skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The auto-suggest seems to be coming up with longer phrases. In the past, I've only seen 3 or 4 word phrases, but the new one appears to recognize longer sentences, too. Of course, this might just be me, trying to find something new when there clearly isn't. In that case, feel free to ignore me :p

Try typing "what's so great about" in the box. Mildly amusing :)
Great to see these guys, especially Mark Zuckerberg, though worth multimillions, are able to simply hang out in shorts and a tee to sign a deal as big as this. Shows that these guys arent too caught up inthe typical corporate scene, but are still driven by the passion for just making their product the best it can be, make it successful,and hanging out and spending time and experiences with people. Its the basic formula for facebook. Sharing and connecting through different simple relationship threads.
I meant the User Experience rather than the code.

I'm not sure I agree with your security analysis though. The concept is to provide a visual cue for the password that's hard to manually reverse engineer.
I don't think that Paul Bucheit is CEO
The first thing I thought of was shuffling cards for online poker sites.
Doesn't really help new users though. And searchyc.com can do a lot more than Google search.
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http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

Adds a search box for searchyc.com (http://is.gd/2bdCp), among other cool things. :)
Goals change. Especially when faced with cash and wealth.
If you want the real thing, get a beam splitter. I'm not naming names or really saying anything credible at all, but electronic noise isn't in the same ballpark.

These folks have them available for PCI and USB: http://www.idquantique.com/products/quantis.htm

(no I'm not affiliated in any way)
I agree that these shoes are fantastic for running. The one thing that annoys me about them though, are the independent toes. Sure, they feel a bit more "free" than normal shoes, but on the other hand, they make the shoe tougher to put on, require expensive toe socks, and make it easier to stub toes.
Graham himself doesn't exactly feel "startup incubator" is accurate because it already has a different meaning (Y Combinator itself doesn't really start the startups through idea generation and doesn't offer direct office space).

"Seed Fund" is the closest term in my mind, but even that doesn't encompass the mentorship/advice side of Y Combinator.
A poll might provide more useful results (how many people would want this vs. how many people would not)
If PG doesn't know how to implement this feature he can ask nickb who has it over on http://www.newmogul.com which is built on the same software.

;-)
I'm planning on picking up a pair and just slitting open the material to make room for my webbed toes. I figure it'll be fine so long as I stay away from gravel.
“It’s China’s fault that I’m still here,” he said. “It’s just so cheap to start a business.”

This is just an anecdote, but it really caught my attention and made me think about what the future may hold. That's a Harvard graduate who left the US and ended up starting a business in China.
I wear mine without socks; the chafing you'd get with normal shoes that way is completely absent if the Vibrams are correctly fitted, and they have a somewhat-effective antibacterial coating.
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I was asking a separate question, making a separate comment. Sorry if it seems too far off from the original article's topic, but cninja seems to have a lot of background in this area. I though that if he or another chose to respond again, it might clarify things for me, and maybe some other readers.

Perhaps I should have waited before responding; I'm (still) feeling kind of off, today. Apologies to anyone annoyed by my contributions here.
I told you to pick that logo, you didn't listen until Paul drew it. Either way, I think it's pretty easy to see that you've got a good logo if someone draws it to explain your company.
I'm guessing he's interested in social networking on a broader scale than just getting rich off it. Running your own business can be exciting but being involved in something that is fundamentally changing the way humans interact with each other on a massive scale is probably pretty neat too.
I'm sorry, and I think I'm not the only one that feels this way, but facebook is pretty much completely dead to me. Twitter has supplanted it.

Twitter is great for exactly the reason that most people hate it. It fills the void while I'm sitting in line at Fry's or something; I can immediately see what some of my friends are doing simply by looking at my blackberry, as well as give them totally pointless updates like "omg I HATE THE LINES AT FRY'S!" (you can see all of my stupid, inane tweets here: http://www.twitter.com/blhack).

Facebook also just feels like there is too much going on...twitter does exactly one thing and it does it very well.

For instance, I have a really fantastic pocket knife that a good friend bought me a few years ago. It has all sorts of tools, one of them is a screwdriver. Needless to say, it is not as good as...well...a screw drive. Facebook's status updates, and twitter's "tweets", while similar, just aren't really the same thing.

Finally, there are a few people that I "stalk" on twitter that most likely have no idea who I am. One of them is a Poet from the UK...I get to see things like "I am release a few limited edition first run CDs from my original demo...get them while they're hot" (he is actually a rapper...but got started doing poetry jams. I feel dirty saying I follow a rapper). There is somebody called "Yuffster" (I thinks she is a famous dev of some sort? I don't know there was a post on here a while ago of "must-follow" twitterers and she was one of them...actually she was the ONLY one I kept following, everybody else tweeted like 100 times a day.)

Sorry, facebook, but you have lost my eyeballs. Twitter offers a superior (and pretty much completely different) product.
Just out of curiosity, got any pictures of these? Making my own notebook is something I've considered ever since exploring my pocket notebook options. Your comment might be the thing that gets me off the fence.
It's both. The Rasmussen brothers founded a small desktop-app startup, akin to what became Google Earth, which was later bought by Google. Meanwhile, Bret Taylor was the PM for Google Local (and I think Jim Norris was involved with this too). Google Maps happened when the Local team met the Earth team and started talking about what they could do to get all this cool satellite imagery with desktop-like interaction into a browser.

Also, arguably Bret and Jim were the leads at FriendFeed, since they came up with the original idea. AFAIK, they approach PB and Sanjeev as investors, and the latter figured that not only would they invest, but they'd sign on as cofounders.
I'd assume that you're picky about the jobs you apply to given your skill set. Take a look at the positions that you've applied to and see, if you may be missing something that the employer wants.
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I am new to this but always wondered about the non-existent search functionality? What is the rationale behind not having it? I can see that the news is archived because you can find it, then why not have a search on the news page itself?
You can try for an E5 Visa (investor) -- the companies here are not exactly high tech but you need $500k

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/smallbusiness/0907/galle...
My immediate advice is to include links to some of your best work in this thread or better yet in your HN profile. Where better to show off your skills than on the leading online community of entrepreneurs? Finding a job, especially one that doesn't suck, is a full-time job in and of itself.

In the longer term, if you have the money for it, a Masters in CS is likely a worthwhile financial investment, but spending two (or more) years of your life doing something you aren't excited about is a poor use of your most valuable resource.

You seem (I stalked your other posts) like you have the skills and the desire to start your own business. Is your only hold-up the lack of a good idea? If so, email me. I found myself in a similar situation this spring, minus any programming knowledge, and I still decided to take the leap.
There was an excellent interview with Jeff Bezos (I believe in HBR), where he discussed how the company chose to enter the cloud computing market.

Faced with many excellent proposals, lots of cash to invest, and a talented employee base, they could well have chosen to pursue all of them.

Instead, they chose just one to focus on completely.

It's not news that Amazon can enter many more markets. But if they do start new ventures, expect a whole-hearted and long term effort. (Kindle is one such effort that is just getting started, so I'd be very impressed if they launch another so soon.)
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Why do I get the feeling someone's trying to 'emperor's new clothes' me?
Looks like maybe it has more realtime results? Speculation, but still.
Single-molecule sequencing of an individual human genome
That's a really cool story.
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i can confirm this is actually the case. my GF and i have started up own own company (plug: http://www.boolos.com/ ; disclaimer: head hunting in energy). our accountant has given us exactly that advice, and you dont pay tax on it.
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No need to tell the head of Rio Tinto in China about dark gulags. He's been under arrest without charge for several weeks now for allegedly stealing "state secrets" that allowed Rio Tinto to negotiate good prices for iron ore from China's steel mills.

Yesterday the Chinese authorities said Rio's "spying" had cost the country $102 billion over 6 years. Only problem with that story is that Rio's total worldwide iron ore revenues for the last 6 years was $40.75 billion. More here: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/The-real-...

So by all means do business in China - just don't be too successful. Because your competitive negotiation with a state run business might just turn into spying on "state secrets". The Chinese government has some growing up to do.
msluyter said it better than I did above. The problem is the path from today to ubiquitous cheap automation of everything. In between, we have automation that is expensive, but cheaper than humans. What will happen during that gap, and how will society make it past that point to where everyone can enjoy such advances?

The endgame may be as benign as you're suggesting, but I don't think there's any way we'll get there without complications, if we get there at all.
Dane and Andrew: Congrats on launching!
I predict Aardvark.com to be next in line, either as a purchase or a direct copy. It's by far the best social graph application, scratch that, it's really the best social app on the internet right now. It's what Facebook's next step should be.
Reading this on my freshly bootcamped MacBook Pro...is there something about the end of summer that makes me want to tinker?
how much did it run you?
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At the very least you could replace the link to "HNSearch" in the footer.

Every few months I click on it having forgotten that a completely useless 'social' firefox extension is on the other end.
I've been waiting for a real competitor to VisualCV to show up, and shown up it has. Congrats on the launch!
ass-kickingly delicious

way to go fellas

we should celebrate over beers when you're done dealing with all the traffic
I just checked out the site and it truly impressive. Everything looks sharp and I like the clean design. Everything is easy to use and I can go in and change the CSS later if I want to. I started filling out some information to get a feel and I really liked it!

I tried to sign up, but there is no way to register! Did I miss something there?
you register when you're ready to save your résumé
(this means click the floppy disk)
Is there a Posterous or something? The twitter account is private...how are we supposed to learn about updates?
Twitter and Facebook are targeting different needs and communities, whether they know it or not. With Facebook you can find out what your friends are doing, but not much else. This is great for people who have a small and cohesive social network that largely communicates among its own members (e.g. young people.) Twitter is more of a broadcasting platform; you can learn what your friends (and random people you follow) are eating for breakfast, but you can also get the latest news out of Iran or the most recent viral meme that everyone will be blogging about tomorrow. Everyone seems to think "real-time updates" is a single category, but Twitter and Facebook each seem to be better at different facets of this info stream and I am not sure that either will make much of an inroad into the other one's turf.
I noticed significant improvements searching for "qt" and for "boost".
This seems pretty cool. I actually had an idea for almost exactly this.

The revenue model writes itself too. Thousands of people pay resume professionals for editing help every day. JobSpice could have a third party network of resume pros ready to help, and take a cut of the payments.

So it's free to write your awesome looking resume, and for a reasonable fee it's trivial to have a resume doctor look it over.
Whatever you do, don't pay tuition. Not so long as your money is better spent on ramen and a handful of textbooks. (If you haven't gone through SICP yet, I'd start there. And there's a lot of suggested-book threads to be found via SearchYC.)

If you don't have a great idea for a project you can do while living on beans and rice, why not work on one of the crappy ideas? I'd rather interview a person with a running, bug-tracked, version-controlled implementation of a hopelessly naive idea than someone who had sat through some extra courses in elementary CS.

+1 to the guy who suggested studying stats. Go back to your psych department and ask them to refer you to some graduates who crunch numbers for a living. Go interview them -- not to ask them for a job, but to ask whether there's something you should study in order to be useful (e.g.: SAS programming).
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Downvoted for Piggy Bank alone.
Well done. I like this a lot.
Amazon knows quite a bit about me: they know I bought a Canon camera in 2000, that I have a bookshelf full of fantasy books, 4 entire seasons of 24, and most everything Joss Whedon has ever made. They can reasonably extrapolate from my book purchases that I'm a trilingual Republican Catholic computer programmer. They know everywhere I've lived for a decade.

Google knows a bit about me, too, but pretend they only see one search from this morning: [air fares Nagoya to Okinawa].

If you can tell me why Amazon's decade of data is more valuable than Google's single data point in predicting my purchasing behavior in the near term, you will make a few billion dollars.
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But when you describe it like that, then you just see that this has been done before by other companies, IBM, Microsoft, etc. Google's marketing department is really doing well if they can get everyone to jump on the Wave bandwagon under the guise of it being something completely new and different.
Where's the client?
I'm going to guess that the fact that Mark Zuckerberg showed up is a sign to assure him that he's going to be a very well-respected and well-tended to employee at Facebook with access to a bigger engineering team, a huge user base, all the resources he wants, and maybe even a chance to get a crack at Facebook software itself.

That's pretty enticing.
I think a Word export would be key here. Many large firms and recruiting agencies require you to provide Word format resumes and have large internal systems and processes based on Word documents.
The next meltdown will come in 2012
Kindle in danger of becoming e-books' Betamax
Online Tactics that Got Obama the Presidency
Obama & his team did a commendable job in coming up with an optimum mix of offline & online mode of election campaigns. The telling difference between him and the other was that he made his presence felt not only on television but also on the Internet.
When I search my name, this new version has my Twitter page higher than my website.
Gotta give you some Hacker News love as well. Congrats on launching dudes, well done.
Unmentioned in the fluff article: Since flash cookies are set in a user-global location, they are the same live across all browsers. As an added bonus, they completely defeat "private browsing" everywhere I've tried it.
Actually synchronized is not that expensive in itself. Especially in modern implementations it's not bad at all. It always used to amuse me how Java developers would go to contortions trying not to synchronize a method and then they'd fill it up with calls to things like Vector (every method synchronized!), StringBuffer (yep, every method synchronized!) and any number of other calls that are synchronized in the default JDK.
... or pretty irrelevant.
Wow, when will stuff like this end? I've been hearing this since 2004, when they were like 1% their current size.
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It depends on how you leverage 10 top notch engineers. I'm guessing they wouldn't have done the transaction if they figure they couldn't get at least $50M in value from these guys which at Facebook's scale isn't that hard.
Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, but my opinions do not necessarily reflect the company, yadi yada.

One of the things that you touched on that needs to be fleshed out more is the fact that Googling for random products is a massive pain. Not only in the sheer volume of data you get back, but also because so little of it is trustworthy.

Say I want to buy a new digital camera. I look at the Nikon D40 and wonder "is it any good"? I Google up "Nikon D40 reviews" and I get a gigantic list of pages. Some are clearly spam, others clearly astroturfing for Nikon, and others look like they could be legitimate reviews... but you really don't know. Signal to noise for consumer-level research really sucks on Google.

Now take Amazon on the flip side (that I use all the time, and not just because I work there). I trust the reviews that are there - because I know that bad/good reviews are not removed or otherwise manipulated. The star rating isn't spam, isn't fake, isn't bought and paid for like millions of "review sites" scattered across the tubes.

Yes, there are ways to break Amazon's review system, but for the most part it is a trustworthy metric, and although not a complete replacement for in-depth research, particularly for big-ticket items, it is still extremely helpful for everyday shopping.
I bet future versions of browsers would clear such cookies as well. Flash is almost a standard feature of every browser now.
What the fuck is this guy smoking? Why would anyone (much less Google) want to use an oddball almost-JVM that has no JIT or most of the standard libraries on a server farm?

Google App Engine, have you heard of it?
Is there any way to preview how stuff looks without having to manually enter data first? Just so I can get a feel with some test data?
Recommendation engines aren't the only way to change search.

Most people spend a large fraction of their online day in a couple of applications. Those applications could easily auto-generate useful search links - this kills the search box. It also solves some very hard search problems. ("dolphin" is ambiguous in a search box but it's unambiguous in most documents.)

The next step is to make the search results page more useful. In the context of a document, this "more useful results page" is likely to not have ads. Instead, the results will go into the document in a useful form.

FWIW, Microsoft does a better job monetizing the best candidates for this kind of search integration.
I'm wondering if there's some similar permanent iPhone ID available to apps.

I did a 'full wipe' on my iPhone3g and gave it to my sister -- but then when she installed Pandora, it started pre-logged-in to my account. The only mechanisms I can imagine for that are (1) (less likely) an app-addressable storage area, like cookies, that's spared the 'full wipe'; (2) a permanent device ID that apps can use as if it were an unerasable, global cookie.
Yeah, we'd obviously love to have this, but the Word formatting engine is horrendous... just try taking any html document and importing it into Word and see what it looks like.

Hopefully, we can eventually replace those large internal systems that process Word documents with real tools that can search and categorize the structured data.
You can look browse the available styles in the Styles tab.
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I Love It!

Maybe its not as infinitely customizeable as microsoft word, but I did in 10 minutes what took over an hour of painful moving crap around in word.

Ugh HTML/CSS is just so much easier to style. Maybe I should just learn latex and get my problems over with.
Ask HN: Starting a drink business.
So, HN, I know this is a pretty technical site in terms of programming, entrepreneurship, etc, but it looks like I'm starting a more traditional drink business with my brother. Background info really quickly: I'm 23, he's 20, and we have created a health shot from natural products that is really quite awesome (not going into too much detail here; it's not relevant. All I have to say is it's not an energy drink).

We plan on selling 50 ml bottles (about 2 oz) to local health markets to begin with, and see how things go from there.

What I want to know is this: what do I need to know about US health and food regulation before I get into this? I'm literally going to be preparing and bottling this in my kitchen for a while and selling directly to these local markets when I start out. Is there anything I should I be aware of before I start that would have the power to stop me?

EDIT: Starting out, it looks like I will be using these bottles: http://www.sks-bottle.com/340c/fin14e.html. Good enough, or will I need something better? (in terms of being able to preserve the contents?)
The main difference I can spot is that the regular site returns a web page with a search box with a 200 result code, while this version just returns a 404. So this may in fact may have been a joke that has benn pulled in the interim.
I remember reading that post when he wrote it. From the post:

That's why, even though I don't financially need to work, I choose to work (and end up staying up until 4am pushing new code). It's why we created FriendFeed, to have a great place to work, a place where we can build great products and have happy users. Of course I'd also like to earn a few billion dollars, and I plan to make all of our employees very wealthy, but that's more like a bonus.

Rather than undermining it, I think this underscores my point. It's precisely because there's more to life than money that I'm surprised he was willing to sell. I would have expected only a ~$1 billion price tag to tempt him.
I guess this is still irrelevant if you use FlashBlock. I know I've seen many sites that don't obviously use Flash, except for the existence of a flashblock item in the top-left corner - my guess at the time was that it was tracking.
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