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Can you say more about why you're avoiding the blockchain?

I wish there was a special keyboard widget on the iPhone for coding. I want the keys in the keyboard to be bigger than what the iPhone currently displays.

Could there be other possibilities?

Europe may want to achieve some things in common but not at the expense of not achieving other things not in common.

Per the article: step outside the European worldview to see how cultural viewpoints elsewhere understand and express the value of multilingualism

Weirdness of a language is completely subjective

This isn't true.

What do the terms inflected and irregular mean?

GRE doesn't matter, many CS programs don't even require it

The GRE isn't irrelevant.

Uber’s position is that if it learns [of a sale or loan] that goes around its share-transfer restrictions, there will be consequences

What consequences?

Is this true? Wouldn't encrypted Internet calls be protected on the mobile network?

So any choices that a congressman could’ve made, choosing a phone, choosing a pin number, installing or not installing certain apps, have no influence over what we are showing because this is targeting the mobile network

I wonder how CEOs feel about their bottom line when they're off by such a big percentage in the workforce they need.

Couldn't they have predicted this sooner?

It's interesting Dropbox doesn't enter these trend discussions. It flies under the radar.

It was day 2 for you, with the specific engine you used.

You don't need to heapsort the entire dataset before you offset to a page, and there are engines capable of doing this.

To improve the site, instead of adding a lot on it have very little on it: only what's needed to get someone to install the software. I suggest you erase EVERYTHING from it, and start from a clean, single white page trying to get people to download it.

Make it legible first. What you have isn't legible no matter what the page says. When my eyes land on the site they move away from the site within 1 second:

- I didn't see the website footer.

- I didn't see the "open source" part.

- All I saw was the pictures and the orange button.

Assume a visitor will give the site no more than a 2 second glance. Design for that.

I would change "save the world from your sofa" to "end world poverty" and increase the font size from 30px to 60px.

I wish there were instructions for me to compile the software from source. In Linux I can often run ./configure && make && make install; and know that I'm installing something clean from source. Can I do the same with this software?

Now, onto why you're working on this. Do you have a specific "enormous potential" problem -- AN ACTUAL PROBLEM -- that you, personally, needed to fix yesterday?

Do you personally need to end global poverty? Why? How will distributed computing end it anyway? How many years have you spent being in poverty to understand that the one and only solution for poverty, out of the possibly thousands, is distributed computing?

Are you doing this because you believe distributed computing will mine Bitcoins, change that into money, and donate the money? If that's the plan, it never crossed my mind after visiting the page.

I'd be great if global poverty ended. I'm not saying distributed computing can't end poverty but I'm not fully convinced either.

All this said, don't get discouraged. You may find that what you're working on could easily change into something else. But whatever you release try to do a great job at it.

For example, what if I'm willing to just donate something to end poverty and not hog my CPU? That would be a completely different website. If you can make me trust you that the money won't be mishandled, maybe I'm willing to just donate $5 a month to end poverty, and not have to compile anything from source. If I can afford $2k for computing equipment, maybe I can afford $60/yr to end poverty and not hog my CPU.

If a file is 100kb and is compressed to 50kb, that's 2x smaller. 50kb is still over zero.

tldr: what happens on HN daily without realizing it.

- Improving a site's design usually helps.

- I clicked to install it and, like you mention, I too thought it's untrustworthy. How do I know you won't steal the data on my computer? Is it open-source? Where can I download it? Can I compile it from source? How?

Why are you working on this? Are there other ways to solve the problem you're trying to solve?

Significant barriers due to age also include learning. When it comes to new technologies, do you think you'd learn the most in places where the manager is older than you?

Did you perhaps mean go to places where the manager is a good learner?

I wish the HN software gave me a feature of choosing how to filter out noise.

This is really cool guys.

Some feedback:

- I love the toolbox on the right

- moving the F around doesn't work

Try siege for stress testing.

Hey, are you friends with bickn? I'm a big fan of his speaking in education.

(No response means yes.)

From the document: HTML is a very large specification.

My translation: HTML is an evolutionary dead end, and because it's so large it won't die in our lifetime.

Are you willing to pay?

It's bad advice to say "don't listen to what others in this thread are saying". Having more data is better than having less data.

It's good advice to trust your gut; but as Nobel prize winning psychologists discovered, trust your gut as an additional parameter to your existing rubric of tests.

Don't trust your gut while excluding everything else.

Your words: "I think its a waste of time to try to figure out some minimal set of "red flags"

Do you truly believe there are no signs for anything?

Personable != respectful.

1) The number of attempts from startups to go after a fairly well-defined idea (more specific than general). A high number of attempts indicates a problem is unsolved. A low number indicates unexplored terrain.

Ideally I'd also like to know a bit more, like the most common angles attempted (in general terms, not specific), although I can imagine how this might be disclosing people's ideas. Example: x% of attempts at idea A going after the high end failed, but y% of going after the low end survived and morphed or expanded to something else that has potential.

2) Which areas have the most statistically significant change in number of applications since the previous funding cycle. e.g. Developer Tools vs Developing Countries. Because it could point to upward and downward trends.

Ideally I'd also like to know about ideas in general too.

3) The top 3 questions on the YC application that startups answer most poorly.

4) The top 3 questions startups that are accepted and/or do well answer the best.

5) The biggest mistakes you see in applications and how they can be avoided (if they can.) Or the most common things missing.

6) The most convincing arguments you see in applications, and how they're made (e.g. by providing numbers and percentages, rather than saying "we're growing a lot".) Example: "if X is true, then Y" is more convincing than "I know Y will work", because you show that at least you're aware of X and are digging into it.

7) What most applications think will never work for a fairly well-defined idea, because it's such a good source of new ideas. But only if it's safe to assume the startup that applied won't pursue it, as to not run into confidentiality issues.

This can be information in the aggregate. e.g. show the top 2 things most applications think will never work, which could account for 80% of the applications, but don't show the outlier 20% which may be a good idea. In other words, provide corrective information, but don't provide what might be the answer.

8) If there's a positive or negative correlation between confidence in the idea and being selected or doing well. Ideally, I'd like to know if I'm writing my application in a way that suggests I have no idea what I'm talking about. But only if you believe providing this will help the startups and the application process.

9) Which parts of the application process that founders often think look like negatives turn out to actually be positives. So startups don't get discouraged.

10) To the extent each question on the application is scored and the score can be useful if it's communicated back to the startup, provide the score back to the startup.

Ideally, do this fast enough so the startup can rethink its answers. e.g. in cases where the startup had better info to supply but didn't, or if you believe it would help.

GMail cost me over $3K in rent.

I'm looking for a job, and after sending out resumes (and often a URL to my resume) for over a month I realized practically no one was getting my emails. I was being flagged as a spammer.

The only way around this was to signup for a GMail account.

I won't feel very protected losing the roof over my head, GMail. Please fix this.

published research be available to the public no later than 12 months after publication

Why wait 12 months? Why can't published research be available immediately?

Does anyone know or have a citation for the rationale behind this?

2. No geographical boundaries.

Reading this always feels wrong to me. Face to face communication is higher bandwidth than text or video.

What would help breathe life in the medium again? Or what would make you feel writing blog posts remains an act of participation in a community?