skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your point. But I truly believe that it's possible for an entity of any size to collapse.

In fact, I think that it is so rare for any kind of organisation to get so big as to dominate (say) 90% of its market that there has never really been much chance to pass on knowledge about how to handle problems at that extreme scale. It might even make you more likely to fail if you get too big.

Maybe I should wait a few years and then write "The History of the Decline and Fall of Facebook" in the spirit of Gibbon :-)
Read this book: "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
The real answer to this is a creative one: The magic is gone.
Any interests in also including Google's Protocol Buffers and Facebook's Thrift since it would appear your intentions are to use these blobs in an RPC?
It was a zero day vulnerability in Excel that caused the isse - those tend to easily have great impact.
Leave HN.
If it's as they describe they did have a 0-day used on them. The email attachments, which were excel spreadsheets with an embedded flash exploit apparently were the source of the 0-day report documented in CVE-2011-0609 and published on Mar 14. The RSA attack was reported on Mar 17.

https://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-01....

While there is definitely something to be said for what you're saying about "omg, email attack" the other side of the coin is that spearphishing is the most popular/common attack vector because it works.
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Are you also aware of the "Friends and pages you interact with the most" vs "All of your friends and pages" distinction?
It's just that I used After Effects in numerous advertisements and presentation videos. he result is phenomenal especially when using the built in 3D capability and the particle system. Simply flying through the object, having the name of the product appearing then boom press the button the product activates, zooms in it and shows the features, etc. Cinema 4D, like my dear 3DS Max are 3D Modeling software, and animation in then will still result in a video file that needs to be paused and resumed in the right moment. I think I will have to use PowerPoint to assemble the different parts of the video then! Thanks mate!
My point exactly. If Facebook is failing to deliver, find a better way. Don't just say "This place sucks! It used to be cool! Now it sucks!"
I was thinking 'in external facing system/service' while I was typing 0-day but yes, you're right. Agreed on the spearphishing point.
going to 48 would be fine, but I really want digital theaters at minimum of 4K and keeping the brightness on the bulb turned up to where it is supposed to be (not lower to same money)
RSA has posted a more detailed account to their blog:

Anatomy of an Attack

http://blogs.rsa.com/rivner/anatomy-of-an-attack/
RSA: Anatomy of an Attack
Can you copy that specific section?
That's not my take-away when I get to see things like this -- rather, I always find it pretty amazing that something as small as a human brain is capable of holding (rough, admittedly) working models of and reason about something as vast in scale :).

It's a nice dynamic - all that scale and complexity out there, and its mirror image reflection in our tiny heads.
I'd rephrase this: "For an audience interested in technology, signal is highly concentrated in the early adopters of any publishing technology"

Or, more generalized: "For any consumer, signal is highly concentrated in the publishers who share your adoption speed of a publishing technology"
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they are currently working with the Pivotal Labs team. They are not building it on their own - they have technical/backend/security support now.
Google launching a new product. Atlassian entering into gaming. TSA mandating self pat down system. Oracles Ellison accused of running Executive fighting ring. Facebook and Zynga team up to merge Romance and gaming. Toshiba develops 3-D monocle. Nvidia to unlock SLI on AMD 990 series motherboards. NOTE: the Nvidia and Ellison stories might not be April fools jokes, theres no way to tell until the silliness subsides.
Edit: Google hiring auto-completers. Could affect employment related numbers.
Google's 1990's experience: http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/ (click the I/O logo)
Would be interested in India job ...even though i 'm currently located in southern cal. ..
Not sure if reputation mechanisms would work in a site where people often post just once, and that doesn't require creating a user account in order to post.

I would love it if CL's sublet section would take some hints from AirBnB. That said, CL has a much higher volume of traffic and more pressing problems - and my experience is that ABB works great in smaller markets but is as almost bad as CL in a market like NYC.

CL isn't perfect. But if most of the dogs hyped in the various dog blogs would be shitting on pillows on a regular basis, the ones that wouldn't would stand out.
I use brookstream [1]. It's dark, somewhat low-contrast, with shades of blue and purple.

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=619
This is not entirely on topic, but I'm still blown away from the UDP approach the other day. Send a UDP packet to your log collector and forget about it. It's lightning fast, the recipient can drop packets if it can't handle the load and your program will never be any the wiser.
Coffee makes fast-food meal twice as bad for you
Why Can’t We Predict Earthquakes?
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App store shenanigans
Furthermore, everyone has heard of Craigslist. Most of the listed competing websites are largely unknown outside of places like HN (where they have come up in startup discussions, not because people heard about their good products). Maybe 15% of the companies listed have any recognition by the general public.
Sorry, I gave wrong information. For H-1B, the company doesn't have to prove this. I confused it with an employer-sponsored green-card application process.
Some counter arguments for those interested.

http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/07/the-china-study-fact-or-fal...
It really is the little touches that make this so awesome. A lot of would-be pranksters settle for the quick first impression hit and then move on. But the deeper you dig here the more fun you find. From the grainy images to the IE and
Netscape buttonsat the bottom its pure 90s

(My favorite bit is clicking on the "Sign our Guestbook" at the bottom)
That is to say, the people most likely to have something interesting to share are the ones busy trying to find new ways to share it.

That can't be entirely right, can it? A medium's early adopters are really the most likely to have interesting things to say? How can the two possibly be correlated? I agree that there's an obvious pattern between signal:noise ratio and community size, but my gut tells me the reason is likely more than "the early adopters were more interesting."

I can't find the source now, but I recall reading an article that posed another explanation: communities start out small, and the members know the rules/mores/norms and abide them. When a newb steps out of line, the graybeard:newb ratio is small enough that it's not hard for the community's graybeards to reinforce the rules with the him. As the community grows, the definition of what's interesting to it gets more vague and distorted, like a drawing on a balloon that's continually inflated. And if it grows quickly, the graybeard:newb ratio drops. Both factors make it harder to enforce the interesting-ness norms.
Your comment says nothing about the UX functions I mentioned. I agree with your statement, but it does not rebut the fact that image display is non-existent and actually works against you comment as it hinders people's ability to smoothly transact private sales...

List-jacking vi the FLAG is just retarded and makes me want to punch the screen.
even the images load slowly! (try going left or right...)
I'd say the flag help forum (and the help forums in general) are prime examples of "consistently awful, frustrating experience".
If I was in college and in that area, I'd take that job in a second, especially if I was a non-technical guy with technical knowledge.

Yes, the position recommends a CS degree, but if you're a HN browser non-technical person, I think you'd be safe.

Awesome.
Dude, chill. Also, read.

Accepting that I was mistaken about the rigidity of h.264 (a possibility I acknowledged up front), and assuming that you DID establish a GOP structure of 6 frames (at a constant bit rate) shooting for one minute at 48 fps would produce 80% of the data generated by shooting at 60fps.

Indeed, this ratio would be true if you used no compression at all. The point was that in a fixed GOP scheme (again, at a constant bitrate), the difference in FILE SIZE would increase with the difference in frame rate, so the idea that file sizes for 60 fps material would only be marginally larger than those for 48 fps seemed mistaken.

My only mistake was in assuming that the GOP is fixed in h.264. I agree that "you don't get from frames to final bitrate by dividing frame rates by GOP size." But then again, I never said you did.
Still thinking this is a well done attempt to get viral press. You might want to repost tomorrow if it's true.

Aside from that, I hate to be a downer, but I'll be surprised if this takes off. I'm actually wondering if the whole concept is an April fools joke in itself. It's basically relationship status for everything you own. I'll stick to reading amazon product reviews I think.
It's a good reminder that with ubiquity comes an increased focus on security. I'm much more conscious of the security problems with Flash after a lot of recent news about it. However, it isn't necessarily because it's any less secure than other applications, just that it's ubiquitous and therefore a more likely avenue of attack.
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So Craigslist is supposedly being disrupted by all of these startups that are taking over various parts of what Craigslist does, and yet I don't know any of those competitors.

When I am looking for something cheap, I go to Craigslist. I don't want to have to remember 10 - 20 different site names because of different categories. That in and of itself is a great plus to Craigslist. It's all there when you get to the page...
Oh, cool. The linked article about the rotary shutter also has a great animation showing how the camera works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_disc_shutter
Great points! I would also add funding to the list; both parties need to realize that they will have to either work for free for a long period of time or they will need to get out there and find angels or venture capitalists to fund their startup. Lots of dedication is required from all parties involved as funding is very hard to come across.
Perhaps I'm a bad software engineer, but I don't see anything terribly wrong with the instanceof solution. I'd certainly much rather read that 6 months later than "public abstract <T> T match(F<Empty, T> a, F<Leaf, T> b, F<Node, T> c)".
i wonder if any startup in this CC program has to pivot?
It's about damn time. I've never understood the rush to increase resolution and 'dimensions' when simple camera pans fundamentally do not work, and never have.
well i guess thats a given - being a cofounder typically means you dont get paid in the initial stages - hopefully that wont last for too long ;)
This graph:

http://d2o7bfz2il9cb7.cloudfront.net/main-qimg-c18ef2d8f8bd7...

is showing exactly the reason Craigslist is doing well.

Each of the alternatives displayed represents a specialized, vertical solution for just one (or a couple) of the categories offered by Craigslist,
There is no way that Craigslist could compete head to head with every one of them anyway, at best they could choose a couple of categories and build new products focused on them.

Instead they are choosing to be a general platform.

Nothing lasts forever, and no doubt Craigslist will fade away over time, as will facebook, myspace and Windows itself, but in the meantime they are pretty well positioned, providing a 'good enough' solution for a wide range of categories is just as reasonable as providing a targetted solution to a specific category.

What they would absolutely fail to do is provide an excellent vertical solution for every category they offer,

Which means those competitors on that graph would still exist even if Craigslist improved its site, and probably they would still be doing well.
I recently wrote an article for my company's in-house staff magazine about how Google was my favourite web site because it freed me from having to remember facts.

I think it's a waste of effort to devote time to memorising mere details, when these can readily be looked up. I think it is much more sensible to remember connections between facts (i.e. to theorise and systematise based on experiences) than it is to just store the facts themselves.
Voted for standard.

Auto-resizing after an adjustment is made is unintuitive, as the user dragged the bar in the first place to a point that "looked right". So you're essentially undoing his own intuition.
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What is it with everything getting "gate" added to it, or "pocalypse"?

I understand it is a reference to the whole watergate scandal, but it is not funny anymore, and just bothers me for some reason. Maybe I am just getting sick and tired of it...
Seems to be the classic "bury it on friday night" approach to disclosure.
A more difficult question is how you solve problems in a gigantic marketplace like the App Store. Better verification of sellers? Verification of review comments? Limiting cross-linking of apps? Tougher review process by Apple?

All of these would engender more criticism against Apple for policing their "walled garden" but is there a better way to solve it?
I watch everything like this on my Samsung television (this is a 2009 model so I assumed nearly all new TVs have interpolation+high refresh rate.) My favorite is watching old movies on bluray, combined with this it is like you are actually there.
In my experience, the quality level of ads has dropped considerably. My last two Craigslist experiences:

I recently tried looking for a used car in the Chicago area. It turns out almost all the postings in the "by owner only" area are actually dealers in disguise. I found this out the hard way after driving an hour to see a car at what turned out to be some kind of sketchball dealership.

Another time, someone posted an ad for a musical instrument. I go to the guys house and he turns out to be some type of dealer/wholesaler. He didn't even have the actual instrument from the ad and was pulling some bait-and-switch crap.

All of this has pretty much soured me on Chicago Craigslist, but I will say that the experience is probably still a bit better in smaller metropolitan areas.
I think it's got to be more than just github for the resume. There are tons of other open sources of data. Personal blogs, twitter feeds, even things like delicious links can be indicative of what a potential candidate is thinking.

My new startup is focusing on doing exactly this --- bringing together as many sources about engineers together as possible, and putting them all in one place. It's still very early, but I'd love HN's feedback. http://proovn.com
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I don't think anyone should try to get rejected everyday. That's like trying to get hit by a car by running into a busy street, it's bound to happen. I'm also not a fan of trying to be the "next big thing". What's wrong with being the next small thing and being really great at it?
Making vaccines in plants 
will using plant oilbodies become the new method of vaccine production?
a quick overview of the process:
http://gcc.eyeptv.net/blog/2011/03/08/needle-free-topical-application-of-cream-based-vaccines/
It's a purely genetic argument, based on the relationship between genotype and phenotype:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotype-phenotype_distinction

I might be stretching it a bit, but I think it's probably fine to assume that people with innate abilities will express them in multiple similar ways.
As an outsider looking in, I'm wondering to what degree the comments posted here on HN about Facebook (that it is full of people who don't tell the truth and who try to scam for monetary advantage) report a fact of human nature that might eventually disrupt Quora? What is Quora's defense against turning into a place with rather low-quality posts as soon as it attracts a lot of eyeballs?
Note, this is not an April Fools joke..just in case.

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Who cares? It's Craig's list, not your list. He can do whatever the hell he wants with it.

In addition I get the impression most people here who lambast CL as being full of spam live in areas that CL is not thriving in. Ask a New Yorker or a Bay Area resident about how useful CL is and then rethink your perspective.

CL works. It gets the job done. 'Nuff said.
Simply plotting their apartments or stuff for sale on a map would make a big difference in ease of use. A YC company, Padmapper, does this for you, but why doesn't CL see this as utterly necessary? Searching for something, be it an oak table or a house rental, is exasperating. Realtor.com, a site that's totally behind, got on the mapping thing more than a year ago. Amazing that CL hasn't done the same.
It came through an Excel document, but it appears to be an Adobe Flash security flaw, CVE 20110609
http://www.google.com/search?q=anagram
Bangalore, India.

http://www.videopulp.in/careers.html (early stage startup)

web programming and machine learning (image classification, object recognition etc).

at this stage, we dont care much about which language u use, but rather what u can achieve.
I'm going to start adding this retro "Get Chrome" banner to my sites. I wish it was animated, though.

http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/static/img/1998/get-chr...
The thing about building automated trading systems (related or not to Semantic analysis) is that the things you tend to track are compared to other things you are tracking. After all, if there is an issue with a data stream you wouldn't want to bet the farm on it. You check with other streams. So goofy stories on april first wouldn't affect the algorithms too much unless they were reported the same way in disparate news/feed sources.
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So, does everyone still think it's China? Have they been able to trace the IP addresses back, at all?
Trying it alone
Google Charts gives Google all your chart data in textual form -- if you generated chart images with another app they wouldn't be able to crawl it.
Here is why Craigslist was so successful in the first place:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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You're right about the continuous roll. Film actually moves through the gate incrementally. There's a really neat mechanism that closes the shutter and advances the film to the next frame in one elegant move. But while the film is exposed, it's exposed for a fraction of a second. Meaning that any motion occurring within that second will register with a blur in that particular frame.
It is also important to note that just as stealth fighters
evade radar instead of defeating it, APTs do not “defeat”
security products.

Haha. You keep telling yourself that bucko.
Surely you're exaggerating. You've never heard of Etsy, okcupid, PlentyofFish, StubHub, or CouchSurfing? CouchSurfing in particular is mentioned very often alongside AirBnB, and okcupid has had at least one front page story on HN this year (namely their acquisition.)
It's a great idea. When compared to balsamiq's Flash version, PowerPoint seems even a better choice. All mockups end up printed anyway, and it is the managers who need them the most.
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Though I agree with the premise, I always had this problem no matter if I was working on my own project, or working for somebody else.

I think it has more to do with 'ownership' and initiative than entrepreneurship.
Missing a blink tag, but I think this was the best one today.
Why did you add the phrase 'in real time' there? I don't follow (sincere question)
There's a cassette reference, a beeper mention, Netscape 3.0 and 21 Jump Street. This is a winner.
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I was arguing against the author's quite explicit and unequivocal statement the left is wrong about the market allocating income mainly based on chance, connections or "power". In fact, earnings are strongly linked with intelligence.

Unless he wishes to extend his argument to demonstrate how Swedish Americans have significantly higher IQs than native Swedes, I'm going to have to insist that "the left" is right and he is wrong about the role of chance, connections and power versus innate intelligence when it comes to distribution of incomes on a macro scale. Economic systems don't exist in isolation.
>RSA sells its own fraud detection systems based on user and account profiling ... They should have applied these techniques to their own internal systems.

As they were using a network observer which wasn't as sophisticated as other tools they make and sell.
There is a US-CERT EWIN that makes it seem like either it was, or someone wanted people to think it was. Which does of course not narrow it down a ton, but c'est la vie.

Domains used in the attack included:

www .usgoodluck .com

obama .servehttp .com

prc .dynamiclink .ddns .us

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/03/domains-used-in-rsa-attac...
Now I really want to see Kids in the Hall!
Indeed. It's all about doing what your ISP can't.
Wading through apartment listings, for example, is miserable, and there are almost no mechanisms in place to encourage that very basic information is communicated by people listing their properties.

Where is a good place to look for apartments? Most "apartment search" sites that look prettier than CL usually are cluttered with a high ads to info ratio, inaccurate info and/or are slow to load/navigate...