skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I tried to change the link to OP, but it wouldn't let me. Sorry about that.
I'm much the same way. For me it was the classes I didn't like that I did poorly in, like marketing. The less interesting it is going in the worse I do.
Most recently I've seen one on plurk.com. They seem to be spreading like a virus - hopefully this article will help to turn people against them.
But you still need to know the address of the site. You'd need to create a new attack site for every victim. And then lure the victim there after they had just been in PHPMyAdmin. Not exactly like a CSRF in Facebook or something.

It should definitely be fixed, but it really is a weak attack.
I think AS is the new IQ: Academic Success has been shown to be the best predictor of Academic Success so far...
I first saw this on Facebook. They did have leverage and they used it without hesitation (quite arrogantly I thought). Then everyone else followed: "if Facebook can do it, why can't we?". It became a standard. That alone made me loose the little respect I had for Facebook. Very early did they screw up. Google still manage to not fall this low.
While I may be in the minority, this is unhappy news (I guess that makes me a graybeard according to the article...). Not sure how others feel, but post-Tiger, PPC performance has actually taken a big lumpy hit. Leopard had new interesting features which I paid for, but I didn't realize that an additional 'feature' would be slower performance. Not to mention my own personal issues with the 10.5.3 update (note to future self: assuming that a core OS update will not totally break everything is truly a leap of faith). Just my .02
http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page

And it's free.
"the new campus, which will begin construction in 2013 and will include some housing for employees."

I've often thought that if a big tech firm were to buy an apartment building, fit it out like dorms but with decent sized rooms, nice furniture, etc, wire it all up and let employees live there rent-free, the productivity gains would pay for it easily. Give people interesting problems to work on (or the freedom to find their own) and they'll basically work all the hours God sends, so it's about cutting down on distractions.

'Course those geeks would be burnt out in a few years if they weren't careful, but for new grads just moved to town, why not?
Phrased much more adeptly than my "painting with crayons" argument.
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Mine's been going a similar route... I actually even relocated because the job description sounded pretty exciting (technically challenging, even), but it ended up being the same sort of thing as the government contracting work that I was trying to escape from, but with even older technology. Since it ended up being largely a software life-support role, I'm working on bootstrapping my own business interests... but my focus isn't on software, it's on photography. I've spent so much time in roles like this one that I'm getting tired of the field altogether, mainly because life-support jobs are so anti-creative.
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I'm going to skip Photoshop for an entirely different reason.

All Adobe products gradually became classical bloatware over the past years. One or two minor features, or otherwise just a couple of crappy-buzzword-features and you get a binary twice as bigger as the previous one.

When you realize they are doing that just because they need to improve sales, you feel betrayed. So honestly, today I feel betrayed by Adobe and I'm going to dump Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Acrobat for something else, forever. Amen.
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What will you use instead?
For the most part, Mr. Croft and 37signals work in too different arenas (as he points out). Bottom line: if you're designing a webpage, its still ok to start in photoshop. If you're designing an app with buttons and forms, start with HTML/CSS.
Perhaps you can tell us the basis for your previous position. It sounds like you don't have experience with interviews or hiring, so what made you think that you knew what you were writing about?
It's interesting that Gladwell doesn't bring up baseball in his examples.

If you read "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis, you come away with the impression that there is a definitive way to predict the probability of future success, albeit using untraditional metrics.
And then they could create company stores and pay in company money. It would be a closed system!
Ask YC:Community Building
Hey everyone!

You guys have served as both inspiration and reality check over the time of my membership. So who better to turn to when I have a pressing question!

As many may know from my last post (what would you do with 50K) I am now full time on my startup and I have started fully developing my prototype. But there is one element that seems so scary to me. Community building. Any and all ideas to help build a social community/ userbase for a gaming SaaS. I have an answer for every possible question concerning my business except how to quickly, yet efficiently build a community and user base.

A few details - my offering is free to use with premium offerings. Thanks for your help!!!!
Exactly. If there is an opportunity to find a way to add features and get more users, any company will do it. This is a no-brainer. Any tech-savvy user will just simply skip this step.

And the contacts API that the major providers are giving are recent. It's not like services like Yelp and FB had the choice before.

Ps.: Jeff Atwood's "from the hip" writing style shows. I'm yet to find one single post from him that seems slightly insightful. Instead of spending so much time ranting, he could spend a tenth of that time thinking about why Yelp keeps that "feature".

Edit: could someone please explain me why of such aggresive downmodding?
There's GIMP, but I don't see a lot of enthusiasm on the Net about it. I think I'll try to find something small and simple that suits preliminary web site modeling and is capable of producing web formats - png, jpeg and gif - out of the slices of the basic graphical model. In fact GIMP may be OK for doing just that.
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Why you should take everything Mike Arrington says with a grain of salt.
In talking about the Flip Ultra (video camera:)

"And I just can’t figure out why people like this thing."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/05/the-flip-v-my-cheap-canon-camera-flip-loses-across-the-board/

That single sentence discredits quite a few things he says for me since it's really simple why people like it. It's simple! Duh!
Ick.

>It has the right to refuse certain kids of apps, like Internet phone software that screws their carrier partners; we can also see it nixing software that could compete with their own services, like an iTunes-rival music store.

Or whatever else it wants to. Will I be able to use iChat voice chat with my iPhone? Don't bet on it.
Read the "Black Swan" recently, just as good as advertised. The article was a bit ... caffeinated. Didn't really explain anything, just jumped around a number of topics. This is probably better: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb04/taleb_index.html
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It's "interesting" that many of the folks pushing AGW "solutions" were pushing those solutions before they heard of AGW.
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Why I voted this up: because the author suggests that there is not just one correct way to do something. Which is not what 37signals usually suggests.
Let's only hope that by the time we reach the ripe old age of Alzheimers onset, the cure has been found. It seems like a fate almost worse than death.
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In the mean time, drink coffee

http://alzheimers.about.com/od/research/a/Coffee_Alz.htm
It is painful to be reminded of how poorly so many people watch out for themselves. As an uninterested third party, you can shrug and say, "Every man for himself." But as soon as you start designing web applications that assume people behave reasonably, you lose the luxury of being able to ignore the problem.
Sounds like a great product but I wasn't able to connect to the site... is anyone else experiencing the same issues?
The danger is that this breaks what is supposed to be a taboo, lowers people's resistance to giving out their password by conditioning them to expect that nothing will go wrong, and makes it easier for others to commit fraud.

So people get burned by some Nigerian scammer, decide never to do any business online again, and what good does that do for the YC crowd?
The corollary is also true. From what I saw in school, academic success didn't really require or didn't often encourage high IQ.
Wow! They have done an amazing job! Definitely light years ahead of anything else I've seen (that works in a web browser)..
10. Involve your customers in your product, and provide easy ways for them to provide feedback. The Obama campaign assumed that campaign donors would want to get involved and gave them tools to do so (such as the phone lists).
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I'd even settle for a treatment. Today's strategy seems to be to lock people away and hope they don't hurt themselves.
I think his point is if "You are only designing web apps that your will own and operate or are in a family of web apps that will have a similar look" then it is ok to skip photo shop
The links to the other parts are at the very top of this article. I don't think it was necessary to post all the parts.
Tell that to college admissions...
and eating curry

http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20050105/curry-spice-ma...
Hadoop use at Facebook
true, although it only seems that way to us.. To them I hope they can't remember the pain, and everyday is a new day of learning...
Clicking on the next slide button or the slide itself just took me to the top of the page.

EDIT: I'm not complaining, I used the actual slide builder and that was awesome. It's miles beyond any of my hacks :).
The TechCrunch embed has bitten us a bit harder than expected. We're actively working on it!
"Strongly-encrypted channel" basically means VPN in my book. If the phpMyAdmin server isn't on a publicly-routable IP, and you don't have the VPN tunnel open when you aren't using the secure host, then it will in fact defeat CSRF.
come to the intel dark side.
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On the app side, I'm not sure if HTML/CSS always wins.

Between Yahoo's stencils (and some of my own), I can get some clear ideas in play that look like a web page in Photoshop in an hour or two, assuming I don't get tempted by pixel-perfection. This is slower than sketching, but I think just about always causes the audience to consider the prototype more thoroughly, uncovering problems and potential that a sketch usually won't.

Rails is fast, but it's still cheaper to tweak a Photoshop doc with your team looking over your shoulder.
Sorry about that, try again, it should be much better now.
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The customer doesn't care who's fault it is
This method might work if I wanted to hire a salesman. For anyone else, it strikes me as phony and affected. Do I really care if a job prospect married the prettiest girl in his small town? I am more interested in whether he or she is competent and a self-learner.
Lots of phraudsters use this sort of technique as well. I started receiving several spam IMs a day from a friend of mine. When I asked what was up, she said that she had foolishly given her account name and password to a service which purported to tell her what other IM accounts had blacklisted her.

Of course, many more accounts blacklisted her once they started receiving the spam messages...
I suspect it will only end in a courtroom, one way or another.
http://friendfeed.com/uglychart
ouch! I hope you're looking around ...
Ask YC: Have you scaled an ODBMS
I have been working with an ODBMS for python called Schevo (getschevo.org)

I have fallen in love with it, and am going to use it in an upcoming project that will need some serious scaling - hopefully.

Has anyone got experiences in scaling non-RDBMS datastores? Any thoughts?
Agreed. I just started using jQuery for a project and I am amazed at how easy it was to learn and implement.
First, there have been as many horror stories about the mass-market features built on harvesting email contacts.

Second, there are lots of convenient features that we don't build because they send a terrible message. For instance, it would be really convenient to work with your bank via email.

Third, he's right: many of these services probably do bank your password, which is an absolute nightmare. Almost every web app is going to lose its database to SQL injection at some point in its lifespan.
So, it's settled, then? Entrepreneurs are smart people with ADD who learn to channel their energies toward interesting enough ends? Seems like I've been hearing pretty much that message for most of my life.

After all, if you excel at working within established institutions throughout your life, you'll probably continue to follow whatever career path is expected of you as an adult.
I would even go so far to venture that the performance slowdown is deliberate - Apple's goal is to sell you hardware, and to that end it would not surprise me if the PPC version is intentionally slower to give the illusion that you'll need an Intel Mac for it to really run well.
Me too. I also got an error message pop-up. But hey, it's a brand new service. I'm not judging.
> Voted ‘most likely to succeed,’ when I should have been voted ‘most likely to help ABC develop killer products.’

You'll sound like an utter nob if you write like that. I once received a resumé titled "Steely-blue-eyed contract killer" which didn't go immediately in the bin -- because we were too busy having a laugh about it. Then it went in the bin. Some of the given examples seem very reminiscent of the kind of person who thinks rather too highly of themselves.
It's not a day of learning. It's day after day of being frightened by unfamiliar surroundings, not knowing why you are so old and feeble, and being afraid that everyone around you is trying to hurt you. The paranoia and distrust and bitterness that comes with the disease is just as bad as the memory loss itself. All of that hardship drags down entire families and can stress old friendships to the breaking point. Alzheimer's is a frightening and cruel disease.
Roy Bostock's pissed off letter to Carl Icahn
11. Find your key differentiator and trumpet it (change). If your competitors cannot copy your differentiator effectively because of their entrenched positions, even better.
"many people will not care about the privacy/security issues if it means less work for them."

... until it bites them in the ass.
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In the late stages patients tend to be stuck in a fog of anger, confusion, and sadness. Just don't forget that even without a cure, most people don't ever develop Alzheimer's. Prevalence at age 85 is about 25%, and only 1% at age 60. And there are plenty of things you can do now to reduce your risk even further.
emphasis on "I hope" ... it is a frightening disease my grand father has it; I think sometimes its our reaction to him forgetting us that makes him scared.. perhaps if we just re introduced ourselves
Funny. The research seems to show that an ability to quiet one's mind, listen to others even if you're not interested, and follow arbitrary orders is helpful in school. To me, this is obvious, and once again reinforces the fact that school is a harmful institution based on conformity and obedience. To the school researchers, this shows the fundamental importance of this "new cognitive skill".
What if you're using a common application like WordPress or Movable Type where the database and table names are known?
I think they're just talking about ADD (which I suspect is highly prevalent in HN users. It doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you could get a lot better at everything if you got it treated (ie got ritalin)...just a thought).
This isn't a good example of Arrington being off-target. His point that you can get a much better product for less money is well-supported in his article. How hard is it to use a point and shoot camera exclusively for video, if that's what someone wants to do? A crayon and paper are simple too.
That's just silly/stupid. A good resume speaks for itself and is instantly obvious from
1) The grammar and words used
2) The length of the resume (yes, believe me, size does matter)
3) What it says. Content is king, it doesn't make a difference if we're talking articles or resumes/CVs.

A resume isn't where you show off your humor, that's what interviews are for.
I don't think they ever suggest that their way is the only way. There's nothing wrong with saying how you do something and making a case for it; you don't have to add a disclaimer to everything you write about doing business.
Mean IQ of College Grads is Dropping
The embeds definitely have a few kinks to work out. Until then, you can view the same presentation here:

http://280slides.com/Viewer/?user=187&name=My%20test%20s...
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I guess I was in error, then, but I don't see that 1200 figure noted anywhere on that page, so I'm going to call it an honest mistake ;-).

But still, the machine mentioned is no better than the PC I bought 6 years ago before my freshman year of college (and currently have sitting in the closet because I have no use for it). It's a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB ram, 60 GB hard drive, CD-RW and DVD drives, and a GeForce2 graphics card, and it was far from top of the line when I bought it for somewhere between $600-800 (I don't remember). Oh, and it came with Windows XP, which served me well for four years before I replaced it with FreeBSD.
Congratulations! It is impressive product. The site is little slow but expected. I like how clean the editor looks and you added all the necessary functionalities without using Flash. Wish you great success in future.
I highly doubt that. Freedom of speech covers your right to give out your password to anyone who asks for it :)

If some stranger came up to you in the street and asked for your SSN & bank account number and you were stupid enough to give it to them, who would be at fault? Would that stranger have done anything illegal?
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That looks technologically impressive. I heard they will be releasing their Objective-J tools as open source, is there any truth to that? I'd love to see what's running behind this.

Does anyone know how long this took?
I could maybe see this argument holding up a few years prior, but I think CS3 has had a remarkable influence on my workflow (compared to say, CS2). Having run the last 2 versions on the same Intel machine, there was immediate differences to note with the workspace and rendering times. I mean just compare the time it takes to load Photoshop and it justifies the upgrade.

I will be curious to see how lean the product stays when as the updates continue to roll in.
People who look at resumes all day spend 15 seconds looking at most resumes because that's how long it takes to find something stupid or disqualifying for the job, not because they look for something awesome for 15 seconds and then chuck it if they aren't grabbed by your whimsical creativity.

Your resume should get you in the door -- use your interview to convey what a unique and special snowflake you are.
I agree. I think, like it's been said, that 37Signals is a special case. I believe in the field we all work in, it is wise to assume a graphic mockup as a step in the progress and then carefully decide whether or not it's a neutral step based on the history of projects you've completed. In other words, there is no bottom line.
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This is what Jeff Atwood thinks of you asking for his email password. My personal impression is that most people don't give a shit.
I can understand someone posting an article then other people commenting on why they disagree, but to start a thread just to say "here's another reason I disagree"? I don't get it. Not only that, but saying one sentence (minor at that, in my opinion) discredits "quite a few other things" but not listing them? I don't know... there's a lot of useless stuff being posted on HN lately, but I don't waste my time (or other people's time) saying "this doesn't belong on HN" over and over and over. This just seems to cross a line though, so I felt the need to reply.

On top of that, what's with all the Arrington bashing lately? Some of his stuff is good and some is questionable. If you disagree with him, great, just put some meat into the argument. This just seems like you're going out of your way to post something negative. If you want to lay out your arguments for the "quite a few things", that could lead to an interesting thread, but I just don't get what you were expecting to achieve by posting this.
I think that if a friend really wanted to suggest a request to me, I'd rather see it in a more personal medium. Otherwise, why haven't I already thought to add them?
Would be interesting to know if software engineering has also a mismatch problem. Is there any information about that? But in any case it should be easier to find a good programmer than to find a good basketballer because its easier to test them while they are doing their actual job.
The mismatch problem should also be an important topic for YC - it's the daily work of an VC to predict success. Maybe they could provide Gladwell with some interesting statistics for his book ;)
Do we create the world by looking at it?
Bryan Caplan was my adviser at Mason. Interesting guy. He thinks we inefficiently overeducate.
If you want to use HTML5 today, check out the Google Gears project, it is a plugin layer for (almost) all browsers that allows you to use some of the neat HTML5 features, today! I learned all about it at Google I/O this year, its a really neat technology I hope to embrace soon.
I find it amusing that these features almost always show a list of people I dislike.

If I know a person and they're on Facebook, more often than not I've already 'friended' them. The friends-of-friends which are left tend to be those I'd rather avoid.
This isn't as big of a deal as people are making it out to be. The fact is that I DO give out keys to my house to a number of people that I trust. Likewise, I've used this import feature on a few websites that I trust, such as Facebook, and would be willing to do the same on Yelp if I used that. The notion that it's somehow unethical is just silly.

Of course people should be hesitant to give their passwords to random web sites, but then again they should also be hesitant to give they address book out to random websites (I don't want spam just because you signed up for some scammy site). The people most likely to fall for scams probably use the same password everywhere, btw.
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Fireworks: vector based, built for websites and web apps. Unfortunately it's from Adobe now too, so you deal with bloat that Macromedia wasn't very fond of.
""It sounds funny but it helps," said Franz-Josef Goebel, the chairman of the "Old Lions" association."

Franz-Josef Goebel? Sounds suspicious.

On the other hand, here's a picture: http://www.alte-loewen.de/dpa2g.jpg
"Mean IQ of College Grads is Dropping" is basically the same statement as "more people are graduating from college."