skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now, I'm unsure of American trademark law, but I understand it's a "use it or lose it" styled setup. Correct? Well, they took four years to challenge them, if it went to court, and subpoenaed information shows that they knew about yourather.com for years, would that work against them?

It seems like they ignored them waited until they were are ripe juicy target that's worth taking over, and then attacked, which seems contrary to the point of trademark law. I hate predatory shit like this: if you've got a trademark and you plan on keeping it (and let's assume that use-it-or-lose-it is a good idea for sake of argument), then waiting until you've got a monetary gain from enforcing it seems no better than patent trolls to me.

Also, does iPhone games come under the same trademark category as board games? An even better question: should it?
You've just described a textbook tax evasion scheme. For it to work (and not be an illegal tax evasion scheme), at a minimum, the money would have to stay out of France. Consequently, the most common scenario is simply for the individual to relocate to another country.
Yeah, looks like the only real way involves being co-opted in turn. Seems like that's what ended up happening to Obama.
I tried this 5 mins ago. It is surprisingly quick, like the article said, comparing to the shaving cream method. In the comments are suggestions on how to get a better glide like using glycerin or using alternate oils.
I guess in a few days I'll know if my skin will react badly to this or not.
Why is this nursing thing coming up so often? There are many more women than you think in US graduate CS programs; however, many are not from the United States.
I can't flip my miner into reverse and produce electricity while destroying BTC. The ability to convert $800 to 1 BTC by mining does nothing to keep the value of 1 BTC above $10.
What makes a conference good isn't the IEEE label but rather the reputation of the conference itself and its corresponding ability to attract a high quality program committee.

The important point here is that there isn't a shortcut to evaluating conference quality. You have to know your field, know who is worth listening to and who isn't, know what the top conferences are, what the mediocre conferences are and so forth. If a new conference springs up, you need to be able to judge whether to pay attention by looking at the PC.

> Of course there are regional IEEE conferences. But in general, the international IEEE conferences and journals by the bigger societies are probably the best ones out there.

You can't really make general statements like that. For example, CAV proceedings are published by Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+scienc...). JPDC is a well-regarded journal in the parallel computing community that is published by Elsevier.

And a "regional" conference doesn't mean it's a bad conference. DATE (http://www.date-conference.com/) is probably the second best design automation conference behind DAC. ASPDAC, ATVA, APLAS, FSTTCS are some well-regarded regional conferences and there are plenty more like these. Not all of these are IEEE sponsored either.

> I have published quite a bit in the physical sciences/engineering field and in my experience the IEEE journals have a far better peer review process than AIP, ACS, Elsevier and even NPG. The same goes for the conferences.

I'm not trying to slight IEEE here. I looked through my publication list and it turns out all my papers are in IEEE conferences and journals! But on the other hand, a few of them could easily have ended up in a venue like CAV and this wouldn't magically make them worse papers.

The key point here I want to make here is this: there is no substitute for knowing your field, if you're judging conference quality by the IEEE label, you're doing something wrong.
The 100k+ yearly interest is what makes this so appealing as a minimum. By doing nothing, you earn close to the median full time software engineering income. Consider the interest a payment of 2000 hours per year to do what you want.

If you have a 7mm offer, and less than 1mm in net worth, take the deal (not, of course, before asking for more money).
You have way too much time on your hands if you are considering review requests from people you don't know.
I think it is an interesting thing. I think it would do no good for France, but for the rest of us it would provide an interesting test regarding the question of if "soaking the rich" is going to make anything better. With rates like 75% one hardly can argue they didn't go far enough. And even if it says it's two years, in two years either the fallacy of it would be obvious and would allow them to quietly roll it back and claim the victory, or it could be claimed a huge success and continued further, so limited term is not a big problem if we see it as an experiment.
Yeah, the customs point is very interesting and worthy of upvote. I suspect they'd need a warrant to do this on an American (one would hope) but I highly doubt they'd need one to do this on anyone who ordered it from across the border.

Canadians (and Americans who talk to Canadians) in particular are probably highly vulnerable to this spying. Emailing Americans, calling Americans, ordering laptops from the US, etc. The NSA is probably free to tap/interdict all of those interactions without any kind of pre-approval or probable cause.

Bottom line: the NSA has done irreparable harm to global trust in dealing with the US(and, sadly, the US dealing with those outside their borders), be it communications or buying their products.
I would expect that option to do something along the lines of scrubbing the data on the hardware level so that someone who physically examined the disk wouldn't be able to access my data. That's because I'd expect my data to be at least logically wiped in the first place.
The biggest non-starter in his original essay was that mining is wasteful. Krugman doesn't understand orders of magnitude.

The mathematical fallacy is that the cost of mining never adds up. The total amount of energy ever expended by all miners that will ever be produced amounts to such a small amount of total power as to be inconsequential compared to the commerce transacted. Krugman should optimize a few computer programs, and then he might understand why he's barking up the wrong tree.

Krugman misses what every nerd, uber or otherwise, sees plain as day. The mining is simply irrelevant. There will be 22M coins, give or take, and the joules to find the hashes simply do not matter. And when the coins are all found, the miners will continue to simply clear transactions, which any network needs, and furthermore still doesn't create any meaningful cost.

Bitcoin has problems, but the mining is beside the point. and his follow on argument is... bitcoin is valuable now because nerds conflate economics with technology, and will soon pop? That's insipid and unarguable - it's just an ad hominem attack on a group.
I was given one out of the blue this year for Christmas. I've had fun with Forza, and as silly as it seems, Just Dance is actually pretty fun. (The novelty will wear off soon, I'm sure.) The latter isn't exclusive, so it certainly doesn't warrant a new console, but I'm actually quite impressed with Kinect.

I will admit, though, the PS3 it replaced was probably the better media center at this point - Netflix, etc didn't require a $60/year Xbox gold sub, we had a standard remote for Blu-Ray and media functions, and in addition to needing a tablet/phone to start DLNA playback, it stutters unwatchably. Meanwhile, we have MythTV for all the TV stuff, so that HDMI input is somewhat useless.
Facebook uses "for(;;);" as it's one char shorter.
I hope you will take this well. It looks like you've put real time and effort into droidtowers. I also understand you are not sure how your work can live on now that you're focusing else where.

The issue I bring up is that the CC-BY-NC license is not open source. The issue stems from the non commercial clause which is a restriction on fields of endeavour. Now the reason why this matters is that Open Source is in fact a made up work. The group which invented it and popularized it did so with a specific definition: http://opensource.org/osd

One of the goals in inventing a new word was to have an unambiguous term to use for software which otherwise would have been called Free, as in freedom.

Now I am not saying this to force your hand. I understand you may not want to give up commercial rights, and that is fine. All I ask is that you consider releasing your hard work under one of the licenses which we as various communities have agreed are open source. You can take your pick from the OSI's list: http://opensource.org/licenses or the Free Software Foundation's list: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#GPLCompatib... or even the Debian community's list: http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/

If you pick one of those licenses your work has a chance to outlive your efforts. Your art may find its way into other games, and your game itself may find its way into linux distributions. Or it might get cloned a hundred times on the app store. =)

One more minor issue with CC licenses for code is that they are not designed for software: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#C... Thanks to edge cases you may be giving people more permissions than you intended. Or you might not be giving people a right you thought you were.
Modern hard drives have gigabytes of storage, so shaving 100 characters of a source code is pointless. I always thought code golf was for fun more than anything.
I thought the NSA wasn't "attacking domestic citizens"? They can't excuse this one away as an "error" anymore. NSA/Obama administration lied. Again. What a surprise.

And boy are these NSA stories flagged into oblivion or what? NSA/FBI psy-ops or just good ol' HN folks "getting bored" with the NSA abuses?
I personally recommend learning Rails first, Angular will then make more sense.

Plus you will have the skills and knowledge of how to plug your front end design into the backend systems.

Both Rails and Angular are MVC frameworks but I suggest that Rails is easier for a beginner coder to learn, especially if you already have a high level of comfort with HTML, CSS and jQuery.
There were also different tax brackets and different number of people in these brackets...
I disagree that those "counter-arguments are even more ridiculous." Of course, 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. I think what these counter-arguments importantly point to is that soon-to-be CEOs, the leaders of up-and-coming successful, young companies—-the future of the French economy--will leave.

While it's a gross simplification, it is still interesting to think that 200-300 million is the price tag that the French government is willing to put on it's future generations of CEOs and successful companies, which is disappointing to say the least.

And like many others have stated, this may just be for political points. I would bet a large group of this demographic has no problem deferring salary for the next two years (thought it will be interesting to see if the tax is extended).
Would anybody complain if Putin launched air strikes against the Saudi regime?

From August this year:

Prince Bandar pledged to safeguard Russia’s naval base in Syria if the Assad regime is toppled, but he also hinted at Chechen terrorist attacks on Russia’s Winter Olympics in Sochi if there is no accord. “I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” he allegedly said.

Prince Bandar went on to say that Chechens operating in Syria were a pressure tool that could be switched on an off. “These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role in Syria’s political future.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilan...
The "free as in libre" part would make it much more difficult to create an undetectable MITM. You might have a much greater diversity of hardware, so they'd have to find and maintain more exploits. The full software/firmware stack would be verifiable by cryptographic signature. The hardware itself could be checked by looking for chips that don't match other units from the same lot, either visually or behaviorally, and even x-raying the components if necessary.
Reminds of Reggie Watt's "unpredictably brilliant" parody of a Ted Talk.

[Skip to 0:54 for English] http://www.ted.com/talks/reggie_watts_disorients_you_in_the_...
Chrome DevTools recognice while(1) and for(;;) in the network tab (JSON preview). Sadly, Firebug still doesn't know how to handle this and shows no JSON preview :(
>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.

While this is true (the disk will never respond with old data once you have zeroed it out) it is important to remember that even zeroizing the disk yourself isn't a guarantee that the old data is actually gone from the disk itself - the disk may present itself as a raw block device, but internally it may use error correction, write amplification prevention, or error prevention schemes which may mean that old data will remain on the disk even though you have written zeroes over it. For example hard disks remapping bad sectors, or SSDs relocating chunks of data when the EEPROM gates in that chunk are starting to wear out. You would have to use forensic means to recover this information but it still remains. The only way to guarantee that the information cannot remain on the disk is to use encryption and make sure that the unencrypted key never touches the disk.
I'm pretty sure that's not going to be "the shortest route," J, but it may be "a route" eventually. Samsung already produces a NAND flash chip at 10 nm. The lattice spacing in crystalline Si is about 0.54 nm, so we're talking about a transistor feature size of a bit more than 18 atoms. These are available on the market as we speak, and you might even be using one right now if you have a sweet new Samsung SSD.

Proof-of-concept Si FETs have been made down to around 3 nm, last time I checked, or around 6 atoms. Grossly speaking, these are essentially refinements of photolithographic CMOS processes. Soon we'll hit a wall with this, but for now, I think atomically-precise manufacturing is already pretty achievable without engineering biology.
There is nothing wrong with using your cellphone at dinner.
What should I do with my abandoned personal project?
There are several large pumped-storage plants in the USA too. They can provide about 2 GW for one day, enough to completely power a city of 1M people, or to smooth out supply fluctuations for a much larger region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_Mountain_Pumped-Storag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...
There are a couple of things I wanted to say, and I can speak with some authority on the subject as I speak on behalf of DigitalOcean.

This was mentioned to me on twitter hours ago, prior to this post. 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 and I would be amiss to point that if anyone did ever find a software vulnerability filing it and waiting 24 hours for the appropriate response is preferred. - https://www.digitalocean.com/security

As far as I can tell here, there is no unexpected behavior that isn't documented or stressed. In both our API documentation, and our control panel, we note that you must either pass a flag or check the box to security delete the data. As far as I can tell, the flag is currently functionally correctly. so..

Is the complaint that customer data is being leaked from VMs? That the flag being passed via our API/Dash isn't actually working? Or, that our policy on not doing a secure delete by default isn't something you agree with?

j.
The fact that a majority of the reviews you have so far mention you by name makes it look like you encouraged friends and/or colleagues to post them.
Is it correct to use the Content-Type application/json on this? IMO: not.

(I've just tested Firefox network view and it breaks the response display with syntax error -- there should be an option to select the format).
Rich creeps leaving is a feature, not a bug.
Actually, many cities/regions/countries are suffering because large corporations are shutting down factories/offices in one area/country and moving somewhere else cheaper (for profit reasons, not because of taxes). For examples, look at how many companies have moved their production to Africa/Asia. This tax move only encourages them even more, when governments should move the other way (they should cut taxes and bureaucracy, not increase them). The economy IS collapsing, and companies ARE moving to friendlier countries.
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As a counterexample, while it's not likely, I can see needing to drive down to my mother's house on very short notice, and that would be around 180 miles or so.
I'm sort of conflicted. I feel that the profits that the pharmaceutical companies receive from first world developed countries coupled with the strong IP protection they enjoy here should be good enough, and I'm happy those in other countries receive the care they need. But then, China, India, they have a lot of very rich people too, so to pull it off in a way that to a first approximation makes sense, means some odd regulation and making it harder for people to get it in general without going through hoops. I don't know... Drugs are such a weird thing to think about: we're talking about peoples lives here, and as far as I'm concerned human life is the most important thing in the world, and profiteering from that in the way that pharma companies do sometimes (ever greening, and the like) is unethical in my opinion, the research that they conduct creates a lot of value. Truly, I don't know the correct way of thinking about pharmaceutical companies and business. Hard topic.
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Intel FDE, as far as I know, also works this way.

The key is protected. In the event that the drive must be re-provisioned (like in the case of a lost password), the decryption key is simply overwritten by the new key, rendering the original data unreadable.
That's PhD level thinking!

"Undergrads think they know everything. Grad students know they know nothing. PhD's know everybody else knows nothing."

p.s. no, hope the open access movement takes off (I think it is), or find a a friend in a university you can tunnel into. Given knowledge is power, it's not surprising someone is making tons of money off it.
Isn't it just voltage times current? :)
>make net neutrality de facto

how so?
The problem is that the stuff of copyright infringement is purely virtual. For a currency to be useful it must be exchangeable for physical goods. And this physical commerce creates the endoints that allow governments to exert its influence even in the face of a distributed currency. The battle control of the monetary supply will not be a parallel.
It's not so much the menubar--I've disabled that--but that I spend most of my time in ssh sessions, and I tend to re-launch emacs all of the time, to the extent that the start-up time of the GUI version bothers me.
an application of DNA as a building block: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5KLTonB3Pg
>Reality indicates that most of their restrictions are about protecting users who don't know better.... you're not going to "accidentally" replace your CPU.

You might not accidentally replace your CPU, but you might take up an offer from an unauthorized computer repair shop to upgrade the CPU in your Mac. Obviously they wouldn't care so much about you replacing the CPU yourself, but if you're paying money to a third party, Apple would be losing business, because Apple makes money on support and service plans. Apple would also make more money when users purchase a whole brand new Mac with a better processor, as opposed to simply purchasing a CPU upgrade for their existing Mac. Would it not therefore be in Apple's interest to consider some means of disabling unauthorized CPU upgrades? That would not be "making things closed and locked down just for the hell of it" - making things closed and locked down just happens to be a very effective business strategy.
Looking at their pricing page, it looks like an instance with 512MB RAM comes with a 20GB disk. Depending on host load, IO and process niceness etc, I can see a `dd if=/dev/zero of=...` taking ~10 minutes easily.
It would serve the French right if every single man, woman or child with an ounce of creativity and/or any entrepreneurial ambition at all, just got up and left. Of course, the idea of a bunch of Frenchmen going all "Galt's Gulch" is a bit amusing, but hey...
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You're absolutely right and thank you for the clarification. I didn't intend to conflate sparse files with file-based disk images, but I was trying to convey that there can be a difference between the logical data of a disk image and the physical data, and that deferred zeroing is the default and the expectation of developers and sysadmins. Images can be sparse and/or file-based, as the features are orthogonal, if cross-cutting.

More importantly, you clarify that RZAT is a necessary feature for what I'm mentioning to work properly. You're right. They should both be ensuring the blocks served to customer VMs are zeroed on use and ensure that they are appropriately running TRIM commands to ensure maximum performance from their hardware. Not all SSDs perform RZAT, and it wouldn't be a bad idea for the host to ensure the device is logically zeroed for the VM anyway.

DigitalOcean could easily switch to doing both, or at least guaranteeing the former by creating new logical disks for customers as every other vendor does. If, as they have blogged about in the past, they are directly mapping virtualized disks to the host's LVM volumes, they are unnecessarily complicating their hosting set up and making their host configuration more brittle. With thin-provisioned/sparsely-allocated or with file-based virtual disk images, they can more flexibly deploy VMs with different disk sizes with minimal changes in host configuration.

Alternatively they could trivially ensure that even forensic tools would have a very difficult time erasing volumes by enabling dm-crypt on top of LVM, and resetting the key every time a virtual machine is deleted. This could reduce performance on some SSDs (particularly SandForce based models) but would allow minimal changes to their configuration to ensure deleted data is unrecoverable.
Open letter to Google regarding synchronized bookmarks
I had family visiting over the holidays, and one of them signed into Chrome, thinking it was Gmail. This imported all of his bookmarks, which I really didn't want since I felt like it was a violation of his privacy. So I logged his account out, but unfortunately this did not remove the bookmarks that had been created.

I didn't want to risk deleting bookmarks on his synced devices, so I decided to delete the current user, thinking it was him.

It wasn't. Instead of just removing synced information, it deleted all of the local user data, including years worth of bookmarks. Personal things, recipes I wanted to try, places I wanted to go, articles I enjoyed reading and wanted to go back to... all gone.

I'm technical enough that I blame myself to some degree for not taking backups and, although it sounds corny, for trusting Google. Neither will happen again.
It was one of Hollande's campaign promises, so of course he's going to try to get it passed into law. That's what politicians do.