skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I thought I had added additional information about technical proficiency in that same post but I got it mixed up with something else I argued some weeks ago on here.

The only way to accurately compare the two would be on a technical proficiency and currently, Dreamworks edges out Pixar in that department, but by such a small margin that it's almost negligible.

If we were to do a year by year comparison, UP and Monsters Vs Aliens were very similar (although some of the lighting in UP was fantastic, Jeremy Birn does some great stuff, I've read his book, fascinating stuff)

Last year though, Kung Fu Panda was simply astounding from a complexity issue. Fur + Cloth and having cloth interact with that fur, especially when you're considering the fact that the character rigs have to do very complex manouvers to perform the kung fu moves... that's simply astounding.

Even moreso when you consider that when the cloth was interacting with fur, it would flatten it when it would move over, with the fur springing back up afterwards (eg, master shifu) - Cloth + Fur are typically the hardest things to do in 3D, so having both work, plus on the scale that some of the scenes did (the revealing of the dragon warrior + the crowd) shows just how amazing the film was.
Seems like a challenge to me... so...

NILFS or MILFS whats the difference? About 35 years ...awwwww
I think the "he" is dfranke in this context.
My hard drive is already filled with MILFS and performs quite well for my requirements.

/me ducks and covers
Nope. Not being sarcastic. Can see why you'd think that.
You didn't offend me; mine was an anthropological comment. =)
My mistake. So you can get a valid login, but you can't know whom you'll be login in as, that is without doing some social engineering like with the irc example. Impressive hack.
Yeah, but I looked through the rest of the list and the rest of the examples could have referred to the male context, so I simply was just making sure.
another one of the creators here, thanks for the warm comments.

a follow-up question - how much more compelling would this be if you could choose/influence the demographics and # of responses (potentially at a higher cost)?
The New Yorker doesn't have a good reputation for fiction, and it hasn't for a while. However, I think its lack of reputation is more about how The New Yorker isn't thought of as a place for fiction anymore: They only publish one story (compared to when they used to publish many), and their reportage is still quite good.

Sure, that one story is usually by an established writer, which is also one of the most common complaints, but that story isn't going to be a fluff piece.

I'm OK if The New Yorker isn't the best magazine for fiction, there are plenty of other places to find new short fiction. You just have to know where to look.

BTW, I thought gabrielroth's comment was hilarious. A great response to a not so intelligent comment :)
If any of you are considering building your own enterprisey-ish system, just beware of what extensibility points you provide your customer. Once you provide an extensibility point, you're responsible to maintain it as-is, and unable to change that piece of your product. Provide extension points to every piece of your product, and you've completely frozen its architecture.

This helps explain why new products like Wave are so much better than established enterprise products, and why enterprise software ends up the way it does.
Joking about names aside: highly recommend this building. Lots of cheap offices --- incl. some very small ones --- and the building itself is gorgeous inside and out.
It's limited mainly for simplicity. Since it's intended to be a cheap and quick answer, we figured $5 and 50 questions seemed reasonable for most. Perhaps we can keep the standard, advertised solution at 50 for $5 but when you buy offer the option to upgrade to more questions.
I hope you scoop him up for one of your YC teams.

That hack was damned impressive for breadth and depth of knowledge, pretty rare in my experience.
i think if you get a valid login cookie, and use it, it will tell you what account you have in the top right.
Joel Job Board to 'Combine' with New Stack Overflow and Server Fault Job Boards
I love smart people.

(plus having the ethics to actually do no evil - great combination)
Currently no, you can't set up a higher # of responses.

We found that 50 responses offers a good set of opinions without taking too long to finish. What are some other options you'd like to see?
Joel's evil plan to change how programmers write resumes revealed: Stack Overflow karma to be required for all software development jobs! <sarcasm/>

As an employer I'm not sure how I would react to seeing someone's karma in their resume. I suppose it's ultimately a good thing as it shows they have an opinion and don't mind sharing it.
1-Didn't know, the site pretty much just states the 335d's engine.

2-Are you sure it'll be road legal? Pretty sure the ride height alone would disqualify it. And if it fails to be road legal, then its pretty much is a weekend toy by definition.

Sure car companies aren't making cars for the market, but how much of that is that they don't know a market exists, and how much of it is that they see that the demand is met by dirt bikes, ATVs, Dune Buggies. Also I think car companies do cater somewhat to this market with specific models/trims.

General blogs is something you shouldn't put too much emphasis on. I mean take that Jeff Jarvis guy...he thinks: "its first model is a muscle car", which obviously its not.

You need to hit up some offroader forums to get some true feedback. Moving to Arizona couldn't hurt either. I mean if you look at it, you have a bunch of guys in Boston, trying to build the perfect desert racer for someone in Arizona(are there many deserts in Massachusetts?), for all you know whomever you are consulting on what people in Arizona want is pulling your chain: "Oh yeah, we'd LOVE a pink hybrid to offroad in, we love the environment and mother earth".
I personally think $5 is a great price point, but would make 3 tiers of plans.

1) Free, limited number of responses (maybe 5/month?), ad supported.

2) $5, Unlimited number of responses, no ads.

3) Skinable version for companies, allows them to manage questions/responses asked by employees.
Great work and writeup. I think my favorite part of the whole thing is that you clearly started with the goal (or somewhere early on decided that was the goal) of finding a bug and kept going until you'd landed it.

That's the difference between a true hacker at heart and someone who just stumbles across something. Tenacity.
There are too many free services and free apps and not enough good ones.

There's nothing wrong with asking for money -- it does the world a great service if you've got something that can perpetuate itself and has to improve to stay alive. (As opposed to something that sucks that's defensible because it's free)
10 yr anniversary of Napster: interview with Shawn Fanning
Ask HN: Primer on Web Security
What reading would you recommend to get started learning about security? Maybe the basics about protecting your site from attacks would be good...
Well obviously, but you couldn't do a brute force attack like this to a specific account.
What is the geographic distribution of your responders?
I think the Pre is more a BB competitor. And in that space I think there's plenty of opportunity for Palm to find success.

But it has an unmistakable 'corporate' angle that makes it unlikely to attract the crowd that the iPhone's been selling to.
Yeah, that's what I do right now. I'm just saying after a certain point, a post becomes a blog posting.
Video Encorder for Nokia Device
A user friendly MTurk front end. Not a bad idea. I wish you the best of luck.
I (and my coworkers) have lately taken to coding for Safari/FF/Opera as long as IE will degrade in some way that's not horrible. For example, we used to have this rounded corner div helper that did all kinds of crazy shit to get rounded corners in IE. Now though, we just set moz-border-radius, webkit-border-radius and border-radius. IE users see a box with sharp corners, and if Microsoft ever implements border-radius they'll see it rounded, but until then it's not really a big deal. I could see doing the same thing with fonts or other such "nice" additions to CSS.
Real Estate Mirror - Your Real Estate Partner
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Feels like watching an exponential growth curve in real time.
99designs wasn't built in 16 months. This is nicely spun (maybe the result of the PR company 99designs hired earlier this year?) but still rather misleading.

I'm a former SitePoint employee, and have been around their forums since 2003 and as a moderator 2004-2008. 99designs was spun off from the SitePoint Marketplace 16 months ago, where it existed as the SitePoint Contests property (essentially the same thing but branded under their Marketplace). The first contests were actually held on the forums, and if memory serves, that happened in about 2002 (before I got there, could have even been 2001).

Eventually the Contests and Marketplace sections of their ultra popular web developer forums grew big enough to be spun off into dedicated sections of the site (still part of the SP organization, though), so SP developed and acquired technology to create those new areas. That was in 2006 (see: http://www.sitepoint.com/about/media/release?id=39 ).

I was involved early on in developing rules and moderating the Marketplace and Contests area. Once the Contests area got big enough, it was spun off as 99designs, and has grown like a weed since. (This time it was actually spun off as a new business entity.)

So really, more accurately, 99designs has built a successful business over the past 6 or 7 years (or if you want to go by the date it was spun out of the forums, over the past 3 years).

All that said, SitePoint is a really classy organization, full of great people. Matt Mickiewicz is a really nice guy, and what they've built is very impressive. I wish them continued success.
It's almost entirely US-based.
And to bypass Internet Censorship http://www.zensur.freerk.com/
most people don't know this and in the interest of knowledge I thought I'd point it out:

Pandora was the wife of Prometheus (the Titan of Knowledge) who made all the animals and humanity (last of all and out of the only material he had left - clay).
In order to give them life, he stole fire from the gods and gave it to his creations, for which he was bitterly punised. In one telling he was tied to a mountain and his heart/liver was eaten by an eagle/vulture and grew back every day. HOWEVER, in another telling, his punishment was PANDORA and her famous box.... I just always found that interesting, vivisection every day for eternity, or a curious wife... fine lines =P
IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit
Thanks, I think that's the most elaborate compliment I've ever gotten.
I know this looks like spam from the title, but it's actually a really powerful tool for anyone running sites on IIS.
hacker's handbook was where i started.
I suppose it's a step in the right direction, but I don't see this helping in terms of monetizing the vast majority of facebook users.

There does seem to be a core group that love the little games and such. I'm sure those people will pay something. What I struggle with though is how big of FB's user base this core group is, and how stable it will remain.

I remain pessimistic.
Wow I must say I am impressed Kudos fine sir!
Wow, this is pretty upsetting because I have been working on the exact same idea as you. How long has it been up, what kind of volume have you been doing, and how long did it take you to make it?
It's the same as Mechanical Turk's:

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanica...
On the image hoverovers, can you position them to the right of the thumbnails, right now it covers the thumbnails and i want to just move my mouse to the right instead of moving away and moving it to the next picture
Long Odds Search For Black Boxes
It really is a pity. The Commodore PET was the first computer I got to use at high school, and 2 years later I persuaded my parents to buy a Vic-20 (though with hindsight, I should have asked for the Spectrum, which would have made me a better programmer). The C64 and 128 were very good for their time, and the Amiga (bought by Commodore in 1985) still has many fans; for a while it was the affordable option for 3d graphics and video mixing.

It's still a bit of a mystery to me why Commodore failed to crack the business market with it. Maybe their success in the home computer space diminished the brand in the eyes of potential buyers, or maybe it was because Commodore's board decided to focus on profit-taking after ejecting Jack Tramiel, and failed to dominate against the Atari ST (which was what JT sold next after getting the boot from his own company).

Excuse the run-on nostalgia. When I was a teen, Jack Tramiel was a hero of mine, and he enjoyed the same kind of status that Bill Gates or Steve Jobs has - a ruthless businessman whose recipe for success was making technology affordable and accessible. Back when computers seemed like exotic and opaque toys (I grew up in Ireland, so in the 80s the computer revolution was just beginning), Jack Tramiel was pushing out fun and affordable machines, but they and he looked respectable enough to be part of the 'sell' to skeptical parents - 'the company is called Commodore Business Machines, Dad! It's not just for games, I'll have a career!' I knew little or nothing of business, but I knew Tramiel was a businessman who listened to his engineers and his customers, and that meant a lot to a young geek. He was really ahead of his time.
I do not give permission for my HN comments to be automatically syndicated elsewhere. If TheNextWeb is doing so, it's a sleazy tactic.
Nothing, if you know exactly what you're doing. But it's not very good about explaining why e.g. throwing error messages is bad. It's sort of like a toolbox full of really sharp, pointy things with the implicit understanding that sticking your hand in blindly will hurt, and then being surprised when there's a rash of hand injuries.
Also, like Brad Pitt, you have beautiful, silky, manageable hair.
I'd make that clear if you haven't already :)
Is TV delaying child development?
Coding Horror: I Stopped Reading Your Blog Years Ago
> Do you agree that there is a difference between what the government stipulates you are free to say and what a company would like you to be free to say, if they had their way?

The question doesn't make any sense.

Free speech is a right of "owners".

I'm free to blather on and on about MY stuff. Companies have no way to intefere in that because they don't have police and stuff. Governments do.

I don't have any free speech rights WRT stuff owned by other people.

Suppose that I worked at Google. It's not a violation of my "free speech" rights for Google to refuse to publish Google's stuff, whether or not I produced said stuff for them.
Exactly, that's the irony. I wouldn't have pointed it out otherwise.
Edushi: Beautiful, isometric city maps for China
We'll still have swap as long as CPUs support virtual memory. Nothing beats using a dumb programming language and process model, and without explicitly deciding anything, being able to scale past physical memory until your working set just barely fits.

Further, there may be some performance benefit to swapping idle process memory to make room for more buffer cache.

It's true that for interactive use (especially a laptop with spun-down drives), you may be happy without swap. But I don't see the facility being mothballed.
Write me off if you like, but here's a short list (just off the top of my head) that we've encountered while trying to scale Rails:

Rails has terrible support for database replication (we've had to roll our own). Its caching architecture is laughably bad, and the implementation was/is buggy (again, we rolled our own), and there's next to no support for the kind of robust page cache expiration mechanisms that are necessary to run a large, dynamic site (Observers are only a start). Rails is a memory hog, takes too long to start, has poor translation and locale support, and simply passing a request through ActionController adds huge overhead that cannot be escaped.

And even though you don't want to hear it, Ruby is slow -- even after working around all of the above, we still had to implement a fast page caching layer just to work around the general, all-purpose slowness of Ruby.

But like I said, write me off if you want.
Pioneers of Computing: Guido Van Rossum
For sure.

We tried putting flyers for our website all over campuses in the Boston area.

We also setup tables and had Ferrero Rocher chocolates with our cards and url stock onto them.

The conversion rate from posters was zero. The conversion rate from the chocolates+cards was about 10%, which is surprisingly high. The chocolate+cards were at an MIT fair though, so these kids might be over wired.
Off topic of the main thread, but isn't the attack mentioned in that post still problematic if you can't reliably act as a MITM for a whole session, but you can disrupt the session long enough to confuse both sides into agreeing on an insecure session key?
Super awesome illustration of what going viral means in real life:)
"Perhaps, especially for crypto dilettantes." Yes, that's what I thought in the middle of it: he wrote it to educate his clients in an entertaining way to not have to explain this tricky thing for a millionths time. Good read, BTW.
Well they take 10% of that or half a million dollars. That is not counting the $39.00 listing fee. That is not counting the upgrade fees. Sounds better than most startups.
Why does Palm not want to sell this to "IT Centric" customers? Isn't the point of the Pre to connect people to multiple data sources including exchange?

Seems like a good IT device if you ask me...
They've run almost 23,000 contests instead of 14,561 according to their homepage. That's over $900K in listing fees alone.

Also, they charge for upgrades - bold, highlight, fast-tracked, etc. and charge designers to withdraw money.
Disable Bing Backround Image
Just discovered Bing lets you disable the BG image on its front page and all subsequent results pages.

It's linked directly from the main page when you click the "Help" link: http://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=wl_searchv1&market=en-US&querytype=keyword&query=egapemoh&domain=www.bing.com:80

And you'll see there that the links to do the actual toggle are simply:

http://www.bing.com/?rb=0

and

http://www.bing.com/?rb=1
Rockin' idea. I was just looking for something like this to do some quick-and-dirty market research for my startup.

I don't have much experience with mturk, but my one concern would be that respondents may simply click randomly rather than honestly answering the question; do you have any data on how honest and accurate your responses are?
yes that is what worries me - I like network stuff to be explicit.
You're overgeneralizing. Where your server spends its time depends entirely on the profile of your app. If your pages render (on average) in less time than they wait for I/O, then your server will spend most of its time blocked on I/O.

I suspect that you're thinking of something like a lightweight proxy server, that waits for incoming requests, then quickly hands them off to an app server that does most of the work. That's trivial. If you just profile just the webserver process, then yes, you would expect that most of its time would be spent in wait. But while the proxy server is blocked on I/O, the app server is doing a ton of other things for any non-trivial page rendering.
Just discovered Bing lets you disable the BG image on its front page and all subsequent results pages.

It's linked directly from the main page when you click the "Help" link: http://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=wl_searchv1&marke...

And you'll see there that the links to do the actual toggle are simply:

http://www.bing.com/?rb=0

and

http://www.bing.com/?rb=1
Who says open source code is less secure?
The chorus of "You just made me aware of how vastly unaware I was on the subject!" (which I'll join in on right now) indicates the value found here, I think. :)
Could this be a good opportunity for a Mint competitor? I know there's a couple of them out there, but unless I'm mistaken they're completely pay only or they're free only like Mint.
Interview: The Hiring Tool - Nuts and bolts of recruiting
Just when recession had hit most entrepreneurs, we thought of getting on board a start-up which we thought would be in the toughest of times. I got a chance to interview on of the co-founders of theHiringTool, Mr. Sumit Punjabi.
Palm too easy to develop for is a minus? Could this mean we will see even more fart applications for the palm than the ones currently on the iPhone?
Even without all the extra features, having an app store browser that doesn't live in iTunes is fantastic. I think this has a lot of potential.

If you can get people to enter which apps they have, you could do some sort of recommendation engine. IE People who used this app also liked this one...
Hi Josh,

You're definitely right.

In the interview I talk about how the idea begun in the SitePoint Forums, then we started charging people to start a thread in the "Design Contest" section in vBulletin, then we spun it off as its own separate section of sitepoint.com with some basic software built around and only after we had proved that it was a sustainable business did we re-architect the software, improve the usability & interface, and then spin-it off as its own separate business in February 2008.
I wasn't using the word "literally" literally, but that's okay because I never said I was.
I guess I'm a stickler because I think words work better when they have strong, precise meanings. Over time, these meanings tend to get watered down, and I think that's a shame.
This reminds me of this time in college when I was looking for the cheapest legal copy of windows I could find. A fellow student kept insisting I pirate it, and I told him I did not want to.

He could not understand why I did not want to pirate it and kept badgering me to the point where I seriously considered reporting him for piracy (I didn't, but it was tempting).
Yeah, I don't think we could have gotten away with storing delicious bookmarks in UDB...
Great idea, but sending me 11 direct messages right after I start following you is not very cool. Makes me reluctant to trust the service...

"Howdy. Thanks for trying me out. Take a look at http://bit.ly/laterr to use me more effectively. Thanks."
I like the visual tabs. They were introduced by the discontinued Shiira browser and I am happy to have them back. I actually had a todo on my list to file a request, now I am happy. Thanks!
NYC JavaScript User Group: First meeting, tonight at 7pm.
We're still forced to guess - They didn't always charge listing fees. They started at $0, then moved to $20, then $29. There's no way for us to ascertain how many projects were done at each level.
Earthfrisk not working
And in the other telling, the box wasn't actually a box, but was a jar. It was incorrectly translated by someone (I forget their name, I should go look it up) and has stuck ever since.

EDIT - just looked it up, it was incorrectly translated by Erasmus of Rotterdam when he first translated Hesiod's tale into Latin from Greek.
What about desktop as browser or browser as desktop? What if you had something like a desktop with icons on it. You double-click on the icon, and it starts the webapp, which just appears in its own window. The webapp can be cached on the local machine, with a check for new versions on startup. You can "bookmark" web apps while normally browsing the web by hitting "Save Shortcut to App". After that, you don't have to open the web browser any more. The shortcut authenticates you and brings up a toolbar-less non-browsing "browser" window to run the app.