And how did it get to #5?

Did you read it? Its kind of funny. It's so rediculous maybe people get loopy at night and vote odd stuff up.

I quit as CEO of my last company because some of my venture capitalists were intimating they wanted to do this.

What vc?

Ouch. Hope you have better luck next time. Don't give up.

There's a bunch of MD5 search engines with rainbow tables etc. plugged in, it could tap into that easily as well.

I think this is exactly why this method is so effective. Google's index all of those sites.

The first result when I searched the hash for superman (84d961568a65073a3bcf0eb216b2a576) was a link to a page titled literally "Google Hash: md5(superman) = 84d961568a65073a3bcf0eb216b2a576", the page is hosted at(http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/utils/ghash.php), basically someone's gone through the trouble of making a rainbow table that's easily crawlable that makes this method of lookup via Google even easier.

The page has a description:

  > Google Hash is a PoC implementation of an hash search engine using Google.  
  > Unlike other implementations, the aim here is to get Google to store the  
  > word and associated hash. We do this by putting them into the title where it  
  > will always be stored by Google's spider....

The next top hit is md5rainbow.com etc. etc. I would guess that most of the positive results from BozoCrack.rb are thanks these sites.

Errr their market size calculation assumes everyone going to a wedding pays 28k??

That's what the graphical equation says, but the approximate arithmetic ($30k x 2.5MM weddings ~= $75Bn) is right.

They probably make more money from ads by autocorrecting.

It's not a popped collar. It's a high collar.

They actually started just before 99 I believe.

But of course, haven't had the same growth.

... 99designs grew out of sitepoint; it was a huge springboard having designers and customers using the sitepoint forums as a marketplace.

99 designs done really well, but freelancer have also now started doing design competitions, and now these guys.

It's an emerging segment, good luck to them!

Ironically, 99designs is an Australian company.

I don't think this is an accurate representation of what is going on because market share is not being taken from the others.

pretty sure any developer is likely to have several of these installed; I know I've needed to install them to pull stuff from various open source repositories, regardless of the fact I use git for personal projects

Indeed. E.g., I am using git for more projects than I use mercurial. To these projects, however, I just submitted a limited number of change sets. Most heavily I am using mercurial instead, which I also would choose for future projects. Maybe it would more accurate to measure the number of submissions per time interval.

You have an error with your PhD stats.

Well that's the end of the camera industry.

1) Not really; see this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128316 .

2) A lot of people still aren't buying smart phones because they're really expensive. It looks like U.S. smartphone penetration in general is around 50%: http://www.google.com/search?q=smart+phone+penetration+unite... , and most of them don't have cameras nearly this good and won't for a while. People who can afford a $50 – $200 pocket camera might not want to pay more than $100 a month for a smartphone data plan.

3) That being said, the smart money is definitely on the low-end pocket camera going away over time.

4) High-end cameras, even pocket ones (think the Canon S95 or S100 class) are going to be around for a long time. Ditto dSLRs. Until the laws of physics get violated, dSLRs are going to take vastly better pictures than camera phones. Which doesn't matter to most people but does to a substantial minority.

The end of the camera industry != no cameras, it really means that standalone cameras are reduced to a niche market serving enthusiasts only.

Will that happen? Seems likely, given current trends - phone cameras like the 4S are (nearly?) good enough now, I think.