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I see a lot of people making the argument that a Spanish-speaking HN is bad because information about startups/business/technology/etc written in Spanish is limited and therefore a Spanish-language HN limits exposure to information.

These arguments miss the point that Spanish-speaking people might want to discuss startups/business/technology/etc in Spanish with other Spanish-speaking people (whether or not the original content was written in Spanish), network with other Spanish-speaking people, collaborate and co-found companies with other Spanish-speaking people, and so on.

If you're going to start a company, or discuss technology, or whatever, there are benefits (as well as drawbacks) to doing that within a community of like-minded people. If you were born and raised in the US, would you go off to start a startup with two other guys from Tokyo whose culture and mindset might be vastly different from yours? Or would you do it with your local friends? Similarly, an entrepreneur from Spain might be a lot more comfortable starting a startup with some fellow Spaniards than Americans.

On the flipside, there are benefits to expanding your horizons and you might learn a thing or two from people outside your culture and social sphere who have different perspectives.

Because of that, I think the two versions can coexist nicely, rather than one being a substitute for the other.
Ha. True. But not writing a letter also won't work. Sooner or later we're going to have to take the damn country back, you know.
I used to sleep 8 to 9 hours a night, and often could have slept more, until I learned how to relax and recharge my energy. Now I need around 4 to 6 hours (absolute max) and I never feel tired, even if I work late, 7 days a week etc etc.

Over the last 12 years, when I have worked with many people with a wide range of sleep problems, I have discovered that the problem is not in fact that we do not get enough sleep. I think that with the expectations we put on ourselves these days it is almost impossible to get enough sleep. I found that sleep (and food and the other methods we use) is simply not powerful enough to recharge our batteries properly.

Probably 50 years ago it was enough to eat 3 meals a day, sleep 8 hours a night, have weekends and a few weeks holidays every year and so on. My grandfather used to work in the City of London (financial district) and they went to the office in the morning, had a long, sociable lunch and didn't do much else for the rest of the day. Look at bankers and other financial people today and there is simply no comparison. So I believe it will become more and more essential for people to find ways of recharging their energy that are much more powerful than sleep, holidays etc. That's why we are seeing an increase in the number of people meditating, doing yoga and lots of other practices that build energy levels as well as rest.
tl;dr : you can either keep struggling with the unknown, keep making science, keep searching for the truth to fill the gaps and tame the uncertainty or just choose to believe in some sort of intelligent transcendental designer and sleep happy at night thinking you're special.

I, for one, still choose science. I'd rather have uncertainty till the day I die -knowing that I did my best to make it less so- than giving in to the God of The Gaps.
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Just like I said it a few days ago when we had a conversation like this in NoticiasHacker:

Language barriers should not be the directing the behavior on the web. The idea of "cloning" and having translated platforms is something I think is needed as long as it's sole objective isn't to be a window to specific language original content because it can be scarce even though it empowers the community.

Sadly the combination empowering the community and looking for language specific content usually is what makes translated platforms be popular but at the same time kills them.

I think the key for successful non-english communities is to let go the empowerment model and work in a community without language or geographical limitations, where the focus is set to distribute and discuss information regardless of original language and open to discuss in whatever language needed.
Hey man no politician in Illinois has ever been bought off. I'm sure this law passed strictly because the representatives in Springfield felt it was the best thing for the state, and definitely not because Walmart made a $25,000 campaign contribution.
I don't think so.

The article makes a very valid point that people download XCode not because they care about Mac/iOS development, but only because Unix systems assume you have a compiler available as part of the software installation process. Folks like Ruby developers and MacPort users will not be happy to have to pay $5 to install something, when the equivalent Windows binaries are available for free.

This is going to cause major disruption in how certain Mac software is distributed. The problem will not simply "go away" as trolls are distracted.

Most likely Macs will move to a Macs move to a Windows-like model of binaries instead of build-scripts. However, someone could recreate the Mac toolchain and distribute it for free in an easy to install package. That's a lot of work to save someone $5 however, so there will be a lot of bitching-and-moaning in the short term.
It's also about running the affiliate programs themselves....

Amazon isn't stupid - who knows what the specific strategy is here, politically or otherwise - they've capitulated in some states, turfed others - it all probably comes down to the numbers.
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Would you expose different portions of your pipeline?

For example, some of us might be interested in the CSS parsing and feature extraction, but in an alternate machine learning technique.

If you are going to assume tech savvy users, then you might as well expose low-level functionality and see if people like it.
I use git everyday. I don't know what this complexity is you speak of. It took me a weekend to learn git, and about the same for subversion, but git gives me more flexibility and power.
Cost of lost sales in NY is lower, lots of people in NY still buy from Amazon rather than Walmart
And Amazon didn't want a test case about whether having other services in NY such as advertising agency or stockbrokers, lawyers constituted a presence
Feature selection is an option, but not if all features require a certain preprocessing step.

My guess is that they need to render the page so they can determine the visual layout. So regardless of which visual features they use, the rendering step cannot necessarily be avoided.
That may be true, but I think his point about "not focusing on the technical aspects of why Apple was better" is really important.
1). Learning Japanese is one of my proudest achievements and pretty much changed the course of my life.

2). Translation software is better but it's so bad compared to actual human comprehension that it is difficult to take serious anyone who compares the two. Including, ahem, parties unnamed at a particular Japanese megacorp who thought that Babelfishing design docs and shipping the result to India would result in quality software.

And for giggles I'm going to run this through Google translate:

日本語学習は私の晴れの成果の一つであり、かなり私の人生のコースを変更されています。 2）。翻訳ソフトウェアが優れているが、それは、2つを比較して、深刻な人を取ることは困難である実際の人間の理解に比べてそんなに悪くないです。以下を含む、エヘン、設計ドキュメントをBabelfishingと出荷結果をインドに高品質のソフトウェアをもたらすだろうと思った政党、特定の日本巨大企業では無名。と笑い、私はGoogleが翻訳を介してこれを実行するつもりです

Which actually says:

1) Studying Japanese is a proud success. Also, the [editor's note: no Japanese person would phrase it this way] course of my life has been very altered.

2) Translation software excels.

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It looks like they have a subsidiary based in NY; http://www.amazon.com/Locations-Careers/b?ie=UTF8&node=2...

Could also be their NY affiliates are more lucrative. There are a lot of large media type companies that have a presence in NY so maybe the referrals they bring in out weight the amount of sales lost from NY residents because of the need to charge sales tax.
I don't, but a guess may be that Amazon has some physical facilities in New York like a warehouse or office, meaning they can't say "they're making us pay tax even though we don't exist in the state and just mail people stuff" like they're saying in this case.

I don't know if Amazon has offices in New York or not, but that's my immediate guess.
I don't think that applies in this case, I'm from Costa Rica but learned english very young (ironically, in Scotland) and I've seen how limiting it can be for non english speakers, most tutorials, documentation, books and just resources in general are either not available in spanish or not as rich; it doesn't help that most programmer jobs are for US based companies. A friend sometimes shares gnu/linux news from some a latin-american or spanish site and I kinda feel sad when it's something I read a week ago in HN.
Thanks for the referral to Anne Taylor. I'll definitely connect. Can you email me off list -- I'd love to get your feedback on our upcoming release,
I'm a little late to this thread, but just wanted to say nice job. This looks promising.
Well, the latest version of HN I could find was a couple of years old and even tho I know a little bit of lisp, I didn't feel I could maintain/adapt the arc code that runs this beautiful website.
I decided to start from scratch and do it in python for the app engine, it was hard to get it to run smoothly(and I will still optimize some more to try to batch the RCPs for memcache and db).
Those features that you mentions will come in the next couple of weeks, right now I am going to concentrate on having some moderation tools and then i'll finish the profile and password recovery.

The source is open source and mostly in english :D @ https://github.com/DFectuoso/Noticias-HAcker
That would sweet. Checking out Phoenix (interesting choice of city to include, BTW) I saw github names of people I know, but who, like me, don't live or work in Phoenix, but in neighboring towns. I'm guessing they (like many) opted for placing themselves in the nearest largest city.

Me, I went for Scottsdale, which borders Phoenix. "metro area" searches would be a very cool addition.
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It would be great if you could return a normalized and simplified version of the HTML structure. I know a lot of people who would be interested in this.
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Absolutely love it. Great work.
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I love doing dorkly little things like this. It reminds me of when I was first learning to code and everything was just "fun".

:)
Perhaps its an overstatement, but you have to recall that Google's "I'm feeling Lucky" button was designed to be the one page they had deduced you were looking for, their stretch goal, a results page with one link. The one they know you're looking for.

Now they have backed off on that, with reasoning that it is really not truly possible given that the search "Sony XBR TV" might be you are looking for the manual for the TV or to buy the TV or something which isn't known, but the goal is always to have the result you're looking for on the first page. That has been their target and promise for years.

So by creating a feature, and putting it into production, to "block sites" it suggests to me that they are saying "Hey, we know our algorithm is failing and we have given up (perhaps temporarily) trying to fix it. We know it will put sites you don't want to see into the first page. Here is a manual tool to weed those out."

It seems like something of a philosophy change at least. Perhaps Matt will chime in.
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People always find somewhere fairly close. Mountain View itself seems a good option. If you're more than an hour away you tend to miss stuff.
Isn't that what he mean? ARM would design, and license, a general purpose processor.
Python has a linked list type (collections.deque), but their standard list type is a dynamic array/vector and so has entirely different performance characteristics. Treating it as a linked list could screw you. I don't think that's pedantic at all.
Well, to be honest - MeFi and BoingBoing also get the good stuff a few days after HNN. And most programming jobs aren't in Indiana, either, so English alone isn't enough.

I grant you your point, of course: It's fair enough to say that lack of English is a disadvantage - but I don't think the answer is to say there shouldn't be a more vibrant Spanish-language community than there has been.
No, because the team is the most important thing to us.
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No, it does. There's a type in Python called "deque" that more closely resembles the performance characteristics of a linked list.

I agree that this is not the main point of the discussion, though.
I don't think so, because if we were considering a group that didn't have a video, we'd usually ask them to add one.
Start charging recruiters fee just for sending in your resume I would say or your friend's resume, coz they are making money just passing out qualified resumes to the company!
> Amazon is receiving an unfair competitive advantage by not paying taxes...

I don't understand this reasoning. They have to pay a shipping tax -- that is, regardless of the price of the item, the buyer is going to have to have it shipped to their home. If Amazon's offering free shipping, that just means they're choosing to absorb the cost, which eliminates a competitive advantage; if the buyer pays shipping, then that increases the total cost of the item, and again, that eliminates Amazon's competitive advantage.

I don't think this has anything to do with unfair competitive advantages, and everything to do with states simply looking for ways to grab more tax revenue ... so that they can turn around and offer it as cuts to other businesses, of course.
What do you use to get the visual CSS rendering of the elements on the page? A library like libmoz, perhaps?
Only minor updates. Major updates were always bundled with new OS versions. If memory serves, Xcode 3 shipped with Leopard, Xcode 2 with Tiger, etc.
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I am the guy who created this and let me say:

Wow, just Wow. Thanks HN for all the input! Thank you very much!

The debate contained in this post is extremely interesting and there is a lot to learn about the different point of views about language barriers, culture and communities!

I guess I decided to work on this when I learned that a lot of my fellow latin american hackers read HN every day but rarely participate or post new links. Felling that having a place to share new projects and interesting notes in my own language would be cool I decided to start this a couple of weeks ago.

The code is open source and hosted here: https://github.com/DFectuoso/Noticias-HAcker mostly in english! I think that will add a lot to the conversation: I am not saying don't learn english, just trying to generate a community where people feel confident because they are talking in their own language.

Hopefully this will motivate more and more people to share and talk about awesome stuff!
Should get out the list of hex words that was posted to HN a while back. There have to be more interesting hex strings than 0x55AA.
You can leave one of the two of you at home if you have to. Your startup will be a lot better off if he can come out to stay for chunks of time though.
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Or you could use the key promoter plugin to tell you what shortcuts are. Sure, you need to find at the first time but then at least you know the location of the action in menu and you don't annoy the hell out of your pair. Or use the find action command: Meta Shift A

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Right, you have to communicate the reasons that your product is better in a way that potential customers will understand. Although if you truly do something way better, your customer's will do that for you.
No. We started our own startup to get rich.
Wait, you are implying that because I'm a member of Noticias Hacker I'm no longer allowed in Hacker News? Is it a zero-sum game?
Just edit and resubmit.
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I was thinking about the recent discussion of salary negotiations[1] and wondered how many of you believe that you are currently being paid fairly? I want to see if the results support the hypothesis that feeling undervalued encourages people to become more entrepreneurial.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2309317
I am underpaid
I am paid fairly
I am overpaid
I am independently wealthy
I write my own paycheck
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That is so true. It's great to have a lot more options but Reeder and Instapaper alone justified buying the iPad.
I figured that was about it. Well, consider my vote put in for a check-my-own-comments link. Maybe my Spanish will have gotten intelligible by that time! (It's about damn time there was a Spanish tech community I could sink my teeth into. I read Spanish at about 90% fluency, but my writing skills are abysmal.)
Yes, they're all over. There's one in Germany.
I'm not sure the phrase "moral responsibility" makes any sense from a reductionist point of view.
Say that for Visual Studio or Eclipse which aren't as polished in some aspects, crash frequently, or run on platforms that crash frequently. (I'm not saying that VS or Eclipse share all 3 of those properties, and the crashing bit refers to Windows).

I've never used Xcode, but I do use Visual Studio everyday, on Windows 7. In the 5+ years I've been using Visual Studio I've been very happy with it as an IDE. Prior to 2008 there were definitely some quirks and stability issues, but as of 2010, I very rarely encounter any issues. I have lots of unix experience, and I can honestly say that Visual Studio is an excellent piece of software, and a pleasure to write software with.

As for your point about Windows crashing, I've never once seen Windows 7 blue screen or become unresponsive to the point where I had to reboot a machine. Disliking Microsoft and Windows are fine, but without some real evidence that Windows 7 is less stable than OSX, or any other OS I think this is a baseless claim.
If you make it to interviews and we don't fund you, we do.

We don't if we don't invite you to interviews. This explains why: http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
That's, I believe only for the new APIs. The already existing publicly published ones are still free.

That's how I understood it.
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I bet it is. There are probably a whole bunch of killer apps there which would never make it to the AppStore.

Grooveshark is one example that comes to mind.
In my neck of the woods, a designer's tool chain rarely extends to anything outside Adobe tools. That's what developers are for ;)
Depends how underaged. There's one founder in this batch who's 17. We're ok with it as long as the founder's parents are. I don't think we'd accept anyone much younger than that.
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I thought he was referring to the built-in browser.
Uh oh... we've started to recurse.
We have a base case and an inductive step.

I think we've proven that English people and Spanish people can talk about anything, interchangeably.
We'll consider anything, but most startups tend to involve technology.
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Speaking for myself, I'd rather have well-considered {comments, documentation, tutorials, posts} in German or Spanish than poorly written ones in English. Worst case, someone else in the community can translate them - if the developer writing this information is more fluent in a non-English language, I'd rather have him or her expressing ideas well than wrestling with a second language and failing to document things because it ends up being too much work.
I'd love to see a similar modern interview with him to compare and contrast... anyone know of one?
Ethics aside, this seems extremely shortsighted on the part of the legislature. Amazon might compete strongly with local big boxes ("Main Street", my foot), but how much shipping business (and resulting jobs and tax revenue) is ultimately created by Amazon's sales in IL?
Nonsense.

For your argument to be true, you'd have to assume that there was something special about the sample population chosen by the authors. That flies against the laws of statistics. Further, there is a clear explanation of the behavior that aligns with the economic incentives of the parties.

In buying and selling homes multiple times, I have always casually mentioned the study to my agents, and they have vehemently denied that it is true. However, in every transaction save one, the agents have eventually acted in ways that would close the deal quickly for a loss to me, yet get them their (slightly reduced) commission sooner.
You need to be able to read English. I'd really hesitate to say it's necessary to have good output to be proficient in CS.
Why doesn't some start-up address this head-on? Providing a payment provider solution to selected customers, ones that have been carefully screened but are treated well after the initial investigation so long as they behave, would surely help out a lot of start-ups.

Maybe it's more trouble than it's worth, though, but I just want to believe!
I think the point might have been that there are some more casual uses (homebrew, rubygems, python eggs, etc) that aren't as hardcore as writing c but that have gcc as a dependency.
It's crazy to watch these videos and know that it was only 14 years ago. Apple has grown so much in a small amount of time, and steve has aged a lot getting them there.
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It's unlikely you have passed the building stage. They're still working on Google.
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Thanks for filling in the details :)
Umm, I regularly do what you described (glue language + low-level language) with C++ and Tcl. This is more productive than C and glue language.

I absolutely LOVE not having to reinvent wheels like hash tables. Recently, boost added an interval data structure. I just wrote a few lines to expose those functions as Tcl commands. Whammo, I could prototype all I wanted in Tcl!
The way you phrase this makes it a pain to debate, to I'll try saying it a different way first. You give two reasons for not developing inside VMs:

* It forces you to deal with different configurations, which results in being able to move between systems more easily.
* It's slow.

The problem with your argument about dependencies is it invites distraction. The cross-environment difficulties don't happen when you control; they happen on their own schedule. The proper way to make sure things are portable is to have a process for it.

As for the performance thing, that may or may not be an issue. It's not wise to just assume it's going to be an issue. Usually a VM is fast enough for development.
We are using http://purifyr.com/ for this. Pretty happy with the unicode support and 20-50 documents per second speed.
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