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I have used backupPC for quite a while. It works great but doesn't scale very well when you are getting to the scale of TBs upon TBs of files, 100s of millions of files. I ended up having to run multiple servers.

If you want something along these lines that scales better, rsnapshot works wonders. Rsnapshot is much more simple, as it doesn't create a large pool of files to compare and de-dupe against, it uses rsync's built in deduplication features (so, it doesn't create a "pool" like backuppc.) Techincally, backuppc uses less storage space, so if that's the concern, use it. but rsnapshot is my tool of choice.

EDIT: I will mention that my experience is based on having to deal with very large sets of data across numerous backup targets and at least 4 years ago, I have not tried any of the latest updates that may make this solution better or make performance better. Most people that were in my position probably would have had the funds to leverage an enterprise vendor solution at that scale. For what backupPC does, it was pretty amazing to work with and rock solid in terms of functionality at smaller scales.
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It's not that they are moving faster than light. It's the space in between us and those places which is expanding such that, at great distances, the integrated expansion leads to faster than light separation of static points in spacetime. A human of that size couldn't make sense in our universe.
This is exactly the kind of superficial thinking that is, unfortunately, dominating this debate.

So what do you expect the poor countries to do while they wait for that to be within their reach?

Even in the developed countries this is 1) not feasible 2) not being done 3) not even close to being financially responsible 4) mostly being driven by nations NOT the market and those nations are going to soon run out of money to spend on this.

You offer nothing but virtue signaling.
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Which Articles? Non-US reader here.
I’m not sure things are so black and white. Although I would agree that trust is earned, I don’t think trust is the most important thing.

Rather than relying on trusting other people in the workplace, it would be better to develop a system where people both trust you and rely on you.

If I go to my manager and admit to him that I have problems, he will immediately suspect two things. One, that I don’t get on with people, and two, that I might rat him out one day.

I have not been able to apply these ideas in real life, as I have been much too idealistic. I’m looking for a new strategy.
Different contexts. In the real world it's understood that anything is possible (you can also clarify if unclear). But in a book like this, you put trust in the author to use precise language, and especially given the nature of this particular book. Maybe it was done purposefully for effect, but that's still jarring.
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Listen to the narrated version of the article. It’s much more powerful hearing the author and Barkley talk about Lin, especially when Barkley talks about how he and Lin would talk about their kids.
None of that is new, though; the social liberalism of Western countries is a relatively recent and localized aberration. Censorship of socially harmful content was and is very common, particularly in more religious countries (which describes basically all for most of history, and many nowadays).
That mentality is absolutely puzzling to me. A friend of mine is/was exactly that way. He would rather live at home and drive a Jaguar or a BMW, then move out and drive something more affordable.
You've got a point. I suppose my question was more towards the people who argue that this is perfectly ok because these executives take on "risk" by making sure they get paid either way.

It's one thing to say this is how it is because they managed to pull it off. It's another to say it's completely justifiable ethically
My experience over a similar time period is that most of what appears to be dev team incompetence...isn't.

It usually maps to constraints they can't control.
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The bankruptcy process is literally that.
> finding a partner is not an easy task to be undertaken like shopping for a one-time commodity, it is a joint journey of co-discovery that begins when one person is whole in their own, and both be able to comfortably accommodate a binary star system in their heart.

I feel that was a very poetic way of explaining finding a partner. Thank you. You have a way with words.
Global Hawk does 34 hours without refueling. That's well beyond the U2's performance and the core issue. The military wants to push the envelope on what's possible which get's expensive.

Also, be careful comparing just the name. Today's U2 were built in the 1980s and are about 40% larger than the original design. They also include a lot more electronics where the orional needed to land and get film developed.
Two things are being confused here:

1. Except for the UK, Ireland and Denmark, EU countries issue identity cards which are valid for most situations where a passport is required, so long as nothing would be stamped: crossing borders within the EU, proving identity to the police [1].

2. Many European countries have rules requiring someone to be able to prove their identity, such as with their identity card or a passport. Those rules apply to visiting foreigners. Depending where they're from, they could comply with their national identity card, or with a passport.

So the answer is yes, except instead of a passport most people carry their credit-card sized identity card.

Since I'm British, and can't have an identity card, I'll often leave my passport in the hotel safe and carry a photocopy of the picture page. Particularly if I'm somewhere risky like a music festival or long hiking trip, where a passport could easily be lost, stolen or damaged by rain. I don't think I've ever had to show it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_the...
There are still 2 basic sources of benefit. First, power stations generally use turbines which are much more efficient than internal combustion engines. Even after accounting for inefficiencies electric often comes out better. The other benefit is that it decouples the vehicle from the energy source.
As the article I linked to points out, teacher pay in the U.S. is substantially above the OECD average.

> We let far too much of our school system just be raided by private interests

Right. "Private interests" are to blame, even though school systems are run by public employees top to bottom (from the principal to the janitor). Education in Sweden and Denmark must be a real disaster, given that in those countries school-choice programs allow parents to use voucher dollars on private schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Sweden ; http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EDUCATION/Resources/27820....
Shareholders make the rules. They also lose their equity in bankruptcy.

How is this unfair?
Flagship titles? Is that really an important thing for Netflix?

The thing is (like Amazon & Hulu) is that they have no advertisers, hence publish no viewing figures for anything.

We really have no idea what's working for them and what isn't.
> It appears that the bonuses are contingent on the company hitting financial goals.

Naturally. That's normal everywhere.

The question is how can the financial goal rewardable with 10 (EDIT: 8) digits be bankruptcy?
How can they stack three magnets with the repelling side facing each other on all three magnets? Isn't one side repelling and the other attracting?
It is easy to work around that if that counts separately for each crossing: have four sets of border crossings, each accessible every fourth day, and controlled every day.
A lot of science museums have a display showing how magnets and copper pipes interact. In short, because of Lenz's Law, the magnet's motion induces an opposing magnetic field in the pipe ... which suggests another possible way to make a pogo stick with the right kind of resistance curve as well as addressing the heat issue.
I didn’t write a comment calling anything garbage. In what way did my comment degrade discussion?
It's the compiler's job to do so, not a programmers! The programmer can do whatever makes sense. For example, in Scheme

(define (make-counter)
(let ((n 0)) (lambda () (set! n (+ n 1)) n)))

is guaranteed to work in any context where make-counter is called. Same in Go; though the syntax is a bit unwieldy due to having to specify types:

func makeCounter() (func () int)) {
n := 0
return func () int { n++; return n }
}

Google's Go compiler is smart enough to allocate only the captured variable (n in this case) for such returned functions on the heap. There should be no failures.

IIRC some algol-68 compiler did remove the restriction and allowed such full closures.
Elegant articulation can be part of good science and good poetry, granted, but in many other aspects the goals of philosophical writing and poetry are sort of opposed.

FWIW, I find eg Nietzsche's (flowery poetic) writing terrible philosophy, in many ways.

Arguably the hermeneutics/analytical divide is (partially) about this issue.
Pretty cool how they got the computers to work w/o plugging them in.

That was a Jobs thing. For years, Mac ads didn't show cables. Then came the iDweeb earbuds.
I feel like https://blazor.net might be a better url for this post.
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The risks are entirely private. Shareholders and lender capital is at risk, not the general public.
Every link i’ve seen to this story annoys the hell out of me because they don’t explain HOW the elevator eventually stopped. That’s literally all I want to know.
I’m sorry you’ve had that experience. Mental health is still such a taboo topic; for everyone who can respond with empathy, there are just as many who don’t know how to talk about it or otherwise react constructively.
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uBlock Origin & uMatrix allow you to read the site without seeing that popup or sending data to the advertisers. I realize that you shouldn't need to do that, but imo it's the reality we leave in.
If you move between Switzerland and Germany, you need to have a passport (or ID which was also accepted before Schengen) and will be announced when a train approaches the border. I have seen people being denied entry because they didńt have a passport.
4/ what is actually difficult, and worthwhile, instead is to do ONE single thing for a very, very long time. It's much harder and much rarer and results in outlier outcomes much more often.

A friend of my parents spent more than 30 years building a famous watch called "jens olsens world watch" in half size by hand (as in litreally everyhing is done in hand also the wrenches which for some of them takes 400 years to go around their own axis)

This is on top of a bunch of other things he built. If there is a modern day da vinchi he would be it (he paints, plays music, writes assembler like it's an artform, understand mechanical engineering and electrical engineering he reversed engineered the Mac2 back in the days, I could go on)

https://imgur.com/a/wfQNM

He never brags about it so I have to do it because I think there are far too few people like him left and they are the ones who really do things in life.

There is much to be learned by someone like him.
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This may be true but misses my point: when I navigate a stack trace and try to figure out how execution went through this match process, it will be more difficult to understand than idiomatic Python code, because the tooling is line-oriented.

Good FP debuggers would be able to step through it of course so it can be restated as a “toolchain issue” but that ignores the fact that Python is largely statement oriented, in terms of its execution model.
I'll throw in my two cents on top of this:

* SPAs: Microsoft has a vested interested in porting a lot of code to SPA applications. Teams being the latest example.

* Windows is dead, long live Windows: A desire for a lighter version of Windows in the near future running on ARM and you suddenly have existing dev tools and code moving to a Chrome OS like environment with little fuss.

* Edge: Is jumping over to chromium and wishes to support existing chrome extensions. What blazor may also allow are some pretty sophisticated download-once applications also coming through that 'store(?' with first class support.

* Linux Love: If linux is the rural America of 2016 then MS is Trump. OSX and Google seem to be locking people in and MS is trying to give more choices.

* Windows is Dead, part 2: Can't stress this one enough. Giving enterprise developers and teams a way out of the legacy sandbox seems to be key.

tl;dr - Re-cut the Star Wars scene of 'Luke I am your father' to Nadella and myself. Change the response to 'Yesssssssss! <hug>'
To my mind, the issue here is not that a bankrupt company payed bonuses to executives who managed the bankruptcy process well. To my mind, the issue is that executives are paid so exorbitantly well relative to non-executive employees, and this issue is not specific to Sears or other trouble companies.
What I was getting at is that non-freeing programs would use much more memory. This doesn't increase the "pressure" on the allocator for such a program but does increase the pressure on the OS (that has to handle memory requests for many concurrently running programs).
We've been using a DSL called SnapKit (was called Masonry in ObjC days) for years to make things way more tenable: http://snapkit.io/ If the maintainers happen to be on HN, thank you making for this!

Something like:

make.left.equalTo(foo.right).offset(15)
make.width.equalTo(400)
Without contradicting that, how is it ethical for a supposedly charitable, non-profit institution to charge young people with a hundred thousand dollars of debt for economically worthless degrees?
I'm not arguing against a straw man, I'm outlining why it's unnecessary (in very blunt terms). What you've just said does nothing to refute everything I stated.

"Provable security" is both rare and unnecessary in most of cryptography (in the information theoretic sense relevant to this discussion, not the sense of e.g. application security or static analysis). To reiterate: you do not need information theoretic security to defend against satcom intrusions. That's tantamount to using a one time pad, which is ridiculously inefficient. The computational model is just fine. Even the United States government only rarely uses information theoretic security these days, and instead opts for the more efficient computational security provided by e.g. AES.
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My mid-2011 MacBook Air is still going strong.

SSDs changed everything. What’s to wear out other than fan bearings?
Tell that to Ryanair.
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For my usage, I have BTRFS on my backup host, but not on all (or even any) of the machines I want to back up. They're variously macOS, Windows, Linux ext4, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.

rsync has the upside of being universal.
Seems you have to much faith in licensed professionals.
It's not as simple as that -- compute the cost of 2^64, 2^64-1, and 2^64-64 to see some more interesting behavior... (I'm using ^ because HN eats double-asterisks; your python may vary)
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This is like something from Black Mirror or Maniac.
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Interesting article.

Note that you cannot do this for a major upgrade with the Aurora offering AWS is pushing.

There is literally nothing else except pg_dump/pg_restore for upgrading major versions on Aurora.
A system for providing assurance against tamper detection during key distribution is pretty clearly germane to cryptography. Cryptography already provides very mature solutions for tamper detection. Like I said, information theoretically secure tamper detection is over-engineered and unnecessary.
> downvotes. ... ignore everyone complaining" mentality

Echo chambers downvote anyone who points out the echo chamber behavior.
> why do so much for open source?

For the low price of working under an open source[1] license, they bought over a decade of support from a large portion of tech industry professionals. Google (along with the other FAANG businesses) was able to simply ask people to supporting their increasingly monopolistic position.

When some of us attempted to warn about the long term consequences of giving Google/etc even more power, we were ignored or accused of being "crazy conspiracy theorists"; with a lot of open projects to use as counterexamples, and not many current, specific examples of Google actually abusing their power, a lot of people simply couldn't believe that Google might be doing anything bad.

Open sourcing anything that overlapped with a competitor's proprietary software was a highly successful strategy to undermine the market and hurt their competitor's revenue. The minimax best move isn't always the move that maximizes your benefit; sometimes it's the move that minimizes your opponent..

[1] Note that while they use FSF/RMS-style free Software, Google generally doesn't license their open source software under the GPL. Their openness has a carefully considered limit.
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The general public includes these employees who are not getting their bonuses/severance that was promised because executives need to be paid out first. Then we have people who need unemployment to cover their lives that would have been covered by said payments.

It's the same issue with Walmart and McDonald's paying too little to live on and teaching their employees how to sign up for benefits
Although, sometimes a company will fail no matter how well it is managed. Chess analogy, if you lost your queen and rooks, even having the best chess computer take over your losing game might have a hard time avoiding a loss.
> For the 4, 5 and 6 magnet stacks, the outermost gaps tended to be a bit larger than the inner gaps. Why?

> As we add more magnets to the stack, the maximum pull force alternates up and down. If 2 magnets repel with some force, 3 is a little less, but 4 is a little more 3, but 5 is a little less than 4, etc. Why is this so?

Shouldn't these guys have figured it out pretty easily? Both seem to be readily explained by the fact that it's not just the adjacent pairs of magnets that interact. Given magnets ABCD, the A magnet is repelled by B and D but attracted by C. B is equally repelled by A and C, but attracted by D. And so on.
>Capitalism beat Communism in the 80's but it really seems Chinese 2.0 Communism is whipping its butt...

In fairness, "Chinese 2.0 Communism", is really just market capitalism.
Actually, the answer is probably "it's complicated". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_between_magnets#Force_be... gives an approximation in the x >> R case, but in the pogo stick situation we're not in that case, especially once we get to 5 magnets or so. But even there, if x >> L also holds (which it would in this case, since the magnets shown have R and L of about the same size), the force goes as 1/x^3 or so, because the 1/x^2 terms cancel out if you go through the small-L approximation. Which, again, is not relevant to the problem because our case has small x.

For small separations, the exact geometry of the magnets starts to matter. http://www.magnetsales.com/design/faqs_frames/FAQs_2.htm has some experimental results that show the field going up a bit over 3x when distance drops from 1 to 0.5, then ~2x when going to 0.25, then ~1.5x when going to 0.125 and only changingby 1/8 when going to 0.063... all distances in inches from _surface_ for a magnet that's radius 0.5 and length 0.5 in the same units. Note that this means that the distances from the _center_ are approaching 0.5.

All that said, the force is almost certainly not exponential, I would guess.
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Yes, while interesting this is pretty irrelevant for Python which does not have static checks.
It's only predatory if they mislead on outcomes.

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When a big company goes bust and lays off thousands of workers or even defaults on pension obligations (I know Sears did in Canada I don't know if they did in the US), it's the public who pick up the costs through unemployment benefits and welfare payments.
If everyone was paid exactly the value they added GDP per worker would be the average wage, with no caveats required.

Equal productivity would just mean the average and median wages would be the same.

Government spending, funded by taxes, contributes to the GDP like any other spending.
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It's happening for me on Chrome Version 70.0.3538.110 (Official Build) (64-bit), for what it's worth. Seems like the Edit Window / Modal / Popup has some sort of resize mechanism to it or tied to it and it repeats shrinking the width of some container on a loop but there's nothing to tell that loop when to stop / what minimum width the loop / shrinking should end at.
To the employees, who had their bonuses/severance taken away for paying out the executives. If this was a one time thing I might agree with you, but it's a systemic issue where executives run their companies into the ground and then get paid out still while the employees are left with nothing.

The argument has always been that they are paid so much due to the risk they take, but that risk has shown to be non existent. If you were going to follow that argument then the rank and file employees would be getting the high pay since they are left with nothing due to other people's choices
One would hope it's properly salted before being sent over any kind of network.
Is shouldering the burden of running the company really 312 times as stressful as the average worker's job though?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/16/ceo-versus-...