skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no incompatibility with something being a right and someone choosing to not exercise that right. Your argument is similar to arguing that you should not be allowed to speak while under arrested, or that you should be forced to own property.
Africa’s Richest Man Has a Plan: Cement, Then Oil–Then Arsenal FC
They don't? Didn't they just quite recently raise a bunch of debt finance?

Maybe their idea is to borrow more with interest rates being so low, rather than diluting the equity holders.
Incidentally, the Vudu name pre-dates the public announcement of the 'Hulu' name by at least one month, but has been attested for longer. The 'Hulu' name was unveiled [1] in August 2007 for a then-unnamed project [2]. Vudu, on the other hand, has trademark filings in July 2007, and was previously known as Marquee, and before that, Vvond [3], but there are articles from earlier in 2007 already calling the company Vudu.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180547/http://www.thestr...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180547/http://www.thestr...

[3] https://gigaom.com/2007/04/29/is-that-the-vudu-magic/
Getting NASA to Comply with Simple FOIA Requests Is a Nightmare
It would also have to remain viable in the sense that no animals starving in the darkness will try to eatthem, or fungus or bacteria running wild. I think you have to assume that are small burrowing ancestors ate pretty much every seed they could get their tiny paws on. We know that quite a few different organisms survived, and while some of them estivated or hibernated most of them presumably we had to live and eat in a roughly normal way.
They're absolutely going to need to raise money, soon.

They've lost $822 million in the last two years, with their losses skyrocketing last year to $581 million. At least $400m to $500m of their prior VC from years ago (2008-2013) is guaranteed to be long gone at this point.

They're down to less than 12 months of capital unless they've suddenly figured out how to make money in the last few months with a blackhole business model that can never produce meaningful profit because they don't own most of the content and the licensing will perpetually squeeze them to death.
Please don't rewrite titles to editorialize. That breaks the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I am using Duplicati [1] to backup. It's FOSS, supports linux, windows, and MacOS, and creates block-based encrypted backups. The client works on most SOHO NAS devices too. Very happy with it.

I backup to a Google Drive with unlimited storage. This costs $10 per month with a G Suite for Business [2] account. You do not need 5 users to get unlimited storage. I have just under 9TB in my GDrive.

Backup services generally charge $5 to $6 per computer. My solution costs double that but can backup every computer I own and gives me a cloud drive with unlimited storage to boot.

[1] https://www.duplicati.com/
[2] https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html
Without some form of versioning, there's always the risk that the only backed-up copy of a file is a corrupted, useless version. This is the best summary of everything else I've said here.
Yeah I guess you could make the case for it being the other way around. Although, I think that a lot of ML concepts have groundings in optimization, probability, and a bunch of other mathematical concepts as opposed to concepts that wanted to replicate those psychological effects.
Their value really is that they exist and are more or less a monopoly, so you have to pay the fees to use them (as a merchant) or turn away the overwhelming majority of customers.
They self configure into a wireless network called sonosnet if they are wired together.
My position on this whole thing is that CrashPlan isn't just selling storage for backup.

Their value is in the fact that they could be trusted to have your back if something happened locally. It was literally a set-it-and-forget-it solution. I have multiple backups, but this was my primary offsite solution.

I understand the consumer market isn't as profitable as the business market, but why not opt to raise prices, and let consumers decide if it was valuable enough to them to pay the increased prices? Why just abandon that market completely?

I recently opted to trial the CrashPlan Pro (which they just renamed to CrashPlan for Small Business) subscription. This move by Code42 gives me pause. It makes me wonder when they'll do the same thing to the Business segment?

I went with the Business plan because was I was a happy Home customer. Now, I wonder if it was good move.
I used social media to find influencers who could help promote my product using tools like CrowdTangle and Followerwonk
Also: Soul-killing Election Causes 4 Years of Dankness.
These types of scanners already exist in your neighborhood, and probably have for a couple of years. The next time you're near a police car, look at the trunk. There will probably be three or four cameras pointing to the adjacent lanes. They look like this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y7NgL5zbq3U/TER5EIjZ20I/AAAAAAAAAt...
Sounds like it lets you resume from before your save state.

> Or you can rewatch up to a minute (depending on the game) of your gameplay before you hit suspend, then pick up the game from a moment before you saved.
I've long considered going to Sonos, but I think i'll stay with my Plex VM and my NAS
The citations for the replies don't really back it up.

The context for the various iterations of Postel's Law generally suggest that they're referring to the possibility that you might be seeing the result of mismatching versions of a specification. The later iterations also give reference to an explicit example of what they mean: don't assume that enumerations in the specification are closed (i.e., assume that future revisions may add additional enumerations). There is absolutely no evidence that he is advocating trying to parse slop at all.
Currently, there's no mechanism to do that. However, I'm intrigued -- can you explain more about the use case you're thinking of?
"The average alt-right-ist is probably a 28-year-old tech-savvy guy working in IT," white nationalist Richard Spencer who coined the term alt-right told Mother Jones shortly before the election. "I have seen so many people like that."

Though the indoctrination starts a few years early, probably between years 23-25.
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You can identify traffic flows based on any number of characteristics, port number, protocol, and data payload to name a few.
> Assuming that you retire

Thus proving most workers (as in >90%) do not have that choice.
The ability to deflect asteroids away from Earth also means you can deflect them toward Earth and even aim them at your enemies! You could sneakily aim a meteor strike at anywhere on Earth and make it look like a natural event.

Technically this is something that could be done today with gravity tractor [0] or an ion beam deflection [1] system, both of which are being developed by NASA.

[0] - https://www.nasa.gov/content/asteroid-grand-challenge/mitiga...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Beam_Shepherd
3rd that! Only assembly language I ever enjoyed. So uniform, it just made sense. You could look at it and guess what those instructions were doing and you'd probably be right.

And the instructions in octal actually made sense as well, they were laid out such you could follow an octal dump. Well, my TA for that course, Ken Witte, could. I have memories of him coming over for a beer and reading my octal core dump and pointing to the string of numbers and saying "right here is where you went wrong". Smart dude, I never got that good, I could puzzle through the dumps but it was work; he could read them like assembler.

I believe that only worked because DEC laid out the instructions, the numbers themselves, in a uniform way. Not positive but I think they used 3 octal digits and the middle one was like load or store and the leading/trailing ones modified how/what was being loaded/stored. I'd have to go look it up to be sure, but there was something like that, might be different than I said it, but it was laid out in a sensible way in the actual numbers so you could read them easier.

Really fun machine. I think the only 32 bit machine that came close was Nationals 32032 but they never seemed to be able to produce a bug free chip. Too bad, that one was pleasant too.
"Some seeds can live for a long time before germination, while others can only survive for a short period after dispersal before they die."[1]

I wasn't suggesting all seeds would fail to germinate after two years, just that some would, and that change would be noticeable in the fossil record.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed#Germination
Prior to their existence what mechanism provided the same avenue for transaction? Especially as the world moved online I would argue they became more relevant for transactions. I don't disagree with the monopoly part but that doesn't discredit their value in my opinion.
What difference?

The Nexus S appears to be immortal. That means that when young, it was terrible (by modern standards), and now that it's old, it's still terrible, but no worse.

The Nexus 5 is mortal. When young, it is good. When old, it is even worse than an old Nexus S. Just like an animal, it's strong in youth and decrepit in age.
> So basically the IPO is a way to formalize the initial price of the stock.

no. it is the company selling their stock to the public for the first time, to raise cash. the company chooses a price it is willing to sell at.

further, "formalizing" the price of the stock isn't a thing. the price of the stock is whatever somebody will sell it to you for.

> By bypassing that process, they will sell for whatever the market dictates for better or worse, is that correct?

once the stock is on the market, it sells for whatever someone will buy it. the IPO happens shortly before it hits the market.

> Additionally, is it possible that all private share holders could prior to first day of listing come to an agreement on a minimum price they would sell for?

sure, they could. but there are probably already hundreds or thousands of them.
That looks great! You should create a cellphone app which we can download and buy off of the appstore.
Maybe you could also furiously debate the Linux client while you're at it :)

(I can better understand the policy now as well -- keep people from using as primary offline storage.)
That's interesting. Unfortunately, AVG has been acquired by Avast last year [1]. I already looked into the new version of AVG a few months ago, and found that they have replaced AVG's engine with Avast's engine. Since the scanner always runs as NTAuthority\SYSTEM in the current Avast version, I would assume that the same is true for the most recent AVG version. I'm not completely sure, though, so don't quote me on that.

[1]: https://press.avast.com/avast-announces-agreement-to-acquire...
I hope this is trolling :D
Recursico. It's ICOs all the way down.
Well, if it's really needed, why not.
> no. it is the company selling their stock to the public for the first time, to raise cash.

That's incorrect. The company is not raising cash with this IPO. The insiders are doing the IPO to sell, which should tell you what's actually going on. By direct listing, they avoid the traditional lock-up, so they can liquidate immediately.
#2 is the Federal Reserve. Good luck disrupting that! (Bitcoin is sure as hell trying though)
They use distributed web crawlers to crawl 100s of billions of web pages. Probably one of the following options:

1) Built their own crawlers.

2) Using an Apache Nutch/Heritrix cluster in a colo facility.

3) Use 3rd party services like mixnode.
Not only do they exist, but they provide some kind of infrastructure to transfer payments. How do you do this without a middleman? Even mailing a check relies on banks and a postal system.
See my comment above or I will paste again here:

What evidence is there that proves an equal percentage of every race and gender leads to a more profitable company (or has a higher chance of a successful exit)?*
*Because I assume that by listing "UNDERREPRESENTED FOUNDERS" YC wishes there were 50% female founders and 50% male founders? And what about the racial makeup of founders? Is the ideal world for YC a racial make up of 20% white, 20% black, 20% asian, 20% middle eastern, and 20% other?
I think they clearly have value, but the problem is that it's hard for the market to settle on the true value because of the games they play with credit card points. They've tricked consumers into thinking that credit cards incur no costs, but in fact give them cash back and points.

If points were banned, and consumers instead paid the credit card fee as a line item on their receipt next to taxes, you might find more downward pricing pressure or consumers willing to pay cash.
It's usually not planned, just something that happens to come together. I know several professors who build their careers this way.
From his public appearances, he's proving that he's unremarkable.
Visa provides protection from a lot of risk on both the buyer and seller's side.

As a seller I know that if a Visa payment clears I'll be getting that money, even if the customer doesn't have it. I don't need to arrange financing or risk taking a check that may bounce long after the customer has disappeared.

As a consumer, I get some measure of protection from fraud and have the option of doing a chargeback and letting Visa sort things out with the vendor if something is not as described.
What's not clear...it's even in the title. Inequality leads to economic collapse. Here's the end of the article "An economic model that allows the richest members of society to accumulate a larger and larger share of the cake will eventually self-destruct. It is a lesson that is yet to be learned." Generally any state, nation or empire is heavily dependent on a having a strong and healthy economy to remain stable...
Backblaze supports a user-provided passphrase, which is used to encrypt your private key. That provides E2E security. It isn't used by default, though.

https://www.backblaze.com/backup-encryption.html
I'd love to hear what kind of things any founders here are doing for their culture.

My all time favorite example of great culture is Valve the video game company. This is their employee handbook http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
they removed context menu though, i wanted to [s]google[/s]bing rentkil company mentioned there and failed.
It's very possible that employees just want the opportunity to liquidate what has been the bulk of their compensation for the past x years.

At some point, this becomes a recruitment issue: what's the point in working for a company that pays you in stock that you can never sell and that doesn't pay dividends?
But it means they have an equal value system: Convenience being always more important than Privacy.

And that’s strictly incompatible with mine.
Graham Hancock dedicates at least 10% of his most recent book "Fingerprints of the Gods" to exploring the recent evidence for a cataclysmic meteor impact that catalyzed the precipitous drop in global temperatures we observe 12900 years ago at the "Younger Dryas Boundary." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas#Impact_hypothesi...

He has some pretty out there theories but that section is pretty convincing.
Owls and kiwis prefer the dark.
Well the IPO price is the price at which the company sold new stock to the public. Then the price moves however the market causes the price to move. They're not going to sell new stock to the public, but the price will move however the market causes it to move.

The market works because there are always people willing to take both sides simultaneously. To some extent this is driven by people who have different opinions. This is also drive by people working on different time frames. Somebody who thinks it will rise in the next 10 years may buy from somebody who thinks it will fall in the next 10 minutes.

When there are not hoards of people willing to take both sides, price starts to move around erratically. Ultimately Spotify isn't very widely held. I doubt any of the current holders are interested in trading frequently. They want to make their trade and get out. So who is selling on the first few days? Market makers will work both sides of the market as they always do, but they won't hold a large short position against a rising market. Instead the spread will be large. That's why I suspect we'll see some wild price swings before the market settles down.

On the other hand, you could say this about any IPO. And it's true that the first few days are often rocky. It remains to be seen if Spotify's plan produces a more rocky start than is usual.

They certainly could (subject to market manipulation laws). Would it work? Probably not. There will be sellers willing to sell short naked (intending to buy back by the end of the day so they don't have to deliver non-existent stock). I'm sure there's many holders, since Spotify has been around for a while and presumably has some sort of stock compensation program. Will they all refrain from selling? No, because somebody wants to renovate his kitchen.
ok.

::signs up for business account::

CrashPlan has worked great. Not moving away from a working technical solution I already pay for. The delta between now and the new cost is pretty small; maybe $5-7 / mo. meh
> Even the services like Amazon Glacier or Backblaze's B2 start becoming way more expensive once you pass the terabyte mark or so.

Yes, this is my point! It's expensive to store a terabyte in the cloud. There is currently no way around that. Crashplan was probably losing money on customers who had multiple TBs in the cloud.
Like many in this thread, I'm here looking for alternatives. CrashPlan was sufficient for my family needs, and none of the other services I looked at hit the same sweet spot. Slow, saturated uploads, and their bloated client were tolerable for what I was paying, and what I got. We've got a few mentioned replacement possibilities scattered in the comments and replies below, but I'd like to put forth my "asks" for solutions, which seem to match others.

I'm a tech guy, and "rolling my own" Linux solution is possible, but in this case, I'd be happy to pay someone else to worry about the details of storing a copy of my bits, so I can do other things with my time.

My wish list is as follows:

MUST

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have both Linux and Windows client

ability to whitelist/blacklist/select subsets of files/folders to be backed up

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SHOULD offer as many of the following as possible (all optional)

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some sort of "Family" pricing deal for multiple machines in one account

encrypted backups with consumer controlled key not necessarily given to service

option to switch out back end bulk storage infrastructure

"forever" file retention / restoration of old versions (charge me for storage)

user scheduled backups and/or don't bring client to crawl or saturate home line

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Feel free to add any replies with suggestions here which might be useful to others.

For my point of view, if CrashPlan found the home offering unsustainable from "abuse" of the "unlimited" feature, I would have much preferred them introduce a cap to the home plan at some "reasonable" value. They could have balanced the books, and saved 95% of their customers. Start rolling off oldest file version backups when you hit space cap and/or offer extra space at cost+profit. Done.
They provide antifraud protection via chargebacks, which account for a sizeable portion of their fees. Fees are about 3%, fraud is about 1-2%.
Before you send any telemetry get informed consent by presenting the user a dialog enumerating everything that you are sending and I'd be fine with opt-out otherwise this is a dark pattern and you are getting on my shit list.
per earlier comment, yes, way more volatile because supply/demand will be less managed - as you say, IPO sets price, and this is done when bankers effectively pre-negotiate price and placement amounts with many institutional investors (mutual funds, public pensions, other large alternative asset managers etc.) - this is happening throughout informally (though very informally, since they can't offer the security until SEC registration is complete), but really gets down to details during the IPO roadshow, where the final deal is present and the bankers finalize the allocations to various institutional investors, which is what they use to set the opening day of trading price.

IPOs also require lockups of pre-IPO investors, and the ideal situation is always to have a large number of new well-respected investors take relatively large blocks that they are likely to hold for a long-ish period of time and pre-IPO investors locked up for a at least 6 months, which will introduce some protection against volatility and the stock price going below the IPO price. obviously price can still go haywire, but it's the best a company can hope for in the public market.
"Refreshing" your Firefox profile from about:support is not as scary as it sounds. :) It creates a clean profile and imports your old profile's bookmarks, passwords, and browsing history. You just lose any settings tweaks and old add-ons you had. Your old profile directory is also backed up in case something goes wrong during the new profile import.
That would certainly be idiotic. But that would not be "just as idiotic", because it's not even remotely idiotic to do a partial rendering of a document that has some incorrect markup in it. In fact, your claim there is begging the question.
Why not accept people based on their skill and merits and not the color of their skin? Why should YC choose someone simple because he is black?
Only 16% of the U.S. population is black, the amount of black people YC has accepted is not completely off, plus there is no reason it should exactly match the population make up of the U.S. anyway.
Physics Factbook: acceleration, area, density, mass of (almost) everything
All 0's and 1's occupy real electrons in real space. They are not part of the ether. You are making a distinction between electronic information and the physical that is artificially derived.

I think perhaps you are saying that a pattern of information should not be locked up, but instantiations of a pattern can be.
> I need something that would keep watch on all the files on the system (see inotify) to avoid continuous rescans of the disks

Inotify (on Linux, and fanotify wouldn't be enough, since the backup tool would have to track file deletions as well) is the only way to have seamless background backups

I tried to use other tools in the past, like duplicity... But having a scan every hour that takes several minutes and has noticeable CPU usage is a deal breaker

(and having a backup scheduled less frequently than that is also a dealbreaker, since you cannot rely that the laptop would be up an running at a certain time during the day)

(Crashplan also does a full rescan, but it's not strictly necessary... It's basically needed if the backup daemon crashed or was shutdown, or stuff had been changed on the filesystem while the OS was off, so that sanity check rescan can actually wait a few days)
haha no. I'm on the other side of the world.

Plus they're cool parents...they wouldn't want to burden me. I'm just conscious of the fact that they plan to move from a very big house to a not big house. Meanwhile there are boxes that haven't been unpacked from the 2001 move. They're not hoarders...they just have too much crap.
Because no one really makes such a deal in an informed manner...imagine if products had a big warning label "future software updates are not included"
To all of the commenters in here, selling stock is not the only way to raise money. Direct listing does not mean "they don't need to raise money." In today's environment it's much better for a lot of companies to be issuing debt instead.
I eventually ripped out my custom switch configs and went with a single Sonos unit hard wired, and the rest on SonosNet/Mesh. I use only 5ghz wifi (2.4ghz disabled) at home, and since Sonos only does 2.4ghz wifi, this was the best solution for me.