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I tend to agree. I think Dropbox is the filesystem of the 21st century. iCloud doesn't to it for me, and last I checked, Dropbox was profitable awhile ago. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

We can also be confidant DB isn't worth $40 bil yet, but clearly those investors think DB has plans, that they wont just be static and sit where they are at now. I think they're gonna be a big part of pushing the cloud forward, until all we got infront of us are dumb terminals once again.
I see these as possibilities, not inevitabilities, but my money is on DB to pull it off.
Exactly. It's a feature of a product that no one wants to build, so it gets to be a product all on its own instead.
GnuPG is pretty good. I've just recently started using the EasyPG package in Emacs to interface with GnuPG. Encrypting files couldn't be easier. Files are encrypted at saving and decrypted at loading automatically. Make backing up sensitive files to Dropbox much easier.
They don't really concern me. He made the choice to do it. I think he was probably aware of the risks and decided it was worth the punishment. If not then he made a huge mistake.
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This URL should show my profile:
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Anytime my name appears, it should be clickable and show my profile.
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This seems like something that would be better posted in r/shitredditsays than Hacker News.
Open-sourcing the code would only be the first step. To make the experiments truly reproducible, you also need to know the hardware and software configurations used to run it. Different package versions could lead to different results. And, for instance, if you're running your code on one of those old Pentium chips with an error in the FPU, that needs to be know.

I'm currently working on a platform for scientific programming. One of the ultimate goals is to include a provenance system which will be able to tell you everything about what generated the final results, including that of input data if it was derived on the system. That way you might be able to have a complete history of where a particular result comes from.
With all of the posts lately, I had a feeling a Chrome extension would be right around the corner.
It's not accurate when the RIAA says stealing like that, and it's not accurate when anyone else does either.
As tech companies normally do, I suspect many will offer their own iCloud type service, like Microsoft already has.

What I think Dropbox should do is offer their API and storage to companies who can brand it as their own for one large fee. Then the company can offer it to their users for free as an incentive to use them, or for a small fee as a cheap integrated cloud storage solution. I'm thinking companies like Verizon would embrace this, or maybe Google for their ChromeBooks.
Maybe they'll create an open standard for file sharing, and let every OS owner write their own client to communicate using that standard....

As I write this, I realize how naively optimistic that sounds. :-\
How is Stratfor fundamentally different from Wikileaks? They both obtain leaked information, often by methods of questionable legality. Stratfor uses the information to make reports and newsletters they sells to governments, businesses, and ordinary curious members of the public, whereas Wikileaks releases it for free but in ways that seemed designed to promote Assange, but I wouldn't say these are fundamental differences.

If Wikileaks were truly about bringing secret information to light, wouldn't they be protecting other leak organizations, rather that exposing their sources?
This is very easily done with a mesh of two APIs, see https://bitbucket.org/tebeka/pythonwise/src/tip/timeat
I am not sure I understand why the author feels that the 'perfect syncing' tool has to be free, or close to it? Syncing files between multiple devices isn't something everyone needs, or wants, so it's a premium function. For my needs, Dropbox is perfect.
Dropbox is a very good short term solution but I do think ultimately iCloud, Google's upcoming service, and Microsoft's SkyDrive will win-out. Being cross platform is an asset today but we're clearly moving towards a world where the cost of using multiple platform is just too high for most people. They will stick within the same ecosystem because it's just much easier.
I think you have missed the mark by such a wide margin that I need to call you on your bullshit.

> I think what lots of people are missing is that Websockets doesn't compete with REST or SOAP, it competes with HTTP.

Websockets of any reference are implentations of HTTP, your lack of knowledge is not a badge of authority.

"Of course, this happens within a sandbox that involves initiating the connection over HTTP and tunneling the protocol through a server over port 80."

I am sure that you have no clue about what your talking about, I will bring this forward with the following statement:

"We're back to the days when anyone could and did develop their own protocols, and many of those became standards."

Your name is not on any IETF bodies or standards, who are you exactly?
I found this one particularly fun to read: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1239829_fyi-.html (Sorry, it's a doc).

A glossary of the intelligence jargon that they use, written in an entertaining style.
How does this differ from socket.io?
>"Anything and everything about you online is used when doing DD."

Having what, for all intents and purposes, is an employer judge - or worse yet misjudge- me based on my interests, or the articles I read is precisely the reason I'm moving away the merger of my online/offline lives. I recently put my money where my mouth is and deleted my Facebook account.

>"However, at the seed stage you're investing in people"

This always sounds like horseshit to me. Can some one point to some good examples where this model has been truly successful? Why aren't VCs actively recruiting college campuses, then? It seems like you're missing out on a huge chunk of great candidates if you're always selecting "people" from a small subset who are seeking funding for their (possibly terrible) technology startup.
I don't think it's lost so much as never attainable. Apple's position on making the "whole widget" is widely known. They were deluding themselves if they thought they, a third party, was going to achieve deep integration into an Apple operating system.
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Even if every person picks one "platform" (e.g. All Apple products with iCloud) and sticks with it, they still need to share files with each other, so there's still a need for Dropbox (or more generally, cross-platform file syncing).
Not if it's anything like the Megaupload controversy recently.

Here's the loophole. Your EULA with YouTube states that YouTube may take down your videos for any reason. YouTube also has a side deal with certain large rightsholders that they may take down videos at any time for any reason.[1] It is implied that these takedowns will be only for DMCA purposes, but since the companies never have to officially file a DMCA notice, there are never any legal repercussions for false takedowns.

Nice, eh?

[1] (Edit) Well, they are only supposed to take down videos for good reason, but we haven't seen YouTube enforce that. Either way, this is between YouTube and the rightsholders; the DMCA doesn't get involved.
Do you have any links to substantiate your claims? I'd be interested in reading the background.
In other dubious class action news:

http://centerforclassactionfairness.blogspot.com/
Where I work, Dropbox (and its folder sharing feature) has completely replaced Sharepoint for storing, managing and distributing corporate documents. Just think about the significance of that for a moment.
My interpretation of this document is that the initial attempt at creating the fund failed and those involved were trying to salvage it. http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/400961_fw-failure-of-strat...
I think you have missed the mark by such a wide margin that I need to call you on your bullshit.

Not a good start :-|
tldr: companies that are legally held accountable for selling defective products might end up trying to evade taxes through holding companies to compensate for damages paid.
This article reminds me quite a bit of linguistic prescriptivism and descriptivism.

Many people like to pretend that there's some platonic, right form of language. Splitting an infinitive is wrong, ending a clause with a preposition is wrong, using pronouns in the accusative case as a subject (“Me and her do this”) or a predicate nominative (“It's me”) is wrong. This attitude reflects the same stubborn insistence on being right instead of pragmatic. The reality is that language changes over time and is defined by usage, so Those arguing that a common usage is incorrect are wrong by definition.
Rumblefish hasn't sent a DMCA takedown request, they've used Google's provided tool to say that they own the rights.
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Just out of curiosity, why did you stop using Thunderbird+Enigmail?
I haven't read this book, but had terrible back pain due to these very issues. Certain muscles in my back had atrophied to the point that I could not hold my shoulders down and back without a lot of strain to do so. This resulted in a great deal of tension in my neck and other muscles that had to take up the slack. I went through physical therapy to strengthen the back muscles that had atrophied. The exercises were very hard and rather painful, but after several months, they worked like a charm.
Is this actually the case? Cringely implies that the crux of the suit is a false advertising claim.
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yeah, it's a bad thing when tech beats bullshit :(
Right now, there's no information to show there. Your profile consists of your username and your email. I'll put together a list of vimbits you've submitted at some point in the next few days. Not much of a 'profile', though.
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I guess he means STRATFOR people
Agreed. You may end up going with one platform, but I'll never have all my collaborators on my platform of choice.
During the SOPA mess, a lot of people on this site were saying that the DMCA is fine, we don't need a new law.

However, it seems pretty clear that the DMCA is not fine. There need to be better protections against this sort of thing - no hiding behind "it wasn't a DMCA takedown notice" when your automated takedown bot fraudulently implicates someone.

Also, and this almost goes without saying, we need to modify the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA to at least legalize jailbreaking, whether the device is an iPhone, a PS3, or whatever. Though ideally the anti-circumvention provisions should be repealed wholesale, since they're unreasonably broad and create huge damages for a wide class of perfectly valid uses.
I always order the homeschool set, but I believe the actual textbook is the same. We just get tests/answers.
Here's a few news articles. As I understand it, the only way UMG would be in legal trouble is if they violated their contract with YouTube -- that is, they promised YouTube to only take down stuff they had the rights to. So the only enforcement here is if YouTube decides to sue UMG for breach of contract. (Which I wouldn't hold my breath on.) Either way, the DMCA never gets involved because they never had to file a DMCA notice to take down YouTube content.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/umg-we-have-...

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/12/16/youtube-denies-that...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111216/01463417102/explan...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/megaupload-viral-mu...
"How is Stratfor fundamentally different from Wikileaks? They both obtain leaked information ..."

That's like asking "How are the Crips different from the LAPD? They both drive around Los Angeles and carry guns ..." In the case of Stratfor and Wikileaks, one group finds secret information and makes it public, the other group takes secret information and sells it back to the same secret community from where the leaks originate.

"I wouldn't say these are fundamental differences."

I certainly would.
I would love it if Google would revoke Rumblefish's earnings/account in the same fashion that they revoke mom & pop AdSense publishers, like: "Your account has been terminated. All of your earnings have been returned to the advertisers. There is no appeal. Goodbye."

Seriously, Rumblefish's behavior reminds me of a certain CEO I used to work for. The guy would rip off just about anyone he could (including his employees) by exploiting loopholes. Some of the exploits worked, others didn't. But, he would hold out a carrot just far enough to avoid a critical mass of lawsuits.
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> It sounds like post-hoc rationalizing to apply this logic to humans.

I couldn't agree more. Humans are (mostly) monogamous and are born from combinations of parental genes (with the exception of the mitochondrial DNA). Thus the properties we inherit are directed. This is why we bully: a group of humans hate dissimilar properties an individual has.

As much as you hate it, we are heavily dictated by our genetics: identical twins are often mistaken has "having the same thoughts" to the point of mistaken telepathy.

It irks me that many attempt to explain away dysgenics as inherently impossible. As the article points out, simple changes to our metabolism can improve our bodies greatly. Natural selection is one tool of many that powers evolution, as evolution only rewards those who reproduce the fastest.
And 2% of 300 million is? Note that the number is not too different than all Windows Phone sales to date!

Android version 1.6 is barely over two years old. In most countries users buy their phones outright upfront, so they tend to be a bit more reluctant to keep upgrading.

Angry Birds for example supports 1.5 onwards IIRC. One of the products I work on is a library to be used in other apps, and hence it is the other developers' choice as to version support (and several support 1.x even for new products).

So commercially there is a good case. Technically it isn't too hard, other than requiring testing time and devices. You can set a filter on the API docs and every one is marked with version information. Obviously you are stuck if you require some newer functionality, but usually you can just make the feature optional if the API level is too old.

Here is the doc about how to handle backwards compatibility:

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/backward-com...

Google supplies a compatibility library that can help bringing some newer APIs to older versions:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/compatibility-library.html

The upcoming version of the Lint tool also makes it easier to detect unexpected API version function usage:

http://tools.android.com/recent/lintapicheck

The development tools for Android are pretty nice, especially compared to the dross from older platforms.
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That sounds like the old joke, "I can see that it works in practice but will it work in theory?" If the Burroughs guys both invented it and commercialized it then surely they should get the credit for it.

The story is in this wonderful memoir: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856567 (with the relevant passage quoted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2928672).
manning must die/pay: What kind of backward society would prosecute this?
Although it is technically possible to implement the entire app in native code, you will find it far easier to use some Java as well.
"Except that source code can sometimes obfuscate the intent."

The source code, no matter how opaque and poorly written, can never really make things less clear. That's because it must be able to be interpreted by a computer. Good pseudocode and high level descriptions can help illuminate the code, but, as the saying goes, "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong."
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Unless you're a big enough company to have staff lawyers, you almost certainly don't want to incorporate outside your home state.

If you're looking to incorporate a future/aspired venture-funded startup you need to incorporate as a Delaware C-Corp, regardless of your state of nexus. That's just what any investor is expecting.
I've never been to Brazil, so I won't comment. But I live in India, so I'll discuss the situation here. The GDP/capita here is $3k/year, adjusted for purchasing power.

Pass all the laws you want, there is simply not enough wealth (i.e., not enough material and skilled labor) for everyone to live in a house that meets building codes. No matter what you redistribute (note: India has very low inequality [1]) or demand from people, you can't squeeze water from a stone.

[1] Nominal inequality is low, but inequality of living conditions is high. This is the exact opposite of the US, where the rich have a PS3 and an XBox, and the poor are stuck with only a PS2.
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I am a subscriber to Stratfor, because of their insightful analysis. It feeds my curiousity about why things they way the are, not not just what is happening (which is what you get from most news sources, if you're lucky). I haven't seen much in the way of leaked information in Stratfor's reports --- in fact, I can't think of any that I could identify as leaked information.

Care to justify your assertion?
Anyone commenting about the supposed irony of Wikileaks putting an embargo on releasing this information before an agreed date is being naive.

At one point in time Wikileak's stated mission was just to leak information, and this was done without — comparatively — much fanfare.

What we see now is a change of tactics. If the ultimate goal is not simply to leak information, but to effect change, then what is the best way to do this?

A coordinated, simultaneous release has a better chance of being noticed by more people and thus a greater chance of effecting some meaningful change.

We can disagree on tactics. Assuming you believe their goals are reasonable, what else could they do? I'm not suggesting there are not other options, but I rarely read any suggestions of a better way.
Imagine the implications of sever/client combination bugs. Hello, data loss.
You say that, but a lot of people scream bloody murder about it. And this exemplifies one of the major problems for people like me that are trying to learn how to create REST APIs and understand why to bother doing so in the first place. The problem is that even people who seem to know what they are talking about fundamentally disagree on many things. And Fielding's dissertation does not cover many implementation details. It's like interpreting the constitution trying to figure out how it should all happen in the real world.

Some of the points of contention:

(1) Should api version go in the URL or accept header?

(2) Should representation type go in the url or accept header?

(3) Are custom HTTP verbs okay?

(4) Should GET, POST, PUT and DELETE map one-to-one to CRUD? Most say no, but other seeming authorities say it's fine.

(5) Should you ever return a URL template, and a set of entity identifiers that can be plugged in, or should you only return the fully formed URLs?

(6) What is the difference between a URL and a URI? (And all you who say this one is dead simple and I'm an idiot for not knowing, see if your answers actually agree with each other)

(7) Are two different language translations of a document different resources, or are they different representations of the same resource?

(8) If two different language translations are just different representations of the same resource, how should the client indicate which version it wants?

And of course some people say that a few of these questions aren't even within the scope of REST anyway.
can you go just one step further and make it do IP to TimeZone?
Manning perhaps had the guts to remind you all of your constitution. If you are prepared to ignore your constitution then I will ignore all the things that make U.S.A. great.
With that being said, it seems appalling that it is possible on Rumblefish side to claim copyright on bird songs, assuming that they have vetted the audio personally.

Then again, should we not say that the algorithm that processes for copyrighted audio is imperfect and therefore could be improved further to not have false positive such as this?

I would bet that someone would have copyrighted sounds such as cash register's ka-ching!. Although use of such sounds from a specific recording should be copyrighted, I should be able to record a video of a real world cash register without anybody in the world claiming my work to be theirs.
Thanks! I'd searched the ps manpage for truncate and length. I don't know why I didn't think to look for width.
I only really see the "Apple thinks it invented X" posts and not so many "Here at Apple we invented X". So it seems more like the anti-apple people have a perception.

I don't see Apple collecting any awards for inventing power supplies.
The ads on the video pay out to Rumblefish instead of the video's owner.
Audio recording support on Android is pathetic. The APIs only have one error code - roughly corresponding to "it didn't work" without further clue as to what the problem is.

I also found that often the driver or hardware on HTC and Motorola devices would get wedged. You could only fix it by a reboot. (They were probably using the same Qualcomm chipset.)

Of course once it got wedged users couldn't actually tell. Any audio recording program (eg Google's voice search) would say it had started recording and then immediately stop saying "error". Because of the lack of useful error codes they had no idea why and usually didn't expect the error anyway giving a horrendous user experience (untested code paths).

You also can't practically record audio when using the emulator, and in any event it behaves differently than real hardware, so you have to development and testing with a variety of real devices.