skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? If you think I'm a bragging idiot/hipster/wannabe cool guy, you obviously don't know me at all. And wow, did I hit a nerve there, with all the people downvoting me. Insecure much?

I'm just saying, I prefer (or choose) not to play RPGs any more, because I have my priorities elsewhere. If you like RPGs, then good for you. It's just the kind of people I see announcing RPGs, well, they certainly seem very nerdish, and this is me, Mr Nerd, speaking, so go figure what other, "normal"/"average" people think.

I was mostly seconding Houshalter's commend about "the "nerd" stereotype definitely still exists." Yes, it does. Very much so.
Compete.com has them at 155k a month. Now, having worked at Compete in the past, I usually found their traffic estimate to be off by 75-100% due to the lack of international data (and coordinating with publishers/looking at their Google Analytics data). Compete also can't capture mobile usage which could account for up to 50% of a domain like this.

So I'd estimate it at 600k/month. 150k x 2 = 300k, and then 50% coming from mobile that isn't measures = 600k.

Just a data point....Similarweb estimate could be better.
Not very happy with this but I have 2 (1T) hard drives which I mirror via rsync and back up on those.

I have 1 (1T) hard drive at work, to have an off-site backup.

Plan to use Arq for important files to back on Glacier.

I'd change the two hard drive system to a 4 bay RAID setup using Synology etc.

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I was thinking of buying Drobo but I guess I was always scared of their "secret sauce" and getting stuck with recovery if anything happened to it.
Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers
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I'm pretty amazed at how well the streaming is working. It's all volunteers, and they're doing a great job.
What have you heard bad about Backblaze? I backup my two machines there and have nothing but praise for them. It pushes up new files as soon as they are saved and they can post you a hard drive with your files if you need to do a restore.
I'm surprised no one here is talking about Namecoin [1]. It has become obvious that the PKI system is failing, and the main issue is centralization.

I don't know if Namecoin itself will be the solution, or some other blockchain-based method that achieves decentralization such as the more generic Ethereum [2], but as engineers we should be supportive of such systems, as they provide better security and true -not just delegated- domain name ownership.

[1] http://namecoin.info/

[2] https://www.ethereum.org/
It stops it being taxed twice - once as corporate income and once as personal income.
Caution : bad ratings on WOT : https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/degoo.com
One doesn't have to be racist to see the potential hypocrisy of laying off thousands of employees while claiming to be unable to hire locally. Arguments to the contrary might be better served by discussing why those employees couldn't do what an expanded allotment of H1Bs could.
The domain doesn't publish a MX record, and the A record fallback isn't accepting connections on port 25. So no; while there's probably a lot of it that people try to send, none of it arrives.
This seems to be as much a problem with eviction laws as with Airbnb.

In Ohio, the eviction process isn't exactly landlord friendly, but it doesn't require a lawyer either. And in most cases, deadbeat tenants aren't going to show up at the court date anyhow - then it's trivial to get a ruling in your favor. You'll lose out on 60-90 days of rent, but if that bankrupts you, your margins are too tight.

And Airbnb has, by far, returned me the highest margins I've ever gotten, so it's certainly worth the risk of squatters.
>Good straw man, but most economists are left-wing academics who chose a low-paying career track despite having a very marketable degree.

These supposed left wing economists follow the money just like everybody else. The money in research is there, provided you provide research that is 'useful' to certain pro-corporate groups.

It's somewhat like climate science in that respect, except the climate science community hasn't been corrupted by the money thrown at it to prove 'global warming doesn't exist' whereas the economist profession has been utterly corrupted by it.

>But hey. Tell me, seriously, why it is good for the world to take this enormous pool of potential high-skilled workers and shut them out, leaving them in countries they don't want to be in,

One reason would be because those countries suffer badly enough from brain drain as it is. Another would be because it becomes too easy to play one set of workers against another and drag down wages all across the world. Wanna know one of the political causes of massive wealth & income inequality? This.
1) If it was the same in OTHER PROFESSIONS then I'd be ok - but it's not. Professionals licensed to practice in their country cannot immigrate and practice here - they end up resorting to things like becoming cab drivers etc (not that there's anything wrong with being a cab driver - but if you went to university for a solid profession then it's not a good result). Allow accountants, doctors, lawyers accredited in their countries to come and be able to become licensed here and push down their wages for the rest of us, then we can talk. This keeps supply in their field down and their wages up.

2) These visas do not incentivize corporations to RETRAIN their employees. Yes the specific technology changes but the ability to understand how to interact, program, maintain, etc do not (in relation).

3) Is AGEISM a management or a worker problem? Sure, it's up to the worker to keep up to date, but I've seen plenty of examples where ageism is more a problem of the industry. Somebody who is 40+, has a CompSci degree, worked in the industry for 15-20 years, gained wisdom is somehow worthless because they don't know the exact specific technology.

These visas are a bandaid to a problem that tech corporations themselves created. They don't retrain their valuable workers with outdated skills and instead look to foreign countries for a quick-fix out of their mess.

Keep up the high wages and you'll continue to see an increase in CompSci enrollment. Then pay to retrain your (good) employees for the latest technology and you'll keep them. Corporations have options, they're just more motivated at the H1-B candy then something that benefits everyone.
It's a cultural thing. The French speaker stereotype is an asshole about that. There's a lot of racism in Vancouver (at least) against immigrant Chinese who are ESL, but an identical person speaking broken English with a Russian or Italian accent would be perceived as sexy.
I found a message board thread in which the Airbnb host this article is written about describes the issue and asks for advice.

http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/136498-evictin...
Locally, I use TimeCapsule on a standalone drive networked over my router. This happens automatically when I am on my home network.

I also duplicate things to Google Drive. This happens automatically when I am on any network.
Then you misunderstood, or I am perpetually misunderstanding. The comment that I responded to asked for a way to use this product to send actual text messages. He wanted to relay a message to another phone via this product and then have his phone send an actual text message using information from the initial message. I gave a suggestion about how to do that.
>> "I haven't heard good things from Backblaze"

I've got nothing but praise for Backblaze. Been using them for about 4 years and it's worked flawlessly.
This seems like a great idea for the new .trust gTLD [1] (formerly known as .secure), as they already want sites under it to be "secure".

[1] https://www.nccgroupdomainservices.com/
In that case maybe we'll change the title to use the singular instead of the plural.
I don't understand, when the recruiters asked about your salary history, why give it? Just tell them how much you expect to make, and that is that.
> Adding a bunch of smart, hardworking, educated, ambition people to society is always going to be a net-win

It is a net win for the country but not for the individuals who make up the country. You are probably able to compete with outsourcing now, but do you think this will last forever, or for your descendants?

Having h-1bs, as they are implemented now, comes with more problems than benefits.

It is extremely likely that companies such as Google still would have been created without h-1bs. See China for example. They are doing fine with Tencent, Baidu and the other host of late coming clones.

The economic dominance of the US is mostly caused by not being demolished in WW2 and many natural resources as it was only populated for a few centuries. It is not really because the US has the smartest and most hardworking people (not saying they don't help though).
Amazon Glacier for stuff that can't be redownloaded or reproduced - personal photos and videos, mostly.

Time Machine for documents and projects - those usually live in Dropbox or Github/Bitbucket as well.

I don't bother with backing up OS/configuration, since it takes no more than a day to get a clean OS and applications to a state where I'm feeling at home.
I really like this as a NYC resident. It shows there are some people (I've only lived here for about 9 months so I'm not too familiar with the political scene) who are concerned about the residents of their city (local politics in general seem to be more citizen oriented than national politics (to me, however that could be an erroneous or anecdotal position I hold) but you could certainly see the case where NYC could be a distortion of that generality) and it's also an argument which goes beyond the "these companies might not have made it" and gives a good concrete example or how millions of people might be tremendously hurt by the proposed changes to net neutrality.

I know that I would feel tremendous emotional pain at the thought of not being able to communicate with my family effectively and easily when all of the technology is there and established. Hopefully some of the people who need swaying can feel with their hearts instead of their wallets and ensure that these millions will not feel that pain.
> there are good reasons to believe that letting more smart people work on tech is beneficial for almost everyone involved.

Exactly, so let them. Employer is responsible and liable for the H1-B security check, and, if it passes, in one year the H1-B converts to a green card.

Even better, the H1-B cap gets cleaned out so new people can come in every year. Good solution, no?

So, why don't we hear this? Because H1-B's aren't about filling jobs, they're about downward pressure on wages.
Little tip for the fire safe. YMMV.

Put some cash in the fire safe. If someone breaks into it (thinking there is money) they will probably be less likely to take other things in the safe or destroy those items (I mean a hard drive they might leave - obviously they will take anything of clear value). Assumption also is that the HD is encrypted.

This comes via a practice a long time ago with cash registers. You leave the cash register unlocked and put some cash in it. Thief is presumably happy and doesn't trash the rest of the place.

"Any passwords and serial numbers and etc are printed out, with the name and URL of the software they're for. A copy of that goes in the fire safe. "

Doesn't seem like a good idea to put plain text passwords (is that what you are saying) in a place that someone will look thinking there is something else of value in there.
Could someone explain why he is still considered a tenant even though he pays no rent or utilities at the property? I am curious as to why he can't just be considered a trespasser and removed by police.
Good idea, especially for some tlds aimed at industries which rely on strong security like .bank. Will send the link to a couple of ngtld applicants.
Time Machine to a local Synology Diskstation w/RAID, plus Backblaze. Will also chime in that I have nothing but love for Backblaze -- every time I've needed them (small files only, never a full restore yet), they've worked flawlessly.
6.8M backlinks - woah.
I used to be an atheist.

The only thing that can convert Neil DeGrasse Tyson is God fucken talking to him.

You guys are fucken clowns.
So...help me out here. The host met a stranger and rented out the apartment (even after herself seeing warning signs) in such a way that her renter has renter's rights under California law?

I'm relatively young and have never been a landlord: in the pre-Internet days, did landlords not rent to people they didn't know well? Did they not have to comply to certain state laws? If we switched "Airbnb" with "Craigslist" or "San Francisco Chronicle's Classifieds Section"...would this be a story in the SF Chronicle?
You need to be careful with their excluded file lists. On the past they have changed them and its easy to miss whatever notification they send.

Also, in my experience their throttling sucks. If I get back from traveling with a bunch of data like pictures or video, it crushes my upstream bandwidth and disrupts VoIP.

That said, for the price, it is an excellent service, and their restore mechanism works well.
"I use TimeCapsule on a standalone drive networked over my router."

Doesn't protect against a fire. Or someone who swipes the router and/or the data source.

Suggest either an offsite backup or a fireproof hard drive (iosafe for example) to backup the backup. (TC is funky with attached drives or at least that is what I have found when trying to use an attached drive on an airport extreme). (Of course someone can also swipe the fireproof hard drive).
That's probably good advice, but:

1) some people don't like to lie.

2) telling an actual lie during some parts of the recruitment project leaves you open to rare but unpleasant effects.
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After you are allowed to stay in a home more than 30 days you become a "tenant" and are subject to renter protection laws. I'd imagine these short term rental companies will get much stricter about 30+ stays real soon now.
Easiest: Backblaze
Cheapest for most people: Arq
Nerdiest: rsync.net
Write in the Margins
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It might be worth having a set of n humble USB drives, one of which is in a safety deposit box ( cycle through them ) with a weekly copy of everything on the RAID.

I set n at 2, and substitute a cheap "fire safe" for the safety deposit box ( I know, I know... ) . I don't know that I will build another RAID when this one goes. I have yet to pull anything off it.

But my primary copy of things is all still on my main machine, un-RAIDed. For legacy software reasons I won't bore you with, that's still a Win7 box.
Which countries have the youngest populations?
There are several ways and services that already exist. One more would certainly be welcomed, can't guarantee it will catch on.

http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre-docs/latest/Home.ht...

http://jsconsole.com/remote-debugging.html

The examples might show debugging on a local network, but it is certainly possible (and fairly easy) to do it across the internet.

I would advise against running it on a site with even a moderate amount of traffic.

This might also have some features that you are looking for: http://newrelic.com/real-user-monitoring They're not free though.

The steps to use these tools are generally: insert a single javascript file (with a unique identifier) into the pages you want to debug, the view their custom console for errors. It's very simple and very useful.
What's messed up about "before" and "after"?

I don't think native speakers will use "in front of" or "behind" to describe time coordinates. Those words are used to describe relative positioning of events, and in such use I think they have the opposite interpretation from what you suggested.

"Event A occurred behind event B", for example, or "A is behind schedule" (although you could then argue that scheduling has its own semantics for "behind"). However, even "I'm running behind" means running late, not early.

Even on a timeline, it's not clear whether the point of perspective for determining "in front of" or "behind" is a point in the past or a point in the future.

Simple: use before and after, or earlier and later.

btw, the overall semantics of "a means b, depending on whom you are speaking to" made me cringe even though I know you meant "A usually means B, but it depends..." (which I don't think is even true—see above—but that's a factual not semantic complaint). Taken literally, you could just as easily have written "a means (not b)..."
This highlights how staff who handle emails or calls needs to be part of the business plan of a b-to-c startup. Or at least an explanation of why it's OK to NOT handle customer contacts.
I'm baffled at how people rent out houses without doing the research first.

I bet that if you asked to rent their car, they'd go check it out first. Call their insurance company, find out what the legal requirements are, etc.

Yet do the same thing with an item that costs 10, 20, 30 times as much money and people's approach seems to be, hey, free money, woooooo.

Maybe it's just a case of only hearing about the rare fools.
It seems I'm wrong about that. Apologies.
When "elaborate multi-agency government conspiracy" and "off-by-one bug in non-critical section of code" are your two competing theories, both Occam's Razor and Hanlon's Razor (two important rules of reasoning) compel the selection of the latter. So it's not really "normal" (if by that you mean reasonable) for someone to assume that YouTube is elaborately bug free if that requires the existence of shadowy conspiracies that are unsupported by other evidence.
Because he has been there more than 30 days and has already made complaints about the adequacy of the accommodations. I feel sorry for the property owner but she got into the landlord business without doing basic research.

The guest texted back saying he was legally occupying the condo and that loss of electricity would threaten the work he does at home that brings in $1,000 to $7,000 a day.

Oh, this must be the guy all those people are talking about in blog comments :)
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Make sure the fire safe is rated for data. Most are not.

The typical fire safe is meant to prevent auto-ignition of paper. That means that your media could easily be subjected to temps up to 400 F -- maybe higher!

You've controlled for this by sending them offsite as well, but most ppl won't!
-$2000 is fairly common.

As mentioned below, authors have to pay publication fees. Most journals are for profit and closed-access, though this is starting to change somewhat. Somewhat ironically, being published in these journals is a prerequisite for how researchers actually do get paid: by grants, usually taxpayer funded.
I think every child should experience a disk failure. After all, it's only a matter of time before each of us has one. Better to get it out of the way when we have little to lose.

People replying will recommend many backup solutions. No matter what you go with, it's important to trust no single party. Your home could burn down. Dropbox/Crashplan/S3/etc could fail. Media in a safe-deposit box could become corrupted over time. (This is common with flash-based storage and CDs.) Pick at least two independent backup solutions.

Also, backups are a lifestyle change. They're something you have to maintain indefinitely. File systems, I/O interfaces, media formats, APIs, and businesses all come and go over time. There's no one thing that is sure to keep your data around for decades.

Finally, most people don't have much data that's actually important. I have maybe 20GB of stuff that matters to me: photos I've taken, documents I've written, and a few videos. In terms of value per byte, documents are the highest, followed by photos, then video. It's much easier to maintain backups when your data set is small. Music, books, and other mass media can be re-bought/downloaded.
How's that? He claims that there are more than enough STEM graduates already. If he thinks that, then two consequences are: 1) why do we need more H1-Bs? and 2) why do we need to subsidize college more?

I think he's wrong, but he's entirely consistent.
If you believe that the government should be manipulating immigration rates to interfere with the costs of labor in a 'free' labor market you really shouldn't call yourself a libertarian.
Yes but bacteria and plants are different.
Do hotels have different eviction laws?
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Landlord lives in San Francisco. Her unwanted tenant lives in Palm Springs, which is in Riverside county in Southern California. 30-day tenancy rights are a matter of state rather than city/county law.
Prior discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8056681
obligatory educational material - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100318/
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The property in question is hundreds of miles from San Francisco.
Yep, media usually hypes these delinquent tenant stories though they are probably rare. Lot's of "Freeman-on-the-land" stories of squatters refusing to pay rent for 1-3 mos and landlord's can't evict them. Every story they interview some shady property management corp who insists all renter laws must be weakened.

A story the media hasn't done yet is how often traveling sex workers use Airbnb for incall. 2-3 workers will travel to different cities together and then use the apartment to turn tricks. Perfect incall solution instead of using hotels which charge extra for guests or clamp down on visitors. I'm sure there's a small minority of tenants using Airbnb to import narcotics or fraud hardware like ATM skimmers too, can always claim the previous tenant ordered the box full of drugs and you had no knowledge.
Carbonite.com

I have 1263776 files or 582GB backed-up for only $60,00

http://imgur.com/GiSjWkn

All servers, laptops and desktops I run occasionally put their files onto my main-desktop disc and everything gets uploaded to carbonite.
I found it very interesting. As I replied to snide's comment herein, I would love to collaborate with others who see this clearly to help other see this clearly.
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I agree that TC is funky with attached drives.

Also, I don't care (much) about old versions of my personal data. If I did, this would be an unacceptable backup solution because fire/theft of my TC could wipe it out, as you mention. But between my TimeCapsule and my Google Drive, it strikes me as unlikely that my laptop, my TC, and my Google Drive will fail me all at the same moment. If so, I would be SOL.
Maybe, but the implied behavior from what the buyer sees is that they are verifying a specific amount on Paypal's (trusted vendor) site, not on marginally trusted random internet vendor.

The difference is that if I want to order some two dollar bike parts, I'm happy to risk that I won't receive them, but I'm not in the habit of giving my credit card to every random site on the internet.
No matter how many monitors you're using, if you don't take breaks and move around, it's gonna be bad for you.
Yes, but one issue is that you could be pressured into pairing the device. Or someone can brute force the passcode to access the pairing UI.

The slides mention a way to bypass pairing, but I don't think ever mentioned how.
> You'll lose out on 60-90 days of rent, but if that bankrupts you, your margins are too tight.

And if the tenant trashes the place in the meantime? You're not out your margins, you're out actual damages that need to be repaired.

Disclaimer: Was a landlord. Once.