skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is performance really not a large issue for wheelchairs? I would think the elderly would not have the strongest arms, and younger, powerful riders would in many cases prefer speed over comfort. Yes, it might be useful in rough terrain, but that is precisely the terrain where the loss of power due to inefficiencies in the wheel might mean the difference between getting over that bump or not getting over it. I think there is little room between this and just mounting (much) wider tires and using less tire pressure.
Well, English is obviously not the author's first language. Most of the sentences had either spelling or grammar mistake.
I'm pretty sure the article just stated that Level3 is willing to upgrade their equipment, but the broadband provider(likely comcast) is not. Are you suggesting it is a lie?
Thank you, I was having trouble imagining how I could have been that unclear.
Any Code based text editor already has a ton of competition from IDEs, Command Line Editors, not to mention similar products.
I’m curious, why do you think voting on article versions will make it better?
"without being negatively judged for lack of documentation or a debugger"

A good judge at a whiteboard won't mark you down for uncertainty about interfaces, which partially ameliorates this, for those cases where you have a good judge...

I'm also tempted to say that needing a debugger to lay out a mostly correct solution to a small problem is weird - can you elaborate on how that might be applicable?

In any event, I agree with your ultimate conclusion - holistic is probably a better way to go.
You are correct, قلب does mean that.
From what I can see there shouldn't be any userland breaks unless it's very obscure.

In the internals all of the zend_hash apis have been updated so it may have an effect on some extensions, though the core extensions can all be updated.
Yet neither seem to accept their share in the cost.

It seems like Level3 is ready and willing to go. Comcast is just leveraging their monopoly to get out of standard peering practices. They know that by causing a fuss the lookie loos will show up and say "oh my, a controversy, lets split the difference!" Bonus points if you can work in the phrases "right balance" and "fair share."

If it's because it's hard for Level3 to prove, they should put up some money to shore up the connection, and then write a public letter to Comcast customers telling them how Comcast is shorting them and to get angry.

An open letter after giving into their demands? Did you just tell me to go fuck myself? This is that open letter. If they do it after giving into Comcast the lookie loos will be all the more ready and willing to pull "compromises" out of their ass that don't solve anything but making them happy with themselves.
I'd like a good answer to the first question as well (it would be ideal if there was an easy way we could host it ourselves), at least OpenWhisperSystems does not belong to Twitter [0]:

> Whisper Systems was a company focused on the development of mobile security software, which was acquired by Twitter in late 2011. Twitter very generously made some of the Whisper Systems software available under an Open Source license (GPLv3), which has since been under open development by the community. The software has seen a number of new releases based on that open development, and we’ve been calling the project for this continued work “Open Whisper Systems.” Welcome to the project’s new home.

https://whispersystems.org/blog/welcome/
I think it's great that efforts like this accentuate how quickly tools degrade when they are fed input that falls outside of the ASCII-range. Efforts to build better, language-agnostic (or not English-specific) tools bubbles up the technology stack to the end users, to whom it's a unreasonable and unrealistic (and to my mind a bad idea) to demand that they should just learn English.

I also think that programmers should be able to have some support for their own languages when it comes to doing programming, but I guess that opinion won't win me any favors here.
And they can change faster than that. Yesterday they put up a 50km/h sign for half a kilometer at my drive to work due to some roadwork, today it was gone again.
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Could someone explain this bit to me:

"In traditional wheelchair designs up to 30 percent of expended energy is lost because they lack suspension."

It sounds an awful lot like bullshit.

I know nothing about wheelchairs, but I just can't see how you're going to increase efficiency by adding suspension.

In bicycling, suspension reduces your efficiency when you pedal. It's why XC and all mountain MTBs have various mechanisms to lock out suspension during pedaling (some of which are quite clever), and high-end dedicated XC bikes have no rear suspension at all.

I don't think there's anything magical about moving that suspension into the wheel that would suddenly add efficiency.

As others have noted - this will never make it into mainstream cycling. The most noticeable weight on your bike is the weight on your wheels. If you added 2 lbs of weight to your frame, it would be much less noticeable than adding 1lb each to your wheels.

Even if the article's claims of somehow increasing efficiency by adding suspension were true, I'll be they'd be more than negated by the added weight on the wheels.
You certainly can have it on a cheap USB key.

PNY has a 32gb usb key for $13 (about 0.029btc).
I don't understand how a service can be both secure and centralized. You'd have to give 100% of your trust to a single entity. I'm not pointing fingers, but DDG is a good example of this situation.

If you want greater security, you have to allocate trust amongst many entities. This is a practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance problem (http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/16444-practical-byzantine-fault... ).

My current trust model is primarily made up of my friends and family; not a third party organization online, regardless of how they market it. If I put my trust in them, my security would only be compromised if ((N-1)/3) worked together. (see http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824-2012/papers/castro-practical...) Wouldn't my activity be more secure if it was built upon that?

I'm not proposing any implementations; just food for thought.
Typo; think you meant 4TB
The Refactoring
Interesting that you can now hand someone the entire contents of iTunes on a cassette.

I wonder how long it'll be until a flash drive can hold this much data? I can usually find any song I want to listen to on youtube, but I think it'd be interesting to just have every song locally.
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The links should also be blue so they pop out more. Makes it easier to scan over the results.
Any way to get some more in Europe?
protip: you will have a better time if you read this as satire.
Uh, both seem relatively trivial. I've built considerably more advanced stuff in Knockout.
We're still years away from HTML5 applications reaching the performance of native desktop applications.

Atom.io is too slow for most Sublime users, especially on hardware that is not bleeding-edge.
If you search using POST, that isn't a problem. Also, referer headers aren't sent to unencrypted links so if https://duckduckgo.com sent me to http://example.com they would not see where I came from.

Those two combined offer better privacy as no website can know what you were searching for and only secure websites know you came from DuckDuckGo. This setup doesn't give DuckDuckGo a chance to track what I'm clicking on.
Selections from "The Guru Papers"
I used to use DDG as my primary search provider for half a year, was unhappy with the user experience/search results but after a couple preliminary searches, everything is looking up! Well done DDG, really, really stoked for you guys to get better. (And it looks like you definatly are!)
I don't like the design either, it's definitely one of DuckDuckGo's strengths, especially the new redesign. It's very nice.
I think it's voting edits, not articles that's meant here.
C++11 move semantic simple example
Responsive typography with chained media queries
If anything the problem with Wikipedia causing this is a PR problem, not a problem with the culture of Wikipedia. The articles I see are usually of the form, "I don't edit Wikipedia, I thought it would be this way, but it's another way and that was unpleasant!" You're always going to get that sort of situation - I could just as easily run to the media and say, "I tried posting a comment on HackerNews and it just dropped to the bottom of the comment stack and turned super light grey so that you could barely see it!" If these were well-formed arguments about the actual culture of Wikipedia and not just newbie-shock, it'd be a lot more understandable.

>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.

I've said elsewhere here I think the whole situation would have been much more fruitful if the teacher had been or had engaged with an experienced Wikipedia editor to put these sorts of comments in the right context. Personally, I think the WP:SYNTH document is concise and clear enough that it isn't unreasonable to point to it after the reversion, but that's beside the point. The student has the option of continuing to make changes to their text to try and fix the problems the experienced editor pointed out, or if they think the changes are appropriate, go through another dispute resolution mechanism if the experienced editor is unwilling to budge. There are many such mechanisms, none of which were tried in this situation, because inexperienced editors don't know how to take advantage of them.
The best answer you could have given was, "it's from the name of our favorite Warrant song."

Brilliant! I am so naming my next startup "Cherry Pie". :-)
Wouldn't that be Sears? Most Sears stores I've seen have an auto section along with clothes, tools, appliances, home goods, etc.
If the forger had used italics in addition, one might be in danger of losing one’s composure.

Those theologians. So droll.
Your skillset is perfect - definitely aiming towards people who might think more creatively, one of the reasons I'm focusing on templates/website parts first before jumping into models/views.

And thanks for the pledge! :)
Psychological research suggests

(1) narrowing down to a series of binary choices:

Japanese or American brand? Japanese

Honda or Toyota? Honda.

SUV or car? Car

Civic or Accord? Accord

Used or new? New

Red or black? Red

(2) Decisions are emotional, not just logical. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotions_in_decision-making.

A good example of this is people who experience damage to their prefrontal cortex. Not only do they experience changes to their emotions, they are unable to make decisions, deliberating extremely long for the simplest things.

http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/125/3/624.abstract
Said every dying product ever (and, to be fair, some non-dying ones).
True but for each enterprise customer paying $4k/month, there are 25 bronze customers paying $14 month.
Can't argue with that. The one question I would ask is if the stats were # of tons or $ volume? That's also another way that debit usage can be skewed.
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Yes, there are lots of meal replacement shakes and bars already out there. They can certainly be found on Amazon, health food stores & in some grocery stores.
Despite the poor image quality, this is from 2013.
This book has great wisdom in it. I wish though, that the publishers or whoever is responsible for such a decision would consider revising the title.

I wonder how many potential readers were put off by the book's title, thinking "I have plenty of friends, I'm not a loser!". A better title in this day and age would be, "How to Win" by Dale Carnegie.

Also, I'd love to be able to read the 'lost chapter' that wasn't included in the book. If I recall correctly it was about how one should regard toxic people. If anybody has ever uncovered that chapter, I'd love to get the chance to read it.
This is a great idea!

I wonder how YC could do a "Startup School Asia" -- in general, for a larger percentage of Asian founders, travel between countries in Asia is difficult, compared to European founders (where IMO you could have SS in virtually any major city and be no worse than 50% as good as any other in terms of access; London is great but expensive, Berlin would be my pick.)

Singapore is probably the easiest and best choice for Asia, but there are strong arguments for HK/SZ, Beijing, Shanghai, one of ~10 cities in India, etc.
What is Matt Lauzon's Dunwello doing in Vegas? And what is Dunwello?
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Suspensions steal pedaling efficiency when going up, but they help a lot when going down. It's why top XC bikes are hardtails but downhill and trail bikes all have suspensions with long travel.
double-entry means the transaction cancels out at both ends. The result is a transaction of 0. Triple-entry is meaningless.

atm-withdrawal
+ cash $100
- bankaccount $100
Awesome, look forward to using it!
I think one of the lines is:

Then Jesus said, "Take my wife... please!"
I thought the idea of Startup School was to "sell" YC to founders there, along with the implicit idea of moving to SV. Seems like a stronger case for India than a lot of other places (great founders, but fucked up environment, so they have the most relative advantage to moving, especially if they can keep enough connections to India to continue to recruit for remote or relo.)
A.I constructs argument in real time
Not directly related to a consumer app, but I've found that requests for more features strongly predict customers who aren't going to pay.

Customers who are a good fit for the product ask for the core features to work better, faster, and in new situations you haven't thought of yet.

Customers who ask for random features are trying to think of use cases they want solved, because there are none being solved by the product as-is.

If most of your prospects are asking for random features, you don't have product-market fit. Try asking these customers to sign contracts saying they'll pay once the feature is supported. If they will, that's a promising pivot opportunity.
Showing up soon in magic tricks...
Stolen phone in Colchester sends mystery 'selfie'
Seems strange that the posts mention things but never elaborate on them:

What are the four decisions in the app?
Which feature did one user want to remove?
When I start a Wikipedia article, it gets expanded.

When I edit a Wikipedia article, it gets immediately reverted, often accompanied by ad hominem attacks on my character because the articles babysitter didn't want this or that section cluttering up his nice short little summary.

I am completely demoralized from editing Wikipedia, and though I still use it I SURELY won't be donating any of my time to helping that spectacle
Antivirus is Dead: Symantec
> HDD don't last 30+ years. Even if you take out a hard drive and set it on your desk, never touching it again chances are the data will be gone in 10-20 years due to bit rot (most likely at human survival-able temperatures). Tapes don't suffer from this (well they do, just at a slower rate due to larger bits).

That sounds exactly like a situation you would want insurance... Why insure the one that never goes bad?
One thing that is bothering me is the filling in of search queries when you mouse over them. One wrong move with the mouse if you have a query partially typed in, and you have to backspace all of the automatically filled in stuff.
Other than that, I think it's pretty nice.
Exactly. Atom is a few months of age, Sublime a few years, but Emacs and Vim are both around 30 years old. That's 30 years of work on the core editor, as well as packages and documentation. Plus, they're FOSS meaning thousands of people have worked on them from all over the world.

This makes it really hard for new proprietary editors like Atom or Sublime Text to just come along and be better than these existing monsters. Personally, none of them has what it takes for me but I see reasons to believe they can stand a chance in the near future.
Just wanted to say, had heard a lot about ddg, but I never really gave it a fair shot until now, and it's awesome, before you even get to the privacy stuff!. Thanks.
Up voted you.

As a non English native speaker and fluent in six languages, I think is very valuable that people have access to learning resources and tooling support in their native languages.
If there were enough people looking to purchase a single LTO-5 drive and a relative handful of cartridges, then, sure, that would make sense. Judging by the prices listed at the links I posted earlier, though, there aren't enough such people to make it worth any reseller's while, so the question reduces to that answered in my prior comment.
One of my favorite things that Atom does better than ST3 out of box is its git integration, especially in the tree view [1].

Adding sidebar icons is exciting because it paves the way to similar functionality (either out of box, or via plugin) in ST3.

[1] http://blog.atom.io/2014/03/13/git-integration.html
Oh, my bad. I was confused by the "Honors credits" thing. I didn't go to high school and in my college they didn't have that sort of thing, so I assumed that it was a high school thing like turning a regular class into an AP class.

Also, as for the changes that were "accepted" - the main article has now been reverted to the student's version since this article was posted. If I had to guess, I'd say it'll be re-reverted back to its original state shortly, then temporarily semi-protected if it starts an edit war. It's quite likely that this will spur a bunch of additional attention which will cause the student's changes to be refactored into something that the previous editors would find acceptable, and much of the student's research will be incorporated into the page.
Etsy makes extensive use of it and employs the originator of the language, Rasmus.
Going to try and answer that with examples.

Anything silly and whimsical.

If you were to look at a teenagers phone and ask "what does this word mean, and this word, and this word." That is our audience. Example: "OMG LOL FML" (clearly you know those words, but your parents may not)

Apple actually rejected our App the first time because our marketing copy was too ridiculous. This is the more reasonable version.
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Disagree. Academies can also help customers get more out of your product, or use it better or more effectively.
Despite the fact that you've fleshed your responses out from single sentences to whole paragraphs, there is still no technical content in this comment that addresses my comment. It appears that your response is "no, we don't properly do transcript consistency either, but we're working on it". But I had to read between the lines of your name-dropping comment to come to that conclusion.

An uninformed reader of your root comment on this thread would be surprised by that concession. Is my conclusion incorrect, or was your original comment deceptive? (Unintentionally, I'm sure.)
UK is much easier for a US based team to organize an event, especially remotely, IMO Without a solid person on the ground in Berlin, it's still really difficult for a US team to do anything there.

Berlin blows London away from a cost perspective (YC is ~rich, so the only relevant cost is hotel/etc for attendees who are non-local), and land-travel for a lot of people, but London probably has more local founders than Berlin, especially who know of and would be interested in YC/SS.
The + operation is evaluated first, and + coerces nulls to zeros. This looks like:

(null + null) === 0

(0) === 0

true
Is virtual reality an addictive drug?
I wouldn't be so dismissive. The value HN creates just by concentrating smart and ambitious hackers is immense.

Further for YC companies (and other startups to a lesser extent), HN is an invaluable tool for recruiting early adopters and employees.

Sam mentioned that HN is worth more to YC than what they could get for it in the market. Given that so many YC startups are already huge, with many more in the wings, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that HN has added $500m in value for YC.
Inertia. Lots of tuts about php. Relatively easy to get something to show up. Runs just about anywhere. But FB and Automattic definitely push it forward.
Bit Preservation: A Solved Problem?
Atom is Buggy, Beta, and Slow; You Should Use it Anyway
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Speed limits might change without prier notice due to a car accident or road works ahead. Such works might be initiated by authorities responding to an accident or similar without planning or access to update a central database.
Did it really start a fire? I hardly hear about it, and I frequent a lot of coding communities, both online and IRL.
Curious to see how this stacks up with other generic binary formats. Off the top of my head, protocol buffer can be made to have this kind of wire format (root fields in front, variable fields in the back), but I don't know if partial decoding or streaming decoding is possible, and it definitely requires some user effort to make it this way.
Have you seen Rethinking Best Practices video[1] from JSConf?

I think it explains the point.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x7cQ3...
Seems to be well designed and simple. Similar to Gumroad.