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You can do the SEO though. There's not much to it. Basically you just email people and ask them to link to you, or if they really want to do you a favor, link with the keywords "secure online backups" or whatever phrase you want to target.
The blog post specifically mentions tarsnap in a list of applications that he then dismisses (they don't "just work").

You might disagree, but if you do, please say why.
http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ would seem to fit his needs for all but the bare-metal restore.

But it's unclear whether he requires an online (offsite) solution or not. For local backup, Time Machine works fine for all but restoring hard links, fifos and devices, which may not matter in his case. You just have to remember to plug in your USB drive, or be near your Time Capsule pretty often.
I just bought a TimeMachine here since my whole house is now Mac and it finally seemed worth it. The initial set-up was a bit hairy: my wife's machine got caught in some sort of bad loop and every time we tried to restart her initial backup, it grew. First it was going to be 45 GB. When that failed and died, the next try was 90GB. We killed that, messed with a few things, tried again, and sure enough it was now going to be 135. Ugly.

Having said that, after wiping the TimeMachine and starting from scratch, everything has been perfect. And obviously all the backups after the initial one are very small and quite fast. So I suppose I would give it a B-.
Scoble's text is different from what the Ford guy says. Ford doesn't automatically hit the brakes, only preps them and when you hit the brakes, it automatically applies them 100%. Prius automatically applies the brakes and Scoble says he no longer instinctively hits them himself. I wonder if that loss of instinct is worth the benefit.
From the end of the article:

It is possible to change the CPUID of AMD processors by using the AMD virtualization instructions. I hope that somebody will volunteer to make a program for this purpose. This will make it easy for anybody to check if their benchmark is fair and to improve the performance of software compiled with the Intel compiler on AMD processors.
You went to a friend. Unless this person is an experienced designer of commercial websites, that doesn't sound like the right approach.

I went to a talented web designer who understands my vision. I think understanding my vision is important -- otherwise I'm likely to pay $$$ only to be presented with a website which I hate and don't want to use.
Get feedback on a desktop application todo list on a website? That feedback would be next to useless without at least a working prototype to try.
and/or nothing different than a link aggregator like the one we are using now.
The goal is to minimize the force of a collision not to stop 10 feet behind the car in front of you. As a collision avoidance system, if you can stop with a reasonable distance from the car it's not going to start and if the other car is not stopping as fast as expected then it can relax some.
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how does that work if you're not right next to the shoulder?
Minimum viable product of a desktop application is not a website describing what your application will do.
Great for a minimalist app, but I have found a bug already. I created one todo for today, then created another and immediately clicked the Move to Someday button. The Today todos all vanished except for one I had created earlier.
Clicking on New Todo restored the lost items.
The problem IMHO is that the encryption is just that -- a "claim". You can't access your data on their servers, so you can't verify it. You can use your own password, but there's no way to verify it's being used. Backblaze's blog http://tr.im/BPfR for instance says that "IT" has access to my data without knowing my password.
I'll be bold: You solved the backup problem, now the number one hinderance to your growth is solving the user experience problem.

I agree 100% -- and this was exactly my intention. I wanted to make sure that I had a solid backup system in place before I made it easy to use, because I hear far too many nightmare stories about backup software which is the opposite way around -- easy to use, but doesn't actually work.

A GUI will happen. Sample cron jobs for automating backups will happen. A web interface... well, that might happen, but really it needs to be built in to something like virtualmin.
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They used could save not will save for that vary same reason. Most likely the net effect would be much like seat belts which transform many fatal accidents into non fatal accidents and many non fatal accidents into non accidents.

PS: Unlike airbags seat belts do help avoid accidents. But, it's rare to see people talk about that outside of drivers education.
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I just saw a Top Gear episode where they tested the last Mercedes S which does just this. (talk about serendipity and having new ideas!)
I agree that is part of the issue, many customers don't care. I think there is another relavent point.

The video of the Ford guy illustrates how companies are competing on improving this tech. If it were mandated, might that be like forcing commoditization? Companies with inferior tech would push it out too soon. There would be less competition because customers would accept the minimal and it would be harder for companies to differentiate. As opposed to now: forward-looking customers with the money can look for the best system which pushes the tech forward.
Easy if you have a tank of hydrogen and a few stars.
Testing a HN bug, please ignore this comment.
In many cases you're better off trying to steer around the collision than (or in addition to) stopping short of it. I've seen a few crashes where people could have just steered onto the shoulder or median to avoid the crash but it seems that they just applied the brakes and hoped for the best.

I don't think driver's education in the USA teaches emergency maneuvering much. How is it elsewhere?
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There was one guy who was strung up as a leaker ten years ago. Don't remember his name, but it was a big deal.

AMD's culture is just different than Apple's. For one, there are no "secret teams" like iPhone, iTablet, etc. (well, at least none that I knew about). For another, developers have real autonomy to make business decisions, something that would never happen at Apple. For instance, I, a lowly intern, redeployed software to the production line during an emergency. If something went wrong, chips would actually stop rolling out of the factory. I would imagine normal (non-senior) Apple engineers don't have that kind of autonomy.

The other major difference, which perhaps you caught above, is that AMD actually manufactures their own stuff. So, not only are there US engineers, but engineers overseas in the plants that AMD owns, engineers in Dresden, etc. Not to say that foreign engineers are somehow bad, but it is a lot harder to control leaks when you have engineers working literally 24/7 all around the world. And at the scale that you're making your own stuff, there are just more people than there are at Apple, and things are way harder to control. It's like herding cats.
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The point does not stand alone, you are right. drewcrawford said "If they try to specialize (say, servers, or notebooks), Intel will just sell that segment at a loss"

That's the point & that is arguably anticompetitive. IE, they are small and they have to spread wide to avoid being open to predatory pricing.
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Just to put in context, a link that was here last week or so about the Automation Paradox:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/automated-to-dea...

Will there be a compromise between traditional crash deaths and safety systems induced deaths ?

Not to dismiss the new systems, I'm an optimistic by nature.
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Yes, Twitter has passed the "next big thing" torch over to Foursquare.
Thanks for a nice counter-description to the linked topic. This is probably one of the more cogent arguments I've ever heard in support of Twitter.
Update: The parser is generating a correct AST. I mean, not that anyone really cares, but I am getting some work done, which is nice.
No, you can't take a BSD-licensed program and make it non-free. What you can do is use it as rev 1.0 of a commercial closed-source project and dump resources into improving the closed fork and capturing share from the original code.

What GPL prevents that BSD doesn't is closed forks. Obviously some people don't care about closed forks --- some people may even like them on principle --- or nobody would BSD-license anything.
You can do the SEO though. There's not much to it.

Huh. Really, that's it? I thought SEO was all about "optimizing" website text to include keywords multiple times and stuff like that.
Wouldn't the ideal step be to harmonize the radar/lidar technology and have a system enabled that forces a safe driving zone. It's all too common on highways that vehicles can't stop within a safe distance if the vehicle in front of it stops, which leads to 5 vehicle pile ups.

You'd only need a moderate percentage of vehicles with the radar/lidar technology to keep a highway reasonably spaced. EG if you're tailgating, your vehicle will brake, if someone is tailgating you it will speed you up (within the speed limit) to get you to a safe distance, or (when capable) shift you safely into a different lane when you're in cruise.

Eventually you could simply have vehicles communicate, so when the guy in front of me brakes, my vehicle gets instructed that it's approaching a decelerating object. It'll be small 'safety' steps that will eventually remove human error from vehicle accidents.
The systems here have a time gap too but it was not sufficient in this case. I think it's at most 1-2 seconds here.

I understand that argument but I am of the school of thought that the machine should not make decisions that can impact my safety unless it is an emergency. shaving off a few seconds on my commute is not what I would call a much of a benefit when there is a substantial possible downside.
One of the advantages (and disadvantages) to CrashPlan, for service providers, is that it allows you to run their server software on your own infrastructure.

But yes, I agree with you otherwise. I'd much rather trust cperciva with data, but unfortunately his system lacks some critical features for our uses.
I thought he meant Euclid's Elements - now that's an awesome book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclids_Elements (the link doesn't work because HN removes the apostrophe from hyperlinks for some reason)
Seems that I've read about studies that show that people have a certain, nearly unconscious risk tolerance. For example, ABS and all-wheel-drive made driving in the snow and ice easier, so people drive a bit faster or more aggressively until they reach their previous risk tolerance level. Thus the potential safety benefit is not realized in actuality. In fact, if people overestimate the added safety of the new technology, they may be more likely to have an accident than without it. Witness the common sight of four-wheel-drive vehicles spun off the road in a snowstorm.
If you're using the complexity of your VCS to hinder team communication and support cowboy coding, then you have bigger problems.

This is a blub attitude plain and simple.
Ask HN: Publish Startup Revenue Numbers?
I've seen a number of startup and private companies lately participate in the process of posting their revenue and profit numbers for their businesses. I sense that reason these organizations publish their revenue and profit numbers to emphasize their success - and I enjoy reading these postings and outlines.

In my case, I run a rather large online community that generates revenue from the "Fremium" model in addition to license revenue, advertising, and other sources.

So, my question to the HN community is: What advantages and disadvantages do you see in publishing this information to your community and the world? Are you concerned that some folks may view this information in a negative light? Would you expect an uptick in conversions to paid models when revenue numbers show that "others are doing it?"

In my case, I've always held my revenue and profit numbers close, but I'm curious as to other's experiences and concerns.

Thanks,
The HN headline was good, the actual headline was "Long arm of law reaches into World of Warcraft" which is sensationalist, and untrue.
I was expecting this to be a piece on the bizarre screen resolutions that have appeared over the years and why they haven't caught on. Unfortunately it was some boring BS about new years resolutions.
The problem with these sorts of services is that they require finicky clientside software.

The problem with real "storage" services (S3, Rackspace, etc.) is that they're ridiculously expensive--on the order of "buy a new backup drive every few months" expensive. Plus there's no way to ship drives to them or have them ship drives to you in an emergency.

I'd love to colocate a Backblaze pod in a datacenter and just rsync a few TB up to it. That way I can handle my own xattrs, my own bare metal, and not worry about finicky client software. Problem: $8k or so is way outside my backup budget...

Yeah, I know I could just colocate a $500 NAS, but it seems to wasteful to have so much CPU, power, etc., just for one backup.

If only we could round up a few hundred HNers to split a Backblaze pod...
This is a tough one to call. If intent generators like Gizmodo were offered better affiliate-based deals then their impartiality would be compromised which would damage the integrity of the business itself.
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my guess is lasers, they already check to alert you when you have cars in your blind spot, so it most likely checks those before moving you over.
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I can guarantee that if a smart phone has a twitter client, it most certainly has an RSS reader. Furthermore, I can guarantee that many smartphones that do not have a twitter client have an RSS reader.

m.google.com/reader
I don't get his definition of "Just work" though. First he says that For Macs, there’s Time Machine, BackBlaze, Mozy, and Carbonite. But none of them seem to just work.

Time machine has got to be the easiest backup software I have used. That is the definition of just work in my book. Tarsnap looks cool but it is command line only so I can see why he dismissed it for a "just work" solution.

Edit: OK I went back and read his old article where he defines just work and Time machine does not "Just work" according to his definition.
My experience on x64 has been that Sun is usually competitive with GCC/ICC, but not clearly better. Sun's C99 compiler does really atrocious things with SSE intrinsics, strange since their C++ compiler handles intrinsics almost as well as GCC/ICC. Note that they also work fine on Linux.
I don't buy it. If you need a radar to tell you you're about to crash, you're probably not paying attention properly.

We should tighten up driving tests. Driving shouldn't be a right, it should be something only competent attentive people can do.

It'd be interesting to know stats on Manual vs Automatic car accident rates. I'd guess that Automatics are involved in more accidents since the drivers are probably paying less attention. Similarly cruise control.
It looks like a very high quality book for only $20, according to Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1579128149?ie=UTF8&tag=...
I have been using http://www.jungledisk.com (acquired by Rackspace over a year back). You pay only for the storage you need (I prefer that over unlimited backup services), you can choose Amazon s3 or Rackspace cloudfiles for storage, client software available on all three platforms works fine and you can encrypt the data with your own passphrase.
The good news is, most services now (claim to) offer encryption as part of their basic package.

Yet they still make n00b mistakes like "we recommend that you use the built-in encryption key (which everybody who downloads the client software has access to)". And when they don't announce their mistakes publicly, they still don't provide enough technical details (e.g., cipher block mode) to confirm that they're not making dumb mistakes behind the scenes. (It doesn't help when people refuse to make source code available, of course.)
It's not that you need it to tell you that, it's that the human brain, even when focused, is relatively slow to respond. Not to mention many people have a panic impulse that causes them to yell first and then step on the brakes. In certain situations where a half second can mean the difference between death and a bruised knee, it's pretty impressive stuff.
Yeah, SEO consultants pretend there is a lot of voodoo to it, which is only true if you're doing heavy affiliate marketing stuff. In your case, you just need to give Google the info it needs to appropriately rank your site via inbound links.

That doesn't hurt, but I think that only really works for less competitive keyword phrases. SEO is mostly just best practices. Some HN member posted their site http://360voltage.com/ here, it will point out where your site is not following SEO best practices. If you can get 5 or 10 or 20 good links to your site, especially from weighty BSD domains, it should go a long towards improving your search engine rankings.

Another thing you can do is a yahoo search for your competitors, say site:mozy.com and then look at their inbound links and think about how you can get similar links.

As a start, how come you haven't been on Techcrunch yet? Your narrative should play well there.
GPS combined with various road / traffic sensors. VW has a system that can drive itself all the way to a hospital (or anywhere really) in city traffic. They're going to trial some of these systems in Germany this year. Because of more stringent liability laws in the US you won't see it in America any time soon though.
I wish they had a graph showing the growth by year of IPv4 usage and how that compares to the amount of space available with IPv6.

Edit #1: I found one interesting comparison graph:

http://www.caida.org/research/topology/as_core_network/pics/...

Edit #2: Another interesting map which has a "You are here" marker:

http://icicle.dylex.net/~ipmap/

And a presentation with a good number of graphs showing demand and growth over the past 5-10 years.

http://www.potaroo.net/presentations/2006-06-28-ipv4.pdf
I can think of five friends who have gotten it, and those are only the ones I know of.

According to Wikipedia, "the ratio of Lyme disease infection is 7.9 cases for every 100,000 persons". So either you have a staggering number of friends, live in some kind of hot zone ground zero for the disease, or there's some other factor at work.

any doctor who heard the list of shooter's symtoms and doesn't instantly think lyme is incompetent

You talk like Lyme is a solved problem. I do not believe this to be the case. There is a lot of controversy over the condition and it is one of those diseases that people seize upon to explain symptoms they believe themselves to suffer, regardless of medical fact.

Have a read of this: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/17/magazine/17LYMEDISEASE.htm...
He owns the ability to say "no" to anyone who wants a closed source license.
FWIW, Time Machine can actually be set up to do remote backups. You can even (p)re-configure the disk image if you want to limit the size, in case you don't want to partition your disk. I'll grant that it's a bit of a pain over the 3-click built-in solution, but it's what I'm using these days.

Enabling network backups: http://rajeev.name/blog/2007/11/03/time-machine-with-smb-and...

Limiting backup sizes: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200711080201215...
This is a good point. But I've followed conference blogs before as well, and got more information content than what I could get out of a tweet (and got real-time updates via RSS).
Marino and Reiss will present their findings at a conference in San Diego, California, next month, concluding that the new evidence about dolphin intelligence makes it morally repugnant to mistreat them.

It is morally repugnant to mistreat animals regardless of the intelligence of the animal and being a scientist has nothing to do with making such a judgment, since it is not a scientific judgment but an ethical one. Thus, the new-found evidence discussed in the article serves only to dramatize something these scientists want because of their philosophical predispositions, not because of their special knowledge as scientists. If the logic suggested in the article were true, the converse might be up for consideration as well (e.g., that we can be cruel to deer because they are so dumb).

Science and advocacy are distinct and should be kept that way. There is nothing wrong with scientists acting as advocates but, when they do so, their views as advocates should normally carry no more weight than do those of others.
Are dolphins intelligent in a different way than chimps?

This is an example of somewhat parallel evolution after all.
The article is interesting and has lots of actual facts about dolphin neurology that kept me reading.

I could do without the political crusade though.
I assert that Asian parents' obsessive emphasis on grades, test scores, and college rankings originate from their upbringing in a poor, oppressive, and politically-unstable third-world society.

Asia is not China and China is not Asia.
This is pretty sweet!. DTrace support was unofficially there for sometime now (or you could always use FBT), but this makes it much easier for people who do not want to patch/compile.
I've always admired Valve redefining the entire concept of space-time with Valve Time :) (oh, and for the other stuff too).

(As an aside: I love the narrators pronunciation of "id software" - is that common in the states? [we would pronounce it very differently here and I didnt expect it!])
I would say this is a big one. I'm capable of compiling it myself, but honestly, for trying something out that's not very high on my to do list (since I have a workable solution of my own), the barrier to trial needs to be very low.
The introduction of such systems (probably expensive at first) would also be a great opportunity to switch from car ownership to widespread car rental (ala zipcar).
Sure but that's why you pay attention and drive properly, and look out for any dangers/issues.

The best way to cut down the number of accidents is to get rid of all the crazy bad drivers, rather than any sort of technology IMHO.
Ford is really doing a phenomenal job recently, doing its homework and engineering to try and get the company back on track. 5 years ago, I would have said they were 10-15 years behind an equivalent Japanese car. Now I think they they are only 3-5 years.

Their recent offerings are really very impressive. I'd love to see Ford be a benchmark for American car companies as well as imports. They aren't quite there yet, but their progress is amazing.
Back in time + sshfs + cron job is working pretty well for me.