I agree that mpOTR is a dead end. The initial paper by Goldberg et al describes a protocol that is bulky and largely undefined. I should mention that for those reasons, Cryptocat's group chat effort has been relabelled to "mpCat" instead of "mpOTR" — we're moving on to creating a protocol suitable for synchronous use-cases specifically (since TextSecure already has the asynchronous use-case figured out) without shouldering the bulkiness and obsolete nature delineated in mpOTR's original description. One of the things that is actually addressed better is transcript consistency: in mpCat, it will function on a level of reliability that is in fact continuous and not just occurs once per entire conversation.

We recently concluded mpCat's first review summit, and were very lucky to have the feedback of experts such as Trevor Perrin, Joseph Bonneau and Ximin Luo. We also invited members from TextSecure's team in order to help us understand the use-cases scenarios they have experience in. For what it's worth, the TextSecure members that were invited were seen as open source peers, and not as "competitors" as you put it. I should mention that TextSecure's research frequently came up while working on mpCat, and that they are contributing more to this field than most other projects. That's why I say they are inspiring.
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Ah, good point. I didn't correlate the times on the edit/reverts on the main page with the Talk page updates.
Afaik TextSecures server infrastructure consists mainly of Google Play Services which comes at no financial costs for them but with the downside of depending on Google to temporary store encrypted text.
This would be considered part of the view, not the controller, and would thus be organized as such. It's also a very small example - a real application would have a number of differences with this.
Wow, that's strange! What are the machine/browser specs?
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> Wordpress 3.6 – 20.0% gain (253 vs 211 req/sec)

How do you generate 211 pages per second on Wordpress to begin with? My server does page generation for my own custom-built blog in ~15ms, but takes a whopping three seconds for a single Wordpress page. I know it's somewhat offtopic and it's about the relative results, but what hardware is this?
> a high school student

> About Meghan Duffy (author of post): I am an ecologist at the University of Michigan. My research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, particularly in lake Daphnia populations.

I believe this student is a college student. Since it was reviewed by an expert in the field, I'm inclined to believe it was a quality edit.

Regardless, you had to two doctorates (one in Molecular Virology, other in evolutionary biology and behavior) duking it out. Looking at the difference between the two pages[1], [2] there doesn't seem to be a large difference. My guess is that this was a small point they were arguing over; on a large part, her edits were accepted.

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_spreader

[2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Super-spreader&ol...
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This will probably not work in Britain. Especially at one particular roundabout on the Isle of Dogs. http://goo.gl/8AqnLE <~ See for yourself.
Prepare to go through this discussion again in two years after chip-and-pin's expensive rollout doesn't prevent or deter online CC theft, despite everyone having to get fancy new cards from their banks.
I don't think this is intended to be a practical solution, but rather an intellectual pursuit and a piece of art.
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r.duckduckgo.com is actually there for privacy, to remove HTTP referers. See: https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom
A sorry for the miscalculation, did that on the way out the door.

Just thinking how big the market is. According to https://www.quantcast.com/top-sites/US?jump-to=110000 there are 110,000 sites with >10k monthly visitors, so I think that's the market of which they probably can get 30k users max for which they can charge $100/month on average: 30,000 $10012 = $36M/year revenue.

So for web, that's the cap it seems. According to http://www.appbrain.com/stats/android-app-downloads, there are 200,000 Android apps that have >100,000 downloads, which probably equates to 10k monthly active users, with iOS apps that's 400,000. So this will probably bring another $72M/year making it $108M revenue cap for Optimizely. So looks like the money for Optimizely is in the app market.

With 300 employees at max that's a burn rate of $15M + $25M marketing + $10M other costs, we got a profit of $58M = maybe $700M company, not bad.

Back of the envelope calculation, probably totally wrong, ok now back to work :)
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Read that comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7701017), it gives more insights on why it was "impossible" to get access to them.

I agree this should be a core principle: no access, no involvement. Except that when it has been decided not to give access to them, the company configuration prevented any action against the will of the CEO.

I should have resigned. This would have led to the resignation of the other engineers and the death of the project. I did not want that at first.