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As a DO customer I find this completely unexpected and unacceptable. Secure delete should be always done before transferring to another customer, if this takes time it should scrubbed as queued job, before the next customer gets it.
Taxes on companies are just indirect taxes on individuals anyway -- they're inevitably passed on to employees, shareholders or customers, though it's not obvious who ends up paying what proportion of the cost. Taxes on individuals are easier to target and easier to enforce, corporate taxes are a comparatively blunt instrument of questionable fairness. Wouldn't you say that the rich directors and executives will find a way to pay less than their share?

Treating companies them as autonomous, indivisible entities just plays into an "us vs. them" narrative, complete demagoguery. We should remember that everyone involved here is a person, and most of them aren't rich. When we take that into account it becomes clear why targeted taxes on salaries, on consumption and on capital gains might be a better option.
You, by quoting it. Next?
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All human rights violations aside, what the US doesn't realize is that every new drone strike is creating new cadres for Al Qaeda and others to recruit from.
In my opinion, it's hard because git isn't a VCS, it's a loosely-related bunch of commands to manipulate the on-disk format of a VCS.

Its commands are, conceptually, tools to perform operations on the repo, rather than tools to version your code.
Anyone considering using Coinbase for their bitcoin transactions should be sure to read some of the stories on /r/coinbase before giving them your money. My personal experience is detailed here [1]. I am of the opinion that their customer support infrastructure is not yet prepared to handle their large (and rapidly growing) user base.

[1]:http://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/1tjqol/coinbase_ca...
To point out what everyone's overlooking: this was written in 1959, which means the wildest sci-fi nanotechnology he's imagining here... is, basically, achieved by magnetic HDDs since around 2011.

"Why cannot we write the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica on the head of a pin?"

"Let's see what would be involved. The head of a pin is a sixteenth of an inch across. If you magnify it by 25,000 diameters, the area of the head of the pin is then equal to the area of all the pages of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Therefore, all it is necessary to do is to reduce in size all the writing in the Encyclopaedia by 25,000 times. Is that possible? The resolving power of the eye is about 1/120 of an inch – that is roughly the diameter of one of the little dots on the fine half-tone reproductions in the Encyclopaedia. This, when you demagnify it by 25,000 times, is still 80 angstroms in diameter – 32 atoms across, in an ordinary metal. In other words, one of those dots still would contain in its area 1,000 atoms. So, each dot can easily be adjusted in size as required by the photoengraving, and there is no question that there is enough room on the head of a pin to put all of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica."

By his assumption, a pinhead is about 0.003 inches^2 (2 mm^2). The current Encylopedia Brittanica has about 300 million English characters [0], which is about 300 MB in a reasonable text encoding (although it should compress [1] to around 60 MB). So, what Feynman is speculating about, translates in digital language to a memory density of 300 MB/(0.003 in^2) or 100 GB/in^2 or 800 Gb/in^2. This is roughly an average magnetic HDD from 2011 [2].

To emphasize the point: Feynman is speculating about a dot "80 angstroms [8 nanometers] in diameter - 32 atoms across, in an ordinary metal". This is actually the size of a magnetic domain on a HDD platter -- wikipedia gives it as 10 nm [3].

Unfortunately, there now exists a far larger English-language encyclopedia which is 9 GB compressed [4] or 75 GB with images [5]. Using Wikipedia as the new benchmark, it is currently not possible to compress it onto the head of a pin.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons#Com...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_%28information_theory%... ("1.5 bits per character")

[2] http://storageconference.org/2013/Papers/2013.Paper.01.pdf

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_storage#Design ("Magnetic grains are typically 10 nm in size...")

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#En...

[5] http://xowa.sourceforge.net/image_dbs.html
Humm, well, you can summarize this paper with:

1) The proposition that all systems (and thus git also) should be composed of operations that are orthogonal (no side effects), general (can be used for multiple purposes) and that the system displays a high level of propriety (available operations are limited to those strictly required).

2) Git isn't very good and any of these because it has weird side effects, the operations it does have are often very specific, and there are a whole bunch of different ways of doing similar or related tasks. ...and the author really doesn't like the idea of staging. Which seems irrelevant to the argument, but turns up 4 or 5 times in the paper.

3) Gitless is amazing because it doesn't have the concept of staged changes. See (2) about how the author really likes this:

The elimination of the staging area was enthusiastically received as a
major reduction in complexity, though one student missed being able to
stage files and then only diff those staged files prior to committing
(using git diff --staged). We believe this to be a limitation not so much
in the conceptual model of Gitless but rather in the detailed functionality
of the gl diff command, which appears to be insufficiently versatile.

Well, I believe the author would be more plausible if they didn't have a clear bias towards a result they favoured.

How about looking up, for example, a bunch of things that people use staging for, and then objectively evaluating those, compared to the alternative in a 'no staging' world?

Perhaps you could also include potential limitations of using the orthogonal/general/propriety comparison as the single test for evaluating features? Like, does following that path lead to slower implementations, where the 'concepts' are inherently limiting to the implementation, like with bazaar.

Food for thought~
"I don't think every CEO will flee the country——they are bogged down by inertia. Some will, but when you have a family, a home, etc, it's a lot harder to do that, even if you want to."

You are not talking about CEOs. You are talking about normal people.

Normal people can't leave the home when the loan is not paid. People who earn millions dollars a year can leave the country and live in Brazil in Winter while taking his private jet like normal people take a car.

It is Europe we are talking about. You could live in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey or Greece without problems.

In fact, most of the CEOs I know do exactly that.
> What disappoints me most is that I actually sympathize with feminism.

Ready for this? Me too. If you notice, I didn't use that word at all in my comment, because I take issue with only the method of delivery, not the message.
Did you read the same piece I did? She's not complaining about the 1%, she's not disparaging people to study finance or computer science and she's taking full responsibility for the choices she made. Her point is entirely different. It's two points actually:

* You need money to get more money

* Once you have money and manage to keep getting more of it, it's easy to feel entitled to this situation and not recognize how fortunate you were to end up there
It's also one of the hardest features, since all Emacs is, after all, is a Lisp interpreter with a dialect that is incompatible with Scheme. :-)
Any company that has ever stored data on DigitalOcean now needs to operate under the assumption that other DigitalOcean customers have accessed it.

Even if every staff member believes they checked the "Scrub Data" checkbox or used the API flag when destroying droplets, human memory is unreliable and people make mistakes.

This is a very serious security issue and it's appalling that anyone is making excuses for it, and it's even more appalling that the company responds by blaming customers.

Customers should not be able to access other customers' data under any circumstances. It shouldn't even need to be stated that providing access to other customers' data should not be the default.
>The first thing I said is that most people these days understand the importance of a responsible disclosure, and that we take all security issues very seriously. Not following responsible disclosure with a company such as DigitalOcean is extremely irresponsible

Oh bullshit. Don't deflect the issue here by complaining that you don't like full disclosure policies that many security experts agree with. (Such as, I don't know, Bruce Schneier?) If you want to get into secondary levels of annoyance, how about the fact there have been multiple instances in the past with DO that were only resolved by open/full disclosure on forums?
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70% of people {think 800 million people} live on less than $2 per day in India. It would be naive to think that Indian govt will care about IP of Pharma companies. I understand it takes a billion dollar or more to create these block buster drugs, but a country like India cannot afford to worry about the profit these companies make. If these companies say they will either go out of business or stop producing these kinds of drugs it wouldn't matter to India. As a bulk of the people who need these drugs are already dying and a larger portion of the people will die. And India cant do a thing about it. That is the absurdity of the situation.
I agree that governments tend to increase taxes more than they lower them. And yet, in 1958 the US had a tax rate of 81% that kicked in at 140,000 dollars (which in today's money is lower than France's 1 million euro threshold). And couples earning more than 400,000 dollars had a 91% marginal tax.

Edit: And during most of the 60s, the 70s and all the way up to 1981 the US had a 70 percent marginal tax rate which kicked in at much lower thresholds, even when adjusted for inflation: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftaxfoundatio...
0. Cowboy coders that change horses midstream should expect to get soaked.

1. I make it a rule to fire the overrated jerks that (ca|wo|do)n't shape up, with poetic prejudice. <Evil hand rubbing ensues> For the "indispensable" ones that cause too many problems, it's harder but possible. There's might be no such thing as an irreplaceable employee, the worse situation is losing good people that are pushed away. (Fan of Github / Rackspace cultural practices.)
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It is a new website, and for that reason only people from Cyprus have listed so far. Hope to expand to other countries as well!
A FE dev doesn't need to have design skills per se but it's handy and increases your market value.

How to get there: just create stuff, start with smaller things (like a simple blog design or even smaller like a page about yourself) and get inspirations from other talented designers. Maybe you just copy their stuff 1:1 in the beginning just to get some feeling for shapes and colors.
Hi, it zooms to the area with the most pros.
Hope to expand soon to other countries as well
Unfortunately your comment is entirely irrelevant, because neither you nor your parent seem to have read the article. Get off your hobby horse.
It depends. Mistakes happen, sure, and you just say "it was a mistake, let's make sure we have the processes to catch it or avoid it next time and move on".

However, when there's one guy who always keeps making mistakes and creating work for the rest of the team, even making the same mistake multiple times, then, in my opinion, some blame is warranted.
> or university library. Usually these tend to be interruption free zones.

My university's library was quite loud, and had a university-owned Taco Bell inside of it, complete with cashiers yelling out names of people to pick up their orders.

Top-100 ranked by US News...
It's a standard Mary Jo Foley blog spam post, so it's what anybody should expect.
How do we know this judge hasn't been blackmailed, by the way? The honest protestations of a security agency that genuinely believes the ends justify the means?

The public statements of the NSA imply that there's no choice in this matter -- that this kind of surveillance is mandatory.

What hasn't happened is an honest debate about whether the public is willing to trade away whatever remains of their privacy for a fractional increase in "security". I think the public ought to at least have the opportunity to make a voting statement on that matter.

Secret privacy invasion programs make the debate impossible, until they're not secret.

What's happened is that the NSA has made the decision for us.
That it's in the DNA. It's nature, npt nurture.
I wholeheartedly disagree.

This isn't why I disagree with the article, but I think the example of a newspaper is a poor one.

Newspapers are a one-way information exchange. People take information from a newspaper and traditionally use this information as 'conversational currency' with other people within their peer groups, or such as in the picture used in the example, locality.

"They say it'll rain all through the week." "How about them Yankees?'", "I can't believe our court systems let him get away with that!"

A mobile device is different, as it is a means of two way communication. We can take in the information from this method, but we can also spread this information, or "spend our conversational credits" with the device as well, with other people linked to us by their similar devices.

A person on a device is commonly networking with a very large group of other people, and the information exchange is nearly never one way. Humans like to receive feedback on information they receive. This gives us a wider perspective that is further detached from ourselves, and is generally more well-rounded in regards to the opinions the rest of the world shares.

People now use devices like this, to gain a larger amount of opinions so to form their own views. As humans, that feedback loop with other humans is necessary.

The problem : It has not been sufficiently shown to me that we are capable of honoring both information sources very well at once. Most people who I have spoken with who are busy (different than idling on) on their mobile devices have a level of disconnect between myself and themselves that I have never experienced with someone who was simply reading a newspaper or watching a television.

I believe that this level of disconnect that I have experienced in an anecdotal fashion may be related to the cognitive overhead being higher for two way communications methods compared to information-receiving systems.

I don't believe technology is ruining us..

but, I wouldn't care to have dinner with someone who'd rather be spending time on a device that'll be there once the food is gone.

It's more a human respect thing. I don't need to believe that technology is ruining us to be irked by the fact that someone can't be bothered to turn their attention to those around them for forty five minutes out of the day when those people are doing the same for them.
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I think you hit the nail on the head here: offering the option to buy less server time if you don't need to wipe data is probably reasonable.

Now, the problem here is that DO turned that choice around, and are therefore not providing security by default, but offering you the option to pay more to get it.

Additionally, this is poorly advertised (the API docs do not clearly state "Your data may be accessible by other users!"), and that explains why many customers are (reasonably) a bit pissed at DO.
I'm not seeing the character set issue at all. Both Wordpress and Emacs are set to UTF-8.
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Nice! I love you man. Love the honest feedback.
Seems like we got a lot to work on. we'll get to it.

Thanks Simbolit!
Reading your comments in the link, and comments in this thread, I find you to be alarmist at best.

Yes, this issue needs to be raised.
No, you can't say that anyone who doesn't agree is a non-factor.

You have the option to scrub your data anytime you like, I've always understood that wasn't the default on DO.
These parasitic journal/conferences are becoming more prevalent in the biological sciences too.

Here is an account of a guy who attended a conference hosted by the OMICS publishing group: http://cabbagesofdoom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/omics-group-con...

There was also a recent Science magazine's "sting operation" where they submitted tons of shitty papers to journals across the world and found many journals actually accepted the paper:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full

The sting was pretty controversial though as they seemed to want to use this evidence to discredit open access publishing rather than to say this is a problem with academia in general. Open access is catching on in the biological sciences (http://biorxiv.org/) and big journals like nature or science are afraid of losing money.

You can argue that they are a natural response to the academic publishing culture where the sole metric of success is the number of papers you publish.
Catalog Reveals NSA Has Back Doors for Numerous Devices - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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> Whether or not we agree that the government should be interfering for the benefit of the consumer, we definitely agree that it shouldn't be interfering for the benefit of big business.

But government is largely bought and paid for by special interests. Given that, it seems there's very little point in asking what the gov't should do.

What it will do, is quite obvious: it will serve the interests of the highest bidder.
There's a lot of things I felt like I've said before when reading this
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Really? Is git really that hard? Please. The man pages are super readable and explain pretty much everything. Nobody's complaining about awk, sed, find, and the like. Git exhibits functionality on par with those tools and the user should expect a similar degree of complexity.
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With Kiva, you can lend money at 0% interest to a microfinance institute, which utilizes the interest-free capital to give a loan at a slightly lower interest rate than it otherwise would.

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She doesn't have a problem with anyone being treated like that.

What the article is interested in, and what she had a problem with, is that people feel like they, and those more well off, are entitled to their amenities. They should be more aware of their luck and should consider how other people may have been unlucky, instead of dumb, lazy or evil.
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Tax shelters are legal means of avoiding taxes. They are neither cheating nor evasion.
Have you heard of Kathy Sierra?
Of course they want people to use their OS (just like Apple wants people to use theirs), but that does not mean they always lock the language into the OS. They created TypeScript, licensed it under Apache 2.0 and made the installer for it an npm package in Node[1].

[1] npm install -g typescript and it's installed and ready to go wherever you are using Node.js
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It's not because of national prestige (except the space program). The UK doesn't have any of those things because they have big daddy USA protecting them if the need arises.

India does not have anyone to protect her against China or Pakistan. In fact, China has been phenomenally increasing it's naval concentration in the Indian ocean. India has failed to grow an indigenous military industry (except for nukes and some other stuff..) and this has resulted in India becoming the largest purchaser of weapons worldwide. Definitely not a title I am proud of.

Geopolitics is complex. It could be argued that had the US/UK not 'enabled' Pakistan back in the day we wouldn't have this problem today. It was good for western nations to have an ally in this region against Russia and thus Afghanistan during the cold war era.

But I'd like to add. On the subject of our space program. Our president a few terms ago was a fisherman's son (and he was from a very poor family..) who eventually went on to become a rocket scientist and then later the president of the country.

We are working on poverty, a one sided perspective on such a complex issue doesn't do it justice. We need the space program as much as we need to improve food distribution. And we have enough people to work on many problems simultaneously.

I can understand that as someone from the UK you are upset because your government insists on giving aid to India. But the aid issue is politicized greatly. India has said several times that we do not want the aid but political forces in both countries have resulted in the continuation of aid. I can see how the UK media might spin that into 'Oh, we give them aid and they make missiles'. All I can say to that is, it's not true. I'd encourage anyone to research this more to arrive at the real facts. We don't make nukes with aid money.
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This article describes this as a "double transportation cipher" - which is incorrect. It's more correctly described in the article submitted nearly a week ago here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6960168

That also has a link to a more complete description:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_transposition_cipher
http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Look at "US Unfunded Liabilities" towards the bottom. The US is drowning in debt, due to promises made... Or promises soon to be broken. It's laughable to suggest the free market is at work in the medical industry.
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One of the ways to be happy is to look at what you have in an objective fashion, rather than looking at relative wealth. Rankings are zero-sum games in that someone is always one rung up from you, and someone else one rung down. In absolute terms though, we live in a time of amazing prosperity.

The fact that you can fly at all is something that a person 100 years ago would be astounded at. The fact that you can do so cheaply and relatively easily is something someone 50 years ago would have envied.

That's not to say that there aren't improvements to be made to society through politics, but that would be an argument for a site where that's on topic: it is off topic here according to the guidelines.
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