skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are certainly a lot of limits on what you can do with such limited resources, but a reasonable backup with a different provider is certainly doable at that small scale.

It won't be entirely up to date when the worst case happens, you'll be unavailable and you'll probably have lost a day of data or so, but you won't have lost everything.

Rclone to AWS or Google or whatever is easy to set up, add a daily dump of your database to the folder you back up. Unless you handle a lot of data, costs are probably not a big factor.
The petition for certiorari has to explicitly lay out the questions that are to be answered by SCOTUS. In this case, the questions are: (1) Whether copyright protection extends to a software interface; and (2) whether, as the jury found, the petitioner’s use of a software interface in the context of creating a new computer program constitutes fair use.

Considering that SCOTUS is being very directly asked to rule on the copyrightability of APIs (and fair use, if they are copyrightable), not reaching the question is pretty much only possible if they dismiss the case as improvidently granted.
You need a certain number of points before you can see the downvote or flag options.
This seems to be a trend: a study finds correlation between X and Y in mice, no evidence that X is linked to Y in humans.
> improve things

Improve things for whom? Who is going to shoulder the disproportionate burden of forgiving all those loans?
Their customers are Fortune 500 companies.

Clearly they should be charging more.
That's generally good advice, but I think it's important to keep backups and other disaster-recovery stuff somewhere else. Heck, just buy a NAS box and sync things nightly.
I mean, sure, but it sounds like it’s a 1-man technical operation.
It is just as easy as lots of things we take for granted, line making a new app route, or component. That is a non issue.
Do you actually need a root cert for this? Can't you just install the server's self-signed cert?
They are reckless to trust a single company with their backups worth of money. I don't trust Google and Amazon with backups of my wedding video nobody cares about, so I'm using my home NAS with raid as a third additional storage (along with Glacier and Coldline). And they just trust DigitalOcean with all their data, assets? Crazy. Don't put all eggs in one basket. Register domain from one company, host DNS in another company, host your servers in third company, keep your backups in multiple places owned by multiple companies, test your backups periodically, have migration plan if one company decides to ban you.

That's another reason that I'm very skeptical of Amazon and Google offerings of their proprietary API. Rent virtual servers, no problems, you can rent those servers from a thousands of hosters. But if you're using their proprietary APIs, you will have to rewrite your software to migrate and you will have very tight time frame.
I thought I was the only one who figured that out! (not literally, but you know what I mean)

When I took it, after pseudoephedrine was placed behind the counter, I never thought phenylephrine did anything. Turns out that it really doesn't:

https://www.jwatch.org/na39054/2015/09/17/phenylephrine-no-m...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/04/the-t...
One thing I love to do is send any major communication I've written through text to speech. I've caught soo many mistakes that Grammarly or Word didn't when I hear it.
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Your first footnote doesn't seem to support the claim that most American's don't know who Assange is. Did you perhaps link to the wrong article?

That would make me really sad if its true.
I think the key point here is that an API is a specification of functionality, and therefore is an idea (the idea being the idea of program which other code interacts with in a particular way). There is no way to write a runtime environment compatible with Java programs without having the same API (and its possible to develop an identical API only looking at the documentation). While it might involve creative work to come up with an idea, ideas aren't copyrightable[1]. On the other hand, the implementation of an API is clearly an expression of the idea of a particular public interface, so it should be protected by copyright. IANAL though.

Edit: As a secondary point, remember that the point of copyright isn't to protect authors, it is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea%E2%80%93expression_divide
Except Reid Hoffman is doing the ultimate in sideline sitting by supporting milquetoast campaigns and candidates with small ideas. This article is a puff piece where he manages to make no interesting or bold political claims. I am going to hold our leaders to a higher standard.

PAY YOUR TAXES REID, THATS ALL WE NEED.
Well if you don't need HA, having a data backup (at least the most important data) outside the service is usually pretty cheap/easy.

Even the database replication is mostly setup and forget these days. Very reliable.

And they already did backups. It's just they did them to the wrong (same service) host.
To be blunt I've heard of GCP doing this to other people before. AWS and Azure though both understand that customer service is extremely important, and shutting down services destroys confidence. In the case of them suspecting malicious activity they'd have actual security people look at what's happening, and then maybe blackhole their traffic while they start calling people.

After even a single incident like this no sane company would relay on DigitalOcean. This is the kind of crap you expect from a shared web host overselling resources, not from a company that wants to provide infrastructure to tech companies.
>Just maybe the democratization of film

I've been thinking about this for a while. The "despecialized" versions of the Star Wars films prove that audiences can dictate the nature of a creative work in lieu of (or in spite of) its creator(s). It became apparent that eventually fan-edits of films, and fan-remakes of films, might eventually supplant the official material in certain cases.

But beyond the concept of "superior" or more popular versions of flawed films, there would be branching iterations that eventually are so distinct from their source material that they'd essentially be different things all together. Which is exciting to me.
The more general principle is that interchangeable parts of a system aren't covered by IP outside of active patents.

Magnuson-Moss guarantees that third-party replacement parts don't void a warranty. A brake disc that interfaces with a hub and caliper specification can be sourced from a variety of vendors. The OEM has no say in the matter unless there is patent or trademark infringement involved. I can also make and sell my own vehicle that is compatible with the same brake discs of an OEM provided there is no IP infringement.

Just because Oracle used copyrighted IP to create a public interface doesn't mean that copyright can extend across that boundary. Copyright does not extend into the realm of mechanisms for information exchange. That's what patents are for.
This doesn't seem unreasonable, OVH is not advertising DDOS protection (nor do they seem to be structured to offer it). Some hosts will can your VM and throw out its data, which is a much worse outcome.

Edit: I stand corrected ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> In all practicality, DO freezing your account has the same effect of DO being down (or closing, etc.)

Given their size, that is extremely unlikely to happen without warning.
If they’re offering e-mail as a service to customers, and trying to differentiate by the features of that service, then probably yes. Otherwise, probably not. Read the linked post to get a more nuanced view of what Joel considers being a “core business function”.
If they outlaw burqas, they can face lawsuits over religious freedom.
Yup, you need 500+ karma to downvote (and you can't downvote responses to your own post)
A few positive experiences I've had related to writing:

1) I used to write a lot on Quora. Being an engineer who can write made my future VC partners believe that I could do more than engineering. I'm pretty sure that building a decent readership base on Quora is what put me on my partners' radar in the first place.

2) Writing on my blog/Twitter/etc has helped put my name and my fund's name on more people's radars and generated a lot of leads for potential investments. As an introvert, writing has been an excellent solution to not wanting to go to networking events/dinners/etc. :)

On the startup side, writing/content marketing are great ways to get customers, especially for b2b companies. Having a strong product matters, but being able to articulate the product's value and your company's expertise through writing is incredibly helpful.
Does anybody know what they actually do?

I dug around to find a Wayback version that actually had text. I understand the words on their own, but when put together I get nothing: https://web.archive.org/web/20181030015237/https://raisup.co...
Be careful, Accutane can have some pretty bad side effects. I decided not to use it, and many years later still think it was the right choice.
My father's addition to his cabin has a one inch gap between the two buildings and a door. Technically allowed in his little Connecticut town as long as it's under a certain size. Same with the sewing studio he created for my step mother.
Technically correct is the cheapest kind of correct.
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Thanks for the info, have an upvote!
Not in my experience they don't. I use OVH and nfoservers and I've had an issue like this exactly once on both hosts.

On OVH one of my servers was hacked and running typical scripts that are run once that happens (port checking, common admin credentials, brute force attempts, etc)

They cut off all internet access to and from the server and sent me an alert stating what was happening and that I needed to VNC into the server, resolve the issue, and let them know how/why it happened and how I resolved the issue. Once that was done they just removed all the blocks on the server and we all went on our merry way.

Edit: To clarify the VNC console is on their site, not a remote connection.
Maybe. But don't forget this is a small company of just two people. Yes the backups should have been off site but relying on just one digital partner at that scale isn't the worst (they're unlikely to have the money or time to federate out to other services).

Yes, ideally they would have already tested their back-up solution, the back-ups would be offsite and, if something like this happened, they could stand-up on another provider. But that just ignores the reality of them being a super tiny business. Almost no one at that size is going to do that.
You can only downvote once your own comments have been upvoted a bit.

Keep in mind though that you should only downvote for abusive comments (which also deserve a flag), gross misinformation, or other things like that. Disagreeing with someone is not a good reason to downvote.
They're not, no one is talking about that except you. You're completely off topic.

This is about startups hosting their own internal IT infrastructure.
If you're reading this and concerned for your own backup story, fret not! In 2019 secure off-premise backups are super easy to implement, even for a 1 person shop. Get something like Restic or Borg or any one of the enumerated options here: https://github.com/restic/others

I've recently implemented backups with Restic, the static binary and plethora of supported storage backends was extremely appealing. The easiest seems to be to just point it at a S3 bucket, but given most people have infrastructure on AWS (off-premise means off-premise) having other options supported out of the box is pretty handy.
My wife conquered her acne with low doses of a blood pressure drug, which apparently alters the expression of hormones.

Update: Spironolactone (Aldactone) is an androgen blocker drug that, at a lower dose, can help with hormonal acne.
Ideally, the team.

In practice, management and above.
The effect size of xanax is .3, antidepressants .3, and morphine .4. So if the effect size of antidepressants aren't clinically significant than neither are xanax and morphine.
Probably because of publicity. How many of those companies went bankrupt silently, because their case did not cause much attention in news?
>That said, any company, especially one working with Fortune 500's, should have DB backups in at least two places

Yes they should.

How many 2-man shops do you think follow all the proper backup and security procedures?
Easy for you to say, a two man operation with 100s things in your todo list everyday.
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Suicide is going to become a fantastically destructive problem in the near future.
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It seems like there should be a middle-ground between all-on and all-off. If I'm paying customer, I should be able to access my account in some capacity even if some abuse related issue closes off server access.
Why do you focus on the mice, when the article talks about two studies, one of which was longer term and done on humans?
"Crucially, these changes in gut bacteria have translated into behavioural changes. Even 18 weeks after treatment started the children had begun showing reduced symptoms of autism. After two years, only three of them still rated as severe, while eight fell below the diagnostic cut-off point for asd altogether. These eight thus now count as neurotypical."
Well, what can we say, they're not wrong.

Ideally partners should be trusted (and trustful), in practice, they aren't

Though trusting DO/AWS/GCP, etc is much more reliable, than, let's say, betting your whole business on somebody's proprietary API (like an FB game, an Linkedin API something, etc)
I accidentally left a 24xlarge instance running for a month without realizing it and they looked at the activity and were totally cool about zeroing the bill for that instance for the month. Basically gave me us a $2000 credit.

It does probably help that I said I would be careful not to do that again and had already put in a CloudWatch Alarm to automatically power-off the instance after a set period of idleness before filing the ticket.
I think it's the opposite. The cofounder intervened and the access was restored. This would never happen with Google or Amazon -- once they lock you out, your entire business is permabanned, and you won't be able to reach any human with authority to help you.
Gotta make it easier for the Russians to target you.
> Given that you don't have any collateral with this debt

You may not have collateral, but you technically should have an asset, which in this case would be an education and degree in hand. What matters is if your education and degree were in a subject that has market value.

$30k for a computer science, engineering, law, finance or medical degree wouldn't really be underwater, because you have a degree with market value.
Except heat doesn't cooperate
The US Supreme Court, which by definition does not enact things, it only unenacts things by interpreting the US Constitution, is not what people are talking about when they say "the government". When people talk about "the government" here, they mean the Executive and Legislative branches (President+DOJ and Congress), but mostly they mean law enforcement and those who enable them. Local and federal law enforcement do not want you to have privacy.
It's fallen into the memory hole. See the current Wikipedia page, no mention of Assange's ideologies from teenage years all the way through founding WikiLeaks. And also no information doing simple internet searches. I'm not motivated to try digging deeper, because, well...not worth the effort.

IIRC (...and maybe I don't) it was easy to run across allegations (which seemed to make sense) of his ideological leanings...I think related to hangers-on of the cult his mother got the family involved in.

That and his frequent appearances on Russian media at the time (8+ years ago). People forget, and however it happens, information falls into the memory hole.
Being just one person is no excuse. I am a 1-man technical operation too, and I know that backups have to be stored on two different locations.
You're not alone: I do the same thing.
For the customer, there is a big difference. Hitting an API to send an email and a text 48hrs before shutting down services is a common courtesy and easily automatable.

The host should throttle resources in the interim if its at risk of running up massive bills or adversely impacting other clients. None of this is breaking new ground, there isn't a good reason for large hosts to act like shit.
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What you are describing is a form of race to the bottom, if all you competitors (in business or life generally) get ahead and away with behaving unscrupulously the only rational course is to behave unscrupulously.

What is particularly tragic is that all it takes to get this rolling is the perception that others are doing something and people will move to follow.

Campaign attack adds, lying about diesel emissions, doctoring footage, falsifying compliance to environmental regulations and on and on.

The perception is becoming that if you obey the rules you are a fool and that is horrifically dangerous position.

Society by and large runs on a trust (but verify) model, I trust that when I walk down the street a random person isn't going to murder me but when that trust is eroded things go bad fast.

Scares the crap out of me and I'm not sure what we could do at this point, more genuine openness from government/authorities, properly funded government watchdogs with independent oversight that kind of thing but they are expensive and easy for either side to rally against "big government"/"the man".
At 19 when I started working at a factory which right before my eyes replaced a brigade of humans with big machines which were all operated by one human I wondered why we're not taxing the machine work as we taxed the human work before. I still haven't found a answer to that. Don't the humans lose a lot of tax income when machines replace humans? And couldn't that money pay the replaced humans at least a decent life outside of what we call in German 'Erwerbstätigkeit'?

(Google Translate calls it 'gainful employment', no idea if it's the right translation. What I mean is work for which you're getting paid money which you need to use to survive.)
>They can understand it, but not use it.

Right, and isn't that what Google is doing?

"Hey, if you send a message in the Java language/API, we will understand it and do the same thing that a real java program will do."

"Hey, if you request that a meal be supersized, we'll understand what you intend and execute the Biggie-size operation, which matches what McDonald's would do."

Of course, there is the difference that, unlike Wendy's, Google is (analogous to) telling everyone "you can ask the cashier to supersize your meal" instead of just rolling their eyes and accommodating confused consumers.

>Going to your fast food example, I'm pretty sure that trademark law applies,

As in the sibling subthread, I think the example sidesteps the trademark complication because Wendy's doesn't ever use "supersize" in promotion, they just passively accept user-initiated requests that use the term, and do so in a way compatible with their McDonald's-derived expectations.
> I use an iPhone, iMessage, Gmail, Google, Google Docs, etc. I'm interested in understanding why people who do practice this feel so strongly that using these products and services is bad.

You mean services from American conglomerates, why don't you use Huawei, Yandex, WeChat, etc?
It also means that this was laid out in writing for security researchers: but research came there none, before the last couple of years. As I've said before, the speculative-execution CPU bugs really seem to be the financial crisis or replication crisis of computing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16105385
Are mobile phones bad for your health?
Reminds me of Roger Federer being denied entry:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/tennis/not-so-fast-roger-fe...

Rules are rules in Australia, even if you are a 20-times Grand Slam champion and one of the most recognizable people on the planet.

Roger Federer found that out this week when he was blocked access to a locker room at the Australian Open by a security guard who took his job very seriously.

A video circulating Twitter on Saturday showed the Swiss double defending champion stalled at the entrance for lacking his tournament accreditation.
The other moral hazard is if you pay people to not cut down forests it encourages all the worlds forest owners to request payment for leaving them alone or threatening to chop them if not paid.
I agree. Putting all your eggs in one basket these days indicates poor decisions or risk assessment.

> Digital Ocean "Trust and Safety"

Does this phrase give anyone else the heebie-jeebies? They deliberately locked his account without looking at previous metrics over the previous months to conclude this was obviously not a concern, and why?

Things that have crossed my mind:

Is their automatic system was poorly tuned?
Was this deliberately initiated? If so, why?
Sounds like they give companies a feed of startups they might be interested in acquiring?
Great comment. Reminds me of "The Organization Kid" but much pithier https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/the-org...
Should have went with Linode
From my experience you don't have fortune 500 companies as a customer as a >50person,>5mil revenue company.
You may have employees from such companies paying you via their business credit card, but will never get through real procurement without documented SLA procedures which are required to prevent a scenario exactly like this.
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It's not a weird complaint at all when it's being presented purely as a tool to facilitate money transfer in/out of your bank account.
I get you wrote something to a limited audience and didn't expect it to be shared beyond. But you really should consider any communication with a 'a few authors' as something that could possibly be shared with the whole world, even if you had said it was confidential, which wasn't even the case.

If you want this to blow over the best thing to do here is not say anything. The fact you are trying to 'silence' something that is clearly beyond the point of silencing looks bad in multiple ways (a bit naive, trying to control speech).
It could literally be a cron job that dumps your DB to a desktop computer once a week. Not exactly CIA-level stuff.
You'll be surprised how many companies are "all in" on AWS or Google Cloud, including ALL backups.
Burning Man will continue to be increasingly shaken down by every agency that can shake them down for as they hold the event. As long as you can't (or the other parties think you won't) walk away, you're always going to be at a disadvantage at the negotiating table.

The smart thing to do for the organizers is call everyone's bluff and cancel the event for a year. It wouldn't be the end of the world for Burning Man, but it would hit the pocketbooks of all the agencies banking on the revenue and give everyone a lesson they'd remember for a long time.
The quality of DigitalOcean communications in this case - especially email responses look like worst examples from some pretty terrible corporations. I thought DO was (is?) trying to differ from them.
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