skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hindi and Urdu are two completely different languages. Hindi has more words from Sanskrit. Urdu borrows more words from Farsi (If I am not wrong) and due to political reasons covers some holes with words from English. I am a native Hindi speaker. I can understand 80-90% of Urdu but cannot appreciate Urdu poetry etc. To give an analogy its like African Elephant & Indian Elephant. Different species.
Pretty sure the reason that you didn't get into YC wasn't simply because of some binary metric like your previously going though an accelerator. Give them more credit than that and look deeper, regardless of what the email said.

-A fellow YC reject from a few years back
ANZ Innovyz START extends to Sydney
I use LastPass, thank you very much. My only complaint is that most other people don't, and I think browser vendors are partly to blame for not doing what they can to bring about a large-scale adoption of password generation & storage best practices.
This was interesting- I was surprised at how hard it was- I died most times before I got more than ten seconds into the game- but as a demo it's not bad!

One thing that perturbed me a little bit was the length of time I had to wait from going from windowed to fullscreen mode. However- my only experience I can compare it to is with a desktop application and Java so that's probably not fair.
How long did it take from the time you deposited the BTC to when you got the USD into your bank account?
You have a /8? Are you Xerox? General Electric? :)
We offer something similar for free. (One of our client deployments needed it, so we just made it free for everyone.)

https://www.dailycred.com/api/info.json

This returns the current requester's location, device, and language settings. Or you can just look for location for a specific ip like so:

https://www.dailycred.com/api/local.json?ip=67.188.232.131
I haven't tried the particular keyboard you referenced. But I went through a phase of building and testing such keyboards - mostly variants on Doug Engelbart's design. I could never get decent speed and some chords were harder on my fingers than a regular keyboard. The biggest problem is that with five fingers, the maximum number of chords is 31 before you have "slide" positions, i.e two or more keys to one finger / thumb.

Remembering codes for characters took a lot of time too.

Might be far easier to investigate exactly how and when the nerve pain arises. I used to have a massive issue with mice. Solved it by using a trackball under right hand and a mouse (with optical sensor for positioning disabled) under the left hand. So I wasn't moving the mouse and clicking at the same time. That was enough to overcome my RSI issue. I also currently use a MS Curve keyboard. It is what works best for me. Some of my colleagues use those weird MS ergonomic keyboards with split areas and funny looking wrist rests.
The feeling of being separated from someone you love and missing them deeply is pretty universal. I tear up every time I see the ad.
You should not judge about all Russians by those tourists.
Unfortunately, during last 20 years in Russia, being such scoundrel and scumbag, you have pretty high chance to earn good money. Even in Russia nobody likes these (very small number of) people and wants to travel to the resort where there are no "damned Russian tourists". :-)
This should not be controversial. Delivery and freight trucks and numerous other kinds of commercial vehicles get GPS monitored.

Police in cruisers are equipped with rifles, shotguns, one or more pistols, ammunition for all these firearms, plus a Taser, mace, etc. and it's NOT tracked?
I find this especially surreal because I live in Pasadena near San Marino and know most of the places he mentions. We may even have crossed paths. It's also virtually certain that we know at least one person in common, as I have a cousin who held various positions on "Roseanne", including head writer. Come to think of it, I once went to a taping of the show, so we may have crossed paths then, too. Wild. Glad he bounced back.
NYSE and Nasdaq Plan to Back Up One Another’s Data Streams
SpaceTop
My point is that if you try to create a socialist country, but end up with a dictatorship, then you have a dictatorship, not a socialist government. Let's call things by their real names instead of trying to associate secret police and paranoia with the terms "Socialism" and "Communism."
I was eleven when she died. I'm 23 now, however, speaking to my father about their marriage essentially confirms my view.
A lot of this hassle is interfacing with the US banking system, not bitcoin itself. If banking was implemented as a push system vs. the current pull system with no real authentication that we have in the US because of legacy reasons, it would eliminate entire categories of fraud.

I've heard Europe is significantly better in this regard.
This scam happens in the US too:

http://www.dailytech.com/Scam+Artists+Replace+iPad+2s+with+B...

And then there are the truly brilliant fools who tried to use ice:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/16/ice-box-ipad_n_3762...
Google seems to be the expert in heart-warming commercials. Remember their first super bowl ad? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ4unnMgiSQ
Thanks for sharing, not what I would have expected! Does it mean we should invest in Yahoo?
Have you met him? I haven't. I don't think we know enough about him, his situation, his wife, or his kids, to judge them for their actions.

I ordered the book on Amazon, and I'm sure it will be a good read from which I can learn a lot. At the end of it, I won't have to judge all the characters.
you can read some Thoreau, realize how free you really are

For me it's the opposite. Any time I'm set adrift, I feel trapped. Counter-intuitive, perhaps, but to me I feel like Jack of the Lantern, trapped in purgatory.
You're right, it's probably not JUST because of the pre-YC accelerator and the original post should be worded differently. I think however being in an accelerator pre-YC has some definite weight in the decision. Curious if anyone has any insight into this. The interview was going fantastic and all the partners seemed impressed by our traction and opportunity until they brought up the previous accelerator (which coincidentally turned out to be the last question before time was up)
If you aren't prepared for that, don't get married.

Have you been married to a mentally ill person? Probably not. Why so quick to judge? (And why the arbitrary exception for abuse or cheating?)
From the initial conversation between Baldev and Suman, it's clear that the sweet shop has been owned by Yusuf's family for several generations. Not sure how Suman knew it was the oldest though, unless Baldev told her that and the subtitles just didn't translate it.
Sorry to be unclear; the deleted parent wonders if loss of privacy for police is a yet another step in our surveillance state, to which I say, no-- it is a different class of interaction.

I support general monitoring/documentation of police interactions with the public.
Estonia seems very tech savvy
Right, so in other words, it doesn't help most users in any way, shape, or form. It's no replacement for AWS or Dropbox or anything of the sort. I'm not going to run it on my tablets. My kids aren't going to run it on their laptops.

Edit: Even the overview says "The providers automatically buy and sell capacity and coverage among themselves, transparently to the users." It's clear from the overview that it's meant as a way to achieve a better availability than a single company, not as some magical free P2P replacement.
Annoying popup ad after scrolling for a bit despite using AdBlock
Not amazing. Those subsidies have quite a logical nexus actually.

Most fruits and vegetables can't be stored or transported like grains - unless they are picked before being ripe & at peak nutrition.

Playing games on the supply side is a fool's errand. Incentives become unpredictable, if not counter-productive. Boost demand and incentives will work themselves out. Pay people to live healthy lives and they will drive the farmers to produce healthy foods. Put money on the behaviors you want to see more of - and you will see it. Pay to encourage price stability (farm subsidies) and you'll see price fixing. Pay people who get and stay fit and they will drive the markets to healthier plateaus.

Year-round fresh fruits & vegetables for 300M people can not be grown in the US. You can't subsidize farmers enough for them to make the sun shine longer and breed apples with a 6 month shelf life. You also ought to consider the global effects of shipping fresh food a few thousand miles or more, not to mention the human costs of raising and harvesting all those tasty luxuries.

Grains (and other starches) are stable, travel well (though they can grow closer to everywhere), and can provide an adequate base of energy and fiber within a diet tailored to a healthy individual.

If you want economic incentives done better, tax the fat and transfer it to the fit.
I have been thought all the serialization formats such as Protobuf, Thrift, BSON, or MessagePack are using compression as much as possible because saving amount of I/O is ultimate win for overall performance rather than fast calculation by memory alignment.

When I see this Capnproto, I am confusing that which one is right approach. Alignment is not exotic technique, and why didn't they align the data if there's no reason to save I/O?

Or am I totally misunderstanding these implementations?
Sure, but Mr. Clinton also knows how to get people to stand up and take notice.

You can probably get by on just doing what you love, but the chances of you landing the job that you really love are greatly increased if you make it easy for people to see how much of an asset you really can be.
Slightly off-topic, but I don't understand how a deflationary currency could be practical. Why would you ever spend it, except begrudgingly, if whatever you buy will be worth less tomorrow (thinking exclusively "in bitcoin," without regard to other currencies)? This is a question, not a criticism.
Women want to be beautiful
what corrections has the free market made to prevent there isn't another one?

What does the free market care about bubbles? We've seen time and time again that the free market optimizes for "this quarter", not "this decade". If it means a crash a year from now, so what, let's just be sure to enjoy the ride and try to skim what we can before it hits!
Totally agreed with you. Accepting the problem is the first step to fixing it. Simply denying will lead no where.
Talk about autopilot... I didn't even realize I closed a popup until I read this :-/ .
Groovy isn't just a language that runs on the JVM, it is a super set of Java.
Valid Java is valid Groovy, so if you want to convert an existing project from
Java to Groovy you just have to change the build scripts, and change .java to .groovy.
Intermingling Java and Groovy classes feels natural because their syntax's are so similar.
The romanized form "Saumfa" is also shown in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYVoM8tgbvA#t=0m26s .
Mine was about 12 miles away from my actual location.
It depends on your ISP, as well as your location.

I'm in a rural area, whereas you are most likely in a more metropolitan location.
> Also, this is probably the last thing that comes to mind about Russians in general. For the most part, they are notoriously individualistic.

You understand "individualistic" in some specific (probably american) way. Russians may look individualistic if you don't know them well, but actually in Russia close friends and family means much more then in US.
Give poor people money to buy food, they will likely optimize in fat+ ways. Pay people to be healthy. The needy can be healthy. Put a floor under everyone and then progressively incentivize health.
Apples to Oranges, really.
Why would you spend your USD if you can convert it to BTC instead and it will be worth more tomorrow?
I prefer adding some loopback addresses in `/etc/hosts`.
This is Groovy's biggest advantage, but it is often left out of discussions.
I'd rather Bitcoin take a close look at the senate.
Show HN: #Hashtag #all #your #texts
Holding and potentially more buying. I'll sell when I feel its a good time to sell.
Xbox One controller cost over $100M to develop
Last time I crunched the numbers, $1M will provide security but probably not indefinitely sustainable income. If you manage 6-7% in the stock market, that's $60-70k/year, but 6-7% is the decade-over-decade average. Any one given year can be 1% (or even negative).

$10M on the other hand provides solidly middle-class income even in years of terrible market performance.
Citation is classy http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/ca4bl/time_to_ge...

Hope that's you u/tadallagash.
> Can't you make up your mind on your own based on information

The problem with this is multi-fold:

Do you know what good information looks like, or are you going to be fed crap from a circle-jerk of sources which all repeat the same lies? This is a bootstrapping problem, ultimately: How do you know where to get the first info you use to tell crap from good information?

Experts largely agree with each other in most mature fields. This is part of what it means for a field to be mature. The problem is, a lot of the liars and scammers agree with each other as well, or at least the ones all selling the same scams do. How do you tell the difference?

Since I don't have time to become a Ph.D. in biology, medicine, or an allied field, I have to trust the experts. Nobody has time to be an expert in everything.

Also, 'make up your own mind' is predicated on the idea that you are making up your own mind, as opposed to baby-duck-like imprinting on someone who makes good-looking videos and can string words. The people who follow Alex Jones think they're thinking for themselves, too. Following a body of knowledge as opposed to a single charismatic guru is a hedge against this baby-duck effect.

And:

> without the need to appeal to expert consensus (which might as well be bogus and profit-driven?)

How do you know Lustig isn't bogus and ego-driven?
Apples to oranges to pomegranates, more like it. Why pick these three things in particular to compare?
Browser timers viewed in a heatmap
Like mother, like daughter?
16-year-old Chinese 'rumor monger' expelled from middle school
Really shows how our minds are slightly warped by reading all these tech sites.
>bitcoin discplaced by another cryptocurrency

Like what? Will the other currencies ever catch up with BTC? What's the probability of this happening? Wouldn't BTC just become the standard, given it's acceptance?
Maybe it's cynical to say that words are cheap, but do you contest it is not true?
Home and vehicles were paid off; my wife is frugal and we live in a low-cost area. It would've supplemented her income from her mid-20's until retirement.

Also, getting a $10MM policy is a lot more difficult than a $1MM policy.
Yeah right, he was the mastermind behind the bloody Kargil war. He is a nutcase like all the other Pak Army/ISI agents who dream about the demise of India, no matter if they burn their homeland to ashes in the process.
Let's Study For Google
In less than a week, I face technical interview #1 (phone interview #2) with the big G-man who sought me out and decided I was cool or something. So I thought it would be cool to make my study and practice a community thing. Even if I don't get with them, my hope is that we increase our collective skill levels either by better practices or better understanding of Computer Science in general.
Not sure if this is representative of "mindshare". Tumblr is a web platform, no doubt you'll get millions of typeins just because people are too lazy to type in the .com in the address.

Snapchat is a mobile platform, there's no real reason to Google "snapchat". Even if you wanted to download it you'd go directly to your app store.
I think it's important to keep this in context, especially for Snapchat. Snapchat is an app. Their website contains almost nothing. I bet a VERY small percentage of people who use Snapchat have ever seen their website, much less google'd the term.
I've been using http://freegeoip.net/

It's not perfect, but it seems to be good enough for my purposes.

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$ch = curl_init();
// set url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "freegeoip.net/csv/" . $ip);
//return the transfer as a string
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// $output contains the output string
$ip = curl_exec($ch);
// close curl resource to free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
$array = explode(',', $ip);
BTW the Steve Dunn who writes the prefatory note created the cancerguide.org site, a dense reference to cancer studies and treatments. He too had cancer and died in 2005 (from bacterial meningitis)

http://www.cancerguide.org/index.html
Ah, yes. It's just that I'd expect Ali to search for "fennel in urdu", which does show the same word in Nastaliq.
All of the above. Because it's easy to read, it's easy to learn. I think python has nearly perfect syntax. Not sure why more others don't mimic it. Tab/ws instead of braces makes the code prettier and accomplishes what curly braces do.
I still believe that the perfect language will look like python but run like c. We have the language, but not the implementation.
Yeah.

When I realized it was changing the number in the URL.... "Uh oh..."
yes but it said saunf in Roman below the huge Devanagari :)
he had to search in hindi because they were in India and maybe saunf is called something else there.
Yes - you would be atypical. I'm guessing that 99% of Dropbox Users have < 5GB of free space based on my rather geeky attempts at adding free space to my account and eventually ending up with 1.51 GB free space in addition to the initial 2 GB.
Neither Bitcoin nor Snapchat does host content, why would I search for it more than once?

Whereas "tumblr cats", "tumblr article that I've read last week", etc are much more viable.
Using hosts file for speed and security
Web History can get you around the vagueness part. It has more that once helped me recall something along the lines of "What was that search result 3 items down from last week.."

https://history.google.com/history/

I know quite a few people have this turned off due to some perceived "creepy" factor, but personally I cannot recommend it enough.
At last, JLR will design, build own engines
We have a much higher threshold for startups that have already been through an "accelerator" program. Mainly because we expect them to have thereby been accelerated; if they're not doing well, we worry they might be unacceleratable. It's also a problem that such startups will be twice as diluted at Demo Day, which decreases their fundraising options.

I can think of two startups we've funded that had been through things calling themselves "accelerators" before YC.
Amazon has built a logistics machine that could entirely replace brick and mortar retail, books as we know it (ebooks), and so on.

Dropbox stores files. On Amazon, by the way.
The problem is that the people in the know don't browse the forums where people need to know! [1]

What do we do about bugs that sit there for a very long time? They're clearly not good for the developers or the community at large.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712687
Indeed, that statement only makes sense in a world that is maximally accepting, tolerant, forgiving, and fair-minded.

That is not our world, not by a long shot.
I would think geolocation would only get better as more people go mobile and their IP address (wifi or 3G) gets pinned to gps coordinates using location aware apps.

Think about how much info google, apple, and others can collect with this, and build a database to sell.
> Pretty sure Mr. Clinton didn't become a president so he could charge the the hourly rate mentioned.

No, but he promoted the hell out of himself to get the job.

A great political mind with no self-promotion does not become President.
All perfectly true, and I agree that $1M is more that sufficient as supplemental income.

Edit: You were 30 and you owned your home free-and-clear? Good show!
> I use Reddit search more when I'm doing exploratory searching hoping to land on a site I've never been before, because it serves me already vetted/reviewed sites.

In a somewhat similar way, I get a lot of good mileage out of hnsearch when investigating different technologies that I am new to.
Ignoring for a second the subject matter, I think it's fantastic to see network analysis used in a (non-academic) major publication.

It is about time the insights that can give are made available to a wider audience.

I'd love to see the techniques Bret Victor uses in his "Ladder of Abstraction"[1] essay applied here especially if they were combined with the beauty of the NY Times "Snowfall" visualisations[2].

Anyway, well done Washington Post!

[1] http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne...
The British government-run police is perfectly capable of bungling things up occasionally on their own.
I've been watching bitcoin since $10 or so, and always thought that I should buy some. At $30, I thought it was too late, but when it went to $250, I resolved to buy more if it crashed. It did, and I bought five at $80, just to get my toes wet. I planned on buying more if it ever dropped that low again, but of course, it never did, or hasn't yet... I just sold one this morning to cover my initial investment. The 4 I have left are all profit, and I'm gonna let them ride.
Also available at http://viewdns.info/iplocation/. There's an API as well http://viewdns.info/api/.
You don't get thrown in jail for just trying to get a refund. How did it escalate to that level?

How did the iPad get registered in HIS NAME?

This story just doesn't make sense.
I wouldn't call PCManFM a "good" file manager. It's one of the consistently buggiest pieces of software I've used. Not major show stopping bugs, just a constant stream of minor problems every day with the occasional crash every few weeks.
I fully agree with you.

I am a senior in a computer science program.

I know a lot of people in the department who I have seen tweaking their resumes and their linkedin pages for hours, and thinking of creative ways to inflate/BS their skills during interviews. They are always trying to contact friends for a "hook up" with some company.

Something about this has always weirded me out. I don't have a linkedin, my resume is fairly plain and unexaggerated. I spend my time hobby coding and occasionally posting about my hobby coding on my personal website that, to my knowledge, is only linked to from my HN profile and my StackOverflow profile. I always figured that if I spent time actually developing my skills, rather than spending time thinking of ways to try to take shortcuts around developing skills, things would turn out better in the long run.

I am the only one of us with a 6 figure job lined up after graduation (without applying, too).
Are you subscribed to map box? It's fast no doubt, but why you didn't move to free alternatives to reduce cost?
This only returns the city name along with the latLng for it. You probably live close to the center of the city (or downtown)
Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback
It's amazing how an overall positive hearing (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6756968) lasting several hours with nuanced testimony can get shot down by this third rate news agency. This article reads as if the author didn't even watch the testimony, and would rather grab headlines with SEO-friendly newswords like "criminals" "child porn" and "assassins" -- because bitcoin is obviously great for hiring assassins after one guy did it and was caught. I'm worried there are people who will get their primary summary of today's hearing from this trash.
The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2013 is… Selfie