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Client-side encryption severely worsens the economics of Dropbox, and not everyone needs it. If you want that you're perfectly entitled to go build your own competitor, which will have higher costs.
You are funny. Motivated technologist, eh? A completely clueless friend of mine bought an external optical drive together with her netbook. There is nothing hard about it.

CDs will certainly disappear – and good riddance to them.
I've been following HN for 3+ years now. I would rather read content and upvote then post meaningless responses for a karma score or +5 Funny.
In my estimation, if their system was decently designed, instead of granting anyone access to everything, nobody should have been granted access to anything if there is an authentication problem. Can you possibly imagine a worse system than they currently use (that still attempts to provide security)?
When you're facing the possibility of having multiple governments looking to 'come down hard' on you, I doubt destruction of evidence adds much to the mix.
Super influential, robust network nodes
I see the difference between a server and a library, but both can often be used for the same use case. Just recently I evaluated a few data stores for a project and I didn't care all that much about the distinction. For the servers you're gonna use an API for your programming language anyway, so the programming model isn't that different.
A way to post on other networks that brings the people reading those posts and their feedback back into G+.

The last thing I want is to auto-post a G+ post on Facebook, and trigger an interesting conversation there that I don't participate in. And I don't want to turn G+ into a megaphone where I'm simply talking at people without enabling them to talk back. That's not a conversation.
(a) I don't agree that that's what I'm going to be spending money on in two years, or that costs will have fallen that far for the entire box (CPU, RAM, yes; physical box, PSU, no), or even that that money will be available (I'm in Ireland - check out the news on our economy :) Right now, whether it's better to keep euros in the bank or to spend them while they still have purchasing power buying things that will last and can be used seems like a terrifyingly close decision!

(b) This box's destiny is to go sit in a room quietly and just work. Any time I spend on it after it's in that quiet room is time wasted, and I'm willing to spend a bit more (though not a huge amount more) now to save a lot more then. If I was a postgrad again and my time was low-cost and I wasn't hosting data I really worried about, sure, I'd pick the newest, shiniest toy and try to make it work and if it didn't, oh well, I learnt something; but that's not the case here, I just want a solid box I never have to worry about no matter what else we throw at it. This ain't the project car in the garage being endlessly worked on for fun, this is the family estate wagon that's used for the shopping and getting the kids to school, if that analogy makes any sense.
If you check Inspect Element when hitting Send Feedback, I believe you can see some of their magic (includes HTML5's canvas element and flashcanvas.swf) which leads me to believe it's not done server side.

Also modifying the DOM preserves when hitting Send Feedback.
Couldn't agree more; as soon as I get a whiff of a website trying to dig more information out of me than it needs to perform a specific function, my tolerance for everything else on the website drops considerably.

"To calculate shipping, please enter all your personal info, credit card and hours a day no one is at your house."

As for Amazon, you are right; I think they make up for it with good prices and an excellent shopping experience. In a way, I think they can get away with it because they are so good at what they do.

I wish to go AWS Payments would allow payments without an account though so it could be used in lieu of PayPal... but that is an aside.
Any organization at scale just needs a lot of people to deal with keeping the wheels on the bus. There are Computer Science problems that need to be solved every day to keep the site running, a team to handle billing problems, fraudulent payments, a sales team to go after corporate customers, now you have so many people in the office that you need inhouse HR... oh look, now you need a recruiter to start keeping all these candidates coming in the door... now you need accountants to make sure that all of these people get paid on time...
I'm pretty young, yeah, and perhaps I'll see things differently when I'm older.

As for my comments about "living forever", I'm directly referencing what they stated in the article, rather than what's plausible. I'm fully aware of the differences. I'm just trying to illustrate that, at least psychologically, the worth of life is depreciated.
Study: Start-ups Smaller, Creating Fewer Jobs
The 8-day wait is for free streaming options, so it's not throwing money away. If you subscribe to Hulu+ you can still get shows the next day.
Smaller innovators could be protected in several ways.

First, you could defer any taxation for a couple years. That allows time for the inventor to find buyers or acquire (via loans, insurance, etc.) funding to handle the tax.

Second, you can break up the value and taxes into smaller periods. Like 3 or 5 year periods.

Third, the actual % taken of the value of the patent can scale progressively.

et cetera

I think you're missing the strengths of what I'm proposing:
(1) it kills the patent troll business model and massively decreases potential liability for small businesses.
(2) it fully staffs and funds the understaffed and underfunded USPTO.
(3) it legitimately protects and rewards innovation.
This is exactly what people were saying before (and even immediately after) the first Android devices arrived on the market.
<i>However, broadcast channels do make money through re-transmission rights that they sell to cable and satellite carriers.</i>

Hmm, but I think it's the local stations that make money on retransmission fees, not the networks. Though this is complicated by the fact that local stations are in some markets (though by no means all of them) owned by the networks.
How do you know what they "currently used"? Do you really think their authentication really defaults to "yes" still?
I have just talked to Steve. I have confirmed that he has not quit Google.
Im in my 40s and still learning plenty of math. I think it's more a function of focused practice than age. I've also seen several profs doing good work well into their 80's so I dont know what your profs are talking about!
"I'm distressed by the attitude towards 23andMe's research - isn't good science supposed to report all results, regardless of whether they support the desired hypothesis? Isn't it useful to discover the negatives as well as the positives?"

Where does the article say that 23andMe shouldn't have published their results? That has nothing to do with what this is about.
This guy seems to not understand the difference between science, publishing in science, and science reporting for mainstream audiences. They're very different things.

Publishing sources in newspapers would be one of the most beneficial things they can do.
Steve Yegge quits Google during his presentation at OSCON
It's already been built such as Spideroak and Wuala. Dropbox could capture more of the market and even concerned businesses if they make this even as much as a simple configurable option. If the data deduplication costs higher because of client-side encryption, then charge me the commodity price of storage for that option. Not everyone needs it but some do...
I use Gmail to take down random thoughts or notes about different business ideas that I have...mainly because of the search functionality. I started using G+ for the same purpose. It would be awesome to be able to search through the different streams.
to add to your last paragraph, I would like to quote someone, who asked the rhetoric question at a self-celebration event at a (supposedly) flagship research institute:

"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper

What an euphemism. Almost like a scam.
Yes, I too want to scream every time they want to force me to register and I have also abandoned purchases just because I do not want another account.

I hope that people take note of this advice and at least make registration optional.
Depends on what you keep in there. For a lot of people, losing access to their documents would probably be worse than the (very small) risk of someone else seeing them.

But anyway I don't think a discussion of Dropbox's security model is very germane here.
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...not to mention, a solid talk.
Implying that to freeze himself, he had to bring along his two wives. Does not compute.
“DIY Nation”: How to Start Your Own Country
MS-DOS was my first experience with a computer. Great times.
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Their stated goal is to have fun and cause mayhem. That isn't activism by any stretch of the imagination.

While some of their attacks have stated goals that appear to be activism, some of them, like the attacks on Nintendo, pron.com and Minecraft appear not to serve any type of activism I'm aware of.
> Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society.

Um, surely this statement needs to be qualified in some way? For example, I'd guess that over 10% of the population is "unshakably" pro-life, and over 10% of the population is unshakably pro-choice, and yet it is impossible that both beliefs will become held by the majority of society.
Vudu HDX actually works quite well in my experience, but renting Blu-rays is much cheaper than streaming.
Bold statement coming from the author: 'All modern computer program languages use what is known as an "object oriented" model, which means code is designed to be modular--like swappable, repeatable, spawning objects.'
Hey laserDinosaur,

Take a look at the Updates on the Kickstarter. The footage in the video is a gameplay mechanic demo. It's essentially an Illustrator file brought to life to test the mechanics. You'll see in the updates, we've got full 3d art (shown in a shadow box style isometric camera).

Thanks for the feedback. If we could do it again, I would have gotten the 3d stuff in the gameplay footage video, but it unfortunately wasn't an option.
Make the reform law not apply to old patents, only new patents. So when the existing patents expire we only use the new rules. This is a win-win.
I think he understands the difference. His point is that most people don't.
Whatever are you talking about? We've been using PostgreSQL in production for 5+ years now, and it's been capable, very fast, and rock-solid all along. I've been using PostgreSQL in other projects for over a decade and it's had all 3 along the way, although speed has constantly improved.

I'm all for cheerleading for PostgreSQL (I really love the tool), but that "a few years ago" comment is just wrong and not really very fair.
They could charge for it separately.
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Now we have Topiary. Probably the lamest one of the bunch. He doesn't
actually do anything except give interviews. There are plenty of logs of
him all over the internet being a complete idiot. His "d0x" are all over
the internet also. He tries to deny it but there are logs of him bitching
about being d0x'ed int he #hq logs that Laurelai leaked.

Name: Daniel Ackerman Sandberg
Location: Sweden
You should check out FreeBASIC and Qb64. Maybe you can revisit some of those memories. :)

I remember learning VGA programming in C and assembly language how it was instrumental in helping me finally grasp just how low-level C really was. That's when I finally realized what pointers really were and just how useful and dangerous they could be.
> As the service expands, regular people's homes (with unrestorable personal value and charm) will be replaced with commercial properties using airBnB as just another advertising channel.

This could happen (especially if people get scared off by one-in-a-million crimes like this one) but it isn't economically rational. The marginal cost of having someone stay in your spare bedroom is often very small, even negative. This is never the case for commercial hotels.

I would go as far as to say that commercial hotels only exist at all because of an information deficiency: on the traveler's side, about the available spare bedrooms, and on the host's side, about the trustworthiness of the traveler. (Except in exceptional cases, say, Gualeguaychú, which has enormous tourism, dwarfing the city's population for a few weeks a year, and nothing the rest of the time. But I still stayed in a spare room with some random family I met on the street when I went there for Carnaval, not in a hotel.)

It occurs to me that the people with the strongest incentives to trash someone's apartment like this would be hotel owners and managers. Many of them might not be willing or able to do it themselves, but they could certainly hire someone else.
I know a professor who has a big grant to sequence a whole bunch of animals, and will also do a high res CT scan of each specimen. He plans to make a comprehensive site where scientists and school children can access the data they are interested and learn more.

He even has money for a dev position for 4 years, I'm just worried that he gets someone who slaps together a proprietary and incompatible site when this would be a perfect chance to experiment with implementing some standard data access APIs.

I've heard bioinformatics people complain about the lack of standards and fragmented nature that comes from various small groups of scientists doing it on their own.

If anyone is interested pm me and I'll put you in touch, he is in South Carolina so he can't offer the salary and other perks of the Bay, but it's a real chance to put good development energy into science.
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Take them. Take them all. Please.
This is just some speculation as to why I think Dropbox is going to be something awesome (it's good right now, but not awesome). I'm not really in any position to make these suggestions (or expect them to be followed), so I'm going to more than likely sound crazy.

I don't really know what the vision behind Dropbox is, but (in my own opinion) it should be the place where people's personal files are stored. From there, people build cross-platform apps making it more useful. They are already doing this, but they need to take the "next step", which is probably what they want to do with their incoming 400 employees.

Generally, people store all their files on their home computer, and to solve the problem of "I can't access my files on the go" people started using laptops as their primary computer. That's not really a good solution because then you have to carry a computer around. Smartphones and tablets are sort of solving this, but they bring the same overall issue of "My stuff on here is different from my stuff on there". What Dropbox could do is host people's actual "computers", where computer is defined as software, files, and settings. So when you load up your smartphone or you friends smartphone you can access the smartphone version of your computer, and the tablet version of your computer on tablets, and the desktop version of your computer on desktops.

It wouldn't feel like you're using "your laptop" or "your friends tablet" or "your iPhone" because the only difference between any kind of computer is whose signed in right now. Dropbox is in a favorable position to do this, but so is Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

It's a pretty crazy (and unlikely) notion, but how else will Dropbox grow?
Here’s how Apple is forcing a worse user experience on its customers
Kyoto TreeDB and SQLite both use a B+Tree/B-Tree implementation. As far as I remember LevelDB uses a Log-Structured Merge Tree.

So this is basically a comparison between those, right?

Does a LSM offer ordered access or do you lose that feature and gain a bit of speed?
Everyone should work on the problems that are close to their heart, that they have a passion for.
He says something similar in the begining but then he confesses he's gonna do exactly the opposite.
this is major bulshit and I would not take this guy advice even if he payed me a million. Because he himself is not following it.
And even if he did, it is bullshit.
You should work on what YOU find important. Not on what someone else decided somewhere else.
YOU have intuitive intelligence that knows what's important and what you and ONLY YOU have a UNIQUE talent for (because you are unique).
I find it humorous that (otherwise highly intelligent, and well informed) members of HN are asking "What do they need all these people for" - DropBox is getting a rumored $5B valuation - which implies, no, requires they start to ramp up both their revenue and, eventually, profit.

That's going to require either (A) a LOT more customers, or (B) More profitable Customers.

(A) is just going to be a huge headache in terms of legal issues, support issues, infrastructure, etc...

(B) is going to require an entirely new model of sales - SEs, RFP writers, Marketing, Salespeople, Finance people working in many markets, channels, etc...

Regardless - 400 employees for a $5 Billion company is on the absolute low end of where they will be if they actually justify that (rumored) valuation.

The challenge comes when you start charging for these services and/or take on the corporate customers - if you run it ala CraigsList - you let the community police itself, and just hire a core infrastructure team, call it a day. Companies that start actively marketing their product, pick up an enormous number of bodies, and, of course, the finance/hr/it/management/executive teams required to support those bodies.
I make plenty of money from affiliate marketing, but this isn't the place to use them without disclosure.
i just tried accessing the app with Safari and it came to my attention that its trying to load mp4 and mp3 files instead of the webm videos
http://yfrog.com/h7x8xup
then i got even more curious and found this file
http://www.allisnotlo.st/static/js/VideoList.js
look around line 236

this.src = src.replace(/(\.webm+)$/, (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Chrome/') == -1 && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') != -1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari/') != -1)) ? '.mp4' : '.webm');

but looks like they didn't upload any mp4 files :( sad
From http://www.alcor.org/cryomyths.html#myth3

The purpose of cryonics is to save the lives of living people, not inter the bodies of dead people. Death is a neurological process that begins after the heart stops. A stopped heart only causes death if nothing is done when the heart stops. Cryonics proposes to do something. In the words of a mainstream critical care expert writing for the American College of Surgeons, "In this era of critical care, death is more a process than an event.... A prognosis of death...cannot serve as a diagnosis."

I don't feel that I understand this fully. Is there a point in this "process" from which we've already brought people back, or is this all just conjecture?
How is a gateway that reads, buffers, and parses HTTP headers into an environment object [1] before turning it over to your "raw wsgi application" not protecting it from HTTP?

WSGI protects you from HTTP. CGI protects you from HTTP. mod_python and mod_perl protect you from HTTP. If you're unable to read and parse the complete HTTP request yourself -- perhaps incrementally, there's an idea -- you're protected from HTTP. Something is imposing policy like how many headers to accept, what the longest header should be, how to fold multiple headers with the same field-name, that it's okay to consume memory buffering all the headers, and so on.

In my ideal world, a web app server has access to the full HTTP request stream, calls an incremental HTTP parser [2] [3], and does whatever it wants along the way. If the typical use case is to accumulate a full request object and call a handler, fine, that can be made convenient. But the web app gets to decide.

Perhaps my issue is not with frameworks (in the sense of Django, Ruby, etc), but with web servers. Except, I view the infrastructure for hosting a web app inside a web server as yet another framework. The common use case is optimized for at the expense of the less common use cases, which become more painful than they should be. Or sometimes outright impossible.

TL;DR -- Libraries over frameworks. In Soviet Framework Russia, you don't call code...code call YOU.

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/#environ-variables

[2] https://github.com/ry/http-parser

[3] https://github.com/mongrel/mongrel/tree/master/ext/http11
After the third or fourth paragraph I started expecting an argument for creationism and against global warming. It's never explicitly made and it's not really clear what the point of the article is but there's something about this kind of scientific-strawman knocking that smacks of revisionism.
Yep, you missed it a while back.
Here, let me fix that headline:

Father of Cryonics "Dies" at 92
The first paragraph of the article is painful to read.
America's FIRE Economy
There was a new yorker article about this

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/25/110725fa_fact_...

Transparency is an interesting theme in the New Yorker article. Dalio sees ego as being a major barrier to success. He makes efforts to create an organization where frank discussions can take place without emotions getting involved.
Mind telling us how the proxy works or putting up some source code(couldn't find the proxy source on github)? I am also lazy and didn't read the whole script source, i bet it could be recreated with some effort. uft :D
Also a good way to teach philosophy. I did a couple of "Pathways to Philosphy"[1] courses, which mostly consist of reading assignments and lots of back and forth e-mail exchanges with a tutor. The e-mail discussions were fantastic. For philosophy, they have a certain advantage over verbal conversation because you can save them for later reference (and have to put a certain minimal effort into crafting your ideas.)

[1] http://www.philosophypathways.com/
Really? I can't find any companies willing to offer me anything better than $50,000 with NO benefits. I have five years of professional experience (three at startups) in pretty diverse stuff (C, Ruby, PHP, Erlang, full-stack web dev, system administration, scaling... etc.)
I believe this falls into "doing it wrong".

Backing out because they threaten to file an injunction is to capitulate too soon. You're supposed to keep going until/unless they actually get an injunction, and then challenge it (plus, civil lawsuit for loss of income due to the injunction once it's rescinded).

BlackHat/BSidesLV/DEFCON is going to be really interesting this year, for a change.
"twelve handwritten steps on Post-its for how to open their timesheet on the intraweb" It's funny to watch this in action.
The free streaming options still get some money from ads. TPB doesn't. (Another reason TPB's product is better.)
So that's what Jeff does!
What doesn't compute? The alternative to bringing along his two wives is condemning them to eternal death.