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Show HN: Bitbox.co – Cloud Storage for Developers
I've decided to bite the bullet and release Bitbox.co and get some feedback. I've been coding for years and one of the things I constantly see companies do is write and rewrite a document storage system, so I decided to write one for them. Bitbox.co uses cloud storage (currently Azure) to store documents but can be coded to use any cloud service. Documents can be public or private and URLs to that document can be used directly in HTML. There are currently a list of WebAPIs for developers to use as a tool, or build an entire system around.

This is an MVP and it's simple. Upload a file, get a token; like a valet or coat check. When you want that file back, send the token and you get a byte stream. There is also a built in file converter, so you can can upload a docx file and retrieve it as a pdf by appending .pdf to the URL, for example: https://www.bitbox.co/files/1.pdf, or perhaps a tiff: https://www.bitbox.co/files/1.tif. Files can be marked as public or private, and account owners can invite other users to join their team with read, write or admin privileges.

There are some directions I want to possibly go:

- Allow users to select their own cloud store (Azure, AWS, etc) rather than the built in store.
- Allow users to replicate their files between cloud stores, so you would store your documents on all your cloud stores in Azure or AWS, etc.
- Folder structures for organization
- Integration with third party platforms like WordPress or SurgarCRM
- Cookbook for code examples on how to connect through the WebAPI in various languages.
- Local install so developers can use their internal SMB shares to store files.
- File level security, and / or folder level security for users / files.

This was designed for IT departments without a strong development team to save money. Does anyone have a need for something like this?

www.bitbox.co
The Bill of Rights is not the Declaration of Independence, nor is it an enumeration of people's rights: it is a partial enumeration of restraints on government as they relate to national law. To say that it enumerates human rights is to suggest that human rights in America are finite. They are not. Absent specific legislation or careful court ruling, we the people are completely free to do anything, and our government to do nothing to interfere with that.
That would be socialist of the USA ;)
This projection looks to be either Robinson or Winkel-Tripel – both of which roughly do preserve area ratios.

Which is why all Wikis use these projections, or variations thereof, as standard base map (and it looks as if he just took at Wiki base map and colored it)
I agree with Tabarrok that Google made this decision using wrong reasoning.

I don't see the value in asking companies to voluntary refraining from doing something they don't want to do when discussing politics.
Only relevant question is if Google sees some ways of using political power worth of the cost or not. Signaling may be valuable for the corporate culture or individuals running the company than the possibility of regulation.

People should have more self restraint and behave better but they don't. Companies should act more responsible and refrain from using all the power they have. But that's not going to happen.

Large companies and rich individuals have disproportional amount of de facto political power and they should be expected to use it to the maximum extent. If that is not acceptable, regulation is the only way.
Certainly. I was the one who wrote that "the CEO is not a dictator".

This is trivially true as the CEO is not the authoritarian head of a country.

So I must have meant something a little hyperbolic.

I just don't know how to define that in any meaningful sense so as to be able to talk about it.

I don't know what mark I missed. I objected to the llukas' proposition that the CEO in a business "ultimately controls the project goals." I agree that in the US government, the chief executive does not have full control. I think it's meaningful point that the chief executive does not necessarily have final control.

Personally, I think it's a simpler story to talk about the CEO as some sort of heroic authoritarian leader, which is why we end up with those sorts of stories.
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Every obese person needs "remedial help", that's the definition of treatment. Even attacking the problem from multiple angles may not be enough. Counting calories combined with accurate monitoring helps but is very often insufficient. And even from just that the drop out rates are big - even without actual caloric restriction.

Increasing base metabolism is known to not work as it does not suppress the appetite or fix reward loop. Though thyroid therapy may be needed for some cases.

Dopamine uptake inhibitors exist but they have other side effects, petty bad. (Among them addiction.) SSRI make the problem worse, as do certain antipsychotics.

Direct appetite suppressants have not been invented yet though you can cheat some with special diets. (Well there are some but they're not stable and pain to inject. Could be done like insulin injections but somehow not considered cost effective and unsafe as ghrelin has additional functions.)

Having accurate data on food contents (including caloric) is vital but insufficient.
>If you're a pro auto shop, you can probably get your hands on all of the exactly right tools. If you're an individual, it's another story...

If you're an individual, you go to Harbor Freight and get yourself a tool set for $10 or $20. Tools are dirt cheap these days, and there's no excuse to not have the right one if you want to work on something.
Its existence was predicted in 1935 and it’s still pretty theoretical. But it’s pretty much the only thing that could explain Jupiter’s magnetic field. Just last year experimentalists claimed to have produced metallic hydrogen in a diamond anvil, but those results are under some scrutiny and AFAIK haven’t been reproduced yet.
- Always keep your calm (as mathieubordere has already suggested).

- Don't micromanage, let the developers do their job.

- Organize retrospectives regularly, with the right environment for people to express their good and bad feelings, and find solutions. If you've never done it before, the first few might feel a bit forced, but with experience they become smooth and invaluable.

- Stand up for your people. When your developer makes a stupid mistake, instead of sending him/her to be grilled by the client, do it yourself. Every developer is a human being, and fuck ups can happen to anyone. You'll gain tremendous respect and strong following if you show your understanding in the toughest situations.

Good developers know how to do their job. You're there to assit them, guide them, and reduce their stress when the going gets rough.
> Then my neighbor told me it was hers

That is when you thank her for putting it out nicely instead of banging it up some more, implying that she did mean for someone else to come along and adopt it.
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I dunno...academic funding is dysfunctional and this kind of hyperoptimistic prediction can help you get your next grant.
This is not necessarily good advice.

If someone only wants to buy, say, $100 worth of bitcoin just to get their foot in the door and they don't put in the time to research how to keep their local wallet secure and make sure their computer/phone has not been hacked, they're very likely better off keeping that small amount of bitcoin with a service like Coinbase (and set up 2fa!)

Of course if you play with bigger amounts, and you take the time to educate yourself further about taking custody of your own funds, then I completely agree with what you've said.
But no Python support as they promised. So sad.
Well, they’re designed to cam out. Not strip out.
I have to agree with you — even if I am positively an anti-gun italian non-activist.

There’s a little problem in the fact that those video promote the ownership of guns, and makes them socially acceptable, which could be stated as one of the reasons shootings happen.
> Truffle oil is synthetic garbage used to sucker people unaware of the non-relationship between truffles and “truffle oil.”

I've had real truffle oil in Croatia and it is absolutely divine. A far cry from the synthetic stuff, which I can now smell a mile off. The real deal is incredibly expensive, mind.

I suppose I just wanted to point out that not all truffle oil is garbage, although perhaps in the US the real stuff is vanishingly rare.
Apple is worth $945B – more than ever
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Dude I'm a security consultant for a major vendor and I can't tell you the number of times I've

A) Found an incident while installing new equipment

B) Installed new equipment last year and came back this year because they still got hacked

and/or

C) Ripped out their old gear and put in my company's gear after a hack because the sales guy told them they wouldn't get hacked with our (passive, monitor-only) gear.

You need the right tools, no doubt. But you need to understand your needs first. Centralized logging is the first step, but without knowing what you want to get out of it, those logs just sit there unnoticed. Even intelligence platforms like Splunk or ArcSight, unless you know what you're looking for and write it into rules, it's just sitting there.

Knowledge is what matters, the tools just make it easier.
I believe it to be Pei Wei as well. Their menu is dated, their food preparation & presentation is haphazard, and I always feel like I'm being hustled through my meal. It's like I'm eating at a Disney theme park.

I think they'd do better if they were to have 20% of their menu devoted to locally sourced, seasonal items. And leave the 80% for the perennial favorites (with occasional pruning).
It only takes a small number of cam-outs before it's stripping out.
We use a combination of https://www.templarbit.com and Splunk. Templarbit allows us to get real-time notifications when someone is running a vuln scan, violates one of our security headers or is trying payloads that look funny.
Its a bit more complicated than that, since the only constraints is the yarn and physics. And there's infinite possibilities of stitching things together in intricate manners.
Then deciding whether something is nice/wanted, is in the eye of the beholder :)
Yes, it's used in Polish (coś jest 2 godziny stąd = something is 2 hours away).

Btw, there's this joke about a soldier asking a sergeant "what is timespace", and the sergeant answers "get a shovel and dig from here till sunset".
Strange, I always learnt that we read, no, scan websites and pages in a Z pattern.

https://uxplanet.org/z-shaped-pattern-for-reading-web-conten...
> WAFs (...) 1) they remove attack surface

They do what you configure them to do. Without knowledge of what's allowed and what's not, they're going to have either false positives or false negatives. And if you have that knowledge, you can fix those issues in the web app rather than hide them with the WAF. A lot of preconfigured WAFs will remove specific matches you don't care about anyway rather than attack surface.

> 2) they filter the most common drive-bys

Common as in known proxy or webapp exploits? If that's the case, why not patch them? (There's a reason to use WAF if you can't patch but that costs time/money to get right and test)

> 3) they can be both passive and active

I'm not even sure what passive WAF means... just logging?

> 4) they're free

Only for very small traffic.

> 5) they're easy 6) they're quick to deploy.

See point 1. If you can't put the right restrictions on the app, why do you think you can put them in WAF? If they're not in the app in the first place, why do you think this way is quicker?
It's not a magic box will know your requirements. You need a proper setup or the only thing you achieve is removing obviously silly cgi-bin requests from your log files.

I'm not even against WAFs. Just think the gain from them is been none and minimal if you reduce it to "turn it on, it's cheap and easy". It's really similar to iptables - you can turn it on, but why are you doing it? (On a server anyway) If you have a specific reason/route to protect - great. If not, make sure you bind non-public services to local interfaces and you don't need iptables.
Sometimes I just dont understand if USA webmasters are dumb or they are just playing dumb?

Cookie can have one single value and that is opt-in:false. Nobody will ever say you are tracking them. If you put into it some guid, it will raise suspicions.

GDPR is otherwise quite simple, handle my data as you would handle yours. I bet you would be quite compliant with just this fact.

Anyway, go and block EU, this will create a bunch of EU companies serving what otherwise you would, but to the whole world + 500 milions EU cityzens. No one will cry about "your" service but someone will earn instead of you. Fine with me.

(Not to mention a hell of a lot less clickbait sites, nothing anyone will cry about - or actually probably it is good for them to be cut off. It would be just perfect if Facebook and Google would block the EU too - it would be a pain for a year, after that we would have our alternatives - GDPR enabled and probably working better. And additional, benefit: 90% of javascript so-called developers would go out of business as they are unable to function without copy/pasting from the web.)

Cheers.
I wonder how often consultant-driven revampings like this actually succeed. I seem to remember that the show "Kitchen Nightmares" generally fails to turn around the restaurants they work with.
Writing this on HN gets you plenty of downvotes.

Everybody here is going to be the next internet billionaire.
How about an actual example of "usurping actual contributing developers and shifting the project focus from something technical to something political."? Just trying doesn't count.
You're confusing people because you're talking from a left-hand drive perspective.

This is known in the right-hand drive cycling world as a Copenhagen left, and many consider it to be bad infrastructure design.

http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2010/07/not-really-so-g...
I don't know the context of this, explanation?
"Humans and sharks, for example, make hemoglobin using nearly identical genes. That means hemoglobin genes were already present in their common ancestor."

Um. If this gene was the result of a mutation, isn't it possible, at least in theory, that mutation happened more than once? At two different times? At two different branches on the species tree?

Not really my area but there seems to be an assumption that species development (dare I say evolution) was linear, with humans being the ultimate achievement in that process. But doesn't the fact that genes mutate - sometimes triggered by viruses - imply the process was not at all linear?
It's a hard problem to solve that doesn't need solving. Glorifying the complexity of the challenge shouldn't distract from the questionable ethics of endangering lives in the pursuit of luxury.
How far should science go to create lifesaving replacement organs?
To me it's in the same league as referring to McDonald's locations as "restaurants".
Lonely Japanese people. https://world.wng.org/2017/11/lonely_in_japan
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> Monarchs [...] often end up as the most popular political figures of their republics.

I can't quite put my finger on it, but I think there's something wrong with that statement :p
> No, you don't get the results in the same order.

You and I just don't see to be on the same page about what fork-join is, so we probably aren't going to agree on this.

> It's not Erlang, where you can actually have a deterministic order

Can, but my point is you can also not have a deterministic order, which is how Erlang programs can end up being racy, which is the problem with them if you are trying to solve the original problems of threads.
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Or turn right and then turn around.
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I guess they learned from the last few times when military juntas took control of Japan and burned everything to the ground, in the end.
This was my understanding as well, but the wikipedia article directly addresses it and say that it is a common myth with no supporting evidence.
What about GoDaddy's free speech of them writing their own ToS? It's not like they have a monopoly or anything. Easy to go somewhere else if you don't like it.
Sure, but my point is that whether or not the video was darkened (and regardless of how the car "sees") overdriving your radius of obstacle detection is an unsafe way to operate a vehicle.
Unfortunately, mobile processors seem to still be undergoing the same rapid increase in power that desktop systems used to, and the OSes and applications are being built for top-of-the-line phones. Even my iPhone 6 struggles with modern versions of iOS, despite being under 4 years old.
The first and last name may be a coincidence, but depending on how old you are the "same hospital" is likely not. SSNs are generated based partially on geographical area, so if that's the only or the biggest hospital in the area, the likelihood of getting a number from the same hospital is substantially higher.

If you have someone's SSN, you can pretty easily deduce what city they were born in unless they are very young (they switched this process recently).
Hi HN! I' m Pavlos, an ML engineer at HomeAway, building things on the side and just launched a new open source project. Sagify is a command-line utility to train and deploy Machine Learning and Deep Learning models on AWS SageMaker in a few simple steps. Why you should give it a try?

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>For conventional electric guitars with magnetic pickups, there's an additional force slowing down the string: the magnets in the pickup.

That's interesting, I never even thought about that. So theoretically, if you remove one of your pickups, you should get a slightly better tone, and longer sustain, right?

Personally, I never use the middle pickups on my guitar, and actually wonder what they're for. I only use the neck and bridge pickups. I've noticed a lot of newer guitars simply eliminate the middle pickups.
Carbs and sugars are (almost, but obviously with nuances) interchangeable in the way I am using them, from the bio-chem sense. I do see what you are saying and see where this back and forth is coming in. No, there is absolutely no reason to eat a big 250g spoon of table sugar. As for Alzheimer's you are seeing more work around diet in general and the link to aging. It just takes awhile, I don't think it has to be a conspiracy(of course it could be, there is a lot of money in carbs). You are seeing some of these findings move from academia into public consumption reporting
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/the-start...
[2] https://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-2017/foods-dec...

Either way, I think this thread has run its' course. I will probably not respond anymore but I'll leave with this: I agree sugars should also be talked about, we generally consume way too many in a day but I take issue with ranking basic nutritional building blocks because they are all important and we would be in trouble if we took one out. But have a great day, always good to have a little internet back and forth.
Tangentially related annecdote: you used to be able to get email addresses @bestaatniet.nl which basically translates to @doesntexist.com. I stopped using that address pretty quickly.
A related video from Dan Jurafsky where his team analyzed the words in 6500 menus and found correlations of adjectives & nouns used by the cheap vs expensive restaurants.[1]

(Or put another way... imagine this thread's "menu design" story being multiplied 6500 times and DJ researchers analyze the output of those consultations -- the 6500 menus. The corpus reveals some interesting repeating text patterns.)

To apply DJ's findings, we notice that the author India Mandelkern writes:

>Back at the office, our team pooled our observations on multicolored sticky notes that we stuck to a giant whiteboard. “Dishes have no freshness cues.”

We assume this results in a Pei Wei menu[2] with these excerpts (and with particular words _underscored_):

>Then we wok-sear it in our _delectable_ orange sauce and finish it with _fresh_ orange slices

>our Wei Better Orange Chicken and Wei Veggie Orange Chicken are made with _fresh_, not frozen chicken,

According to DJ, the expensive restaurants would not use words like "delectable" and "fresh".

[1] deep link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iYwUh1Hdho&feature=youtu.be...

[2] https://www.peiwei.com/orangechicken
I've come to accept the occasional downvote as noise in the process.

It's probably not healthy to take them seriously.
VC is equity not debt, and very very few restaurants raise money via equity.

Often they'll take out large loans secured on both house and business, along with a chunk of their own (or investor/friends) money to get things started. The lenders get to stick nice chunky rates on the whole thing and generally have limited downside because collateral.

I don't mean to imply the banks are doing anything wrong, just that the business model is based on managed downside rather than "striking it rich"
Agreed. There are two things that I feel should be destroyed and replaced on sight for the betterment of humanity: flat head screws/drivers, and network hubs.

It would probably even cause a measurable increase in lifespan due to removal of a significant stress source. But I can dream...
Oof. That’s about as bad as calling co-workers “family.”
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There are products like Cryptosteel, which are designed specifically to be able to survive a typical house fire and a variety of other disasters.

Combined with a passphrase, it also means your money can't be stolen if your house is burgled. Gold would be a sitting duck in this case.
How do you measure the contrast? With a tool or by eye? Whst is considered an acceptable amount?
> Is there really a clear line of authority between the glibc maintainers and RMS?

Obviously, yes. RMS is currently the president of the FSF and glibc is a FSF project, created and directed and maintained and funded by the FSF.

Just because some developer parachutes into a project that doesn't mean the project owners lose their rights over the project, or that the developer becomes the new owner.

If you want to contribute to a project, you do so by respecting and complying with the wishes of those directing the policy. The FSF started the glibc project and manages glibc's development and establishes the policies followed by the glibc project. It's the FSF, and not any random developer who just so happena to have commit access to a repository.
Maybe I have not. Can you get back to me with some information debunking the following claims:
Meat - loaded with trans fat, cholesterol, antibiotics. Milk - full with estrogen(it is from a mammal after all), Casomorphin, which makes it addictive, antibiotics, cholesterol and trans fat, just like meat.
Eggs - full with cholesterol and choline, illegal to advertise them as healthy or safe in the US.
Fish - full with heavy metals like Lead, Mercury, antibiotics.
Same thing with Amazon in the US. I want a metal water bottle with a flip-top lid but I can't find any in my local stores. I find them on Amazon, but the reviews always say "I didn't get the brand, I got a counterfeit product" so I haven't bought one yet.

I ended up paying $30 extra for my backpack I bought recently because I didn't trust the Amazon items were real after reviews saying they were counterfeit. And these are Prime items, sold by the manufacturer, but they're stilling coming counterfeit.