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Looks really good. I am pleased more projects are adding Google Cloud Drive support now. What I really want to do is:

- create documents on my Mac which autosync to Cloud Drive in encrypted format (this should tick that box)

- be able to access said documents on any device including iOS, which transparently handles the encryption

The use case is I now scan all my documents into PDF format, but keeping them secure and accessing them on iOS seem to be almost mutually exclusive.

I looked at some other solutions for this which had their own iOS app and security mechanism (Boxcryptor mainly) and I didn't like it - I just didn't feel in control. And I got nervous about what happens if Boxcryptor goes under; I don't want to rely on them keeping their app up-to-date to read my documents.

I know Apple will never allow it but wouldn't it be nice to be able to mount your own network drive which all apps could access.
WW3 SMART METERS ALL OVER WORLD CATCH FIRE AS ALIENS FEED OFF THEM M
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I wonder if it makes sense to limit fees for expert testimony.
Not an Elon maniac here or familiar with your podcast but it might be interesting to ask what he considers his biggest strength and biggest weakness. I rarely hear this asked of successful people.
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Isn't the mentality more to do with insecure sites having dated websites with misleading links etc. Unless its a known company a dated/poor website often flags warnings for me about security, support for the product and more.
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Very few non-profit organizations are "funded by taxpayers". They are not government agencies but corporations not very different from for-profit ones except that they don't make a profit (although as mentioned, they can certainly pay their employees quite well). Non-profits can be funded in a variety of ways, from private donations (as with most charities), or even by selling products or services (so long as they don't make a profit, as many scientific societies do)
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This quote and other ones will never forgotten
"You get nothing! You lose! Good day,sir!”
Hear hear. The two times my company has used it were just for that reason. In both cases, it was a clear win for both the individual and the company, because we just couldn't find a match in the US.

I am 100%, in theory, for this legislation, even though I haven't read it and fear what will be added to it or changed in it.
Yes but... Richmond.
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It's a good thing Congress makes federal laws and not the President then.
> Will this work with any remote host over SSH ?

No. Quoting from notes.txt [0],

Ideas

* support
* rsync over ssh

[0] https://github.com/ncw/rclone/blob/master/notes.txt#L25
I'm guessing this submission was prompted by yesterdays reddit thread "The greatest chase sequence in history", which linked to the same video [1].

In the thread you'll find lots of links to more modern chase scenes that are apparently inspired by or modelled on Wallace and Gromit.

Other highlights from that thread includes a link to a video where Adam Savage (of Myth Busters fame) interviews some of the people who makes puppets and props for Aardman and they discuss the geeky details [2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/50aupi/the_greatest...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3pPfq6hjLA
To be fair we've ingested a fair amount of python 2.7 research code for our Python 3 codebase and the print statements are the quickest of fixes. There are rarer actual gotchas, but 2to3 catches a fair number of them. We only switched for the machine learning project I'm working on right now as an experiment, but it's surprising how smoothly it's gone.
In the US, depriving someone of a right is a legal process. If someone has been adjudicated mentally incompetent, they cannot legally own a gun.
In the US, the tobacco industry was litigated against both by states and by private individuals until the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement [1] of 1998.

Interestingly, a widow of a smoker suing the tobacco companies is the plot of the 1996 John Grisham novel 'The Runaway Jury'. When it was made into a movie in 2003, the script was adapted to a widow suing gunmakers after a workplace shooting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...
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If you're using a password manager, that's a non-issue. And until we have something better than passwords, you really should be using one.
Comments like this make the thread even worse, so please don't post them. Instead, when you see an egregious comment, you can flag it by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag'. (There's a small karma threshold, currently 30, before you can do this.) Moderators review these flags and take action based on them.
Also, if you use Chrome, you're probably already using QUIC. Go to chrome://net-internals/#quic to see for yourself.
Is that really the case? I can't think of any reason why a heroin addict would be harmful to others, whereas people who drink alcohol tend to drive and kill/injure others. Indeed, if a heroin addict has clean needles, safe place to inject, and a safe supply of heroin, (close to zero mortality in Vancouver Safe Injection sites) then it's relatively benign substance, other than addictive component.

I bet if you put one alcoholic against one heroin addict, more damage across almost every spectrum than the heroin addict.
Packaging industry urges EU to reinforce circular economy proposals
Ok, thanks for pointing this out. It seems that I'm remembering this wrong. The actual title, Hitler bestowed on him was that of "Professor" which he allowed to be used by his underlings frequently up until he got Operation Paperclip'ed to America and people started asking questions.
Yes, I suppose rsync might be a good protocol for "rsync for cloud storage" to support.

That's a good feature request.
I use Fastmail, which provides very nice wildcard aliasing under a domain. *@mydomain goes to a single inbox. I can also create specific aliases such as foo@mydomain.
My passwords are synced through WiFi on my local network, but thanks for your concern.
The Economist had a thoughtful, provocative article arguing against the charitable tax break. It's here: http://www.economist.com/node/21556570
Gun manufacturers do hold liability - for defects in their products, for negligence, for breaking the law in the course of selling their products, etc.
That point sounds like a tautology.
Just to be clear, there is no support for the deeply discounted borg/attic accounts at rsync.net.

Regular rsync.net accounts have full, unlimited support provided by a US-based engineer. As in, an honest to god unix engineer. Sometimes, but rarely, me.
New elephant study shows catastrophic decline in Africa
There are many, many great charities that would suffer greatly from your simplistic solution.

As a middle-classer giving >10% of income to charity, it's helpful to not have that be taxed and enables more to go to the charities.

A more reasonable solution would be a cap on the total amount able to be a tax break. This would prevent the mega-rich from creating fancy tax-avoidance schemes, while enabling the charities and regular folks to procede as usual.

Also, DAF's are a really bad idea for receiving tax breaks, as the article points out.
The point in which a rower is at in the stroke when they cross the finish line can have a hugely outsized influence on the result. During the catch, the boat momentarily slows down while the blades enter the water, and then it surges forward during the drive. This is exaggerated even more than it is in swimming and makes a huge difference in these kind of close finishes. Nothing to do with fairness, but in a close race there is a lot of luck as to where you are in the stroke when you finish.

I watched this race live and it was frustrating to not know the outcome - I thought Damir had won. I would have liked to see them receive a tie. Rowing governing body should adjust this to match swimming where they measure down to 1/100th of finish time and use that as the only determinant rather than examining the much more precise photo finish. So many other things are not as precise over a 2000m course in variable water conditions - this isn't a 100m dash that's over in 10 seconds.
> please get the github version as the download on the website is quite different

Both the website and github seem to feature the same release (v1.33 as of now):

http://rclone.org/downloads/

https://github.com/ncw/rclone/releases/latest
Black Widows are primarily neurotoxic. They don't cause a lot of hemolytic tissue damage at first and so the bite itself might not be noticable and the bite wound might just look like mosquito bites. And the onset of the venom takes hours. So you might not know you've been bitten until hours later when you go from flulike symptoms to freaking full on insane pain all over. And then all of your organs fail.
So a major complication of venomous bites is that your window to get to a medical facility can be notably decreased.
BT Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Valve
I was purposefully vague :)

I'm very, very pro-gun.
A Look at a Possible Breakthrough Discovery in Bioplastics
> Ph.D. but somehow had one bestowed as a gift by Hitler seems to be without basis.

Alright, thanks for researching this. The actual title that I was thinking of is "Professor". Hitler always called him "Prof Von Braun" even though he was never a tenured professor.
Is this the article you are referencing?

http://www.feld.com/archives/2011/10/be-on-fire.html

Cause that picture is now my new wallpaper...

Also it sounds like you have a similar path to mine. Launch stuff, fail, launch again stop mid way when no traction, launch, fail.

Mind if I ask what you are doing that having 5 clients is all you need to be self-sufficient?
You gotta get out of wherever you're at. There are tons of 9-4 dev jobs in the F500 where it's easy to stand above your peers without working too hard. The benefits can be nice too.
I woke up one day and realized that if I had to spend another day commuting for nearly 2 hours a day to sit in an office that I hated, I would lose my mind. So I quit and found a remote job. There are lots of remote companies out there, find one
I'm looking at GCS syncing solutions right now - was there a specific point that made you choose this tool over gsutil's builtin rsync feature?
I'd be interested to hear more about your bite experience. Did you eventually make it to a hospital? Did you take the anti-venin? What did the symptoms feel like?
Not sure about F-Secure specifically but Netflix has recently been blocking DNS and VPN region-switching.
Rio Olympics Take the Gold for 540gb/sec Sustained DDoS Attacks
Gotcha, so it's the NIC dropping the packets, but really it's because the host machine fails to process them in time.
Couldn't this work as a browser extension instead?
Does anyone know if rclone preserves Linux File Permissions regardless of the cloud storage?

It's not in the feature list and my guess is that this would be hard to implement if you can't take assumptions of the underlying file system.
I was already doing some side-project while employed and my contract was not renewed.

I took a 30% cut on my unemployment benefits so I had no obligation to find work for 6 months. After unemployment benefits ended, I tried to find a bit of investment and also did a KS. Both failed, so I started to eat a retirement plan I still had.

Then I applied for another 3.5 months employment benefits ( was my right ), and I simulated trying to find work.

Then it got really ugly and did some parttime barista work. Sold some belongings.

Then the product got traction: https://mecoffee.nl
Why yes they can. But, is it in their best interest to devote much resources to the endeavor?
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Optical technology will supplement or replace wired fieldbus or Ethernet systems
For me, it's control. I cannot stand idiot managers making decisions that have such a significant impact on my life. Everything from major, broad issues down to where my desk is located and the temperature of the office and when I have to be in. You will still have to work everyday full-time, probably more, and have different stresses, but I cannot fork over my autonomy to others in exchange for a paycheck.
1. More engineers = more valuable products built.

2. Move valuable products in the market = more money to reinvest into building valuable products.

3. More money invested into building products = more demand for engineers.

4. Goto 1.

Being pro-H1B is in your interest because it increases demands for your skill set.
These are a lot of agricultural workers. I'm sure they get alot of hand and arm bites as well bending over doing labor outside.
i dont think the overlap in users there is actually that big.

most of the people i know who couchsurf do so very regularly and travel a lot whereas myself and my general perception of airbnb users is that it ranges from super casual and not frequent to very hardcore and frequent.

i'd figure the overlap would only be at the high end of frequency of travel.
This is the argument. Currently H1B are not bringing diversity. They should.
> Though, it isn't so much "escape from the 9 to 5" as it is "now you work all the time."

Hah, so true. Although I find working for my startup more rewarding than trading hours for money.

My path is similar to yours, I quit my 9 to 5 job in 2007, started a software consultancy than moved to building my own SaaS in 2009. Since than, that's the only revenue for my family (2 daughters, wife, doing home school).

The stress and lower money at time for sure, but like others said, would not trade this to return in enterprise job.
It's not a regular GMaps ad, it only shows the Uber quote if you have the Uber app installed.
It's not evident what's new, but this initiative was announced a year ago, here's the article: "Amazon Takes On Product Hunt, Shopify With Launchpad, An All-In-One Marketing And Sales Portal" [1]

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/28/amazon-takes-on-product-hu...
If they pay more than they can get away with, they are wasting money, but if they pay less and get lesser-skilled workers, they are also wasting their money.

Underpaying in a non-for profit assumes that they can still get the same quality worker.
I also like the concept of "engine-rich exhaust" (also known as "the engine is melting").
I'm sure I'm not alone in having concerns about how ruthlessly centralizing Amazon is making the shopping experience for just about everything but groceries (because I will never trust anyone to pick my meats and produce for me), but if Amazon Launchpad works as well as this advertisement claims it will, then I cannot for the life of me think of a better means and marketplace to trial new products.

Maybe if your product does really well they'll set you up with a Dash button.
It exists to give you rsync to things that aren't rsync. If you want to rsync to things that are rsync, use rsync.

I don't understand the snark.
I was employed by a big US tech company in France (8+ years). I left a few months ago to grow my own startup.

I've been working on the side project for 3 years before that. It's a SaaS web + mobile app.
I worked on this project in my spare time (nights and sometimes during weekends). It was solving a problem that I was dealing with personally and I bet I was not the only one. The great thing with a side project is that you have no pressure and you can code features fast at the beginning. It was still a lot of work though but you don't feel it when it's your baby.

When it started to get traction (feedback from users is critical at this point) and some healthy revenue, I decided to take the plunge. France give you the opportunity to continue to earn something like 70% of your previous revenue (estimation, there are calculations rules) for 2 years in the case you create a new business.

I believe I found the motivation because my daily job was project manager but my side project was more of a developer job.
Coding your own product without all the pain that a PM needs to resolve was a breath of fresh air. Combining the two competencies was also an advantage for learning to be an entrepreneur (even though I was more of a newbie as a developer compared to the devs I was working with in my previous company).

Now I'm enjoying it, I hired a few interns and joined an incubator in Paris.
Maybe I'm wrong about the country limits affecting H1B. Does anyone know more about this? https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/country-limit
If that were true—which it's not—I'm still not sure if it's relevant; kitchen knives have a separate use besides stabbing people. IKEA could argue using it against a person is using it wrong. Whereas most guns don't have a use besides shooting people (hunting rifles do, obviously). If you shoot a person with a handgun or assault rifle, you're using the gun as intended.
...except not traceable, works with people's payment systems, sends actual US dollars, and doesn't have a 5% chance of getting stolen.
Please don't comment like this on HN. It destroys the already-weak cohesion we have in this community.

It's easy to understand why you'd be angry about someone saying the things you heard there, and I don't doubt that the prejudice you're reacting to exists in places, but the danger with online comments—which have such tiny bandwidth—is that we fill in the gaps with things that weren't there. I suspect that happened here. Even if it didn't, though, we all have to resist the urge to lash out.

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Tax exempt status is a form of subsidy, paid by everyone who pays taxes.
Just a heads up, but that feed doesn't seem to work. It only has the channel metadata and no items, meaning your actual episodes are not listed or accessible.
SA is simply where I live / have some heresay experience with. While snake bites are not unheard of, they are not exactly common either, so I'm skeptical on the topic.

Nevertheless, I still think the poster on the original article is misleading. It headlines with "~5 million snake bites", while your citation puts it at anything between 1.2 to 5.4. Actual envenomings are between 420K to 1.8 million. That's a huge variance in itself, and the uncertainty is not reflected in the article much.

My point is also that if they're inflating the estimated deaths by as much as the reported bites to estimated bites, it's likely incredibly incorrect. Deaths generally get investigated and reported, while lesser bites would not necessarily.
Except there's "regular" rsync for that so it wouldn't be solving a new problem.

I get the irony you're hinting at with regards to the tag line "rsync for cloud storage" but it's harmless IMHO and gets the point across nicely.
Yes that's the article! I love that picture too.

I am doing media monitoring, I collect vast amounts of data on social networks, p2p, rss, webscraping ... then built reporting tools on top of it - high level trend reporting, customer segmentation for acquisition and brand targeting, planogram computing based on collaborative filtering, an entire media and brand intelligence platform.

I also do Forex trading with TensorFlow, but that's only making about 70-80k a year, which is probably a living wage, but not if you're in London and have an insatiable appetite for GPU's like me ;)
Right, you must think LSD dealers are so much more enlightened than dealers of other drugs.

According, to the studies shown here on erowid, the blotter tabs examined by labs since '97 range anywhere from 19 micrograms all the way up to 148 micrograms. The older lab tests from the 70s and 80s seem to have a greater range testing at anywhere from 5 micrograms to 500 micrograms per tab!

All of these blotter tabs are going to weigh roughly the same amount. Some of the weaker ones may even weigh more than the stronger ones due to the difference in the type of paper.

https://erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_article3.shtml
Further, with e.g. public state university funding being gutted while large corporations receive never-ending tax breaks, one might argue that, in the larger picture, the same entities are creating the shortages that they then seek H1-B's to "solve".

Only... I believe the disconnect occurs before this point. There are U.S. candidates. Companies -- for reasons of cost, control, lack of reciprocity and commitment, ageism, etc. -- simply don't want to hire them.

I've watched very competent U.S. staff replaced by inferior foreign staff. This is often NOT a matter of "the most qualified candidate".
Interesting. I've never smoked pot but I really enjoy the smell. But that could be because my parents were hippies when I was young, so I got a lot of second-hand exposure and it has pleasant associations for me.
How does that work? I've never seen an example, and I don't see how you could do it cleanly without growing the stack, given the JVM's constraints.

Also to add onto yetihehe's comment, it's -really freaking easy- to debug such a server as Joe illustrates, or anything else that behaves in such a way (changing behavior by calling another function, to eventually wind up in a different receive statement), in Erlang. It's effectively an FSM determining what kind of messages you handle, the stack traces are clean (TCO means any time you get an exception, it's only in the current 'state'); the only complexities are the fact you're building an FSM, i.e., making sure your transitions are right, and what to do about out of order messages (i.e., a message that doesn't match the current state). There's nothing specific about the Erlang code that makes it harder to debug than the Akka code; in fact, just the fact it's pure Erlang makes it easier; your stack traces are going to be just your own code, no libraries muddying them up.

As for demarcation...it's not really any different. That is, Scala's

def func:Receive = {
//cases
}

def receive = {
case "foo" => become(func)
}

is equivalent to Erlang's

func() ->
receive
%cases
end.

receive
"foo" -> func()
end.

But you'll note that in Joe's example he even uses the atom 'become' to indicate the transition is happening, i.e., receive {become, F} => F() end). It's totally equivalent. I'm not saying Scala is less clean, or whathaveyou, just that Akka felt they had to create a new keyword, for some reason, rather than leave it up to the user to implement. Exactly why, or whether it's equivalent to calling a function, I don't know (having never seen an example of the latter, nor commentary on its characteristics re: call stack); my point was simply that it's a natural extension of the language fundamentals in Erlang, but Akka felt the need to create a new keyword just for it, and that people often miss that needed complexity can arise out of a solid set of fundamentals.
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It's not magical, though. And it's not because the charity is "funded by tax payers".

Sometimes the salaries are discounted because the charity can find someone who "believes in the mission" (sound familiar?).

Sometimes the salaries are discounted because that's all the charity can afford. If the charity can't find someone willing to take the pay cut, then it ends up subsisting on below-average performers. See hospitals, for example. If they don't pay market rates for doctors, they probably have sub-par doctors. If your charity can't sell its mission as part of the compensation package, then it has to cough up.

The point is, no one is going to take a pay cut just because, as GP put it, they're "funded by tax payers". Why the hell would anyone take a pay cut just because their job is funded by tax payers instead of by the Gates foundation?