skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If someone rubs you wrong personally, why in the world would that not be relevant, especially on a small team?

Because business decisions should be made based upon facts and data, not based upon hunches and gut feelings. Going with your gut basically means throwing out the data and letting all of your personal biases decide the matter, consciously or unconsciously.

If it's a question of being able to work with others, then you can develop principles and behavioral interview questions around what you want your coworkers to be like. That's a bit of a pain in the ass, but empiricism was always more of a chore than just following your gut instinct.
DO is essentially saying they're using insecure defaults by design, which is a Really Bad Idea, even if it prima facie saves time/money. It's relatively easy for them to post a point in a FAQ about why you're billed for x minutes after an instance is destroyed, and include the request params/headers to avoid it. On the other hand, it's effectively impossible to unleak an inadvertently leaked apple developer signing key because an unwitting customer didn't rtfm.
The thing I don't understand - why on earth wasn't NTFS-3G refusing to mount the NTFS partition? I am sure that if it detects it isn't fully unmounted it refuses to mount it read/write...
same with my order (finally being delivered tomorrow), though i'm highly doubtful that they do this for all computers. prolly only ones for already-monitored targets. doing it for everyone is highly impractical and expensive.
There is a pretty good guarantee - if it lasts longer than two years (which seems unlikely), general corporate profit will pile up until the wealthy stakeholders and top employees get extremely frustrated. Then they can collectively apply pressure to politicians to eventually create a loophole that lets them take their money out tax-free.
Why not you just consider or consult any iPhone application development company. I hope the below link would give more detailed knowledge for marketing your app from the initial stage. Also if possible get connected to some developers.

http://www.contus.com/iphone-application-development.php
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/mobile-app-ab-testing/
>Remember that a smart phone contains many of the key components for a drone.

how about stealth supersonic self-landing on aircraft carrier satellite networked drones? Not that i doubt Chinese military or economical might, especially those of tomorrow, it is just they still have some distance to go.
Then again, the same thing can be said for any of us reading Ph.D. dissertations outside our fields.
This operation as described leaves enough of a physical record that it couldn't be used universally.

I'm much more concerned about "NSA backdoor firmware", and vastly more concerned about China doing the same. It's a lot easier to do this at design/manufacture than en-route.
I used to think if it's IEEE or ACM, they are ok (not good) to publish. Nowadays, I am not so sure after seeing a bunch of low quality "international" conferences in Asian especially in India. ACM seems a little better than IEEE...

Now my rule is to only publish in conferences that I know or are well known in the field....

Aslo reject any requests to serve as a TPC or reviewer for conferences from this region..The papers are normally low quality and waste of my time to read...
Um this is just babble, and not about hacking?
That wouldn't surprise me. The French are protective of their national institutions, and back in the day, the Franc would have been one of them. (Another, the French language, has lots of legal protections.)
"You don't want to see drones operating in foreign nations? Use your energy helping NGO and the local govt overcome corruption, ignorance, and backbone shattering poverty. Give no space for terrorists to operate in."

Ah yes, this is the shit I just love about these arguments. Stop complaining about these things that kill thousands of innocent people. Your only appropriate action, according to some guy on the internet, is this utterly insane task he has made up. You are allowed to do that, but you're not allowed to object to drones killing people...

How? How does your brain get to this point? I'm just sitting here floored that I live in a country where a non-zero amount of people feel the way you do.
Same here, but I was working at Ford.
Your characterization of libertarians as people with an absolutist philosophy that they believe will maximize freedom applies only to a subset of people who identify as libertarians.
Angular is becoming very popular, and I think as a front end dev, you'll pick it up quickly.

As a full stack dev with experience with both Angular and Rails, and recently been interviewing, I think Angular will serve you better over the next few years.

There is currently a focus on pushing the envelope with front-end UX, single page apps, etc. etc.
I think a lot of the interesting work will be in that area. I suspect that over the next few years, the majority of back end work will continue to be pushed toward being APIs to serve the front-end javascript.

At the same time, having a server-side language in you toolbox is a good thing. But why rails? You already know javascript, to it seems to me the obvious path would be node.js. It is becoming extremely popular, and will allow you to leverage your existing knowledge of javascript.

Beyond everything else I've just said, I've recently started programming with node-webkit (I'm making an IDE) which further expands your horizons to installed apps to desktop environments.

Though there are a lot of haters out there, there is a huge future in Javascript, Rails is popular in certain circles, and it's a great language, but I wonder how popular it will be in another 5 years.
>I'm much more concerned about "NSA backdoor firmware", and vastly more concerned about China doing the same.

No reason the 'upgrades' couldn't be firm/hardware. Just upthread a bunch of people complain about "customs" delays when ordering computers, one person for > 30 days. That is way, way more than enough time. Yes, easier at manufacture. No, not necessary at manufacture. Yes, possible en-route.

Also why would you be more concerned about China doing the same?

edit: and also the problem wouldn't be using the technique 'universally', as in doing it to every machine. The problem would be giving an org like the NSA full control over deciding who to target, incl. US citizens. That is, being indiscriminate in terms of completely disregarding domestic laws, protections, etc., rather than being indiscriminate in terms of spamming loaded chips in every box.
Michael Schumacher in critical condition
No. And Stallman (unfortunately) doesn't seem to focus too much on the security aspect of it. His focus is mostly on the freedom, as in ability to copy/modify/do-as-you-please aspect of it.
The article doesn't specify if the backdoors installed en route are hardware or firmware/software.
The US has had higher tax rates than that at times. It's more of a recent thing that the numbers have been well below 50%

Historical US upper bracket tax rate:
http://s158.photobucket.com/user/OnlyObvious/media/Tax_Rates...
Many of the problems with private/decentralized currencies in the past – problems that motivated the state monopoly and regulations – are no longer relevant, with modern technology. The global network, encryption, and transparent open-source governance render obsolete lots of the old concerns.

Also, while regulations and state monopolies always have an surface rationale based on solving actual problems, sometimes the real reason they're put in place, or maintained even as circumstances change, is because they benefit certain narrow entrenched interests.

We owe older regulatory arrangements some respect, for the effort that went into their initial crafting and their longevity across eras where (whatever other problems we have) we've survived and thrived beyond the past. (I agree with the "Chesterton's Fence" principle: don't take down a fence until you know why it was put up.)

But we shouldn't fear that old regulations and traditions are the only thing protecting us from 'horrors' of the past. The world has changed, some old risks are obsoleted by new levels of understanding and wealth, while all-new risks have arrived – including many created by the privileges and inflexibility of older 'solutions'.
Well what can we do except vote? Maybe right a few angry letters? There isn't really anything that I know I can do to help.
The American Dream is not "work hard and you will be successful", the American Dream is "Work hard at something people are willing to pay you to do and you will be successful".
Unfortunately an open source BIOS isn't sufficient unless it's coupled with an external BIOS chip reader that can dump a motherboard's ROM and verify its checksum matches the expected checksum of a Coreboot BIOS.

I did a more extensive writeup here, and I'd love to get anyone's thoughts on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983405
When I was there in the early 90s the house system had serious flaws, but in part that was because I was in Blacker - then one of the most inclusive, friendly, gender-balanced of the houses (though not without issues). Page was notorious for (self-)destructive behavior and though that was probably unfair it'd become enough of a self-selecting culture that they did live up to it more than most houses. I think most of the serious problems were more products of a small undergrad body (800 total) largely isolated from the surrounding community, lots of pressure plus a remarkable level of sleep deprivation, very bright people with a lot of personal issues, easy access to cheap drugs & alcohol in bulk, and a huge gender imbalance. Stress-induced breakdowns/flaming were common, group stalking & sexual harassment were common enough to have their own term (glomming) and sexual assault may have been common as on most other campuses despite geek culture's self image, harassment & assault by faculty was swept under the rug, blatant homophobia may not have been common but LGB students tended to be quiet about their orientation (trans students were dead silent), and the administration was basically uninvolved, untrusted, and authoritarian (to most students' minds).

I think the house system was a mixed bag there, it kept some people closer to each other than was healthy but it also provided some level of support for a lot of us. I suspect things have gotten much worse since I was there, though. The only honor code I've ever seen work was the largely self-policed "No member of the Caltech community shall take unfair advantage of any other member of the Caltech community" and the administration was clearly communicating that they no longer expected students to be capable of following it. My impression is that the morale effects of that really cut into the effectiveness of a system that had helped keep pranks from escalating to the really dangerous or outright damaging, cheating low, and aggression of any form very rare. It was mostly worked because it was too simple to have real loopholes, the community fetishized it, we got a lot of benefits from keeping it working (take home finals, lab keys, etc.), and fundamentally it kept the peace. The administration still has a page describing it, but my impression is that as a social construct it's a hollow shell of what it was.

TL;DR? The house system was less damaging than most frats due to self-selection for house membership, but that also concentrated some really unhealthy behavior and the rest of us were already pretty broken without the houses helping.
Am I the only one that thinks even though RapGenius does something with lyrics that they think is awesome, it is still a lyrics site that reproduces copyrighted works without permission?
For a company that is spoken of as being so focused on execution, I wonder if this isn't all part of the plan?

They can launch an app to great fanfare which in some cases may convince people to buy the hardware. Once enough people have bought into the ecosystem, and other apps are happily filling the need the Apple created apps originally filled, Apple can let those apps flounder as they are no longer driving sales.

It's strangely the opposite approach to Microsoft which gets stronger with each iteration so that no competition comes in and takes the market from them.
Deploying Storm on Google Compute Engine
That's someone else's data (three someone elses' if you count the iPhone end users) read from the root block device on a minutes-old brand new fresh Digital Ocean VM that I got from them for a $5 PayPal payment. It had been mkfs'd but not zeroed.

Command was:

apt-get -y install binutils ; dd if=/dev/vda bs=1M | strings -n 100 | grep 2013-12

The destroy api call docs are here:

https://developers.digitalocean.com

(It's the /droplets/[droplet_id]/destroy one.)
Regarding great conversations being lost to the ages: a great idea for a service is an instant record button that preserves these things, regardless of source. Think pastebin + storify combined. The internet needs an instant record button.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi-D24oCa10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRpEV2tmYz4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91mLpMqjZsE
Those tax rate charts paint an incomplete picture. Along with those higher tax rates were quite a few tax shelter mechanisms, meaning the effective tax rate was much lower.

Reagan traded eliminating the tax shelters for the lower tax rates.
Volgograd: many dead in second explosion in Russian city
Solving Problems for Real World, Using Design
Boo to the editorializing in the submission description. Bullying? For trying to enforce a trademark? Come now, I know software patents can be absurd in the US of A, but trademarks are a different kettle of fish, so don't throw the baby away with the bath water.

To the validity of the claim, I don't know how American trademark classifications break down, but it seems that "You Rather" is in a similar class of commercial activity as "Would You Rather...?" if I read this correctly: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:l4gavd...

In particular, class 41:

> IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: (Based on Use in Commerce) Entertainment services, namely, a multimedia program series featuring comedy, action and adventure distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; Production of cable television programs. FIRST USE: 20111203. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20111203

IANAL, but my gut feeling is that "You Rather" is pretty close to infringing, and that their best hope lies in their second claim that "Would You Rather...?" is a generic term.
This! Much of what ails common people when they face up to financial institutions in general and banks in particular could be attributed to your observation. I've read substantially over last few years on what's gone wrong with financial institutions and how they should not be autonomous but nothing comes close to the clarity with which you have summarized.
Actor Gerard Depardieu already did.

"...He has been an official resident of Néchin, Belgium since 7 December 2012.[13] French prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault criticised his move.[14] On 15 December 2012, Depardieu publicly stated he was handing back his French passport.[15][16] On 3 January 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order granting Russian citizenship to Depardieu.[17] Depardieu soon returned the favor by attacking Putin's critics.[18]..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Depardieu
In this case one must balance the right API choice with the right security choice. Security wins every time, or at least it should, so the default should be wiping. If one would insist on having API booleans default to false, just change the input polarity (e.g. rename "wipe_disk" to "skip_wipe").
You are right, the amount is negligible in relation to total tax receipts. It seems to be more about political point scoring than to fix the economy.
Have you ever heard the phrase "one thing is not like the other?" I think that might apply here.
Tax increases historically have brought in far less revenue than predicted, as people change their behaviors to compensate. For example, when I was in England, people drove around company cars rather than owning them personally. It was explained to me that this was the result of tax rates - the high personal tax rates caused businesses to offer perqs which were not counted as income subject to tax. Hence the company cars.
could it be possible that there are many scentific papers written by phd and masters which are simply garbage?

All this time I thought, "but these guys are smart, they went and got phd and masters and their thesis sounds really intriguing", but reading through the paper, absolutely nothing is presented but just words for the sake of filling up space?

Also papers that seems to skew their quantitative results, multiple papers claiming higher success rates than the previous while in small letters acknowledging crucial items that distort the results.

Am I crazy for thinking I am making this up in my head?

p.s. is there a way to get access to scientific papers without paying $24 each time or a subscription fee? google scholar is good but some of the papers really insist on you paying. I thought knowledge was supposed to be free!
Doesn't matter. It still requires someone being paid <$100k/yr to pull a package off the line and deal with it. If this happened in substantially greater volume than already happens for drug/child porn/money laundering cases, it would be at risk of exposure.
So the owner/CEO's lawyers form a holding company in Switzerland which gets paid management fees from the French company to hide it from 'salaries'. The owner pays the personal taxes on the income at lower Swiss rates and transfers it back to France. Taxing it at the corporation level is the wrong move unfortunately. Hopefully they have a better definition of what 'remuneration' means.
For the record, rms uses a Lemote [1] computer, which uses a Loongson chip [1] designed from scratch by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Given the fact this computer is 100% Chinese design, it's unlikely that NSA is able to add any spyware or backdoor at the source.

[1] http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
What is a successful person? I'd use a measure that involved happiness - but I suspect many others would use a monetary measure.
For want of a better word.
This is just fucking outrageous. Is there no line they wouldn't cross?

Our only option, now, to protect ourselves, is a healthy amount of paranoia and knowledge of security.

We should now live by the following rule: If it's possible that the government could do something to spy on you, then they have probably done it.

Everything you type into a computer connected to the Internet, that you didn't build, must be assumed to be logged by the NSA.
Lol.

There's definitely a business opportunity out there for someone to come up with DIY laptops, much like the way you can purchase parts from anybody to create your own desktop PC.
You might like to know that I'm giving a talk at 30c3 in about 4.5h which will specifically address this threat (using remote-verifiable seals).

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5600.html
Chinas economic collapse being imminent has now been predicted for decades.

I guess that those predictions are based more on wishful thinking than anything else.
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I just finished the ML course.
The actual revenue probably would be less than that, since politicians tend to underestimate creativity and the lengths the people would go to avoid taxes.
In your second paragraph, you're conflating two different things. File-based disk images don't leak data when they're deleted because the filesystems those images live on ensure that (non-privileged) users can't get at data from deleted files. Sparse images can be smaller than the data they contain because...well, they're sparse images. They're files with holes in them, and the filesystem automagically turns those holes into zeroes on read.

Now, about Trim... Trim is only an advisory command. You tell the disk, "I'm not using these LBAs anymore, so feel free to do whatever with them." The disk has the option to completely ignore your Trim command, and even if it does mark those LBAs as unused in whatever LBA->NAND mapping table it uses internally, the disk can also continue returning the old data on reads of those LBAs if it wants to. There are disks that make the guarantee that Trim'd LBAs will always read back zeroes until written again (an ATA feature called Read Zero After Trim), but I'm guessing DigitalOcean isn't using SSDs that support RZAT since that's generally only found on more expensive SSDs, like Intel's DC S3700.

What I'm getting at is that Trim isn't guaranteed to do what you think it does. Unless the disk supports RZAT, the only way you can guarantee that the disk won't return old data in response to a read command is to write zeroes over that block.

If you're a VM provider and can't count on Trim doing what you want it to (reading back zeroes on Trim'd LBAs) because your drives don't support RZAT and you don't want zero out partitions at creation or destruction time, the right thing to do is encrypt every partition with its own randomly generated key at creation, then destroy the key when the partition is destroyed. Users will see random data soup on their shiny new block devices, which isn't as nice as seeing a zeroed out block device but is still nicer than seeing some other user's raw data. (Also note that doing this doesn't stop you from also issuing a Trim for a partition when destroying it so the SSD gains some breathing room.)
For reference - discussion of the source article from
Der Spiegel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6979239
Would you rather comply with a cease-and-desist notice or preemptively countersue?
I think he's showing that the data is not "destroyed" in the sense it still exists. Destroy in a virt context doesn't necessarily mean "destroy all the resources associated with a VM"--I don't know about DO's product offering, but at the hypervisor level, at least with Xen and libvirt, you often want to "destroy" the instance (forcibly terminate/undefine from the hypervisor) and leave the resources (storage pools/devices, IP pools/addresses, network flows/filters etc). I think focusing on the word "destroy" is a bit of a canard; the real problem is insecure defaults wrt block device scrubbing when you issue an API "destroy" (which wouldn't be any better if it was called "delete" or "undefine").
You'd be surprised how many incredibly weird posts are on HN that are actually not sarcastic.
There's an open source driver, they can and should contribute to that. I'm sure they have the resources and the know-how to pull it off.
> Sometimes you may see this page if you are using advanced terms that robots are known to use

Interesting. I'd guess there's some malware out there making these requests.
The Night Watch (on Systems Programming)
Warren Buffet paid nearly nothing because of retained earnings. But his family apparently lives modestly, so it doesn't make sense to pay oneself more than necessary.
Instagram – prey of Filternet and censorship victim in Iran
Wage controls during 1930s/1940s in the US leading to employer-provided health insurance is another great example of unintended consequences.
Will Smith weighs in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TwwEGjoRMo
Try spreading: https://medium.com/p/9ed6a69abb77
I'm doing a talk on an open hw design/open source HSM at ShmooCon in a month or so, which seems like the only viable way to deal with this threat.

TCG (TPM, TXT, ...) Measured boot sort of includes firmware checksumming. It's often turned off.