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How are you guys able to use these cloud backup solutions for more than a handful of documents?

I have 30Mbps down/.5Mbps up. It takes about a minute to upload one JPEG off my DSLR. I can't imagine how much time it would take to upload a ~100gb full disk backup.

I'd love to use Arq, but I think I'd have to live in a Google Fiber city.
Because they never gained root access. I trust the logs in this case because their actions were immediately made known: Access logs show failed login attempts from that ip for a range of usernames, a successful login on the compromised account, then nothing but reams of mail being churned out.

If it had been done for more nefarious purposes, wouldn't "they" have been more discreet, carefully wiping traces of their activity from the logs? Not doing something that immediately throws red flags like sending thousands of email messages?

In all honesty, I certainly don't have the skills to detect an NSA-level attack that doesn't involve brute-force attempts on accounts. I can erase or alter logs, but then there are logs logged of me vi'ing logs, so I erase the shell history, but then that gets logged when I log out. It's a weird loop I don't know how to defeat, but some people do.

The heart of our problem was a misconfigured sshd that permitted remote logins (not root logins) on all user accounts. A disaster in the making. We got lucky that it was a spammer who compromised the system and not a competitor.
play again :P

or give it to a charity, I think there are a few that have a stellar account, for example miri
I do something similar using Ericom AccessToGo (FREE) to RDP from my Samsung Chromebook (ARM) to various Windows boxes.
They're testing out 6tb drives early, so when the time comes to fully switch over. They know what drives to get from what manufacturer. They'll also have a better idea when to switch over.
some things better be left un-shipped.
For software - OpenCV, ROS (robot operating system) are good places to start. Unfortunately most robot research in universities suffer from a very bad 'not invented here' syndrome, so a lot of wheels are reinvented over and over. It has been about 5 years since I seriously payed attention to the software ecosystem so this might be out of date.

For embedded hardware, I'm a big fan of the BeagleBone Black. People talk a lot about the Raspberry Pi, but the BeagleBone makes a bit more sense. Look at the OpenROV project as a good example of that.

Lower level, there is a lot of stuff related to feedback controlled (closed loop) motor controllers that is key.

Higher level, pathfinding AI is interesting. Even things like inverse kinematics, thought that is largely a solved problem.

Some of my favorite books are Probabilistic Robotics for the theoretical stuff, and Robot Builders Bonanza for the really practical hobbyist stuff.
You may like to think that about entrepreneurs but you'd be almost clinically deluded if that was what you did think.
Ladies (and only ladies, sorry guys, ladies first), the rules are simple:

Draw the OnePlus logo on a piece of paper or on your hand/face/wherever (so we know it’s really you)

Take a photo of yourself with the OnePlus logo clearly visible

Post the photo in this thread

The 50 most well-liked ladies will receive an invite and a Never Settle t-shirt. Additionally, we will be giving out another 100 invites at random to any lady who participates in the contest. The contest begins today and ends on Friday. We will announce the winners on Monday.

Ladies, no nudity please.

Bonus:

If we receive 500 entries, we will give 1 OnePlus One Sandstone Black 64GB edition to whoever (from 1 of 16 launch countries) takes our favorite photo.
From the kickstarter: "The core of the motor is sealed and protected with an epoxy coating and it uses high-performance plastic bearings in place of steel bearings that rust in saltwater."
"Small" meaning easy-to-mitigate. I was expecting something along the lines of, "I spent months probing buffer overflows to leak security credentials." Not, "I spent three seconds and nearly fell out of my chair when I realized they don't sanitize database queries."
Bad estimates: You don't know what you don't know. You don't know how much time it will take to do something you never have done.

Problems are dam hard: What we do is really hard, so basically we have to trim our projects to the basics, instead of doing what we want to do, which is way more. Creative people want to start-create always way more projects that what they could finish, so we need discipline here.

*Complexity and lack of documentation. Another thing that needs a lot of discipline. People believe that what they know after thinking on it for a lot of time is evident for everybody else. It is not. Not only that, people forget what they know today if they do not document it, so if you do not document a year from now you will repeating most of your work, with the company's budget.
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>>That's not my experience; I now avoid asking hypotheticals because the results for me have been very unreliable.

The point in this context is that, while it may still be unreliable, it would be more reliable than simply asking if they like your product. And it is the best you can do, since no one is going to actually pay for a product that doesn't exist yet.
I ask this without having my own opinion on the matter: Won't those debates improve the design of the architecture? It's hard to imagine the time loss of debates being greater than the time loss of a rearchitecture.
There is no intrinsic reason why these numbers should not be proportional to society in the long run, that's why we compare the ratios.

Not even considering issues of equality and access, diversity as a thing in and of itself is at least good business. Especially in positions of power and decision-making. And that is at least one reason to peer at the discrepancies with open-minded curiosity - not to start a witch hunt, but to make smart shifts towards better business.
YC investors are not "neckbeards". Further, this is a professional issue in every industry, in every locale.

In hospitals. On the factory floor. In the retail outlet. At the fast food joint. Put the sexes together and we're still trying to figure out how to make it work, trying to break free of the cloistered, sexist past. In New York, Boston, Toronto, and London.

And ultimately you have to blame popular media to some degree. In movies or shows where attractive people work together, the plot of the movie virtually always has them coupling up. It seems, from a media perspective, that you can't professional work with someone of the opposite sex (talking specifically about that situation) without it becoming romantic.
Should you withhold information from your CV since some of it is known by you to not being supposed to be used by the reader of said CV?

Because CV without all what you listed is no longer a CV and is closer to a catalog listing. Should you also replace your name with some alphanumeric code? Because name can tell you a lot to discriminate on.
I said "more than double the pot". So your odds would be over 50%. And you win the entire pot if you win, unless I'm misunderstanding? You don't have a 50% chance of winning 48%, you have a >50% chance of winning 98%.
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Data like this suggests that a common argument employed by diversity activists is false. Specifically, if companies like Apple and Facebook manage to create products that are wildly popular with women, it suggests that it isn't necessary to have female employees to make products for women.

(Repeat for race/nationality - I don't think a single African person works for Whatsapp. I've also never met an African woman in the past year who doesn't use it daily.)
Right. Also that means the backup data won't accidentally get copied to your hard drive by the Google Drive sync client.
When I saw that, I literally said "well that's adorable."
People management is one of the poorly understood and performed roles in a corporate hierarchy. Most middle management ( in technical organizations ) is promoted either due to 'Technical competence' or 'In-the-club'. Unfortunately either of these 2 selection criteria are not necessary functions for good people mgmt skills.

Ace people managers are strategic physiologists. They understand emotion and motivation while developing a great understanding of their employees. Each employee has a profile that determines what motivates them and these managers have a good holding of this. All this while knowing that their employees are humans and not robotic machines.
But you wouldn't be getting just your money back, you'd be winning the entire pot. Unless I misunderstand how this works.
Really? Clinically deluded? I might have to push the date for my sabbatical then.
Hard to argue with 2x memory & 2-3x performance for the same price. Nice!
As I understand it we came close a few days ago but finally rolled over 512K today at which point some routers hit their hardware limits and either stop learning new routes or start forwarding in software.

There is a lot of chatter about it on Twitter and some network mailing lists:

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2014-August/007091...

It looks like some providers like Level3 have been having a bad day.
I just finished Cryto I and immediately signed up for Cryto II. Very well done online class.
Equating someone asking a business contact out on a date to "forced rape" is insane. You are the problem.
They are involved, that's why they're franchises and not completely independent "Burger Joint™". With added pressures such as the protests and strikes in NYC over fast food, it seems to me they're probably paying attention now more than they have in the last few years.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We've since spoken to some of the device manufacturers after some of our more recent posts. :-p
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I think giving the margin to a charity would be a great idea. I was thinking of implementing a stellar charity lottery, but you have been faster it seems :) As an added benefit people might be more likely to play if they know they are doing so for a good cause. Everybody wins! :) I think there are a few charities on stellar already
3 - Seems like the kicker for new co-founders that start up thinking, "We share the dream so, we'll coordinate together."
It's actually five QR codes, and some probably meaningless junk in between.
As much as I like this tooling and the features that Heroku offers it disturbs me that I have to pay $15,000 a month to get more than 99% uptime SLA.

To me it is unacceptable to see "max 1 hour downtime" and "max 15 minutes downtime" on plans that cost way more than running your own database on cloud instances from other providers.

For reference on AWS I'm running two m3.xlarge instances in an automated failover database cluster that so far has >99.95% uptime for the past year, and it only costs about $400 a month.

Meanwhile to get automated failover and a database equivalent to an m3.xlarge you have to pay $1,200 a month on Heroku, and that could still reach 15 minutes of downtime per month.
The first time I just locked the wheel. Every time since I've used more advanced locks. It was never unlocked.

The last time one was stolen the thieves left the back wheel (locked to a stand) behind, unscrewed it and cut through the cable that was holding the frame. AIUI bike theft is mostly organized, they take a whole load and throw them in the back of a van, rather than carrying them around.
I second this. I would love to be able to run a tool a la rsnapshot to store about 500 GB's worth of locally encrypted backups on a cloud provider. I am willing to pay about $100/year for this service. Backblaze offers this service for $60/year. But the problem is my home NAS (the origin point of all of these backups) is Linux/UNIX-based.
It happens in any environment with a lot of vibration.
Friends who live twenty minutes away are far less likely to join on a casual and/or routine basis.

BTW, the telephone was invented nearly 200 years ago. Although, yes, travel options were more limited.
Because the relationship between money and utility is not constant across the human population.

If we consider a meal at a moderately fancy resteraunt then there are people without much money who would be aghast at spending that much on a meal. Conversely there are rich people who wouldn't even look at the menu-prices or the bill.
>I have 30Mbps down/.5Mbps

Well there's your problem. I've got a 10 Mbps upstream connection, so it never takes more than a few minutes to back things up.
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The fact that there are success stories doesn't make the argument false.
and then add this perhaps..https://mini.jappix.com/
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I've experimented with building a submersible robot and - by far - the most challenging aspect of the build was creating an interface between the motor and the propellor that was waterproof in a reliable way. (applying grease or something hydrophobic on a shaft lasts only so long)

By abstracting away that schlep for me, - a schlep, which is usually the least interesting bit about a machine - these guys might be able to create something analogous to Arduino for marine robots. Before Arduino, you needed a complete test bed to get a micro-controller up and running. After Arduino, you usually focus on what you want to do, instead of getting the micro-controller to work. That shift makes creating something extremely accessible, allowing anyone to jump in and try things out. A line of products like these, might actually make robotics far more accessible than any number of kits before it. In other words, this could be the start of something incredible.

Edit: I just realised another way of phrasing what they're doing. Imagine how hard payments was before Stripe came along. These people are basically the Stripe for marine robotics, which is really awesome.
Not enough planning and general apathy.

We'll start a project and then half the devs will go on vacation. They return, and then the other half go on vacation. I guess that's summer for ya, but why not just close the office for a month and let everyone know that they should take their vacations around that time.

Devs will raise complaints about the work environment or a poorly written (but critical) module, but nothing gets done about it.

If a feature doesn't have strong executive support, nothing really gets done on it, and 3 months later someone will ask "hey, what happened to that feature?"
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I realize that I'm going to sound like a grandfather here, but I think it comes down to a lack of history. Teams with that young/old balance, people who have done it before ship more frequently, from what I see.

Years ago, that was called Build Management, now, we call part of it DevOps. But the reality is that most teams have forgotten about professional engineering.

Pausing to think about the 'how' rather than just hammering it out, and living with the consequences are enormous. The fact that I rarely see separations of concern anymore, let alone focusing on reducing build times or test run times, is massive. Ultimately, that means tradeoffs - the software triangle comes into play.

It's especially interesting to me, since I'm (today) working with a team I last worked with 12 years ago. There's been massive flux - only three of twenty originals are here. And yet, with multiple geographies, multiple age groups, multiple operating systems, and three distinct cloud providers (let alone the internal wannabe cloud) they push out a valuable release weekly, and micro-push to production ~3x daily. That's a testament to the engineer who manages the team, the same engineer I worked with on build workflows over a decade ago.
Would it be possible to participate and donate any eventual prize to some us based charity?
And, also, we operate in a low-tech service industry where simply having a database of customers is considered moderately cutting edge. We're not a software company producing hacking tools for evil governments and their puppets. There's nothing interesting on the server for anyone save our competitors. That leads me to logically deduce that the "hacking" attempts the internet-facing servers experience simply fall into the net of trolls searching for more machines to add to their botnets.

All the logs over the years simply show spam from bots idly probing for pirated SIP lines/extensions on our VoIP box, attempts to send mail through our mail server, and open PHP MyAdmin/Django/Wordpress login pages--none of which are present because none of that software's in use.
The issue with this line of reasoning is that it avoids complex notions of cyclical reinforcement, as well as lower level, and likely systemic, bias.

That is, there are potential ideological underpinnings that lead to the rather by-the-book statistical analysis.

When Lombroso attempted his measurements of criminality, and leveraged what appeared to be an exhaustive bit of data against the subject, inevitable analysis of the data ensued.

What was missed however, were the vastly more complex subjects of “What is criminality” and “Who defines criminality” for example. In a way, the data became a cyclical reinforcement of the (false) hypothesis, while ignoring the entire sociological dimension.

Very few have stopped to question the metrics and models, and instead only see the data.

In this case, it may be prudent to not stop at the 70% data, and dig beneath it to evaluate the ideology and biases that _may_ have played a role in the symptom. It is seductive to lean on Western Rationalism / Scientism, but we conceivably could do well to question the systems that give rise to the models that yield the data.
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Yev from Backblaze here -> What we meant by "the top of the curve" was that the price per GB for the 6TB drives is still high, but will decrease greatly as time goes on. The "The Backblaze Cross Under Point" section of the blog will explain it a bit better. We're not quite fully switching over yet, just testing the hardware.
Everyone is complaining about the terrible usability and lack of information. Then why the hell is this on the front page? I sense someone is trying to game the system here on HN.
If only I recognized this. Then I'd have said "suggest" rather than "prove beyond a shadow of a doubt".
>But if asking her out isn't worth more to you than your job is, then leave things professional.

Quit your job just to ask a woman out?

Asking a woman out you recently met isn't sexual harassment.

Some advice to your specific example:

1. Don't do it during demo day. She's a founder, and that's her time to meet with investors.

2. If you are planning on investing in her company- potential conflict of interest. Don't get involved personally.

3. If you don't have any desire to invest in her company-don't mislead your intentions. If you follow up and ask her out, don't be ambiguous with a coffee/lunch meeting that could be construed as business related. Do something that is clearly a date-like activity.

4. Don't use your influence/position for personal advantage.

Yes I'm going to generalize here, but no woman, even if she isn't interested, is going to be upset if you asked her out, if you do so at the appropriate time, appropriate place, and in a respectful way.
The US has bizarre classifications that make no sense anywhere else. Why are people from Spain Hispanic but not from Portugal, why are Mexicans Hispanic even if they are descended from Aztec people. The idea that all Asians are the same is equally insane. Even White is a stupid concept that has no meaning. If I came from Spain I'm hispanic but if I came from just over the border in France I'm white. If I come from South Africa and move to the US I'm either African-American or White depending on my ancestry even if it goes back 2 centuries. It's a dumb concept that mostly makes sense to anyone. Yet it persists in these strange classifications that have no basis in any scientific system.
I don't use Uber. I use Lyft. Why? Because Lyft is better people. Given the choice I'd rather support the better people. SF is full of startups that are indistinguishable in terms of technical merit, idea, business plan, etc. They are different though when it comes to the people.
The popularity contest is what makes it potentially degrading.
My `daily` backup is actually nightly, at 2AM which happens to coincide nicely with when my ISP's network is quiet enough that my upload is higher (still a paltry 4mbit).

Amusingly, for the initial backup of my my home desktops I actually lugged them to work and plugged into our 10Gbit network. My homedirs are backed up nightly, but the delta is rarely over a a gig or two per machine. I have something like 7TB backed up over the course of a few years, a lot fo it on my pitiful 2-3mbit.
Would you mind sharing that work-flow? I'm interested in how this is done, since i have failed to do it on several occasions.
I'm a bit puzzled by the rebranding. First of all, the logo and the name sound a bit similar to Twitter. And I'm not sure what bird noises have to do with a compiler?

The previous name, Duetto, made sense to me, since they compile to both client and server, so it's like two things running in harmony, which is a duet in music.
Not necessarily.

It is amusing that after observing that older folk employed at the same company seem to be taking it easier compared to the average, ashwinaj uses this observation to partially justify age discrimination on the basis that the older people look like they are putting in less effort, when these are the same set of people who have been successful at staying with the company.

Perhaps the company actually values more relaxed people and doesn't encourage the perpetually rushed to stick around.

edit - Something that did occur to me after reading this -

there are a lot of slackers and you guessed it, they're usually (emphasis on "usually", stop trolling) older, paper pushers, "Let's have a meeting to talk about changing a line of code" people

- was to think about how much money could have been saved globally by someone like that being in the loop on the openSSL source code. It has to be in the billions by now.
who needs type safety when you have all the web scale of javascript?
By all means, have your water tested right down to the subatomic level if you so desire.

Obsessive demands to search for problems in the absence of valid evidence that any exist, are an integral aspect of antifluoridationist tactics. However, it is not justification to deny entire populations the benefits of a valuable public health initiative such as water fluoridation.

You have just exemplified the true root of antifluoridationist objections dating back 69 years to the very beginning of the initiative. It is not based in science, but in ideological distrust of government and authority. Thus, no matter how much valid science is presented to antifluoridationists, as long as it does not agree with this ideology, as it never will, it will be rejected by them.

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One of the things that I've always enjoyed about robotics is that it is a 'systems' discipline. It employs mechanical, electrical, and software components into a complete system. My experience after 25 years of robotics club meetings is that there are few people who can 'do it all' and that means you pretty much have to team up with people who have complementary skill sets.

So depending on where you find yourself most comfortable consider focusing on that part of the problem. Could be algorithms (software focus), could be mechanics, could be 'mechatronics' (which is the term the local community college uses for a combined electronics/mechanical engineering sort of curriculum).