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Re:HTTP/2 Denial of Service Advisory on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:40PM (#20689469)
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/33631 (this is part of go 1.12.8 and 1.11.13 which got released because of this today)
Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:59PM (#13755880)
https://twitter.com/aws_shd/status/836635812020158464

"Increased API Error Rates - 9:52 AM PST We are investigating increased error rates in the US-EAST-1" "S3 operational issue - us-east-1"

Re:Dropbox Paper on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:41PM (#13556922)
I had no idea there is a separate "Dropbox Paper" app
"The group allegedly made more than $100 million in trades using unreleased earnings releases of companies such as Panera Bread Co., Boeing Co., Caterpillar Inc. and Oracle Corp., through retail brokerage accounts."
"older people have been among the _quickest to adopt_ the Internet among the disconnected population" ..means the opposite..
You, race does not matter, might care if your target audience is among the mentioned ones and in that case according to their numbers would have 20-25% of your audience you can't reach via or market online.
according to the article "break it down by race and class, and suddenly the numbers look very bleak"..

- 15% of US adults (~37m people) don't use the internet = 20% of black Americans = 25% of Americans who make less than $30,000 a year = 25% of adults who live in rural areas = 30% of Americans who've never finished high school

Ian Urbina's "The Outlaw Ocean" serie is quite the fascinating and nicely researched read - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/24/world/the-outl...
"daily backups" should not be on the same storage (or one could argue location) as your hot storage which has your photography data. How much of active storage do you have and access on a constant basis?

I personally keep local storage in the TB range (think drobo.com and local disks on workstation) and offload everything else to multiple cloud providers with a backup tool I trust (which I test on a daily basis by restoring data from the backup set of individual machines - example laptop vs home machine). Backup data resists on a mixture of cloud backends ranging from SFTP, Amazon Glazier/S3 and Dropbox. If most of your 12TB+ is backup/cold storage, you should be able to offload it to providers like crashplan.com or amazon drive which offer 'unlimited storage' for a few dollars if you are looking for a low cost solution and are willing to wait a year for your backup to complete.

Re:Bootstrap 3.3.5 released on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @04:00PM (#9728355)
Curious on the pitfalls, things you did _not_ like using Semantic UI vs. bootstrap for dev?
Re:Philae comet lander wakes up on Sunday June 14, 2015 @01:27PM (#9715648)
Great news. The linked BBC video "What is 67P? In 60 seconds" was very informative as I had little knowledge about 67P :) http://emp.bbc.co.uk/emp/embed/smpEmbed.html?playlist=http%3...
Re:MarI/O – Machine Learning for Video Games on Sunday June 14, 2015 @12:46PM (#9715493)
Veery nice visual introduction to the basics of neural networks
The math is defiantly not that simple as taking the revenue / seconds but a big difference here is also consumer goods vs. advertising money spent.
Re:How do dolphins sleep without drowning? [video] on Monday September 01, 2014 @01:15AM (#8251622)
Interesting - i know a few people who seem todo that throughout the day
Re:OpenSSH sshd – memory leak on Monday May 05, 2014 @06:01PM (#7701564)
definitely fitting :P
Re:OpenSSH sshd – memory leak on Monday May 05, 2014 @05:34PM (#7701432)
a 236 kbyte C exploit code example - you defiantly get 'something' for your 20 BTC..
Re:Solving a Maze with D3.js on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @12:02AM (#7632022)
very cool. i am even more amazed by the other data virtualization examples on the author's page http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock
Re:Heroku architecture on Thursday May 12, 2011 @09:22PM (#2543110)
Exactly - its a common practice to use DNS servers to spread load across backend instances. Example djbdns/tinydns by default "only" returns up to 8 IP addresses so if you setup more then that those IPs will be randomly returned.

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/balance.html

Re:Eric Schmidt uses Yahoo for emails on Monday September 22, 2008 @11:04AM (#311191)
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ericschmidt.com/

..the site has not been updated since 7 years. what a "great" news submission