skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hey guys, you are not understanding us, we are not
understanding what you say as well, and it is hard to find
people that, once your understanding limits are obvious,
will try to slow down the peace of the conversation. Often
even if I say I did not understood, I'll get the same
sentence repeated the same at speed of light.

This is an important point. There are a number of things that native speakers of English can do to be more understandable to non-native speakers. Some things I've found are helpful: speaking more slowly, shifting your pronunciation (especially of vowels) to be more standard, using different words (e.g. if you're talking to a native speaker of a Romance language, prefer words with Latin roots over Germanic ones), and being careful to pronounce all consonants. Things that rarely help: speaking more loudly and repeating the same phrase multiple times.

Making these changes to your speech in real time is a difficult skill that must be cultivated and practiced. I would encourage native speakers to work at this skill, as it can make a big difference. I was once speaking to a couple of Russians and an American from the same region of the US as me. The Russians said they could understand me easily, but had difficulty understanding the other American. The difference was that I was making an effort to speak more clearly for them.
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And 'jilet' is 'razor' in Turkish :-)
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Coming from almost the opposite background, I agree very strongly with the assertion that accent is almost beside the point. It's true that if your accent is too thick that will harm communication, but below a certain threshold native speakers will attune pretty quickly.

For me, American English is my native language, but I am also half Brazilian and learned Portuguese from childhood trips to Brazil (I didn't properly learn until I was 12). Because I was exposed to Portuguese at a young age I have excellent pronunciation and decent grammar, but I never spent enough time living there to pick up a broad vocabulary. So actually my expressiveness Portuguese is quite weak even though people's first impression might be that it is perfect until we get into a serious conversation and I struggle to come up with the right words and expressions.

I often contrast this with my mother and father who learned the language pairs as adults, but did so in a serious academic setting. I have less of an accent than both of them in their opposing language, but they both have a much stronger overall command. Sometimes I meet someone with a very thick accent that is hard to decipher at first, but they speak very quickly and with excellent grammar and vocabulary.

So it's clear to me that accent and language skills are orthogonal. Many immigrants hit a wall with their accent because it's good enough, and they get more added value from improving their grammar and vocabulary. Clearly I think pg touched on the important point that entrepreneurs generally talk fast about complicated and novel ideas, so an accent is more likely to get in the way as compared to normal interactions. However it's just the tip of the iceberg, and I think the average American lives a more sheltered life in terms of the reality of having to learn another language than any other country.
I suggest you actually listen to the interview. Nobody talked about this being a "passive income" business. In fact, early in the interview, Dan talked about how he doesn't believe any business can be truly automated, and that answer actually made me re-think the question I had asked.

"statistically needling their way into some exploitative niche" ...wow. Providing real support to website owners who need it (and are willing to pay for it) is exploitation?

In reality, WP Curve provides an alternative to hiring a web developer by the hour to provide support when needed. It's actually a much more efficient model for all parties (client and developer).
Have you taken a look at Duolingo[1]? It doesn't 100% focus on pronunciation but it certainly does provide them for all words. The app is great.

[1] http://www.duolingo.com/
I think the difference is having your own standard and actually following it, even if others think its crazy.
A quick heads up, but at present your application is in violation of the SDK terms and conditions.

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This goes to prove that simple is fast.
It would also favour the short and succinct over the long and rambling. Which sounds like a good thing, if you believe that useful information can be distilled losslessly.
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Are you a fan of rob Walling? If not, you should look him up:

http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/...
They have a read-only mirror for git users: git.reactos.org
> instead of facing the problem

The "problem" is to talk another language? Well, that's pretty imperialistic.
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http://www.smartleaf.com is a profitable, privately held 30-person financial SAAS company. We are looking for a person to fill a position that is trendily referred to as a Site Reliability Engineer or DevOps, but we think of as a senior systems administrator. You can write your own title within reason. This is a senior position with no management responsibilities.

You should be clever, competent, and kind. Serious experience requirements: Linux systems administration, two or more languages (many of our tools are written in Perl; the application is in C++ (back end) and Ruby on Rails (front end)), network engineering and security. You should know your way around Puppet or another systems automation tool. You must have the ability and desire to track down complex problems and solve them, learning as you go. Strong written and verbal communications skills are essential.

Nice-to-haves include Oracle or PostgreSQL DBA, large data management, VOIP and JunOS.

Full-time, on-site position with occasional telecommuting and shared on-call responsibility. Compensation includes salary, equity, 3-4 weeks of vacation, NYSE holidays, all insurance premiums, food, excellent coffee, and a collegial working environment.

An ex-employee described us as the most interesting group of people he had found outside of MIT. It probably helps if you're an SF fan.

Cover letters and resumes to future@smartleaf.com; we prefer plain text or PDF. In your cover letter, please describe an interesting problem you have solved.
Might be beating dead horse, but people want to drink alcohol snort coke or shoot up heroin.
Put as many laws as you want, that is not a way to solve problem, never will.

You can't forbid people being stupid by law. Also, abuse of narcotics is a side-effect for bigger problems, ones that is easier to ignore. Will we get there when we are able to speak about it, I wonder, I wonder my friend.
Going twice through this book and following every instruction, I achieved the best improvement of my accent in very short time: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1438071655/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

I always recommend it to anyone who admires my ‘American’ accent. There are just few simple rules that everyone can learn and familiarize. Accent is a skill.
Mostly true, and good for me to the extent it's true (as a native English speaker), but it does depend on the field and country. A lot of robotics and EE research in Japan is published in Japanese-language journals, as one of the bigger remaining outposts of non-English technical literature. The journals are slowly moving slowly towards more English, at least to the extent of publishing English abstracts for the Japanese papers, and younger researchers will tend to publish more in English, but it's a pretty recent trend.

There is a lot of media-art / media-philosophy / electronic lit stuff published in German as well. E.g. I would love an English translation of any of Claus Pias's books, or of this generative-art book: http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/about
Thanks for the heads up! I'll let my partner know about it
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is this any different from what mozilla are doing already with their open source engine? why separate yourself from that? is your code available? if not why not?
Gillette? We write žilet, because j is pronounced like y in croatian.
Kerberos wasn't planned, but we'll definitely consider it if sufficient interest is shown.
I remember seeing a new segement on BBC about socially deprived areas of Glasgow, and local youths were talking and it was subtitled.
Where I went to college, The University of Alabama, their design departments in the College of Art and Art History only had Macs in the computer labs where graphic design was taught. And the Advertising department only had Macs in the computer labs across the whole College of Communication and Information Sciences - which includes Advertising, PR, Communication Studies, Journalism, Videography, etc. When it came down to the amount of computers with the Adobe CS software packages on them, the main Library on campus was about 95% Macs, and you had to go up 3 floors before you finally got to a computer lab that had Windows with CS on them. And there were only about 8 of them.

Just one data point, I know, but my college was basically training people to work on a Mac if you used any Adobe CS software.
I'm struggling to find something that it does that a webserver pointed at the filesystem doesn't do (with hash-ids for file names). I'm wondering if that's all it is, with a bit of logic to write the files in the correct structure.
I see two reasons:

1) If people agree with the idea they'll probably just nod their head, or upvote. If they disagree it is more likely they'll post something rather than just downvote (people feel the need to explain perhaps why they downvoted)

2) Geeks feel the need to say something contrarian to show how smart they are. It is a way to tell everyone they have a bigger intellectual penis than everyone else.
English is, as far as I can tell, the most Latin of the Germanic languages. I sometimes like to see how close I can build two sentences, one in Portuguese (my native tongue) and one in English. For example:

I redacted a text, removing the froufrou.
Eu redigi um texto, removendo o frufru.

French also helps a lot in bridging the gaps.
Ask HN: What do you do if your parents keep asking for money
So quick explanation, I'm a relatively young engineer, i'm also single and have moved up quickly (positionally and in salary) career-wise and my parents have been around to notice. At a certain point, I started making more than my parents. When that happened, my father asked for some financial support claiming that he was barely making ends meet (which had happened in the past when I was younger). He wanted me to send him $1000 monthly for what he initially said would just be 8 months. However, I kept making more money and he kept asking for the $1000 every month (the last tally i have is around 32 months). This went on to a point where they also asked for a house and really pressured me into buying one. At the end of the year, it ends up being a good sum of money that I give to then entirely tax-free on their end.

About a year ago, I left to go work on a startup as a cofounder. We bootstrapped the whole thing so there was no income other than money I had saved up so I stopped sending my parents the money and they understandably stopped asking for it. The company I bootstrapped didn't work out so I'm again jumping back into the workforce and getting paid around what I was previously making and my parents are once again asking for money saying that they really need it (father works btw).

I know I'm well payed but I work very hard at what I do; but then again, its my parents that I'm helping and after all, I'm single and have no other obligations to take care of than myself. I'd feel extremely guilty if I didn't send them money and just kept it for myself. So my question is, has anyone else been in a similar situation and if so how did you handle it? what should I do?
"I do this through feedback with the people who I am chating with on IRC" would sound better as:
"I do this through feedback with the people whom I am chatting with on IRC"

Alternatively you could just omit the whom altogether but I am less certain about that as I am not a native speaker either.

If you want to know more about who vs whom:
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/who-versu...
Your article reads fine to me, only a couple of places that gave away that you are not a native speaker.

If you can get it you might be better watching BBC World News than just listening to World Service on the radio so that you get the visual cues as well. My second language is French and it improved a lot through watching current affairs programmes each evening.
Someone's going to develop a serious case of gorilla arm.
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not that i think the leap has this method of input just right yet, but the extra dimension of movement definitely should allow a lot more complex interaction with just 1 hand theoretically. i think that at least answers why you would want such a thing.
So, the takeaway from the article is: don't co-found with someone technical, hire/outsource them.
Well, I could say: good luck! You either get some half-assed solution or something ( if you oursource ) you don't even asked for, because they didn't understand your business requirements ( because of the language, distance, culture, etc).

Don't fall for this. Really, get yourself a technical co-founder. Amaze him. You can call him in the middle of the night, telling your new idea. Next day, he will already had done dissecting it and have a technical spec ready. Or any other crazy stuff that you want and he will say simply "No". You have no idea how useful is a "No" in a start-up. And so on, and so on...you get the picture.

PS. I am using a neutral "he" here.
I agree. I think the biggest consideration with this should be the potential opportunity cost (equity, control and the risk of future fall-outs) of taking on co-founders.

And in a similar vein to how I feel about bootstrapping vs external funding, I think if you can be a solo founder until V1, you can leverage that traction in taking on co-founders. That way your hands isn't forced and you don't necessarily have to sacrifice large amounts of equity.
There's much more stress on the first e in thesis than there is in antithesis.
...and I have successfully once again had a college accidentally click on a link by pointing at it on my screen.

Still, it's cute.
A couple of thoughts:

1) The jump between tabs is the opposite to the direction I'd expect to use. Why does moving my hand right swap one tab to the left? O_o

2) The 5 finger scroll thing is cute, but its frustrating to use, because the leap detects one finger before 5 fingers as your move your hand in. I keep accidentally clicking instead of scrolling. Be really nice to be able to turn clicking off.
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Maybe, we should have an international language reform to introduce a phonetic spelling system (WYSIWYHear) which would also lead to a somewhat standardized accent. The local ways of pronouncing words, can still continue in each region. There are probably many aesthetic considerations for this. But when two people across different regions speak, they can use this system.

This would require linguists to document the phonemes, and to find a minimal set of alterations of either the spelling or the pronounciation of a word so that you have a phonetic system. There are already variations in spelling (American/British English). This would be another variation which is phonetic.

Of course, even if this this work is done, it would still be yet another standard needing popular adoption. The phonemes would also be more in number than the current letters which means either using diacritic symbols (requiring change in keyboards, slower typing) or mapping a phoneme to multiple letters (longer spellings and possibly some ambiguity in detecting phoneme boundaries in spellings).
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> So a lesson from when I was young and stupid: If you make fake data, it's often advantageous to make it obviously fake data.

A second one: if you make fake data, it's aways advantageous to make it edge-case fake data. Your generator should break more or less every falsehood programmers believe about names[0]

[0] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
Apart from local file I/O, there's nothing in that horrible presentation that a modern browser can't do.

Good luck with the adoption of that thing.
My hypothesis is that anybody who writes an article entitled "20 Hot Female Web Designers That Will Take Your Breath Away" is missing an intuitive sense of what does and doesn't belong in a professional publication, and that anybody who instantly cringed at the title fortunately doesn't need your advice. Which I guess means I think that your post is basically correct, but redundant.
You mean you've never used your mouse/magicpad after eating a sandwich and gotten grease on it and had to annoyingly clean it up afterwards?

Sandwich time casual leap use is by far one of the best use cases I've seen for it, honestly.
I recommend seriously shortening the intro to the video, and showing the goods immediately.

Only really interested people on the web have the attention span to watch 30 seconds of uninformative intro.
I've done both and I can definitely attest that outsourcing the technical bits of your new startup is beyond tricky. It is however not impossible. The point here is that taking a technical co-founder onboard isn't your only option; it's totally possible for you to get to V1 (by outsourcing technical tasks), generate initial revenue and hiring a developer (with some equity) instead (as an example).
A very familiar scenario for me. As a solo non-technical founder I've so far build my startup using funding via Seedrs (crowd equity funding in the UK) and contractors in the UK and Russia. I got some decent VC interest, but they all say they will only invest if I have a technical co-founder. Hence, I go off spending 50% of my time looking for a co-founder. It's like deciding that within 2 months you need to find your life-partner and get married - similar level of commitment and just as difficult to find - but probably more expensive if you break up!

So I now have someone who I think is good lined up, I just need to persuade him to finally decide to join me now. But then I think - is it right to get a co-founder and give away loads of equity, just to satisfy some VCs? He seems like a really good guy, and I think I would like to work with him, but do I really need a co-founder or is it just for the VCs? The development has worked very well with my contractor so far, managed by myself. Why not just raise some more non-VC money (via Seedrs again) and continue this way?

Dilemma.
It's awkward to compare Italian and Mandarin to the state of English in the world. English is a language that was "exported" to America by the British Empire. It was also "exported" to Australia and many other former colonies. It's no surprise, really, that these people have difficulties understanding each other. While China and Italy inhabitants share common borders, native English speakers share only the relationship to their former colonizer.

There are other languages that suffer from the same problem. Brazilian Portuguese differs greatly from Portugal's, which is also different from East Timor's. I don't know much about Spanish and French but I assume the situation is analogous.

It's important to note that such differences between colonies and their colonizers were once a strong argument towards independence.
Solo founders are rare for a reason. If you just hire people to do a job, why would the most talented people work for you? Doesn't make much sense in most cases if the founder has not already a lot of capital. I would say increasing the odds of success is much more valuable than getting a higher payout in the success case (expected value = chance * payout).

On the other hand, it is hard to find the people who have very similar goals.
There is a common game to learn new words of a foreign language consisting of a set of cards with the word translated in your native language in the back, and the word translated in the target language in the front. You have to pick the cards you are not very sure, and remember the translation before flipping the card. At this point you can flip the card for confirmation.

I would love to have the same, but with the ability to play the sound of the word at the same time. Sounds like a simple program to write, probably it already exists.
If she's doing something she could be getting paid for bit she's not charging, then society definitely should not have to pick up the bill. That's just unfair.
Thanks, I'll try it for sure.
Down to the nitty-gritty of graph adjacency implementation
What's with leap motion and gorilla arm? lol
I continually don't understand this argument. Any group of armed and motivated people intending on taking down the government would be stopped, one way or another, before they can assemble a well-organised militia. The presence of guns might make you safer in a number of narrow scenarios but not against anything as large as a state-wide police force, let alone the US Army.
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I wasn't really interested and I liked the video. As long as it looks decent and isn't a powerpoint slide of stuff, I'm cool with it.
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Can you please shed more light on BBC World Service? Why the past tense? What radio would you suggest now as a general English background noise to occasionally learn vocabulary from?

Honestly I'd have to improve my spoken English a lot. It's not even comparable to my written skills. It feels like I have to learn the language all over again with my ears.
Talented people are also attracted to working on something they're passionate about and having the freedom to execute on that passion. :)

And not all businesses needs to be set up purely as a vehicle to an exit. Many businesses can instead operate as "lifestyle businesses" and earn great revenues / profits for years to come.
Getting yourself a technical co-founder is really, really difficult. It takes up a lot of time that is not business-building.

I was very lucky that the contractor I am working with is one of the best developers I have ever worked with. He really feels like part of the company, and knows the product inside out. Of course the weakness is that if I can't afford to pay him any more, there's nothing I can do with the site if I need to fix something etc.
1) We implement natural scrolling - so the direction is reversed just like how scrolling is reversed in osx :)

2) ah your finger must have been too close to the monitor, the color in the pointer is the indicator (blue: hovering, green: about to click)
They should seriously consider someone like pg. Someone with ideas.
Look HN, I understand that people disagree. That's the point of this site, right? If you don't like what I said, let's talk about it. Down voting opinions you don't agree with seems childish at best.