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I don't see how you and the comment your are responding to are in disagreement.

Edit: Since people feel the need to downvote, I'll go into detail...

> The charge in this case was unreasonable, but on the other hand so was the
> kid's behaviour.

Translation: The kid shouldn't have been arrested, but it's also not like he was minding his own business when a bunch of government goons just decided to randomly pick on him either.

> If a TV show did pick on fifty random women from the street and start
> pointing out the flaws in their appearances then people would be rightfully
> upset about that too...

Translation: There is a difference between people volunteering themselves to be
judged (and possibly trashed) in public, and someone who has not volunteered
(and would rather not participate in such a thing).

Note that none of these things promotes the idea that offensive and illegal are
married concepts.
Indeed, that's one of the ways that you diagnose depression.

If the things that once made you feel really awesome (sex, motorcycling, coding, gaming, cooking, whatever) no longer hold any appeal for you, that means you're very likely not merely "feeling down" but actually clinically depressed.
PR = Media Publicity.

Deliverables will be coverage or mentions of your startup in media such as larger blogs, smaller blogs, national newspapers, local newspapers, magazines and niche publications.
de-duplication is the process where if two customers both store the same file, say abbey_road_from_itunes.mp3 the service provider only needs to store one copy of it. They can't do this if they encrypt each copy of that file individually for each customer. This adds up to a lot of space for a service like this, as most of the large files people store aren't their own creations.
I didn't see this issue addressed in that blog post. It comes down to some very simple questions:

1. Can Dropbox access user files? (already answered, yes)

2. Did you ever claim otherwise?

3. If so, why? And how will you appease any users that were misled? If not, where is the flaw in this complaint and various others?

The kind of vague PR-speak in that blog post will only irritate this crowd and drag the whole thing out. IMHO, the fastest way to make this go away is to take a firm position and state it clearly. And if you don't want to do that then it's probably best to say nothing at all.
At least the site itself confirms the CEOs statements - http://svpply.com/search/products/a%20ceo%20who%20knows%20wh... :)

Seriously though, refreshing to hear someone be so honest about what we all go through. Who didn't have panic attacks when they first started out?
I wonder how frequent is depression among programmers. That's not something people like to blog about.
Reasonable point; but I think one should draw a line between things that obviously are crimes, and offenses that stretch the definition of 'crime' beyond recognition, as in this case.
I wasn't aware that libel suits were brought by prosecutors. I though that it was civil law. Or am I mistaking that for slander?
Because depression doesn't work that way. It isn't a general feeling of malaise, it's somewhat a lack of positive value on everything (ish).

It is a lack of momentum and a heavy inertia to stay miserable and avoid change. It becomes a sunk cost where it's almost impossible to change something small in your life, let alone something big or huge.

Your advice is naive, and tantamount to asking "Have you thought about not being depressed, I hear that could work". If it were as simple as thinking your way of depression, it wouldn't be such a problem.

The best advice I've ever encountered is to take care of the little things, like sleeping on time, remembering to eat every day, doing laundry and getting out of the house. These are often the first things to go and often the hardest to get back into the routine of doing. Once you can manage a day at a time, it's easier to start to try managing a week at a time.

Large changes won't matter if you can't take care of the smaller things in life that support you. Depression isn't one of those things you can snap out of, but one that you can gradually work yourself out of.

It's not fun or easy though.
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Completely agreed. I'm a sole founder as well and my friends keep telling me "wow, you really know your stuff" but in reality I have no idea what I'm doing.

I spend all my time in a state of confusion.

But after a while you get used to it, actually. And you just keep going and learn as you go.
I hope this is sarcasm. People have been getting flamed online for saying this exact thing for a while now.

The issues of "doing something awesome" and depression are totally orthogonal.

Most people already are trying to do whatever they think is really awesome. For example, raise a family and have a steady income; or create a startup; or be an artist; or move to Europe.

In fact, the depressed person is probably already trying to do whatever he thinks is really awesome, or at least contemplating it, in real life, and being depressed is just getting in the way.
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Surely there are more straightforward ways to see pictures of women showing their ankles.
It sounds more like a case of political corruption, rather than unregulated market failure. I'm not saying market failure does not exist, just that this article doesn't seem to prove it.
An identical file encrypted with key X will be a different blob from one encrypted by key Y. About the best you can do is slice the file into N byte blocks and dedupe on that (this is what some modern filesystems like ZFS do).
I've never been a Dropbox user, and this sort of behavior doesn't surprise me. It puzzles me why folks are prepared to spend substantial amounts of money renting tiny amounts of insecure web storage when they could spend a modest amount on a plug computer and have a large amount of fairly secure storage, and without the indefinite rental fees.
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No, it would be a great society in which to live because you'd have a reasonable number of crimes and you'd have a fair chance of knowing if you were committing them. As it stands now there are an indeterminate amount of crimes specified in such a way that if you upset someone representing the state they will find one to apply to you.
Simpler, but with a changed meaning. The original speaker does not want to be read to from the book; he does not contemplate reading it to himself.
Salt is bad for you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209254

Also: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
Speech is not a crime.
Nope. I was genuinely curious whether and how Mailgun was superior to those products.
I don't know about that. Neither old books I've seen nor TeX do that.
I say this without irony: I think that Facebook changes everything. If Facebook is not around in 10 years, then at least one social networking site will be. People want to be able to easily communicate online with the people they know in a global way. Facebook is becoming the global human database.
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Thanks for the very informative demonstration of the scale of these numbers. I suppose I should have emphasized this part of my post: "a weakness is found in the system that helps eliminate a huge chunk of the possible key space". I was supposing that the combined intellectual effort of the NSA and CIA could find a vulnerability in Bin Laden's crypto implementation that would reduce the size of the key space to something that could be meaningfully attacked by their combined computational capacity.
Saving results to disk requires disk buffers, which can require the kernel to allocate, which won't work on an OOM system. This is how you get deadlocks: process trying to "handle" OOM ends up trying to allocate, and the system freezes. Which is why the OOM killer exists.

I should have said "underutilized" above. But the point is very real: applications map stuff all over the place. It's quite rare that they actually fault in those pages.

The stack thing is the obvious example: measure the stack size of your application (easy trick is to subtract the address of a local variable "deep" in the tree from the address of one of the arguments to main, or pthread_create, or wherever the top is). Now check the size of the mapping that contains the stack. And tell me if you want to actually reserve all that memory.
PR firms charge $5,000/month or more for "best efforts". They send out a handful emails to bloggers and reporters, may not get any bites, and pocket what amounts to $500-$1000 an hour for their time. That sucks.

Our value proposition:

(1) Spend 10-20% of what PR firms charge
(2) Pay ONLY IF they deliver the type of coverage you want and agreed to
Sad... here's a link from the article to KQED's map of what parks are closing: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=21...
De-duplication requires verifying that two files are identical. If they can verify that two files are identical they either compared them both in unencrypted form or they can compare the two encrypted files. The first method would require them to be able to unencrypt files without prompting all users for their private key to compare the copies.

The second method would require identical files from different users to encrypt to the same form, meaning the encryption is not key dependent and thus can also be decrypted without your key.

There may be some other method I'm missing but I don't see how they could de-duplicate with key-dependent encryption when their users hold their own keys.
Speaking as someone who has a family member with mental illness: if you have such an illness then please seek professional help right away. If you suspect that someone you care about might have a mental illness then you should urge them to seek professional help right away.

Sometimes it is all manageable or heals on its own, but sometimes the illness progresses and the results are tragic, so it needs to be viewed seriously.
I'm a customer of shipito, and found this in their user forums. This could really disrupt the way stuff is being currently shipped worldwide. You won't have to pay an arm and a leg to ship heavy or largish stuff with FedEx or DHL anymore.
$33 million / $15.4 billion = 0.215%
The cheat sheet has been around for a while, but the interactive Super Mario background is pretty sweet!
I'd feel bad for the porn stars involved, though. Imagine knowing that Osama Bin Laden's favourite activity was jerkin' it while watching you? Please, won't somebody think of the feelings of the porn stars?
Next thing you know they'll be announcing that they've hacked his Farmville account.
Ah, I've never had that problem since both Chrome and Safari have native PDF renderers that load instantly.

And Scribd just sent me 10(ten) e-mails since I had the audacity to log in using Facebook and it decided to go all social on me and add all my friends one by one. No thanks.
Thanks for the comment!

Re Lifetime: Good point, this is value (or more precisely, revenue) to date.

Re Value: The post outlines the first step in deriving "true" value. The intent is to allow you to take the ltv as described & subtract the appropriate costs to find a net gain or loss.

Sorry for not being as thorough as I should have, I'll try to get an amendment from Paul.
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At this point, why not just leave them open and don't spend any money on them? And if you're going to stop employing people, how about some Sacto bureaucrats that don't have much of an impact on anything?
seems rather stupid to me..
Programmers especially, since they tend to live in a world of logic and rational thinking, which tends to lead to the notion that depression can be controlled by modifying certain behaviors or thought patterns -- the same way that any other function (or generic system of functions) can be controlled by modifying their parameters.
I don't think anyone likes to admit it. It took Kay Redfield Jamison's book, Touched with Fire, to reveal the extent of it with writers and other artists. Granted, those are the ones who became well-known. We'll never know of the ones who didn't survive their torment.
Wow, this will save me hours in development time. Guess procrastinating on HN is useful after all ;). Great service guys, congrats!
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Translation: intellectual dishonesty is worse than ignorance.

I loved that book by the way. 'On Truth' was good too, but 'On Bullshit' is definitely better.
Unfortunately, professional help isn't free, and there are quite a few people who can't afford it right now.

...alcohol's a cheap medication, anyway.
> I'm not sure where you are, but my experience is that most of the teachers are pretty good and care for the kids.

I didn't suggest otherwise.

I said that in CA, like many other places in the US, we've been increasing spending on public education for decades and haven't gotten any benefit from that extra money.

It may well be that this money never made it to the classroom and that the classroom is being cut while "the black hole" is being protected.

My point is that enough money is going into "the system" as a whole. You're saying "enough money" isn't going where it's needed. That's a different problem, one that won't be solved by adding money.

Doesn't it bother you that your kids are being used as an excuse to line someone's pockets? (And no, I don't mean tax payers.)
A year ago, I purchased a Seagate Dockstar (plug computer) and did just what you are saying.

That Dockstar currently turns on and blinks amber. Seagate tells me it is dead.

That and the puny bandwidth of my cable connection and the costs of backing up my diskdrives, leads to a desire to outsource that pain.

So whether it is Dropbox, Google, Wuala, or many other solutions, I would like to find reasonably secure cloud storage, and I would be willing to pay for that (and I do.)
The amount of OO runtime metaprogramming crap out there far outweighs the amount of macro metaprogramming crap from simple fact that hardly anyone knows anything about macro metaprogramming. I've seen only a few non-extensible defblah and a metric ton of non-extensible OO bullshit in major projects.

I agree that you have some valid points but your overall argument holds little water. In good Lisps you have access to both runtime and compile time abstractions. Used wisely they will always trump a system that can only lean on runtime abstractions.

I'll also note that in my experience runtime metaprogramming is horribly painful. And many, many, many others have pointed out this fact. There are numerous cases where structural transformation is far simpler to reason about.
That's just not how it works. The simplest thing -- getting out of bed, showering -- seems impossible and just pointless. Everything seems pointless.
NEAT. Now I want to hook this up to Maildir...
Does Limewire have $100 million? Does it have any money? Is anyone going to get paid? Is the founder guy really going to cut a $100 million check at this point?
Requesting Franz Kafka and David Foster Wallace (including footnotes).
When the cuts start, it is the projects with the most politically weak supporters that will get cut first.

Bigger ticket items, by definition, had to have strong political allies to get put into place, so they will be the last things to get trimmed - if at all.
I also built an autotagger, which I used to auto-organize Hacker News a while back:

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How about selling them? How about selling them to non-profits with covenants that they be publicly available 6months/year and forbidding parcelling and developing.
The article alleges that SpiderOak (https://spideroak.com) does not deduct data. This is not however correct. SpiderOak deduplicates data but on an per account level and not cross-account since security prohibits this.
Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of Custora (YC W11), and one of the keys to our product is accurate lifetime value estimation.

This is a great rundown of how to do a descriptive revenue per customer analysis.

As many have pointed out here, true CLV really needs to account for the expected value of customers as well -- not just what we have seen, but how we expect customers to behave into the future. This information can help us determine how much to spend on customer acquisition. Even better, performing the calculations across acquisition sources helps us decide where to spend our advertising dollars in future periods.

The single most important thing to recognize when building a survival model is that there isn't a constant retention rate. Instead, when customers join, some are good (slow churners) and others are bad (quick churners). The key to an accurate survival analysis (and thus, an accurate LTV number), is getting a sense of this distribution of customers.
Something Ayn Rand predicted.
That would prevent de-duplication in the non-shared case, which as I understand it is important to Dropbox for increasing storage efficiency. I suspect that is the primary reason why they don't have an option to "store encryption key locally only" in the client. The excuse that users expect to be able to share and access files on the web can be overcome with a big scary warning indicating that is not possible when using client-side-only encryption keys.

Dropbox advocates TrueCrypt in one breath, but refuses to integrate client-only encryption keys in the client with the next breath. Obviously they know what we all know: TrueCrypt presents a poor UX for non-technical users, and so most people won't use it even if it's recommended. Then DropBox gets to be the hero for advocating TrueCrypt while they get de-dup efficiency because they know few people actually bother using TrueCrypt.

Any transfer of keys to dropbox, even temporally, means your data on dropbox should be considered insecure. You have no way to know what's going on on the dropbox side. The same issue arises for CAs that let customers generate SSL keys within a web interface, to avoid the nuisance of having to generate a key/cert/csr themselves and uploading that. It doesn't matter if the CA promises never to store the private key. It's insecure and it's bad practice.
This is more politics than anything else. The Governor is trying to cut visible things so people will accept the Tax extensions. The truth is, as the the article says, these parks only cost $33 million. In a state where the top 5 highest paid employees make over $10 million in salary (http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/) keeping those parks open wouldn't cost that much.

Plus we just found we've got $2 billion in tax revenue we didn't expect (http://tinyurl.com/3cv3t4k)

Also, for the record, California has a corporate sponsorship program for parks: http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25426.
A point based system as the one used in other countries may be better. You get points for education, experience, financial status, family ties, age, origin, etc.
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depends on the state, while it was repealed years ago in CA, it results in 20 years sentences for some in CO:

http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/article_5eb6b458-f637-52...
Or, they could close a tax loophole on 1-2 rich taxpayers, which would raise a lot more money than this misguided move.

I know which option I'd prefer.
Coping mechanisms like that one definitely help -- especially if they get put to use early on in a depressive cycle. A high level of self-awareness, acknowledgement of depression (or other mental illness), certain hobbies, "sunshine therapy", all help to mitigate depression and other mental illnesses.

Still, though, there are severe forms of depression that can become invulnerable to all the self-help approaches.
it seems the latest kernel doesn't use the more complex heuristics that it used to (preserving longer running tasks, for example) and just goes off the proportion of memory used by the process, with a 3% bonus for the superuser. However it does also adjust the score by the value in /proc/pid/oom_score_adj (which can completly disable or completely favour the process) and so you could probably write a userspace daemon which updated this value based on whatever heuristics you want (although you'd have to do it before the OOM condition).
I love the Google 2 step process. It would be amazing if someone included this (I'd say either Lastpass or Passpack).
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Why can't California collectively shame Google/Apple/Intel and others into paying more taxes? They're obviously headquartered here but pay no taxes in California because they just off-shore the profits and claim incorporation in Delaware.
Alcohol makes mental illnesses vastly worse. (As, apparently, do most psychiatric drugs in the long run.)
I don't consider it 'natural that any provider of supposedly secure storage would hold the account owners encryption key. It's not hard (as proven by SpiderOak and Wuala) to implement client side encryption. It does however make it impossible (hard) to cross-account deduplicate which makes storage costs higher for the operator.

I think the issue here is that dropbox tried to position themselves as 'as secure as everyone else' while actually holding the encryption keys and deduplicating across accounts, something that is not true for their competition.
A lot of this does not make sense to me. Dropbox allows you to view your files via a web browser interface. Obviously that means they can access the unencrypted files. Perhaps people would prefer not to have the web access features.

But even then, if Dropbox never stored the decryption keys on their servers anywhere, and the decryption key was stored only on a client PC, and I lost my computer, I would not be able to access the backed-up data from Dropbox on a new computer. That would kind of defeat the purpose of Dropbox for me. As many others have pointed out (including Lifehacker) you can always use Truecrypt to put some stuff in your Dropbox that no one but you can decrypt.

As far as the "feds" getting my data, if they are after me, they can get a search warrant from a judge and come into my house and confiscate all of my computers, which would allow them to access any data on my harddrives not encrypted with Truecrypt...
This is more about the ability to broadcast your thoughts instead of having actual power. I doubt that past kings and emperors, who held almost absolute power over millions of people, would envy a modern self-centered teenager venting on Twitter.
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Why everybody wants to invent their own crappy password hashing scheme? Just pick one of already widely used ones, eg.: PBKDF, bcrypt, scrypt, any non-DES-based algorithm offered by crypt(3)... And when you want to really design your own scheme, at least look at how all previously mentioned schemes are designed and try to understand why.

And as for why this scheme is bad: your application has access to this "protected file" with secret shared key and so does attacker.
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