skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, if Twitter were RESTful the client would not be reliant on server state to function. And the media type would have to be documented and adhered to. Meaning e.g. that multiple vendors could be used simultaneously without conflict.

Being RESTful would just increase interoperability. But that's not Twitters game.
I live just south of Lake Union (2200 Westlake building). There are several condos around that have some rentals available. They'll be a much higher quality building than an apartment of similar price.

If you want more of a social thing, then an apartment may be better. There's a building that's pretty popular called Rollin Street Flats that has a good scene.

Stuff's expensive around here, especially with Amazon moving in. Unfortunately you're not going to find a great place for under $2k.

Belltown is also pretty close and has good night life. Easy bicycling distance. There's a relatively decent complex called 2900 on First that should be in your price range.

Craigslist is a good place to look if you decide to go the condo rental route.

Good luck, and welcome to Seattle!
Confirmed: Microsoft Will Announce Acquisition of Skype Tomorrow Morning
There's an Israeli working on every problem the world calls insoluble
Not to take away from this work, but the title is wrong, or at least needs more specification. There's at least one book that was 100% crowdsourced before this:

"Amazing But True Cat Stories"...
http://bjoern.org/projects/catbook/

All of the stories were written by users on Mechanical Turk, around 2008. The project got a lot of press and attention at the time, on O'Reilly, Boing Boing, and the like. The "author" also wrote a how-to on Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/Dont-Do-It-Yourself-Start-a-...
Pretty simple really. Most start off more highly paid than most - but the pay difference drops off over time. Most lead unassuming, mundane existences.

A large portion live with the nagging dissatisfaction that they struggled so much harder than everyone else, sacrificed so much more, and yet somehow the payoff doesn't seem commensurate. They were at the top end of the distribution all their life, but now practically define normality.

Most will look around them and realize it could be much worse - they could be running a laundromat. They will then quietly accept their mundane, normal, and honestly, somewhat boring existence in good grace.

Some cannot get over the fact that they threw their childhood, adolescence, and prime years away for a shot at mediocrity. Some have become miserable in this process - this goes double for those who had a real passion for something off the beaten Asian track (art, literature, music, etc). Some of these people will eventually crack and throw it all away to pursue what they actually wanted to do.

If they fail, they will be used as examples on why straying from The Path(tm) is unwise.

If they succeed, they will be praised and looked upon in admiration as a triumphant success of the immigrant community. They will, ironically, be used as examples of how It Works(tm) whenever this exact issue comes up in conversation.
Some of us have complicated backgrounds. I was born in Ireland, and live in California, but if you asked me where I'm from I'd say I'm Canadian, too. If there was a little more time and you showed some interest, I'd expand on that.
Slippery Architecture
Tell that to the authors of the thousands of self-help books that line your local bookstore, many of which are dedicated to soft skills.

And you wouldn't necessarily have to learn it out of a book. The posted article cited several examples of programs to teach people soft skills.
I guess this is good for the Canadian Pension Plan. :)
The APIs may be complex, but at least, unlike Android, iOS gives you enough control to do interesting things with real-time audio. This is the #1 reason I haven't tried writing anything for Android yet.
The middle east, the .*stans, India, Russia. Yeah, Arabs are Asian, who knew?
Windows 8's FaceTime brewing!
I think it is only fair to warn you, you should probably not pursue a degree in mind-reading. You are not very good at it.

What actually happened was my eyes missed "Asians in America make more on average than all other races", so what I read was a comment purely about academic successes equating to life success. Anyway, I think you need to quantify just how much more, on average, if you are going to use that as the metric that proves the academic success really brings success in life.
This guy's blog goes into this in some depth

http://leeskoreablog.blogspot.com/
Wow, that's really surprising. Especially given my perception of the quality of HTML5BP.
Did not know this existed, but doesn't help me since I use Windows
That was a rhetorical question I'm sure.
Now too little salt is bad for you
This is one of the best descriptions of minority life in the US (or anywhere else) that I've read in quite a while.

I wish similar pieces would be written by and embraced by African-Americans. Sadly whenever such thoughts are expressed, they are met with negativity.
Ask HN: Is anyone working on a visual jQuery editor?
Just wondering if anyone is working on a visual jqeury editor?
A lot of these are only rendered "properly" by WebKit because they're using WebKit-specific syntax. And I don't mean the prefixes; I mean cases where the WebKit-prefixed syntax differs from what the spec drafts say. So if you just swap the prefixes it'll look "wrong" in browsers that are following the draft more closely.
Why? MS seems to be more aggressively supporting iOS than WP7. See how often the Bing app has been updated on iOS than WP7 over the past year.

The cloud is more important to MS than WP7 is.
I could not agree more. That's one thing that I absolutely cannot stand. I understand the need/desire to get to the market first, but an unfinished product is never a good thing.
what happened to all those racist underachievers?
It seems the number might actually be $8.5 billion:

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110509/microsoft-will-announce-...
They already do.

http://www.asus.com/News/s3uOpCJHYLTl31xy/

Why is that bad? Everyone uses a browser. Now all we need is a popular web game to use as a benchmark.
About Time: Pay as You Go Mobile Broadband
10 years ago, Microsoft was $35. Today it is $25 and change. Not very rewarding.

Microsoft is like the electric utility of the technology business -- they should embrace that or wake up and break up the company into manageable parts.

Buying Skype? That's not creating shareholder value.
It was just a comment. I did not disagree with international politics being an anarchic system contrary to chaos. Just the UN bit.
I do in fact see it as a very clever observation.
What version of Skype and Linux do you have that doesn't have the giant interface and a dozen windows open at once to show a dozen chats?
As an American with some Irish roots, I know someday I too will make the pilgrimage to the motherland...please don't laugh too hard as I look for pubs with resident fiddlers and set dancers.
It already exists, and is called cdbaby.com

They will syndicate music to amazon and itunes, and they pass through 91% of their net revenue from Apple and Amazon.
> Then the progression stops, and the advice runs out. All your life the entire raison d'etre for you has been The Next Step, but now there is none. You've done it, you've hit the end, trumpets are supposed to blare, and... and... And then what?

You must have either seen this or you don't need to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
Are you sure you understand how this publication was "crowd-sourced"? Writers take turns contributing to a single plot/story--no one individual is writing anything cohesive on its own. The crowd-sourcing aspect is the fundamental production method.
There goes the neighborhood....
Nice to see a member of the Chromium team posting on the WebKit blog. Time to change the name from "Surfin' Safari" to "Webloggin' WebKit"? :)
If Microsoft somehow owned both of those services, would it affect Microsoft's prospects? Certainly not. FaceTime is a gimmick that few people actually use use. Google Voice is bridge between soon-to-be legacy voicemail and cellphones and the future, which is unlikely to be owned by either Google or Microsoft. Neither business would help Microsoft grow again, and neither will Skype.
Better than where? As stated, your question makes little sense.
You Can Now Write A Great Critical Essay
A critical essay can provide both negative and positive observations on a particular topic. This is vital information when learning to write a critical essay. Written in an unbiased professional manner, a good critical essay can bring in a good grade.
Money not spent on cars would spent on something else. or saved and lent to someone else who would spend it on something.

And if car purchases having no utility declined, its likely that the other things purchased might have utility, which means more wealth created in the long run. Not a slower economy.
> How about instead... industries that create easily copied content get with the 21st century and stop bitching.

I like the ideal of what you're saying, but I worry about the practicality of it. I don't see how you could finance a huge blockbuster movie without having some guarantee that you would have exclusive rights to exploit that content for some limited period (which is effectively what copyright is about).

Sure, the harm to the producer isn't measurable if you download a movie from the internet. But I don't think that would scale to the wider population - if downloading for free became the standard way of getting movies, how would they recoup the production costs (I guess if you can answer that question then you could become very wealthy!).

Maybe there's some painful expectation realignment due from those whose salaries are paid by making movies (I don't think we'd be short of good actors if they were paid thousands instead of millions per movie). Could they produce the same quality of movie at a massively lower cost? Another question that if you could answer you could make yourself a lot of money.
Yeah, alternatives I've seen in Windows all require Outlook to be installed anyways (what's the point?).
Oriental not a PC term, but many Americans cannot tell the difference between Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Filipino, etc by language, appearance or other factors.

So instead of sitting through millions of awkward moments, whomever makes up these things came up with "Asian", which basically can apply to anyone.
You guys over there get a bit invested in your identity too, you know. :-) I think for most Americans of European descent, it's a mildly-romantic curiosity at most.

Keep in mind, to us in the US a "really old" building is 100 years old. Visiting almost anywhere in Europe is like going to an ancient history museum.

When we have great-grandparents that came from other places, they often came when they were young, or for whatever reasons didn't want to talk much about what they left behind.

But on some other side of the family there may be names, letters, and pictures going back hundreds of years. So yeah, for a lot of families it does seem like big parts of the binary tree are unbalanced.
Most Americans don't live in particularly low-density areas. The Los Angeles metro area is about as dense as that of New York; the fact that LA is car-based whereas New York is based on rail is due to infrastructure choices made based on people's desire to drive more instead of walking or taking mass transit.

That desire was in large part created by marketing portraying automobiles as signs of wealth, power, modernity, and of course sexual potency.
Antitrust laws might slow that plan down.
At some stage isn't that likely to happen? All the tech companies will start eyeing the music and movies studios, wondering what it would mean if Apple owned them all, and they'll start snapping them up.
Here is the paper their tech is based on: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/
Basically, the light isn't focused to a single plane, but rather is sent through an array of microlenses which can be sampled in various ways to simulate the focal plane of a traditional camera.
Good luck. "Soft skills" are usually interpreted as a way to favor white people. If it isn't measurable, you're getting sued. And even if it is measurable, you're getting sued if advocates don't get what they want.

(Although poor social skills are not limited to any ethnic group.)
How is this Java's fault again?
What I don't understand is why our overlords are so hell bent on turning this nation in to an overpopulated, hyper-competitive place where everyone has to grind.

Because they make more money that way.
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Main thread already here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2530963
35 million each, not 350
One of the lists of 'worst interview questions' he linked had #10 as:

What interests you about our company?

Which made me realize how antiquated and outdated that list was. If a company DIDN'T ask me that, there's very little chance I'd take the job.
The Sophie Choice
A preponderance of the founders and/or principle engineering teams in the most popular and promising web properties are Asian. Naveen Salvaduri at Foursquare, Steve Chen at Youtube, all three main engineers at Quora, Bill Nguyen at Color, even Euwyn Poon at YC S10 Opzi.
boilerplate is what you start with, not what you publish

what's the big deal
It's not really Google's TOS that's the issue here; it's called COPPA regulations which apply to everyone on the internet (in the US). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pro...
Tor is far from safe, especially if your opponent has the ability to intersperse a majority of treacherous nodes into the network.
The gist was that his grandfather had pushed him very, very hard to study and work very, very hard from a very early age. And he was finally able to tell his grandfather that he could no longer tell him what to do/order him to work hard - he had done it all - he had done everything that the grandfather had pushed him to do. It is a sense of closure, more than anything but still very significant. My friend had ulcers in high school, if that is any indication of how hard he studied.
Apple Employees Tell the Secrets Behind Steve Jobs' 'Magic'
You probably can't create a google account for your cats either, but that didn't stop me from making each of mine one (only so they could sign up for facebook though ;-3).

How is this newsworthy?

(p.s. any facebook employees, please don't delete my cats' facebook accounts, they will be very sad and scratch you up big time if you do)
The only way I can think of for them to really, really make this worth it beyond just owning the service is to integrate it in to Outlook like gmail video/voice chat. Although worker bees would hate it, it would be cool as a supervisor to be able to "call" your employee from a program you already have open all day anyways. Or even co-workers working on a project too lazy to get up or lawyers who need to talk about something but don't really have time to stop what they're doing. They could implement a feature enabling you to "add" friends who use outlook to your chat/buddy list. I don't think it would kill off gmail, but it would make some people much less likely to try it.

On a more personal note, I really hope they don't take away all those cool chat thingys (refuse to call them emoticons). That dancing guy and disappearing pizza get me every time.
I first saw that right when I was going through this whole existential crisis after college. Suffice to say it got me sad and mad all at once - sad that I haven't seen and comprehended this video earlier (though tbh, it wouldn't have made a difference), mad that it took me this long to realize the fundamental truth of what it posits.
so they basically re-invented UDDI ??
Magnatune isn't a big label, but it's DRM-free and splits 50/50 with the artists. It's also non-exclusive, so the artists can make deals with others as well, if they like. Their "end-user" license lets each subscriber give 3 friends a copy of the music.
Fat chance. It launches as "an invite-only beta", so I wouldn't get my hopes up.
I've always wondered something about evolution (or rather, speciation): how many generations removed could an ancestor and descendant be and still be theoretically able to mate?

I'm sure the ability to mate isn't exactly the definition of a "species," but it seems like a decent way to get a grip on the extremely gradual genetic changes predicted/described by evolution. This article made me ask the question: How would you be able to recognize the "first human"?
Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Skype for Nearly $8 Billion
I don't know if that's something to be worried about or not, but it just seems like common sense to try and cover your tracks if you are doing something that The Authorities don't approve of.

Sure, Tor might be broken (though there is no evidence of anyone getting in trouble for doing something through Tor), but it might also not be broken. We don't know. We do know for sure that when your IP address is 1.2.3.4 in the logs, they are going to call your 1.2.0.0/16's ISP and be on your doorstep in hours.

To be honest, I guess it's good for society that criminals are so stupid. The downside for me is that I don't get to read anything interesting when the media covers these stories -- all I get is "we got a bunch of IPs and people using their real names to harrass Sony executives' kids".
Mac is not a PC.
Apple will hesitate a long while before bringing Facetime to the PC, because Facetime promotes all-important lock-in to the Apple ecosystem and sells Apple hardware.
About a month ago I was doing some nonprofit work for a local youth organization, and was working with a 16 year old who was already taking college level pre-med classes. He explained that he was going to be either a doctor or an engineer "because, you know, I'm Asian". Someone else later asked him if he wanted to be a doctor, and he replied "it's sort of the family business", as though he had no choice in the matter. (his father is a doctor at a very prestigious clinic).

All the while, he seemed very interested in the development work we were doing, but being "merely" a web developer would not be an appropriate profession. I got the feeling that even if he had no interest in medicine or engineering he felt compelled to pursue one of those careers to satisfy expectations. I wanted to tell him just to slow down and enjoy being young a bit, but it wasn't any of my business, and it wouldn't matter anyway. I just feel bad that this poor kid is going to miss out on some of the best parts of college because he's too focused on reaching a goal he probably doesn't even really want.
Just like how at the beginning of this piece the author talks about how different his own experience is from what he is describing, many African Americans who grow up to be writers (or read HN for that matter) have had a different experience than the majority.
I used json-schema like crazy in my last pet project. used it to validate javascript I would proxy for well known interface endpoints. pretty damn nice.
pointless hype article, tons of common computing devices would best a "1990s-era supercomputer"
Christian Louboutin Pigalle 120 Patent Black Pumps
Bindings and CAFs on the Haskell heap
Http://www.songs.pk/bollywood_songs.html
The rationale is weak. Some data is simply not worth indexing, and not worth serving up to bots. The flipside is: your crawler doesn't need to fetch everything on my site, and I'd be happy to ban all non-conforming bots site-wide.

It's not just about the functionality, but also a show of good faith and basic respect. If you're a bot author who knowingly violates my site policy I'd rather you didn't communicate with my web server at all.

robots.txt isn't perfect. Ideally a web server would be configured to deny bots access to restricted content via some sort of dnsbl mechanism (or CPAN/whatever module.) Or do both and ban the non-conforming site-wide.

The above notwithstanding, I'm voting for this article. It doesn't betray the usual cowardice by hiding the assertion behind the presumptuous Why.
Announcing Android Open - The first Android Open conference
I think the difference here is that this book is crowdsourced on a more granular level, by sentence.
So every sentence in a single story could have been written by a different author.
I wouldn't completely call it risk averse. Let's just call it smart and "less risky" than jumping out of a job and into an opportunity that doesn't exist yet.

Maybe I wasn't so clear about this point, but it's also about doing something that may not perfectly fit your passions because of a more reasonable work/life balance and in turn a more doable corp work/start-up balance.

It becomes adjustable risk.

How much more money can a corporate job pay? How much more free time do you have now that you're not putting your own heart into someone else's project? How much do you really need to survive? Now comes the factor that's adjusting your risk.... Salary - Necessity = Liquidity.

How much of your liquidity are you willing to invest in your start-up dreams and how much of that are you willing to invest in your "normal" life? I think that's what really separates the hobby entrepreneurs that never make it and the guys that can in fact make it building something on the side.
skype on nokias would be nice.
David Beazley discusses the Python GIL
Actually, solving most practical instances of NP hard problems is doable and quite tractable.

Isn't that a tautology? Because if it wasn't doable then it wouldn't be practical.
Erlang and supervisor in places have been doing this for a while, but it hasn't been pervasive in any web deployment platform. The flexibility this allows for web production systems really is significant, versus one off solutions for specific languages. This can truly allow for a scalable platform across languages.
I think I remember reading this on HN not too long ago. Awesome post! Would love to hear more about what you guys are up to.
OpenGL is not a language - it is an API. The book is using it with the C++ language which you can program in Eclipse.
Skype 2.8 for Mac exists and is from better user experience than any Windows or Linux version.
1 page print version, for convenience: http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/asian-americans-2011-...
I have no real qualms with a Microsoft buy-out, but I was really hoping for Facebook to get on this one. However, this sort of leads me to believe FB is working on something they may consider "better." Let's just hope the MS crew does something intelligent with this move and we don't have another Delicious-style implosion.
You're assuming I'm assuming about the whole group.

My statement was about people who have involved themselves with this who are kids. We've seen pictures of who the FBI rounded up.
Evolution runs on Windows too. SUSE build system builds it almost daily. Just google for evolution win32 Email and you should find it
Show HN: The Perfect Address Form?
Open protocols? Does Skype use any? I'm genuinely curious, I thought it was completely proprietary.
I made a post yesterday about address forms, and the uselessness of entering city and state when you're going to enter a zip code anyway (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2525286).

I spent most of the day today coming up with a solution to the problem using Google maps geocoding API.

What do you guys think?
Please see http://gibb-test-address.heroku.com/ for my attempt at solving this.
One of my favorite professors told a story about a phone interview he gave. The interviewer asked, "So, 'Chan', is that a Chinese name?"

"No." He said. "It's a Canadian name".

His family had been in Canada for multiple generations, he identified as Canadian. Why is "MacKenzie" a Canadian name and not "Chan"?
Apple seems to be interested in their permission. What a lot of people miss, but was spelled out in Jason Kincaid's TC article* is that label permission is not so much about lawsuits but about making it massively more convenient for the user by bypassing the upload step.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/09/without-the-labels-googles-...