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Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

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Many people doesn't seem to understand what pain individuals undergo when their content is taken offline by Google or Github due to a fake DMCA notice. They would have built something over years and one morning entire thing is taken offline due to a fake DMCA notice. Then they have to issue a counter notice with all its legal implications and it also exposes all your private information including full address, name a…

You could fight them by counter claims and following the DMCA processes which on paper have stiff penalties for abuse. Practically I have never heard of major abuses being punished, so wouldn’t count on it.

As a technologist perhaps solve it with tech, the first step would be to host your own content instead of using a third party app based in U.S. There is not a lot of deep tech to what GitHub gives as a githost, a self hosted gitlab serves just as well . Similarly for video photos etc, it is very hard and expensive to deliver video for millions/billions delivering video to few thousands is trivial. same thing for sub stack, medium etc

Generally these take down notices don’t go after your DC/ISP domain host provider that easily unless you are in the cross hairs of powerful lobbies like how Libgen or PirateBay are , so self hosting helps a lot.

If they do then there is distributed systems like IPFS etc can be resilient to notices.

Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

#232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only that but the ENTIRE TEAM SECTION ON THEIR WEBSITE (worthitsolutions.co) IS A BLATANT LIE. Not one of those people is real. Every single biography link leads to Lorem Ipsum. It's a shady, secretive sweatshop operating out of Lahore, Pakistan.

I didn't want to mention it in my other comment but the mere mention of "Pvt Limited" in the DMCA takedown led me to believe the company is a disgusting boiler room right next to the tech support scammers we all know (if not literally the same scammers moonlighting as DMCA enforcers). It does seem I was right and stereotypes (unfortunately for the legitimate companies from these regions) still work.

"Pvt Limited" just denotes a company registered in India, Bangladesh, or Nepal and this isn't a good heuristic considering the huge number of companies.

Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

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post #159

Hello again, Vivek, founder/CEO here. In the interest of moving swiftly, here are the actions we are going to take: (1) We have withdrawn the DMCA notice for sympy; Sent a note to senior leadership in Github to act on this quickly. (2) We have stopped the whole DMCA process for now and working on internal guidelines of what constitutes a real violation so that these kind of incidents don't happen. We are going to do…

Dmca as process should be stopped, you buffoon

Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

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post #96

After the youtube-dl incident, Nat Friedman (then-CEO) tweeted: https://mobile.twitter.com/natfriedman/status/13283656794734... > We are taking a stand for developers and have reinstated the youtube-dl repo. Section 1201 of the DMCA is broken and needs to be fixed. Developers should have the freedom to tinker. That's how you get great tools like youtube-dl. Now they are deleting obviously-compliant docs from nonsensi…

> To help them, GitHub will establish and donate $1M to a developer defense fund to help protect open source developers on GitHub from unwarranted DMCA Section 1201 takedown claims. We will immediately begin working with other members of the community to set up this fund and take other measures to collectively protect developers and safeguard developer collaboration.

There was also the promise a $1m developer defense fund. I wonder what happened to that.

Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

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post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Surprisingly, there are master's degrees in computer science out there that cannot solve fizzbuzz. 2. No license is required to work as a software engineer. 3. It is up to each company to verify their candidates.

fizzbuzz is the least of your concern if you do these type of interviews. the problem is that you will be asked a question which required several hours to produce an optimal solution, yet you are supposed to deliver this solution in under 5-10 minutes, and the only way to do that, is to repeatedly grind the solution and memorize it and then quickly reproduce it in the interview. as such, the style of interviewing is…

If you have a computer science degree, you are expected to know fundamental topics such as data structures and algorithms.

As a professional software engineer, you are expected to be proficient at those skills to an extent in which you can demonstrate them in practice.

The burden of verifying you acquired the skills associated with your education falls on the employer.

Fizzbuzz is trivial and should not be a problem for any developer at any level. Writing a binary search function should not be a problem either.

But I agree that the industry's obsession with competitive programming has gone too far in some cases, especially in cases where the skills being tested are not relevant for the job.

Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

#236
post #159

Hello again, Vivek, founder/CEO here. In the interest of moving swiftly, here are the actions we are going to take: (1) We have withdrawn the DMCA notice for sympy; Sent a note to senior leadership in Github to act on this quickly. (2) We have stopped the whole DMCA process for now and working on internal guidelines of what constitutes a real violation so that these kind of incidents don't happen. We are going to do…

Wow! Guess we will never know if this would have happened if it did not make it to the front page of HN. Also @dang, has this post been pinned at the top of the page for everyone to see. Edit: guess it's not..

Upvote it for the algo even though it doesn't make sense.

Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

#238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only that but the ENTIRE TEAM SECTION ON THEIR WEBSITE (worthitsolutions.co) IS A BLATANT LIE. Not one of those people is real. Every single biography link leads to Lorem Ipsum. It's a shady, secretive sweatshop operating out of Lahore, Pakistan.

Yup, and a couple of the stock photos of "Our team" are duplicates. Crazy. How does an outfit like this get hired?

well, how did HR get through YC?

Re: HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

#239
post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fizzbuzz is the least of your concern if you do these type of interviews. the problem is that you will be asked a question which required several hours to produce an optimal solution, yet you are supposed to deliver this solution in under 5-10 minutes, and the only way to do that, is to repeatedly grind the solution and memorize it and then quickly reproduce it in the interview. as such, the style of interviewing is…

If you have a computer science degree, you are expected to know fundamental topics such as data structures and algorithms. As a professional software engineer, you are expected to be proficient at those skills to an extent in which you can demonstrate them in practice. The burden of verifying you acquired the skills associated with your education falls on the employer. Fizzbuzz is trivial and should not be a problem…

no, the burden falls on the college. that is the point, if the college is good, then you cannot graduate unless you mastered both theory and practice. and i am not talking about fizzbuzz, read my comment.
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