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Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> Are Backblaze planning on offering solutions for europeans?

About 15% of our business comes from Europe today, and we collect VAT tax accurately for all Europeans as required by European law. So if you are willing to encrypt your data in Europe and send it encrypted WITHOUT the encryption keys to store it encrypted in B2 (zero knowledge) in the USA, then Backblaze would love to have your European encrypted data.

If you are asking when Backblaze is going to open a European datacenter where you can guarantee your encrypted data sits on disks inside of Europe, we are hoping to open that datacenter in 2018 (this year).
Isn't that the same as the point I was making? Systems with extremely simply rules can be complex. Am I missing something subtler that you're trying to say? A child can understand the rules of GoL and "play" it with pencil and paper. That's what is simple about it. The resulting behavior of the system is complex.
> If this were a poetry journal that seeks contributions from young male writers, I don't think anyone would call it "blatant identity politics".

That is exactly identity politics...

If that's the game they want to play then fine, but call a spade a spade here.
You can't argue the genius that came up with "chocolate diamonds." You have a diamond that looks brown and ugly and can somehow make it desirable and even rare. While I swore off natural diamonds a long time ago, somehow I feel like DeBeers will be able to spin this and come out ok.
Although the parent comment didn't really seem to be a literal comment about voting. That's what the ":)" was intended to indicate. It was just a general, friendly pro-Emacs comment. Downvoting everything that isn't super serious makes for pretty boring reading too. The first comment on this post, something along the lines of "My pinky hurts just reading this" was actually pretty funny. It was removed because it was immediately heavily downvoted.

Seriously, aren't your day jobs stressful enough? Do you have to be that uptight? I don't remember HN being like this a year or two ago.
To add to this, a "tl;dr" is only useful if written by people who actually read the whole article. That is, written by people who did not apply "tl;dr" themselves.

In this particular case, the article clearly says:

> The array will contain 4294967295 integers, each with the size of four bytes, taking up 17179869180 bytes in total.

Later, the article again stresses again that you have to multiply by four:

> having the size of 10000 integers, that is, 40000 bytes

It's really hard to imagine how somebody who actually did read the article could have missed that.
I hate DST because I'd rather be on NORMAL time year round. Having to get up in darkness during Winter would be terrible and there's plenty of light during Summer anyways.
> Even then some of the new composite materials out hit Ti

The issue is one PEOPLE DIE because of these bats and balls. (I'm old but I was one of maybe three people that could hit a home run now all 10 players can)

1) The other bats were so thin that you had to rotate the bat when you hit because the bats bend or will break. The ti bats are durable and you can still sue them. The issue is nothing really is better than ti but ti has a cost.
I don't think anyone's particularly upset about this. Nonetheless, even broadening the scope to all "marginalized groups," how many HyperCard stacks relating to that will she actually end up getting? I think this truly will be slim pickings.
I'm not sure. Two other popular online retailers here, Argos and John Lewis, do not have the same notice on their website when you select a TV and view the product page. It may be a law that they don't bother mentioning but that's just a guess.
This article incorrectly refers to ACS as a firewall system. ACS is used primarily to control management access to Network Devices via TACACS+ or RADIUS. It offers no firewall functionality whatsoever.

This is arguably worse than it just being a firewall. I imagine that it wouldn't be a huge leap for someone to use this exploit to create a local account and policies to give themselves access to every router, switch, firewall and appliance in an enterprise.
Not sure how anyone informed can question whether this is a thing, so I wonder kind of strange bar you may have for evidence. But this issue is well covered (see below for just a few examples), and I've never heard intelligent rebuttals. I would say at this point, the onus is on you to show why this is not how it works.

- https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/07/c...

- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/prison-priva...

- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/12/the-pri...
Except one is a real problem and the other is an invented problem created only to cause more problems
> > I like a bit of extra paranoia

> ... three separate vendors and technologies ...

> ... does not share a single line of code with ...

> ... use two different credit cards ...

This person legit thinks about failure modes.
Launch HN: SafetyWing (YC W18) – A Global Safety Net for Digital Nomads
Hi HN! We're the founders of SafetyWing in the current YC batch. We're working on a global safety net for online freelancers, starting with health insurance, which you can get here: https://www.safetywing.com

When we quit our jobs to become digital nomads, we discovered that if you are not a full-time employee, you're pretty much on your own. You lose stable income and most benefits when you earn money as a freelancer or entrepreneur, and lose the rest of your safety nets by being abroad. We decided to do something about this, and the result is SafetyWing.

We're three Norwegians: Sondre is also founder of freelancer platform Konsus.com (YC W16). Sarah is CTO, former lead engineer of ad-network Tapdaq & she’s also a musician. Hans a is lawyer and former head of legal at Auka, which is like white-label Venmo.

Our first product is $37 per month (4 weeks) for worldwide travel and medical insurance ($30 add-on for US, since US healthcare is much more expensive). It only works when you’re outside your home country, although there is 30 days home country coverage every 3 months so you can visit home (15 for U.S. residents). Covers hospital, doctor, prescription, etc.

The hardest thing about making the product has been licensing and getting trust from an insurer. To do that we hired two senior insurance experts who have been in the industry for 30 years. They helped us design it, and get the deal with insurance giant Tokio Marine.

Why is it so cheap? 1. Three major exclusions: preventive care, long-term cancer treatment and pre-existing conditions.
Acute onset of pre-existing conditions is covered though; 2. The price is for ages 18-39. Other ages can buy though at higher prices—sorry, it’s the way this industry works; 3. Lower commissions compared to insurance sold via agents.

This is the first step in a plan to build a global safety net for online freelancers and entrepreneurs.

Look forward to getting feedback and hearing ideas from HN. We know there are digital nomads frequenting here, and we’d also be really interested in hearing about your experiences with health care or safety nets in general.
I can’t convince myself that this is a problem. How much US propaganda is linked to on reddit?
This is on-point. Cultured gemstone-grade diamonds started becoming viable in the early '10s, and manufacturers were careful to provide better value than mined gemstones but not overly sell on it, instead stressing the ethical aspect of CVD/HPHT-treated stones. In addition, the process wasn't yet refined enough to undercut traditionally-mined diamonds by too much. If that changes, then the meaning of diamonds to the rich will as well.
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Of course the literal meaning of it isn't bad, but the connotation is pretty negative. Although perhaps it isn't there, it could just be the English translation that "sounds" that way.
I alternate throughout the day. You will need to if you are just starting out. Both postures encourage the lengthening of independent muscle groups.

In this previous comment [1] I list a cushion and bench you may use for either style!

[ 1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15737443
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Are you thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_organic_pollutant ?
You don't, but the photon does ;-)

Seriously, what do you mean by "will lead to the same outcome"?
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The first ~5 paragraphs about physical height? Why not write about his skin color or gender and see how that flies?

Sorry for the language here - but fuck this article.

The point is lost right out of the gates. In the age of "donglegate" and "hashtag me too" I expect better.
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Same thing is going to happen to us (the milky way) and Andromeda in about 4 billion years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...
We have two types of taxes:

Council Tax - a tax on residential properties. Properties fall into one of eight bands, A to H, where A is the least expensive and H is the most expensive. Your council tax bill is made up of the council tax itself which is the largest portion (goes to the council to pay for schools, libraries, street lights, etc). The remaining portion pays for water and sewerage.

Non Domestic Rates - businesses pay these. Water and sewerage are payable in addition. I don't know the ins and outs of how they're calculated.

Unfortunately land hoarding is an unresolved issue in the UK, there isn't as far as I know any penalty or charge - much of this land has no services or business activity so can't be taxed. There have been suggestions by some UK members of parliament that house builders should be forced into a "use it or lose it", thus far there's not been any official position from the government. I suspect the issue will be swept under the table until the next time the media hoves round and puts this back in the spotlight again.
Ti bikes are all over a thousand on bikesdirect. I am thinking that ti bikes will cost just a hundred more than steel when ti becomes common.
Years ago I attended a health seminar where the presenter stated that the digestive system uses lots of energy to digest food. He (and other authors I've read) suggested the idea that generally speaking, when your body doesn't have to spend energy digesting it can do other things better. (ie, detox would fit in with this) Though I can't say I understand how or why this would work, it's seems a reasonable assumption.
In a programming language that allows functions with multiple return values, error values of some sort become almost natural. In Lua, the idiom of returning "nil, errormessage" on failure is very common, too.
“The most popular articles posted by these accounts racked up dozens of comments and hundreds of upvotes, ”

So what? It seems like this is a pretty small about of interaction. Hundreds of upvotes is nothing especially if you are troll powered as many of those are probably fake.

The whole point of Reddit (and many other sites) is that there’s lots of noise and junk and it gets filtered out by community. Asking why there are crappy articles on it allowed is odd. Russian trolls get to post junk just as much as Coca Cola and Disney and all the other organized AstroTurf social media campaigns.

Is the change here to create a ban list of every troll and potential troll and stop them shitposting?
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Are professor wages really a substantial factor in increasing university costs? I don't know too much about the subject but I've always attributed it to (1.) the wide availability of student loans making it easy for college tuition to rise faster than is affordable and (2.) the crazy amount of expansion/construction/etc. that universities seem to be doing constantly.
Looking forward to the YC-backed diamond company that produces indistinguishable lab-grown diamonds.
This is a smart point; we should be careful to not just turn this into another corrupt slush fund. Education for prisoners should have the same standards as education for any other American, full stop.
A lot of places use blockchain as some kind of "all you have is a hammer" solution to hashing.

Which... I mean in some (rare) cases is a good thing but is usually - as far as I can see - just a way to get VC money or buzz by saying "we use crypto".
I think a lot of more progressive(?) places let drug users off because it's more or less a victimless crime (no one has to be harmed in making and distributing drugs, though some producers certainly do that, but so does any capitalistic system; the cartels aren't significantly worse than buying from Apple) and they really just need help.

Child pornography is never a victimless crime.
It's symbolic of student loan debt
For BYO, you might consider Algo VPN https://github.com/trailofbits/algo -- it gets IPSec right --
or, if you're feeling more bleeding-edge, WireGuard.
Part of the problem is it is legal to discriminate against felons and so many paths to success in our society are closed to them. A person with a felony is denied the pursuit of happiness.
It definitely is, but what happens when you'd like to use the other behavior? There's definitely certain occasions in which you want to use the not-best way to do thing. Leaving the choice to the programmer rather than removing the feature from the language is the way to go imo.
"a study published in 2013 by the right-leaning RAND Corporation showing that inmates who took classes had a 43 percent lower likelihood of recidivism and a 13 percent higher likelihood of getting a job after leaving prison."

Of course, these are the more capable people in the first place. Most people in prison are too stupid for college. A much better solution is to limit college education to a fixed single digit percentage of the population so it can't be used as an expensive arms race of a signaling mechanism by everybody else.
I'm a hobbyist photographer who gets to shoot significantly about 4-5 weeks per year. In each such week, I typically shoot 2,500 - 3,500 images. My current DSLR camera produces images that are in the range of 50MB each. That means about 125 - 175 GB / week of shooting. I currently have about 1.5TB of image data backed up in the cloud. And I don't shoot video at all.

By comparison to some of the more serious amateur photographers that I often travel with, I don't shoot a lot. They may shoot 10,000 images in a week.
Were you thinking about this?

https://www.vg.no/spesial/2017/undercover-darkweb/?lang=en
Please don't auto play videos on your site.
Yes, repairing vs buying new is _always_ a gamble. The odds may be more or less in your favor depending on the age of the item. Take a look at the average life expectancy for appliances : https://www.mrappliance.com/expert-tips/appliance-life-guide...

It's not always a binary choice though, in my case I actually ended up buying a used fridge off craigslist. I found one that was a bit of an upgrade, newer, and about the same cost as repair.
This provides something for free to an inmate. The philosophy of those like Sheriff Arpaio and those politically aligned with him run counter to this. Where inmates are limited in water while living in tents outside in order to save money. Until we can extricate the culture of cruel and unusual punishment in the name of greed by those like Joe Arpaio, we'll not overcome the political hurdles of doing something nice for an inmate to reduce recidivism.
What a trip that in the future the most coveted jewelry will probably be from materials found on other planets (assuming we haven't gotten over this jewelry thing).
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I feel like you didn't adequately cover the "political pawns" phrase.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/...
Or when you use range instead of xrange with big numbers (python)...
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> $10 / 50GB overage, which would work out to 3000 / 50 = $60

You forgot to multiply by $10, so you're actually looking at $600 for 3 TB of overage
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> Imagine if prisons looked like the grounds of universities. Instead of languishing in cells, incarcerated people sat in classrooms and learned about climate science or poetry — just like college students.

In general I think this is a great idea, but for God's sake, teach them useful things that will help them get a job once the state lets them out of their cage, not crunchy liberal arts pablum and highly theoretical science that will get them nowhere career-wise. I say this as someone who made the mistake of going into debt to get a degree in English literature.
It’s a site for streaming videos. Seems appropriate here.
Backblaze still won't let you label a snapshot. It's so frustrating when I've got say folder A, B, C, and I take a snapshot of each, I have no way to tell which snapshot is which. And god forbid those folders are 100GB in size. This is my only gripe with them.
In my opinion, teaching meditation to inmates could change prisons in a significant way. You give them the tool that will allow them to cultivate inner peace, rewire their brain plus understand their own behavior by disengaging the "ego".
charts would be better if lines were differing in color a bit more.
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> Why so much focus on Key Value stores? That's the easy part of the problem.

There aren't enough good/fast/reliable ones
No, inventory cars can be new ones as well. They were literally involved in a "scandal" last year as some sales rep put a "demo" sticker on brand new cars to give it showroom discount, in order trying to move them off the lot.

Yes, they do have less inventory than most cheaper manufacturers because 1. Their stores do not order them in advance and 2. They are built to order. That alone doesn't mean they are supply constrained because they do have the capacity to manufacturer more.
> How can someone possibly have hope for changing their behavior when they are treated like an animal in a cage?

If I were treated like an animal in a cage, I sure as hell would not like to go back to prison again.
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Thank you! Almost anyone could have just made a cat's cradle reference. You went straight to the source and elevated the conversation in the process.

>The story "Polywater Doodle" by Howard L. Myers (writing under the pseudonym "Dr. Dolittle") appeared in the February 1971 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It features an animal composed entirely of polywater, with the metabolism described by Richard Feynman. (The title of the story is a pun on "Polly Wolly Doodle".)

There's not a day that goes by that I don't wish Feyman was still alive to help slash through the nonsense.
Well, you have no free, low-effort way to find out. Reading reviews, looking to consumer reports, demoing things are all options. Of course, they take time and effort. But, really, the backstop is to buy it, use it, and take advantage of generous return policies if things don't work out. I almost exclusively choose my retailers on this basis now.
Not an issue anymore on Python 3.
"Abstract values" and "symbolic values" mean different things. Abstract interpretation and symbolic execution are both powerful static analysis techniques, but they are not (classically) equivalent in function.
The comparison between showering as a homeless individual and choosing an email provider does not work. The choice is not Gmail or no email, the choice is Gmail and slightly less convenient alternatives that do not spy on you, which you choose depending on your personal beliefs, not economic situation.

If you have the time to post on HN, you clearly have the time to change your email provider if it aligns with your personal beliefs.

Why do you feel the need to bring up personal details about your hardships in life? Being no longer homeless, you are, globally speaking, on the upper scale of social classes yourself, being from the United States, having 6 years of university, having worked at a Fortune 200 company, and currently having enough time to post on HN.
Yev from Backblaze -> we think about failures ALL the time...
But the discussion is about if it’s a net benefit. It’s much better to decide that before joining.

If the us joined tpp it would get those negatives. We already know that. If those aren’t acceptable they shouldn’t join.
Actually Pinker spends a lot of words on this. Even with the 20th century genocides the trend is down. And actually genocide was extremely common in absolute and relative terms that make the 20th century pale (Mongols, Roman genocide of Gauls).

This is what I found interesting as my understanding was the general consensus that 20th century was bad but the data shows otherwise.

Genocide occurred frequently, it just wasn’t reported on and wasn’t thought of as bad. Pinker goes into quite a bit how violent primitive tribes were in genocide. These examples weren’t large in absolute terms as the tribes were small, but relative were huge as they were close to 100%.

Also covers the violence in pre-history with violence rates of 30% from fossil record (not sure if this is the right term for 100k human ancestor remains as I don’t think they are fossils).
Not even middle-aged white men should worry about it. It was more "This population had the highest coronary artery calcification, which matches what other studies have found. We should look into it more" rather than "These white dudes gotta slow down or their hearts'll give out".
Mandatory in case someone wonders about OP last part:

https://priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bulls...
Same here, especially with the original title of "a 30 year old machine that solves the pothole problem", gave me visions of a Commodore 64 doing something which could also have been done on a musical gift card nowadays (but isn't). Pity, really, physical pothole problems are so simple to solve...
My left upper body up to shoulder is covered with tats and none of them has profound meaning, all simple truth in my life...

- a Chinese dragon because my father is born in the year of dragon (Chinese Zodiac)...

- a snake because my mother is born in the year of snake...

- a guitar because I like playing guitar...

- a gear-powered sun because I like steam-punk stuff and I like outdoor activities, a.k.a sunlight (link to the tat https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf4lxG3gNTG/?hl=en&taken-by=jaac...)

They are all rather superficial but I would unlikely regret having them.
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From just the past week:

1. Tons of Twitter impersonation scams asking to send BTC/ETH for money in return (aka Nigerian Prince scam).

2. A project that straight up plagiarized and then used a picture of Ryan Gosling as one of their "founding members", along with an Asian guy named "Tyrone Fountain".

3. Scam websites exploiting unicode characters in URLs (screenshot evidence: https://i.redd.it/vo09n565f4h01.jpg).

I know people hate regulation, but... this is why humans can't have nice things.
Canceled my subscription.
Most people are talking about Baofengs and similar Chinese-brand radios for inexpensive radios, which are mostly VHF/UHF range. There's also HF rigs that are inexpensive, like the uBitX (http://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/ubitx/), which you buy as an easy-to-assemble kit. It can do 10W on HF, and it's only 109$.
Don't learn trading. That's a constant drain of time requiring constant effort. Learn investing instead.
And full of missing return statements and corner cases. if it only were possible to put an expression anywhere you want :(
But will someone investing in fusion make someone else money, esp. since the electricity is free and some of the resources aren't scarce?

We don't do a lot of things, at least in the modern US, because we have tie economic incentive to everything vs doing for society, even at a 'loss'.