skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Art school film projects are created to satisfy a class requirements -- few people want the linked list implementation some freshman CS student wrote. That being said, piracy is often asserted as occurring by those who intend to financially exploit their output, a film school student who achieved a wider audience would most likely be ecstatic if their work was "pirated" and achieved wide exposure. However, there's little demand for film school student work because it's not marketed. And there's nothing saying that just because something is marketed (or has a big marketing budget), has wide exposure, there is demand for it means that it's actually good, valuable and worth having been created. Admittedly, that can't even be measured until consumption occurs and people experience it, which may just mean that pre-paying for content creation before having a chance to judge if it's worth it having been created or not (baring reputation of the creator) ends up financing the wrongs things -- we've all been in the situation of having paid $10 to see a movie that's barely worth 50 cents. Not all creative output needs to be blockbusters to be considered high worth.
We had one in our demo store for Viaweb, a version of which
still seems to exist, probably unbeknown to Yahoo:
http://store.yahoo.com/acme/teapot.html
Cross-Site scripting attack in the wild
I was cruising some local web design/development competition in my area (portfolio browsing in particular), when I checked out this site. Curious about their layout choice, I opened up the source. Near the bottom, they were very clearly the victim of a cross-site scripting attack. I have already notified the site owner as well as the company that did the development. I thought Hacker News might find this somewhat interesting though, as I know I've heard all about this, but never actually seen/discovered one.
Call it time lag :)
That might be a bit to much. I don't think there is a reason to penalize re-submitters as it's obviously not re-submitted on purpose or to do harm. It's re-submitted because no one can look at every single link posted here and it's quite easy to miss something. I mean, for most common folk (like myself) reading HN is not a day job but a spare time activity. Not all of us are that fortunate.
From the employer's perspective:
In your FAQs, you mention that there are no refunds. I'd urge you to reconsider. I worked on LinkedIn Jobs when it first launched. Initially, traffic was low and some postings didn't get a single applicant. For these users, we ended up extending the listings for free and IIRC even gave refunds or credits when someone simply couldn't fill a position after trying repeatedly. The problem is that when your site is small, it's a high risk for a prospective employer to post to it. Knowing that you can get your money back if things don't work out really helps. Money-back guarantees are a great marketing feature.

IMO, $75 is a high price for a site w/o a track record of effectiveness. It's hard to put that much into a posting on a site that gets... tens of hits per day? hundreds? When one can pay twice that to post to LinkedIn or HotJobs or some other portal where you can literally get 1000 times more views. Also, I think Craigslist jobs are still free in many places, and that's something you're competing against as well. I'd start really low.. maybe $20-25 to post. Assuming you get some traction, get a few testimonials that you can feature on the site to raise its perceived value, then you can start to slowly raise prices.
(as an aside, LinkedIn did this too. Job posting started at ~$50 and slowly moved up to their current price of ~$200 as the value of the site became more clear and demonstrable to potential employers)

From the jobseeker's point of view:
You're making people sign up to view details for a posting. IMO, that's too aggressive. You want people to become really engaged first and find jobs that they want to apply to, and then ask for them to create an account at that point. If you ask too early, many people will just abandon the site.

More comments:

- Not sure what a provider is? Is that someone who provides labor or someone who provides jobs?

- The UI is really simple. At first, I thought it was a little too simple, but after a few minutes it grew on me =).

- I can't figure out if you're screening job applicants and job postings, or just job postings.

- Is there a specific problem you're trying to solve that you don't think is currently addressed by other job sites?

- The trick to a successful job site is to get a huge base of jobseekers. If every posting gets 100 views and 5 applications of which 1-2 are good, employers will gladly pay to post on your site. Try to come up with ways to get jobseekers to visit your site often -- job hunting tips, rss feeds, etc

Good luck!
I haven't read any studies on the subject, but I think it's a lot easier to see the structure of a Lisp program than Python or Ruby.
Misa, a guitar running Linux Kernel 2.6.31
Idk what else to say except Awesome :D
TechCrunch Hacked
Okay, I throw something different in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioBrick

http://2010.igem.org/Main_Page

We'll see what kind of games he'll produce. :)
I agree. The color scheme is really harsh. Tone it down a bit.
Well played, anonymous hacker. I even respect your lack of political posturing.

For when this gets fixed, right now techcrunch.com is an empty html page that contains <a href="http://nottherealurl.com/ title="rapidshare downloads">rapidshare downloads</a>

Edit: now it is a blank html page that contains only "hi". Someone from HN rehacked it? Or it's about to be fixed.
I'll definitely find a place to (simply) explain the differences between Tiers/purchase prices.

I'll consider your thoughts on the location search; at a minimum, I'll add an "auto-suggest" type feature to help narrow your search.

Thanks!
I am surprised this news wasn't posted on TechCrunch before... oh wait.
Clever idea. I can't tell whether this is line is meant to be a joke or not:

"And third, the stylish case protects you from being like everyone else because BookBook is totally original, just like you."

:-)
One day too early, if they were going for maximum damage.
Lenna was Playboy's Playmate of the month. In other words: She's nude. There's an alternative url:

http://www.lenna.org/full/len_full.html
I like the color scheme, but I think that there isn't enough contrast between the colors. It all sort of blends together and becomes gray.
Yeah, he/she/they definitely should have done this on Wednesday at 10:00 AM (or whenever the Apple event is) if they were looking to cause any sort of damage.
I gave being a teacher serious thought when leaving school (not elementary level, but high school). However, the thought of working for unions / under specified curriculum was a major turn-off.

Right now I focus on blogging / writing / giving tools to teachers, but I think moving away from unions is a step in the right direction. Seniority should not be the sole way you advance in that profession.
Further to this point.

I have a few friends in different fields of research and in the biotech field. I sent them a link from sciencedaily, after thanking me for the link. They politely informed me that sciencedaily is not a worth while publication and therefore deem the information from it not so exciting / important.

You could say they are being snobbish maybe even elitist. But as mentioned in the comments, this is not the first time a post to there has had words like "misleading" etc.

What if we had a peer review, prestigious website where you could submit your articles for publishing in the IT world?

Equally, does "snobbishness" exist already in peer review sites for the IT world already?
Who ever is behind this is changing the html page, 4 mintues ago it was <a href="http://dupedb.com/ title="rapidshare downloads">rapidshare downloads</a>. Now the source says "hi". Strange times.
For the record, I posted my comment before Andrew added the HN link to the article. It had no bearing on my comment.
Hope they have backups and don't loose data. As much as I hate that their quality has gone down, I hate to see someone's hard work get killed by something like this.
It was linking to dupedb .com when I looked a minute ago. Now all I see is text saying hi
Was techcrunch hosted in indonesia or is this a DNS attack ? http://bit.ly/5QgDUa
I've thought more and more on the no-refund stance, and I believe you are correct -- I'll add a clause allowing them, perhaps up to 15 days from listing close (45 from listing purchase/approval).

As for pricing, you're correct again -- $75 (or anything, really) is a great deal to ask for a site with no track record. Even your "tens of hits" is overestimating at the moment.... I don't, however, want to set a low price and then raise it -- that's always irked me in any situation. Perhaps making new listings free during the beta test (a month or two)?

I'll certainly reconsider requiring users to register. I DO want employers to feel safe in that they won't see ALL of the spam that comes with an open site, but maybe an option to only allow members to apply? Tier II jobs will retain the requirement, as they're for premium members exclusively (they're screened by the staff and pay a fee), but Tier I would be fine.

For your other comments:
- I'll make the delineation between employer and provider (or at least the definition or nomenclature of a provider) more clear).

- Glad the UI grew on you -- it did me, too! :)

- All jobs posted are screened for compliance with our Acceptable Use standards (basically nothing offensive or harmful). All PREMIUM members will be screened for access to the premium features (before being asked to pay, of course) -- basically, we'll check portfolios and references.

- The problem we're trying to solve is too high a cost and/or too little value (for both employers AND providers). A listing can run, as you mentioned, $200-$300 dollars (which I believe is a bit excessive). The employer can be inundated with crap applicants -- we allow peer reviews and screen premium members. The providers can be inundated with jobs with minuscule pay -- we have minimum budgets.

I reckon I oughta make all of that more clear.... :)

Thank you for your detailed analysis, particularly having worked where you have. I truly appreciate it!

- John
Before that, it (automatically redirected?) was some affiliate link. I came page to the tab to see 'this offer is not available in your country'.
I'll try to tweak those colors, then -- it already looks different between my own monitors. Thanks!

- John
It maps git branches to hg bookmarks (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BookmarksExtension) instead of hg branches, because bookmarks turn out to be a better fit.
Would I have done this in HTML and Javascript? No.

A couple of lines in jQuery. Would work on iPhone too.
CSS transitions and animation is a nice way to create simple (and not so simple animation). Work on iPhone too. Hardware accelerated.
to be fair, pingdom isn't going to supply you with details about cpu, bandwidth, disk, memory, etc usage for a multi-node deployment - they'll just tell you when its down.

i do think the prices are high, and you could certainly go it alone w/ nagios et al, but cloudkick offers a capable and detailed monitoring infrastructure that plugs into many outlets out-of-box. thats pretty cool if you ask me.
redirected me first time to http://www.twply.com/
then it came up next time with "hi"
Very cool idea. For those who want to try at home, try this (mac and unix users only)...

cd /

find . -exec stat -f "%z" {} \; | cut -c -1 > /tmp/tally.txt

sort /tmp/tally.txt | uniq -c

Mine came out with...

506 0
80370 1
30396 2
25215 3
21787 4
22174 5
26251 6
12810 7
10455 8
5556 9

Very interesting...
well this sucks.

but i feel the hack was done today instead of tomorrow to let them know the hackers displeasure on something.
but not to really hit them when it matters... (which is tomorrow for apple presentations )

maybe its just a warning perhaps.

I am sure techcrunch is working on this...

wordpress systems are pretty stable but all systems have a loophole.. on many systems, you can't avoid the hacking because it is the human errors (or negligence)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (For Reals)
I third the wildcard and make it represent multiple missing letters, not just one letter per wildcard.
Original BUT extremely expensive.
And.... We're back.

Now, how long til we get Arrington's spin?
Now it's back. Restored. Glad nothing disappeared.
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If you like this, please check out my take on this problem and let me know if you have any feature requests:

http://www.readfresh.com
FLAC's native container format uses OGG-style metadata: http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=FlacMetadata

Though I've never seen a FLAC file with any metadata at all in the wild: it's always in the filename and accompanying text files. I would end up massaging the metadata into the standard mp4 fields when I transcoded to ALAC.

In practice when I've tried seeking in a FLAC file, I usually get a short pause followed by a loud click, and then the timecode is usually wrong or missing entirely. Maybe none of the files had seekpoint data, or the player/decoder implementations I used didn't support them. ALAC always worked perfectly.
I made a tool for this : http://css-sprit.es
all I'm seeing is "we'll be back shortly" it could be the hacker changing it
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Just a question but is there any reason why this is better than setting up cacti to monitor any and all server usage benchmarks?
Photos of the Apple Tablet
How to combine two PDF documents?
The article show you how to combine many PDF files into one when you want to view them in your mobile phone. It provides steps of how to combine many PDF documents into one.
Wait, you had to start a new account because he hell-banned unalone?

That's low, even by pg's standards.
Very much exciting the "WANT" circuit in my brain. The price prevents it from firing, but I love the idea of opening up a book in class to take notes / compile code.

Only thing I'm questionable on: the * ziiiiip * sound when you open it. Very un-book-like. But better than velcro.
That is wrong.
http://www.techcrunch.com/page/1/ is working
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Do you think the tool is in right direction? Any feedback or comments?
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There is are a couple
http://www.learnprolognow.org/
http://www.amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/advfrtop.htm

A good way is to look at maybe the lecture notes of an undergrad functional programming course. They usually present it quite simply.

Unfortunately the course at UBC does not post the lectures online openly but rather through a restricted CMS.
/newest does a bit better, though it gets excited about changes in rating. And articles still aren't linked, though they're at least shown when they're new.

news.ycombinator's root page is a very un-feed-like page, I wouldn't expect any service to handle it correctly.
Apple event is Wednesday, not tomorrow.
So that people on Hacker News can't find a flaw with your program.
Gyroplanes
Great job! I used it to analyze my most recent project, and I was genuinely surprised by the results -- your questions highlighted areas I've neglected to consider or approached incorrectly. I especially love the detailed feedback after the quiz.

Only feedback I can offer is to perhaps re-evaluate the grammar and spelling in some of your questions -- not a big deal, but an easy fix.

Good luck!
Maybe they're assuming that if you dropped 2x as much on a notebook because it had an Apple logo on the back, $80 isn't going to really faze you.

Disclaimer: I use only Macs.
Keynes vs Hayek, as explained in rap video form
Photos of Apple Tablet
I think that is one of the most terrible ways I've ever heard of to run a society. Leaving aside the question of intelligence types, test accuracy, corruption, and all that, some of the most "test-intelligent" people I know are too dumb to pour piss out of a boot.

The thought of one of them controlling people's lives on any kind of scale is terrifying.
Thanks for your feedback. Yes, I will proof-read all the questions.
I just recently started working with FlashPunk (http://flashpunk.net/), a really cool and simple library for game development using AS3 and Flex.

Game development in Flash isn't going away for a LONG time, methinks.
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Thanks, it's nice to know since I was about to do something similar for django too.
How about an extention of DrScheme allowing some really awesome livecoding? Fluxus gives you the entire REPL as well as an editor and the program runs and displays the graphic with a press of F5, this is how I first got into Scheme.

http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/
Kurzweil Discusses the Future of Brain Computer Interfaces (Video)
Damn...now I won't be able to sleep tonight until I change all my passwords to randomly generated 64-character strings.
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A few more pricing possibilities:

- The StackOverflow careers approach: a posting costs $X until some date, then $Y after. Y >> X. This is similar to your free beta idea.

- Charge per applicant. Maybe $10 to post, first application you receive is free, then $10 per application until you reach $100 (or some other level). This is nice because you no longer need refunds (poster only loses $10 if no one applies), and also as the site becomes more useful, postings cost more =).

Re: spam prevention -- I agree with you. Letting anyone view but only letting registered users apply is a good approach.

Re: your motivation -- nice. Reference and portfolio checking are pretty useful.
Should read as3 and javascript, don't know how to edit on phone
It has just been hacked again....

The html: <title>LOL HACKED</title>

<center><h1><b>WHAT A FUCKING USELESS HACK ISN'T IT? BLEH.</b></h1></center><br>

<h1><a href="http://dupedb.com/ title="rapidshare downloads">http://dupedb.com/</a></h1><br>;
30 mins later, no we're not
Maybe people will finally stop using the duct-taped spaghetti called "wordpress".
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how to see the other card ?
"""Guaranteach is powered by a vast library of short video math tutorials and a sophisticated array of learning algorithms which allows the software to intelligently guide a student at their own pace, and on their own customized path through the math curriculum. As the software learns about each student’s preferences for teaching styles, it selects the optimal tutor and video to maximize the chance of the student understanding the concept. If you’re struggling with the concept of differentiation from first principles – Guaranteach has tens of short (1-2 minute) math tutorials on the concept, all created by different teachers, with their own unique explanations, diagrams and methods for conveying the concept. Search for the one you want, or let Guaranteach recommend what’s best for you."""

http://www.guaranteach.com/welcome/about

I see no reason for this idea to be applied for higher education , and for written content.
Cloudkick starts charging for (some) simple cloud management
now it says, "We'll be back shortly."
once you're lucky, twice you're good
Very elegant, but non-functional case who's zipper/head will scrape up the corners of the precious mac inside. :(

property of... used to make the best sleeve I've seen, but sadly no longer.
Try looking at a comparison of Discovering Algebra and Prentice Hall Algebra Here:
http://www.mathunderground.net/PHvsDA/PHvsDA.html
great ready to cry large tears.
No word from them: http://twitter.com/techcrunch
Seniority should not be the sole way you advance in that profession.

It's not. Pursuing a masters or a doctorate at some point in your career is probably the best way to advance. Here, for example, is the salary schedule for a school district in silicon valley: http://www.mvla.net/Personnel/salaryschedules/Pages/Certific...
At one point, the source said <!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->
A hack for the sake of hacking - gotta respect.
In my area (Europe) I still see this message. Also no redirection on the dubedb.com link.
Can anyone make out the folders on the computer? Just looks like a large iPhone, has the volume. Looks nice though.
i believe there is a condom company that makes normal, large, extra large instead of small, medium, large.
The fact is that the new flash VM is actually very good and delivers a sophisticated UI framework that is actually very pleasant to work with.

The Flash VM is shit on everything but Windows. Anyone who thinks that it is a well written piece of software is deluding themselves.
Daniel Brusilovsky is on the case: http://twitter.com/TechCrunch/team
I have reason to believe these are real, and that the person who took/released them purposefully manipulated the reflections to add doubt about their authenticity.

No offense, but I've just consed Dustin Curtis onto my "tired of their blog" list (along with Mike Arrington and Jeff Atwood). So much self-aggrandizing hype, so little actual information...
Minnesota has better school achievement than the USA. There must be something to Northern latitude icy winters producing improved academic achievement. Canada is also better than USA in math. Maybe not using the $100 million NSF grant created math books and a few other publisher clones of same has a positive effect.
I think people interpreted your comment as saying "You won't look at most commits ever again, so don't be so anal."
Mark Whitacre AKA "The Informant"
I always let out a disappointed sigh when I have to remind people of things like this, but tomorrow is Wednesday for a lot of the world.
Visitors should be awake that visiting tc.com rightnow is equivalent to visiting an suspicious, untrustred site. It could serve malicious content that takes advantage of unknown vunerabilities even on fully patched systems... although i'd hope the hn audience is savvy enough to know this.
Yeah, what decoder are you using? XMMS2 seeks in my FLAC files just fine, and I have not gone to any effort to add seekpoints.
We only have to wait until Wednesday to see how authentic it is. I'd love for one of these blogs to do a follow up to see who came the closest.
It might be worth asking viewers to share with everyone what they learned or what they disagree on (backed by a counter argument). We are a bunch that likes to learn from other people's opinions and engage in interesting discussions.

Whenever I introduce someone to HN I make sure to lay down the rules of the land first and when I come across comments like the ones below I usually try to engage them more rather than vote them down.