skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a lawyer, but my guess would be no since it's merely a link to a third party. I'd guess the third party has the responsibility to ask that question.

On the other hand, I'm not a lawyer.
Several years ago, I had the privilege to witness a fireball that lasted nearly 15 seconds from start to finish. I've never again experienced anything as intense as this, which includes skydiving.

I spotted a tiny white moving dot in the sky. At first, it looked like a satellite in orbit, only it strangely grew in intensity, until appearing to be an airplane. 5 seconds in, it began to flicker, grew brighter, and grabbed the attention of other onlookers. From there, small fragments began coming off as it increased in brightness and become more of a white-orange color. The fragmenting pieces themselves also followed suite, breaking off into more white-orange pieces and leaving glittering trails. The main object then became quite massive, maybe about half the size of a full moon, with equal to or greater brightness then a full moon. The ground lit up. The main object was constantly disintegrating as pieces were breaking off and lagging back into the trail, breaking off into even more glittering pieces, and producing more light. Still, the main object only grew in intensity and become more distinctly orange. I can't be sure, because at this point it was burning spots into my eyes, which were adjusted for low light, but I believe there was even a trail of smoke. At this point I remember thinking "holy crap, it's going to impact way over there!" but instead, it dimmed a bit, and flew past the horizon. Suddenly, it was like the whole thing had never happened. Surprisingly, there was no sound from it.

On a related note, did anyone catch the Leonids several years back? That was also quite amazing.
Govt agencies and others who want to bury data do so on a Friday before a long holiday... like this recent one.

So do the opposite: launch next Tuesday, 24 Feb.

But, and I say this with love, it doesn't fucking matter when you launch. We launched a beta... 12 days ago? I don't remember precisely because it doesn't matter. The people using are happy and we don't need to see our names in print.

I've worked at places that had rock star launches and promptly failed because they didn't make something people wanted. I've worked for nice, profitable businesses you've never heard of, and never will.

Anyway -- if you want publicity, it's more than just numerology. You have to build relationships with people beforehand. It's not like you're going to email news@wired.com at exactly 8:13 am on the day before deadline, and boom! you're an internet legend. Give journalists a little credit.
The friend you sent this message to could have ownership of this piece of information - if Facebook wanted to structure it this way. That is actually how email works.

This is untrue. An email written by you is your copyrighted work, from the moment you type it. Just because it's in my inbox doesn't mean you've relinquished your copyright. Technically, if I republish your email to me, you can sue me. [1]

The other day someone was polite enough to ask for permission to republish one of my comments here on HN on their blog. That surprised me for a second, but it shouldn't have. They were doing the correct, legal thing -- my comment was (and is) copyrighted by me; unless they were reproducing it for a fair use -- as I just did, when I quoted your post for the purpose of commenting on it -- they needed my permission to reuse it.

Now imagine how useful Facebook would be if every user had to seek a copyright release from every other user anytime they forwarded a message, or cropped a fellow user's photo, or reposted something, lest Facebook later be sued for contributory or vicarious infringement. [2] That's why Facebook has now decided to just have users agree to a waiver in advance.

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[1] Not that you would necessarily win such a lawsuit. There are such things as "implied licenses": If you send email to a public mailing list there's an implication that you mean for it to be public:

http://www.piercelaw.edu/thomasfield/ipbasics/copyright-on-t...

There are also many fair uses. But, especially if I use your writing for some sort of commercial purpose -- as Facebook does, constantly -- you can take me to court and hassle me, because the copyright is still yours. As the Creative Commons website will tell you at great length, under current US copyright law it's actually really hard to throw away the inherent copyright that you hold in your own work, even if you want to throw it away.

[2] http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise14.html
Jay,

What people are trying to communicate is that they don't judge that you are offering value. It's a possible and valid answer to your question that you have to consider: that you ad is good, but your opportunity is bad.

That doesn't help you launch your business, so how about this:

What you seem to need to do is pay a contractor to build you a web application you have designed.

Think of this as building out an empty strip mall unit into a cafe for fulfill your dream of owning a coffee house. You have a general idea, and with your good credit, you can lease the space, but you need somebody with skills and experience to do the build out: build a bar, install coffee machines, plumbing, electric, internet, interior design, funishing... etc.

Assume you have plenty of cash and some rudimentary experience outfitting commercial real estate. Then this is straightforward: you request bids, hire a contractor, they do everything you want, you pay them, and cafe business is entirely owned by you. When the contractors are done, they are gone, though you are always welcome to repeat the process of you paying them for new work to maintain or expand your business. You will probably learn something about negotiating contracts based on over-optimistic sales projections, but oh well, that's life.

So, this will be your general experience if you hire a web application contracting firm.

But what if you don't have the money to hire somebody to do the work, and you can't do the work yourself? Now you are in troubled territory for which there is no MBA formula...

This seems to be you. Here are some example scenarios, still following the cafe analogy, that could work and have respectable expectations of success:

* You work with your family or very best friend who can help you do the work because they love you. They get some equity, but it's "your" business, and they respect that. Maybe the cafe goes on to be part of the family business.

* You save your money until you can pay somebody to do the work.

* You get a small business loan from the bank to do the work. (PS: off-topic, but please do not allow your friends and family to co-sign your small business loan if you really care about them...)

Now you can't do any of the above... and now we're getting into shady territory of almost certain failure:

* Reminded of stories of people who seemingly helped each other for free (see above), you convince "some guy / some kid" who "worked in construction / seems really handy" that the two of you will finally Achieve the American Dream and that together you have a shot at making TONS of money by him doing your work. You can't pay him, but you give him some "equity," and "that's ok, you'll be rich when this gets huge if we all work really hard."
Mobile World Congress: Sixteen New Phones in 24 Hours.
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It would make watching professional football more interesting.
Well sure, but it seems to me that if someone is already competent in haskell, or has done some serious networking work on their own, then they've already demonstrated that they're worth hiring, and that they'll probably be able to work with whatever you need them to.

This is different than looking for someone with 1 year of experience in ruby. The combination of short amount of time and some conflation of ruby and ruby-on-rails in the general populace could lead to a whole lot of incompetent (or inexperienced enough that it would drag the whole project down) devs being attracted to the job.

That is not to say that I think that 5 years of experience developing web apps and 3 in ruby is much of a better metric - as you said, (demonstrated) ability, talent, and enthusiasm are much more important than x years in y.
Thanks for the advice about Fridays before a long holiday.

Believe me, I'm well aware that I'm currently an insignificant force on basically all forms of media, which makes me happy to hear you sympathize.

How do I go about creating a relationship with sites like TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, etc? What I'm going to launch is something I they really would want to cover, and if they didn't, they'd be doing terrible at their job. There has to be some hope that great ideas will rise above connected people's ideas, at least in terms of coverage. This is the internet, after all.
"Can you point me to something I said that implies this is an obsession or that this is what I think the primary critical issue is with site security?"

You asked for the financial institution's name so you could avoid them, based solely on the password storage issue. That counts as obsession to me. Oh and I forgot to write it before, but financial institutions often need to store in plaintext anyway, for telephone authentication.

"Why would I as a user care at all if I could retrieve the actual value of a complex password -- and why would knowing I could recover it make me then choose a more complex one?"

If people know they have to remember it, they tend to choose simpler passwords, or they write it down. If you tell users to set a hard password, and they can recover it later if necessary, they would hopefully tend to use better ones. I can't really back that up with a study, though, so it could just be my experience.

"The user should be given an option of resetting the password via a link sent by email. Sending passwords themselves over the email is a great way to have it revealed for someone else to use later."

This is veering off topic, but you either trust the email or you don't. What, pray tell, is the difference between sending the password and sending a link to reset the password, if an attacker has access to the victim's email?

"Good thing no one needs this mediocre authentication method if SSL is available."

Yeah, pity SSL is not an authentication method. You did know that, right?

Digest authentication is heavily used in APIs and other non-browser applications, where you need some authentication but the tunnel is not necessary and you don't want to maintain heavy sessions. SSL, apart from NOT being an authentication method, is anyway slow and heavy and requires proper certs, so is mainly used only for user-facing web sites. Not to mention intranets, devices, etc.

Anyway, even if HTTP Digest Auth were in fact rare, trying to wave it away with "good thing no-one needs it" is ridiculous. I, personally, need it, and am very far from alone.

I'd like to mention that I do agree in principle, and am playing devil's advocate to some degree. My point is that password hashing is not a panacea, it is often not even possible, and I would certainly not avoid a site just because they store in plaintext if I otherwise had a good impression of their security practises.

I suspect that many companies you know, trust and use have a plaintext copy of your password with them, and you wouldn't even know it.
From 1.306 to 1.245 is a fall of 25% ?
If you're a mouse, you are all set. If half this stuff would work in people....
On the third-party point, I think that's the reason they say:

"(there seems to be no such confirmation found on at least some of the redirected porn sites)."
The intersection of the Venn diagram of Perez Hilton's readers and TC+TM's readers is probably small. Perez is probably more influential in calling for a 'boycott' on FaceBook because of his audience.
Handles for conservatory doors
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This is exactly the reason that I turned down equity-only offers while I was freelancing after being on the down-and-out for a while. I was not in a financial situation where I could work for equity, I had bills to pay, and barely enough money to do so.

I eventually found a very good client with a very good idea, and am now working for a "pay the bills and save a little as well" salary + (a fair amount of) equity, which should work out really well - but before that, every offer for equity that I got was from someone that either couldn't afford to pay my bills while waiting for their idea to come to fruition, or just had a "ooh like a myspace/twitter mashup!!" flop of an idea.

If your idea is good, there are a lot of competent programmers who will work on it if you can keep a roof over their head and food in their stomach. Hell, I would live on someones couch or spare room (hence just food costs) while working on their idea if it was a really good one and I got along with them (I imagine I'm in the minority here).
"Labor" consists of human beings which bring a whole complex of externalities that capital does not. Not one policymaker (Not one) is effected by these externalities. And most of us UMC technocrats aren't either.
Boy am I naive, did not know they ran prostitution thru Craigslists. I do know if you catch a businessman with a hooker he will go to great lengths to destroy your credibility and your life to protect his reputation and his hooker love. Believe me I accidently saw it and was stalked and harassed for 5 years.!!!
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You need this book, it's excellent: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201799405 .
This is why bell choirs are either totally awful or completely amazing and never anything in between.
Wow did not know they ran prostitutes thru Craigslist but that makes so much sense now as to what happens there is so much organized crime hiding right out in the open, I learned the best place for criminals is out in the open...
"...great ideas will rise above connected people's ideas..."

That's a nice way to put it. But truly great ideas tend to be self-demonstrating. If your idea is like that, like the portable water purifying straw, or wheels on luggage, you really don't need to do much.

For every other idea you either need to be connected yourself or you need to build a base of support. Perhaps identify the B and C listers, the ones who actually are hungry for a story. Or try to get 1,000 customers / people / whatever your metric is, then give them something in exchange for blogging about it.

You have the imagination to invent your thing, right? So why are you not using it? Connected writers are lazy. People come to them all day long. Do you really want your company to hinge on the whim of a lazy, distracted person who has no stake in your success?

Figure out what you really need to succeed, and go after that. Chasing PR because it's the default choice is a waste of time.
So I guess technically they should have... a reference count.

Okay, wise guys: Show me the algorithm that finds the snippet of ojbyrne's writing that I've just copied, above, and deletes it when ojbyrne deletes the original message. ;)

Now show me the version which correctly identifies my quote as a pretty obvious case of fair use, and therefore allows me to keep the quote even when the original is deleted.

No hacker would expect you to be able to do such a thing reliably. But the juries in copyright lawsuits are not composed of hackers.
Religions attract the people that want to hide something, the best place to hide is right out in the open, they think they can go home pray and "their God" forgives them, so yes they use their religion to hide behind.
I was at a gallery with $10k+ paintings and sculptures. I asked the owner in a tactful way - why is the painting/sculpture worth $25,000 - who buys these? Her answer was the people who buy these pieces of art are buying them as investments (e.g. they would like them to appreciate in value, like fine wine). Kind of like discovering a cool band before they're hot. It's not totally gambling/investment and it's not solely personal appreciation of the artist's work.
How many Canadian or Australian H1Bs have you met?
Ask HN: How would you identify potential relationships for businesses?
Hey HN,

I would like your advice on how to assess potential inter-business or inter-institutional relationships for any sort of industry.

By relationships, I mean any connection between two businesses. For example, how can you tell a local independent grocer that his business would benefit from initiating a relationship with Business X. Business X could be a supplier, another neighborhood grocer looking for a partnership (why?), a local website that specializes in promoting local grocers, etc.

In other words, how does one identify a business's potential for making mutually beneficial connections?

If you were to build a one-size-fits-all template to assess this type of potential for any sort of business in order to facilitate these connections, what variables would you look at - size, location, etc.?

I have been thinking about these questions for a while now, but hit a wall recently. I thought I would pose this to some other minds.

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I'm precisely so excited about what I've made because it is self-demonstrating. The landing page has a video of someone using it, and a button to click to try it (no registration.. just click). I just want as many eyeballs as possible to see it!

I'm definitely not expecting PR to "make or break" what I've made. That being said, some PR at launch certainly wouldn't hurt, and if its something that will grow by word of mouth (hence, exponentially), twice as many people initially seeing it means twice as many users at any given point in time thereafter.

And I do use what I made, several times a day, and I love it.
So the problem is that the people on the rotations are too lazy to fill out the review forms? The problem is not that they are afraid the reviews will bite them later?

If so, sounds like you could try offering rewards of some type. What I've seen in the past is a raffle for an iPod or similar, you must enter a review to win.

Also, if the dean is really serious about wanting this feedback, then he or she could require filling out reviews as part of a successful away rotation. Suggest keeping this as a last resort, since it could lead people to resent your project. Plus then people will do the bare minimum review.

On the "attention supply side," can you do something like instead of having one big review at the end, many micro-reviews during the rotation? For example, you could ask them every day "what was the best thing about your away rotation?" or you could give them a Twitter account and show the tweets relevant to the away rotation.
I would barely call some TechCrunch comments "controversy". That site has some serious youtube-style lowest-denominator-of-society commenting going on. The troll to constructive comment ratio is like 9:1.
A good thread over at Wired around popular social bookmarking alternatives: http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/magnolia-suffer.html
I'm not into Twitter at all too much, yet, but it seems like nowadays any link you post is fair game. URLs in and of themselves have nearly as much value as the content within them, which is what makes social media sites so valuable. It's now the nature of the web for URLs to get passed around. It doesn't seem to matter much from where the URL first got popular.. Digg/Reddit/HN/4chan/etc.. if it's good content, the link has value, and is arbitraged across all of the networks.

Anybody can repost links found on any of these networks, and claim they found them themselves. I've long theorized about how since there's values in URLs, one could profit from being able to detect when a URL is "underrated," that is, poised to become extremely popular, and share the link. Basically, a "what's about to be really hot across all social media sites" URL generator. If I link to it from Twitter before it becomes popular, I'm doing my followers a service.

My question for you: what does "highest-point" submission mean? How are points measured? Where can you view them?
OK. I will try to explain.

There are big problems with software development - complexity and requirement of the special state of the mind. This is why there are still no programming factories. There are already data-indexing and query processing factories, but you still should think and write.

All those methods, form Booch's RUP, Beck's XP, Fowler's Refactoring are an attempts to adapt scientific methods, psychological and human behavior models, and even religious concepts to the process of the writing software.

The point is that these common ideas can be also adapted to a business processes.

For example, RUP is about planning and circles of iterations - scientific approach. XP is about reuse human behavior - little steps, being sure you hadn't broke anything, look (run tests) at your beloved code 10 times a day. Refactoring is about continuous improvements, little changes, that makes your code easier to understand, which means easier to modify and support. This is, probably, from dictionary and guide-books writing. You're writing the code is for humans, not for compilers.

Of course, not one of these methods fits all, but you can make a mix by yourself. Some from there, some from there. It is like cooking. All sources and ingredients available - just try, learn on failures and try again.
"That counts as obsession to me."

It's a red flag, not an obsession...

"financial institutions often need to store in plaintext anyway, for telephone authentication."

Mine doesn't. And yes, if they did, I would not be their customer. Just because I may not know exactly what happens behind the scenes somewhere doesn't mean I can't react to the red flags I can see.

"If you tell users to set a hard password, and they can recover it later if necessary, they would hopefully tend to use better ones"

How is that any different than if the user can reset the password?

"What, pray tell, is the difference between sending the password and sending a link to reset the password, if an attacker has access to the victim's email?"

There is a big difference. Anyone who has access to the text of the mail at any point in time now has your password. It's about mitigating the risks of the crappy vetting channel (email) with a time limited method (a reset URL).

"Yeah, pity SSL is not an authentication method. You did know that, right?"

For password based things, I am referring to the channel used to avoid the well known problems with digest access authentication such as man in the middle attacks.

Besides what I was referring to: used with non-anonymous X509 client certs, yes SSL is in fact used for authentication. Entire infrastructures are built on it. All of the clusters I have access to only let me in by virtue of X509 client certificates over SSL.

""good thing no-one needs it" is ridiculous. I, personally, need it, and am very far from alone."

I said good thing no one needs it if SSL is available not that no one needs it...

I use it myself in software we release that runs behind a firewall, I'm well aware it's cheaper.

"I would certainly not avoid a site just because they store in plaintext"

I admit it's a little on the reactionary side for me to say that, it was quick snarky comment.

But I don't take back that it's a red flag.
Me and my friends once tried to uncover his real name, with no success. It seems he has registered all his domains with the name _why the lucky stiff (the WHOIS page said "the lucky stiff, _why")

Maybe that is his real name?
Because you are going to lose your entire database, and everyone's password along with it, to the first SQL Injection vulnerability you miss in your application.
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