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Well, about offline availability, a large number of instant answers(spices and fatheads that are) use external APIs or indexed databases from websites, so they can't work offline.

DDG does have official(and unofficial) browser extensions and apps for iOS/Android.

As someone who has actively participated in DDH for a while now, here are my views:

- A non-trivial part of the current contributions included "cheat sheets" which IMO, really required a lot of effort to ensure correctness/usability but don't really provide much improvement to search results(I don't think I myself used the feature in the past 1.5 years more than 3-4 times), so, this should really free up time for DDG staff to focus on the more important instant answers and features.

- The community has been, for a while now, getting smaller and less contributing in the recent past. Backed by data from official repos(the number of commits over time, that is)[1]. After all, there are only a finite number of instant answers before they just become redundant.

- The current model for the triggers(when an instant answer gets displayed) is quite restrictive. It's just regex-based. IMO, a lot more growth can be achieved using ML models for triggering, A/B testing etc.

I'm still kind of disappointed with this. Perhaps unrelated, but does anyone have any suggestions for people willing to work on similar open source projects.

[1]: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/graphs/con... , https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/graphs/c...

What do you think is the best way to create impact/maximise potential impact on the world for a high school student developer? Elon Musk named a few things he thinks would be world changing in 10-20 years from now? What do you think high school students should be working on right now?

Yeah, right now it's only this. You can see one of my projects at http://nibnalin.tech/internet-history/

It did have a case. And everyone in the world can have this crash, I mean it wasn't even 4 feet. Totally rekt. I feel my specific piece was flawed, it's impossible for it to break at such low heights, any idea how to get it checked in any manner by an Apple guy or someone?

I get that, but my 5 survived a crash, and this didn't even come close, there was a pretty normal landing I would say, but it just shattered. Totally unexpected for it to do so..

Hi, Here's my two cents.

TL;DR: I don't feel this is Apple. Though, it might be wrong speculation.

I decided to subscribe to their mailing list, and this was the footer in their confirmation email:

For questions about this list, please contact: [email protected]

Now, I decided to go ahead and hit them a mail, I was hoping it'd expose some detail of the company. But here's what I got instead:

Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:

[email protected] The email address you entered couldn't be found. Please check the recipient's email address and try to resend the message. If the problem continues, please contact your henpdesk.

Now, this is understandable, but if it's being run by Apple, I'll be damned if they make such major mistakes, seeing their own line of work. But okay, that isn't concrete evidence of that.

Here's the more interesting part of the email:

Original message headers:

Received: from FF-MAIL1.faradayfuture.com (10.0.0.6) by FF-MAIL1.faradayfuture.com (10.0.0.6) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.847.32; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 08:11:00 -0800

Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com (209.85.214.178) by FF-MAIL1.faradayfuture.com (10.0.0.6) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 15.0.847.32 via Frontend Transport; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 08:11:00 -0800

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Did you see it yourself? Well, the company is running on Microsoft SMTP Servers. I mean, Apple seriously would not be doing that. Using Microsoft servers themselves would be too much. It's still possible, they're taking too many measures to hide the fact that it's Apple, and a this a part of those.

Another thing, very startup-sy about the company, is that they have liked something on their Facebook page[2], posted by some fanboy, which is not really possible if unless they have the whole Apple PR department at their back, or they made it themselves and monitor it personally. I mean, it's tough for Apple to monitor it themselves. One more thing I saw their Facebook page is Verified. Many other Facebook pages, with far more likes, and possibly, equally big teams/impact[3], don't have their pages Verified. Might be Apple, this shows.

[1]=https://imgur.com/kam9Yf8

[2]=https://www.facebook.com/faradayfuture/

[3]=https://www.facebook.com/LitMotors/

I hope I'm not too harsh, but a straightforward no will be my answer. It's a work in progress, but atleast on an iPhone 5, it seems to be worse than the desktop version of it. It does save me a pinch or two, but at the end it doesn't look user friendly and the upvote/down vote button are still the same. And commenting doesn't seem mobile friendly to me. So essentially the only 2 things a user should be doing on HN: comments and votes haven't improved.

There is a web app, namely HackerWeb, which even though lacks enough functionality but looks more humane and real. Try that out; and if not copy it, atleast take hints to improve your version of the site.

One more thing, why don't you guys come up with an online open contest, and let the community hack a newer version? That'll be fun, and make your lives a little easier as well.

IDK, but really the Force touch adaptation, renamed 3D touch(surprise surprise) is a nice touch, but really, I wonder if it's worth buying a new iPhone. I guess, at least with me, it's a somewhat privacy issue. Imagine your favorite apps revealing 25% of what you do on an app simply by holding your phone's home screen. Moreover, I often hold/touch my phone in different manners, like, asleep, just-got-up, really angry, running-to-some-place. It'll be really irritating if this kind of a feature got in my way while working. Most of us do NOT always use our phone's the way the advertisements expect us to.

People crying about Steve Job's views on a stylus:

1. Really, he said that for a phone. But considering the argument valid even on a tablet, well, to put it in scale, the iPad Pro is barely a tablet. It's nearly the average laptop screen(not considering those shitty huge ones that don't fit in bags).

2. Have you even looked at that thing. It's pretty slick. Imagine the utility to artists(the pencil from FiftyThree is an example of its utility).

3. They don't put a ass-like slot to shove it up. Period. That is, I suspect the biggest problem I've had with a stylus. They just do NOT make it compulsory for you to buy one, contrary to what Microsoft or Samsung would have(and are still) done.

I mean, I'm looking to learn, so, even if you give me a project which I don't know anything about, I'll be happier...

Otherwise, I'm a competitive programmer(algorithms and stuff), but I did do web development a year or so back...

Ya, but none of them are really willing to do so, plus, the standard of questions of the Olympiad has risen highly over the last few years. I'm searching for anyone willing to help me learn algprithms and also provide support to me during problem solving...

Can nobody provide me any kind of help[other than upvotes]? Maybe you guys can refer me to someone whose willing to help me in my journey ?

- People will realise that Apple can't be cool without Steve Jobs.(After the Watch fails to impress anybody).

- Something cool related to Wearables/Motion Sensing will happen. I think the next thing would be Google open-sourcing Glass hardware and Facebook using Oculus Rift technology for something other than gaming.

- Paul Graham will write a number of pretty cool essays. [He does this every year, no surprises :P]

- Privacy will become more mainstream. After apps like DarkMail are introduced, Google and the other players will start to reconsider privacy and we, the people will gain.

- Functional programming will be at a better state. Currently, it's rather under-rated and programmers are rather confused about how to treat it.

- Swift will be open-sourced and we'll see Cross Platform support for it.

- I will sleep less. That's my resolution for this year.

Come on, stop acting that shitty. I'm a proud Indian, and this is the second time I'm condemning the state of the Internet in India in the same month[Earlier, due to Airtel's proposal to violate net neutrality].

If you believe you're doing so as these websites contain "anti-India" stuff, well, then screw yourself. Code that is used to run apps worldwide, API's, and what not have been cut off access to due to your little problem. On one hand, the guys promote the IT industry but on the other hand, they purposefully demote the industry. Get your goals right, people.

Moreover, I don't think the telecommunications department even knows how to cut off access to a website. I'm from Delhi, and here, both Github and Pastebin are accessible.

Same to you...