the_paul

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by the_paul 12y ago
It's a female? How can you tell?
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by the_paul 12y ago
This is not true.
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by the_paul 13y ago
We (Space Monkey) intend to make the device usable on its own, without the Space Monkey service, for people who purchase the device and don't want to continue the service. It's unclear as yet how close we'll be able to get it
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by the_paul 13y ago
No. Although being a distributed network with similar reliability and availability and performance requirements, there are some similar technologies/approaches at play.
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by the_paul 13y ago
There won't be hundreds of copies. A device may back up data to hundreds of other devices in total, though. Space Monkey data will be resilient to considerably more than 3 nodes failing.
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by the_paul 13y ago
These are totally valid concerns. The average home internet upload cap, especially in the US, is not very generous. But the idea with Space Monkey is that most of your ongoing data access will be directly from your own device. If you're at
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by the_paul 13y ago
(a) I think that's the same problem that all consumer devices have that "phone home" for updates; game consoles, TiVos, smart TVs, VoIP phone adapters, etc. (b) If all you need is archiving of your stuff, and you don't want ongoing fast acc
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by the_paul 13y ago
Yeah, Space Monkey is a business, and we hope to be able to make at least some money off the whole deal in the end. But also yes, there are nontrivial ongoing costs to keeping the network working and working right. For example, we need dedi
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by the_paul 13y ago
The encryption is done on the device. Other people's devices (obviously) won't have your encryption key, but since Space Monkey will have a web interface to get at your files, you can tell that Space Monkey will have access to your key. Reg
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by the_paul 13y ago
The whole terabyte is yours. The device has extra capacity to account for the rest.
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by the_paul 14y ago
...a competently engineered Turing Machine can do everything NoSQL databases can, particularly limited databases like MongoDB. ... Emacs is just as fast as NoSQL du jour in the hands of someone that knows it. FTFY. The difference between us
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by the_paul 15y ago
They sound like they should be, right? Mozy did storage, EMC did storage? But as a Mozy employee during the time of the acquisition, I'd like to state for the record how emphatically and fantastically wrong this is. There is more of a "natu
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by the_paul 15y ago
It's not dissimilar to the legal ramifications of browsing HN, then. Look, encrypted data! xQq84/+wpysSnUveVUX6592sHzGBptxysvtginJr2OFkDifXYtNCFg==
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by the_paul 15y ago
I submit that you're probably screwed anyway in those countries and/or jurisdictions, whether or not you have someone else's unreadable contraband. :) In fact, here's an exercise. The following data represents a base64-encoded encrypted ima
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by the_paul 15y ago
This is one of the most straightforward possible applications for cryptography in data storage- no worries about key negotiation or cipher negotiation or PKI infrastructures. And yes, they're encrypting your data before sending it anywhere-
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by the_paul 15y ago
It's not exactly clear from the paper what CA should mean. I've seen people claim it means "you guarantee both consistency and availability, as long as there are no network partitions (you don't have to handle those because you haven't ch
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by the_paul 15y ago
" Many concurrent algorithms are very easy to write with a GC and totally hard (to down right impossible) using explicit free." This is not the same as: " All concurrent algorithms are very easy to write with a GC and totally impossibl
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by the_paul 15y ago
A good way to support said finance reform is to follow Lessig's recommendation ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig/on-the-signifi... ) and help out Buddy Roemer's campaign.
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by the_paul 15y ago
Er, 2012 - 1996 = 16, not 17? I feel old already. I don't want to get charged for the extra year.
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Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science: fascinating discussions(philtcs.wordpress.com)
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by the_paul 16y ago
Macros were also the reason I wrote Noodle, which was a similar effort (Lisp compiling to Python bytecode) back around 2004. The project died when I couldn't figure out sane, easy-to-learn rules about how to make macros live with modules an