skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, this just leads to another lame mac vs pc war in the comments.
Does this really matter? It's going to end up being essentially totally absorbed either way, I would think. Otherwise you'd be passing sweet candy poops every time you ate sucrose.
a definite disadvantage of being non-middle aged is that my friends do not parody Dr. Johnson, they post pictures of their last meals with their boyfriends.

HN is one of the means through which I escape the constraints of my real life social circles.
Technically, this is not the HIB3. There will be an actual HIB3 later this year.
I think this should be possible automatically.

It wouldn't be easy and you're not going to make everyone happy. 90%.

When posting party photos, only show them to people that either

- also attended the party
- attended previous parties with me
- interacts/chats with me often and is not in my professional (or family) network
...

It would need to be a lot more subtle than that, but it should be possible with all the data they're collecting.
Definitely. Imagine if sugar was the opposite: You gain weight immediately (* poomp *!), and a year later you get a pleasant sensation on your tongue.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but a genealogical analysis of language seems like a strange way to attack Chomsky's overall hypothesis. The fundamental point of the poverty-of-stimulus argument is that there must be strong inductive biases in whatever language-learning apparatus we possess, since we seem to quickly converge on something deemed grammatical in our language, with relatively few examples.

Showing that a particular property varies pretty randomly across languages, correlated only with lineage, is decent evidence that that property isn't universal. That would attack some stronger possible formulations of universal grammar (which maybe Chomsky has actually advanced; I don't recall) that claim not only that we have an inductive bias in language learning, but that: here is a list of specific language features that are universal.

But it doesn't show that there isn't some inductive bias, or even a generative-grammar-style inductive bias, where "human language, in all its possible variations" is a parameterized space significantly smaller than the space of all possible symbol protocols, and relatively easy for us to learn because we're hardwired with the parameterization (but not the specific parameter settings).

Admittedly I am familiar with machine learning and not very familiar with current work in linguistics, so I could be totally missing some reason that makes my field's methods inapplicable to theirs, inconceivable as that might be. ;-)
Here's my understanding of Chomsky's argument.

Facts: I can write sentences that no one has ever spoken before. The rest of you will have opinions whether they are allowed in English. Those opinions will tend to agree.

Conclusion: Our knowledge of English is not purely derived from the sentences we've heard. We must have had some model of a language in common when we started, and we fit the parameters to what we heard as children.

I find that more convincing than anything in the linked article.
most of the payment gateway integrations can be done in 1 or 2 days. For the main ones like authorize.net/braintree/etc, you have tones of libraries and snippets all over the web.

check activemerchant if you use ruby.
I sometimes use Bluehost for domain registration and they do the same thing. I don't really have a problem with it because I know that once a domain is registered, my work isn't done until I've pointed nameservers somewhere else or set up a site on Bluehost and changed the default.html.

For $10 a year, I don't mind doing this.

Having said that, I do agree that it's hard to find a good domain registrar that covers lots of TLD, has a good interface and runs an ethical business.
Our key metrics really didn't change over the course of the fundraising process. We had be live for over a year and sign up growth as pretty stable. The only "metric" that changed was the current revenue/mo numbers. But it really wasn't a change in metrics that changed our fortunes. It was really just social proof and finding the right story that resonated.
Did not see this coming. IMHO one problem does not kill another problem. Dont see CS as a solution at all.
This is not negotiating (unless you're paying for the person you're taking home). I can't remember ever negotiating to get someone to go on a date with me. There is definitely a two-way process/interaction going on, but I don't think it's anything like negotiation.
Not as idle a comment as it would seem. In a marriage, the stakes are high, the "opponent" is someone you know well, and the difficulty can increase faster than in the "outside" world where civility is still maintained even when upset. The pay-offs are also much greater when you succeed.

Alternatively, negotiate with family members.
Express/node.js is the closest. LearnBoost runs on it, if I am not mistaken.
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"I just turned 40 and I can be programming for another 40 years; there’s a lot yet to do!"

I love John Carmack.
Luckily it does exist in Solr in the form of prefixed term queries. I'm surprised to find out it's not in vanilla Lucene.
As mentioned in another thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2444557) this course, like MIT's equivalent, is very TA intensive and is using undergraduate TAs (although I should note that MIT's 6.01-2 are not suitable for non-majors).

ADDED: I just found out that enrollment in MIT's 6.01 just jumped to 380 this spring from 250 last spring. As noted, you don't by and large take this course unless you're seriously considering EECS as a major....

So it looks like Stanford's experience is mirrored at MIT.
That's a very good point, even besides the contributions there are some Apache licensed components in AOSP that Google have brought in themselves rather than had donated.

I guess in my hypothetical scenario, they could relicense them as GPL but then they'd have redistribution requirements via GPL virality - at least for those bits.

Or they'd need to restructure their parts of the project around them to avoid the viral aspect, like they have for the Linux kernel.

I guess my point is more that not every part of every Free Software project is always released to the public under that license. "Android 3.0 is not Free Software yet, but will be" is not that different to other common OSS project scenarios.
Ask HN: Selling to educators
I'm working on a product that I'd like to sell to teachers. But, having never sold to educators before, I can only assume that it'd wildly different than dealing with businesses. From what searching I've done, it seems going after school districts isn't very effective. But, that seems to be the extent of what I can find on HN.

I know there a lot of education focused entrepreneurs around here. Any stories and experiences, no matter the length, will be met with eager ears. I'm especially interested in hearing some 'lessons learned' about pricing, as I've been contemplating a SAS model (but have doubt about teachers doing this).
Base or total compensation?
Study with others. Preferably others who are motivated, but don't know quite as much as you. You'll end up teaching them the material. This forces you to explain the same concept five different ways (until you find a way to say it that your friend actually understands it) and this forces you to make all sorts of new connections.

It also gives you near-term motivation to stay on task -- your friends are counting on you to focus.
One positive about this game is that I would not have to go back for that "last" pellet I left behind, surrounded by ghosts and no power pellets left.
'Rack up the hours all year' just sent chills down my spine! That's exactly what I want to avoid. :)
Node isn't really a framework. It's a server-side runtime environment for javascript. You could totally do something cool with it, Express js providing controllers, some sort of orm to your favourite DB providing Models and a template engine for views. Or, develop a backbone.js app for your frontend and make it talk to the api exposed by your controllers....no easy full stack like rails...yet...but it'll come, however I can't imagine it'll look too much like rails.
I don't get the impression that it's refuting the generative grammar theory as a whole, though, just the assertion by (many? most?) generative linguists that grammars are governed by a set of innate constraints. Granted, I'm not familiar with how much of the basis for acceptance of generative grammar theory hangs on the concept of a universal grammar.
Heck, even their Expression Blend and Visual Studio WPF and Silverlight designers assume you'll want to edit XAML by hand. Microsoft's current generation of development tools emphatically are not in the business of hiding markup language away from the developer.
This is very informative, kudos to you guys for sharing. How did you guys set your goals as far as how much to raise and the amount of equity you were willing to give up? What did having the extra investment mean for you guys starting out?
If ever there was a justification for HTML5, this is it..
Publishing 2 github repositories, each with several classes which are mostly trivial, is not "opensourcing"

Err, yes it is. If you are going to try and be pedantic then at least be accurate.

A more accurate version of your complaint would be "They shouldn't get so much attention for open sourcing a few classes". That argument has some merit, but actually the bloom filter library is something that Java has been missing for a while (I know, because I've written one in Java myself).
Learn negotiation and make $ while your at it ...

Go on craigslist, search for a hot turn over market such as blackberries or iphones -- most people have their contact # on the actual ad.

Shoot them an offer of 15% below lowest listed price to market median .. i.e blackberry 9700, 175 - 200 - 225 - shoot them an offer of $150-160 -- if you get it great, resell for $200/225.

Repeat with any high turnover product you're comfortable with on the pricing.. its a good foundation for real-life negotiation practices.
So here is the issue that the actual article discusses. In generating sentences, you have grammars with rewrite rules like

PP(Prepositional Phrase) := P(Preposition)NP(Noun Phrase).

In such a rule, the preposition is the head. There is an assertion that languages have the property head-first or complement-first. In this case, the complement-first rule would instead be

PP := NP(Noun Phrase) P(Preposition)

So in head-first languages, we would see:

PP := P NP
The man is PP(in the house)
VP := V NP
I VP(ate the bird)

And in complement-first languages, we would see:

PP := NP P
The man is PP(the house in)
VP := NP V
I VP(the bird ate)

The article states that if head-first and complement-first were robust, universal features of languages, then we would expect the evolutionary model to show that the appearances of word orders demonstrating these features are dependent on each other across language families. However, it does not show this across the language families. It only shows that certain word orders created by head-firstness or complement-firstness are dependent in certain language families.

I hope this was a decent enough explanation and easy for others to follow. I was a Linguistics major, so it can be hard for me to explain it well and in an easy to understand way.

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link-bait. Seriously, slashdot was reporting about the OSX mindshare takeover of hackers back in 2001 and the TiBook.

Ever since then, it's been a pretty engrained stereotype, and Apple's offerings have only gotten better.
can you guys try a xmpp based blogging : on google chat: http://gotgmail.com and leave a feedback?
If you're looking for a book on the subject, try: http://www.amazon.com/You-Negotiate-Anything-Herb-Cohen/dp/0...

You Can Negotiate Anything is a classic, and very inexpensive investment considering the upside.

I can't give you any advice that you won't find in this book.

Good luck.
Ngmoco's multiplatform javascript game engine
Been very happy with Chargify, except that it's expensive, especially at the start. However, it's scaled incredibly well with us. It's easy to update subscriptions, look up transactions, and basically do everything we need to do.

It's vastly, vastly better than our experience with Amazon SimplePay/FPS
I'd be interested in your open-source Django app. Sounds like a great idea.
I just discovered this through a mailing sent by ngmoco to developers. While Mobage is not specially interesting to me, I'm definitely captivated by the technical approach. Sadly we can't look at the code. Having an engine where the platform specific code is javascript and the rest is native could mean deploying anywhere (desktop, consoles, mobile, and even the browser) (and all with a quite beautiful scripting language when using CoffeeScript). The only engine that can do this today is Unity3D, but it requires a proprietary plugin to run on the browser.

I suppose both projects are a proof of concept that Javascript works for multi platform game development. Although how Unity ports to the consoles is a little obscure to me, I don't know if they mangle with the source code. I don't know if it's feasible (or efficient) to deploy an engine that includes a javascript interpreter on consoles.

With the traction javascript has been gaining lately, are there any open source projects going in this direction?
Thank you for explaining that. I will take the time to do a bit more research on various licensing types.
Aren't these..uhm...common sense?
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Go buy a car. Go buy a lot of cars. Go buy a car while pretending to be broke. Go buy another one while thinking you've got a million in cash in the bank. Buy a used car. Buy a new car. (I don't feel bad about consuming car salespeople's time...)

Go to a market in Italy and try to buy anything without haggling. They can negotiate the price of a $10 necklace.

Go to a flea market and find something you want. Try to get a lower price.
It's more than that there is just a predisposition for language. Chomsky argues that this predisposition is a result of a universal grammar, or set of grammar rules for organizing language that is a fundamental part of our brains:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar

So, for this theory, it does matter what differences and similarities there are in grammar for different languages, and how those similarities or differences came about. What this study does is show that at least for one aspect of language, word order, what might seem to be universal fundamental rules of grammar are not, and are shaped by cultural, not genetic, evolution.
This is not the first release with new UI. 2.5 series all had this new UI.
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I would argue that there are a lot of the same things going on, just abstracted away several times through layers of misdirection and hidden meanings.

Different for different people I guess.
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Ive noticed as my friends list grew from 100 to over 1000 over the years.. I update my status less and less specially the more personal they are.. as my facebook friends list consist of acquaintances and friends of all backgrounds --

Facebook for me now has just become a social rolodex, a collection of people I've met over the years.

Could I post about something funny that happens at a bar on a friday night out on town? Sure! Do I think twice? Yeah, how would colleagues view it / business acquaintances (as I tend to view everyone as a "friend" no matter how long I've known them for)

Something exclusive for just my grad class or those in my immediate or near immediate (weekend friends / friends to go on trips with) would be nice in a simplified, less feature filled site service.
I'm using Braintree combo-ed with Recurly. Makes it simple to start accepting subscriptions. I'm a big fan of recurly and if I ever feel like coding my own, I can use Braintrees. I built my own subscription payments for Paypal before and to be honest I'd never want to use that code again. Subscriptions have a lot more headaches then appear at first glance.
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If you can get some people to play with you, both Northwestern University (through the Dispute Resolution Research Center), and Harvard (through their HBR cases) have negotiation scenario games that teach specific, learnable skills. Totally worth the effort, but it'll cost you to buy the cases. Both use those tools in teaching MBA negotiation classes.
I'm always happy to hear when developers optimize for refresh rate over graphical complexity, especially if competitive play will be involved.
This ties in well with ( http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machi... )

"What can be said of this? If, in order to 'really' enter a programming culture, I need to both 'be solving a significant real problem in the real world' and exercising 'the freedom to change the language, the compiler, the OS or even the hardware design', then there are very few options for entering this culture indeed. The requirement for 'real world work' is almost by definition incompatible with 'the freedom to change the language, the compiler, the OS and the hardware design'."
I think Ars and maybe the authors of the original article are way over-stating the significance of this article. I think the evidence presented in the article is convincing but it is not convincing as a refutation of UG. It seems at best to argue that head-firstness or complement-firstness are not actually features of languages.
Correct. I found if you have an A * record to an ip you control, and a plain X.TLD record it covers everything.

This policy is infuriating to say the least. I have sent them several emails about it and gotten various, "we don't care," responses. It's very hard for me to describe how enraged I was when I found out, even after finding a solution on my own.

If I could find a registrar that didn't treat me like crap I would switch instantly.
I wonder this as well. Lustig seems to say that fruit is fine - the sugar in fruit is nature's way of getting you to eat the healthy fibre or some such - but I've yet to see a scientific explanation of why sugar is bad but sugar in fruit is OK. Sure there are good things in fruit, but if sugar is bad then surely you'd be better off getting those good things from other sources, like vegetables.
There are a number of other systems that allow this same approach of consistency and high availability. For example, Cassandra, which is freely available (as required by the poster), appears to be able to give you this behavior if you set ConsistencyLevel to QUORUM.

Clustrix, the company I work for, offers a full SQL data store with similar quorum semantics. However, it's not free.

Google Megastore allows similar consistency semantics (with its own data model) in a cross data center "cloud" fashion. It's also not free, but it would probably be suitable for some set of Heroku customers, particularly if they're already using Google App Engine.
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My personal strategy has been to start out with paypal because it's super easy to integrate, and then when you have enough sales, upgrade to something like braintree. That way you wait until proof of concept and revenue before you put down money on a better solution.
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Getting to Yes and Mind and heart of the negotiator were required texts for the college class I took on Negotiation and Conflict Management. IIRC, they are both research-based. The first is a quick read, the second is a lot meatier.

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Heart-Negotiator-Leigh-Thompson/d...

The class is available online via CSU-Bakersfield if you care to spend some mulah and a few months on it. When I took it (a zillion years ago, not terribly long after my pet dinosaur and rotary phone went extinct), we did a round of practice negotiations towards the end of class. It was awesome. I have no idea if it has changed any.

Peace.
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Who do you use? I'd like to switch.
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This is the same Gartner that concluded that WP7 would have better smartphone marketshare than iOS in 2015 (by dubious interpolation)?

Their example of "America's Army" as gamification is a bit off; it's a virtualization and recruiting tool, and doesn't do much to say "earn your E4".

I think the "gamification" operates best when soliciting commentary/feedback and community building. An example could be barackobama.com where you got points for making calls and referring your friends/family, i.e., things you would normally do on the site.
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Language is a recursive process, and (according to GEB) a property of recursive processes tends to be wild unpredictability the deeper you go.

Just thinking aloud.
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Upvoted.

I use a Greasemonkey plugin called Backbars, which turns the numbers into a graphical display that floats behind the headline. This makes it even easier to scan a page very quickly, and note what's got traction - which can be as interesting as the articles themselves.

HN - please - bring the numbers back.
Honestly the determiniation of how much to raise was pretty back of the envelope. I think originally we thought about doing $250K but then after talking to other people it seemed that's a pretty naive number. You really can't get much done for $250K and plus if any investors are interested they'll bring in your friends and you'll end up raising $600-800 anyways (this happened to the Weeblies if I recall).

I won't get into valuation or equity given up but I always say that difference between $0 in the bank (or whatever you can relunctantly squeeze out of family members) and ~$1M is a tangible difference in your ability to survive and succeed. It's like you hear about YC and their equity cut. If what you give up is easily surpassed by the speed at which you can now move then it's worth it. If you can't take a million dollars (when you have 0) and improve your outcome by more than your dilution then you shouldn't take the money.
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Could try JRuby too.
Or it could just be because they are different species - that means different vocal chords, different brains, different ears and so on. It's equivalent to saying "chimpanzees act like baby humans when taught to play with blocks, yet still retain distinctive means of movement".
Hmmm... They only have iNterns in stock in the white style. I'm gonna hold out until the fall release.
To be fair, they did say "low-level / root" though I can see how this is only marginally more helpful for people who think in terms of impact, rather than structure.

Still, the lack of spin is highly appreciated.
Theres a book i read 'What they dont teach you at harvard" heres the link http://www.amazon.com/What-Teach-Harvard-Business-School/dp/...
Read this one for sure...its like a negotiation and deal making manual
Thanks for this!

However, I'm not seeing how this strikes at Chomsky's theory. It does give us some insight into mental machinery, that languages aren't necessarily parsimonious in reusing the same structures across NPs and VPs. But what's the significance?
Actually minefield (now called nightly) is usually stable enough, it's rare that there is a serious problem. So Aurora will probably be ok in stability.
Are any of the solutions out there comparable to BrainTree? It's easy to process CC's, even recurring, but it's a pain to do PCI compliance. If the CC info hits your server, you're in PCI scope. BrainTree has the browser send the info direct to them, then redirects with a token you can use to check information and perform charges.

Anything else out there like that? That is, all the flexibility of being able to run charges programmatically, without the overhead of being PCI compliant?