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Ask HN: Where do you store your backups?
My personal server hard drive crashed & burned a few days ago and, of course, I had no backup. Fortunately, nothing valuable was lost in the process, but still.

Anyway, I'm now working on improving my backup & restore strategy to avoid this kind of thing in the future, hence my question: where do you keep your backups? On physical hard drives? Dropbox/Drive? Simple mail attachments?

Thanks,
LCM built MASSBUS adapters for their PDP-10's, its probably possible. (to be clear, the ALTO was built in total from COTS parts, the disks are of a known type used on many other minicomputers, including I believe the DG NOVA)
Regardless of the semantics of how procrastination is defined, any behavior that affects your quality of life is one which is worth discussing with a professional to get actionable third party advice.
They haven't. The quote I gave is the total displaced population, "... of which 6.6 million are internally displaced within Syria, and over 4.8 million are refugees outside of Syria."

Only 5 million/18 million = 28% of the population has left the country.
Hi Matt! Good on you for doing this. The US Govt needs more smart citizens stepping up and getting involved instead of just criticizing.

And for the anti-military types out there, ask yourself if the world is a better place if decent citizens don't get involved with the US military.
She's a heroic pilot, not an intellectual.
It's not like AirBnb is advocating for affordable housing either.
Damn it, you would.

Consider this. Where I grew up there were birds around every summer that laid eggs. They need a certain temperature range. If it grows hotter or colder they need to migrate south/north.

What happens if the landscape north/south doesn't have any craggy mountains where these birds can build nest? It's all ocean, both northwards and southwards.

Ditto the fish the fishermen used to fish. In principle it can migrate a few kilometers, but the ocean is different a bit further north. Can't swim from the surface to the bottom.

Quite a lot of species get yanked hard by having to move a little. And when 99% of a some species birds disappear, that affects their predators, and it affects the other species preyed upon by the same predators. Before you know it, the grass changes because the grazing species do, and there are landslides where none used to be.

The house where I spent my first month might be at risk of a rock slide. The spot has been safe for a millenium, but might not be any more.

Or the rains flow off differently towards the rivers because of the vegetation changes, and you get droughts where none used to be, or flash floods.

Or, or, or... a few degrees of extra heat and there are a lot of things that can have a surprisingly large impact. We will need a lot of luck to avoid all of the badness.
When you go "full serverless", you still need a place to store data, backups, etc. And then with the high cost of bandwith (...) you may as well use the same service provider you use for your "services". Be it AWS or GCloud or Azure.

If you spin up servers to manage your database+storage needs, then you are no longer serverless, you are in a pretty nice hybrid - lowering somewhat your money costs maybe, but I'd still argue that the impact on ops of the "application servers" is negligible compared to what is required by everything else in the stack.
Railgun Physics (1999)
> all those other options were just way too slow to get the kind of performance required out of the hardware available at the time. The difference was simply too large to be ignored.

If you compare with Xerox PARC hardware not really, the major issue was the price to produce the type of architecture they were having.

As for safe systems programming, Burroughs was already doing it a decade early in computer hardware much weaker than a PDP-11.
It's unfortunate that the JWT encoding scheme of the signed data (non-normative JSON -> base64 -> concatenate with a dot) does not lend itself well to hash-chaining. JWTs could have been a great standard encoding for macaroons.

(disclaimer: I'm an author of that paper)
A similar approach are encrypted cookies. You can take data and sign it. The server can then check if the cookie data is correctly signed and accepts or rejects the data in the cookie. This approach also scales horizontally. I use it for a while now in go (http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/sessions). If you want you can also encrypt the expiry date into the secured cookie.
I don't think No Man's Sky will show a significantly better RoI, in the long run. Star Citizen is certainly racking up the bills.

We could even argue that AAA game studios using hand-modeled art assets instead of procedurally generated content is proof that hand-modelling is the "cheaper" route. Though most AAA game studios are using a hybrid approach and have some form of procedurally generated content in their pipeline, whether it's to create quests or to create the baseline environment on top of which bespoke content is added.

Projects are hard. Full stop.
Not only that, but I think there is reason to believe that AirBnB further stresses the housing market and adds additional fuel to the existing divide between the Haves and Have Nots by putting more rent monies into the hands of the Haves and creating more scarcity of housing for those looking for a long-term rental, not an alternative to a hotel.
I'm sorry, I was unaware of that guideline.

Here are some you might be unfamiliar with:

'When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."'

'Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link. If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (Not all users see flag links; there's a small karma threshold.)'

Thanks.
Their conclusion states "... confirming the importance of a large base of contributors to the success of open source software".

Also note that my questions are facetious and are my own. My apologies if that wasn't clear.

Overall, it's a good study of properties that popular repositories have. In terms of factors that impact the popularity, I found it lacking.
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Serious question: are there any opinionated frameworks that use JWT for session-like or session-replacing ways?

There was one was linked in this thread [1], but how did framework authors tackle this domain? Is everything discussed here entirely homegrown, ad-hoc? Is this something that every one of us has to read up on and re-implement every time?

[1] https://github.com/hharnisc/auth-service
By forcing us to change it could be an opportunity to build better working more modern cities.
As a Georgist I think the taxes you pay on land you derive immense value from but neither created or made valuable are far, far too low.
I have lived in Manhattan for a long time and it is very important to limit Airbnb for a number of reasons. First, people who live in apartment buildings do not want transients living there for personal safety and other reasons. We have doormen for a reason, part of which is to keep strangers out. Airbnb decreases the supply of housing and makes it more expensive for residents. How are either of these helpful?

Airbnb and its investors have no respect for New Yorkers who don't want these transients in our buildings. The know that New Yorkers don't want transients living in their buildings and they know we have a housing shortage yet they make things worse.

In cities like NYC what Airbnb needs to do is to pivot and build their own hotels under the Airbnb brand and rent them out at much lower costs than the outrageous rates of "name brand" hotels. Airbnb has a huge valuation and can afford to build these hotels and make a profit, while not impinging on the local housing supply and safety of New Yorkers.

Startups like Uber are welcomed because they help New Yorkers and visitors by making the supply of taxis and taxi-like vehicles * more available and safe . Airbnb makes the housing market less available and less safe *.
More than a hundred millions of people stuck in cold climate. And it's about quality of life, not just "expense on heating".

And that's what they get for no effort. Do you seriously expect them to show effort for bringing their climate back to worse?

Do you seriously think that any minority should be screwed over just because a larger set of people might benefit from this?
For example, imagine they find a deposit of fertilizer on some tropical island. A lot of people could benefit from that fertilizer (and especially the few involved in this operation), should we just confiscate the island? After all, there's just a few thousands of inhabitants, who can be easily moved to a camp in some desert.
France has a lot of things that Silicon Valley will likely never have, no matter what the size of its economy, not everything can be measured in money.

Europe doesn't have a Silicon Valley because every nation would want it to be in their backyard. But even if the concentration isn't there and the number of exits > $1B isn't as large (or the number of $1B and up companies isn't as large) we have plenty of solid performers.
Nah, if Tibetan Buddhism is willing to reform itself, or reforms under pressure (like Catholics did in the face of Protestant), it will still be there for thousands of years. In that land, it is just hard not to believe in something supernatural.

On the other hand, theocracy is never a good thing. Separation of state and religion is.
All it shows is how unequal the US states are in terms of population. California has the biggest economy simply because it has the most people.
Technically, I don't think they're doing a unique credit card # for every transaction, it's just per retailer.
No joke. The 2008 Great Lakes protection compac provides the Great Lakes States authority over the water and neighboring states have no say in it. The Colorado river compac deal similarly with Mexico and several states. And, just like the Great Lakes and Colorado do supply water outside their boundaries, Israel's water authority does so for the West Bank and Gaza. In fact, Israel is working with Gaza on a desalinization plant. Water conversation is not an Israel-Palestine issue ... its a global issue. The bottom line is that Tibet != Palestine and China != Israel.
Google’s DeepMind AI has learned to play a game called ant soccer
Of course you can empathize better with the refugees, most of us can. And so it's the job of the politicians to make sure a balance is struck.

But you are doing it again. Assuming the problem is mostly a refugee problem. It's not it's a migration problem, thats the one thats hard to solve and which can't be solved by doing what sweden and germany did.

Furthermore and as mentioned elsewhere. Many of these people are those with most resources, otherwise they wouldn't be able to actually make it so far. The real refugees, those who can't get away, them we are leaving with less resources because we end up spending money on those who come to the various european countries.
Looks absolutely gorgeous in the screenshots.

A small wish is that the app will use the apple ID rather than facebook ID. I don't have a facebook ID and I don't want one either.
Not disagreeing on anything, just clarifying that the power plant may or may not produce carbon.
You do as least recognize that under our current system land ownership is a long way away from being a free market path? The government subsidizes and insures a large portion of lending for home ownership. Also large tax breaks are typically given for new large scale construction. On top of that transportation to and from that land is provided by the government as well as government supplied protection for that property. Not to mention government supplied utilities for that property to access resources such as water and electricity.

I definitely not trying to get into a base line discussion about libertarian property rights ideas. But at least to help you understand what we have right now is a long long way from individual free and clear property ownership of land. Maybe before we start letting people do whatever they want with what you feel like is solely their land we need to address the massive amount of government supplied resources that land owner is currently enjoying.
Excellent show, and an even better series of hard sci-fi books to back it. I've never read a sci-fi book/series that depicts realistic high-g travel before The Expanse.
I would not argue that it works in all cases, my only point was that open source is very compatible with capitalism and lots of companies find it very profitable to go open and free source.

> I suspect it's a negotiating tactic.

Of course it is!
I had the same problem asking my Echo to play songs. Half of the songs I asked the Echo to play weren't recognized so I gave up. Amazon is very good at improving their services very rapidly so I do think there is hope, but it seems like streaming services are marketing more than just music. Services are now differentiating by artists, media content, and events. If Amazon can tackle all of those areas, they will be in a good position, but the market seems to already be crowded with Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music.
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AirBnB could solve these problems in 1 second by limiting it to 1 rental per account. The problem isn't someone renting out their full apartment, it's the professional operation of apartments on AirBnB by firms, sometimes very large firms, and enterprising individuals. They rent a bunch of units full time, taking significant real estate from would-be renters.
> The authors seem well aware of marketing, calling the
> fastest growth cluster "viral"

Viral is a description of rate of growth. It makes no statement about the reason for the growth, so much of the viral growth may have been due to people searching GitHub for keywords that would describe a solution to the problem they're having. I know that's what I do.
> A single US state has a larger economy than the vast majority of nations. It's pretty impressive, but it isn't really news.

California's economy is impressive, but this comparison doesn't really show that. California has a larger population than all but ~15% of the world's nations[0]. Having a GDP larger than 50% of them isn't surprising.

At least 20 US states have a GDP per-capita greater than almost any other country in the world, except for a couple of incredibly tiny countries like Liechtenstein[1], and some countries with massive oil reserves (Qatar, Norway, UAE, etc.). On a per-capita basis, California ranks higher than Switzerland, only tenth in the US.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...

[1] 'per capita' is much less meaningful as a metric when there are several orders of magnitude difference between the denominators, and Liechtenstein has the population of what would be considered a medium-sized town in other countries.
As we all get older, I think it's understandable for some people to be frustrated by waves of what JWZ called (on one occasion) "anklebiters" arriving from HN. DDOS or not.

Wikipedia has an objective and some structure, whereas HN is, for all its uniqueness and value, not an organized activity.
I am 100% sure all his revenue is from ads. Every free product we've released in 7 years, including Paper Toss with 100 mil+ downloads, has made next to nothing from a "no-ads" in-app purchase. Full screen incentivized video ads however are worth a lot now with companies like Supercell spending millions a day on them.
So, in daily life there will be fewer natural animals? I don't see that many animals in daily life as is though...

Are wild animals necessary for daily!y life?

I've already moved a few times in my life. Moving once more is not that frightening to me.
U.S needs the separation of state and corporation.
Well, for now, yes- but things like this tend to get easier as new techniques are perfected and more powerful tools are developed, whereas building a thousand art assets by hand will remain time-consuming indefinitely.
Considering the popularity of JS and Ruby as a first language for many new programmers, I could see the argument that it would be useful in the sense of getting them to understand basic functional concepts in a more familiar environment.

Although, I agree with you: a Lisp (probably Racket or Scheme) is a much better bet for learning the functional style.
There is only one Silicon Valley: the one in California. Nowhere else in the United States - or the world - has quite the unique mix of red-blooded capitalism, concentrated wealth, and a culture of innovation.

"Silicon Alley" (New York), "silicon roundabout" (London), and so on are simply natural, technologically focused extensions of the existing economies in those areas.

If you want to create a Silicon Valley in Europe, it will take decades until it can compare to Northern California.
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I was not aware making true statements were now "Flameware-style"

I guess Orwell was right In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I'm sorry but if you purposely haven't opted for 2 Auth, then Google asking for a similar thing when they have a doubt is not shadowy. It's definitely in the real of needed. Do you realize what a Google account / identity means on today's Web?
I enjoyed the game, but it became extremely boring after reaching the #1 spot on a leaderboard. I probably played for 30 minutes before deleting the app. Kudos to the developer for his success though.
Business wants to maximize profit. It supports justice and fairness to the extent that they aid the production of profit and absolutely no further.

A just legal system may be imposed upon businesses, but the desire of each business is to transform that system into one where it receives maximum benefit for minimum expenditure.

Your example isn't desirable because it maximizes expenditure, not because it minimizes justice.
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I use ZFS running on a local file server with weekly snapshots, and also upload a selection of the most important stuff to an S3 bucket. (I recommend encrypting it before uploading it including metadata.) Redundant self healing file systems have been a thing for a while. Try a cluster of smaller drives to replace your old one. Replacing a crashed disk should be only a minor annoyance rather than a disaster.
You're right, of course, but it's not binary (either you're attached or you're detached). Instead, the idea is to become attached to subtler (read: causing more lasting happiness) aspects of life, as a consequence of which one becomes detached from the grosser (read: causing more fleeting happiness) aspects. This moving in stages applies on physical, emotional and intellectual levels.

Jumping to absolute detachment is not really possible.
Thanks for the feedback! The ErgoDox is indeed one that's on my todo list =), along with the unicomp, ultimate hacking keyboard and a few others.
PG's Tweet is pretty off-base and disingenuous. He makes it seem like AirBNB is being persecuted and that there are no legitimate grievances with the way AirBNB is negatively impacting local communities and housing markets.

The city of Santa Monica banned certain short-term AirBNB rentals last year and remains one of the hottest tech hubs in the country: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/13/406587575/...

Kudos to NY lawmakers for taking this step.
I didn't say we should give it up. My point is people's attitude is complete carelessness.
I'll second eschaton's comment about preserving these old documents. Al Kossow has already preserved a lot of Alto documents at bitsavers [1] and I've found them extraordinarily useful for understanding how the Alto works.

[1] The Alto docs are at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/alto/ - I recommend the hardware reference (AltoHWRef.part1.pdf ) and the schematics (schematics/)
The Mesa manual mentioned earlier is at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/mesa/5.0_1979/documentation/C...
One problem is that if you live in an apartment building where someone is renting out their apartment using AirBnB, your safety is now decreased as non-tenants now have access to the building where they wouldn't have had it before.
Absolutely not true at least from France. They severely insist you provide one, but if not they can Auth you from another mail address.
"1. Re-authenticate from the browser every hour and store a new JWT token, which is kind of an awful user experience"

The old token can be used to request a new token with an extended expiration, before it timesout. This can easily happen behind the scenes, so it does not affect the user experience at all. The real problem is that you cannot enforce logouts.

If you just accept that you cannot 100% enforce logouts and then it works fine. A logout is performed by the client side code deleting the token. There is no way of knowing that all copies of the token were really deleted. It is imperative that HTTPS is used so that the token cannot be easily stolen.

You could also bind the token to a specific IP but this would fail for devices with dynamic IPs that could change at any time.
the EU requires websites that use _any_ kind of local storage to display a conformation message on how the storage will be used to track the user. It is not specific to cookies.
Pretty sure the folks of the failed N. American colonies might beg to differ [0]. The earliest settlers experienced food shortages, as their crops either failed or were in appropriate for where they landed and were under attack from folks who had issues with them being there.

Actually, considering the absence of folks already living there, Mars is kind of a colonists dream in terms of being able to control the vast majority of the variables. Sure things will still go wrong and people will still die, but in terms of liberating ourselves from our 3rd rock from the sun, colonizing Mars will stand as one of the pivotal moments in Earth life-history, not just human history.

0: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/exploratio...
Granted, this is basically how wildfires are extinguished, though more trees/brush than houses.
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>While we're at it, there could be a startup for this.. disrupting the disrupters

This isn't as crazy as it sounds. "Hello, mid-size municipality! If you implement our easily-tailored boilerplate-legalese bylaw suite, our specially trained twentysomethings will provide same-day firing solutions to your bylaw officers for the likes of Uber, AirBnB, Lyft, wind turbines, factory farms, people who park in the bike lane, and much more!"