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dyu··on Patents: how and why to get them
You would disclose what you know, along with prior art. The company's patent attorney makes a call (along with applicable liabilities) whether it's patentable, USPTO makes a call whether it's patentable, and maybe eventually the court makes a call whether it's a valid patent. You do your part (as part of the employment contract), but probably do not get to decide whether it's patentable or not.
dyu··on Ask HN: Will my comments/topics on HN be deletable under the GDPR law?
I thought the legal side would work in a similar fashion as EU-US Privacy Shield?
dyu··on Ask HN: Will my comments/topics on HN be deletable under the GDPR law?
HN may cite legitimate business interest and not oblige in deletion.

A more extreme example can be that when you perform a deletion, do you also deep delete from logs and backups of logs? What if you need to keep them for audit and forensic purposes?

Edit: citing legitimate business interest does not necessarily mean it will succeed. Courts will have the final say. EU likely will not enforce smaller entities so soon. We may need to see a few court decisions or better guidelines before we get a better idea how to navigate through GDPR.

dyu··on Ask HN: Will my comments/topics on HN be deletable under the GDPR law?
Maybe something like Privacy Shield[0]. Granted, if you were not in US or EU, then it may be harder.

[0] https://www.privacyshield.gov

dyu··on It has gotten much easier to wage record-breaking DDoSes
There are some incentive misalignments. Each AS that configures it is doing it to protect its neighbors, and does not benefit from itself having configured this way. Best practice suggestions only go so far.

Another aspect is, if you configure it not just with your own prefixes but also that of your peers and downstreams (and their downstreams etc), then you need a source of ground truth. (Remember that not all ASes need to announce everything they have, all the time.) This is usually an out of band database. Then you have the problem of database needing to verify the truth, and keeping all the data fresh, etc.

dyu··on DNS over HTTPS
You can remember a small set of resolved hosts for this purpose, not unlike remembering DNS servers or CAs to trust. A quick search online also says it's possible to issue a cert to a public IP address, so you can also do HTTPS to a numbered IP instead of a host name.
dyu··on The OWASP Top 10 is killing me
This looks interesting, and I wasn't aware of this API before. The downside is you have to send a plaintext or at best SHA1 to that server, which creates another problem even if the server is not logging and can be trusted.
dyu··on Silicon Valley programmers pressure friends to quit working at Uber
Uber is not the only unicorn. There are others. Maybe by convincing these women and other under-represented to join others, they can actually become more productive and bring more value.

Your logic seems to say, back in 2008, we shouldn't have badmouthed Big Banks, because they were paying above-market rates to their employees, and these salaries would have trickled down back to the society and solved the subprime mortgage crisis.

dyu··on Launch HN: Peer5 (YC W17) – Serverless CDN
IP addresses are not secret anyway.
dyu··on I am an edge case
Canadian here. Been in the US for two years doing grad school. When I went back to Canada once the Canadian customs told me I should declare myself as a "US resident visiting Canada". I am a resident of US for tax purposes obviously. I think the IRS and the CBP have different standards for residency, the one that benefits them more.
dyu··on Dogfight (Stunt Pilot With Guns!)
How do you shoot the guns on a mac? Ctrl didn't work for me.
dyu··on Man, weather.com really sucks. I bet I could make a better one in a day.
C/F would be nice.
dyu··on Is it Christmas? .... does not account for time zone..
I am getting YES/OUI and I am visiting my parents in BC (I live in Montreal, however).
dyu··on Email in the 18th century
The Great Wall of China had one of those fire towers every some distance (to alert invasions I think), kind of like the set up in the LoTR: The Two Towers. I never thought people would use these signaling methods to actually transmit these kinds of information. Pretty cool.
dyu··on Reliable Script Generated Email Delivery Anyone?
How do you send a mail using a real MTA? If I set up Sendmail and use the mail function in python or something, is that the right way to do it?
dyu··on IdeaBlob Funding $10,000 each month for the most popular start up idea
Wouldn't people just downvote all others and get all their friends to vote on his own? I didn't read it carefully; maybe they have something to prevent that.
dyu··on Ask YC: Good time & ways to launch
You should launch on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Mondays still feel like weekends, and Friday everyone wants weekend to happen. Thursday is also not as good because people wait for fridays.
dyu··on Ask YC: Will there really always be room for more successful web startups?
The way I see it, there will always be something that takes us (the users) to the next level. Maybe you have all the racks and detergents, then you discover the dishwasher. Maybe some day we'll get an oven+fridge all in one. It might be hard to think about it but there is definitely room for growth. It might not be growing upwards, it might be sideways, or even abstract it to a different dimension.
dyu··on What is the best way to register a country-specific domain extension?
When I was looking into it I found that wiki tells quite a bit of info. Also there are usually (I think .es included) English websites that can register for you. Some of the domains require you to be a resident of that country or have a business there, and some companies can register for you but with their name. Maybe I am paranoid but I don't feel safe having online identity of a company in the hands of some other company.
dyu··on There's One Thing That Can Slow Apple's iPhone Growth
This has been brought up before. But if you use gloves of nontrivial thickness (I am from Montreal), then you pretty much can't use any phone with gloves anyway.
dyu··on Ask YC: what laptop to buy?
I was going to suggest MBP until I saw that you'll use linux on it. I have one, but I wouldn't suggest buying it just for the hardware. But then, all your other constraints call for a MBP. So I'd say either a thinkpad or a MBP.
dyu··on Humor: Just How Geeky Are You?
Is it just me or does it take a long time after I click an answer for the next question to come up?
dyu··on School officials unite in banning Wikipedia
There should be a way for the readers of wiki to know which sections have been there for a while (therefore probably more accurate), and which parts are frequently changed (therefore more debatable), so that they can get a better picture of the reliability of those information.
dyu··on Is Aaron Swartz the Paris Hilton of Web 2.0?
But pg got famous after eating breakfast!
dyu··on Installing MySQL on Ubuntu (the NSFW way)
You can also install macports (or something similar) on the mac and then it will be same as the Ubuntu way.
dyu··on Ask: Best Math Courses for CS?
You should try taking a logic course. Apparently it makes you think more clear and argue better. I regret not taken one and now it's too late as I am about to graduate. Oh and I think you can also prove things better, and see more tricky cases easier.
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Ron Paul's articles do.
dyu··on Ask YC: Profit: $25/user. Customers: satisfied. Competitors: none. Target market: huge. But...
They have that for housing in China too. Usually when a new building of condos is for sale, only the first 100 (or however many there are) customers can buy it, so a few days before they open the office, a lot of people would line up and sell their spots to real potential condo buyers.
dyu··on The Peel P50: 132 lbs and street-legal in England
They can't go fast enough to cause an accident =P But then, modern cars could overlook these little ones and run them over.
dyu··on A study I'd like to see done
I read something like that sometime this year. It was kids of age of the kids from Lord of Flies and they gave them an island or something similar, I forgot the results though.
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