skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's surprisingly hard to find out (http://gigaom.com/2009/06/24/with-file-sharing-friendfeed-ri... was the best reference I could find), but it seems that you're right. It looks like FriendFeed cofounder Bret Taylor is the CEO. My mistake.
There's a $10 million prize for sequencing 100 genomes in 10 days: http://genomics.xprize.org/archon-x-prize-for-genomics/prize...
" "Communist China" is not some dark gulag where people are beaten while walking down the street for having vaguely pro-democracy thoughts or something."

No it is just a dark gulag where people are arrested and then beaten for expressing or acting on vaguely pro-democracy thoughts.

People still disappear in China into "re education camps" and are never seen again and are beaten, tortured and killed. Other than that, sure, it is "just" "an autocratic state, it has some definite problems"

The govt is a repressive dictatorship with a horrific human rights record. The fact that outsiders can make money there, while they can't (today) in say, North Korea, doesn't change the essential nature of the beast. Dictatorships can be great places for non citizens who are treated well and can always leave if they want to. Except that the jews/communists/gypsies/homosexuals etc were killed in their millions, Nazi Germany was a great place to live and work in(See IBM and the Holocaust), as long as you didn't challenge the gang of thugs ruling the country.
i made my own "barefoot" shoes by sawing off the heels of old runners, cutting out all the material above the soles, and then drilling three holes in the soles: one between my big and second toes, and one each next to my ankle. this left me with a shoe very much like the Tarahumara tire shoes, although i lace it (with the runner's shoe laces) a bit different.

you can also make tire shoes yourself quite easily.

you don't need $80 shoes for awesome sandals.

that said, i have 5-finger shoes as a bday gift. they are excellent boat shoes. pretty good in rivers, but as stated before, rock bruising is very real. maybe that's something that has to be developed over time like any muscle.
Went to my first New Tech Boulder Meetup this week and I was really impressed with the crowd and the vibe. Got to see Dan Bricklin speak in person, one of my idols in the hacker/entrepreneur pantheon for Visicalc.

Boulder is a great place, in certain ways, we just don't want lots more folks to move in and spoil it. Further. We're looking at you, California. :)
I can understand the curiosity, but I don't think it's appropriate to state how much we paid for essentially a consulting service in a public forum.
> Its a completely new backend they are using so ordering of results is different.

Indeed. A search for "velociraptor defense" in the old version finds 72,100 results in 0.39 seconds, while the new backend yields 565,000 results in 0.30 seconds. That's nearly eight times as much practical defensive intelligence delivered 23% more quickly!

(ok, ok... I'll shut up and stop eroding the average comment quality now.)
YES. This needs to be said more and more; to many in the West believe in the stereotyped image of China in the media, which prevents making any useful criticism of the countries actual problems. People like you who say otherwise tend to get replies like the ones above me who assume that you've swallowed the state propoganda.

I should add that I have lived (and am writing this) in China. It's clear that many of the "OMG Communists!" posters have not been to he country.
> why such good reviews?

because they're fun. they're not a holy grail, certainly not one with instant gratification. they are pretty good when used as one part of a larger effort towards joyful outside time. the next step is seeing how easy it is to make neat footwear yourself, both recycled or from leather. then it's such a good feeling. shot and dang. plus, maybe you could make padded sneakers with low heels that you used to walk ball-first. just to try.
This is the real prize of the FriendFeed purchase. Facebook was not purchasing FriendFeed for the company. They were purchasing the Google Vets that developed it. Knowledge is key, and in the long run, what those FriendFeed guys know, understand, and are able to share from their experiences in their careers, education, and employment at Google, is priceless. The company itself is just an added bonus. These guys are the true intellectual property behind the physical that you see in the URL itself. With their help, Facebook can enhance its service in many ways through additional innovation, syncronization with FriendFeed, and greater competition with Google in the areas of social media, and maybe even some other aspects of the web business and online software that the company may be investigating in order to compete, that we are not 100% aware of at this point. I advise you to stay tuned for what's to come from Facebook in the near future.
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If you want, you can delete your flash cookies using the BetterPrivacy Firefox Add-On:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623

Should delete globally so you can use it even if you don't use Firefox.
Including the Chrome 'Incognito' mode?
"I should add that I have lived (and am writing this) in China."

Are you a Chinese citizen?
Thanks for the constructive feedback on the site. Point well taken. I have thought about that very issue. Too bad I'm not a programmer. I am working with my programmer in implementing the site as I invision it. Will be sure to communicate that to him, and get back on the drawing board to address those issues. Have any specific suggestions? Or, any recommendations on programmers? Thanks again.
"I believe it is very nearly within our reach to stop writing software and start specifying software instead. Write the specification, press a button and have a full implementation that is mathematically guaranteed to implement your specification."

Talk about stupid ideas. This illusion has been out there for a while and infects non programmers. I am almost tempted to post a "don't feed the troll" ascii art pciture
There are additional options exposed to limit to a certain type of content or a certain time frame for starters.
Looks like Yahoo is getting out of search.

Congratulations to both Cloudera and Doug.
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Wooden Benches, Wooden, Benches, Garden, Furniture, Cornwall, Devon, Outdoor, Living, Chairs, Table, Bench, Hardwood.
It will end when they can sustain profitability. They are still a long way from that.
I don't think I'm alone in saying it: I would never work for a company that required a Word resume.
Past searches are on top of the auto-complete recommendations.
Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo
Implementing the next GNOME shell
log(n!) = Theta(n log n)

Proof: let's take it as granted log(n!) = O(n log n). It remains to show that log(n!) = Omega(n log n).

log(n!) = sum of log i for i from 1 to n

>= sum of log (n/2) for i from n/2 to n (dropping half the terms (all nonnegative) and under-approximating the rest; technically, we need to floor or ceil n/2, but it doesn't matter)

= (n/2) log (n/2)

= (n/2) (log n - log 2)

= (1/2) n log n - n log 2 / 2

Hopefully, I don't need to bother proving that c(n log n) + kn = Theta(n log n) for constants c and k. We've shown that log n! is Omega(n log n) and O(n log n), so we have log n! = Theta(n log n) by definition.

So, the root of this thread is wrong (and so is the parent). Furthermore, the fact that log(n!) is smaller than n log n by a constant is irrelevant when comparing log(n!) to Theta(n log n). What would not be meaningless is comparing formulae for the exact number of comparisons performed by different algorithms.
Is there anyway to speed this up without hardware? My server has a laughably low amount of entropy available and I think it is why a lot of the connections are slow.

If not what is a cheapish way to get hardware entropy?
With undoubtedly the best data in the world when it comes to purchasing habits

I'd imagine Walmart has pretty good data also... granted, not identifiable in a browser session.
yeah, figured it was coming.

I really hate when companies make you get a quote, since you don't know what the price will be for comparison purposes. The range is usually so big that you really don't know who you can afford. It can be from $99 to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Damn. And I was so looking forward to reading something about Turtles .. :)

Downvoted to zero, hmm .. Logo, the programming language. The virtual turtles. Teaching computer programming in the kindergarten .. Was it a stretch to expect this to be a part of shared programmers' folklore ?
Won't most companies accept PDF these days? Their systems should be able to search those as well...

Congrats Andrew and Dane on the launch.
I started thinking how hard can it be to build a web resume?
But your implementation bowled me over. Kudos guys. Great job.

I would suggest to make it obvious that users have a URL that they can share. Give suggestions during signup for their preferred web address. eg: http://jobspice.com/firstname

Goodluck to you.
Why would Amazon get into PPC advertising when they can just market their own products? Or sell their competitor's stuff in their stores for huge commission fees?

I mean think about it, Amazon has pretty much everything, Wouldn't they rather display a TV that they sell, that has a $100 profit margin, instead of a display ad for a competitor, with a $.50 cost per click.
Many recruiters want a Word document so they can easily censor your contact information and plaster their own on top.
Great idea, and the editor looks nice! Really want them to hire a designer to do some good templates...you could rock PDF output a lot.
the prices largely depend on what these companies think you can afford.
Sure. I was just summarizing the article. And complaining about it.
I imagine Google makes a lot of money for click-throughs on things people wouldn't search for on Amazon.
Yeah, nothing else would compress worth a crap and retain the pretty. Not acceptable, I know.
Can't you work on anything you want now that you have the money? If you hadn't sold and some catastrophe struck you, what then? I'm sitting here counting out months of savings and wondering if I'll be able to build what I want to build before debt and daily life grinds me down.
Being the defacto windowing system for the most popular operating system family is a great success.

And if you believe Windows is the most popular OS family, then being the defacto windowing system for the second most popular OS family is still a great success.
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"we [will] have automation that is expensive, but cheaper than humans."

I don't think that's true. The expensive part of robots is the hardware. I think we will have hardware able to replace humans long before we have the software. ASIMO's body is probably capable enough to do many tasks today. The hardware will become cheap long before the software becomes capable enough to replace humans in most jobs, and the software will improve gradually. People will have time to adapt.

Furthermore, this argument seems based on the premise that there's a huge underclass of people who can't possibly be trained in a skill once robots take the manual labor away, and that's an elitist view I simply don't agree with. America is already a country full of people who shun manual labor; only immigration fills the lowest level of jobs. Americans are not genetically superior to the immigrants who do our manual labor; we just have better opportunities. As robots make us more productive those opportunities will be offered to more and more people, and the number of workers willing to do manual labor will naturally dwindle.
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OMG... Yahoo Gets OMG.com For Cheap
Since when is this news?
Tough times in the porn industry
Yeah I feel the same as you. But I guess the grass is always greener...
Because it didn't really answer what I was asking for?
Actually the defacto windowing system for desktop Unix is OS X's window manager, based on Quartz Compositor.
I took some time and put my .doc resume into LaTeX, figuring that with judicious use of functions, I could easily change styles and formatting. I used pdfLaTeX to output to pdf. Of course now, very few job boards take a .pdf, and of course, no recruiters do. It's a very frustrating process, made worse by the knowledge that changing my format to something more useful for me now requires me to keep two resumes, both the .pdf and the .doc versions.
Good job, looks like something linkedin should have had ages ago.
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Even then it depends. If you are optimizing across computational cycles then I think this article applies (simple example would be a better sort algorithm). If you are optimizing across data retrieval then yeah, your probably right, its much harder to have good separation. Luckily, in this case, your algorithm might still be useful even if the platform changes (unless data retrieval and storage is optimized in the new platform to the degree that your nice algorithm just isn't worth keeping).
German bride spends first night with crate of vodka
A bride in Germany spent her wedding night passed out next to a crate of vodka in the back seat of a car and had to be rescued by police when the BMW began to overheat in the sun.
Actually no, you're confusing application serving (a term used in non X environments) with display serving (which X uses).

X display servers (which we both agree are local) do not initiate clients to display on them, end users do this work - you can see this quite easily by initiating a client when you don't have an X display - the app will look for a $DISPLAY variable and attempt to connect to that display. The app is launched first by the user, and connects to the display server.
About 20 minutes ago :-)
The consumer business model that you described is a small part of JobSpice's potential. The goldmine comes from getting companies to use JobSpice to recruit new hires. All individuals want to create beautiful resumes but once the resume is created there's no telling where the individual goes with said resume.

JobSpice has the resume meta-data at its finger tips. The logical next step would be to get companies to offer jobs to JobSpice's users.
This idea is not new, but their implementation is new. Now I believe that some web ideas can differentiate truly based on "usability". Same market, many competitors, but if you have killer usability, then you've a chance to win.
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We know that investing in real estate properties would be one of the largest investments of our life. When everyone is feeling the pinch of the global economic recession, huge investments in Dallas condos or Austin Condos becomes highly difficult for many of us who live between paycheck to paycheck. All of us would love to hear some tips and advice on how to save some money while buying our dream home.
Interesting, you guys must be on one of those A/B tests that Google does without telling anyone. I certainly don't get AJAX results in the classic or sandbox searches.
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You could have some sort of "degraded" resume version in .rtf. It seems like .rtf is decent, but doesn't have as much customization as a word document. Of course, I could be wrong. It's not the best solution, but it is something that can be passed around from person to person, edited, and even re-imported with much less fuss than trying to use a Word document.

However, any time someone does that, that's a part of the process that isn't taking place on JobSpice.
True that. I was scouring job ads, and found some that required me to copy-paste my resume into the body of an email.
Not an expert, but I'd imagine so. Unless they do some wicked hackery, Chrome can't restrict what a Flash plugin executable does with an SWF file.
Check out joshu's profile.
He wasn't broke before the acquisition. A really successful product means you kinda get to do what you want whether you get an "exit" or not. Sure, the big cashout means you can go on a long vacation or something...but how many of us are in it for a long vacation? If I were to sell my company today, I would be thinking about what my next business would be by tomorrow.
Is it true that Google doesn't hire "idea guys"?

From: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...

Interestingly, Google was both least aggressive and least attractive to Schachter. When he'd interviewed for a job there, the company had told him, "We don't need idea guys--we've got plenty of them. We just need developers."
I liked the design. But i wonder how this is any different from emurse.com?
Why not go back to the drawing board and build a better version of delicious? Surely the non-compete has already expired.

If he comes out with a new delicious like product, he'd get a ton of press because of the whole "he sold, and his product was ruined, now he is back where he left of, " angle. So he'll have his big popular website again and a ton of money in his pocket.
apologies, but can I call b.s. on that?

"No Twitter? Facebook? Livejournal? Guess what? The locals weren't using it anyway (not in appreciable numbers)"

appreciable numbers or not - how important are they in interaction with the outside world without mediation of the state. (eg: sichuan earthquake - twitter/youtube played an important role in revealing to the 'outside world' the live events rather than orchestrated statements that usually come from the govt. after a week.)

More about the dark gulag or not: It is well known how people in prisons make many of the items that land up on a 'westerner's desk' (eg: promotion items like key chains for coke) - and yes the prisoner is paid for what he works - an apple a week.
More examples to cite - the Iphone prototype kid who killed himself? Let's speculate this iphone prototype being developed in another country - say US or even India. That kid did no harakiri. I will rest the case for the conspiracy theorists.

Do you know of the efforts the govt. takes to "erase" the memories of the 1989. The only chinese youth that have 'heard' of this event are the ones that live abroad.

Here's what I would like to hear about - "real" entrepreneurs from China. real -> first generation with no connections to the military or the govt. Everyone we know and hear about are the from the govt. or sons of govt. officials (like the rich russians)

We have few Canadian Chinese here - why don't they speak?

"Indeed, by not coming here to visit and or spend a bit of time, you're denying yourself experiencing one of the more vibrant and fascinating places on earth." - Agree with you.

PS: for context - I am writing this from a chinese special area zone,not china. I am not a citizen.
Congratulations on launching.

I filled out my resume, and it only took about ten minutes, which is awesome. I was actually about to hire a designer from Craigslist to spice up my resume (no joke, I've been emailing people today) so this is a nice synchronicity.

Unfortunately, some small formatting bugs make this completely unusable. My username is "zack" if you want to check it out.

Otherwise, an excellent product. I would like to have been able to add details to the Achievements section.

What's the deal with the /static/{js|css}/combined.{hash} stuff? Is that part of a home-brewed deployment solution?
You may want to make it more obvious that you registering/saving is actually creating an account.

Also, please introduce an auto-save feature.. it would have been very annoying if it didn't save properly! In fact, I was thinking, while using the product, "I am going to be so annoyed if it doesn't save properly!" - That makes for bad customer experience :)
Is there an easy way to test this?
Meh, seems a little high-level. I'd imagine there are a lot of ways to cheat around moving obstacles such as the spinners, simply by encoding "spinner recognition" into the Asmio's environment models.

What I'm extremely surprised about is the lack of development in robots with evolved morphologies - it seems silly to mimic the human anatomy of tendons and muscles with motors and gears.
I suspect he knows. cdibona is no slouch, either:-)
Yeah, we're working on making "plaintext" styles right now. Even ASCII could use a little JobSpice love.
I think execution (i.e. quality of design, ease of use, pricing -- if any, etc.) is what matters on this one, so we'll see how they compare as JobSpice matures. Emurse is really handy, though. I've used it before!
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Agreed that the Word formatting engine is horrendous.

However, one thing you might want to do is just generate a "standard format" Word doc (without all the fancy layout/design/template). This way, those that really, really need a Word version (or think they do), will have it.
Congrats on the launch!

Love the app, and like how you just "jump right in".

However, you might want to have some minimal information about the company/team (even if it's just a link from the bottom right corner). That way, if some fancy VC wants to give you a big check, they know where to reach you.
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Yeah! Wow! That thing is so cool! I dreamed about a device like that years ago. I thought it would be ideal for installing surreptitiously at my school, in order to seed some torrents.
This is a shame since Campaign Monitor is such a great service. They depend a lot on their reputation as they are at the mercy of freemail providers keeping them out of their spam blacklist.
I bought a pair of their Flow shoes and they really seem to work well. I'm barefoot as much as possible anyway, and these give me as close to that experience as I can have when I'm out and could be faced with a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" scenario.

Unfortunately, I only bought one pair of the toe socks for use with them and going barefoot in them makes for a sweaty experience. So I ordered another 6 pairs of socks so I could use them all the time, but UPS wants $48 for customs into Canada (but mostly for their brokerage fee) which is ludicrous so I refused the shipment. Now I'm waiting to reorder them but this time using the USPS which seemed to work fine the last time when I ordered the shoes themselves.

Once that's sorted out, I'll be wearing these things until it's just too cold to do so up here!
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Because then I'd be The Bookmarks Guy. Eugh
Hmm. This might be a good way to deal with entropy starvation on VM guest OSes. Kind of a niche concern, but one I happen to have.