skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the below comment on the 2004 slashdot discussion. IMO this is the best way to handle this - thought it would add value to discussion on HN (edit - formatting):

"1. Immediately(!) purchase the stolen software, using a Mastercard or Visa. The resulting download is evidence, and the purchase itself will be used later. Make every effort to identify who (URL, domain name, contact info, company name, etc.) is actually processing this credit card transaction (hint: it's usually not the kid in Pakistan).

2. Notify the contact info of the domain of the infringement. Use a DMCA-compliant notification.

3. Notify the next upstream ISP of that domain of same.

4. Notify the domain's registrar. Some have TOS which forbid illegal activity.

5. Is the bad guy still up? Then start notifying the credit card processor that they have participated in a sale of stolen goods. Use a letter that calmly documents the date of purchase, how you identified the download as a stolen copy of your software, etc.

6. When your credit card bill arrives, follow the instructions on the back of the bill to contest that purchase. Inform the credit card company of everything that's happened, including dates and times and copies of correspondence

7. Join the ASP [asp-shareware.org]. It's a chance to notify fellow software producers that their software is being ripped off along with yours (and increase the pressure on a particular pirate site). It's also a way of supporting an organization that works to support your right to make a living selling software.

The linchpin in this effort is credit card processing. I don't care if you live on a small island that you rule yourself, if you take Mastercard/Visa transactions, you rely on American companies and American law. These giant companies grant smaller companies the right to parcel out merchant accounts, and they can cause non-trivial financial pain for merchant accounts that generate too many complaints for them.

The wheels of the law can take much time to grind to a conclusion, and not always in your favor. Visa/Mastercard can issue a $20,000 fine in a much shorter time, and they don't have to consult a jury.

In the Wild West of Internet fraud that involves money flow, Mastercard/Visa is judge, jury, and executioner. Most victims simply don't know enough to bring their case to them, or the amount of fraud would be dropping."
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134264&cid=1121...
getting drunk is potentially incapacitating. your're essentially signalling that you trust this new group enough to let your guard down around them. the more helpless you get, the stronger the signal.
Except that it should be pointed out that not all of the applications are open source; in particular, market and gmail (the two discussed here) are proprietary.
It's easy to disable the questions; just enter nonsense questions with gibberish answers. I don't believe I have ever in my life actually entered a real question and answer into a "secret question" form.
I have to agree - although I've done the business drinking thing myself, a very little, I think most of the pressure is people wanting you to validate what they know is stupid behavior. If you laugh with them and make it clear you don't care that they're killing their own brain cells, most of them won't hold it against you. Self-deprecating humor is best.
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As an alternative to you holiday off-site backup plan, you could checkout backblaze.com. I haven't tried the service yet, but they offer unlimited backup space for $5/mo.or $50/year. The only reason I haven't tried this is I'm just not sure how long that initial upload would take, what with 500+ gigs of stuff to backup :)

If you used to augment your full backup though, it would be a good last resort, failsafe backup
The amusing thing is I've been using Android phones for well over a year and never even noticed this problem...
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no charges for the first 100,000 Notifications over HTTP and no charges for the first 1,000 Notifications over Email

Their free notification limit is quite generous.
Here's the breakdown from Alexa:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com#demographics
I hate posting about Pixar stories because the Steve Jobs omerta still lives strong in me... but what the hell.

I couldn't watch the video because I'm on a train - however, I worked at Pixar from 2002 - 2008, so I'm pretty sure I know exactly what this video is about.

This story was legendary inside the studio - I never thought it would get outside the gates. In some ways, the fact that this had happened in the past, when the assets for a film might actually fit on a single workstation, was great.

Everyone was more careful. The Systems group was great at backups, recovery, and did an amazing job the whole time I was there, and I'm sure this story always sat in the back of their minds as a reminder of why they spent all the extra time and money.

The one time I accidentally locally deleted a day's work, I had a recovery in my home directory in less than an hour.
Perhaps it is something with societies in ascendancy - Britain in the 19th Century, the USA in the 20th.

I can't see Britain producing engineers with the status of Brunel anymore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
Ask HN: Learning about Venture Capital
Hi HN,

I'm interested in pursuing a venture capital company to try to get some funding for my business idea, but I have a few questions about VC. If you have a link or some reading material that answers my questions, I'd love to read it too.

1. Can you ask a VC company for how much money you need, or do they offer you money based on a valuation?

2. How much control do they have over your business? Do they dictate salaries, compensation, bonuses, who you can hire, what tech you can use, etc? For example, say a company gets like $33 million in VC. What's to stop the CEO from making his salary $5 million a year and then just leaving after a year, regardless of the status of company. I realize most entrepreneurs wouldn't do that out of principle, but can the VC's dictate who is paid what?

3. Or, to counteract that, do they feed you money a month at a time or do they just cut you one big check?

4. What happens if you just totally fail but it was clear it was a legitimate effort? Are there any legal ramifications, or do the VC's cut their losses and each go their separate ways?

5. I already have an incorporated business, so I have that side covered, but the business is literally worth $0 because I haven't sold anything or have anything to sell. Say I wanted to raise $500,000 to build out the idea I have, what % of the company would the VC ask for?

Any other tips others have for raising capital would be extremely appreciated! Thank you!
the root of the problems in the education system lie in its prussian derived methodology.

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/

compulsory schooling is stupid and wasteful, just like compulsory anything.
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I can't tell you how long I've wanted something like this.
I actually just read that the telegraph has something to do with it. Because messages would often get cut off, the important content had to come first.
Finally something I can comment on, as I like to cook, and I upgraded to induction about a year ago.

Upside: It's like cooking with gas, without the risk of fire. It looks slick. If you get a good and powerful model, the install footprint is small and cooking on it is very reproducable... (setting 7 on burner 3 with this pan is always the same). You can also get maintain lower temperatures than you can with other stovetops, negating the need in some cases for a double-boiler and making it easy to keep food warm - there are a plethora of other technical coolies too - like how as soon as I lift up the pan to dump the pasta, the power to the element shuts of. It's more efficient. The cat can walk on it and even though he hits the buttons, he can't turn it on - elements are reactive, they won't activate if they don't sense enough ferrous material above them.

Downside: It's ceramic. Don't drop stuff on it.
Downside: It's ceramic, if you like to sautee stuff by lifting up the pan and/or sliding the pan around, it will just scratch up your cooktop.

A professional restaurant, for this reason, would probably benefit from both gas and induction at the same time.
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Hmm, I think a lot of it really comes down to letting your guard down. When you go out after work, do others drink? I'm really wondering if someone can get by with just having some soda or juice instead.

There are plenty of good reasons why some wouldn't want to drink alcohol -- religion, an alcoholic in the family, being a recovering alcoholic themselves, etc.

With that said, yeah, drinking with your teammates is a great way to get to know them better. You can all rant about random little things, take absurd positions in arguments, and it's all ok! And everyone eventually gets a turn to make a fool of themselves, so we end up accepting each other more -- shared secrets & all :-)
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I suggest an upvote for the post that already mentions your country..
Very difficult to do - the induction element won't start until a significant (pan-sized) amount of ferrous material is very close to the cooktop, and shuts off the moment it's lifted away - there isn't enough room to get your wrist in there - and it's doubtful that your watch by itself, even if it was made of iron, would be enough to trigger the sensors on the element and let the element turn on..

Safety features and all that - they thought of that already.

Rings, watches - all safe.
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That just begs another why. Any ideas?
As a guy who does tech support for cell phones, I am hoping that Windows Mobile phones disappear from the earth.
It also seemed odd to me that it said, more or less, "Pedagogy in both places is the same, so let's examine the effect of pedagogy on student interest." Holding some factor constant won't tell you anything about its effect.
That implies either you have it turned up too high for the task at hand (finer control is one benefit of induction - maybe your unit is really cheap?) - and possibly that it's way overpowered for the typical use you use it for.

They aren't really much faster than gas - just a lot more energy efficient... I know mine is faster than previous gas stoves that I purchased, but I also went out of the way to make sure I had high-powered elements because I hate waiting .

If it's so fast - why wouldn't you just turn it on after you chop everything? No need to pre-heat when things heat up so fast....
> Unfortunately the majority are happy to let the government pass this law

I'm not sure that's really true. There has been cross-party opposition to some of the obviously draconian measures, and there is also cross-party opposition to the principle of forcing through a bill with so little consensus during washing up.

Unfortunately, this debate did take place a few hours after the general election was officially announced, on the first afternoon of serious campaigning. Funnily enough, most MPs were probably quite busy, and almost all the frontbench representatives of the major parties were doing as many interviews as they could manage on the major news channels at the time.

I'm very much in two minds about the "wash up" period, and the more I see of what is being done via back room deals at the eleventh hour, the more I think Parliament should be dissolved on the same day that the PM requests the Queen do so to avoid these shenanigans.
Ask HN: Cloud computing companies?
Hello,
I would like to invest in cloud computing companies...

Can you provide me with a list of leading cloud computing companies that I can invest it.. by buying it's stocks? Like Amazon for example.

Thanks in advance.
Things I am doing to recover from a failed startup I was working on.

1. Do something impossible! I rode my bike to work 25 miles in the morning and 25 miles at night. This was something I thought was impossible, and I only got to do it a couple times a week but it gave me lots of time to think and work though my issues. Find your impossible task and do it.

2. Learn something new. When I teach myself something new it is a very euphoric experience and after I then want to do something with that new knowledge.

3. Lots have been said about gardening and yep it is all true do it now!

4. Exercise for 30 minutes first thing and your day will start out much better.

5. Eat local/healthy food. Good food makes you feel better.
Probably first by only allocating the necessary 8 bpp instead of 32 bpp
The title of this submission is not a question.
Becoming a software engineer at Infosys or Tata is likely to make you several times wealthier than other "reasonable" jobs in India (and BTW, working in those huge CMMI-crippled corporations must be boring as hell: I don't think that fun of working/studying plays a huge role in people's choices).

This is not true in OECD countries (unless you give up the technical career path and become a start-up founder): taking up an MBA or cardiology will multiply your odds of becoming wealthy, but engineering will not.
Perhaps Amazon SNS isn't the best name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Weave - Looks appropriate considering the description given.
I hate this whole mystery method and all the cultural assumptions that go along with it. I applaud the author for attacking it, but I'll take it one step further.

There's nothing wrong with promiscuity. Sex is good - if you want to fuck hundreds of people, do so and please use a condom every time.

In my experience, women like sex and hate being treated like objects. Here's a "pickup method" that'll have even MORE success than the awesome mystery method :

1) Join a gym. Workout a lot until you have big muscles. This won't take you more than half a year.

2) During that half a year, take up meditation and contemplate your past relationships, your parents, your childhood. Write about it in a journal and become at peace with who you are. Think about what you want.

3) During that time too, concentrate on your career. Get it all laid out in front of you.

Now, you've made yourself as attractive as possible. Next up, find random women - on craigslist, on okcupid, on the street. Talk to them. Treat them like equal human beings and never, ever deceive them. If you want sex but no commitment yet, tell them when that comes up.

There will be some more waiting, sure. Waiting is until fullness. After a while, you will get to the point where you are in good shape, you've got a good career, you're emotionally stable and you deal with women honestly and see things from their point of view.

If you do this, you'll never have trouble finding someone to sleep with. Maybe you can get someone slightly "hotter" and stupider by deceiving people? However, in my 8 years of living with X1 and my 2 years of living with X2 and the single-ness in between, I've noticed there are all kinds of different types of sex. Sometimes, it's just mutual masturbation. Sometimes, sex is a transcendent experience. For me, the experience is always improved with honesty and destroyed by lying. I may not necessarily believe in monogamy anymore, but I believe sex is an expression of love. Love can last a day or a week or a month and it comes so easily when we give up on lying.
Look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752262.
No more DKIM for me? No more burnt VPS IP's?
You could try Arq http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/

It'll back up whichever folders you choose to your own S3 account, which is very fast and reliable. It backs up and restores all Mac metadata corrrectly, stores versioned backups (like Time Machine), fully encrypted, has drag-and-drop restore, de-duplication, no limits on file sizes or drive types.
> why wouldn't you just turn it on after you chop everything? No need to pre-heat when things heat up so fast....

We'll that's an essay in itself - it's quite an inefficient way to cook, I went through a stage a while back where I quite religiously prepped everything before beginning to cook a meal. Not fun.

> They aren't really much faster than gas

Example: I find doing sauces a lot easier on gas (particularly things like white sauce or gravy) because the heating is generally a lot slower and more gradual. It is a pain with induction having to tweak up the heat every few minutes to make sure it doesn't heat too fast.

Control with gas is as granular as induction I would say (we had an electric hob a few years ago that had a dial - but only 4 actual settings...)

I personally find our induction hob heats faster than gas - could just be particular circumstances though.
Actually I do mind. But it's not like I can sue you or something. Maybe just punch :)
I've been pretty deep in depression before and am only a few years (2?) out of it.

First, what you're going through is, no matter how shitty it feels, a good thing. You're starting to notice that most of the things you thought were important were actually important to other people you listen to.

Here's a start (atop of whatever else you see that you like in the comments here): write a list of priorities, eyeball 10-15 of them. Then cross off all but 2-3. See if you'd be happy (not what makes other people, their, or your expectations happy, but you happy) doing those. If you're unsure. Make another list, and cross off another bunch, and see if you'd be happy with that list. See what bubbles up.

Iterative development for figuring out what's important to you.

Btw: you're not supposed to have a right or final answer for this. Only psychotics and morons do. Go after what you think is best now, and plan to change later. If something sucks, fuck it, try something else.

Take an experimental approach, expect to blow large amounts of time/money/energy on this -- it's the basis for how you live your life, it's important.

Don't forget to party.
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I never got the impression these methods were designed as deception. Some guys have a lot of mental baggage that has been hammered into them that is ultimately going to get in the way of them being a man and by focusing on things like acting confident and giving the impression of someone who has their life together they can hopefully gain real confidence and a real life.
It could be slanted towards men since the website is called the "Art of Manliness".
Makes me wonder if there's a parallel to Brewer's Theorem in software development:

Quality, Features, Speed. Pick two.
Wow, now that is very surprising and to see the ticket go on for nearly a year with google.

Especially since how comment #134 on there makes the fix look kinda simple to include as an option for higher memory devices.
Compounding the issue, in an attempt to achieve those investment rates the pension funds have invested heavily in private equity funds. However during the bubble private equity went on an unsustainable spending spree and those funds are certain to lose large amounts of money when large numbers of bought out companies can't make principal payments that come due in 2011 and 2012.

The last time that private equity ran up a bubble like that was in the late 80s. The institutions that invested in private equity funds then were the S&Ls. That was a much smaller bubble than this, and we all know how well that turned out...
If all you have is 1GB-100GB, put it on Dropbox connected to 2-3 computers and forget about it. If you have 1TB or more data, look into Open-E SANs. They are very competitively priced.

I am vehemently against take-home-backups. You may trust your team members but they can still be robbed, get their cars/homes broken into, or just simply lose the drives. While chances of smart-criminal exploiting your data to gain competitive advantage is very low, the chances of your private information being sold to others is very high - someone can get your customer CC#s, employee SSNs etc. very easily. How often do we hear about an employee lose a laptop or HDD that contains 2 million CC#s and SSNs in an Excel or Access file? Please don't set yourself up for that.

With respect to backup software, my favorite way of backup on Windows is robocopy. I've been using it for 4+ years and it has worked flawlessly EVERY SINGLE time for me. I have very simple DOS scripts that mirror the entire source folder to destination\YYYY-MM folder. Since I only have about 300GB of data and 8TB of storage, I also mirror the source to destination\weekday folder. What this gives me is the ability to retrieve files from any day in last 7 days, or any past month (depending on disk space available). And destination\YYYY-MM always has last night's data.

DOS>robocopy "\\SrcServer\SrcFolder" "\\DestServer\%weekday%" /E /R:1 /W:3 /PURGE /COPYALL /FFT

DOS>robocopy "\\SrcServer\SrcFolder" "\\DestServer\%yyyy%-%mm%" /E /R:1 /W:3 /PURGE /COPYALL /FFT

If you have databases, dump the DBs once a night into one of the SrcFolders. Now you have pretty good backups of your DB too. HDD space is so cheap. I have 3 separate DestServers where I backup to. After the initial backup (and once a month), it's pretty fast each night. If you want remote backups but don't have the bandwidth to copy 20GBs a night, Open-E SANs work great for that. Of course, you can also use DeltaCopy (which is just Rsync for Windows).
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> I suppose it seems hypocritical of me to lambast Mystery and his cohorts. I have obviously read their material.

I should hope the author would not consider penning a severe and detailed criticism of a body of work without having read it. This part is not hypocritical, but admirable.

The portion with which I find fault is the inherent sorites paradox: At what point does optimizing yourself and your interactions with women for attraction become unethical?
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Entering adulthood is difficult because even though the challenges are (usually) much milder, the stakes are much higher. If you get a C on your final, it doesn't matter much. If you get passed over for a promotion, it's the first sign that you need to be looking for another job.

My experience is that the happiness range of college is 4-8, with a peak around 7, and that of adulthood is 2-9, with a peak around 4.5. The range is much wider and the peak of the curve is lower, but there's much more potential upside. In college, the star performers have as good a life as the average students. The "real world" has the potential to be really amazing, but for the median player, it's pretty shitty. The fact that even the most talented 25-year-olds live in fear of being in the latter category creates a lot of anxiety, and it can be overwhelming.

Some advice: Definitely see the therapist, assuming you can afford it, and make sure that you're taking care of basic needs (exercise, nutrition, sex).

You said: Or if I do know exactly where I want to live, I'm always terrified that I'll regret the move later.

Remember that you can always move back. No one's expecting you to buy a house. People who leave New York come back, and people who come to New York from Chicago, Minneapolis often go back. As scary as "starting over" socially is, it's a smaller cost than the upside of living in the right place for you. Besides, you probably only have 3 to 6 real friends in your city at this point, and those you'll keep regardless of your move. (New York may be a special case; it's easier and cheaper to live elsewhere and visit 2 weeks each year, which a lot of people do, than to live here, because of the massively overpriced housing).
If you want a good "non-linear" math book, try the Art Of Problem Solving volumes.
That was my first thought... Just like crack, the first hit is free