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Gandi is a little too good for those of us running anything other than a comment-free religious blog.

The contract you agree to when purchasing a domain legally binds you to observe, uphold, and enforce on your visitors a code of ethics. That code involves, among other things, fighting "deviant uses of the internet" and "protecting public order and good moral standards". That's just the beginning of your extensive moral policing duties should you not want to give Gandi the right to steal your domain from you at any time.

Good luck explaining that your post about hacking on a Raspberry Pi is not the type of hacking they prohibit you from discussing using a domain you purchased from them. There's virtually no way to run a forum, blog with open comments, or anything else enabling user-generated content without breaching your contract.

I'm not making this up. I think their "no bullshit" policy is marketing bullshit considering the actual stuff they put in their TOS. The terms are ridiculous for the service they're providing -- commodity domain registration, which is the updating of tiny records in a database at Verisign. Read it yourself:

https://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN....
> Because Web addresses are not static (i.e., they change often)

According to the World Wide Web Consortium, they should be static. http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
North Korea is not communist it is Juche. All reference to Marxism-Leninism was dropped in the revised 1998 constitution.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/10/north-korea-lo...
Same here, except that I have a set of black and a set of white (I mostly wear white), which are kept in separate drawers.

I don't have a formal rotation system, though. Just drawing at random from the drawer seems to produce approximately equal wear.
"Your proposal is unconstitutional. "Takings" must be compensated or you run into 5th amendment issues."

Copyrights can only be granted for a limited time according to the constitution. The fifth amendment only applies to property and despite the use of the term "intellectual property" by lawyers and those who profit from copyrights, copyright is not actually a form of property. What is unconstitutional is copyrights that last forever, which is why Congress periodically extends copyright terms as an end-run around the constitution.

"How can you justify forcing people to give up copyright when the public only paid for one third of the research?"

Simple: the entire point of copyright is to ensure that American society will have access to creative work. It is not meant to be a form of property, it was never meant as a form of property, and researchers' copyrights on their work are doing nothing to ensure public access to those works.

Further, it is not at all out of line for researchers to give up their copyrights. I cannot speak for your field, but in my field, we routinely assign copyrights to journals and give up any copyright claims thereafter. The entire point of publishing researcher is for other people to read it, cite it, and build on it. Researchers gain nothing by restricting access to their published work, and researchers benefit from their work being made more widely available.

Don't swallow the propaganda that the copyright lobby has been shoving down our throats. Copyright is not about ensuring that authors can control who reads their work or how many copies exist in the world. Copyright is about monetizing the production and distribution of creative work. In the case of research, copyright has nothing to do with monetizing the work, because it is paid for regardless of copyright, and so the only point of copyrights on published research is to monetize the publishing system. We forgot the point of copyright long ago, thanks to decades of lobbying effort by the people who profit from the copyright system.

Why are you publishing your research, exactly? Is it not so that other people can read it, and if that is the reason, why would you care about receiving copyrights on that work? I cannot speak for you, but when I publish my work, I do so with the intention of other people reading it -- something that copyright does nothing to encourage these days.
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Fortunately for you they're not forcing you to do it.
I was actually surprised to see Sophie write up her experiences in NK. I'm sure that, being part of diplomatic, friendship mission she had to pick a choose her words and stories, as her write up will be associated with the mission and members to some extent.
I have never been to NK, perhaps one day I will have the opportunity. I'm sure such a trip would challenge a lot of my priors about what is normal and not normal and help me to understand more about myself and my own cultural attitudes. For me that is the ultimate point of travel.

As an example, I am an American, but I have not lived in the United States for a long time. And each time I go back I find my own country both intensely familiar / strange and both comfortable / uncomfortable at the same time. I remember a couple years ago going back in Dec 2008. Obama had just been elected president and it was the oddest feeling, as I walked about the Chicago airport waiting for my delayed plane to Boston, to see Obama's face on T-shirts, to see Obama's face on Time (or was it Newsweek?), to see Obama's wife on the cover of the ladies magazines. I suppose all the Obama sign-age didn't seem at all strange to the natives but then again I suppose, pictures of the Great Leader don't seem out of place to the natives in NK either.

I could tell you more stories about the strangeness of seeing flags everywhere months after 9-11 or the horror of the rhetoric that is casually accepted by the audiences during national conventions. But what I am trying to get at is that political and nationalistic symbols exist in every country and the trick is not to do the easy work and point out its baseness or ridicule it when we see it some place else. The trick is is to see what Jung would call our own "shadow"; do the hard work; see where we have let our own institutions manipulate our thoughts and feelings. When we can do that then one has had a successful trip.
If someone wants to demonize an organization they don't like, it's popular to accuse them of having ties to the Koch brothers.

Well, here's some other (obviously evil) organizations funded by the Kochs:

- ACLU
- MIT
- NYC Ballet
- American Museum of Natural History
- PBS
- Lincoln Center
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Was bunnie's hack of the Xbox keys a MIT-endorsed project?

Since the AI lab published the research as an official memo, it seems like they at least endorsed it. The memo (linked to in the article) is worth reading since it makes clear why the hacking of the keys was done: to test how secure the Xbox's security really was.
If I had an email signature, I'd set it to this.
I've ran into this too... their security team came back with "That's by design".

Not too long afterwards a friend of mine automated it, stuck it up on Google code and it might be fixed now ...
In all fields this is a middle period before true mastery. Eventually the pupil will respond automatically to these threats and the confidence will return. The fight actually seems to slow down as well. And again, this isn't just in martial arts and athletics.

You say this came from an essay on Zen. I haven't read it, but I will defend the western Aristotelian ideal of mastering the practical knowledge, the "knowledge how" of any activity, including the universal activity of living virtuously, over Zen.
There's nothing wrong with someone taking the time to write a week-one CS degree blogpost.
Spam filtering and search are less cynical reasons for allowing Gmail to see the plaintext of your messages.
I'll be living off my savings
Appeal to authority.

I at least bothered to respond with arguments at all (both mine and links to Olin Kerr's), and I did so without reciting high school debate knowledge under the assumption that HN readers are smart enough to figure out the difference between debating tactics and logical argument.

You have responded with a doubling-down of the appeal to authority, as if it would really be that unusual for a judge interested in a case which has lit the Internet and media on fire for a whole week now to get her name out there as well. In fact, the very article you linked calls it a "chorus of criticism". Oh, and a couple of clichés.

On the other hand, I did respond to the opinion you linked in by linking in other opinions. Yay, opinion war, go me.

I will say thanks for the article though, as even your talking head confirms that the 35-year sentence was never going to happen (and by extension, the 50-year sentence I must assume).
What on earth does this non-profit spend $50M/yr doing? I've come up with the following:

- scan old articles (this really shouldn't be accounted as
a business expense: once you've scanned an article you
never need to scan it again and there are a finite
number of articles in existence, thus this is that rare
sort of capital spending that can be depreciated over
an essentially infinite period)
- serve saved content and related services online (the
price of this activity is dropping all the time)
- sales, accounting, legal (these activities would be much
less costly for a free service like arXiv.org)
- license payments (hard to get around this without some
[justified IMO] changes to the law, but I'm sure JSTOR
is also marking up these charges and besides most
education institutions already make equivalent payments
to extant journals)

Granted, I've left out the gold-plated executive washroom and first-class airfare for lobbyists, but it's reasonable for society to question why JSTOR is an entity that deserves its tax exemptions.
This is what I do: lay them out and pair them as the layout continues. O(n) to pair n socks, but that's cheating a bit because you can see them all at a glance. Particularly works well with my daughter's socks, the little ones are really hard to keep track of.

I have an O(1) solution that is fairly reliable for matching a single pair. Pick out a sock from the drawer. Then go find your kids; they ran off with the matching one when you weren't looking (requires that you live with at least one young child).
Not at all. I posted because someone asked, and because I like to show people there is always a way.

Of course my way doesn't work for everyone, but I'll bet there is a way that works for others (that likely doesn't work for me).

I'm not saying everyone should do it my way, I'm saying everyone (including you!) should work hard to find the way that works for them (and it might be a way that nobody else has done yet...)
Same here. 18 pair of initially white socks. After that I just pick one at random and then one that reasonably matches the shade of grey, pink, or blue that it has acquired on its strange and marvelous journey through laundry land.

When most of them have at least one hole I recycle them and start over.
How did they define racist? Besides the weak tendency to date someone your own race, there's also not a lot of variation from among those with doctorates in the first place: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/pdf/tab7-7.pdf (Though there are a lot of temporary residents: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/pdf/tab7-4.pdf)
Reading the comments about de-duping,I think one can identify a very attractive monetisation path for mega. The largest percentage of traffic mega achieves, which is largely supported by the huge free space, the biggest the incentive for ISPs to resort to a service from mega for de-duping and caching mega traffic. It would not be unexpected if a "mega appliance" comes up in a few months for "distributed", high-performance mega usage. I do not remember the statistics exactly, but megaupload used to have a significant percentage of global traffic. Albeit, anyone could cache that traffic. Now, mega holds the keys to that. Some strategic and gradual approach is required, though, before ISPs take notice of that and pro-actively degrade mega's services (the other article about Google paying Orange for preferential QoS is relevant) before it gets the required momentum. Just a thought. What do you think? Is mega really holding a lock on this kind of information?
-Entfusion doesn't seem like a very consumer friendly name.

-Perhaps you should tackle one vertical/use case with in entertainment vendors. It will be very hard to nail the product for photographers, live music, comedy, etc. all at one time. You're facing a big chicken and egg problem.

-Add some sort of easy navigation/discovery tool on the homepage because right now it's very hard to see what's even available on the site (having a bunch of people on the left of the homepage isn't the best UI choice).

-Consider a tagline or call to action instead of having a longer paragraph at the top-left. Nobody likes reading a ton in small letters when visiting a site. Maybe in big bold letters: "Find Entertainers for Your Next Event" then underneath it "Local DJs, bands, magicians, photographers, comedians, and more"
You have a magic allocator for your list nodes that does better than O(1) amortized?
Do you mean that most people are highly selective about the race of their potential mate? If this is the case, I don't think that this is racist. Besides, scientists are humans too, I doubt there would be much of a difference.
> Communism, no matter its form, only leads to slavery and poverty.

i don't think you can blame the problems faced by those countries to communism. The idea of communism is a good one, but the execution is always poor - reason being that at some point, someone is going to be able to grab power, and the whole system filled with corruption and/or systemic mismanagement (again, due to some form of corruption). Plus, communism sounds like a better name than tyranny, and so the tyrants call themselves communists.

"real" communism, one which is say, managed my an AI, with no one small group of humans in power, is probably going to be fair and equal. I'd like to see if that could work.
So on one hand you accuse people of being unqualified to hold an informed opinion, then when people come with people who are qualified, you say they are making an appeal to authority.

You are so full of shit.
I "hash" them into "buckets" of like socks and then pair from each bucket. Remaining unpaired socks either went through the wash absent their mate, or witnessed its gory demise at the hands of the washing machine monster.
Because she abused her official capacity to hound a much more honorable and talented person than herself to the point of suicide?

Honestly, for all the jaded and cynical people trying to play 'the adult' by defending the corrupt and immoral actions of the justice system and its officials based on legal technicalities--you don't come across as knowledgeable or reasonable, just spineless and enabling.

Hiding behind rules and technicalities to commit evil is the oldest and most cowardly trick in the book.
That's some seriously deceptive rephrasing of his original account.

> asked him to wipe the data off of it

If he passed it along. That means he's been given permission to keep the data.
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I started college a couple years ago after 15 years working as a programmer. I wanted a CS degree, but during the first semester I spent a lot of time thinking about what I really want to do and switched to Computer Engineering. I might switch to EE before I'm done.

I thought I wanted the piece of paper, but I found out that I really enjoy pushing myself to learn new things.
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I agree, In general I prefer a new tab, its what has become "conventional" for better or worse, but its also nice to be able to navigate a few pages deep on the linked site, then just close the tab to get back to HN quickly.
I'd like to propose a different perspective into this.

In a respectable aerospace organization, a typical effort into such an optimization project would be in the order of 3 mid-to-senior staff, for a duration of 6 months. Consider a loaded rate of $200k/year (remember, overhead makes it much more expensive), and you'll be looking at about $300k for a single tentative. Let's suppose they probably tried no more than 3 to 5 approaches already, that's $1.5M of taxpayer's money they already put on that. And they still can't figure out a way to keep a good configuration of shadows on the longerons when they push it for a little more power.

If I came up with an optimal solution to this problem, I'd be miffed to be let go with $10k (or $30k as they seem to have updated) and a nicely worded letter. I would hope my carreer to be guaranteed✝ for a few years, instead of being thrown back on my own into the void.

--

✝ No, the letter is not a guarantee of employment elsewhere. If anything, it might very well scare off "normal" employers from hiring a prospect.
Former Microsoftie here.

Because they've done this time and time and time again, and it's never worked out well. Technical enough for you?
What would a cheap place do that would prevent such things? Strip search all their customers to make sure they did not have enough heroin to overdose on?

The hotel isn't spawning this sort of shit, it is just attracting it by virtue of being cheap enough for low-lifes to afford. The local authorities are the ones that failed, not the motel.
> North Koreans just don't care... They actually believe they are better off than South Koreans,

i'm dubious that's what they _actually_ believe in their hearts. They might have to say so on the outside, because saying otherwise is dangerous (you never know who is listening, or who might dob you in).
If he was so "openly" operating, why didn't the police arrest him? If they did, then what's the problem? Did they expect the motel owner to turn them in sooner? What exactly is enough evidence to assume someone is running a drug dealing operation? Are they expected to take note of how many people come and go during a given day? Profile their behavior? These seems like unreasonable expectations of the owner to me.
It also sounds like something you could publish as a paper.
| the fact that Che Guevara was an homophobic and racist
| schizophrenic slaughterer...

You're making an assumption that: 1) I am a supporter of Communism and 2) I'm a supporter of Che Guevara. I'm not really seeing where you're getting this idea from.

You're also seemingly making an argument that communism is bad because Che Guevara is bad.

| Communism, no matter its form, only leads to slavery
| and poverty.

Care to expand on this for us with some analysis? References to articles / papers by others would be acceptable too.

| And people in small villages in China are still not
| exactly living on very high standards so

- Did these villages have a high standard of living prior to Mao's revolution? If not, do you view the failure of communism as a failure to raise their standards above the previously low levels? If so, then what do you feel are the causes (related to communism) for their drop in standards?

- India is full of examples of abject poverty. Do you view India as a failure too?
A URL is a poor map for a missing page, but better than nothing when going out looking for it.
You need to choose a target P/E and go with that, the problem with startups is the lack of a well defined trend in revenues.

That said, determine the earnings (if you can) and set a P/E of at least 30.

Let's say your earnings in 2012 were 1 million, 30 million sounds like a good price for the company, keep in mind that value is a measure of interest or the need for something.
A link is still valuable because it shows where the writer of the publication accessed the information. Yes, it might be deleted, but it might be possible to retrieve a copy of what was at that URL, or it might be discovered someone keeps a record of an alternate location of the content that was at that URL, or at least the revieer can verify that a valid-looking URL as cited if no other evidence can be found. A citation is supposed to supply a lot of information to make research easier.

For this reason (and others) I vastly prefer the APA's standard which would certainly require the URL, and would put the tweet text in as the title unambiguously as Twitter's site is structured that way. Thankfully the APA is still the gold standard so hopefully not many will be citing tweets in the MLA's useless way.
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I had a similar problem at a previous job. I was given bundles of orders that needed to be sorted and filed. Being the old days, these orders were sheets of paper with numbers on them, and "filed" meant in filing cabinets.

I fairly quickly moved to an algorithm that I would later learn was MSB radix-sort. Basically, I made one iteration and divided them into buckets with the same value in the "hundreds" column, and then recurse into each pile and repeat for the "tens" column, then a quick sort for the final 10 orders.

As a concrete example, lets say I had 150 orders with order numbers between 7200 and 7499. Organize into piles containing the 7200s, the 7300s and the 7400s. Then take the 7200s, and split it into piles for 7200s, 7210s, 7220s, etc.

In sorting algorithms, it common to use insertion sort for the final step (actually, people often use any O(N^2) sort, but really should only ever use insertion sort because its the most efficient O(N^2) sort in terms of instruction count, cache locality, and branch mispredictions).
>And he knows that, it's why he addressed it in a quote early in that article -- claiming if he took responsibility and cleaned his motel up he'd be accused of discrimination. That's a cop-out.

Unless everyone he denied access to were white, he would open himself up to such litigation. It's not a cop-out. Making assumptions about someone's character based on how they look is fraught with landmines. It is unreasonable to expect a business owner to take on that responsibility.
This one seems at first glance to be complex enough that you will not see any perfect solution (NP-complete?)

I would say it's more than just a hardware contest but if the approaches are similar enough having enough time and hardware may make a difference...
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I see. Well, best of luck in your endeavors.
If Stamos's blog post was any indication I don't think it would have been much help to Swartz.

I say this only because his points were of the form "It was so easy to get around MIT's weak security that you can hardly call it hacking", but Swartz wasn't charged with "hacking", he was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud, unauthorized access, etc., and these are not charges that go away just because it was easy to do.

His testimony would certainly have been very helpful if it came to a sentencing phase but during the trial he would have been all but confirming that Aaron did indeed get around the feeble MIT and JSTOR blocks on him, and that's much of what the prosecution would have needed to prove right there.