skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Place desired data to back up on a drive (which may be network attached).

2. Clone said drive to an external drive. Detach and lock it in a water/fireproof box when not in use.

3. Swap external drive with another that is stored off site every week or two.

4. Swap with yet another off site external drive less often (a few months).
Would be nice if you could put a url in without https in front. Otherwise, this is a really cool idea. It makes sense that most people wouldn't find it worth $3 though.

I'm trying it out now :)
The standard argument against this says that while every bug, security breach and inconvenience that arises due to the alternative (non-standardised, proprietary DRM, or no in-browser DRM at all) may individually make engineers thinking about the system from an engineering standpoint break out in hives, the discomfort will also be felt by end users and associated with DRM, therefore serving as an obstacle to its public acceptance and proliferation.

As a relevant comparison, I think the current situation with the plethora of proprietary video game DRM solutions that are universally recognised to be terrible is strictly preferable to an alternative world in which video game DRM Just Works™, possibly with hardware support: in no small part thanks to it, we have a healthy amount of pressure on game studios to hold back and a market for DRM-free publishers such as GOG, and perhaps more controversially a healthy piracy ecosystem to punish the worst actors in the market.
Of course they're recoverable. See JOHN STEVENSON vs. TRW for example.

You seem to be saying lawsuits are a hassle. Yes, they are.
What is "it", and could you give an example of Google's legal team doing "it?"
There have been occasions in California recently where fire-fighting aircraft have been grounded because of amateur drone flights in the vicinity [1]. It would seem to be in the vicinity of homicide, if a civilian died in a fire that had had fire-fighting aircraft deployed but interfered with.

[1] http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/communications_ifyoufl...
Tired of these tribalism arguments from the right. This is not a nuanced position like taxes. The left would not defend Obama if he tried to support terrorist groups by smuggling in stolen artifacts.
In Canada realtors actually do something, they look for houses for you after you tell them what you want, they attend the viewing with you, get feedback, understand what you are after.

Is that worth 5% - no. Could they be removed by tech: probably. But they are far better than the low-life estate agents in the UK who are I think the least trusted profession, perhaps now undercut by bankers.
Definetely. I arrived at the final stage in a Google interview which I failed and I can confirm that out of the 5 interviews three were based on puzzles that I later discovered are found in books for coding competions. On two I did a good job to work out a solution myself but I completely got the third wrong. Who prepares for this kind of competitions has a huge advantage in these kind of interviews.
Cost Per Action. Google it, there are many. MaxBounty, CJ.com, linkshare, etc.
I don't think that would work very well. The problem is the bad health effects of inactivity usually don't really kick in and effect morbidity until after the reproductive years.
How is the standard interview process, which often requires candidates to submit to multiple rounds of in-person interviews, sometimes even requiring travel, better than a process that people can do mostly from their homes?
> It's great to say that if you know where all the strobe effects are in 10,000,000 hours of videos, you could add warnings to the timelines of those videos to help people with photosensitive epilepsy. But unless you have an unimaginable army of people who can watch all that video, the practical way to find all those strobes is to feed the video to a computer, after bypassing the DRM. Otherwise, most video will never, ever be made safe for people with photosensitive epilepsy.

I wonder if there is a case to be made here under the ADA in the US. By making it impossible for someone to use their own assistive measures, and by not providing their own assistive technologies, companies that employ DRM are essentially closing their services off to a significant portion of the disabled population.
https://privateforms.com has made some revenue and had about 10 or 15 customers at one point, but I've definitely not recouped my time investment into it.

I haven't iterated or done anything in an attempt to respark interest.

It still works and I have a few customers still (including myself). I really just had a hard time marketing to those that I thought would be my customers (mostly journalists and lawyers).
Odd - I got the cheapest odb2 I could find on ebay and never had any issues with it over Bluetooth using the Torque app for android.
Actually, it's not necessarily a great thing. Issuing certificates cost money and has to be paid one way or another. Having one very dominant CA -- even if it's free -- is not healthy long term. We need competition in this space.
I think the only significance of the edit is in what one reads into it. To me, it's like saying "Joe drank a soda" instead of "Joe drank a Coke". In the context of the story, the brand name doesn't seem to matter. Whether they called Uber or the Yellow Cab Company, the gist seems to be that some people left and hired a ride.
It's only exorbitant since the price of housing has skyrocketed in the past 20 years
If I'm looking to buy something I go to google and click the ads first usually.

If I'm doing research I click on the organic links.
The people that would make that decision would pat themselves on the back for making the world a better place despite it being trivial to make your own multirotor device.
Tokenizing Wikipedia
I've thought about this too... I can imagine a kamikaze drone armed with an explosive (or swarm of them) would be a pretty effective weapon.
CoreOS (YC S13) is hiring an etcd distributed datastore engineer in SF
No, because the buying power of everyone has gone up in most areas thanks to innovations in technology and entrepreneurship duing the period in the chart.
Staying off Facebook means committing social semi-suicide for a lot of people.

It's the primary channel for my local community, contacting local elected representatives, family members in distant places, and several sociopolitical communities of which I'm a part. For many people it's a necessity, and other channels like email etc. are far less efficient precisely because they don't leverage the networking effects.

This advise is like telling someone who's worried about toxins in their food to eat less of it.
This question is admittedly much more informative than the "what did you do to earn money by your side-projects" questions.

I really enjoyed the "lessons learnt" part in the answers.
And? Why wouldn't my automated car do that?
You could jam the GPS.
Ask HN: How should I go about developing an html widget?
So I am thinking of developing an html widget that can be added to any web page (similar to the way sharethis is added but will only display data, no posting). Just a few questions if anyone can help:
1) The widget will fetch data you enter on my website based on a unique code. Shall I return the whole html structure from my site? Or shall I build it on the client site? I want to prevent someone overriding my classes, so I was thinking inline styling or changing the class name on every regeneration of the widget.
2) Was thinking to give it for free and only charge a yearly subscription to remove the logo, or be able to add custom colors etc. What do you think? How does sharethis or other widgets monetize?
3) There should be some transformations as well so some plain javascript will be included. Shall I wrap it in an iframe? Or just call a cdn js file on my site?
StartCom is even part of the KMCS cross-cert list.
Seems like it'd be a lot easier to jam cellphones with a few hundred bucks worth of parts than apply Supermax security standards to every low-security inmate.
You should consider integrating this visualization in a few third party applications with a significant database component.

I'm thinking web frameworks (like WordPress) and CRMs (like SalesForce). Easy to comprehend visualization of business data is a lot more valuable than visualization of internal program data structures. If you can populate structures from 3rd party sources then you could have a valuable product.

I can see how a business would be interested in visualization of contact growth or website structure.
I dont give a fuck if someone else want to pay my bills
Thank you so much! I guess I should've posted it somewhere sooner...
Use the backup codes they provided you with when you set up 2FA. Or does Amazon not have those? (If not that seems really strange, every other service I've set up 2FA on has that recovery method.)
I bet it'll just track the s&p 500
is monitization terribly necessary? The server costs of an open-source type of meetup should be negligible. Hypothetically a lot can even be done with plain email, provided users set up a filter to send all the invites into a separate folder if don't want to get distracted.
What is sad, is how similar the ideal portable social graph looks to email with your own domain name. You own the identifier, and you can select which provider hosts your email. In addition, you can send an email to somebody which will just work no matter what host they are on. You have the option of having a local copy of everything.

When we look back, I think we will see that in abandoning email as the medium of social interaction, we basically gave up on the open internet.
You need to deplete your glyogen stores first, which is harder if you aren't eating low-carb. Makes for a more difficult transition for your body to switch over into fat-burning mode when it isn't used to it. More sugar cravings, brain fog, etc. Usually the 3-day mark is the standard for when it gets easier if you aren't used to fasting.
The realtor and bank rely on the lawyer for your transaction and documentation.

When I say "you need a lawyer anyway", even if you used a realtor, a lawyer drew up the docs for closing, and you hired the lawyer who put together the closing docs, although you may not realize it. You are paying the lawyer directly as a line item in your closing costs, so they are technically "your lawyer." Most people think the realtor had something net-positive to do with the magic house-transfering documents, but, not really.

This may vary by state/locale.
This story worked out. I wonder how his tune would have changed if she married someone else in the mean time and he missed his chance with her.

Seems to be a bit of a confirmation bias.
That's not a Tragedy of the Commons. Tragedy of the Commons is what happens when nobody clearly owns something that many people use, so none of them use it responsibly. That's not relevant at all to people hoarding their own wealth.
I'm going to assume you're American; apologies if I'm wrong. Americans tend to assume that infrastructure is something that happened in the 20th century, and that nobody has the money, need, or capability for that kind of thing any more. But in fact, the world is spending over $3 trilion per year on upgrading and expanding its infrastructure (and for the most part, is much more efficient at this than America). Incrementally incorporating inductive charging systems into a small fraction of that expenditure will not be a major deal.
I've had the exact same thought. Drones are the perfect assassination tool. I mean, they are already being used as such by ISIS and the US (e.g. Yemen). But you would think that the common criminal would have begun using them by now too. So far all I've heard of in that regard is them being used for drug trafficking.
Couldn't be more wrong. The GUI is written in C++ and is running on the server. It streams its OpenGL calls to a web browser.

It's basically a way to remotely view a Qt app. Like VNC but faster and better integrated into browsers.
Ask HN: Good hacker backpack?
What I mean is laptop, chargers, portable wifi, tablet, maybe a few books, snacks. Going on an extended trip and want to ensure I have room, but a good layout inside the bag.
Build+A+Cheap+PC+With+This+CPU+And+MotherBoard+Bundle
> I recently got tired of all the creepy targeted advertising, so I hit the nuclear option.

Credit cards, mortgage providers, retail stores, and car dealers all sell customer information on the open market. Every cell phone company out there knows what provider you have, stores knows what type of clothing you like to buy.

Wiping your computer clean prevents the ads from appearing on your PC, but the tracking of you is still taking place.
Capital One is hiring for all kinds of roles in SF, New York, McLean and Richmond, VA, and other places as well: http://rolp.co/oZ3Nb and/or you can email me with questions at josh.rotenberg at capitalone.com
Same reason that app stores charge a 30% commission instead of a flat fee. Prices are what the market will bear and prices are controlled by a cartel that runs the marketplace (the MLS members)
They understand most people aren't paying attention.
For one user at a time...
Lessons learned trying to trying to build momentum for diversity and inclusion
Shush, you're going to ruin the scam for everyone else. ;)
You confuse "slightly imperfect" with "useless"
a lot of website ads have moved to retargeting. you put a pixel or js code on your site and when they visit other sites they see your ads.

Also, you're probably not someone that shops to shop.
I remember a similar argument made about locked down e-books that could not be read by blind people.
Talk to a lawyer or accountant about that.
If you really want to get your blood boiling about buyer's agents, watch this - https://youtu.be/jxcCJxN8aJE

Red Fin doesn't operate in my area but if it did I'd be all over it in a heartbeat when I bought my house.
People have different definitions of what is is to be decent and respectful.

And really, we should update the golden rule from "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" to something more like "Do unto others as they would have done unto them," because people can have different preferences.
How many of those cities are Uber actually operating profitably in?
Backup to external hard drive with btrfs. Rsync is used to copy the full source file system, with short exception lists for stuff I don't want backupped. After the sync, a btrfs snapshot is taken to get history. These napshots are removed with an exponential strategy (many snapshots are recent, few are old, the oldest is always kept), keeping ~30 snapshots a year.

Backup takes ~10min for searching 1TB of disk space. The daily diff is typically 6..15 GB, mostly due to braindead mail storage format...

I want to keep it simple but still have full history and diff backup: no dedicated backup tool, but rsync + btrfs. A file-by-file copy is easy to check and access (and the history also looks that way).

If the source had btrfs, I would use btrfs send/receive to speed it up and make it atomic.

I have two such backup disks in different places. One uses an automatic backup trigger during my lunch break, the other is triggered manually (and thus not often enough).

The sources are diverse (servers, laptops, ...). The most valued one uses 2 x 1 TB SSDs in RAID1 for robustness.

All disks are fully encrypted.
App gives away free cash prizes through innovative ad gamification system
Thank you. A very illuminating description of how things work.
Deep learning with cats (^._.^)
Seems pretty clear in context to me.
The Ace Networker Will Connect You Now
RobuxChanger+by+Green+Arrow
You should be able to sell Jarvis to PR, marketing, and communications companies -- at a price point much higher that you're currently selling on your homepage.

Have you conducted any cold emails/sales call campaigns to those clients? I'm pretty sure you could find buyers at $100/month, if not more. I see the immediate value.

How have you been marketing this so far? What audience have you been targeting? What routes have you been using, i.e., PPC, direct outreach, cold calls?

I would be interested to work on this with you: j@greenaway.me
NGL, i am pleasantly surprised so far with the responses.
It's kind of crazy to me that it's not blindingly obvious and needs to be said like it's a hidden wisdom.

Isn't it just being a professional? Why is that difficult for some people?
I think all people who think that this will end with media only are naive. Next step is DOM.
If I were going to do this:

Take one of the more powerful DJI quads like the Phantom Pro, connect some high strength fishing line to it, run the drone up 200-300 feet until you couldn't hear it anymore, then tie the contraband on to the end. The fishing line adds minimal weight and puts the drone out of range of eyes/ears.
That's how I felt trying to find a job in the bay area. If I wanted to compete with the top talent then I needed to prepare for the interviews and practice those problems.
Google's data shows that their interview process produces a low number of false positives, at the risk of producing a high number of false negatives.

That is, despite passing on otherwise talented people, those people who successfully pass Google interviews go on to be successful at Google.

edit to add:

Couldn't find that original article, this article goes on to speak about success predictors: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/
The Swedes are firing! That's about it regarding Scandinavian social security, working culture, and other bollocks they are trying to sell.
Canada Launches $1.26B Strategic Innovation Fund
There are a wide variety of situations-- not just romance-related-- where not only is genuine conflict of interest banned, but even the appearance of conflict of interest is banned, even if all involved can honestly say there is no actual conflict. This is because if there is such an appearance of conflict of interest, it's impossible to fully convince people that nothing is wrong, and that is a toxic dynamic. There's a similar issue at play here.
I understand the reasons given so far, still feel there is a little bit of "name company" privilege involved.
> If you'd like to contact me, and you are not spam, you can do so by combining 'dick' and 'ineptech.com' with an at sign between them.

> Ineptech is a Very Large and Serious Technology Company

Seriously though, I think ineptech would get up and running with a little effort.
> If a buyer is unfamiliar with the area (e.g. job relocation), a competent agent can point out the desirable & the unpublicized undesirable aspects of particular neighborhoods.

This is just utter rubbish. Buyer's agent has absolutely no incentives to publicize undesirable aspects as the agent is still paid half of the commission on the sale price which means that the agent has all the incentives to inflate the price.

But lets pretend that this is the exclusively buyers agent? Well, the thing is - if this buyer's agent is not working for buyers only brokerage he or she is still going to be not on a right side because the brokerage needs cooperation of the sellers agents. In fact, the customer of a buyers agent is seller's agent, NOT the buyer. Even worse, where a buyer can do 2-3 transaction via agent ( unlikely really but possible ) the agents that represent the other side are likely to do dozens of transactions with him or her.

It is even worse for the buyer only brokerages ( they do exist but they are super rare ).

This entire agent industry needs to be destroyed.
Please downvote or flag instead of posting rude replies like this.
Seems like Uber's wanton disregard for law makes them a gigantic liability bomb that no big company is going to want to acquire.
Please report this incident to the CA DMV if you haven't already.
Buffett's Unsexy Oncor Deal Needs an Encore
Let's encrypt the DOM in our open source browser... wait what?

EME is pretty great for cracking too - they enable rendering with the browser's own video engine, giving you a nice "hook to dump pre-decoded frame here" point.
Minifying does more.

Original: 26282
Minified: 10562
Gzipped Original: 7633
Gzipped Minified: 4109
To expand on this:

* Prior to officially selecting candidates based on performance in problems derived from programming competitions, candidates who excelled at programming competitions were likely to do well on the job.

* That correlation was observed on a wide scale by employers, so many companies -- Google chief among them -- started incorporating such questions into the official interviews.

* Candidates now observed the change in employer interviewing methods on a wide scale and adapted their preparation methods. This fundamentally changed the pool of people good at programming competition problems in such a way as to reduce the correlation between the original signal (good at algorithmic problems) and the goal (good at the job).

* Overall, widespread acknowledgment -- and all consequent changes in behavior -- of the original correlation between the signal and the goal significantly reduced the quality of the correlation.
On DJI drones, you already need to be "signed in" to the app in order to fly in regulated airspace (or what DJI thinks is regulated airspace). It is also necessary to exceed the legal height limit of 400ft. I wonder if anyone is stupid enough to do that?
It gets even more complex when we think about people’s private and public identities. Some of my Facebook posts are public and I read many public posts from the media, fan groups and companies. That is all part of my social graph but how would we work all of that? That said, there may be solutions there. The larger issue is how these links work is constantly evolving yet having a consumer controlled social graph may make it difficult to be responsive. After all, think about how you manage the social graph that is your pre-programmed fast dial numbers on a phone (if you even do those things). They quickly go out of date and you can’t be bothered updating them.

This is a hard problem to solve. We solved it at Qbix. We're still working on releasing our Platform to everyone, but for now it's already open source and we are dogfooding it in all our own apps.

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

We are also working on an interoperable auth protocol where you do control your identity and keep your contacts private, but discover them across communities (venues and interests).

https://github.com/Qbix/auth
Here's an articles that cites statements where they are both doing "it":

https://www.recode.net/2017/6/28/15891136/alphabet-alleges-u...

"It" are allegations and statements that very liberally interpret convenient facts, ignore inconvenient facts and inject conjecture to support the narrative they want the public to believe. I'm shocked that anyone would think lawyers for only one side would do that. It's all heresay, allegations, conjecture and bullshit by lawyers all sides until evidence is presented in a court of law and a judgement has been made. And even then the judgement may be wrong for all sorts of reasons.

FWIW, Recode is one of the few places covering the case fairly equitably (probably because it's run by one of the few journalists in Silicon Valley with any scruples and minimal conflicts of interest, Kara Swisher).
No you don't, it has no benefits relative to languages in its space of competition (Rust, D, various JVM/.NET languages, Haskell, ML, Nim, etc.).