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Ask HN: How do you backup your photos?
I'm struggling with finding a solid method/process for backing up my photos, which for me function as physical manifestations and triggers of memories. Do you have a robust approach for that, which worked for you over decades and/or at least a few EOLed technologies?

Some core aspects I have trouble planning over:

- photos have lifetime longer than that of most 3rd party (web)services I've known

- seemingly even of most hardware storage technologies... E.g. tapes & diskettes no longer in use; cdroms less and less popular; hdd connectivity standards change (scsi, pci, usb, sata, whatever...)

- hardware storages fail - and sneaky silently if not checked periodically!

- fairly big volumes - easily GBs even for casual photographer or just a passive photo subject

- 3rd party services require passwords, which again bring another can of management problems (balancing accessibility vs.risk of losing)

- at the same time, the very idea of photos as memories asks for ease of reviewing/browsing old ones

Do you have some kind of periodic (yearly?) schedule of reviewing available options, testing readability of existing copies and potentially migrating/copying stuff to new venues? Did you build an awesome rube-goldberg machine of Perl scripts to automate it and sleep calmly? Or did you maybe find the silver bullet of a magic everlasting solution?

How do you manage how many copies a photo has on various media?

Did you maybe find out that works best for you is falling back to prints and old-school physical albums?

As a side note: nice to have if the solution would work for other types of contents too (texts, html, videos - general backup?), but my main and most pressing concern are purely photos; to stay super focused, jpegs-only is acceptable.

I'm desperate for a good solution I could feel I can trust.
Exactly, I personally don't feel like I have anything particular to hide, but I fully 100% support people who do feel like they've got something to hide, and their right to privacy.

So for now, they can have my data. But I try my very best to avoid letting Google et al. infer other people's actions from mine, so I don't tag people in photos or otherwise expose them or their actions, without their consent.
Some people care about precise wording. Instead of saying we are killing Earth, saying we are making Earth inhospitable to us is a more accurate statement. And it is true statement while the former is false.
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There's an Android app for https://syncthing.net/ that makes it fairly easy to sync photos between computers+phone, without anything going to the Cloud.

(There's a crowdfund going on for an official iPhone app for Syncthing: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/7699463-native-ios-port-... )
> It's reasonably easy to say whether someone is currently experiencing psychosis or not, or is currently experiencing hypomania.

Right. But this often takes place several months or years after the crime was committed. So might still be difficult.

> It's much harder to tell whether a person will offend again, and there are severe consequences if that person does offend again

Yes, someone might get hurt. So yes, risk aversion involved. But also: there are severe consequences for the opposite too. Remember this is a person that is not guilty (responsible) for a crime, that is kept locked up.
The author talks about a mechanism to refresh / reload. Its probably not got to do with SPAs vs MPAs.

SPAs can have refresh / reload mechanisms, but not all do. Same for native / mobile apps, some have them and others don't.
> implementing matrix operations is not rocket science either.

Naively implementing them sure, but looking at OpenBLAS/LAPACK/etc code it seems pretty close to rocket science
Would be a brave government that would try that!

Edit: I’m reminded of the Imperial Russian government (pre-revolution) banning vodka which had the dual effect of reducing tax income and increasing their unpopularity.
I think the biggest problem with the “objective reality is mathematical” point of view is that there are many non-equivalent ways of interpreting the mathematics (e.g. wavefunction collapse vs. many worlds).

It’s also the case that two non-equivalent mathematical formalisms can describe the same phenomenon. I’m not a physicist, but I think classical vs. Hamiltonian mechanics fits the bill there. Also possibly quantum vs. Bohmian mechanics (but I’m far too naïve in physics to be able to judge that one properly).
Users are human beings. You can affix a derogatory label to them if you want, but deciding that they're not as smart as your ideal of what humans should be isn't useful to anyone except your ego I guess.
this is wonderful thank you!
Camgirl identification by face recognition
> As a user of 1Password, the lack of "Sync" Button

It does have a sync button doesn't it? 'Settings', 'Sync' on iOS. When you press it you can see the progress. Or do you mean something else.
"a dereference to a deleted object
will either succeed as if that very object was not yet
deleted, or result in a DanglingReferenceException."

How can you do something this stupid in 2017? All this will do is cause irreproducible bugs that only occur under memory pressure.
Just drop the fucking OR and always delete.
Yes, there are a few "trophic highways" in the sea. Carrion eating animals is one of them, and lobsters are one of its members.

On the other hand fishermen do not discard so many small fishes as previously. Our cats and dogs will eat that.

"ending factory farming as soon as possible" equals at this moment to "killing by famine a lot of surplus humans as soon as possible". We need to produce more food, not less, because we are more people than the year before, not less.
> powered only from the HDMI port

Looking at the marketing material, it’s clear Amazon is trying to make people think this and hope they’re not disappointed when they find out that, yes, they still have to plug it into the wall.

There’s only one tiny image on the product page [1] that shows the power cord coming out. Every other image is very careful to show it from an angle that makes it seem like the HDMI cable is the only cable.

There is text that mentions the power cable, but you have to scroll down pretty far (about 60% of the way down) before you’ll see it.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/All-New-Ultra-Remote-Streaming-Player...
Usually is the other way round , powerful people buy and manipulate the media so the one they want gets elected, and that way the can move everything behind the curtain.
My toaster still has a slider to select how long I want to cook it. I wrote a long reply to the other person, I think I summed it up there. You can feel free to expand the thread and read it. It's one of my better rants, if I do say so myself.

Even Linux is impacted by this. I keep hearing complaints about flat design, I don't even know what that is. I just want my buttons back. New users don't actually have to push them. Just because a button exists doesn't mean Joe Sixpack has to push it.

Maybe if he pushes it enough times, people will stop fixing his computer and he will learn to fix it himself. Then, with time, he can learn to stop breaking it.

Not that long ago, I got some help to write some scripts to grab the entirety of the Ubuntu man pages and automatically convert them to PDF and provide an index for them.

When I posed my question, explaining where I was stuck and what my goal was, the first questions where, effectively, "Why would you want to do that? Nobody wants to do that!"

It's a horrible state of affairs.

I'm considering moving to GhostBSD. At least they still have buttons.
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There's nothing about an SPA that inherently prevents you from having a button that force-refreshes the internal state from the server. This is what happens when you kill the app and re-open it -- it gets it's state from somewhere.
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Yes, when you have a list sorted by recency, where the most recent entries are at the top, you can easily discover the refresh gesture by scrolling a little bit too far.

But when the gesture is used in different contexts, it is less likely to be discovered. For example most chat apps add new messages at the bottom, so the refresh gesture should be scrolling in the opposite direction. Additionally, I don't tend to scroll through my message history very often, so I'm unlikely to discover this. Fortunately, most chat apps tend to be quite good at loading new messages.

It gets worse when there's little reason to attempt scrolling past the boundaries. For example, it took me months to discover that Chrome on Android supports the gesture (before that, I opened the menu to refresh). That's because to scroll on a website, I just pull once and then let go. Inertial scrolling means that the motion will stop as soon as it hits the top of the page. Past that, there's a kind of resistance that needs to be overcome, which you won't do if you don't already know the gesture.

My point is, good interfaces shouldn't require the user to make accidental discoveries. There should be an obvious, labeled way to do it; if necessary, it can include a hint to use the less obvious but more convenient way next time.
Their iOS app has a sync button and the macOS app seems to sync when I restart the app.
> It's crazy how accurate this article was. How far along were mobile phones during 1992?

About this far along: http://campbelllawobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Za...
Ag programs are byzantine and corn is subsidized several ways-- through price floors, crop insurance, the ethanol mandate, and import tariffs on sugar (which created the market for high fructose corn syrup, which is derived from corn). The model has failed in important ways and isn't directly transferrable to fruits and veggies. The biggest thing is that the value of the subsidies is capitalized into land prices-- there actually isn't a subsidy for corn at all, if you are new farmer, because you have to pay for it when you buy or lease land.
It's not about being afraid, it's about letting other companies try innovations that won't succeed within your own company.
I think that's probably just because it's been revised and the placeholders were added after.

To be fair, it only adds an extra 18 chars, taking it up to 238-byte in size.

EDIT Here it is once you add the extra property:

(o=b=>{for(j in a)for(i in a)y=a[i]+-~j,b?document.write([["<p>"][i]]+"<input onfocus=value=[o[id]] onblur=o[id]=value;o() id="+y+" placeholder="+y+">"):eval(y+(".value"+o[y]).replace(/[A-Z]\d/g," +$&.value"))})(a="ABCD")
How do those who code the webpage for te Boston Globe get paid for correctly making webpages? Once an adblocker is involved, it seems to hardly be fair to complain about page quality. It’s like a stowaway complaining about the in flight movie.
As a former Windows fanboy and current Open Source/Android/Linux proponent, steps like these move me slightly closer to not being completely opposed to the idea of owning Apple products.

I used to own an iPad Air 2 (given to me during a course I was taking), and it was a super slick and very well-integrated device. It just had some odd limitations that I was not a fan of, so I moved back to a Thinkpad running Linux. But I had pretty much the same experience with my previous tablet, an Asus Transformer Infinity, so it was probably more of a general tablet thing.

The main thing keeping me from buying Apple products these days is the price, and of course the fact that no proper Apple desktop exists, outside of the super underpowered Mac Mini and the silly trashcan Mac Pro. I have a perfectly good display already, which I intend to keep for a long time, so I don't want an iMac.

And I very much dislike the Apple Evangelism and super-annoying slavering fanboys, to whom Apple can do no wrong ever, and all other tech companies are basically banging rocks together, in their perception.
Is hiphop terms HAM means Hard As a Motherfucker.
As in "I go HAM"
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In some countries like Sweden, it would wreck the economy. The push towards a cashless society in Sweden means few ATMs, and the majority of banks not even having any cash on hand.

For a country like the United States, where electronic payments make up around half of the total commerce volume, it would be painful, some economic carnage would be wraught, but business would still keep going. The upper-middle class and upper class would be the most affected, as most in that section of society don't keep cash on hand. Comparatively, the lower class which is mostly disenfranchised from the banking system would fare okay with some cash on hand, and those on EBT & WIC would incur an inconvenience as retailers had to call the state for voice auths rather than processing those transactions via a terminal.
I really hate that too; but apparently the conversion rates and return on those things is huge.
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> but it gets upvoted and left alone

We see only some of the comments, since there are far too many for us to read. Because of this quantity, it's impossible to moderate the whole corpus. So you're always going to see examples of people getting away with worse in the neighborhood, just like you see cars speeding on the same roads where cops are pulling others over. It doesn't mean it's ok or that we endorse it, just that we have human-scale limitations.

It always feels like the opposite side gets away with it more; everyone always feels that way. Drivers who get pulled over feel it too. It's a cognitive bias that I've posted about a lot: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

The way to deal with comments breaking the HN guidelines is to make sure we know about them. You can do that by flagging them or by emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. It's amazing how often, when I see complaints about a comment on HN, the complainer never flagged the comment. It seems to be hard for people not to leap from "I saw X on HN" to "HN says X" to "the mods support X". (By that argument, Larry must agree with all YouTube comments.) The likeliest explanation is that we just didn't see it.

People don't seem to realize how big a difference comment-flagging (or emailing us) makes. A single user can have a lot of impact just by doing that.
The look of a leader
"For every dollar a shopper spent on breakfast cereal in 1980, today you'd have to spend $2.93"

Source from 2015: https://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/28/puffs-flakes-and-dollars-why...

Which means that the marketing/advertising spends have increased in a disproportional manner. What a world we are living in.
Please. It won't even pass Apple's strict standards. Everyone knows your app has to be 50MB in size.
>>I think I speak for a lot of programmers, and not just game devs, when I say that the romanticization of Id's history has painted one of the most ideal programmer stories, and one that I often have fantasized living, or at least have imagined what it would have been like to be on that team in the glory days.

I guess. I assume you've read Masters of Doom and other relatively factual accounts of their history? It's not exactly the most reasonable behavior, and you can get that kind of death march abuse on any sort of game development team today.

We owe Carmack a lot. Doesn't make working for him some sort of pleasurable experience. Most innovators are like this.
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If, like me, you're trying to figure out how this works, I've expanded it here to make it more readable:

https://pastebin.com/1c72BYK1
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From my point of view, as I was saying, you are always the outsider. I particularly remember a situation when contractors and temps were excluded from all company functions, no holiday parties, no company get togethers, no company gifts and on and on. Also, there's always a definite divide between the temps and staffers. It may seem petty but after awhile it wears on you; being the outsider is not pleasant.

I can take it when I know I'll be working somewhere else in a few months but I could not take it for years.
> Business would still keep going

I was thinking about Industries. Think "just in time" and SAP.

Sure you could call but what about VoIP.
I've recently got into FPV quads hobby. After some shopping at banggood.com and some Youtube videos I see ads for flight controllers and other FPV stuf everywhere, including FB.
> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging.

How does this explain Brexit?

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/docume...

18-24: 71 remain / 29 leave
25-49: 54 remain / 36 leave
50-64: 40 remain / 60 leave
65+: 36 remain / 64 leave

Sure seems like a clear inverse correlation between age and things like "control over emotion", and "compassion and empathy towards others". I'm going to suggest that every aspect of the brain degrades as we get older, including 'wisdom'.
>> I am reminded of the parking lot analysis from satellite photos some traders were doing.

This has been done for years. The smart companies are forging deliveries and movement to manipulate portfolios.
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> Canada will surely be having its own insurance program

Interestingly, no. Canada subsidizes farms, whereas the US subsidizes crops.
"I should mention that unlike Amazon, we did not patent our approach. We want you to use this in your commercial and open-source projects!"

Thanks Dan!
what about using this tech to create a backup pager.

I'd love a device that ONLY does sms or text based comms (fb, whatsapp etc..) but only the text. and nothing else.

that would sip battery.
Additionally to the other suggestion I can recommend using a Yubikey with NFC together with the Yubico Authenticator. You can easily move between devices.
This is fantastic and well documented.
I have some related questions about the latency:

1. Where is the latency variance coming from? (Garbage collection? Network stack?)
2. Between which two points are you measuring it? 3. What would the variance look like if using two processing nodes on different machines?
4. Is it possible to use something like LTTng with Pony to understand latency distribution better?

All-in-all a pretty cool project!
If you can get that much, you're in a different league. I say take it and don't look back. 300k makes the pain of being a contractor much easier.
When I hear "you just do X", I become sceptical of that instantly :)
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Does anyone know of similar articles to this that they like and wouldn't mind sharing?

I always find these perspectives and retrospectives useful and interesting. Different people always point out different things, because everyone's business is at least slightly different in one respect or another. (be it funding, customer base, product scale, product type, employee count, number of concurrent projects, how successful they were, etc.)

For example, the book "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers" by Ben Horowitz provided good insight into managing larger tech companies and was enjoyable to read.
Spotify is now estimated at more than $ 16B
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I was hoping for screenshots and an app like Flight Radar :-(

Not that I can see any cargo ships from where I am, but it would be cool.
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Do you realize you can have both a headphone jack and wireless headphones? Best of both worlds.
I agree with your assessment, I'm certainly warming up to Apple products, where I absolutely wouldn't have considering buying one just a year or two ago.

I'm still not fully convinced (I'm very comfortable in my DIY PC/Thinkpad/Linux/Motorola/Android device bubble right now), but considering I barely even play that many games or anything anymore, I just want a desktop and a laptop that let me run a web browser, Spotify, a media player and a few token games with relatively low system requirements. So far, my 7 year old DIY PC (3.3GHz Phenom II X6, 16GB RAM, Geforce GTX460) and a 5 year old refurb Thinkpad T420 are both doing quite well, so I am quite unlikely to spend the required money to get into the Apple ecosystem.

I do like playing around with old Mac stuff like System 6 and Mac OS 8/9 in emulators, but that's not really the same thing :-)
Well, I would say, the mother of all mobility market!
I've taken the foundation course and am starting my intermediate training this weekend. For me, amateur radio gets very interesting when you start listening out for satellite transmissions, including reaching the ISS.

It's such a fun subject and as you say, lots of aspects to it that would interest most people with a technical bent.
Been using Cerebral for two projects (one large and one small) so far and it's simply been an amazing experience.
It's incredible how such a simple framework/concepts can cover everything you need, even for large apps. It doesn't only handle state well, but also provides a good solution for handling side effects.

Also, the way routing is handled is really something other frameworks should learn from. It's slightly unusual in the beginning, but when you "get it" you suddenly realize everyone else has got it all wrong.

Just a shame it's not more well known, as it compares very favorably to other state/side effects management frameworks like redux and mobx.
I turned your styling to a Stylus/Stylish script:
https://github.com/taoufix/user-styles/blob/master/dark-thin...

It's a dark version. Feel free to copy/change it.
On my iPhone I've checked all the logical places and have never found one. Also just checked now.
Seems like a good plan, but the problem is that the available land is scarce and we only have one planet.

So we'll have to choice either to undig (and uncontaminate) the fertile lands under the roads and streets in the urban areas, that is a way;

or instead burn the last forests and give our precious natural areas to the pigs, literally. The pressure to ocuppy still relatively intact areas and the last protected sanctuaries for biodiversity would be irresistible and inescapable.

And is a wrong (but much repeated) idea than we'll stop the suffering. Is just that they are conveniently dismissing the suffering caused to the ecosystems. "Gazillions" of savage animals, plants, trees and fungi will suffer inmensely if we scalate the solution to all our cattle.
Which kinds of restrictions have you run into, in the Apple ecosystem?

I'm asking because I've only ever owned one Apple products (an iPad Air 2 that was gifted to me) for a short while, and I chalked up all the limitations to simply being due to being a tablet, and not an full-featured computer.
I never understood the purpose of those "static page generators". The only thing they really do is add a html header to your text? Honestly, for all that hassle I prefer to copy-paste manually a few lines of html every time that I write a new file, and that's it.
Maybe because of differences of education and history between generations. We should compare 65+ yo people with how they were 40 years ago, not with 25 yo of today.