skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me my own story: few weeks ago I was trying out their service and on newly created droplet I've noticed a... shell history of downloading and executing a shell script:

1 clear
2 ls
3 clear
4 wget https://kmlnsr.me/cleanimage.sh
5 rm cleanimage.sh
6 cd /tmp/
7 wget https://kmlnsr.me/cleanimage.sh
8 chmod +x cleanimage.sh
9 ./cleanimage.sh

This looked very disturbing, so I went and check what that script is, and it is available to read for everyone, and seems to be a part of their provisioning procedure for the vm's, written by some guy who works for DigitalOcean as 'Community Organizer' (however, at that point I thought the website might be created by an attacker and misleading).

Not only it looks bad and alarming to customers, but also poses a security threat, where an attacker could target his website and/or server and replace the script with something nasty inside. How long before they'd notice such fact? No idea, but I've opened a ticket about it right on, giving them some advice on why its bad (availability, scaling, performance, security and PR reasons) but also how to better handle it, and it seems nothing has been done about it so far.

That rings a bell in my head not to use Digital Ocean service as things they do are looking pretty amateur.
This new tax is paid by the company, and capped to 5% of the companies earnings. It's already a loophole. Now a company can just funnel earnings straight to salary and have tax be capped at 5%...
Or perhaps when one lives in the country of their friends and family, one needs to be pushed quite far by the state before abandoning the people they love in order to keep majority of what they earn.
This is a sound description of Tokyo and other Japanese cities. As good as the US is at reinventing itsef I doubt this observation could be applied there. Those casual encounters that for instance Tokyo city design allows, are predicated on a consensual society which, for good and for ill may never exist in the US. The price Japan pays for social cohesion is cultural uniformity. It would be great to have the best of both though and no doubt it can be achieved at smaller scale.
The title needs changing to future tense because it implies 24.4 has been released.
"Creepy" lost all meaning quite some time ago. It is now a generic contentless insult, like "butthead" or "tool".
To clarify, I was saying that the US govt. should play a bigger role in drug R&D, not the Indian govt (though maybe they should too).

US government research money largely goes to research scientists at universities in the form of research grants, so it's not really the government performing the research and spending the money. I wouldn't say the university research departments are money corrupt money sinks.

They could also license the fruits of the research to drug companies in other countries for a nominal fee (or free) as a form of humanitarian aid.
> In addition, there's no reason why one MOVEM can't contain data from multiple rows.

The screen buffer is 512x384 (24.5 KB, not 10.4 KB), so you have to copy one row at a time. The source and destination pointers have to increment by different amounts after each row (13 and 16 words, respectively). See the following lines in the article's assembly:

ADD #52, A0
ADD screenRow, A1

screenRow must be defined to 64.
If you are curious, check also Faust, used for DSP algorithms, and Pure, for anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAUST_(programming_language)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_(programming_language)
It just needs to stay out for two years... :)

Those who play these games call it "tax avoidance" or simply "tax planning" when it is done legally.
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On the other hand, while there was a lot of trade between European powers, part of the point of colonization was to have the colonies "trade" manly with the colonizer.
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Probably more like ~20-30 charge-cycles per year, as it would only be used on really hot days where AC usage is high and peaker plants are needed to meet that demand.
Humanities undergrads all sign up for Intro to Psych, because they want to understand, like, how people think 'n' stuff.

Then most discover it's 90% history and statistics, with lots of debate about what's actually true, and don't take it any further.

Machine Learning is the CS equivalent - broad appeal, but to take it any further it's mostly maths and stats, which turns a lot of people off.
I despise war in general, but my god do I agree with you on this. I worry about the future, and where this War On Nothing Concrete will lead our western world...
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It's run by the same folks that run the SF Ruby meetup (the huge one)... they're neat, chill folks.
> Snowden’s biggest revelation: We don’t know what power is, nor do we care

...until we feel the resulting pain, which means it will be too late b/c the people in power will have built enough protections to ensure their position (= even less democracy).
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I don't feel conflicted. Patent protection was established as a mechanism to encourage and facilitate innovation and to encourage inventers. The question I ask myself is whether the current system is sufficiently balanced. In my opinion, it is not. It is way too much in the favour of large pharma. A good way to check that it is, would be to examine the books of a pharma company and check what percentage of profit (not earnings) goes to R&D versus other areas like say marketing. This journal article suggests that marketing spending is 20 times higher than that on R&D. [1] http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e4348 That causes me to be skeptical of pharmaceutical company claims that the generics industry is killing innovation. I've even heard a pharma marketeer use the term "Indian generics terrorism" which is exceedingly callous given that we're basically choosing to deny life to those individuals who can't afford big pharma marketed drugs. The patent system was not intended to be used to justify such behavior.
Let's say they are just operatives of these countries like Taliban was (maybe still is!!!) operative of CIA. And what?
Google is already a cultural monopoly. They get to decide what people see and how and when they see it.
That is why this One Man Show is bullshit. It looks hypocrite or at least it shows that they take their incredible responsibility very lightly. You choose.
I really disagree with you, entirely on this matter, but come on people, don't down vote just because you hate that viewpoint...
It's not really that straightforward. Believe it or not, developing nukes, aircraft carriers, and a space programme is actually easier than lifting 600 million people and all their future generations out of poverty.

Take the above into perspective. High tech research, industry, etc. also need huge investment. What happens if we educate tons of our population and then they end up without jobs ? (this actually happened in Soviet states not so long ago..) Reduction of poverty and advances in technology have to happen in tandem. Besides, most of the amazing strides the US made in technology have origins in military/space exploration applications.

Reduction of poverty in India is definitely a priority. It's just one of the priorities. We have a $20 Billion educational plan coming into force soon (targets higher education as well as lower levels).

Every problem in India is a problem of scale and penetration. I hope people on HN will appreciate that.

Bill Gates certainly recently understood that when he decided to join the fight against polio.
To be honest, this looks like an artifact of the base image creation process.

"This file is used to clean up traces from DigitalOcean images before being published."

I don't think someone actually logged in and ran those commands on your instance. I could be wrong, but I'd bet this is just from sloppy creation of the base image leaving weird stuff in history after the image was published.
Using 1:1 mappings of LVM logical volumes to guest VM block devices is the most straightforward and performant method of doing it on Linux, short of doing 1:1 mappings of entire disks or disk partitions to guest VM block devices. While using file-based disk images would prevent data leaks between customers without any further effort required on the VM provider's part (assuming they don't reuse disk images between customers!), there are tons of downsides to file-based disk images, mostly related to performance and write amplification.

I don't agree that file-based disk images are more flexible than LVM's logical volumes — it's ridiculously easy to create, destroy, resize, and snapshot LVs.
Fascinating place, Point Roberts. I've read a number of people from surrounding localities go there for cheap goods (Canada has 12% VAT, US does not). Also, I heard, popular with witness protection since you have to cross the border control to drive in there (which could be a problem for somebody who is a felon).
why do that instead of just making it so that really poor people got internet access, and then allowing them to decide how they use it?

as much as possible, we should avoid making decisions people can make for themselves.
And I hope in my ride to make a quick run...

Too bad you didn't use rap genius. The above line doesn't make sense. Rap genius has something different, and probably gets it right:

And I hops in my ride to make a quick run...
Sigh. I don't know whether you're being sarcastic. You're focusing on a country when we should be thinking about individuals. What I see is a population set that is currently excluded from survival due to the pricing of certain chemicals. This population set exists both in India and in our own backyard. There are 2 ways we can get access to a solution for that population set. One, allow generics to compete after a certain period. This tends to be natural, since reverse engineering a drug takes some time. During that time, big pharma can price the drug to maximize profit, after that, they have to compete better if they want to hold on to that profit.
The second paper references the Sokal Affair, as a matter of fact - the authors of the paper are from the (obviously fake) "Sokal Institute of Technology, Pune". :)

In fact, it references verbatim dialogues from "My Cousin Vinny", "Sholay" (a superhit Bollywood film), the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the author's wife and her movie-review website and whole lot of other nonsense. :(
It's not like India doesn't need its military. Its relationship with Pakistan pretty much demands it. Plus, now they have contested territory with China as well.
What's keeping the Apple TV?
An argument for why Apple isn't moving into the living room any time soon.
There was a very similar vote in Switzerland, recently: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/24/switzerland-vot...

But the Swiss rejected it, probably because the government told them to vote against it (the gov always hands out brochures "recommending" how to vote). I suppose they got manipulated by the classic manipulation-by-fear strategy: "If you don't let our CEO's rip you off, we'll destroy your economy by going elsewhere." Of course they found their way of communicating this only between the lines (and not explicitely), which makes it very powerful b/c you can't call their bullsh#t.

We need more education.
My bank knows my public key. They could send me an encrypted email... well, except that ciphersuite in subject is GOST, which is not supported by most MUAs, so they don't. So, unfortunately, the key's only used to authenticate me over a TLS connection for a web-based self-care service.
You can see the whole thing unfold on Twitter TV, starting about Dec 11th: https://twitter.com/ngkabra
The revenue was in bitcoins not in USD. How was it converted? (If at the end, then that overstates the volume quite a lot, given the rise of bitcoin's exchange rate.)
The second paper in the post should never have made it past any peer-reviewer had they bothered to read the first two paragraphs.

It all stems from the (supposedly optional) requirement that a Masters' level student get a paper published. Sure, it is somewhat justified - seeing as how they are partially research students themselves - but the absence of a honest and thorough peer-review kinda puts paid to the justification. As a result, most students end up opting for these pay-to-publish scams (sometimes even knowingly) and they continue to thrive.

The aim of the whole exercise was to expose these conferences for what they really are - money-making scams that prey upon the students' desperation. What hurts is the fact that the students (probably) knew about it but they were so desperate to get a publication, they couldn't care less. Such is the state of the education system in India. :(
Perhaps the biggest red flag: papers are to be sent to icriest@gmail.com
> But any strawberry picker knows hard work alone is a fast road to nowhere

> Those with money usually think they deserve it. But most people who make the world run—who care for kids, who grow food, who would rebuild after natural disasters and societal collapse—will never be rich, no matter how hard or well they work, because society is constructed with only so much room on top.

> I thought of the workers busting their backs lifting boxes at warehouses, while an electronic tracker yelled at them to work faster. Are their egos too big?

> I got my first job at a candy store when I was 14. I worked in the stockroom. I would open a box, take out a smaller box, put a rubber band around the smaller box, and put it back inside the big one. I lasted two days. This job, I remember thinking, does not make use of my intellectual abilities. When I did need work, I went straight into the naked-girl industry.

did you even read the article? it's extremely myopic of you to say that this is about "liberal arts students".

congrats on the upvotes for continuing the STEM circlejerk, tho.
I personally think that medicine IP should have some sort of limitation where discoveries in the pharma world cannot be profited from in perpetuity. Even generic drugs in the western world are VERY expensive. Most of them are simple compounds and the major justification of price is R&D.

Maybe a better solution would be to have differential pricing for different regions ? Like, Kindle Books are cheaper in India. Well, of course, there is the question of the radically poor who live on less than $1 a day. They wouldn't be able to buy a Kindle Book any more than they can buy a strip of aspirin.

However, there are so many levels of ethical implications involved in this kind of situation because we're talking about people's lives.

Maybe another idea could be to have a 5 year IP advantage and then make the medicines 'public domain' ? IP laws are based on profit incentives but when dealing with something with such huge humanitarian ramifications we should definitely take the time to re-evaluate our position on it.

Even people in the western world should have access to cheap medicines. What needs to be balanced is the innovation/profit incentive with the humanitarian aspect of it.
Bitcoin prices will eventually fall below the cost of mining. Guaranteed. (Because eventually there will be no new bitcoins left to mine. So mining new bitcoins becomes infinitely expensive.)
So that Bit-wealthy can control the outcome?
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> I don't know about you but I'd hate to live in a world with no artists.

There's no risk of that since they're willing to work for next to nothing. It not a good choice as a profession, but otherwise it is quite an attractive occupation.
I'm OK with this. The current system of drug development isn't sustainable anyway. The rate at which drugs are improving has slowed dramatically. We have picked all the low hanging fruit. While I believe personal genomics may very well usher in a golden age of drug development, we need some way of making testing the drugs easier and cheaper as well to fully reap the benefits.
I have not said that someone does it manually, I only said, that on first look, that looks really suspicious. And, at the end, the support told me that:

"This is Kamal Nasser's script that has been set up to run on the images. The cleanimage.sh script sometimes doesn't clear the history. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I've brought this to his attention.

There is nothing to worry about with this."

So in fact, it seems like it is being used, instead of being a leftover in shell history. In addition to that, I was later answered to the same ticket, by different support member that this script is not being used and just sits on that web page, but it all looks really bad in terms of professionalism.
The delta in "Leisure and sports" activities is not caused by the fact that women have "less free time across the board". It is caused by the fact that women choose to engage in other activities.

Women spend 6.61 hours on work + household work + caring for others + shopping, men spend 6.41 hours on it. The delta is 1.4 hours/week, not 5 hours/week.

Women sleep 1.82 hours/week more than men, spend 1.61 hours/week more than men on grooming, and 0.85 hours/week more than men on religious/civic activities. A woman who wanted to become a scrabble champion could easily choose not to do her nails, to wake up earlier and to skip church.

http://www.bls.gov/tus/tables/a1_2012.pdf
Original author here. The two things you pointed out were exactly the two things that first caused me to get suspicious of this conference.

However, as notthetup points out, there are lots of people in the Indian education system who don't know this. And the statement I made: Seems like an impressive conference, and getting a paper published in this conference should be a big achievement on any student’s resume, right? is actually something many students and faculty in our engineering colleges actually think.

(Edit: formatting)
"Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that."
-Bill O’Reilly
Luckily, nobody here scoffs at liberal arts students!
>>It seems like there is an easy workaround - don't take your salary until afterwards, and/or pay yourself in advance now.

Or, get your salary reduced to just under the insane tax limit. Take the difference in some other way(Stocks, Real estate, Gold, vacation funded by the company etc etc).

Except the difference that should be paid to you won't be paid in a technical definition of a salary. It can be paid as a reward, bonus or some new incentive system.

Works like a charm.
The article is full of oversimplifications like WWI was "because of Germany". Oh , yeah. Why thinking when you can blame someone else?.

An article about WWs in the Economist should talk about economic data, about banks burning and destroying the savings of decades of the work of the people. They need to talk about Oligopolies, about Roosevelt(Teddy) trying to do something about that , but at the end the biggest of all(the Fed) being created in 1913.

They need to talk about Africa and middle East, and India colonies and commerce at the time.

But this has a problem: It is not as easy as "blame the Germans!"

"The second precaution that would make the world safer is a more active American foreign policy. "

Oh yeah, again.

"Barack Obama has pulled back in the Middle East—witness his unwillingness to use force in Syria. "

Wow, this is the better line of all. If something Syria has shown us is the willingness of US to use force in Syria, only being stopped by China and Russia.

"But unless America behaves as a leader and the guarantor of the world order, it will be inviting regional powers to test their strength by bullying neighbouring countries."

Today the US is the biggest bully of all. If any parallelism is to be extracted from WWs to today is countries like China behaving like the US of the past, as creditors of the world, while the rest of the world overspends and get in as many wars as possible to protect their turf.
What depressed me the most was seeing the poor, sincere students who had come to the conference to present. Some of them were tweaking their PPTs. Others were going over notes for their talk. They were clearly (I think) under the impression that presenting at this conference was a major achievement. Of the 22 papers accepted by the conference (i.e. 22 people paid to get their papers published), only about 10 came to present, which leads me to suspect that the remaining 12 knew the true nature of this conference.
I don't think people care about the idea that a sufficiently advanced attacker with physical access the hardware can restore old data anywhere near as much as they care that the next customer along gets a fully readable copy of your data just handed to them.
Agreed. I wasn't defending DO's professionalism there, just saying that from my experience creating base images for a (different) cloud provider, it looks like an artifact of image creation rather than a real cause for alarm (I would certainly be alarmed if random people were logging in to my instance and running random scripts from the web!).
I guess you can safely ignore my comment then :)
I don't have any programmer family members, just one friend. I'm completely self-taught. It was REALLY hard getting started, I mucked around for a few years in a few languages and never really got past conditionals, let alone data structures. In hindsight, making games in Game Maker was really a bad way to learn actual programming or project management. Please don't ask me to look at my old code.

I'm 18 now and trying to thoroughly learn Python with a few books I've downloaded: A Byte of Python, How to Think Like A Computer Scientist: Learning With Python, Learning Python the Hard Way. Please don't judge me, but I actually printed the entirety of that last book into a PDF; I'll get around to legitimately buying it eventually.

I kind of feel like I'm competing against my best friend to see who can make the coolest stuff, although it's getting hard to rate website stuff versus CS/math stuff. I'm also no longer scared to dive into manuals or look at code from other languages.

TL;DR Starting on the path of programming without ANYONE to explain things to you or that your code really does suck is not easy, but doesn't make learning impossible. It's like being thrown into a pool in order to learn to swim.
The paper assumes that git is hard because there are lots of concepts, like "Tracked file", "Ignored file", "File staged for removal", "Untracked file" etc. They also think to remove index as a way to reduce complexity.

But those are not the reasons why git is hard.
No other provider charges you extra to erase your data when tearing down an instance.

It's called a dark pattern.
>>eliminating the tax shelters for the lower tax rates.

I think the something is better than nothing argument already shows a sign of defeat.

Cheating and evasion of taxes is the same as over taxing, because please note when X set of people don't pay taxes, you have to recover the loss from Y set of people by taxing them a little extra. If the X had payed at the first place, the original tax rate would have been lower, and every one would have to pay less.
Source code? SSL private keys? Private keys used for deploying code or configs from Github? New Relic license codes? AWS access keys? Pcap dumps? Database passwords? Deleted blog posts? irssi cybersex paged out to a swapfile?

Seriously, if there's nothing on your cheap sandbox server that you don't want published, you're probably not using it in the first place.
Ask HN: a phone# for a foreign country
Would love to hear anyone's experience with a service that lets you hold a phone number of a foreign country through a web based service. We are running a company that requires a Turkish phone number but we are relocating to Canada. Happy to pay for something that works well.
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