skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost is per user. $5/Month for the standard plan

It is mixed we backup the MBR in raw blocks. We back up files in Blocks or as a whole depending on the likely hood the file will be changed and the size of the file.

Yes we preserve permissions and ACLs for files.

What do we do if there are 1M changes in 100GB? It depends on where the changes are. We take a snapshot and any changes will be picked up in blocks of various sizes and only those changes are unloaded. So if most of the changes happened in 5GB then only 5GB would be uploaded. If they are spread out across the 100GB the whole 100GB could have to be uploaded.

We perform automatic updates. This is an option you can choose to opt out of.

Each user currently is its own account. We may offer group account management in the future.

We currently do not offer private key encryption. It offers no additional protection. Here it is from the website to save some typing "Private Key Encryption is a good way to protect sensitive data. In online Backup solutions not so much. There are many secure private key encryption programs some of which are open source and some that are free or both. What is wrong with Private key encryption in online backup solutions? When it is built in to online backup it defeats the purpose. You are giving the key to those intrusted (the online Backup provider) with encrypting and storing your data. This gives the uninformed a false sense of security. This is analogous to using a safe in your hotel room. You choose the combination (The password) and write it down on the safe for the cleaning staff (The backup program) to gather your valuables and place in the safe. They lock it and promise they haven't looked at the password. Most of us would never think of using a safe in a hotel room with that arangement. If you have ultra sensitive information on your PC we recommend that you use a third party application. If you have data that would cause you significant pain if it fell into the wrong hands, you should be encrypting it because unfortunately your PC could get stolen."

The technology does not do block compares. The only access to your data is through your account.

Yes, although it is not available for download yet. There is a windows pre-installation environment iso that you can use to restore or repair a disk.

Great catches on the privacy policy and terms. Those are definitely off from what I want in those documents. I will have those revised.

Thanks for the detailed post!

Rasch
Thanks good catches!

I have some editing to do tonight!
I'm particularly impressed with the way they modeled loops, which is always a hard thing to explain to new developers.

I remember trying to learn Perl from one of the O'Reily books when I was 11 or 12. I was following the examples and generally enjoying myself until I came to one with a while loop. I was ticked off that it was looping automatically and I couldn't see why. I was expecting that I needed to say when to go back to the beginning of the block. ...maybe c would have been better then.
What should Mozilla (or any organization) look for in an automated review system?
> The exponentially weighted mean ... may be what was intended, or maybe not

I can't think of any reason this would be intended. Proper method would be computing the mean and variance, to check if the sensor is behaving erratically.

While turning off the watchdog isn't a bona fide error, it definitely shows a lack of robustness in checking design assumptions.

> Just because the A/D reads 12 bits doesn't mean you have 12 bits of data

If 8 LSBs are junk, I'd say the analog system was also negligently designed.
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Part of the point of the paper is to show, yet again, that data that could be considered sufficiently anonymized by stripping IP addresses names etc. is not anonymous enough.

Your credit card information identifies you, but you generally don't give your credit card information to any location based service you might want to use.

Additionally, there's still this thing called cash, or visiting places that don't require exchanging money.

A location profile could expose information like your doctors, what restaurants/bars/clubs you like, where you shop, who your friends are, what political or religious places/events you attend... do I need to go on?
For those living down under ... check out
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So get the nurses to do it for them, which, I believe, is what the researchers who were looking at this had to do.
One of the things I do is run who, uptime, and free when I first log in to our development server. I'll repeat that periodically through the day. I ps aux if uptime shows any significant activity.
There was no "ideology" in that video. It was just Orpah-level sap.
Someone do this for the Arab world. Please.
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Well, there have been a couple of major gains in manufacturing efficiency and they have chosen not to lower their prices.

I am guessing as long as they have high demand they see no need to drop the price.

String ribbon technology and amorphous thin film (flex panels) are a lot cheaper to make... at least they claimed so earlier on.
Ideology is common sense. It's the cognitive framework you don't realize that you have. The idea that business drives innovation is an ideology.
The 55 mph speed limit is arguably another.

However, those are the exceptions. IIRC, we still have a mohair subsidy for troop clothing even though we don't use it any more.
If you had 9,000 engineers making 100k a year on average, they could each spend an hour every day on paranoid safeguard processes and only cost the company $308,000.

Uhm, it's closer to $500k. Per day. So based on today's goof, which is presumably rare, with your batch of added paranoia they'd be still be out $150k for the day, and they'd be out $500k all of the days that there wasn't a colossal screwup.
It's incredibly myopic to say that an hour of downtime equals an hour of lost revenue. When my favorite takeout place has busy phone lines, I wait 5 minutes and then call back.

I wanted to search for something during the downtime, and I didn't go to Yahoo--I waited. They definitely lost revenue, but it is a ridiculous, baseless claim that everyone went somewhere else during the downtime. You have absolutely no data to make any such claim.

Furthermore, your calculated cost of an engineer's time is simplistic and inaccurate. It doesn't count the lost revenues from delaying the release of their work, and the reduced value of that money by gaining a lower time value for it (getting money earlier means more time to multiply it through investments and reinvestments).

And, even worse, you are comparing the DAILY costs of developer time (which you grossly underestimated) to something that happens, maybe, once or twice per decade.

It could cost them many millions--maybe even hundreds of millions or more--per year to implement such a policy.

That's why these mistakes happen--it is cheaper to fix the rare screw-up than to waste too much time checking everything, except for very few circumstances.
This is at least the second time this year that they've had a serious/major issue for an hour. The other being the snafu where they marked the entire world as malware.

They respond awesomely, but they're not immune to major issues and I doubt it will get any easier for them.
NASA in 1969 was run by engineers and put man on the moon.
In 2009 it is run by bureaucrats and career managers and have lost two shuttles to date. Only three left and two more worn out than the Challenger was when it exploded.

We need a NASA 2.0 ! return of the technical brilliance and daring that started it all ... with VISION & PASSION !
I tried this out. Perhaps it's just Google's implementation, but if people get used to OpenID it's going to be a phisher's heaven. It appears that any site you log into with your OpenID could potentially proxy your provider, obtain your credentials, and impersonate you on every other OpenID enabled site! I'll pass.
This post is not really as Mozilla-specific as the title might indicate. By the time I was through with it, it was more about some general features and functionality that I think an automated review system (e.g. Mondrian, Rietveld, or Review Board) should provide, based on my experience with Mondrian when I was at Google. I'm curious what other people's experience has been with these tools, or, for that matter, with code-review-heavy processes without dedicated tool support.
Modafinil. Much, much better than coffee. You're just awake, not wired or jittery, just awake and alert. Very little in the way of side effects, doesn't interfere with getting to sleep and no contraindications for long term use either (ttbomk).

I can personally recommend sleep sometime in the middle of the day too, a nap when you get home maybe.

Best of luck.
http://top.searchyc.com/points_per_comment

Your list may be better if it is bigger or if it lists only the users who have made more than a certain number of comments.
I'm having this same problem as well; I'm off from work today and tomorrow in an effort to recover. I have a doctor's appointment scheduled for tomorrow, so I'll let you know what he says!
Funny coincidence, because I was setting up a wireless network card and kept pinging Google to test it and it dropped out a lot!

Damn you, Google ping!
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If there was a good, straightforward Mongrel-type HTTP service builder for C++ it might be more popular.
I've seen some video tutorials here http://www.video-tutes.com/ but I never used them and I'm not on windows so my particular knowledge may not be super useful... http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/ mac has a bunch of vids and there are these guys http://showmedo.com/
Long post is long. I don't see any big advantage to using C++ vs Java - performance is similar with recent optimizations and the vast majority of web services and libraries support java.
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There is, FastCGI.

On the FastCGI module to the web server (eg. Apache) you can configure the number of processes to spawn for that application, and the FastCGI library will also provide you with many routines to take care of the input, output, and http header parameter handling.

(I hope that's what you meant by Mongrel like HTTP service builder, assumed you were talking about the clustering using it)
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The problem is usually not syntaxes; the problem is a lot of Schemes don't have sufficient support for introspection, making a SLIME-type editor impossible. SLIME is also heavily informed by its CL background and has historically been a clumsy fit at best with most Schemes.

When I was doing a lot of PLT Scheme development for my thesis, I mostly used Quack and suffered; something like this would have been immensely welcome.
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(The original has been smushed under the bB traffic).

I'm '76.

'71 would have allowed me to go to college and still work in a startup throughout the first bubble.

I still feel pretty lucky about my own timing, though.
The thing is, would you do better if you host all your stuff yourself?

I know I wouldn't - so far Gmail has been down far less than my own mail server. Every now and then an update on my server breaks some stuff and I have to spend a few hours of my precious time fixing it. So far Google has saved me more time and hassle than when I host stuff myself, even with all the Google downtime.
It would be more likely to be Google fighting dirty, casually reminding everyone who owns the Internet, and how it would be a shame if some kind of an accident were to happen to it, such a pretty Internet that it is.
Oh ok, thanks for the info. Since I saw a big list of categories at the end of the screencast and remembered that "Mathematica" was there all along, I figured there was something to it. I just have a hard time believing that that kind of results can be achieved without more information than the keywords.
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Benjamin Franklin _was_ a successful businessman/entrepreneur. He became very wealthy as a publisher, and retired at 42 to pursue science and politics.
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No, that is absolutely not what is meant by "Mongrel-type".

FastCGI != HTTP. There is no good reason for FastCGI to exist, it doesn't do anything HTTP wouldn't do better.
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Another easy way to invert colors on a mac:

Hold: Ctl + Option + Command and press 8
Inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
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nice, justin.tv is starting to get traction
Perhaps the problem lies with what the browser does when no cache control headers are present? I just checked with by loading and then leaving a Guardian.co.uk page, and Safari reloads it from server when you click back. Checked both the page headers and the HTTP headers, and there's no expiry date set anywhere.

My preference in this case would be for back to work "properly" unless a site explicitly requests a reload.

Doing it that way would solve another back issue that stings me from time to time that the author doesn't mention: forms. I'll have filled out a form, hit submit and hit a network snag for some reason or other. Try to hit back to rescue all that typing, and the browser tries to reload the damn form. Stuck.

When I hit back, all I want is to go to the previous page, instantly, precisely as I saw it when I clicked the link to take me away. No reloading, nada.
It's not colleges fault this guy is an idiot. Shame on msnbc trolling.
There is no good reason for FastCGI to exist, it doesn't do anything HTTP wouldn't do better.

Not true. The FastCGI interface is much simpler than the HTTP interface, which makes it much less bug-prone.
Sure, I totally understand that for many applications AJAX would be overkill. I understand the beauty of simplicity, and the appeal of light widgets.

But with that said, AJAX is almost never used, and there are many widgets that could benefit by being more than a bunch of static links. Blog widgets are usually more interesting when they are interactive. AJAX does that.
He made money, but he was not primarily an entrepreneur. He ran a publishing house to feed himself and then was able to turn its management over to his partner so he could focus on furthering the enlightenment. If he were really an entrepreneur he would have kept a monopoly on the franklin stove, or bifocals, or any number of his inventions.
Honesty is not nice and neither is owning up to failures. It's expected. It's a sad state of affairs when there are enough people and companies that hold themselves to a lower standard that the ones that do what they're supposed to do are somehow worthy of some extra recognition.
Now, for those who are curious what Rand and her disciples were up to during that period:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html
The site says "We currently do not offer private key encryption," and adds "You are giving the key to those intrusted (the online Backup provider) with encrypting and storing your data."

But it isn't true that online backup requires giving the key to the backup provider.

There are two main security models: (1) All data is encrypted on the user's machine with a password known ONLY to the user that never leaves the user's machine, and the encrypted data is transmitted and written to backup exactly that way; on restores, the encrypted data is returned and then decrypted on the user's machine (Connected Online Backup from Iron Mountain and some ways of using JungleDisk work this way). Or (2) the data is transmitted securely, decrypted at the backup server, encrypted there with a key known to the backup service and saved; on restores, the data is decrypted at the backup server using the service's key, then returned securely to the user's machine (most other online backup services work this way).

The second model is, as you say, insecure--which is why it is a big competitive disadvantage.

The first model can be smart, of course, and employ the user's private encryption key which never leaves the client PC only for personal files, and use some other method on Windows system files, commercial application executables, and other files which are duplicated on millions of machines (identified on the client before encryption).

FWIW, Connected Online Backup does both incremental backups by changed file blocks and also does identification of files it already has seen and so doesn't need to send again (at all), while keeping the encryption key only on the client PC. You're right about the current price--Connected wants $995/yr for 50GB. Obviously that price level can't last much longer.
There are some nice things about the filter in question. It's very memory efficient--you just need to keep an accumulator with the weighted sum of samples. You get an output with each input sample, so it's a good fit for continuous signals. You can pick the coefficients so that the math is shift and add, something handy with old and slow CPUs.

I don't know why they throw away so much of the ADC resolution. I suspect that the sensors are the weak link, not the analog conditioning circuitry or the ADC. Still, 4 bits is a pretty crummy sensor.

I see some irony in that if they'd written it in assembly language instead of C, the outside analysis probably wouldn't have found nearly as many of the bugs and other issues to complain about.
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Congratulations on your successful exit and thanks for posting this. Sometimes it's hard to read these things and think they are true, but they are.

Yesterday, I was thinking, "Why am I doing this? Why do I work so hard for ~nothing?" and then it dawned on me that if it isn't hard, it isn't worth anything. If it was easy, everyone else could do it. If everyone else can do it, why would they pay you to do it? They won't.

It has to be hard. You have to feel the pain. You have to lie awake at night wondering if you're crazy -- YOU ARE! Keep being crazy. Do the crazy things, the impossible things and keep doing them until you have something someone thinks is worth buying and then sell it and go on vacation, until you get bored with that and then do it all over again!
This is incredible. What I'd really like to see is something like this hooked up to a top quality voice recognition system and voice synthesis. So when I'm driving, or walking down the street, or working at my whiteboard, or whatever, I can answer those dumb little questions that always pop into my head.
While no ads is certainly a feature, it seems like a lot of startups I've seen recently are selling "community status" in the form of digital goods. I can't imagine ever paying for such things but it seems to be working quite well for folks.
Working with friends can be bittersweet. The trick is to figure out how to work with friends. Do they have the right risk tolerance? Can they contribute in an area that will move the company forward. Will there be ego clashes that jeopardize the future of the organization?

And if you start down the road with a friend and it doesn't work out, remain cordial and remember that this isn't your last startup. You're going to make mistakes. It's how you recover from those mistakes and how you use the lessons you learn from them that will be the test of your mettle years later.
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I think they've had it for a while. It really is the place to go to watch cable or international sports live.
If the readings are, in fact, averaged in the way described by the article, the device is useless and should not be allowed as evidence since such a scheme permits a single outlier reading to produce an erroneous result.
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True; although, both have a place in the conversation.

Dale Carnegie = Marketeer

-He authored the bestseller: "How to Win Friends and Influence People". The book continues to sell today even though it was first published in 1934. I'd recommend it even to non-Marketeers.

Andrew Carnegie = Business Guy

-He's remembered as a Business guy for doing titanic mergers and acquisitions in the Steel industry. However he did not come from a wealthy family and started his first steel company from the ground up.
Looks like the "bubbles" from Signal to Noise.

This is what I want my IDE to be.
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Ask HN: How can I stop scammers from targeting my local classifieds site?
Hey everyone, a friend of mine sent me the following note and I didn't have a good answer but I figured if someone would, it would be from this community. Appreciate any thoughts you might have. Thanks.

"How can I stop scammers from targeting my local classifieds site?

I run a local classifieds site (http://www.smartbrideboutique.ca/)for wedding related products. We're having some serious trouble with fraudulent buyers e-mailing every listing on the site with an identical e-mail - some sellers are being fooled.

Our site is coded in django, and we're using google apps as our mail host.

Does anyone have any suggestions or resources that we can check out to fend off our fraudulent friends??
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Well, "vacuum" doesn't have the connotation of a viewer or filter, to me. :)
If your advice is "see a doctor", that's fair.

That 3-word advice isn't improved by extending it to 40-plus-words with sarcasm, condescension, and misspellings.
Not sure if it's a great sign for the future when your startup is internationally recognized as the place to go for copyright infringement. Several firms have held this title before and they have a short life.
Ask YC: Can this work?
How can someone go about building a local search service in a country like Nigeria where most information can not be found online? The local search service would be accessed via sms messages.
I was thinking along the line of social search/crowdsourcing, i.e. when a request is made to the service via sms, that same sms is sent to the whole community and the responses is ranked and the highest ranked response from the community is sent to the requester via sms.
My question is, can this work? is it scalable? I know this is something that is useless without a community but becomes more useful exponentially as the community grows.
I remember it initially being described as a hybrid language, but obviously the functional features and idioms stick out more to the Java community, so it's going to be described as functional.

I do wonder why Scala requires 'def' to be within a class/body (it could just create an implicit object inheriting from FunctionX)

Also, destructuring pattern matching does require language support (the linked example only involves simple predicates)
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To dwell on such questions is to miss the opportunities of now. Nostalgia is a lotus plant.
You're 100% right. I picked a too outlandish number in my devil's advocating and back-of-the-napkin'd the engineering wrong. Sorry about that-- can't correct my comment anymore, unfortunately. You shoulda slammed me sooner. I can't see any rational reason to argue that way with those economics.
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