skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's easy - your culture.

"As languages disappear, cultures die. The world becomes inherently a less interesting place, but we also sacrifice raw knowledge and the intellectual achievements of millennia."

Ken Hale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, quoted in Davis, W. 1999.

Language and your cultural identity are very tightly coupled. Without language you essentially lose your identity, which is why its crucial to preserve your language. It's one of your primary identifiers of you and your culture. Wenying Jiang stated it quite well in her paper, "The Relationship Between Culture and Language" when she says your culture is like an iceberg. Your language is the tip which sits above the water. The rest which sits under the water is the rest of your culture. Your customs, your religions, your societal norms.

Link to her paper which is worth a read: http://203.72.145.166/ELT/files/54-4-3.pdf

Also consider the following:

"With the loss of the languages, all kinds of wonderful things that the speakers did with their languages have also vanished, for example, some of the greatest works of oral literature ever produced–the multilingual performances with different characters speaking different languages that was found in the Pacific Northwest.

The highly elaborate dances that accompanied the oral tradition are frequently also gone.

Large amounts of local knowledge about fauna and flora, ecosystem management, local place names, spiritual values, and so on are all submerged, altered or gone because the original languages that expressed these concepts are gone or no longer well understood."

source: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2009/11/15/0005_nati...
While TSA are examining my shoes and scanning my bum, they let through without fanfare my carry-on device: a solid brick of chemicals surrounded by advanced electronics including a radio receiver.

Seriously, I'm no bomb expert but wouldn't laptops still be the most fruitful terrorist attack vector? Mine laptop is 6 lbs and has never been given a second glance.
So the NSA problem is already solved?
I never understood why people bother with such tiny amounts of money.

1) It's the amount you can borrow from your family most of the time. Or just make it working in IT and saving like mad.

2) It's barely useful. $150K is not enough to hire even one great developer for a year.
Why does it matter if it's "open" or not? Stop trying to break other people's stuff already. We all want things our own way, so why not respect other people's ways as well.
As far as I know, PISA tries to test for understanding, not things like memorizing the periodic table. The reading test is specially aimed at this--do these children actually understand the meaning of what they just read. These kinds of skills have huge impact on democratic (or would be democratic) societies. You know, do people actually understand what the press is writing, what the politicians are saying, etc.
It's my understanding that the language you speaks has only a small effect on your outlook. The gist behind the Sapir Whorf hypothesis was that the number of concepts you could grasp was limited by the language you spoke. But I don't think most linguists seriously believe this anymore. Research has shown language to influence our outlooks in limited ways, and even those findings are suspect, since some of the differences can be explained by cultural differences.

A good overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
A bit OT, but this is the first time I've heard about Hacker School. Is it as awesome as it sounds? If I wanted to join, how much money would I need to stay in New York for 3 months?
We have a prototype and a couple of customers and still think this is a good deal. It would let us go from pure bootstrap mode (chasing money in any form) to longer-term thinking.
Ah ah ;-) I love HN.

I'm not sleeping enough and have 10 children ;-)

All our startups are discussing with me by email all day. Not sure will be able to answer to everyone when we will have 800 startups but for the moment, that's ok because working exclusively by email.

We are not board member but are here to help all the time not only during boards ;-)
Hi, I'm interested in learning more about your project. If you're interested, please reach out to me via the email address in my profile.
Ok sure, let me elaborate. Will you have an API where I'll be able to send a request with a gif and an address to send it to, similar to lob?
Turntable.fm is gone :(
If you want to use angular and phonegap, I create grunt tasks that you can use with the angular generator for yeoman : https://github.com/dsimard/grunt-angular-phonegap
I just saw one being put up in Rosemont, Illinois last week

That thing was huge.
Social Hacker? Grouper is hiring Rubyists
Hey HN,
We're looking for social hackers to join our engineering team.

Who are we?

We're a tiny team working to engineer the perfect night out with friends. What goes into that? So far we've built matching algorithms, an extensive A/B testing framework, customer service AI, and a backbone-based collaborative email/sms client that's better than Gmail.

A few months ago, we shipped an iOS app that’s like Uber for your night out.

Then we open sourced the framework we used for it:
https://github.com/Grouper/FlatUIKit

Who are you?

You're a world-class developer with a track record of shipping excellent products. You're comfortable hosting a brown bag tech talk. You're a fearless explorer - If there's something you don't know how to do, you'll figure out the lowest cost path to understanding it.

I'd love to chat, just email me at tom@joingrouper.com

You can learn more at http://joingrouper.com/jobs

Cheers,
-Tom
Your main point appears to be sharing code on the client and server side. Scala.js has reached 0.1 and is quite decent [1]. Personally, the only code I find worth sharing is validation code and template rendering code. As for "maintainability", I find it is much lower in node.js and JS projects in general. Each has its own structure and is scary to refactor (unless you're a TypeScripter or something). I don't believe it's fair to use those two points to say it "demolishes" Scala/Play. Also, some webapps do real work per request (not just routing IO), and even though it is very quick (i.e. not worth farming out to a resque-like job engine or a web-worker in node), the fact that it blocks the node process scares me as well.

1 - http://www.scala-lang.org/news/2013/11/29/announcing-scala-j...
Valve is making their own distribution.
> Is it as awesome as it sounds?

Yes.

> How much money would I need to stay in New York for 3 months?

About $1000/month for rent, give or take, and $112 for a metrocard. Plus whatever you spend on food (depends how much you cook) and entertainment.
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See my comment below.

Studies show that beyond a certain surprisingly-low point, wealth doesn't add much to happiness.

Additionally, as I say below, I think approaching wealth from a position of strength ("fuck you, wealth, I don't need you.") ends up making it (and even more so, it's final cause, freedom) more likely.
You can still have your power company refuse service to potential competitors, or block their trucks from using your toll roads.
A gasoline tanker and bomb would make a fire. As with any other vehicles on the road, they crash and catch fire on a regular basis without taking down sky scrapers.

Hollywood representations of what gas tanks do when ruptured are inaccurate.
I want to see more shots of the actual prints though, I only saw one in the video, be good to get a better idea of the quality of the print and the motion.
Leaked Uber revenue
I guess it sucks that 'datamedia' is trademarked :-)

I think this article is worth reading if only to point a light in a direction that has clearly seeing some major change. I ran into it trying to explain was priceonomics was but that is the tip of what is possibly a more significant trend.
AirBnb & Dropbox were very risky projects like any other projects in this planet. There are many hidden awesome companies on this planet and we are targetting this one.

I'm sure we will invest in a future AirBnb or Dropbox. We just need a little time ;-)
Well... I think this poll would be better with granularity of versions... ie: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii and Wii U.

I love my XBox 360, but will be moving over to the PS4 as my next gen primary. Loved the Wii but the Wii U has yet to really prove itself in capturing my gaming activity.

Just say'n...
The dogs were probably helping the shepherd, not part of the flock as per the problem statement.
On the one hand, I'm very much inclined to agree with you.

On the other hand, I'm a monolingual English-speaker. I personally gain much and lose nothing in this scenario, I have no real conception of what it feels like for the hundreds of millions of people who do speak minority languages; so I'm not sure I'm qualified to judge.
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I don't see it being specifically limited to software startups. Some startup with a physical product/service might find this useful to finance inventory/growth. The terms don't sound so bad when you look at it from that perspective
"With YC, it's a very long process as it roughly takes 4 months from applying to money in the bank."

That's not true. Startups get the initial $18k + $80k on acceptance.
It's easier to manage and have a mental picture of where something is likely to go wrong on a smaller project. Once your project gets to a certain size then it's nice when the compiler tells you ahead of time that you've screwed up.

Because you will screw up.
I was talking about the marginal work product for that one day of work. We have to remind managers that developers are not cogs that can be slid in and out of a machine, and that's true.
A lot of the calculations (including the ability to use Bayes law) is common to Frequentists and Bayesians.

Efron says the difference is Frequentists assume the quantity to be modeled is unknown but has a single fixed value (so you can't make probability statements about it) and the measurements have some possible variability. Bayesians model the unknown with an explicit prior distribution for the unknown quantity to be inferred and assume the measurements are fixed. So each school means something different when they state a probability (Frequentist variation over data draws, Bayesian variation over the unknown to be measured).

Gelman defines Bayesian methods as the proper setting up of a generative model and computing joint probabilities of parameters and data. In his view Frequentist don't compute joint probabilities but at best conditional probabilities (which assume out modeling likely values for the unknown quantity to be inferred).

The joke of the comment is: both sides tend to snipe on the other (as neither framework looks good if you assume the other).

My partner has a nice article on the topic: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2013/05/bayesian-and-frequent...
No, but nice try!
Oups, for your second question.

Kima15 is not dedicated to fund prototype only. Some companies with V1 are also great targets for it. All the projects we received since the launch 3 hours ago are all startups with a real product.

If the startup is at a later stage, we will be happy to check it through Kima Ventures. It can take just a little longer.
I've been working on LLJS and the current version (which targets asm.js) doesn't implement dynamic allocation yet. I've been making all kinds of demos without malloc and it has been surprisingly fun!
Considering how much memory modern machines have, and considering she is running no other programs, I would be so tempted to write malloc like this just for grins:

int malloc() {
return rand() % TOTAL_MEMORY;
}
Comparing Robotics to Atari development is like comparing Computers to Atari development. It is the comparison of an idea and the application of an idea. You might be right about trendiness of robotics applications, but to throw the whole idea out with it is foolish.
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You have to tell it where to go. Presumably from something similar to a search interface. That will absolutely have some recommendations on it.
Awesome idea at a pretty reasonable price. Regarding the video... they might want to invest in some acting lessons haha.
This is such an odd argument. As a developer that likes to produce usable products, 'easy' is something I'm always looking for. Why not? Just because something is 'easy' doesn't mean it's inadequate. It all depends on what you're building.

Also, your misguided rant against node and npm rather hurts your credibility. Your argument was at least ok up until that point.
I thought it was perfectly clear when I read it. If you are already at a later stage or want more money or a different valuation, this other part of the company is still into normal VC stuff. However, if we invest in you in this program we will not do another later investment to avoid signaling issues.
Using example of NBA doesn't really work imo because of the skewed statistics. No one is saying high school students shouldn’t study because only a very small percentage will ultimately earn PhDs. That's not what the OP and my comment is about.

What handwaving? An entire generation S Koreans in 1950 - 80 basically 'studied' their way out of extreme poverty. They have no oil or any other useful natural resource to speak of.

Obviously studying hard in school wasn't the only reason as they got a few other lucky breaks, but ultimately it was the education that got them out of poverty.
We don't need to preserve languages per se. We need to record them before they disappear so that linguists, historians, and archaeologists will be able to decipher the written records of disappearing cultures.
Tap Log looks awesome, has data features I wish EN had, but Android only AFAICT.
Weird that India did not participate.
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Welcome to LifeHacker. SV insiders know it for a long time. Why do u think you see so many posts about dropbox and evernote in Lifehacker. Go Figure.
When (Money In From People Who Aren't Assholes) / (Money Out) > 1... bam, freedom.

While you work on the numerator, there's also a denominator there you can work on without actually hurting your happiness too much, it turns out.
Well that explains it. Thanks.
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This happened before the internet with Arabic numerals.

There was a time when each culture had their own method for transcribing numbers. (My favorite is Egyptian Numerals that denoted 10,000 with a drawing of a bent finger.)

Today, I imagine (but I'm not sure) that I can travel almost anywhere in the world and the number 123 would mean the exact same thing. And that seems to be a good thing.
A Short Checklist for Avoiding Mediocrity in the Gamefication of Loyalty
One fundamental problem is massive underemployment. Another is a failing educational system in bubble mode means no one on the planet pays more while getting less. Another problem (related to #2) is the monetary costs of the failing educational system are financially crippling our youth and the guaranteed loans that will never be paid back will financially cripple everyone else.

So your solution is individuals who are headed for a cliff, should step on the gas and to fling over it faster. After all, if it doesn't work, keep trying it over and over until it does. And I'm the inhumane one LOL.

I will say if a system is inevitably crashing, then its best to accelerate the process so as to reach the recovery quicker. The sooner we have a big crash, the sooner we can pick up the pieces and start living again. So in that way you are correct, the best thing kids can do "for everyone" is financially immolate themselves, because in the long run that'll bring on the crash (and hopefully, recovery) quicker. If that is your analysis then by its conditions, I admit you are correct, under those specific conditions, although I'd hate to be one of the individuals being crushed for the betterment of everyone else.
True. I never complain to wait staff. No matter what comes out, I just eat quietly and leave after paying for food and tips.
Now if only my wife would just do the same...
As others have mentioned, the air increases in speed because of the Bernoulli principle: the decreased cross-section increases the dynamic pressure. However, most of the power will be lost in friction, during the "channeling" part -- and the increase in speed will not make up for that loss.

The friction is relatively high because the flow is turbulent, not laminar. The friction factor can be calculated with the Colebrook equation, implicitly; if they did the calculation they would realize that the distance between the intake and the turbine is a mistake (especially the height difference, which doesn't make sense for atmospheric flow).

It would be better to use natural land features that create the kind of flow you need, such as mountains. Look at the figures here for inspiration:

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0469%281973...
Exactly. We use github enterprise. Our normal workflow prevents this problem, but shit happens.
I always heard it as McDonalds is a soda company that happens to sell burgers. They break even on the food but bank 90%+ profits on the beverages. The real estate angle makes sense on a longer timeline.
Just because Google has the data doesn't mean all humans do.
I used to use Evernote obsessively. In college, all of my hand-written notes would get scanned in right after class using a document-feeder scanner. It's hard to put into words how mind-blowingly cool it was to scan a piece of handwritten paper and be able to pull it up by searching for its OCR'd text contents a minute later from my iPad.

Over time, I got frustrated with how slow, bloated, and un-native-feeling their client apps were on every single platform I used. I switched to storing everything as Markdown documents in Dropbox (with a few other web services for some of the more niche uses I had for Evernote), and I've been much much happier ever since.
Actually the correct answer is the shepherd was previously an investment banker who is now going through a mid-life crisis. He's only been a shepherd for 3 weeks and he bought the entire flock as is.

He's 52.
Don't you see, you're only helping the TERRORISTS by pointing that out. :)

Anyway, in that case, they'd have to remember to buy one of these first, then: http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Elf-1000-30-Pin-Receiver/dp/B0035Y...
> However, the fact that they just threw up their hands and declared that the problem is insolvable shows that our school system is failing the next generation of entrepreneurs.

No, that would've been a great outcome in comparison. Instead, they attempted to answer it using only the information provided, showing a complete lack of reasoning skills.
Grade inflation stepped up a notch during the Vietnam War, when professions were reluctant to fail students out of college an into the draft. Now it's done to protect a college's graduation rate, which affects rankings.

Elite Ivy League institutions admit bright, motivated high school graduates and produce bright, motivated college graduates. The institution's value add is mainly networking and branding--kind of like YC.
On one hand, having a variety of languages makes the world diverse, more interesting and perhaps even encourages different ways of thinking. On the other hand, the high cost of communicating with multiple languages makes sharing thoughts and ideas harder, and perhaps even hinders our productivity and advancement as a whole. It's a tough call, but I vote for unification. In the name of advancement of humanity, we shall sacrifice diversity!
My thoughts exactly. Just save, bootstrap, launch and raise a large Series-A round. $150K for most companies is still not enough.
Using multiple devices like a computer, tablet, phone in Evernote and getting duplicate "conflicting change" notes is maddening. You then have to search out within the note that you appended to what you added then delete the duplicate note. This is a real pain when your note is longer than a screen and you have to search out exactly what information was changed.

In a perfect world you should remember what was changed, but isn't offloading information from your brain what Evernote is for? They need to sort syncing out or at least give the option to show only what information was changed. I'm about to go back to Simplenote's seamless syncing and save the money I'm giving Evernote for something that's becoming increasingly kludgy.

Accessing a note in IOS is also super slow then trying to append to a note can turn into a moment of wanting to chuck the phone out the window.
It's not unreasonable to assume that founders receiving Kima15 funding also go on to raise a sizable equity round later. I think the offers can be simplified by saying YC is ($18k + YC program) for 7%, and Kima15 is ($150k + Kima15 network) for 15%.

That means the YC program needs to be worth $52k more than the Kima15 network/brand for the lower valuation to make sense. I wouldn't be surprised if it is, but we'd really need stats on the subsequent funding rounds of Kima15 companies to compare them in this way.
Here [1] is a wonderful (rather long) essay on whether balrogs have wings in Tolkien's books, or not. The point of the essay is that if your prior belief is that balrogs have/don't have wings, it's very easy to interpret the evidence (whatever Tolkien wrote concerning balrogs) in a light that supports your original stand.

So in the same manner, if you don't consider the fix trivial, then everything else Ben did afterwards, seems quite suspicious really. Or if you do consider the fix trivial, then everything than ensued, seems seriously out of proportion.

[1] http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/b/balrogs.html under ‘...And Whether Balrogs Have Wings’
So a 4.0 at Harvard is equivalent to a 2.0 at a community college. Niiiiice!
Hm, ok maybe I was being a little harsh. Yes no one deserves to be stuck in poverty. But if there is a will, there is a way.
If you don't want to use malloc in a kernel, that is fine. However, you should at least consider having something similar. This can be as simple as finding the available memory in your system and writing a frame or slab allocator. It will make your life much easier. It would be interesting to see how easy it is to integrate your memory manager directly with the rust language.
I didn't feel like this post was very clear, but I do (think?) it pointed out some important ideas. Data as the fodder that a community uses to discuss and dissect its area of focus is going to be a high growth area. It provides an almost endless stream of content and information that can be used by the community.
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The book Modern Compiler Implementation in C has a very functional style, written in 1997
I agree. The authors of Genesis 11:1-9 even describe the world's languages as a _punishment_ by God(!):

"""5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth."""