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I think this is right on. Dropbox is a virtual file system and not just for the web also for offline. And it works on every platform, I'd much prefer to have things like my contact book and email on Dropbox than where they are today.
moved my domains today, glad to help along freedom as much as I can, as the article says EFF really needs it so come on guys!
Thanks for proving my point. It's all about consideration.

Unless you're suggesting a platform that rules them all?
Instapaper "just works" for me, kindle support is awesome.

Readibility has the nicer "readibility" function ;)
Ask HN: Which podcasts do you listen to?
Haven't tested it yet, but I believe that if you use suhosin patch you can limit the number of variables with suhosin.get.max_vars and suhosin.post.max_vars so you do not have to wait for php to the release the version with the patch (I guess most of the people do not compile PHP from Subversion trunk for production usage).
Great app! Loved it!
These 3D printers are only really a manufacturing revolution to people pumping out plastic (or weak powdered metal) products in low volumes (<1,000 units) and sizes between a few mm and meter or two cube. That actually doesn't cover a whole lot of products - the unit numbers are the thing that rules out most things you would think of.

I think this is exactly the use case I am most excited for. Everyone can print their own objects (shared and personalized). Maybe even in their own house like desktop printing or, for more expensive equipment, just downtown like a Kinko's. Everyone can download, modify, and make unique objects with very little turnaround time and no minimum quantity.
By contrast, it makes me excited thinking about the possible solutions to the problems you just described. What could be done? Maybe there is a revision system in the web app that shows the changes which must be confirmed before applying? This also would give you web app the ability to easily version control data.

Awesome
Just like with the web application developers will just need to control what a user can do. Users can break native client apps by screwing with config files now but for the most part they don't I think as long as a developer creates some friction (like hidden files) it won't be too much of a problem.
Reminds me of that recent thread by pg on a top-rated low-quality comment (it's the 2nd comment):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3103530
Dropbox has now officially replaced "My Documents" on all my computers, Windows and Linux. I recently reinstalled Windows 7 on my gaming PC. When it finished up, I installed DropBox, logged in to my account and went to watch a movie. A couple hours later, I was synced up. Too simple.

So, yes, I can't wait for more web apps to allow me to save my data to my Dropbox!
One big problem I see is the disparity between the treatment of cofounders and early engineers.

Late stage employees will almost certainly will almost certainly do (financially) better by working at Google or Facebook. I've seen th polls here where people talk about their exits and apart from a handful who essentially win the lottery, you'd predictably get more and work less at one of these two.

But why is it the last cofounder may get 30%+ with preferential shares and the first engineer gets 1% or less shortly thereafter?

It seems like an anachronism from the dot-com era when startup costs were much higher.
In the early 2000s, during "the great media consolidation" as I call it, studios were pumping upwards of 300 million into films assuming they'd return twice that worldwide.

* Lord of Rings
* The Matrix
* Pirates of the Caribbean

I'd say for the most part that money has been made back.
What about the flip side, an employee who takes a job knowing that it isn't permanent and will jump ship giving the first opportunity (which could be in as little as 6 months). Is that wrong? These situations are always possible because most (if not all) states are at-will states.
I wish I could cause physical harm to people who write and post these types of articles.
MG Siegler is like the Fox News of TechCrunch on top of that.
I'm trying to move names right now and am getting an error from NameCheap. I hope they are over-capacity on this special!!
People still work on spreadsheets on their local filesystem?
Wow, it's not because of pirating? Spot on Mr. Ebert.

I predict 2012 will magically bounce back because of a few AAA features hitting next year: The Hobbit, Dark Knight Rising, and the incredible Prometheus by Ridley Scott (who is returning to Scifi - finally - after 20+ years).
I am an engineer, and a founder of a small company using Windows and SQL Server. The licences are a time sucking headache - mindless legal crap, hidden liabilities, and confusing interdependencies.

The BizSpark stuff is the worst (read it carefully: what you can do with it is VERY limited compared with what the marketing materials imply you can use it for).
I'm guessing the fact that it 'works on every platform' has a lot to due with it's past and future success.

It's a jump back to where we came from in a sense. The desktop file system works well for a lot of business people, which is partly why Dropbox is growing so fast.
He's not complaining about anything that anyone has a problem with (ok maybe SOME people do want to see people giving them the finger in their stream). He's just whining about G+ like he always does, like a baby.

Your general statements don't apply here. If you want to argue, then tell me why you want to see people flicking you off on G+ and why you think that's something that should be OK for everyone.
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I hate to state the obvious cultural argument - but how many of us just don't like Microsoft, and all things being equal, would prefer to work with open source? I sure do.
Most of the time, the updates to android haven't mattered to the average user. The biggest exception I can think of is when they added flash support in 2.2. In my mind the ICS update is even more significant, but I doubt that the average User cares about it much.
The boring basics. Radiolab, Stuff You Should Know, and Planet Money are my go-to podcasts. I can't really stand anything that's too much like talk radio, especially when I'm at the gym (where I listen to podcasts.)
Big O came up yesterday, but you're right... we didn't go that deep. There are some jobs where you'll want that depth of background, but in my career they've been rare. At the end of the day it's about finding the right fit for yourself. This type of training will suit some, but not others.
Evernote's Clearly is quite nice, too.
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R4 3DS card is considered as the best flash card around in the current market that offers great features and specification that really very helpful to gaming lovers to getting lots of fun and enjoyment.
Wait. Wait. Wait. I'm not wading into the "debate" about whether Google can or should mess with people's profile photos. I could care less. I'm saying:

It is clearly ridiculous for Google to be policing profile photos looking for people flipping other people the bird.

Right? Wrong? Who cares? It's ridiculous. It can't possibly work. By doing it, Google sends a message that they're fundamentally unserious about taking on Facebook. Nobody who's serious could possibly have the time to deal with stuff like this. It's like Facebook banning cartoon profile pictures --- which is the kind of thing you can sort of do when you're the social network for a bunch of colleges, but couldn't even consider doing when you're the default social network for the entire world.
> Most of the third world doesn't even have a reliable cell phone service

Wrong. Most of the third world has excellent cell phone service and they're using cell phones for far more stuff than we do. In Kenya, for instance, you can make small payments using your regular, non-smart cell phone.

> of course, little money, so there are few consumers to target ads at

They have advertising in the third world as well. I doubt that's because there's no money going around.

> On a practical note, battery life matters in impoverished regions, best of luck with your "might last 24 hours, 36 if you're really lucky" Android handset.

This needs to be solved, agreed. Chances are, however, that the phones that solve this problem will run some form of Android.
>This silliness is explained by the fact that NASA employees want to work on this project, even if it's going to cost more and deliver less than other teams working on it.

Not at all. It's explained by the fact that congress keeps putting more money in the space launch system than NASA itself requests; moving money to the project that NASA would like to use for its commercial programs.

It's not NASA being silly here – it's congress wanting to impress the world with its own space system.
I'm building one
Hey guys, website just went down temporarily. Think we had a data overload. Should be back up tonight, will continue sending out further updates via twitter!
So by this measure:

- if anything were said / written criticizing the Bible, then a single devout Christian could deem it offensive and it would be removed?

- if a woman's picture without a burkha were posted, then a single fundamentalist Muslim could declare it offensive and it would be deleted?

- if a "blonde" joke were posted, then a single radical feminist could call it offensive and it would be eliminated?

Doesn't sound like an online world that I'd want to participate in.
Almost makes you wonder why we still use text-based languages for content, formatting, and scripting. What’s wrong with transmitting compiled documents, stylesheets, and scripts? It would make transmission faster, eliminate a lot of parsing difficulties, and get rid of the hilarious idiocy of “minification”.
True, I may not have worded it correctly. I think the best comparison is between RHEL and Amazon's Linux distribution.
OK, at work we use Sharepoint to collaboratively edit and push out data to colleagues as Word and Excel files.

Will your app let me do the same kind of thing at home with outside work friends and the voluntary work I do?
We at http://views.fm completely agree
Just read that again, yes he did do that.
I think I was responding to the vibe of MG's post, which always turns into apple-good/non-apple-bad.
Admittedly when things got stupid (as they can with SQL Server CALs) we just bought CPU licenses and moved on.

Anyway, I still don't see licensing as that difficult. Maybe just a difference of opinions, which is ok.

In the grand scheme of things (IMO again) licensing costs are infinitesimally small compared to, say, choosing the wrong system architect, or not taking into account scale requirements, hiring an idiot programmer, etc.
1&1 Takes a Stand Against SOPA & PIPA & Asks Customers To Join The Fight
You can watch this type of behavior in abundance on the show Big Bang Theory.
A corporation is not its board members. To put the board members in jail, you would have to try them. What you're proposing would be a major overhaul of the criminal justice system.
Which one was it? The one across the street from "Central Perk" or the penthouse on 59th street overlooking all of Central Park?
"Qualified individuals can apply to become an astronaut through the federal government's USAJobs.gov website."

http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/302967000

"Qualified" apparently means healthy, science or engineering bachelors', 20/20 vision.
This is not how the Dropbox API works at this moment.

There is no mechanism to push updates to your application. Only the desktop client gets async updates. It will be a glorious day when such an API exists.

But don't hold your breath, it's been a topic on their forums for years.
> Or take LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is great. Usually. If
> you're using it exactly as they intended. When we wanted to
> make some of our models automatically supply some query
> parameters, though...well, let's just say there was a lot
> of T4 templating involved to get around sealed classes, and
> leave it there.

I solved what sounds to be a similar problem using reflection and the Linq ExpressionBuilder class(and related classes). It actually turned out really clean and powerful.
No, because the user is spamming his site and the linked post is just a press release and yaddayadda.
SpaceX will beat them to it.
Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
No, that's really the opposite of what I'm suggesting.
My point is more that there is more you have to consider with the MS/.Net stack because it all comes as one big package.

Want to port your RoR + pgSQL app from Linux over to a Windows server with IIS? Sure you can.

Want to port your .Net + SQL Server app over from Windows to Linux + Apache? Ouch. (well maybe you can use Mono)
These guys really milk the hell out of you guys. That's barely even a meaningful amount of money for them or for EFF.
I just did 4 domains.
I read most of the guy's article, I think, but I might have missed this last point you're making. I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying it's too technically difficult to do it (via machine learning or whatever) or there would be too many false positives?

If there's one company that doesn't usually use humans to do any kind of spam filtering, it's probably Google. Also, I'm pretty sure they'd work out the kinks eventually.
I really like "This American Life", it's not related to technology directly but it's sometimes very inspiring about how people do things. Also listen to "Planet Money".
You Look Nice Today, This American Life, Back to Work, Savage Lovecast. I tend to listen to podcasts on my meal breaks at work and at home for background noise. I can't stand listening to them while I'm actually trying to do work, because I have a hard time paying attention to two things at once.
I see. So the reason you think he should keep his mouth shut, is because you perceive his issue to be a minority issue. How many people need to have a problem with something before it's ok for them to complain about it?

Just because you disagree with somebodys opinion, doesn't mean they were wrong to express it.
Wow. Scumbag HN, downvotes comment asking to refer to discussion that occurred minutes before. Repeats discussion that occurred minutes before. I guess I don't mind if this gets downvotes, the dozen or two comments in the middle of this are more or less copy and pasted from the discussion that occurred earlier today.
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Are we talking about just painting those websites black, or turning completely off for the day with a directed message telling you where to contact your representatives?

The latter option would truly be "nuclear", but would Google/Facebook/et al put up with a day without those ad revenues? Would it be worth the loss in the long run?
Blog post titled The purpose of drama, and its relationship to Cameron Diaz’s ass. It is by the writer of Charlie's Angels Full Throttle. Great blog for those interested screenwriting.

http://johnaugust.com/2008/the-purpose-of-drama-and-its-rela...
My favorite bit is where they don't even have the pics they're talking about for 1/2 of them.
Tom Anderson's thoughts on Ice Cream Sandwich
Nuclear is a excellent metaphor. Because Google, Twitter and Amazon actively doing something similar to what Tumblr did(instigating their users to protest) would be too extreme. Tumblr has only a few million users; Google and Amazon together have much, much more.
I can hardly wrap my mind around the implications and ramifications of such a move.

I don't think they're gonna do it. I think they're gonna choose a subtler strategy.
Shoes seemed like a bad example of what could be made with 3D printing. Even with advances in the current technology it would seem difficult to make something as flexible as shoe leather.

The same is true of clothing, curtains, etc.

It does seem reasonable to go after Ikea: break something on your dresser or desk? Use your own fabricator to print a replacement or get one tomorrow from Kinko's (or the equivalent)
I suspect the key difference might be that HTC doesn't want to release the following type of instructions: "Tap settings, Tap Applications, Tap Development, Enable USB Debugging, now install this software on your PC, connect your phone via USB, be sure to un-mount your SD card first... etc. etc." I think they would prefer to release a one shot install fix and that to my knowledge hasn't been figured out yet. In the end it may just not be worth the effort for them to do on older devices as well.
I've used Instapaper for several years, and I've always found that it works really well. I have a Kobo eReader, and I use the ePub function to read them at my leisure. I've never tried any of the others, simply because I've never felt they had anything more to offer.
The problem is simple. Hollywood is conservative and hates taking chances. Every movie that's come out the last couple of years has been a sequel, another comic book franchise, or a remake of an already epic (unneeded remake) movie.

I see a deeper issue though, most of the directors/script writers who Hollywood desperately needs to inject life into its lifeline are off creating movies with all the cheap/newly accessible tools outside the system. Think iOS/Android app developers who left Apple/Google

Plus HBO/Showtime/FX who need a reason for people to subscribe now that movies are accessible elsewhere, so are enabling these independent teams by funding them. I haven't seen more creative TV or stories than I have the last few years on premium cable. The budgets are minuscule, but the teams are well adept at running slim already.

The creativity is there, it's just untamed and Hollywood is scared of it. Ebert blames the theaters themselves, but if there are great movies, people will go see them.
Had a little time to dig around and found Sim Lock is different from s-off/on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_lock

It appears S-OFF/ON is also set by the operator/carrier and not the manufacturer.

I'd love to see a definitive source about S-OFF/ON and how it is implemented. Especially, for the Sprint/HTC combination.
PhoneDog claims ownership of employee's Twitter followers
Microsoft has put a lot of effort into structuring their licensing to maximize their profits. One of the techniques they've used is to make the licensing complex enough that people over-pay to be on the safe side.

Sounds like you took the path of least resistance with Microsoft licensing, and may have paid significantly more for the privilege.

Maybe that was the right business decision for you, but its hardly a refutation of people who decide that open source licensing is a lot less hassle: No BizSpark application to fill-out, no fear of expensive licensing gotchas once they outgrow BizSpark.
then your process is fraught with false positives

I contend that if you test me you will get a false negative. Becase you are testing me on what you think I should know which is a reflection of your strengths not mine.

Has it occurred to you that perhaps you might like the company/opportunity even though you're given an exam?

Yes it has, the problem is that I now belive that they don't know how to hire and I will be working with a group of people that know trivia but may not know how to deliver. As such it will fall on me to deliver becase their hiring process has not shown an ephisis on selecting people that can deliver.

the interviewer wants to make sure that you truly are capable of performing the way you represent yourself on paper.

I feel that, my and others capibilities are best reflected in what I have already done. We don't ask a other professionals to take test we look at their history and accomplishments.

But what if you weren't a good coder, and only a good talker?

A good talker can BS someone with no knowledge of the field. They are not going to be able to BS their way through an entire code base. A skilled technical person will catch on.

I don't think companies that do test are terrible I just think their interview process is lacking as such it can leave me holding the bag with long hours becase they cannot identify other good talent. It's from experience that I have come to the conclusion that hireing via test is a useless filter, because at one point in time I was the worst offender. I used to use elite code trick questions, abstract questions and code tests and I found not only where they ineffective but I was actually driving the best individuals away, due to what they perceived as arrogance on the part of my orginizarion. Developers have little tolarance for things that seem inefficient and pointless. It took me a while to learn that lesson.
To get most all my news I listen to the following: (sorry, no English broadcasters except sometimes BBC)

das Computermagazin - B5,
VOA - Voice of America in Spanish,
ciencia al cubo,
Wirtschaft - Deutsche Welle,
Klartext - from sveriges radio,

In case anyone understands German I'd definitely recommend Computermagazin, runs 20 minutes and stays compact (I agree with zrail don't like much blabber, give me the facts )
I'm glad you ended it with rant, because this is the exact brand of FUD I was referring to.

>The only connection between the webfont and Google's core business is the fact that a Google-hosted version of former needs to be embedded in one's website in order to be used.

All of those fonts are freely downloadable. Nothing about them requires you to go through Google (and is in fact impossible due to how webfonts work).

Further, do you have ANY evidence that G+ is tracking non-loged in users?

Also, I'm pretty sure the privacy policy of... ANY webmail client (save for self or ISP hosted) is going to violate such a policy, and I still find it completely irrelevant in a discussion of Google being dangerous.

Now they're dangerous because you didn't read the TOS?
That's roughly what we did: the T4 template work in combination with a cache that a) takes LINQ expression trees with invalid, though ITable-compliant, classes; b) swaps out the ITable-compliant classes for LINQ to SQL's Table classes; c) compiles the expression tree into SQL; d) caches it, so we only have to pull this stunt once.

The power of Microsoft's tools is that this is possible. The bane of them is that it was necessary in the first place.
Not going insane. It repeatedly crashed for me to. Rebooted and still had the same problem. One of the crashes lost all my tabs too.
Push events to the web app isn't important to me. Syncronization with a web app every few minutes would work well, and you could login to push a button if you needed the changes pulled immediately.
German authorities sent 440,783 SMS to track citizens w/o their knowledge
Have y'all tried Box.net?
3 bedrooms are definitely rare but there are pockets of them around town. I had a 3.5 - 4 bedroom near Columbia off Central Park & 109th and it was huge and affordable ($3300 I believe and one block from the subway). If you're hunting for one, I'd start up there if having the Park as your front yard floats your boat.
"Everyone in the world with a fabber could download and print the new product ... at the same time. No centralized manufacturing and distribution network could match that."

So what happens when everyone is torrenting the fabber file on the launch date? Now you're pirating physical things over the net, not just data.
So your complaint is that other people use Blogger blogs, so you can't opt out of Google? That's interesting, but it seems like what you really want is to opt out of tracking in general. Google tracks you, sure, but so do a bunch of shade-ball sites you've never heard of. Why would you trust a company you've never heard of over a company that actively lets you opt out of tracking and migrate away from their services?

I don't think you need to email yourself web pages, but I do think you need to use Tor or some other anonymous HTTP proxy. If you are paranoid about the "paper trail" that browsing the web leavers, then you need to take measures to make that paper trail less useful. Complaining about "lock in" to services that other people uses, though, is just confusing the issue; the Internet has never let you choose what service providers other people use, and you will have to live with that.