skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we've seen enough to conclude that it's hopeless to think that all the entities that possess personal information are going to succeed in keeping it secure. Either through negligence or simple error, disclosures are going to happen and are going to continue to happen.

What we need to do is change our systems so that mere information is not enough to successfully "steal" an identity. I should be able to disclose my name, birthdate, SSN, mother's maiden name, and anything else to anyone without worry that it can be used to steal my identity. Now, I'm not sure how or if that can be done, but it seems to me that the current approach of trying to store the water in a sieve is never going to work.
Yes, I understand the fundamentals of advertising and psychology.

What I'm objecting to this:

[Americans] bought into cars because of the entire "lifestyle" image [] created in large part thanks to advertising campaigns

Which is a pretty grand claim to make without supplying any data to support it.

Prove it.
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I agree ... without giving us some idea what kind of trouble he got into, there's no way of assessing this anecdote. Getting popped for having some weed in your car is way different from being accused of killing someone, or stealing money from your employer, for example.
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It certainly _sounds_ that way, but the fine print is what matters. Is the loan a liability of the founder? or the company? Are these super-early ventures actually incorporated? Do they have the savvy to ask these questions? For the sums involved they certainly can't afford much legal advice.

And the structure isn't necessary to meet the stated goal of an "evergreen" fund, as equity returns on successful venture should fill that need.

It's an odd structure, at best.
I didn't mean NI quite so specifically, though it's certainly an example.
Another method I sometimes use for pasting large blocks of code:

:r !cat
(paste your stuff)
ctrl - D

Doesn't require any switching between paste modes.
Most comments seem to miss the point of the article that "data minimisation" or data avoidance is the most efficient security measure. What do you think of that?
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BitTorrent requires you to give up your IP address to join a swarm of users downloading a file. Usenet doesn't. That's what I meant by anonymous.
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What's ww.com's rev model?
"Hey guys we're really just a bunch of cool, laid-back guys who are only interested in the success of your business. SRSLY"
What videos do you have on compilers? I looked around a few months ago for a complete compilers course in video form but came up lacking.
I'd be very interested to see what their rights to call the loan are. If they demanded to be paid out of the next round it could be disasterous.
I don't know why anyone would use a real credit card tied to their name & SSN for Usenet. That's just asking for trouble, considering how more and more people are mentioning it on public boards. The day I saw a post on how to download nzbs from Usenet from Lifehacker complete with detailing how to setup sab and sickbeard + couchpotato, I almost had a heart attack.
I've seen loan-for-equity twice in real life, and both times it built profitable businesses. Though they were both older types of businesses with established business models that needed capital to get started, not technology.

Anyways, yes, you should always read the terms on an important contract very carefully, and here's no different. Probably a bad deal if there's a personal guarantee on the loan.

But assuming the contract is square, I could see circumstances that I'd take this deal in a heartbeat - starting a brand new company with 94% equity, $33k cash in the bank, and a $33k loan with very flexible repayment terms seems like it'd have a much higher chance of success than starting with 100% equity, $0 cash, and $0 debt.
Ask HN: How to get users?
Hey HN. I'm searching for the best insight about how to get users.

Mint marketing plan it's very inspirational.

What do you recommend? Can we build a great thread on HN about this?
"Don't worry", coming from people who I'm going to owe money to, generally makes me worry.
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Short version:

MyISAM doesn't support transactions and only supports table-level locking, so a heavy concurrent read/write workload will bring it to its knees. Generally you shouldn't use MyISAM anymore unless you know what you're doing and have a specific reason for doing so.

InnoDB is much more crash-safe, supports transactions, and can support concurrent read-writes using row-level locking. It's generally a much more advanced storage engine than MyISAM and it's what Oracle is investing its development efforts in going forward.
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Ask HN: How can I get into tech based businesses?
Hey guys, I'm really interested in tech start ups and making money through monetization of various online things.My only problem is I have no programing skills at all. From what I know, this skill is ESSENTIAL to have any sort of tech start up.

how would you guys recommend I start?

Also, would anyone be willing to let me intern with them at their company, I'm just interested in learning how tech start ups work and stuff, I'd love to be in the environment to get a feel of things. The problem is every tech start up usually requires HIGHLY skilled people on their teams, all I'd like to do is just get a feel for things to know if its right for me. How can I put my foot into the door without programming skills?
> Helicobacter pylori is a spiral-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that colonizes the stomach in about 50% of all humans.
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Have you tried hiring during a college cycle? There's a pool of people, and in general the people you want to hire will accept a job offer before may.

It is especially frustrating if you have already planned and allocated resources to hiring a candidate, and then found out that the candidate rejected an offer. At that point, some employers actually call the school and complain, and that's definitely something bad for a college grad .

Note: Again, its a general statement: there are point examples of very sharp college grads deciding to search for jobs in april, but for the most part the better people accept offers earlier in the year

With regards to your ethical query, what happens if the tables were turned [i.e. company offered and then rescinded the offer months later]? Would that be ethical?
Most major NNTP providers purportedly don't track user downloads. Some of them even claim to not retain upload logs.
Show HN: Never forget what you've loaned or borrowed with IOUmate.com
I.O.U. Mate is a new service for tracking I.O.U.s of any kind, from dollars to drinks to books you've loaned. It can be used to schedule recurring debts like allowances or shared rent. You can invite friends to share I.O.U.s with Facebook, Twitter or email, or you can choose to track debts privately.

As the designer and developer of this service, I'd love to get some feedback (and of course, early users). My company (Cerebris - I'm a co-founder) developed this application in order to try out a lot of tech, from Rails 3 to jQuery Mobile to Omniauth to hosting at Rackspace. Once we realized how useful it had become to us personally, we decided to add some extra polish and features.

We're keeping this service completely free, although we may add premium features in the future. We also plan to introduce native apps for a small fee (perhaps $1.99).

I really hope you find I.O.U. Mate fun and useful. Please let me know what you think - I'd appreciate feedback of any kind. Thanks in advance for checking it out!

http://IOUmate.com
Additionally, I am looking for something that I can setup and forget. I am helping a friend of mine, he owns a retail store, setup a backup system. They do daily backups to usb drives to go offsite. I just got them a nas box, and I want to setup something that would backup all 3 of their computers main files into the nas. Just for extra layer of protection. So I am looking for something that they would not need to touch, totally automatic.
It's only available when Vim is compiled with +xclipboard support. I actually found that on an older version of CentOS (v4, I don't know if it's different in newer versions), the 'vim' command and the 'gvim' command were separately compiled binaries so that 'vim' command didn't share the +xclipboard support. On Debian/Ubuntu, I believe they are the same binary.
I came to Rails from a PHP background around 2006. I already knew some MVC. I learned Rails from "the book": http://pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with...

I highly recommend the rails guides: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
Found this ad while viewing the Abbottabad compound where Bin Laden was shot on Google Maps with caption: The end of al-Qaeda? - www.helpfindhim.com - Jihadists, want to go home? Rewards for information on al-Qaeda

Whoever is behind it has made some effort to cover their tracks, but it isn't difficult to guess that it's some part of US security establishment.

Of course, there is a small possibility that this is a false flag operation by Al-Qaeda to flush out traitors. If I was a jihadist looking for a way out, this would probably not be a smart way to do it.
This is an interesting post from an unlikely source. I think carsonified Wil soon be the Arrington of bullshit startup advice. Just trying to peddle those CSS3 How To Videos...what a joke.
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Am I the only one finding this simply amazing how Niklas and Janus managed to sell same technology/business twice?

Granted, there was an incredible mistake on eBay part not doing proper due-diligence, but pulling off what they did takes a lot of chutzpah for sure.

This most probably going as a case-study into modern economy text-books.
Pretty sure vi does not care about, or is even able to detect, the difference between a middle-mouse and a shift-insert paste.
Gee, I wonder if Google possibly has an incentive to release this rumor.
Cargo-cult social behaviors don't work any better than cargo-cult programming.

People can smell a fake a mile away.
When a friend finds something better than skype, I'll go over with them. Network effects are bidirectional.
Can anyone shed light on this:
"share the vision of bringing software innovation and products to our customers"

Are they the only one sharing that vision? Are they software companies with a vision of dumping obsolete software and products to their customers ?

Big fan of stuffing fluffy meaningless statements into each PR. This one is a keeper.
This marks the death of Skype on the Mac.
It's also somewhat difficult to determine, given a file on Usenet, which provider it came from.
I don't mind and I appreciate it, any feedback for improving it is very welcome! :-)
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If your ssh session has X11 forwarding enabled, and the remote terminal Vim has +xclipboard support, then you can use the "+P keystroke to paste directly from the clipboard into Vim.
Thanks! :-D
> I know the governments are annoyed by Skypes encryption due to they cannot listen and spy on those talking there.

Which governments? I've heard that the US and China have the keys.
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Unless your terminal emulator has mouse support and you ':set mouse=a' in Vim.
thank you gruseom. Afterall, little-z zen was meant to cast a wide net - not any specific school of thought. Tzu's quote is zennish, yes?

Addtionally, it should be said that Asians are not the only folks guilty of this - they're just the best at the meta-game (e.g. preferring to learn about playing the system over learning about the material itself).
Show HN: A million dollars isn't cool...you know what ISN'T cool? Facebook.
It has been time for me to start a blog. So I did. I wanted to share and get HN's thoughts. I wrote about Facebook and how it isn't cool. I think we should make something different. Check it out here:
http://jmjerlecki.posterous.com/a-million-dollars-isnt-coolyou-know-what-isnt
It's like saying: give me your house and don't worry, despite the property transfer, I'll allow you to continue to stay there for free; evictions will be done on a case-by-case basis.
I work on an actuarial projection system and it's very comfortable.

Part of it is about you. The work you're willing to take. I don't market myself as a fire fighter who can multitask... I market myself as a careful thinker who is always striving to improve. The companies that aren't cool with that won't hire me and I'm ok with that.
I read the FAQ and the phrase that immediately popped up in my head was "loan sharks":

- It wasn't at all clear from the website that the money would be a loan - I only got confirmation of this after several clicks to get to the FAQ.

- "Case-by-case" basis? Does that mean if they think someone is going to tank they'll ask for their money back? or perhaps they'll want it back before the next cycle?

- As another commenter has said, the phrase "don't worry" from money lenders makes me feel queasy.

I realise the above points are very touchy-feely but compared to what else is out there, I wouldn't be willing to even consider these guys.
US and Canada calling became free? As far as I know that only happened for part of 2006. In addition to calling 1-800 numbers being free.
I think it misses a key point of math which is to take an idea from a concrete example and expand it to demonstrate something in general.
This sounds a bit suspicious to me, i.e. I couldn't help but reading this in a fake Brooklyn/Jersey accent wise guy accent.

How are such loans handled in the UK regarding liability? I mean, if you have a limited company, does one of the founders have to vouch for it with his personal possessions (as it's often handled here in Germany, for obvious reasons)?

Yes, if you're doing good, they won't be hasty in getting the money back, but they just might kick you on your way down, possibly thus ruining your last shot of getting back up again.
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The problem is tracking the sites a user visits and building profiles of user behaviour based on that information without the knowledge and consent of the user.
ctrl-r <register> pastes that register into your command.

So I often need to find "where is this method defined" across a large project.

yw (yank word to get method into the " register)
:Ack <ctrl-r>" (ack plugin, paste that default " register)
<enter> yay! I found it.

Alternately:

/foo (attempt to find foo in this file. Whoops, not there, where is it!).
:Ack <ctrl-r>/ (last search is in the / register).
There it is!
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but if you can describe your job as "frantic" then I don't think you're Engineering anything. Sounds more like it's being hacked together and rushed out the door as soon as possible.
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I think the long and short of it is that in some countries, there's a significant difference, in the US there's not -- at least not a significant difference that's well-known/understood. The fact that they appear as different professions in a time magazine poll is a bit absurd.
Yeah. Microsoft should have consulted with the TechCrunch analysts first. What were they thinking?
tarsnap for important stuff, local external disk for my entire machine (for fast recovery). I keep a copy of my tarsnap key in a different city. My local external disk is de-duplicated with ddar (I wrote ddar).

A bunch of scripts run before the tarsnap to pull in external data such as offlineimap for all my IMAP accounts (including Gmail) and a database dump from my blog.
Exactly. On my machine (Ubuntu 11.04) the binary (/usr/bin/vim.basic) provided by the vim package is compiled with -clipboard -xterm_clipboard, and the binary (/usr/bin/vim.gnome) provided by vim-gnome is compiled with +clipboard +xterm_clipboard.
This is asking for trouble -- it's really ambiguous, and can easily lead to troubled waters in the near future.

Anyone who's lost money in their startup investment knows what I'm talking about. ("Oh yeah, I know it's risky, don't worry" ... "Wait, did you try hard enough? What are going to do, jump ship NOW??")

Their idea of an "evergreen" fund is cute, but it's ultimately flawed. Most startups fail.
thanks for the useful link :D
I sort of think that the focus on commenting and debate itself is possibly distracting. I think it'd be interesting to see what people think about how users could interact with news more, rather than just interacting with each other.
Your co-founder will be your lifeblood. A startup has many valleys and only a few peaks...if you want to make it through need someone you trust with your life. I can't count the times I was willing to give up and throw in the towel and my co-founder has talked me off the cliff. don't believe the hype from these premodonas who haven't spent any real time in the trenches.
Show HN: My weekend project, get notified when friends want deals you want.
The past few days I've been tinkering with a way to figure out which friends want to go in on daily deals with me. I'm not going to take a yoga class by myself nor go to a restaurant alone, so I wanted a way to know which friends are interested in an activity with me before buying the deal.

Website: http://www.dealshare.dotcloud.com

Deal Share is a simple bookmarklet that posts deals you're interested to your Facebook wall and tracks those who click the link and express interest.

Any feedback is appreciated as I may continue to improve it in my spare time. It's also my first Ruby on Rails project so there might be a few kinks here and there as well.
I think it's actually ahead of its time. The browser has already won; we're just waiting on perf and app maturity for the "last mile" of web apps (games, audio/video editors, industry-specific software (e.g. POS/PMS in hospitality), full offline access). The recent resurgence of native apps is just mobile growing up; 10 years ago, there were still B&W displays on "PDAs"...

Chrome OS gets the balance between local and cloud right, with 1 click extension installation/uninstallation, a minimal file system to facilitate downloading/uploading, and a very clean interface. In just a few years, and despite low marketshare, Chrome already sets the pace, as Firefox's new interface and release cycle give witness to. Regular people are actually ahead of the curve: for personal stuff, they already only use web apps. When they can get their work done on the web too, they'll wonder why they'd need anything other than "just a browser".
This describes most knowledge workers--attorneys, architects, designers, etc. However, the field of software is so new and complex that developers are held to a lower standard. For example, an attorney's supervisor knows exactly what is being worked on and how long it should take. Software, in contrast, is a black box that affords a number of excuses.
As mentioned elsewhere, if your vim is compiled with clipboard support(:version and look for +clipboard), you can copy/paste from the clipboard.

* is the Linux selection register.

+ is your clipboard.

So yanking is just set paste, "+y or " * y, set nopaste. Similarly you can do a "+d in vim and ctrl-v it in your browser or anywhere you can access the clipboard. You can " * d/" * y and paste it with your middle mouse button.
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This is Paul, the guy behind Mailinator.

I'm launching a new (free) Ad Trading system today. Read the backstory on the link above or check out the site at http://www.clickochet.com
Do hardware people report directly to Jobs now? That's the kind of wrong I was talking about.
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"Even if you land that good high-paying gig, the white guy with the pedigree from a mediocre state university will somehow move ahead of you in the ranks simply because he’s white."

Going to Harvard doesn't and shouldn't guarantee that you'll be a CEO at 55. Proving yourself in the real world is what matters and that skill set is different than the one needed for a high GPA.
The certificates used in the checkout flow process as legitimate but nonetheless look hinky to me. From GoDaddy, "domain control verified"? I don't seem to recall this, from prior use (it's been a while) of oreilly.com .

ADDENDUM: It's probably legitimate, but it still bothers me -- as have some other aspects of my online experiences with O'Reilly. For a site that supports purchases, I'd expect a bit more authentication with respect to the certificate(s).
the text you quoted doesn't claim anywhere that the word "relational" has to do with relationships between tables

Hmm, I disagree.

This type of structure is called a relational database: we have multiple tables that connect to one another via keys

The emphasis here is on the connections rather than the tables. Why say "multiple tables"?

In writing for beginners the author should just say something truthy like: "A relational database is a database where all data is stored in values of an algebraic data type called a 'relation'. SQL uses the word 'table' instead of 'relation', but the two words mean roughly the same thing."
Honest question: how is that faster than Ctrl+V? Is it because you don't need the mouse?
Clickable: http://IOUmate.com/
Interestingly enough, I started thinking about the "What would you do with Myspace" post (from a week or so ago) this morning, and the thing that came to mind was "Kick out all of the old / uncool people, refocus on music and cool activities. Make a site focused on people who are in bands, or go to live shows, people who are into extreme sports, etc., etc." In short, make something "cool" as opposed to a site full of people's moms and aunts and grandmothers, etc.

But since I'm 37, there's a part of me that wants to tell me (and the OP) to "go f!%# yourself, with your 'kick out the old people' crap." :-)

Seriously though, I don't think it's age per-se that matters, it's just about attracting people who are cool, for some value of "cool" regardless of age. A site with no Farmville, no middle aged housewives (well, maybe, if they're MILFs and up for some fun), and no grandmothers, no boring ass Uncle George types, could possibly gain some traction. Maybe.
Wow. What arrogance.

A Good reason to honeypot if you aren't already.

It's expected. It's polite. Respect the site owner's published policy or expect to get IP banned like any other script kiddie because when a site admin see you ripping content, he isn't thinking "yay! archive team is here to do a free backup!" he thinks you are stealing his shit.
I guess the first alternative seems like the more sane one to me, as far as legality goes. Website-crawling policies don't seem like the kind of thing that rises to the level where it's worth involving courts and laws, so I'd leave it to technological mechanisms plus voluntary compliance with non-technological mechanisms. But I suppose I have a pretty high bar for what problems are severe enough to require a government solution.

And pragmatically, the vast majority of the non-robots.txt-respecting crawls I see are coming from countries that won't enforce such laws anyway, so enforcing them in western countries seems like a downside (more entanglement between the internet and various countries' national laws) with little upside (won't stop many crawls).