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Backups are one of our specialties.

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If you've got a lot of data, online backup services are usually not an option. My usual advice then is to have a completely separate device that automatically pulls data from your primary device and stores backups in an archival format. If you have the time and inclination to do the setup on it, I really recommend BackupPC for this: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. I've used BackupPC for years for larger-scale backups; it's very reliable, it's not too difficult to get going, it does deduplication and compression and pooling and uses rsync (when possible) to reduce network load, it can easily be configured to send you an email in the event of trouble, and it has a simple web interface you can check into on a regular basis. I've yet to find a commercial shrink-wrapped product that does what BackupPC does as well as BackupPC does it.

The downside of course is that you still wouldn't have offsite backups, so in the event of a fire or other local disaster, you might still be looking at complete data loss. If at all possible, try to pick a few of the most important directories of files, and get those backed up online. I haven't heard so many bad things about Crashplan or Backblaze, so I'm curious what you've heard.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom, with the 22% inflation, for my age range, yes, I earn more.
This must be some sort of fiendishly clever scheme for laundering VC money. Unless they are planning to pivot it into the next WhatsApp.
How do you know that the roommates did not have reasonable suspicion and warrants on them.
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Well, there's MNG.
When I was 8-12 years old I used to run all over the neighborhood and play. Those are some of the best memories of my childhood. Would my parents be arrested today?

Humans are so awful at statistics. Obsession over tiny insignificant but emotionally charged risks (terrorism, child abduction, nuclear meltdowns, etc.) is causing all kinds of social pathologies while at the same time we ignore big systemic risks like vehicular death or looming realistic potential doomsday scenarios like rapid-falloff fossil fuel depletion (EROEI cliff) or abrupt climate change.

Children are something like 100000X more likely to die in your car than they are to be taken by a child predator.

We really need a mandatory high school course in statistical reasoning.
I'll use my mapcode to tell my friends where to meet me. I'll use swatch internet time to tell them when to meet me. It's about as useful.
Yes (in the UK), we're just slightly above it as a household, but I'm more ahead of it as an individual.
So much so that it justifies installing the app and then asking people you know to do so too? It takes no time to send a "yo" text with Siri, and if it's a person you have texted recently it's very fast and easy by hand texting too, so it must be really, really easy to make it worth it. I ask because I'm genuinely curious having not used the app before (for the reason that it takes too much effort to justify).
I didn't understand exactly why the forms of research this allows for is so interesting or important even? He just claims that the high dimensional visualizations are "obviously important and powerful" but doesn't explain why.

I'm always skeptical of researchers who come out with pretty visualizations actually just looking for funding and/or recognition.
My Uber got pulled over by the Denver police – and then things got really weird
No one is hating on YO, the interface or the desire to send a YO versus a text. They are hating on VC investment in a non-scalable business. Tell me how a 10MM valuation gets to a billion dollar business? Same old SV bullshit.
I said "Yo" the other day, shortly after signing up for the service. I was walking along the street (on the sidewalk) and a guy was backing out of his driveway in his car, and he wasn't paying attention to me, such that he might have backed into me. I said loudly "Yo" and the situation was resolved. Nothing else needed to be said.
I am right at the median household income for the U.S. Consider though that I'm measuring my individual income against the median household income, which puts me at above average for individual income. I'm also young (26), and finishing up grad school, so I expect my individual income to rise significantly over the next 5-10 years.

There are lots to consider when trying to gauge your income to the median. Median for your city or state could be very different than your country's median income. You also have to take individual, family, and household income into consideration. There are many other factors, too. Age, occupation/industry, and educational background are all heavily correlated to income.
Digression: This is a sad story of an impoverished family ... and they had cell phones. Just another indicator of how pervasive cell phones have become in our society.
Nanny state strikes again
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Not only in our society. IIRC, it's often quoted that many rural Africans, who by all measures are 10x worse off than the poorest Americans, have cellphones these days.
Substantially above.
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Hey Felix, any chance that that offer is open to researchers as well? One of the groups I'm involved with at UW needs a decent amount of compute power and would love to move some stuff off our homegrown cluster of spare hardware.
> Humans are so awful at statistics. Obsession over tiny insignificant but emotionally charged risks (terrorism, child abduction, nuclear meltdowns, etc.) is causing all kinds of social pathologies

Yep, humans aren't rational. The above is one of the reasons why the insurance industry is so huge.
That is not entirely accurate. If you were renting a room in a apartment (you being the master tenant) and you still resided in the apartment in another bedroom AND also showed/informed the new tenant a copy of San Francisco Rules & Regulations 6.15C- then yes, you could evict them.

Otherwise, you cant- and the tenant takes over the defacto 'lease' from you.

Costa Hawkins (which I believe you are referring to) is a landlord/owner option. You as a tenant cannot initiate it and would be shit out of luck. You might be able to get your landlord to initiate the lawsuit for you, but I doubt they want to come out of pocket on legal expenses on your behalf.
Gadgets and other manufactured goods are super-cheap compared to food, fuel, real estate, education, and health care. It's entirely possible for someone to have an iPhone but still be starving. My iPad cost about 3X a trip to the grocery store for a family of 3 (myself, wife, and kid).
The child predator thing is also blown enormously out of proportion. 80% of cases involving children and sexual assault involve someone who the child already knew (like a family member, or a family friend).
Basically yes. I was buying a house in a small (but expensive) village that I had lived in for my whole life. I was getting married. We needed a house. All my friends and family live there. Its my home. Its easy commuting distance to my office, central London, Heathrow airport and has clean air, good schools, good amenities, good community and a canal to walk and cycle down every day I want to. I wasn't buying a house as an investment. I was buying a house as somewhere to live until I possibly die.

By the time you take solicitors fees, stamp duty, etc in to account I may as well buy it for the long term. My house is already estimated to be worth 50k more than I paid for it less than 9 months ago. Why? I've fixed lots of easy problems with it, slightly modernised and I got a good deal as they were desperate for a sale, I had no chain and they needed the money (previous deal collapsed and they were on a bridging loan). I don't view it as an investment. I simply bought the house I wanted to live in, in the area I wanted to live in at a very competitive price.
> Thinking about your girlfriend? Send her a yo to let her know you care.

> Yo has the capacity to change the way humans interact with each other.

You could easily put this into the script for a Silicon Valley episode to good effect.
>There's no one thing that is sure to keep your data around for decades.

Using paper will keep your data around for decades.
Computer memory that can store about 1TB on device the size of a postage stamp
Its an interesting question but the sample set (people who read HN) will skew hugely toward technologists. The starting income for engineers[1] is higher than the median income. I would expect a significant fraction of the readers here to be engineers and thus have higher than median incomes.

For me though the 'income inequality' question adds little insight into meaningful problems. Consider what it would be like if you wrote equally valid copy about 'house price inequality.' You might right, "Why is it that a four bedroom 2000 square foot ranch style house is worth $170,000 in Minnesota but worth $1,500,000 in California?" You could write about how badly the $170,000 house felt about themselves that for providing the same number of bedrooms, the same quality of shelter, and the all the same appliances as the house in California but for some clearly bogus reasons people "judged" that house to be worth less. Alas the unfairness of it all.

Fortunately we're not trying to sway the vote of that $170,000 house or its shopping habits, or you would get that sort of writing.

When you look at it in that context when there isn't a person whose "value" is being equated to their "salary" (which is the central issue in this narrative in my opinion) you can see there are so many different things going on that it makes no sense to think that houses in different places would, by virtue of their similar feature, somehow demand the same sales price.

[1] http://www.mtu.edu/engineering/outreach/welcome/salary/ not a wonderful reference but the census.gov site was letting me down.
He probably assumed that, like with most organisations, negative publicity is the best medicine for HN too.

Personally, I don't see this as being just about you and OP, everyone else has a right to see this as an instance of poorly done moderation on a site we all use.
"whoever did it mistook the plane to be military."

It doesn't have much sense in the context, the civilian planes flew there all the time:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/19/mh17-changing-c...

"the route (...) is one of the "aerial motorways" between northern Europe and south Asia. Malaysia Airlines was one of more than a dozen that flew the route on Thursday. Its flight MH17 was only a few miles from an Air India Boeing 787 and a Singapore Airlines 777 when it was shot down."
That has nothing to do with this app, except the superficial name.
The thing is - nothing you describe in regards to the 'art' in Yo has anything to do with Yo, or anything unique that Yo offers. You want to text 'yo' to somebody? Go right ahead. Nothing was stopping anyone before. Brevity has been the soul of wit for a long, long time, and not having to resort to small, limited texts is a relatively recent phenomenon (that's why acronyms like 'lol' and emoji exist, because characters used to be expensive.)

Will other startups follow and copy Yo? Of course - if this laptop I'm on wasn't such a piece of crap I would be working on my yo clone right now. Does this mean Yo represents something profound? No, just that people smell easy money, and can find utility in silly, banal apps.

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Its just another way for the governments to shift more responsibility on to us while they pocket some of our money.

More time we have to worry about everything else, the less time we have to be critical of our governments.
In Denmark we have this (prefilled forms). Both for last years taxes and a preform for nexy years taxes. Income, tax, estate, interest, stock gains, and even tax exemption for commutes and similar are all filled out.

You simply login with your "easy id" and accept or edit.

Any oustanding balance in your favour is transferred to your bank account in about a week.

Any outstanding balance in the goverments favour will either be moved to next years taxes or billed automaticly dependant on the amount.

It all works out pretty good.. Even though we pay the worlds highest taxes.. (Sales tax 25%, car tax 180%, income tax 58%..)

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It does actually. the app influenced my offline behavior and it helped me realize that in many situations a "yo" will suffice
First, this story is a _terrible_ fit for HN.

Second, the lede is extremely misleading. This woman didn't get in trouble simply for allowing her child to play alone in a park. She got in trouble for leaving her 9-year-old alone in the park for her entire work shift; she used the park as day care.

I flagged it, both for the fact that it's a political story that's off-topic for HN, and for the story's poor framing, which will more or less guarantee a thread full of outrage tourism.
>This must be some sort of fiendishly clever scheme for laundering VC money.

Aren't most startups?
> It's remarkable how many people in the NYT comments dismiss this as a distraction from the more important issue of within-country inequality. I guess it's more important to help out someone earning $15,000 a year who looks like us, than someone who earns $400 a year who doesn't. Global poverty is truly horrific, on a level that most people in the first world can't even comprehend, and its continued reduction is one of the really great (incomplete) triumphs of human history.

I'm pretty familiar with the issue of global poverty, but the critics are right: the policies that reduce poverty and inequality at the national level are not mutually exclusive with those that reduce poverty at the global level.

More importantly, nation states CAN reduce poverty/inequality within their own borders (and many policies that do so are simply good economic common sense [1]), while there's a limit to what any particular country can do on a global scale.

In short, decreasing inequality at the global level is no excuse not to combat rising inequality at the national level.

[1] Such as universal healthcare and accessible education.
I'm the CEO of startup tackling this space. Hit me up hello at touchpoint dot io. You're right that this market is rife with garbage technology which represents a large opportunity, but the MVP to run someone's business is complex. Still, we're just starting to ship and have the attention of major chains. And not just because of our Unicode support, distributed dbs, or PCI-exempt security.
Well above, even if restricting the group to college grads.
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I wouldn't be too shocked to see Yo pivot to suicide booths.
May be worth pointing out for iOS devs doing automated testing - KIF (and maybe Frank, I'm less familiar with Frank) hijacks the accessibility labels on controls in order to facilitate input injection.

This breaks a lot of the implicit/default blind accessibility behavior of the OS.

If you're using KIF, please make sure, even if you're not putting extra effort into accessibility, that at least you're not breaking the defaults with your testing framework.
Probably because this is the year it was supposed to be happening (in the joke) and someone found it amusing to bring it back up.
It's interesting as it shows that people are using Spark for something other than for the traditional web/enterprise analytics. Most of the summit was focused on BI related use cases so it was really nice to see something different for a change.

It's important as the speed and interactivity of Spark has apparently helped the lab quite a lot in their research efforts. Some of the things shown in the video, particularly the real-time refocusing at the end of the video, would have been a lot more difficult, if not impossible, without something like Spark (or similar)
I was in Sana'a around this time last year, the article paints a strikingly accurate picture of the experience. Yemenis as a whole are the friendliest group of people I've had the pleasure to meet. On the other hand, the problems of the nation seem to be incurable, unless someone has a recipe for turning sand into water and oil.
In a government made up of humans, is it not possible for a human to make a mistake and for the mistake to be noticed, examined, and magnified by a free press?
Hold home button down on iPhone, "Text Yo to John Doe", "Send". Done. No need to install an app, no need for the person I am sending it to to install said app, and no need to worry about yet another app being compromised and my data being out there.

Now I'm not knocking Yo, clearly they're doing something umm.. Right? I don't know. But this is getting ridiculous.
> This woman didn't get in trouble simply for allowing her child to play alone in a park. She got in trouble for leaving her 9-year-old alone in the park for her entire work shift; she used the park as day care.

I don't understand the distinction. When I was a kid, my mother would regularly let me roam the woods and town while she was at work. It boosted my confidence, taught me important skills, and helped me to engage with nature.

Apparently that's criminal.
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Yep -- all you need to get a good war going is an excess of young men and a border. For a domestic conflict you can skip the second part.

Or you can look at it from a purely economic standpoint: if your military-aged men are mostly finding gainful employment and you want to raise an army you need to either conscript or pay competitive wages. Either way you're damaging your economy. If you have far more people that age then prospective jobs it's way cheaper to convince some of them to put on a uniform.
Not uncommon weekend material though. But I like the 'outrage tourism' tag, is that an original? I'm definitely going to use it and would like to credit the source.
More than just being faster, it establishes short, content-free messages as a socially valid communication method.

Snapchat wasn't a success because people had been yearning for self-deleting photo messaging or because people found it too complicated to send photo messages with other apps. It was a success because it gave people social permission to send low-pressure, low-expectation photo messages to their friends. Someone who sends a photo of their lunch via Facebook messenger or as an email attachment runs the risk of being seen as silly, superficial or self-involved. Doing the same thing via Snapchat is totally expected, socially-valid and safe behavior, because the medium of Snapchat provides implicit permission to send those types of messages: it's only around for a few seconds, so who cares if it's a bit trivial or silly?

The medium of Yo provides the same kind of implicit validation. You don't have to worry about seeming blunt or disturbing someone or failing to consider the other person's needs, because the format itself makes catering to those worries impossible. So the unique feature of the app isn't the functionality it provides but the narrow and unequivocal use of that functionality that it mandates.

The trend of communication is towards the shortest, least-demanding formats possible. The first big blogging sites were popular not just because they were easier to use than hand-written HTML or complex CMS's, but because they validated personal blogging as a format. Facebook made "blogging" even more personal, trivial and self-focused. Twitter then made communication even less demanding by establishing a format in which it is impossible to create serious and thoughtful content, thus removing the pressure to do so. Snapchat made messaging even more ephemeral and low-pressure. And now Yo removes even the expectation of taking a picture that's funny or interesting, even for just a few seconds.

It seems like what people want are formats that allow them to connect with others and express themselves while simultaneously removing as much pressure to perform or possibility of critique as possible.
This is far worse.
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You're offended by someone being pissed off? I think the problem here is you, not him. He didn't direct insults towards anyone, and there's nothing uncivil about using a colloquialism to express personal feelings. If you can't deal with people being human, maybe you should stay out of discussions you don't need to be a part of.

Also, excuse me but "things they would like done different"? All OP asks for is not to have something he posted replaced with something else, and that's how it normally works already, it's not an "idea", it's a status quo, and it's desirable.
Ask HN: How do you search HN?
Since the old the hackernews search site is gone and has been replaced with http://hn.algolia.com/, I find it to be lesser than its predecessor. Searching HN is one of my most valuable resources. When researching a topic, to find quality reading material, to have insight on a topic from someone qualified etc..
From Chile, and way above the mean, something like 4x or 5x.
Can you tell us this once more, I didn't quite understand the first 5 times. Thanks.
My local school doesn't allow < 11 year olds to walk to school by themselves, they have to be escorted right into the school gate, which is off the main road and down a 150m footpath. Standing at the top of the footpath and watching them walk in isn't allowed. Failure to comply means that child services will be called in.

Once you turn eleven, walking 1.2 miles unsupervised to the nearest secondary school is expected.

Not to be an old Yorkshireman but when I was nine I had a one mile walk at the side of a busy A road and looked after my five year old brother going to the neighbouring school.
No dude. I think they're just trusting in a sense. Critical people would probably argue its laziness but I disagree.

These obsessions aren't there own doings but voiced and argued by the governments in the first place.

Its unfortunate, but the only criticism that can be placed on the people is that they should be less trusting of people. And effectively thats saying "its your fault for not knowing there are assholes out there, not the fault of the assholes".

Which may or may not be a fact, but its definitely a mind fuck to think about.
For normal people monthly lab testing would be overkill at best and dangerous at worse.

The thing to remember about lab tests is that the "normals" are based on bell curves so approximately 1 out of 20 labs will be abnormal from this phenomena alone. The more labs you get, the more false abnormals you get. If each false abnormal gets worked up, you are talking a lot of additional testing and worry.

Typical recommendations to test hypercholesterolemia is every 90 days at most if actively treating and then yearly once stable.

To your aside, I think annual physicals are probably overkill, but primary care doctors are now expertly trained in screening for multiple issues that could affect young healthy folks. Seeing your PCP for a "well-person" visit every few years is a good idea. Most of the time the doctor isn't going to order labs and will just chat a bit, do a physical exam, and get you on your way. A good doctor will have informed opinions about your exercise and diet regimen, for example.
Except it doesn't really keep backups for external drives, unless they are connected to your machine at least once every 30 days.
Yes. And with the right laws you can reduce that to reasonable levels.