skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just posted about Arq on another recent Mozy-related thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2167171). Arq is an OS X program that backs up folders to Amazon S3.

Those new Mozy prices seem pretty close (if not cheaper) to what S3 will charge you, even for reduced redundancy storage.

The other thread quoted Mozy pricing at $432/year for 385 gigs. Amazon runs about 10 cents a gig for reduced redundancy, and another 10 cents a gig for transfer.

For around 150 GB of backup, you're looking at about $15 a month for S3 storage and another $15 to get the data from your machine to Amazon's.
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Let me know when they finally ban the pink plastic shopping bags from Chinatown.
Have you switched to it from Mozy? If so, what are the differences / advantages?
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The balls on MS people are fucking amazing: "Harry Shum, VP of search development at Bing, responded by admitting that Google had uncovered a new form of search fraud, and said he wished Google had spoken to Microsoft about it before taking it to the press". So bing is either (a) scraping all web behavior out of ie, or (b) scraping G's search engine results, or (c) both -- and dude is pissy because G didn't give them time to get their lies together in private? Amazing.

ps -- there's a word for what MS's software appears to be doing: spyware.
A key thing would be to make more revenue from each existing customer who walks in the door, so revenue is higher for the same customer base.

Counter staff should be trained on how to effectively offer each customer something additional with their purchase without alienating the customer.

Structure pricing so that the customer can buy additional pastry products for relatively little extra expenditure. For example buying 2 pastries instead of one gets you an extra one for free. Go and examine the pricing structure of the most popular beer in the area that you live. You will see that they structure it so that it's always worth considering buying a larger volume because you get much more bang for your buck. When someone buys a single pastry the counter staff member can say "for an additional $2 you can get 3 pastries, would you like to choose two more?"

Encourage purchase of additional products such as drinks.
You can have your data hosted if you don't believe your device will be online all the time. This could open up some ad-based services.
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Yea sure but even the Google toolbar reports user behavior if you let it.
There model is very different, though I don't know their history.
The best bet would probably be a tool used in a now dead religion. For example, a tool specifically design to force a live fish down the throat of a duck to appease kurlog, god of pond boats.
Skype doesn't do this. Please read: http://www.mjalali.com/blog/?p=10

>1) Each client checks for internal and external IPs and saves them. That list is transmitted to your friends every time you update them with other data. It automatically manages this list of possible places to reach you.

According to the link, "supernodes" route connections and provide matchmaking between Skype callers. How do you find the "supernodes"? "If this file is not present, SC tries to establish a TCP connection with each of the seven Skype maintained default SNs IP address on port 33033."

>2) There will be indexers for these cases which can be used as relay points. C would merely be a match-maker, telling each host which IP address and port is currently open. No data is sent through C.

"If caller and receiver are behind a UDP-restricted firewall they will need a relay (node) in between to establish TCP connection to and then the traffic (including media) will go through from one side to the other."

Skype's protocol would use host C as an intermediary.
Beyond the search box - is search innovation dead?
It's called fogbank, and the full extent of what happened is unknown due to it's classified nature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK
It's not in dump format, but you should take a look at simplegeo's (free) api: http://simplegeo.com/
Or it might backfire and just show that you don't have enough business sense to take the money.
It's smart. I've lived in college towns before, and yellowpage delivery day results in one of two things - garbage cans filled to the brim, or drinking games centered around towers of yellowpages. Younger demographics simply aren't going to flip through a paper index when they can find the info they want on yelp/google/etc. If SF is at a point where they've embraced a digital distribution of resources and information to the point where the Yellow Pages are no longer necessary, then they'd be foolish not to stop the distribution of them (or to at least make them opt-in instead of opt-out, as described here). That said, I'd love to see some empirical evidence as to what percentage of the SF population still uses them.
Foofighters JS/HTML based album preview.
Nothing too special, just nice to see people using native, browser-based tech rather than flash for sites like this.
This week, the ability for anonymous, 0 rep users to edit questions was added. They go into a queue where other users must approve or reject the proposed edit, but you can drive-by suggest those improvements now.
No, definitely not. Please read below and go to yadaproject.com to see why you should help out with this open source project.
Never trust a benchmark you didn't run yourself. A realistic Genshi template is butt slow. More than a handful function calls per byte emitted is not uncommon. Regarding Django it become a lot slower when they introduced automatic escaping and loop item unpacking a while ago.

I have seen many people switching from Django templates to Jinja2 especially because of the increased performance.
Is Google also obsolete?
I agree 100%. I was in SO early (the beta) and still encountered this. Not only that, but a quick/early bad answer would tend to do better long-term than a later but correct answer.

Given this (and I'm no stranger to accumulating high levels of karma/followers/whatever by natural participation on sites) I only use Stack Overflow as a user now and rarely answer anything. It works great for that and I can sift through the answers and pick the one that works best while ignoring the score. It's clearly not for me in terms of participating fully but I can live with that.
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Their model is very different now, yes, but their original presentation was based on this exact concept. I would suggest looking at their history to see why they moved away from this design, and if possible, speaking with them or discussing on their mailing list the pitfalls they ran into.
You're thinking of FOGBANK[1], which they apparently had to reverse-engineer the manufacturing process for after, essentially, losing the any documentation of how to make it.

On the subject of the question in the article itself, it seems trivial to come up with technologies that have stopped being made: semaphore towers, metric clocks, lisp machines, and slide rules spring to mind.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK
I see no reason why anything in the post would apply to OrangeSlyce, based on the OrangeSlyce website. You're comparing a graphic design company to a product company. Graphic design does not go on the App Store — products do.

Relatedly he's not declaring every tech company without a native mobile app to be "obsolete" — he's declaring non-native mobile apps to be obsolete.
The level of support provided by carriers in the US is typically atrocious, but I do not understand how this works. I generally only calling with billing issues. What kind of support are customers providing?
How difficult is to cancel Mozy and still get a refund on an annual plan? It looks like refunds aren't automatic with Mozy upon cancellation.
I have a friend who, every time he tell someone what onomatopoeia means, points out that, oddly enough, onomatopoeia is not itself onomatopoeic.
I think you should mention where you live. Might be able to snag someone nearby's interest if they know your location.
I've asked a question in freenode channels then idled for the better part of a day, or even a few days, with little traffic and no answers. SO is faster, often much faster.
> there are a lot of examples of items that get submitted
> to HN and go unnoticed only to be posted 2 days later and
> get to the top of the front page.

Agreed, and I see that as a developing problem. It didn't seem to happen as often two years ago, or even one year ago, but it seems to be happening a lot now. A consequence is that a significant proportion of submissions are duplicated stories. It would be nice to ensure that stories people obviously like (because they are submitted repeatedly) actually got noticed the first time around.

There are simply too many submissions for people to see them all, and so many good submissions are simply lost in the noise. If they get noticed then they get upvoted and hit the front page, but many sink without trace. The resubmissions are indirect evidence that we are missing potentially valuable stories.

It would be nice to fix that.
I actually viewed this as kind of snarky.

I don't see why disappointment is an unacceptable response. I was kind of dissapointed to see that this is where they were going for mobile apps.
I'll speak with anyone willing to help solve technical challenges associated with this model. But until someone comes up with something "damning" then I'm going to keep moving forward.
Exactly. Force players to buy the next ticket on the roll (without seeing it) and don't allow unused tickets to be returned. Problem solved.

I grew up in Maine and tickets are dispensed this way. Not sure about returning tickets, but knowing Mainers, I'd be surprised if they would take them back. It doesn't pass the straight-face test.
Sweet! Nice to see the mongoose ecosystem take shape
His main point is that 37signals doesn't have a native app for Android/iOS but should because of the increasing number of users that own these devices. His secondary point is that a mobile phone web app simply isn't enough. Without rereading the article, he backs this up with an example of low internet signal in the bathroom and how a native app could remedy such a matter. He also mentions an airplane.

That was my simple summary. My takeaway is that software entrepreneurs should consider such issues. As he is right. Mobile web apps aren't enough. The UI paradigm between iOS and Android alone is enough to demonstrate this. I'm going to write a blog post about this tomorrow. Interesting topic that coincidentally I was discussing last night.
By complex I mean templates that make your templating engine go slow. Unless you are using a terrible engine, which is slow no matter what it's parsing.
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Found this recently, thought others here might be interested.
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So assuming we're talking about 37 Signals only, I'd still offer the rebuttal that claiming obsolescence because of a lack of native app is a stretch. It's hyperbole. Yes, there is a vocal community of users who want a native app, but what are the costs associated with building the native app? Would 37 Signals see any substantial benefit by releasing a native app? What percentage of their user base are dissatisfied with the mobile web app?

There are a vocal community of users that want Flash on their iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. There are a vocal community of users who want a Facebook iPad app. Apple and Facebook aren't on the path to obsolescence because they don't bend to the whim of their users.

In order for something to be obsolete, it must be operable, but unused. To be on the path to obsolescence, one would expect a decline in use. That's pretty hard to prove in the case of 37 Signals, because they don't publish user-base numbers. Or maybe they do. Does anyone have a source for this information?
I believe Mitsuhiko was trying to draw comparisons of Django or Genshi engines to those of Jinja2 or Mako. There was a well depicted article, year(s) back, showing (profiling) where Django templating was losing a lot of work, compared to Jinja. Unfortunately, the article appears to have fallen off pocoo.org, but you can find the HN discussion at the following: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726461
Ah, crap. :)
Out of curiosity, if your validation methods (written in the server-side language) don't have environment specific side effects, couldn't you compile them to Javascript for use by client-side code (using LLVM or something)? Or does that not work very well in practice?
I wouldn't say that only "clever" users would rather use `free`, since most Linux installations don't have GNOME or X11 installed to begin with.
How would that be differentiated? You can monitor and reply to issues as an official company rep on GetSat.
If Bing is really copying what about those who fought Bing vs Google war as if it were Vi vs Emacs war?

By any chance, is Bing named after Chandler Bing?

"DuckDuckGo" has become by default. Its awesome.
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Artists get it wrong

I kinda get upset about all his use of "artist" as a derogatory term. Have he ever painted anything in real life? Beleive it or not, just a canvas plus red, blue and yellow acrylic paint will be enough.

Oh, and some kind of talent.
Eek. Sorry, I disagree. IMHO, templating engines should not allow you to do much more than simple substitution, loops and escaping. I think Django strikes a very nice balance and learning to use it takes minutes. This is like saying that you should be allowed to use ASM in your Python code, as long as you promise never to actually do it.
I don't think that answers my question on intermittence, persistence and syncronization.

I can have my date hosted, but if my friends don't (that's why they use your service, so not to have to do that, or else they remain with Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. That's your USP), I can only access their data when my friends devices are online. Or, alternatively, you store my whole friends graph on my device, which presents scalability and performance issues. Or, 3rd route, you store my friends data on multiple devices on the network, doing "multiple seeds". Again, we're back to "opps my data is all over the place", when your Unique Selling Point was P2P = privacy, no need to centralize.

Even Skype Supernodes don't solve this issue. They solve some of the routing issue. Not the "address book/data issue". You don't seem to solve it either.
This is wonderful - I can only hope that they release the full resolution images of the art into a public licence, so that they can be used for other sources (i.e. wikipedia and the like). I'd also be interested in knowing what camera setups they used to photograph each of the art pieces. Anyone have any insight into that?
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To be a bit brutal:

Peter Programmer knows Python very well and is a highly skilled programmer, but there is a rep hurdle Peter can't pass because there are already tons of eager Python programmers answering every question at least as good as Peter. This means SO doesn't need Peter or his contributions. At all.

If your contributions are unique and useful, you pass the rep hurdle easily.
S.b. "Effects". See http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/affect.html
They're required to patent everything that they can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act
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I'm not sure that your average consumer is going to want to reflash a router with DD-WRT. They just want something they plug in and it just works.
Agreed, especially since one of their core markets is non-tech savvy people. Imagine if you've never heard of MailChimp before, and ended up there via Googling "easy newsletter subscriptions".

User questions: "What does this do?", "Is it complicated?", and "How much does it cost?".

I would venture to say it would be almost and immediate bounce.

On the landing page to have to watch a video at the bottom of the page to figure out what MailChimp is...really?!
Depending on size/needs I think of Dropbox first.

Currently I share a 100gig folder with my fiance. We both have everything we need in real time.
Dropbox has size limitations - you might be able to get around the 100gig limit by contacting them?
You're not supposed to. They're separate sites with separate communities. Your interest in StackOverflow doesn't mean you should be keeping up with recipe questions on the Cooking StackExchange site.
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also, did anyone took a look at Windows XP source code? I suspect there might be linux kernel in there.
If you intend to implement this, I suggest you do some serious in depth reading on peer discovery over IP based networks, including real world applications and exactly how they operate, and what their limitations are.

With all due respect, based on your posts your current understanding of how things like Skype and Bittorrent operate under the hood in a "server-less" environment has a few holes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Peer_Discovery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_network_42

http://samy.pl/pwnat/
Oh, when I look at the way comments get voted on round here, that becomes quickly apparent. Thanks for the reminder.
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Short answer: no.

Long answer: I have used it as part of a function that generates functions when I was writing an AST-generating portion of a parser. You need to make a bunch of similar functions, so you make a list of tuples containing all the bits that differ between the functions, then write a generator function which converts these strings into real Python functions which you can then eval in global context. Surprisingly enough this actually made the code more readable and easier to maintain. :)

But that is literally the only time I have ever thought it was a good idea -- and that's in code where I completely control the data going to exec(), in code that will never be in an Internet-facing arrangement.
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Not sure why people are voting you down. I've written quite a few tools for coding that have gone unused, and its exactly where my mind went too.
Almost everyone here has lots of ideas that have the potential to make it big, so unless you have something special to offer it will difficult to find someone willing to work with you. If you have the skills to get started so you can show people an at least partially working product that would greatly increase your chance of attracting a collaborator.
As well as serpentines and such ancient war machines.
hey are you the editor of bostinnovation.com?
I wish you the best of luck, and I admire your ambition (and hubris) but as someone who has been working on distributed social networking (Appleseed) for over half a decade, I'll present this:

You don't always need a singular, damning situation in order to prevent a model from being implemented. Sometimes dozens of purgatorial ones are plenty.
hey, I am the author. find a typo? you might be seeing a cached version of the article...
They don't. They rely on tracking data on performing any search and the resulting click which occurs. Just because Google happens to be the middleman in some of these metrics, doesn't mean there should be a massive leap of logic to the statement: "Bing has to rely on Google Search's solutions".
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Mongo DB performance stats, along with an explanation about the importance of RAM when scaling.
I believe I have the same Chimpy tee-shirt (grey AA?) which is one of my favorite teeshirts ever in terms of design and comfort. Such a great mascot, and instantly recognizable as Mailchimp. Are they giving him up for good?
It changes the game a lot for startups that would fail 4 months in.

I don't see any downsides though for YC candidates; I don't subscribe to the idea that getting only the initial seed money from YC is better than having the option of the follow on $150K.

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Exposing this practice has also introduced another potential problem for Bing. Gaming of their search results.

I would expect to see spammers sending many thousands/millions of clicks on specific Google search results through Bing's Toolbar for long-tail queries.
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Internet Archive was sued unsuccessfully. As I understand it a lawsuit is still in process against Google on the topic. So I guess the precedent is weaker than I thought, but still: tread carefully.
Their write that most the data is available for download. I can't find it anywhere though, only the various APIs. Have they remove the possibility of downloading the data?
Apple may drop the 30% cut entirely on in-app purchases

I think it'd be great if they had some sliding scale for different types of purchases. 30% for virtual goods, 15% for digital media, %7 for physical goods... that kind of thing.
"Or, alternatively, you store my whole friends graph on my device, which presents scalability and performance issues."

With all due respect, this is where you are incorrect. Devices today completely capable of handling a large amount of compressed plain text data. Media would will be links to external sources as storage capacities play catch up.

The CPU of the device would be able to map your entire social graph and do things that are not possible today being that calculating a social graph on a central server for each user is EXTREMELY expensive and basically impossible with high-load services. Kind of like the concept behind folding @ home.
RGB is pretty rough, you can clearly see from the graphs in this article, https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/CIE_1931_colo... how "fuzzy" all those colors are.
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"It's a trap!" </akbar>
Try backblaze - $5 per month:

http://www.backblaze.com/

Works great ;)
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Basecamp is not "shiny". It's functional, fast, and has a very small learning curve. That is why it is such a roaring success in the business community. People in business don't have time to decipher your chrome-laden, non-HIG iPhone app. That is also why Windows XP and BlackBerry still retain a lot of popularity in that community, despite being based on Precambrian technology.
Are your ideas software related? If so, what resources do you need? Your profile says you're a software developer, so presumably you have coding skills. You're logged onto HN, so I think we can safely assume you own a computer. Compilers, editors, IDEs, VCSs, databases, frameworks and libraries galore are freely available as open source... Cheap VPS servers can be had for something like, what, 10, 20 bucks per month; and Amazon AWS makes ridiculous amounts of computing power available "on demand" in affordable increments.

I think you'd get more mileage out of posting a request like this on HN if you at least started building something and then got to a point of maybe saying "Hey, I've got this prototype, but to take it to the next level I need somebody with expertise in $WHATEVER, would anybody like to jump onboard?"

Now if you're talking about an idea for a fusion reactor or a new hardware product or something, then OK... but you'll probably still get a more enthusiastic response if you post more about what you have in mind.
A model steam engine? That's almost appropriate.