skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good job. I like the space and your site brings real value to everyone coming to the table.

URL is solid.

I know it's early on, but I'd like to see some examples or sample translations somewhere. And when you can get some press and testimonials it will make the site feel more trusted.

I'd also consider adding some type of image(s) on the homepage. It's missing a human element and at the end of the day it will be someone translating this stuff so I'd recommend adding translator user photos on the frontpage.
Skype annoying feature by design
There's a haiku in that:

Dev sharecropping?

The platform must progress.

Innovate or die!
I'd look at what JustAnswers.com is doing. They seem like a good fit in terms of what you're trying to accomplish with building a marketplace for translation.
I just uploaded the first version of NodeRed:

http://github.com/fictorial/nodered
I signed up, which I think qualifies as a vote of confidence. How much action are you getting? There don't seem to be any open jobs at the moment. How are you going to grow your network? No one seems to have gotten any feedback yet.

It's a small thing, but on the language selection menu it'd be nice if I could skip to a language by typing.

From the FAQ
A: Your text is sent to a pool of translators, one of which [/whom] may choose to accept the job.
Hey Brad,

I'm just in survival mode at the moment, living on my parent's couch at the moment with negative money in my bank account. I need to sell some things to try to get back on my feet again - that's why I'm seeing if I can sell these domains.
I'm down for one. Also, if HN hasn't done this already, a secret santa of used tech stuff would be neat.
Facebook can just email Apple to request them to remove the apps from App store. And Apple do entertain such requests. I got one from Twitter. But from my limited experience, the people in charge of this seems reasonable.
I responded to their DM, thank you very much!
This is a great idea - add me to the list, I could definitely use the extra storage space!
Wow this is a cool idea. Add me to the list please! I will pay it forward.
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Tax credits are one of the reasons I didn't start my business in Canada. (I'm Canadian and I know the workings of some Canadian tech companies, but my current projects are all in Silicon Valley.)

The way it works is that you get 50% of your R&D expenses back from the gov't, in cash, several months later. To claim it, you have to write reports explaining the R&D value of each project. Besides the obvious bureaucratic overhead, it ends up affecting the organizational structure of the company. It distorts the way the business is run, maybe by only 20%, but that's enough to make you lose in the market in the long run.
Would you buy it if it was over valued? If Google and Twitter really considered acquiring bit.ly, they must have arrived at the same conclusion at the end of their due diligence that it just wan't worth it. Running the numbers for these types of deals isn't rocket science and if something costs too much, you're not going to buy it.
I don't think Gary wrote that article.
Perhaps in the interests of total transparency on this, Bootup should come clean and reveal precisely how the so-called "Management Fee" is disbursed going forward?

$50K for 8 months is a lot of rent and accounting services.

If the Management Fee pays for the managers' salaries, like Danny and Boris Wertz, then they are not necessarily incentivized to have quality startups in each cohort... more important to Bootup in that circumstance is having enough startups to cover their overhead in each 8 month cycle.
Put me down for one... I'm kind of isolated at the moment, so RAOK for a stranger is unlikely -- however I do have a bunch of books laying around that I've already read, mix of sci-fi and classics, hardcover and paperback. If I get selected I can mail out one or two to someone in dire need of reading material!
Thanks, I'll fix that asap.
I'd love to be on the list. Thanks, proexploit!
Good advice, thanks.
I'm still not convinced by the use of nothing but 'Hello, world' for the performance comparisons. Sure there may be some cases where you only need similar functionality, but since Yii's advantage comes from lazy loading features like DB libraries, what happens when those libraries are actually used? In real-world scenarios, those performance improvements may be nullified.

Also, a reason given for the lack of database handling comparisons is that different frameworks may deal with databases in different ways (some might be really good at creating queries, some might be good at caching, etc). Ok, so turn caching off and most remaining differences should show differences between the frameworks, which is what you want. I could make my own framework and avoid doing a benchmark like Yii's because "some frameworks provide lazy loading, some don't".
This might be a valid assertion if there were any VCs investing in Bootup Labs. There evidently aren't.
I'm always down for free stuff.
I'm actually shopping for some much needed backup, but other comments here present greater needs and/or projects. So, put me down as simply grateful for the gesture; I'll leave mention of my own shopping just as an indication (additional data point) of how generally useful that gesture is.

Cheers!

P.S. I don't know just when my next random act of kindness will come along, but they've been known to happen. :-)
I literally keep this book on my night stand. The techniques he recommends are spot on - and more importantly geared toward generating a return. Highly recommended.
It looks pretty good right now. I remember your site coming up on here every now and then, although I really don't remember much of how it looked before.

As of now, it looks clean, usable and has potential. Grats.
Tiny suggestion: make the entire blue and green boxes clickable as links, and give them a bit of mouseover highlighting.
Can we please not do that, at least here on HN? A direct link[1] to the comment in question would be better for a number of reasons.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1266864
sweatshop labor permitted my parents' generation to pull themselves out of poverty, get educated, and get white collar jobs

I think what irritates people is that you say this as though non-sweatshop labor cannot offer this sort of improvement. Lots of countries have the possibility for upward mobility without sweatshop labor.
Why would you need 64 bit addressing on an iPad?
I love your logo!

a. “Orders” and “Jobs” both lead to only a sign-in form. I would expect some short information and more explicit motivation for signing up there. Does it make sense for the “Orders” item to even show up in the menu for unregistered users?

b. I would expect the Gravatar hash images to be rather confusing for people who do not know what Gravatar is.
Herman Miller's Leap of Faith (2006)
I'm interested! Thanks!
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Amazing, my respect to you. I'd also love to be on the list and would gladly pay for shipping.
I want you to know that this is completely shameful. I'm kind of astonished that you have the balls to show up here after this. You really owe it to Jamie and Steven to make some kind of recompense.
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> we were comparatively old when we started the company (I was 30 and Robert Morris was 29)

How old are typical startup founders? Can 29 really be considered "old" in terms of founder age?
The Myth Of Creativity
Its not a quote made by pg, but, it is a quote from his essay. Its a short essay (likely under 400 words), worth reading, if only for the context.
Yeah, for a measly hundred billion we can get some more astronomers. Great ! It's the geniuses that do most of the science and I think they tend to gravitate there anyway.

I'm reminded of Feynman's comments on the field of gravity, back in the 60's even before grade inflation and a huge increase in the number of Phds
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I am learning nothing. Because there are no experiments this field is not an active one, so few of the best men are doing work in it. The result is that there are hosts of dopes here (126) and it is not good for my blood pressure: such inane things are said and seriously discussed here that I get into arguments outside the formal sessions (say, at lunch) whenever anyone asks me a question or starts to tell me about his "work". The "work" is always: (1) completely un-understandable, (2) vague and indefinite, (3) something correct that is obvious and self evident, but a worked out by a long and difficult analysis, and presented as an important discovery, or, a (4) claim based on the stupidity of the author that some obvious and correct fact, accepted and checked for years, is, in fact, false (these are the worst: no argument will convince the idiot), (5) an attempt to do something probably impossible, but certainly of no utility, which it is finally revealed at the end, fails (dessert arrives and is eaten), or (6) just plain wrong. There is great deal of "activity in the field" these days, but this "activity" is mainly in showing that the previous "activity" of somebody else resulted in an error or in nothing useful or in nothing promising. It is like a lot of worms trying to get out of a bottle by crawling all over each other. It is not that the subject is hard; it is that the good men are occupied elsewhere. Remind me not to come to any more gravity conferences!
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The site was just launched two weeks ago. Mostly I've been working on fixing bugs, recruiting translators, and experimenting with FB ads and adwords.

As a programmer, I never realized how much work is involved in marketing!
I really appreciate the minimalist design and layout. Too many folks clutter up the UI (I'm just as guilty as any).

If I need any translation services, your site is bookmarked.
I, like most everyone else here, would love one.
That would be a nice idea. The results will be random, but I encourage you to be generous regardless. Or try http://bookmooch.com/. :)
My home desktop is a 7 yo dell that just this morning crunked the main hard drive (the one with the OS and grub). It only boots if I open the case and tap the drive with a hammer to get it spinning. Everything is backed up to a server (an 11 yo Dell running OpenSuSE 11.3) so I haven't lost any data. I would just get another computer, but I'm moving to San Diego and our house is under contract and we're thankfully only losing $20,000 on the deal (just cleared appraisal, yay!). As it happens, just this afternoon I put 3 hard drives in my Amazon basket of about this total capacity, along with a PCI SATA controller. It's crazy random coincidence so I will happily send you my crunked drive to inspect if you want to verify my claim (maybe after I try to wipe it though -- I think there are some crypto keys on there).

Anyway, look forward to finding out how this goes. Good on you for the effort. Cheers.

edit: thanks to whomever gave the upvote.
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Nope, Dutch credit card. I think there's a small chance they'll call you out based on a non-US card, but it worked for me.
That would be very cool. Or a year-round "secret santa" of tech skills. I've had great experiences trading my design skills for experienced programming etc. There's no shipping involved in that.
It's a message and it says: It is time to rethink the space plan ;)
Nice. We provide transcripts of phone calls to our customers. If someone asks for translations I can surely refer.
"Look at Club Penguin, acquired for $700M, all because they focused an "unsexy" niche."

I believe all the club penguin founders had children so I'd say it probably qualified as an organic startup (in the sense pg uses the term)
Alright, sorry.. I'm used to reddit moreso than HN.
Above livejamie has found himself a potential opportunity with Digg.

Bad situations always leave room for learning, growth and positive outcomes, so long as you are willing to look at it from a positive perspective.
Clickable link http://weekplan.net/
If you think that license agreements have terms only to be enforced in reasonable cases then probably you also believe that laws that do not make sense will not be used in cases where they really shouldn't.

By introducing a bunch of legalese in its license agreement that states you are not allowed to do a bunch of stuff, then to willfully transgress those rules predicated on

"apple doesn't care and doesn't have the resources to go after you"

is setting yourself up for a big fall. If you happen to be successful and you happen to be in the way of apple in some way or other you've just handed them your termination clause on a platter.

It's a bit like saying everybody should drive too fast because the government doesn't have the resources and they don't care about it too much anyway. Until some law enforcement officer decides he needs a 'probable cause' to go after you. Of course, since the government doesn't have the resources to go after every driver that would never happen, would it ?

If Apple doesn't care about 'high level languages' they should re-write their terms, and say what it is that they're really after, in stead of 'smart founders' and 'hackers' reading the mental message between the lines that this isn't really about them and will never be enforced.

I don't think Apple should have a say about what stuff runs on computers they sell anyway, if they want to get in to the rental business that's fine with me but then they should say so outright. It looks like these devices are being sold, not rented to me, so Apples influence over them should end as soon as they leave the store.
Illegality is a gray area, negotiating a contract is not control, and agents are not retailers.

The customers were not told the price was temporary, just that it was the default. The customer's perception was what mattered to the publishers.
I feel either this essay is targeted at young founders or there's just a general bias toward them at YC. Should mid-thirties founders even bother?
Boris Wertz is a Vancouver VC who now invests in Bootup, Boris Mann is a founder of Bootup Labs. Just wanted to clear that up.
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> On behalf of Canadians in general and Vancouverites especially: We're really sorry about this.

Allow me to note something. As a Canadian and a Vancouverite.

While I do not particularly like Bootup Labs for a variety of reasons, I cannot say that I believe either side of the story and that I can form an objective opinion. For this reason I find it strange that you take it on yourself to apologize on my behalf.
DNS made easy, Get Clicky, couple software development related ones
I'd like to get one... mine broke a few days ago and I lost about 500gb of data :/ I'll give some books away on HN tomorrow :)
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I like this idea, but the thing I would be most concerned about as a user is translation quality.

You might look at these similar sites for ideas:

https://www.onehourtranslation.com/ (they also offer an interesting free tweet translation service)

http://trans-aid.jp/ (seems to be all volunteer, Japanese-oriented)
Also, bit.ly can make a play to service multiple social networks.

Is there a rich ecosystem of social networks who have all made the same design flaw that Twitter did, fixing which is bit.ly's only reason for existing? And did the social networks in this rich ecosystem all decline to fix the problem for themselves despite the fact that it can be hammered out by a junior engineer in an afternoon?
I've never wanted a fast-forward button on an animated gif before, nor seen one at nearly 2mb. Pretty cool though.
My girlfriend's from the gulf islands in B.C. so of course I always hear how wonderful it is and how nice Van is. Needless to say I was especially excited when I read about Bootup Labs.

Even after contacting them it never felt right and we passed. I really feel for these guy, that could have been us.
Also SMS fits 160 chars, not 140.
As a Canadian, I'm sure you realize that we apologize for everything, whether it's our fault or not. :-)

But aside from that -- even from what Bootup Labs is saying, this situation is very unfortunate for the status.ly founders and something I hope nobody else has to go through.
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By "act grateful" you mean, she will (deliberately) mimic the signals that she finds you attractive, making you momentarily feel good about yourself. It's the same as when the pretty waitress flirts with you. She flirts with everyone, and gets good tips.

A man will simply say "cheers" and buy you a pint. What do you expect him to do?
First initial graph sharding blog on Neo4j
Nice writeup of the current ways of partitioning complex datasets over several shards by Alex Averbuch and Martin Neumann. Even with pretty video :)
Preview at Boing boing: http://boingboing.net/features/rohrer.html
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It won't, because the Canadian justice system is much saner than the US justice system.
So this is suppose to explain what these guys went through?
http://livejamie.com/post/522093261/booted-out-of-bootup-lab...
That's a big concern of mine. Since I'm bootstrapping, it's going to happen that people who have no business translating will slip through the cracks. The best I can do for now is to make sure there are no repeat offenders.
Suggest title change, 'do you read HN instead of work' ;)

Even if lots of the content isn't work related, plenty of it definitely is, or at least it can help you to look at something that might jog your head in to gear again when you're stuck.

And countless times I've used 'Ask HN' style posts to help me to overcome some kind of problem or to ask for a recommendation about what tool to use.

It's really up to the user, which content you choose, and scanning the headlines and only picking out those items relevant for the work you're doing is something that is just a matter of discipline.
Adding Boris Wertz was a great move, and not a moment too soon. He adds credibility, and capital, to Bootup at the time when they need it most.

It's a good thing, too. While their misfortune has certainly hurt people, myself included, Bootup is a great addition to the Vancouver startup ecosystem. 3 new companies is far better than 0 in my books. They also throw fantastic events and mentor many more entrepreneurs than they fund.

I was trying to put together a real-estate deal for a Bootup coworking space in December, but in January - when I assume the funding round fell apart - Boris (Mann) became quite scarce. I'm over it. They took on an uphill battle and are hustling to keep the business alive. I think they deserve credit for surviving when others might have folded. As a member of the Vancouver startup community, I'm happy to still have them around. Anyone who has met Boris or Danny can tell that they are genuine in their passion for entrepreneurship and wouldn't have done this if it wasn't strictly necessary. They also have built a kickass portfolio of companies in a short time.
Israel confiscates visiting iPads
Probably didn't scale their boxes by area, but by height instead.
But now with Boris Wertz on board, new funding secured, and the spotlight of this story, there is no doubt that due diligence on all sides will improve and the next cohort of startups will be better than ever.

Hmm, ok.

Disclosure: Boris Wertz is an investor in Techvibes Media Inc.

Surprise, surprise.
Because they retain control of the content when they use an in-house link-shortener.
So what about the female professors. Did they settle for a 4.5 wife too?
That is a complete false choice. People work in sweatshops (or any crappy job) because better jobs aren't available.

The relevant question is: 'Will removing the sweatshop be better for the employee?' If you can say why removing the sweatshop will cause a better place of work to appear in it's stead, go ahead.
I said pretty much the same on "Lambda the ultimate",
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3905#comment-58598
Yes, a re-engineering cannot be prevented by the original company through secrecy, obfuscation, or legal threats.
While I see value in the overall message, I think the author sets up a false dichotomy that somehow suggests there's a gulf between creative invention and pragramtic diligence. This is often something I run into - this notion that creativity equals flights of fancy, non-realist, ungrounded. On the contrary, creating, is in my mind, the wisdom to use the opportunities and resources close by, whether internal or external, to be productive in ways that exceed beyond what would be easy. Creativity and results can not be separated.
it seems simple which is good, but it also seems way too simple. Some suggestions

* I understand why you want to list A->B and B->A separately, but I'd say it should be the default that someone is able to translate both ways, so favour the common case and let users correct it later.

* Also, If I am fluent in N languages, I must list all the individual pairs, but it seems unlikely someone able to translate english to swedish and english to norwegian wont be able to do swedish to norwegian too.
I'd say "list languages you can work with, then review pairs" is a better option.

What is there to guarantee the quality of the translation? I0've seen the stars, but they only make sense after a translator has worked for a long time.
* Couldn't translators at least link/list previous works in the language pair?
* Could we have some kind of meta-moderation? Say, each translator from lang x/y is randomly given a snippet of someone else's translation and can rate it.
* Couldn't we have preventive moderation? Request translation of a tiny text for some non-profit org, say, two sentences of wikipedia, and submit it to other translators for validation (or just check it's not google translate's output)

I've seen abhorrent translations between niche languages (e.g. hungarian & italian) because the customer has no way to tell if the translation is good, and usually does not even have structure in place to _collect feedback about it_.

This means there is not even the chance of going back post facto to take back your money/improve your translation/give bad rating. In practice this translates into a perfect market for lemons

Finally: technical writing is not marketing writing, nor literature, nor drama and especially not legal speak, I believe listing categories in which you are confident is much needed.

But all in all, I wish you the best luck and these are mostly minor nitpicks :)
Also, some of us come to know Joel a little too late. Is great to to be pointed up to these great articles and I'm amazed how relevant they seem even today.
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Sure, it's also fine to read facebook, the news, whatever. Everyone needs a break; just don't do it too much.
Please put me on the list too. Thanks proexploit!
If you combine that with the proportion of females in high level academic jobs you get a pretty clear picture: Females are encouraged to ask experts for help whilst somehow being discouraged from becoming experts themselves.
Github is a good example of this as well.
I prefer WI for some tasks, Firebug for others, but with every update I feel I need FB less and less.
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He claims to have written much of the firmware in the TRS-80 Model 100, released in 1983: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/gates.htm...
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Pitching with a question and use case