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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Offsite backup services created by HNers: http://www.tarsnap.com/ http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ https://spideroak.com/ (I co-founded SpiderOak in 2006.)
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Only time will tell if this is a workable solution, but at least the identification of some current systemic problems is accurate.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
PSA: You can avoid seasonal winter flu just by keeping your vitamin D levels up (which your body makes in response to direct sunlight.) http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=vitamin+d+seasonal+flu&#...
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Americas and Europe (remote): SpiderOak is looking for help in engineering, marketing, and customer service. Since 2006, SpiderOak provides an easy, consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for Windows,
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Americas and Europe (remote): SpiderOak is looking for help in engineering, marketing, and customer service. Since 2006, SpiderOak provides an easy, consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for Windows,
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
SpiderOak has always been an all-SSL site, for all services (including data storage and retrieval.) We've found the Erlang implementation of SSL scales more comfortably than OpenSSL. (The new Erlang implementation, available since r12, and
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
We just launched the SpiderOak backup and sync client for Android this morning: https://spideroak.com/blog/20101004214544-finally-here-spide... We'll be making it open source shortly.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Very nice - My wife is the graphic designer for a nonprofit that does significant fieldwork, and just spent the weekend lamenting the shortcomings of Flickr and photo database management software in general.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Yet "I'd prefer not to discuss my affairs" conveys the same message with a much different connotation.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
this detail is wrong: the tar that ships on Mac OS X does indeed support resource forks.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
If you were considering rolling your own large storage infrastructure, a reasonable place to start might be https://spideroak.com/diy/ (entirely open source.)
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_mongering
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Yes; if you increase the hash space sufficiently, these problems go away. I don't think wide hashing has really become a standard industry practice though, because services want to pick the option that is least burdensome to end users' CPU
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
... and yet SHA1 collisions have happened. According to NIST, "Federal agencies should stop using SHA-1 for...applications that require collision resistance as soon as practical" Regrettably, we don't actually have any truly ideal hash fun
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
To my knowledge, it cannot be done in a way that addresses the privacy concern: that a court could require the storage operators to answer such questions about their customers as described in the article. If there's a way around that, I am
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
One of the big challenges of scaling a backup service is maximizing the upload rate from customers, so there's a strong incentive to do the de-duplication before the upload when possible. I don't wish to call anyone out specifically, but s
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
My point is specifically that many of them are doing so in this ridiculous way. You can try for yourself: upload a bunch of pirated mp3s and see if the transfer is suspiciously fast.
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Why SpiderOak doesn't de-duplicate data across users(spideroak.com)
31 points by rarrrrrr 16y ago|22 comments
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Yes! It's also important to note that sunlight through glass DOES NOT COUNT.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
SpiderOak does this. (I'm a founder.)
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
There are a thousand low level details in the answer to this question; I'll try to cover some of the basics. A high end vitamin tries very hard to package nutrients from actual food sources (i.e. extracts and concentrations of something you
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
I've been studying health and exercising with an Olympic trainer for years. First, nearly all vitamins sold at CVS, Walgreens, Costco, Walmart, etc. are cheaply manufactured. Don't even bother. These are also the vitamins pharmaceutical c
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
I prefer http://winpdb.org/ (Not windows only.) The debugger runs as a full screen GUI app, which you attach via sockets to a running process, so you can easily debug stuff like FCGIs on other machines, etc.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Here's the patent: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Perhaps it already is. The Internet Archive has an S3 like API too: http://www.archive.org/help/abouts3.txt I thought the interface was patented, though? I wouldn't expect Google to copy it precisely.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
spideroak.com has always been an all SSL site, and there are a few additional annoyances: - You need a cert for example.com, and maybe a wildcard cert for .example.com, and for any additional levels of subdomains such as *.{x,y,z,etc}.exa
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
8 - 10 hr days are no problem. I built up to that over a few weeks. Other possibly relevant factors: Switched to dvorak about 10 years ago. I'm in athletic shape and maintain a healthfull diet. I usually have a dead tree format book going
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
You have the advantage of shipping a desktop client, which affords you a variety of interesting methods beyond what purely web based apps and browsers can do. The desktop client could even serve as a local proxy server for web/forum access.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
It's much easier to have a higher ratio when the absolute numbers are higher. Fewer than 2 admins means no vacations, and a team of 3 is often more comfortable.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
For mutual recursion, you need to use trampoline. http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/625...

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