skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on a premium rate video site (sport, not porn) and developed some scheduled tasks for detecting sharing of logins.

Our scenario was based around users sharing details on forums and over MSN or IRC.

It was simple enough to log every login, and at the time of login collect basic identifiers which on their own are relatively useless identifiers (think one bit of DNA), but added up become quite effective identifiers (think 30 bits of DNA).

We would then query the login against the number of login fingerprints spread across the day (were they really awake 24/7?) and across the globe (could they be in NYC and London at the same time?) and other such questions.

We ignored a reasonably high rate of abuse (one person could share the details a few times) and only approached the accounts that were significantly compromised.

To those that were compromised, the password would be automatically reset and emailed to the registered account holder letting them know that we feared their user credentials had been compromised and should it be compromised multiple times we would view this a risk to the content and would close the account. Note we did not accuse them, it's not good to do that to your customers.

One thing we didn't do, but which was debated, was to publish under the account login, the details of the account. Basically it was suggested that by putting the personal details of the registered user in with the account, they wouldn't want to share them... i.e address, phone number, part of the credit card number... all under the payment details page and quite obvious from the header. Yes it was designed, but no it never got launched.

Anyhow... detection and a way of handling it was both trivial and effective.
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New England VCs pioneered not investing in social networks when they were the first to turn down Facebook.
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That makes him your hero, not the hero of the other 99% of HN.
I have trouble understanding your behavior in this thread. Either God has personally dispatched you on a mission to Hacker News to make sure that nobody is called a 'hero' unless they really deserve it, or you know this guy and he stole your girlfriend or you bought his vegetable peeler and it exploded while you were using it and knocked one of your eyes out.
Ah, so it is a web-version of something like SubEthaEdit? (http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/)

I think the private, for-pay service in your FaQ sounds like an interesting potential replacement.
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The volume on the screencast is way too low.
That put's a new spin on:

"Multiple IBM staffers have written in to SAI to claim the company has a program in place of demanding deliberately difficult relocations, with the company saying anyone who refuses to move will be considered a "voluntary departure" and denied severance benefits."
$25k for a course on preparing for a future that may or may not happen (in our lifetime) does seem steep considering that anything you learned here would likely be outdated the minute that future arrives.
Suing your customers and users usually doesn't end well. Just ask the RIAA.

Even if they win the lawsuit and scare some more people/companies in to paying, I have trouble believing this will be a net win.
Read a book by Seth Godin called "The Dip - The Extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit ( and when to stick)". It might be useful.
Joose 2.0 Released
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonedit

However, their site is currently down. And yes, that was an offline app, so etherpad is much better.
Already posted:

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=464001

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463600
Yeah, pretty much. I'm not sure why this debate is even still coming up; It's been "solved" by a half-dozen grid frameworks.

The other issue is that people trying to get these pixel-perfect layouts need to rethink their strategy. Its a hypermedia document, stop trying to make it look like a printed page or a magazine ad.
Last time this story was posted there was an update that said the real figures are 100 and 200 dollars? Why is this story back?
I wonder if this is a sign that bugmenot.com might get sued.They have some paid sites on there right now. In fact they have working ft.com info.http://www.bugmenot.com/view/ft.com
I agree with Ron Garret that tables are a better fit in most cases, even though they do have their own drawbacks that I'm not denying.

I don't buy the argument that tables somehow imply semantics that contradict their use in layouting. Tables have no semantics without a formal system that lends them semantics (like the relational model).

I'm not aware that the W3C or anyone else defined the formal meaning of tables, and since HTML is a UI technology I don't see why "table" should not be interpreted as a form of laying out content in rows and columns.
Sony Unveils Vein Authentication Technology
"To promote the straws, Torben has let television crews film him drinking out of Copenhagen’s canals and even a toilet."

Now that's eating your own dogfood.
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Rebooting Computing: Why?
I think everyone knows your position on whether or not this guy is a hero. I'm not sure how your opinion somehow equates to being the opinion of the other 99% of HN, but given the amount you've been downvoted in this thread, I'm going to assume that your guess is incorrect.

There's been something going on here recently that's incredibly troubling to me. A lot of the people who have been around HN for a long time are going off the tracks when they disagree with anything. I don't know if it's a knee jerk reaction to all the new people, or if people are just stressed out by the constant barrage of terrible economic news or what.

All that I know is that you're ordinarily a poster who has really interesting things to say, but somehow this thread has caused you to have a temper tantrum; and it doesn't suit you.
You might look into various bank's online software. Some banks have a "business account" that has a really simple accounting system built in, that is a double-entry system with 4 accounts. I think Wells Fargo is one such bank.

Another thing you might look into is installing and configuring SQL-Ledger or LedgerSMB. Setting that up turned out to be too much of a time sink for me, given what I expected to get out of it. That was several years ago however, and since then I have picked up more common sense bookkeeping and the code has progressed a lot.
He has some good points, but not many. Mostly he tries to rebut the Ehrenreich book with dismissive language and vague, anecdotal experiences, including comparing war-torn Korea with a modern state. He has his own agenda-axe to grind.
Fair Revenue Sharing for Bloggers: Pageviews or Equity?
Is there a middle ground between each blogger owning and making money from the ads on his articles, and running a business like a corporation (think TechCrunch)?
Sounds like a nice solution. It does not sound trivial to me, though. Do you have any code to share or other pointers?Especially around the 'tuning' of this system (like, how many hours was too many, how much distance was OK, etc.)
It'd be interesting to know what changed from last time, if I remember right it was something to do with database overload?

Don't mean to pry, but it'd be cool to know what the original issue was...
Just out of interest why did you decide not to push the account details change ?
eh? I was surprised (and a little disappointed) to see that this is exactly the potato peeler my mother showed me 25 years ago. She still has it, she still uses it, it really lasts a lifetime. I'm not nearly as good with the peeler as this guy though
The site is UK hosted, we felt that publishing data that isn't required for the function of the site would fall foul of the data protection laws within the UK and EU.

It also smelt a bit. And we tried* to not do things that were possible if we felt that the idea was in any way unethical or just stank.

* Past-tense not because they now do otherwise, but because I haven't worked there in a while.
Interesting that they don't credit a couple of guys on the code they have used... Bad play do you think by the whitehouse?
Probably not, but they were also too small to be effectively unionized in the first place.
"I frankly dont want to be associated with porn and explained to me how to make start this with out using my name."

Then don't. In my experience your respect for yourself is a hundred times more valuable than money.
Summary: For most internet use Verizon's 8bmps connection with low latency was better than FiOS' high latency 20mbps connection.
Follow through is what makes it a good or bad choice. A 20 year military stint can be extremely profitable. Join at 18, get a free collage, and Masters degree (or two), then leave and become a consultant at 200+k/year. Add in all those sweet long term benefits such as a pension and it's not a stupid choice if you know how to network and try and get promoted. Then again you can also be a grunt get shot and die but the military is not as risky as most people assume.

Anyway, I don't think the problem is the multi-year commitment it's people that fail to maximize the value of that choice. I think the people who don't really know what they want are going and get a Masters / PHD in history because it's more fun than working a real job are the type of people who will fail at most things.
I think the point is that the title suggests it's speaking for the whole of hacker news. That can be quite irritating...

A simple change of wording on the title would have been a good idea - "Fantastic street seller, as featured in NYTimes, passed"

I don't think it's good to edit titles to pass opinion, especially when you're suggesting you're speaking for some group.

It's similar to a headline like "England devastated by death of Princess Diana". Erm well, it was shocking and sad, but I wasn't devastated.
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Depends on your definition of "legal." It'd still be "work." You need to think whether a US border agent would let you in if you told them the truth. I once told an agent I was going to help a friend set up who'd just moved into a new house.. even that got me in the interrogation room!

You need to have your entire story planned out before you get to the agent whether your entry is for legitimate purposes, arguable purposes, or illegitimate purposes. It doesn't matter which - and then stick to it.

I go to the US legitimately, and often they throw some real curveballs that, if you hadn't got a clear picture in your head, could get you into trouble fast.
I've been looking for a simple task app that I can use on my iphone and have in my google homepage. I'll be trying this out.
It was trivial to collect the information.

First you start with what the server knows, and log each data point.

Then what can JavaScript tell us? Log each data point.

What can common plugins tell us? Windows Media player has a UID cookie, call it twice from different IP's and see if we get the same number back. Flash could tell us a bit more too.

Then there are the geospatial properties, where, when? Log those.

We logged everything we could, and then pushed them over to an MIS layer.

The MIS layer included views that ranked all users according to various basic criteria (number of hours when login has been performed per day, total amount of time spent on the system (windows media log files), number of unique machines used to access content).

With those views the business could then use existing reporting tools to tweak the criteria or investigate a more severe anomaly in a set of data points.

The result reports went back into the system and became the new benchmark for the next set of scheduled de-activations or emails.

This way the computers could be left to do it 99% of the time, and people could come in and tweak it visually for the 1% of the time.

We were purposefully tolerant of the issue as it is better to let a few people through and gain that marketing and audience than it was to have false positives and the bad marketing on the sport team forums.

I can't share the various bits of code I'm afraid, it's a while ago and belongs to my employer at the time, though the technique I've outlined above.
They could just invent generic answers, and then share those.
On building Flex-based Application UIs
It seems to response quite quickly at this point - as quickly as the demo shows in the etherpad.com demo video. Those of you who tried pclark's test/toy link: try signing up and selecting a color for your editing. Pretty slick!

I'm wondering what their business model is? No ads yet. Will this just showcase their hacking abilities?
Davidw's wildly off topic guide to the Veneto region of Italy
Latency on my cablemodem has always been abou 60ms until I negotiated my monthly bill with TW/RR that I just purchased AT&T dsl. I found it fascinating after several years of 60ms ping times, my cable latency dropped to 20ms to match the dsl service. Didn't ask for that. How odd. Name lookup latency improved by many times also.

It pays to negotiate. Service just might improve.
WMV can be played by all Windows PCs, about 20% of Macs, and many Linux systems. MP4 will play on all Macs but only some Windows and Linux machines. Anything else is worse.
Tagging is what I was looking for! The ability to refer to a branch as 'user-profile' rather than 8973jef8wuefijiw3rf89sd7fhdsf8d9f
A while ago, pg asked about places to visit in Europe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294321

which got me to thinking that I ought to write down some of what I know about Italy. This series of articles is the result. I know it's completely off topic, but I figured someone would be interested in them, and near as I can tell, there's not much of politics/religion/monetary theory in them, so they oughtn't be very controversial.
Cloud Computing is for everyone -- except stupid people
I certainly see your point. The guy wasn't one of my heroes either. But it just seems petty to continue to belabor the point after the first time it's been made.

This is one of the few times that I wish there was private messaging here. There is clearly some reflexive downvoting going on in this thread, and it really shouldn't be that way - people shouldn't be punished for having a conversation.
Although the article claims that delaying employment with grad school doesn't make you money, there's some good empirical evidence that a delay can create beneficial cohort effects which pay huge dividends over a career.

If you get a job during a nasty economic time, you'll probably end up saddled with a lower salary. This salary then becomes the foundation on which all future raises are calculated (e.g., a 5% raise).

If, however, you got a job during a robust economic time, you'll start with a higher salary and a higher foundation on which all future raises are calculated.

The difference between waiting a year for an extra bump in salary can pay off a lot because the difference will be compounded over the years. This creates an economically rational incentive to avoid the workforce by entering grad school for a little while (no PhD programs) or by finally giving the startup thing a try.
Mixing Oil and Water: Authorship in a Wiki World
re. dns, he could run something like djbdns locally on his machine and that could connect to opendns.

the other thing he could do is increase the mtu size, from the std 1440 to 2x-5x of that.
You solve people problems with people, not technology.
More generally, don't have dealings with assholes. Don't work for them, don't hire them, don't have them as cofounders, don't take investment from them.

One of the things I always ask speakers at YC is what they know now that they didn't know when they were 25. The most common answer is probably to trust their instincts about people. When you run into a person who's bad news, there's often a little voice inside you saying "watch out." When you're young, you feel like you should ignore it, because it seems so arbitrary.
angels can bail on a shitty market because most of them are just doing it for vanity anyway (as numair points out, they want to be "players"). the VCs are tied to the business model for life even though many of them are selling off sections of their worthless portfolios.

the core reason remains the same: no one is making money. and for so many startups that are going are going the "freemium" route, the numbers are laughable, i could net as much in a year cutting lawns. one wonders why high finance is involving itself in what is increasingly becoming a nickels and dimes game.
So, your belief is that you can deter cheaters by forcing them to truthfully divulge personal information, which they then won't want to share?

Guess which word is going to cause a problem.
Retail Stock Broker TradeKing Dives Head-First Into Social Networking
I had relatives in the city over the last weekend. They had a checklist of stuff they wanted to see, and they managed to see everything but the Peeler Guy.
Agreed. People who are using technology creatively.
Here's what that part of their web site looks like: http://community.tradeking.com/
A nine-week course at Singularity University will cost $25,000. The first three weeks will be spent studying 10 different subjects, with the next three weeks focusing on one in detail. The final three weeks will be taken up by a special project.

Think we could get a student loan for that?
About PR firms - just take care when selecting one if you decide to go that route - simply because a lot of them still send out e-mail blasts which are annoying and tend to be dismissed quickly. So I'd hate to see you throw away good money and not get great results. Ask them what how they work and what they can do for you before they do it; you don't want your startup associated with the ratfinks.

Overall I agree with what Mystalic wrote but wanted to add a couple of things - note my disclaimer, I write for ReadWriteWeb.

Make sure your product is relevant to to the sites audience - this is soooo important. Take a look at this post Richard wrote some time ago - it's worth a read - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_not_to_pitch_a_blog...

Also, if you do want to target bloggers - make it easy for them to write about you. For instance - make sure the site covers all the things we'll want to know - the basics - who, what, where, when, why and how - you'd be surprised how many people forget that blogs have made it super important to write stuff up quickly; if we have to spend an hour just working out what your product is about, chances are we won't bother.

Sorry that sounds harsh, but it is the reality.

Hope this helps a bit and good luck!
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I feel like I must be missing something. SingularityU is going to tackle the biggest issues of our time by educating 30 people for $25k a piece?

It really seems like there is an opportunity here to include masses of world changers instead of only targeting corporate executives who will use the information as it best suits the needs of their shareholders.
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"A cost/benefit analysis on grad school can never be representative, because the experiences, skills, and research can't be quantified. You might become interested in a new field, create an operating system (see Linus Torvalds' masters thesis), or meet your future wife."

Right. And if you join the Navy, you might get to see the world, and you might marry a beautiful Polynesian girl!

You don't do these sorts of things for the incidental benefits.
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The Toronto Lisp users' group will meet there at 6PM today. Come on out! I'm giving a little demo of the language Factor - it should be fun.
Did someone say republicans? I hate republicans so much, and this post looks like a perfect place to complain about them.
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I had the chance to use EtherPad as part of a job interview while it was in private beta. It was supposed to use Skype and EtherPad to get the full effect. Skype broke, but EtherPad worked great. The ease of getting code to the interviewer, and (I imagine) the ability to see the way I wrote the code were really helpful.

If you're doing a phone screen interview in the future, I highly recommend using EtherPad.
Require a credit card and display said information (anonymized to an extent) on the landing page after they log in. People will be very unlikely to purposefully give their credentials to your site to the public. This would work at companies too, because most companies would rather not have all of their employees see this information (it'd be more effective if you didn't anonymize any data... but the security implications could be too great, that's a choice for you too make though). It basically comes down to the fact that most people don't mind taking advantage of a business, until it means that they can be taken advantage too. As harsh as it sounds, the most direct solution is to simply make them put themselves at risk of being taken advantage of if they take advantage of you.
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I'm in a Machine Learning class right now and the math is absurd. Our professor goes over general theory in class and references some practical applications. For homework we have to prove the theories and then create MATLAB programs that create the figures in our textbook (Bishop). It's pretty dense and time consuming.

However, I come from a Physics background, so the math is just different, and may in fact be easier. However, I've been referencing my Mathematical Methods for Physicists book (Boas) pretty often to brush up on some linear algebra techniques.

Lastly, its been said quite a bit in these forums, but if you are just interested in implementing this stuff, definitely check out Collective Intelligence by Oreilly. I use that book in tandem to bring some of the high-level concepts back down to earth. :)

Good luck
I'm sure I speak for most of the progressives on HN when I say that we support what you're saying as being the overall GOP agenda, but man... that was just lame.
I can not conceive of how one would have a "non-math heavy" machine learning course. Machine learning is basically a branch of applied statistics, at least in its current form. None of the algorithms are "fire and forget", such that you can use them effectively without deeply understanding them, and one of the first things you'll cover in your Machine Learning course is why it is unlikely that will even happen (the No Free Lunch theorem, often over-applied in internet debates but still a very, very important result).

(I mean, sure, you can try to fire-and-forget, but for the most part you'll either fail with no clue why, or fail to get very good results. Decision trees might be a moderate exception, although even then you really ought to understand how they are constructed and the implications of various choices you can make.)
As an update a few days later I'd like to add that the new "improved" version with ads is.. Let's just say that there should be less ads than game. I know that they're there to annoy users into paying for the premium version, but this is just too much.