skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not. I was reading about IMDB a couple of days back, back when they were starting out there were many editors (like wikipedia) and that was part of the reason they went with the Amazon buyout, so they could pay everyone for their work. In fact, in this article it says the same:

"...asked if the sale had made him and his group of volunteers rich..."
New year, new science
The answers to all of these questions are in the linked article.

But, just to save you the bother:

a) one guy started it, but it is not a one-man show, nor has it ever really been
b) the data was sourced (Wikipedia-style, you might say) on Usenet, back in the pre-WWW days. Since then, the number of sources has multiplied.
c) it goes to Amazon, who bought the IMDB back in '98.
d) Of course not. He's a VP at Amazon. There is a staff (of unspecified size) working on IMDB.
"I wouldn't expect to get something for nothing": and yet, at least for my daily work, almost everything I use is MIT licensed -- something for "nothing".
I would like to make it like PHP documentation where you can add comments directly to the HTML pages - but that means mastering the Sphinx Document Building system as well.
Word. Further, in the same direction: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." (attributed to Edison) It's profoundly true of the world that nothing is wasted. Remember that no success or discovery is an accident. It is the result of time invested in the process.
I’d also highly recommend his 'Silence on the Wire' book ( http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/silence.shtml ), it’s a really readable full-stack overview of potential security problems.

In fact, I’m going to dig my copy out and read it again.
Will check it out.
No info about the current number of employees, but the article states that "in 1996, IMDb was managed by a group of 20 volunteers.
IMDb became a company in 1996 and was sold to Amazon in 1998 He's now the Chief Executive of IMDb and his role is to oversee future strategy and make sure his creation stays true to its roots."
I registered and received a free non-AGPL server license - not much effort. Also, I personally like the AGPL license: forces people to share when they build on top of other people's work.

Neo4j really is a great tool for maintaining and searching graph data. I use it from Jruby and Clojure in embedded mode.

There are other open source graph databases with more liberal licenses if that is what you need.
Also,
you need to do that first when you actually have external customers accessing your systems, so you are fine without registration for testing, development, beta test etc. At that point, you should have a pretty good idea on if it is worth taking 5 min to get a closed-source license. And the free server has no limitations except scaling out whatsoever ... pretty good deal IMHO.

/peter
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There's two on http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
Reddit incredulity at Net Neutrality support by Americans
iPhone alarms may fail to activate on New Year's Day
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If libraries were like relational databases
Just a cartoon in XKCD style that I found amusing.
6 years as a hobby, and another two as a business. 8 years before he sold to Amazon. Remember that the next time you're complaining that you aren't making any money 30 days after launching a site.
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New Github error pages
Today's date also happens to be 1/1/11.
Just hotlink to Google's version.
Only the developer would need to do the step of compiling to llvm-bc, not each user. The browser need only host the back end JIT compilation step.
Brightcove (an online video platform) is currently hiring in Cambridge, Seattle and London.

http://brightcove.com/careers

I work in Engineering and it's a blast! We're mostly using java and flex with python at times, but the scale we operate at means it's always interesting.
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Ask HN: Economics of domain hoarders
I'm in the process of building a Twitter app. Taking a break from coding (hey ... it's new years day), I go over to godaddy and try to register a decent sounding domain name. As you can guess, a large fraction of domain names that include "twit" or "tweet" are taken. I expected this ... there are supposedly 300K twitter apps out there. Normally, I'd move from name-to-name quickly ... and just keep searching until I found a decent name. Today, however, I decided to check out what "lives" at these domain names. Again, no surprise ... crap, crap and more crap. So HN: what are the economics for people who hoard domain names with no intention of setting up meaningful websites?
I don't want to dismiss these out-of-hand, but they're really not a replacement for a modern application development framework.

Beyond functionality (of which these can and do provide considerably less), part of what makes a platform like Cocoa/UIKit so valuable -- it is used by every application on the device. The applications will interoperate both with each other and with the OS (background services/tasks, quicklook, spotlight, etc, etc, etc). The interaction model will already be familiar to the user, visual cues will be understood, the speed and inertia of animations (such as scrolling) will be expected. There is an enormous value to being able to leverage user expectation, and this is where too many choices falls down.
The argument being that Google is loosing the war against spam. A new and better Google will likely be Google itself. What we really need is a way to discover content that's not search.
It's true; it's a bit of an over-simpification. I was trying not to get any more long-winded than I already was. :)
I was kidding. Sorry if my dry humor was missed.

When i first got involved with pro bono work i looked at drupal and joomla and decided i preferred to focus on custom solutions because i have a background in that. Obviously thats not always the best solution as its sometimes more trouble then its worth.

Good luck with your sites though. :-).
In New York City there are a lot of jobs. I went to 3 job interviews and got offers from 2. All 3 had tests of my programming skill, though the 3rd was ruthless about minor syntax errors. For instance, the guy talking to me asked me how to find all of the Apache servers running on a server. He just wanted the number. I typed:

ps aux | grep apache | wc -l

but this wrongly included the command I was typing. We were working on their dev server and I was typing the commands into the terminal. I got back 12 when the real answer was 11. He eventually showed me what I should have typed:

ps aux | grep apache | grep -v grep | wc -l

The grep -v screens out the line I had just typed which had "grep apache" in it. Of course, there are other ways to do this, but this was the first thing I thought of. Of my error, I thought that was somewhat minor, but this guy had recently been hired to clean up a sloppy programming department, so he was looking for programmers who were flawless.

The other 2 tests at the other 2 jobs covered the usual questions (write a JOIN statement, write a sub-query, what is the difference between GET and POST?). On one of the interviews, 2 programmers came in to talk to me and they gave me a short PHP script which was working but which was badly written. They asked me how I would re-write it. Easy enough.

My sense is there is a lot of hiring going on in New York City. Possibly not enough local talent to fill all the jobs, but the businesses are here for other reasons (other than programming talent) so I think eventually programming talent from elsewhere will get drawn to New York City. There are some cities in the USA that are in deep economic decline, and will probably remain so for the next 5 years, so perhaps some of the programmers from those cities will migrate to New York City.
just-another-twitter-app.com maybe.
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Thanks, I skimmed it towards the end after it rambled a bit. Also, thank God for Readability.
An MRI maybe - but a digitized X-ray is much, much higher than that.
Completely off-topic, but...

ps aux | grep apache | grep -v grep | wc -l

A more succinct, albeit less portable, alternative is 'pgrep apache | wc -l'. (Or 'pgrep httpd | wc -l', depending on your apache commandline.)
Apart from a few built-in keyword operators such as and, or, not, operators always consist of these characters: + - ∗ \ / < > = @ $ ~ & % ! ? ^ . |

User defined operators are allowed. Nothing stops you from defining your own @!?+~ operator, but readability can suffer.

The longest one I saw in the tutorial was a -+- operator in the set operations.

(Note: one of the legal operators in an asterisk, which I transcoded to a similar looking unicode character to avoid offending the HN quote system. It really is an asterisk, not whatever your browser displayed.)
Sources / Words / Images from the Daily Mail article[1]? Why not just submit the Mail article? Is this wholesale lifting of content even allowed?

[1]: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342663/IMDb-...
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This is a classic case of where the guy followed his passion/dream. He wasn't in it for the money but wanted to create the best site (actually database at first) for movies and ultimately was rewarded by Amazon buying it. Shows how passionate he is that he's still there
Bundler (http://gembundler.com/) for managing the dependencies of Ruby/Rails applications.
Did I just get rick rolled?
We are looking for good hackers with experience in free software. We work on WebKit (maintainers of the GTK+ port), networking, multimedia, javascript, etc. Working remotely is perfectly possible.

The company is Igalia (http://www.igalia.com), and we have a sort of cooperative structure (no bosses, all major decisions taken democratically).

If it sounds like your kind of thing, the email is in my profile.
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Email him this, which is more succinct and does the same:

ps aux | grep [a]pache | wc -l

(because you use the character class, it doesn't find itself as what it searches for is different than its text)
I hope you seriously meant 2011 lol
grooveshark ;P
though yeah, sometimes you just cant find a song there..
nice site.. easy to remember
> Funny thing to say on a site dedicated to building businesses using computers.

Business, even the computer business, is overwhelmingly about people, not computers. If you cannot communicate effectively with people, you're doomed at business, even the tech business.

> or simply pointing out there was a logical fallacy in the letter

The problem here is that you're just reading the text of the replies, but not "reading between the lines". It's not that the responders can't see a logical flaw. Instead, they're seeing in your responses a broken model of how to convince people. They're trying to draw your attention to this, but you've been remarkably resistant to it, focusing only on the logical content of the argument.

> who clearly don't understand what a logical fallacy looks like if it smacked them in the face, have a happy new year and I weep for you

Oh please -- weep for your own naivete. These histrionics make you look inexperienced and oblivious to nuance.
I mentioned extensions; the first half of my previous job was spent on FF plugin development. Once in a while, one of us would get frustrated enough to try looking at how extensions are built for FF; never worth it. (Our IE guy was enviable in the sense that he only had to produce two DLLs, and got to work in his language of choice.)
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Hah, updated.
2/2/2011 is a prime number day, since 222011 is a prime ;)
Thanks for answering my questions. I'm not sure why I assume the apps you were going to make were mobile apps. I guess that's just what has been in my head recently =)
Ask HN:  Where is the best place to post freelance jobs for startup specialistss
Is there a place where all the startup specialist go to find a freelance job or permit staff job?
Simple. Domains are so cheap that if you buy one for ~ $8 then you only need to make that money back in one year for it to be profitable. That's less than 70 cents per month for a .com. There are a number of parking services where making that much money isn't terribly difficult. So... the more you buy, the more money you could possibly make. Some might just make their money back, some might do very well. Overall, the domaineers are likely at least breaking even. Add in the fact that they have a bit of experience doing this, then for sure they are making money.
Or just

pgrep httpd | wc -l
It looks good but there are some bad choices in my opinion, like having transparent menu backgrounds. It decreases readability, for example on the menu "GO TO 2040", "Regional Mobility" merges with the background and it becomes hard to read.
Fun, but this is likely to be very confusing to anyone not technically-inclined.
For many things there is utility to social content finding. Sites like HN work for news/discussion, and Twitter and Facebook work for a random amalgam of things. I'm interested in the future of social search startups that somehow curate content from friends. In the articles example- asking friends if they liked their Dishwasher, and if yes what brand it is. That's the most like how people IRL make these decisions. I know there are some startups in this space as well, hope they do well!
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Or when you're weighing quitting your job and going whole-hog versus doing the nights-and-weekends thing.
It will be interesting to see how this impacts the Android/iOS battle. Search revenue funds almost all of Google's other activities so if people start using other search engines or find alternate ways to get their content it could impact the level they can spend on phones.

With a push to a mobile first world the Android model is especially sensitive to spam. On a full size browser you have a lot more context and results for a given search. 5 Results may be spam, but you can work around them. If the average phone screen shows 3-5 results and all of them are spam you will quickly find alternate tools.

Google ignoring spam is like Microsoft ignoring the cloud.
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I agree, but I guess you have to wonder how many of those people will be on github to begin with, or what they hope to gain from being there.

There's plenty more to confuse them as well. tar? zip? clone? git? What is all this stuff?
"Google ignoring spam is like Microsoft ignoring the cloud." Great line!
Great idea. I am adding this to the http://appamonth.uservoice.com page.
edit:
http://appamonth.uservoice.com/forums/94045-general/suggesti...
The Amazon Web Services team is hiring for on-site positions in Seattle (WA), Luxembourg, Tokyo, Herndon (VA), and Cape Town (South Africa), Dublin (Ireland), and Slough (UK). We don't offer remote work, but some of the positions do include relocation assistance.

I've scraped our official job site and used the data to create a tag cloud of the jobs at http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/jobs/all_aws_jobs.html . I'm still working on the styling.

The official AWS job site is at Our official job site is http://aws.amazon.com/jobs .

There are too many types of jobs to list here. We need developers, business developers, managers, solutions architects, trainers, and technical support.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2056629 for relevant discussions and such (longer thread.)
> his role is to oversee future strategy and make sure his creation stays true to its roots.

Which is why being bought out by Amazon is about as good as it gets. They usually find a good way to manage the post acquisition period, most other companies botch that completely.
Isn't the issue, of course, that spammers have no incentive to game other search engines since they're not worth the time? Any search engine that gets big will have the problem.
yep. Plus the domainer websites are awash with news stories about domains selling for thousands, so plenty of newbies think it's going to be easy money.
Trendy Hairstyles 2011
Trendy Hairstyles 2011 for a new hairstyle this season and change the way you glance. To glimpse gorgeous and kill somebody by those seems, a cool hairstyle is usually a ideal solution.
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Right, the sad truth is we looked at Neo4J a long time ago and we decided against it because of the licensing. Not because we are cheap, but because we knew that the licensing would keep it from being a mainstream product, and the reality is as a developer you have to invest your time where the money is, and that is always where the momentum is. Toolkits and frameworks like Struts or jQuery succeeded because of their licensing not in spite of them.

I like to take Ext.js as an example they where a front-runner in the JS toolkit space early on and to many looked like they had it in the bag. So much so that one day they switched their licensing to a GPL / commercial model.
Overnight it seemed they went from the heir apparent to a footnote in the JS toolkit space.

Licensing has a lot to do with technical selection when it comes to application building blocks, I see Neo4J as a different but in the end similar building block and therefore the licensing is extremely important to me. I think they have a good piece of technology, that due to licensing will most likely leave it in the niche market, therefore I chose to not invest my time in it and learn one of the more liberally licensed alternatives, which since that time have gained momentum. On a purely technical level, I would have chose Neo4J so the moral of the story is that licensing plays an equal part in technical selection.

To be clear, I am not telling anyone how to license their hard work, just offering some insight into how some developers chose the technology to invest their time in.
Let's ignore the philosophical or design issues surrounding native client and look at a practical one.

Why does the article take issue with Mozilla alone? Surely they aren't the only browser vendor that won't be implementing native client. Mozilla is being singled out here precisely because other major platforms are considered to be lost causes.

Safari and Internet Explorer are unlikely to support NaCl for obvious competitive issues. Heavily curated platforms like the iPhone prevent even third parties from supporting such a feature.

Once you realize that even with Mozilla support you'd still only be looking at a ~60% penetration, you're going to be working around it anyway. Once you're dictating platforms, plugins or providing a fall back implementation I'm not sure if support in one specific browser is going to make or break anything. If you're willing to target only half the web you're simply not that concerned about ubiquity to start with.
I frequently read this kind of articles on the web, and every time I'm amazed by it. Preparing food yourself is the rule in my corner of the world (the Netherlands) - going out for dinner an exception. And up until a few years ago you'd be hard pressed to find a public place that actually served breakfast.

Of course, not every Dutchmen is a great cook (to say the least ;-) but I think you'd have a hard time to find a Dutch adult who doesn't have the means or is not able to prepare (much) more elaborate meals than discussed in this article.
And probably this holds true for most of Europe as well. Maybe even for the rest of the world except the US?

Having said that though, I feel that the situation is slowly changing in recent years - primarily for the wealthier part of the population, but still. Kind of makes me sad if I see products in the supermarket which are 'ready made' and 4 times as expensive as the individual ingredients, while knowing that making the same dish from scratch would hardly take longer than preparing the 'ready made' variant and be healthier and cheaper to boot.
That's the kind of line that I wish I could email to people in 1960 as an important business insight from 2011.
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Chicago preferred, but we hire the best we can find no matter where you live.
Not everybody can afford those 100 bucks, I know. A lot of people can but wont.

I don't mind buying good software. Unless you're developing OS without any benefits any speed increase would lead to benefits increase (well, not any, but you know).
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NativeClient is a bunch of horse poo and shouldn't be in a browser anyway.
Been looking to try out a graph database. Basically, the data types are edges, nodes and the connections between them?
I don't see much incredulity here. The first and second comments explain it well : "Well the question they asked was "Should the Federal Communications Commission regulate the Internet like it does radio and television?" I think it more has to do with a tricky question and voters being less aware about the issue."
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Good point. 70 cents a month is likely easy to recover.

Another thought I had was hoarders attempting to grab usable names in order to extort real companies to pony up. I believe this happened a lot in the late 90s. Wonder how common it is today?
To them, it would sound like "Bla ignoring bla is like bla ignoring bla."
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First bug of 2011: iOS alarms not going off?
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Jan '11 H1b/International Edition)
I honestly didn't want to add to the clutter on the frontpage, but once again, I didn't see anything specific for those in need of visa sponsorship (H1b).

So if you're hiring (and sponsoring H1b), perhaps you could say so in this thread, or simply add on or edit your response in the other "Who's Hiring?" thread.

Thanks.
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They kinda all look the same to me. Pretty, but unmemorable.
"Showcasing 65 of the Best Website Designs of 2010"

I pretty much stopped reading and closed the tab after that. Seriously, 65?
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