skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! Japan never ceases to amaze me.

Would be interesting if the 3d hologram can be controlled by a human in real time.

Although that would probably suck for the self-esteem "I'm not good enough, they put a fake anime hologram in my place".
23andMe is definitely looking for top-notch engineers. They're still running small (5 engineers 3 years in), so if you want to have a big impact on a potentially world-changing product, get in touch with them.
I haven't been active with Java for more than 5 years, and I haven't been active in the ASF for longer than that so I may be missing some of the nuance here, but isn't it possible maybe even probable that this is simply the point where Java and/or the Java VM "forks" into Oracle's proprietary version (likely to die on the vine) and one of more versions from some combination of IBM, Apache, RedHat, Eclipse, etc.

It seems like there are a large number of Java developers, a large number of organizations heavily invested in the Java stack, and a number of vendors with both the capacity and potentially the motivation to serve those organizations.

I find it hard to imagine that if developers and organizations abandon Oracle's Java in droves that no one will make an effort to fill that void. (And fill it with something more "Java-like" than not, at least at the start.)
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"automagically", "I just hit tab"

You and Understanding are not exactly on speaking terms, are you?
It has FFI, so you can call other libs as long as they are C-compatible.
Fully voiced by the computer.
Think of a midi keyboard that also has a 'syllable' component for each note: So for example you make her sing the syllable 'Ka' in middle C.
There are also a dozen or so other knobs that control how it is sung at that particular point in time.
I'd like to use fluid more but unfortunately for us I don't think it would ever work because my boss is too anal over appearance. It's hard not use absolute heights and widths with the designs he comes up with. I think 1140 to 960 fluid would be great thing to try though. Still gotta optimize for 960px so you look good on tablets and other smaller screens. I think trying to be fluid below 960px is just stupid. Right now mobile sites need to be fast and efficient and you can't speed things up enough by just changing your CSS, the underlying HTML must also be compact.
It used to be the case that apps could only store your data for 24 hours, but we removed this restriction in the last f8 conference.

You can definitely export all your photos into SomeApp.com using the graph API and they can store your photos indefinitely. These APIs are documented at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api.
This premise is flawed because the App Store doesn't make much money: that service is provided in order to make the hardware they sell more profitable. Meanwhile, the people who pirate are quite unlikely to actually buy it. Trust me: if Apple cared even $10,000 a year about piracy (one engineer for a month) it would be very easy for them to keep on top of the people who are doing it.
+1 on the car co-op vs. car ownership thing.

Home ownership is less clear-cut since homes tend to preserve their value well (not as well as we've thought, though!), so it's realistic to leave something of substantial value behind.

Cars though, cars are 100% consumable. There's not a lick of persistent value behind them. Personally, I'm avoiding the car ownership pitfall for as long as humanly possible, but in this country that's not indefinitely.

It's a gigantic money sink - one that most people I grew up with don't even realize, since they bought their cars along with their first jobs. They've never done a budget without their car being in the mix, to them this $1K+ per month expenditure is perfectly normal and unavoidable. A necessity of life.
It would be the biggest news story in the world right now if another country launched an ICBM 35 miles off our coast.
Google apparently has a system in place for enabling this truest form of employee engagement:

Google has set up an environment that makes it pretty easy for people to transfer between groups, and even between sites. You have to be a grown-up about it, of course, and not ditch your team during some critical crunch time. But provided you exercise mature judgment in the matter, you can pretty much switch teams whenever you want, and it doesn't cause the company to grind to a halt, as such a policy would at other places I've worked or visited.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html
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Based on reviews such as Ars Technica's[1], I'd say that the Air could be used as a primary machine provided you are happy with the modest CPU and willing to upgrade the RAM from 2GB to 4GB.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/11/the-future-of-n...
Entirely computers. Hatsune Miku and similar software are basically voice synthesizers geared towards music, as I understand it, not hugely unlike other text-to-speech programs but with more control of pitch, tone, and so forth.

Also, as far as making artificial intelligences compose and perform, it might be interesting to hook up Hatsune Miku to a Markov chain generator[1], and feed it a bunch of j-pop as input. Would probably take some fine-tuning and modification to get it to give output that the synthesizer would understand (as it would be dealing with both words and notes), but it's not too far fetched.

[1] Which isn't an AI by any means, being more of way of generating text based on statistical correlations between words in the input body of data, but it comes up with some rather interesting things.
The first reason is that in the app stores, you can get paid :)

Second would be that PhoneGap exposes some functionality you can't get at with a standard web app (some hardware sensors, contact data, etc.).

Third would be exposure. Most folks are now familiar with shopping for apps in the app store. While you can accomplish the same thing by visiting a website and "adding to home screen" or whatever, the "workflow" isn't as well known.
I absolutely agree with the satisfaction of repairing something yourself. In fact, I think even having the choice of either repairing it myself or hiring someone I deem competent to repair it is a worthwhile difference.

When I was an apartment dweller, I signed a 1 year contract and they kept telling me that if anything breaks call them. That included windows, pipes, stoves, refrigerators, and light bulbs. I wasn't even supposed to change a light bulb if it burned out on me. Admittedly this is only one experience with what I hope was a very poor renting operation, but they owned all the buildings in the vicinity.

I was so happy when I replaced my kitchen sink faucet on my own and in a way that satisfied what I wanted.
Simply telling people about your product isn't enough. You have to do it properly. If you are making people mad, it doesn't matter how many you tell. If you are actively drawing their attention, everything's golden.

I think it's important to note that when people say 'make your own luck', they mean work hard and good things will happen. Not really luck.

You can, however, increase the chances that something lucky will happen by doing more things the right way. ('Luck' being good things that happen to you that weren't in your control.)

People who volunteer often meet other people who can help them with their own projects. People who schmooze clients often find those clients have additional needs, or have friends that have needs. You don't -really- have control over those things, but you've increased the likelihood of them happening.
The advice at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-lucky-its-a... is even more useful if you want to learn to be lucky.

In fact I'll submit it.
- embeddable inside your application

- modest resource requirements

- runs on everything (embedded, game consoles, etc.)

- has a JIT compiler that is way better than any Ruby/JS/Python JIT (and in fact in many cases better than a good Java compiler).

- Simple and regular syntax

- Vibrant and helpful community.

It's not the right choice for web development, because that's not where its echosystem is (although you can do that if you want). Other than that, the only drawback I can think of is that arrays start at 1 rather than 0.
Your logic is sound, but my observation in reality does not match.

There are slumlords - but that's usually caused by a compression in supply (e.g., when I was in college, any place near school had notorious landlords). When supply is open though, everything works out.

You have your uber-cheap rentals where nothing will ever get fixed, and then you have your more premium rentals where they'll turnaround a stove in 24 hours or less. Like all markets, a low-end and high-end are established and work just peachy.

Of course, this is not geographically true everywhere - especially when you introduce artificial supply and demand factors (rent control, anyone?).
Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn
I got a 24. As someone diagnosed with Asperger's Spectrum Disorder (Nonverbal Learning Disorder to be exact), this surprised me. I expected it to be lower. Granted, I've done some reading up on facial expressions so that might have helped.

@makmanalp asked a very good question about why they tested only looking at the eyes and not the res of the face, or the rest of the body. While looking at the rest of the face would have been helpful, much of the way we express ourselves is done just in our eyes.

Psychologist Daniel Goleman in his book "Social Intelligence" says that the eyes are, "...something akin to the poetic idea that the eyes are windows on the soul: the eyes offer glimpses into a person’s most private feelings. More specifically the eyes contain nerve projections that lead directly… neuron to neuron, [to] three major regions of the brain: the cortex (or “thinking brain”), the amygdala (the trigger point for many emotional reactions), and the brain stem (the “reptilian” zones for automatic response) (63-64)."

I highly recommend Paul Ekman's "Emotions Revealed" if you're interested in this sort of thing. It's about reading facial micro-expressions - not about Asperger's. I recomend Goleman's books as well, but you'll probably find Ekman's more interesting.

I've done quite a bit of personal research on this stuff, and while I'm no expert I'd be happy to try and answer any questions that people have.
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The parts are sourced from a retailer. You're just pushing the "fix this for me" up one level and ignoring the entire inextricable chains of production.

The sense of control is a false one. Is there control in the availability of parts, or their manufacture?
It would properly be better if we removed the word from English too -- Creator does more accurately describe what one does, and nobody would say "you can't judge a creation" the way they claim art can't be judged.
You input the lyrics, notes, scale, tempo and dynamics; the software will produce a voice based on those parameters. Then you can record it to share it as an audio file. Here's a quick FAQ on the official site: http://www.vocaloid.com/en/technical_faq.html
`Doch' is close to my favourite. It's mainly used in German to say disagree with a negative question, but can also be added to normal sentences for emphasis.
More benchmark results (in a UI) for Rackspace Cloud, EC2 and others are available here:

http://cloudharmony.com/benchmarks (click on the 'View benchmark results' link on the bottom left)
I'm pitching Seaside as a contender for the platform to build a new app on tomorrow. I'm completely and utterly sold on it. The experience is really just unparalleled in the world of software and web development, and I think the Smalltalk tools it is built on is a huge part of that.
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"Time and tide waits for no man" (Quote from Shakespeare, Julius Caesar)
You have to make things happen, not wait for the things to happen.
The problem is that in situations like this the default answer is "No". So, now you've forced them to say no, and you've tipped your hand.

A useful general principle is that you don't want to force people into a situation where they have to say "no", if something is debatable or negotiable. Once battle-lines are drawn, it's harder for anyone to back down.

I've spent years war-gaming, but I didn't really get this until I had a toddler.
Time tracking is included on all Basecamp plans that are part of the Suite. It's the fully-featured Basecamp. You get everything.

We'll be adding Campfire conference call minutes and # of simultaneous chatters to the chart shortly.
German here. "Schaden" in this case means harm or damage or misfortune (which causes someone else's joy). It can mean pity in other contexts, though, as in "that's a pity".

A nice example of an undecomposable word in German that has no ready, handy English cognate is Gemütlichkeit. From Wikipedia: "Its closest equivalent is the word "coziness"; however, [...] Gemütlichkeit connotes the notion of belonging, social acceptance, cheerfulness, the absence of anything hectic and the opportunity to spend quality time."
I would guess that with most pop. music performers the copyright to their songs are owned by the "Record Label" or company that signs their paycheck.

None of the money from current RIAA lawsuits goes back to the artists.
Given how cheap storage is now, I wouldn't be surprised if they just had a few thousand >4GB SD or microSD cards, each labelled with a number, and randomly chose which one to carry each time - or if they carried a bunch of them around in a briefcase. Assuming that they're using one time pads, that is.
In economics this is referred to as "bundling". By selling multiple products together you can extract more surplus from customers with diversified tastes.
Say, Customer 1 is willing to pay $100 per month for Basecamp and $60 per month for Highrise.
And, Customer 2 is willing to pay $60 per month for Basecamp and $100 per month for Highrise.
If you know this, and you charge for the products individually, the profit maximizing price is $60 for each good and total revenue is $240.
However, if you charge for the products as a bundle the profit-maximizing price is $160 per bundle and the total revenue is $320.
It's a smart move to charge using bundles when your marginal cost is low and there is a lot of variety in demand.
I think we agree with each other; I failed to properly acknowledge your main point.

The underlying problem users have with software - as illustrated by the hierarchical file system model - is being required to make decisions than they are comfortable with. If you as an iPhone user simply want to edit and store a text file, you're not going to want to have to know the stories behind emacs vs. vim, the "everything is a file" ethos of Plan 9, or the sordid history of Hans Reiser.

Apple (and other minimalist UX designers) have the right idea here: remove all unnecessary choices and questions so that the user can solve their basic need. This is minimum viable product. This is Basecamp vs. MS Project. Add extra features (i.e. extra decisions to confront the user with) if necessary, but only if they prove themselves.
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It's neat.

But, for me, I prefer the regular, static, interface. The main page doesn't change enough to warrant using a a realtime interface.
Interesting read. The real Goethe also had some nice lines. There was also a link to "Shakespeare in German" (http://german.about.com/od/literature/a/Shakespeare.htm) on the site you mentioned. Did you know that Germany has the world's oldest Shakespeare Society?
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this is my favorite line in idoru, which I think is relevant to hn (realizing now that even the name of the collective is prescient):

"Someone had the idea to turn the killfile inside out. This is not really how it happened, you understand, but this is how the story is told: Hak Nam were angry, because the net was very free, you could do what you wanted, but then the governments and the companies, they had different ideas of what you could and couldn't do. So these people, they found a way to unravel something. A little piece, a piece, like cloth. They made something like a killfile of everything, everything they didn't like, and they turned that inside out."
The interviewer may just be playing devil's advocate, but he's doing a good job sounding like a "oh golly, dropping out of school is the worst thing that could ever happen!" kind of person. A little grating.

I hope to set my 3 year old son up for success and help him see all his options.
I really like this because I've personally been stressing over creating a single, full-featured web app versus creating multiple, simple apps.

This is good proof that it doesn't really matter.
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It's sad that to this day not enough Israelis/Egyptians take advantage of the peace accords provisions and travel to the other country.

Little known fact: Israelis can enter the Sinai with just personal id and no visa. Same goes for Egyptians in specific parts of Israel.

Not enough people cross over, due to the "borders" that we put up.
"The harder I work, the luckier I get."

Given how hard the people in the HN community work, it's little wonder that the concept of the 'luck surface area' resonates so well.
When I read the article it reminded me of some ideas I had for for UI design. I get really frustrated in my IDE when I have to click on a folder or a file and it is so small. It seems that systems could build statistical models of what I do all day and resize icons based on what I am likely to click. There seems to be this area between 100% automation and doing things manually that isn't well designed for. Another example is when I have to go and look at log files, I have to click on these tiny folder icons but I do it every day ... why can't the system predict that and make the folder icon larger? Or how about while I'm in the IDE only show things that make sense at that point in time? You might say well there are thousands of things you can do in an IDE but I know that I do about 15 or 20 things day in and day out. I know I could use macros or something but that would be unique to each tool and would have a very stitched together feel to it.

In my opinion the tab completion in the Bash shell is an example of game mechanics used outside of a game.
Getting into a business I didn't know enough about, that wasn't aligned with my core strengths and desires, in anticipation that I could make a stronger income than I could doing the things I actually loved. It was a very poor decision that I stuck with far too long. It nearly killed my spirit and took a huge financial toll on me and my family.

The decision to do this was the direct result of an ego that was out of check. I made a significant hourly rate for many years consulting (to one client - another mistake, btw) - when that contract ended, I didn't want to accept the lower rates and rejection found when trying to find high paying consulting jobs via the web. So, instead of adapting to the situation or finding creative solutions to it, I avoided it by doing something entirely different. VERY, VERY poor decision. I've been humbled greatly - which I actually think is a benefit of this experience.

I did learn a tremendous amount about people and business during this process, but it isn't one I would likely repeat with the benefit of hindsight.
I previously heard of Hatsune Miku because she did a cover of "Still Alive" from the computer game "Portal".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_12b6Om758Q
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I generally like the idea that we should take some time to assess what is important in life. I dont, however think there is a one size fits all answer to what we should own and what we should rent, or how we should spend our money. I have read posts similar to this before, and they can seem to smack of some sense of condescension. I sense a bit at the end with the Louis Vutton/BMW comments.

Like I said, it is great to encourage others to evaluate what is a need vs a want, but I dont necessarily think something should be considered a cage just because it is purchased or unnecessary for life.
And it has nice grammar. My manager once put together a formal grammar for _all_ the things you can do to verbs. It fit on one sheet of paper.
Basically, this article is just about what callbacks are and how they are all nice and convenient?
I somewhat agree and disagree;

I'm not sure how many of those advanced features are worth the effort of developing -

fewer than/more than: I don't see the benefit of this except for threads that are really active, which easily could include slight flame wars and off topic discussions

karma points: perhaps useful

excluding new users: don't see the point - throw away accounts are popular here and tend to come up frequently - I can't think of a single scenario where I would ever want to filter threads like this

including list of users: somewhat useful, if going to a users profile and filtering by a single user wouldn't be good enough

the only thing I could see as a useful advanced search option would be url filter to find posts about certain domains.

Granted these are just opinions on how I would use a HN advanced search feature; so my opinion could be part of the minority.
Why do you think it's more likely that employees are in the wrong?

The asymmetry of the relationship makes it more likely for the employee to be get the short end of the stick. It's not inspiration and respect that get passed down the corporate ladder (in most companies). Many employees don't speak up for fear of repercussions (they are at the mercy of their managers, after all).
Reminds me of Genki Rockets, which also has a "vocaloid" singer synthesized from a couple of female singers. I first found out about this sort of think when I was working for Henk Rogers (Tetris mogul) down in Honolulu. The office was always full of really big names from Japan, like the guys from Square Enix, Nintendo, etc... The guys that made Lumines II were in the office playing some sick blu-ray footage of a Genki Rockets concert and from that moment on I was hooked. The DJ was wearing an astronaut suit and there was a hologram projection of Lumi singing and dancing above the crowd. So sick!

Here is a link to Genki Rockets -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genki_Rockets
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First of all thanks for taking time to check it. On Google Map, yes you type "restaurants in San Francisco" and it will give you all the restaurants on the area. On my web app, you only need to type the location "San Francisco" and it will give you all the nearest restaurants on the area once you click the radiobutton for restaurants under "Show Nearest" options. Ok now here's the difference, say you want to search in another location like in "Manila,Philippines", in Google Maps (assuming you don't wanna drag or scroll the map to find "Manila, Philippines") so you need to retype again "Restaurants In Manila" but on my web app the moment you start typing it will retrieve immediately all the nearest restaurants on the suggested location until you finish typing the whole world "Manila". Then if you change your mind again and want to check out nearest restaurants in "London" it will retrieve all the nearest restaurants on the suggested location until you reach London. Hence you don't need to retype again and again "Restaurants in #somewhere#".Anyway, the single purpose of my app is to find the nearest interesting point for the user assuming he/she knows the location but in Google Maps I think it's more of a general purpose since you can use it in whatever way you want like for browsing the world, driving directions etc.