skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but I don't think folks are saying it's going to overtake Dropbox _because_ of the accompanying productivity software so much as the integration of that and the syncing of normal files.

Easier to explain via my own example: I have Dropbox, and I'm also a fairly heavy docs user. Now that's there's Drive, it's a no-brainer to just take all my files out of Dropbox and drop them into Drive so when I'm looking for something like a letter from last year, I only have to search one web site / app and it's got everything from docs to PDF scans. There's no comparable way of going the other direction (moving all my files to Dropbox) without losing a ton of functionality. Word is good, but it's really primitive compared to Doc at this point when it comes to collaborative work and access on my phone, tablet, etc.

It's also worth noting that in the case of Google Docs, Drive isn't really a syncing solution (unless you're using Docs in offline mode) since there's no files to sync. It's just a way to access your docs.
You can surely fork it on github.
I wrote this extension for myself and I don't need any more functionality. But if someone wants a thing or two, I will try to implement it. But at the moment there's no interest from the user base, so I'm not willing to code new features.
It would be good to be able to configure it more. For example, to show that properties box only if user is holding Ctrl or something like that. Or to show the box near the cursor, and not in the corner.
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Reading the communication makes me feel sad for the poor guy. He believes he is talking to people which feel responsible for their actions or the corporation they work for. He scrambles to produce a complete picture and tries to argue that the company is losing money through the process. All his mails will just drown in a corporate maze of diffused responsibility and mis-communication. It's really just a huge real-life reenactment of Brazil.
Copyright 1985 Mojang.

No detail too small.
We currently do that with http://filepicker.io/ across multiple cloud providers (only Dropbox and Facebook for now though)

We currently only support opening and saving back files but we plan to add save-as support in the next few days
tl;dr: "has it ever occured to you that it's just everybody else's problem that they can't get along with you?"
Being busy isn't ever an excuse to be rude.
Yeah, that one of the "solutions" to the "information overload/exhaustion" problem we're solving.

Thing is the "read it later" approach doesn't really solves your main problem (getting the facts fast).
I agree with you completely. Choosing the name "thepiratebay" was an immature move imo, and it doesn't pay proper creedence to the whole idea of stated rules and enforced rules.

By that I mean that society expects one thing in name, and will often accept something else in practice. Like we know politicians often have affairs, but in public they profess to have the goal of a traditional marriage. If we saw a politician who had public affairs, we'd all wonder what dirty behavior they were hiding, assuming it's much worse than usual.

If the site had a neutral name like "torrent search" we'd know they professed to be a neutral data sharing site, but the underbelly was piracy. If it starts out piracy, which is plainly illegal, we're left with much worse assumptions about what goes on behind the scenes.
"Being weird? Awesome. Being deliberately different? Not so much."

I realize I'm straying further afield of the original article in saying this, but we should keep in mind that being "weird" (or even being "different") isn't always a choice, or at least not a conscious one. I'm not sure if I'd go so far as to suggest that most "different" people have no agency in the matter. But a lot of them don't. Being different is a relative status typically assigned to you by the dominant social paradigm and context in which you exist. There certainly can be a choice, i.e., in whether to embrace this difference, or to attempt to amend it. And degree of self-awareness plays a huge role in the outcome. But often, even deliberate attempts to rein in the differences can fail.

Long before many (most?) of us even realized we had a conscious say in being weird, our peers made that call for us. What we're actually choosing is how to contextualize and reckon with that weirdness.

This is, as you've suggested, far different from a person's deliberately cultivating a surface-level eccentricity in an attempt to stand out (which is really just a case of fitting in by having an interesting quirk).

Finally, I'd suggest that those of us who consider ourselves "weird" or "different" -- regardless of whether that label has been intrinsically or extrinsically imposed -- should take a very nuanced and almost surgical view of it. By self-analyzing the weirdness, you can break it down into its components and decide which elements are useful, which are harmful, which are productive, which are counterproductive. "Weird" or "different" can be reduced to more elementary traits, rather than seen as broad, blanket terms. The broad terms may be value-neutral, but the smaller components often have values (good or bad).
They can and they do. It is called CPOW(Cross-Process Object Wrapper). https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/CPOW

The issue is that extensions expect to access web content synchronously, so you need synchronous IPC for perfect compatibility, but that causes your UI process to block on your web process.
Wow. This stood out:

"Apple sold 7.7 million iPods, a 15 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter."

I wonder why the decline and if there is a concern?

Everyone that wants one has one? More competitors? Everyone who has an iPod transitioning to the iPhone?
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At least one real police force has done this, and I'd be surprised if it's not more common.

(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060655/Free-beer-cr...)

(Apologies for awful daily mail source.)
> [...] I would do anything to get involved in this effort; [...]

Have you applied for a job at SpaceX, yet? That's one way to get involved with modern space faring.
That's true and it also include contacts. I suppose my slow typing speed on the iPhone has somehow inhibited me from using it.

The best thing is having multiple ways to do things. Which the iPhone provides, of course.

One especially nice one is how double-pressing the home button presents icons for your running apps at the bottom of the screen. You touch to re-enter it or hold it down to get a way to kill it.
I barely look at comments now because it's too often about little flaws and rarely about the main idea.

You don't learn by arguing, it's pointless. Someone cannot be told the truth, he has to learn it by himself.

"I can only show you the door, you have to walk through it.", Morpheus.

I'd like to see comments about how to improve the idea and making even better, but I haven't found a single comment that does this yet..

The only valuable comments I found were links to other documents or a joke once.
I think the 35.1 million iPhone activations had something to do with that. The iPod touch is simply a gateway drug to the iPhone.
could be saturation, but i also think ipads might be taking some of those sales.
Anecdotally - none of my friends (or myself) carry iPods anymore. Nearly everyone I know uses their smart phone. I think most iPod sales are now sold to children as stand-ins until they have a smartphone of their own.
I don't generally self-promote but I've written a series of blog posts about handling privacy issues. Check them out. I'd love to hear your feedback on whether you found them helpful or not.

http://jnorthrop.me/2012/04/15/privacy-best-practices/

http://jnorthrop.me/2012/04/7/preparing-data-breach/

http://jnorthrop.me/2012/04/3/getting-your-privacy-policy-gr...

http://jnorthrop.me/2012/04/22/privacy-and-our-humanity/
Are you a contractor? Or do you have a cool employer who's willing to let you work 25-30 hours a week?
Definitely. I meant that it probably didn't use the clipboard or keyboard emulation, and so it would be safe from those particular attacks. Didn't mean to imply it would be safe from everything.

To nitrogen's point, there's definitely a corresponding GETTEXT message. There's even hooks[1].

But that's about all I know. Haven't written a desktop app in > 10 years.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644990%28v=vs.85%2...
Services bali.
Sage advice on using your time wisely, regardless of being in an incubator or not. When you don't put a high value on your time, actively remove distractions, and aggressively pursue success, it won't matter how smart you are.

In startups, outworking beats outsmarting. Great post
Sounds like something out of a Neal Stephenson novel.
> Everyone who has an iPod transitioning to the iPhone?

Bingo, although I think it's more like "everyone who has an iPhone (or any smartphone, really) doesn't feel the need to also have an iPod".
Of course. What I meant was that homeschooling in order to try and avoid bullying might just as well backfire. Didn't mean that it was somehow justified but bullying among kids isn't easy to combat.
I'd bet on a transition to the iphone
That's a good point. I've kept my friend list down by actively not accepting all friend requests and it still astonishes me the reaction some people have when I 'reject' them. Particularly people I've only met once or twice.

It also depends on the type of people you friend. For example very active internet users (especially geeks) are more likely to post links to tech stories, use the subscriber system etc. Most people I know keep everything private, don't share links (apart from the odd YouTube video), and only share interesting things about their lives.
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Sounds like an opportunity for the other managed Rails hosts.
It seems to me that Anne needs some sort of cover business to be processing lots of Square CC transactions.

BTW, what does Anne being 'mildly attractive' have to do with anything?
iPod sales have been declining year over year for several years now: http://cdnmo.coveritlive.com/media/image/201204/php3nZ4YDapp...

Apple has repeatedly said they are not worried about this on their conference calls. The consensus is that the iPhone has been cannibalizing sales since its release.

See: http://blog.fraserkelton.com/2011/09/24/cannibalize-yourself...

where Steve Jobs is quoted as saying if there’s going to be cannibalization of Apple, they want it to be by Apple.
Not really a concern. Apple planned on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad cannibalizing their iPod line. This is how Apple has stayed ahead. It's better to disrupt your product than have a competitor do it to you.

This is why its important to fund R&D at companies. It enables exploration and innovation, to create the next disruption and/or continuous innovative use of products.
75% of Apple revenue comes from two products that didn't exist 6 years ago
tents...er I mean solar shielding.
I'll bet you a beer or whatever you like to drink we're going to see a flurry of exploits around this service.

I happen to have written a similar service a couple of years ago for a very different purpose and let me tell you one thing: this is nothing less than a backdoor.

You run a program from the service and make sure it runs in the user's session. The problem is, how do you decide a program is "legit"?

You're going to tell me "you check against a digital signature". Except it doesn't work. You can only check parts of the binary, not the whole binary (as some content is unpredictable once it runs).

The other big problem - assuming they have a perfect gateway - is that a vulnerability in Firefox could become catastrophic as it could go through the service to run as a privileged user and wreak havoc.
If you're always double checking reviewers, it's easy to do the same thing on Yelp, or anywhere else for that matter. Most people don't, which is why Yelp filters and Amazon ranks.
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I really enjoyed this, the user experience is very nice and its a well designed site.

I tend to use Gist now because its improved and I have a client for it, but this is a shame to see.
We have tons of NFC-enabled terminals in Italy, at least in the bigger cities. They're already used by Mastercard PayPass and Visa PayWave. If I could use my Italian credit card with Google Wallet (or even recharge the Google prepaid card) I would be doing half of my purchases via NFC.
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For anyone wondering when this will come out for Apps:

A Google Apps version of Google Drive will arrive for
Google Apps admins on the rapid-release track "over the
next few weeks," Google said; it'll also include 5GB free
but monthly prices beyond that will be somewhat more
expensive, for example $4 a month for 20GB or $89 per
month for 1TB.)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57419024-93/google-drive-its-slick-integrated...and-not-exactly-free/

When GDrive for Apps launches, it will enable a new sort of workflow, where a user can open specified file types in GDrive with internal webapps behind a VPN. If combined with the existing Google Docs API, this could be the start of a whole new class of business process apps. Interesting.
This is a good chance to move over to http://gist.github.com for all your pasting needs.
Why don't you write to SpaceX and ask them what skills they are looking for? Once you work for one kind of space company, you can probably get into another one quite easily.
My takeaway from this post is that, " You can really make a difference in someones life if you take a moment to empathize with their situation, and share a word or two of support."

I bet that kid will remember this speech for the rest of his life. I know, cuz I have my share of good and not-so-good memories from as young as a little boy to as recent as yesterday about how far a nice sympathetic and understanding word or two can go, and how damaging a cruel and dismissive comment can be.

We should all take a lesson from this. We are all human beings, and we all have commonalities we can empathize with and relate to in some capacity. It's all about perspective, and guess what... Perspective is all we have!

Use it at your discretion.

But remember, when that awkward weird boy changes the world one day, and looks back and says, "I was once in a gym hanging out with some older blokes, and one fellow gave me the confidence to be myself.I owe it all to him."
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In my Nightly (don't know about current release), I just have to click once on the show html button, and if I inspect another page later, it brings the HTML panel along.

I actually find the vertical CSS sidebar to be an excellent choice. CSS (and code in general) is an inherently vertical thing (short line length), whereas the number of rules displayed is maximized using a vertical panel. A console button would maybe be a good idea, but I only use the keyboard shortcuts, so I don't mind, this prevent reducing the visual clutter.

Firebug is a seriously old and not that sufficiently maintened code base, hence the choice to write new tools, more integrated with the browser.
DDOS attacks are a fact of life, nice to know that Rails Machine will throw you under the bus when one happens. Doesn't seem to fit their homepage description: "You write Rails apps. We deploy, manage, support, monitor, and scale them. Done."
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> I do agree that a lot of valid reviews are being thrown out with the bathwater. There should be a better mechanism to show all unfiltered reviews.

What's tricky about it now? Click "X filtered" reviews and you can read to your heart's content.
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If she wasn't mildly attractive, he wouldn't notice the whole thing, as it happened while he was checking her out ;)
I think this should be titled: Apple Crushes 2nd Quarter Estimates with Massive iPhone Sales
Well, depending on your program.
Thank you. I was thinking of copy and paste from some sites that I have seen so far. But Mz post said otherwise. This is exactly my concern. Mz post states that his disclaimer is used by legal permission. Now to me, this seems to contradict what tstegart and me believe. If legal terms can not be copyrighted, then why would Mz require someone consent, the author in this case, to use the disclaimer? I want to avoid this situation if lets say I use facebook or google term of use word by word and then they sue me?

so now i m confused...

i understand that my project is nothing, and the chance of getting sued is almost 0 because i have no traction, but if it's legally not right, then i want to avoid the risk.

thank you for the advise.
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Curious: why would you trust Dropbox or another small provider any more/less than Microsoft, Apple or Google?

If say, Microsoft bought Dropbox, would you then no longer trust them?

Interested in the reasoning here.
I didn't want to sound like a creeper....
does google drive offer nice native apps to seamlessly sync folders, etc..
And I love my cats, but I hope you'll agree that cat photos are not germane. I have many interests outside the scope of this site, and I'm sure you do too. That doesn't mean we should try and drag this site toward the lowest common denominator. Different sites should be different. More homogeneity is not what the Internet needs.
Herein lies the promise of Drive SDK.
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I can not understand these attacks. Why block a service that is free of charge, useful and did no harm? Unless of course this DDoS was not targeted, which makes even less sense to me.

Also, why did Rails Machine throw out the site so quickly? If I choose to sponsor someone out of my free will, I'd do so without distinction from paying customers.
It's how Chrome does it too, I believe.
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Perhaps an opportunity for Cloudflare to offer support?
I doubt they're related, but Dudefella automatically makes me think of a WoW trading card that Gabe of Penny-Arcade drew.
Damn that's superb animation.
That's actually the right way to do it.
How do you think Chromes does? Right, they're installing in the user area, not in the application area, to bypass UAC. That's wrong.

Using a service that uses authenticated connections and signed installs is similar to what Windows Update does, for the right reasons.

Best would be that Windows Update would be open to let any app hook into it for updates of course, but til then, that's as close as it gets.
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"Raising money is absolutely a milestone on the journey to success."

Go tell that to DHH :)

I personally like it more this way:

"Profiting is absolutely a milestone on the journey to success."

Different perspectives, I guess. No hate.
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Actually, Evernote's OCR does handwriting, and at least for me, does it pretty well. It's not going to give you a transcription, but it's good enough that the doc will show up if you're searching for it.
Just guessing, but maybe someone didn't like the content of a stored public "pastie"?
Do you want to bet? Your 99% certainty seems to imply that you offer 1:99 offers? At those rates I am more than happy to bet 100 GBP on the other side.
$1.9 billion revenue iTunes store, no breakdown media vs apps
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I just read it and enjoyed it immensely. Thanks for the recommendation.
Ugh, you gotta be kidding me! I just bought this at Frys for full price (that's 799$)

I'm going to go see if they price match since I just bought it this weekend.
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Clearly the gist.github engineers DDoSed them - it's all so clear!
This may be off-topic, but I though it may be good to share it with you.
Please forgive my bad English.
So glad the internet gives people a fighting chance at stopping this kind of bullying.
This is not very exciting compared to previous announcements. The only goals i see listed for the 12.10 are "quality" and improved fonts and icons.

Lennart Poettering's response to the systemd vs upstart comments can be found at https://plus.google.com/115547683951727699051/posts/X3fUhyJR...
What if Facebook is now being used by nearly all Internet users? Should you expect it to keep growing? No. Is it bad for business? Hell no.
To clarify: I said a specific individual advocated I cover my ass and encouraged me to use his disclaimer as a starting point. That doesn't contradict what other people here are saying. I have no idea if you need permission to adapt something like that. I am not a lawyer. I was only telling a personal anecdote as to where I got some of my legal language.
... and had too much time on their hands. Seriously, when something is offending me, I contact the author and webmaster first. Not take the whole cluster down.
Right, especially considering EngineYard and Blue Box are here at RailsConf
How are they charging 2 times the price? On Google Play it's 400 without any contract or commitment...
Isn't this basically the equivalent of suexec?
Completely agree. I've heard some people like it - I am struggling to see how it'd be useful, or have any benefits over firebug.
You can disable Firefox's "an update is available" nag dialog with about:config app.update.silent=true.

This pref has been available in Firefox for a long time, but I believe it wasn't enabled because people who don't restart their browser often would not get security updates in a timely manner.
'...send faxes' - how quaint!
There are lots of other options you can compare price with - the obvious one being cheap VPSes: BuyVM (happy user) offer 250G for $7.50/mo ($90/yr) or 1TB for $29.95/mo ($360/yr), with the advantage being that this gets you your own IP address and you can run whatever you like on the machine (web server, sftp server, rtorrent, ...).

It's not a complete solution for the non-technical, and not vertically integrated like GDrive, but you could probably compete with Microsoft and Google in your spare time with a little margin by reselling them pre-configured: There's ftpfs for linux and no end of ftp apps for whatever phone you've got.

I am a huge fan of using cheap VPSes for everything.
Yeah I think I'll pass. SkyDrive gives me 25GB and their "access any file on your computer (even those outside of your skydrive folder) from skydrive.com" feature is amazing.

Plus like someone else already mentioned, having GDrive download hyperlinks is subpar imo. I'd rather get the doc or xls back, edit it on a client, and have it re-upload and convert to gdoc format.

SkyDrive:
25gb (or 7 which is still > 5), cheaper plans, you can access your entire computer from skydrive.com,
and it already has iphone/ipad clients.

I really don't see a reason why anyone should use GDrive over SkyDrive unless they were a heavy gdocs user.
If by "amazing" means "I need an explanation to see what I'm seeing", then I agree with you.

Analytics visualizations are great when they're pretty, but if they aren't comprehensible, you've failed. In the vast (>1) user testing I've done with horizon graphs, it just isn't grokkable.

People in general don't want to look stupid, so they aren't going to volunteer a "hey, what the heck am I looking at here?" They'll just assume they aren't smart enough to get it and be quiet.
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