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Maybe a shamless plug, but I work on mobile apps at Fodor's Travel. We've been doing print travel guides for 75 years. We now have apps, in addition to books.

We're professional curators. That means every restaurant review (and shops, hotels, etc) has been written by an actual human professional who's opinion we hope you trust (we're a little more upscale than Lonely Planet, but we have our hip moments). So in a way, we're the anti-UGC. When you have crowds of people, all the ratings become a noisey 3-4 stars. Including Burger King. That's why I think Fodor's content is a good alternative. We're in the travel space, not local, but, it's a refreshing alternative.

Oh, and all our apps are FREE.

http://www.fodors.com/mobile-apps/
I'm less interested with the graphing and more interested in Cube itself, which seems to be a nice simple data warehouse solution.

Has anyone used this in production? How does it compare with other data warehousing projects? Are there any prominent alternatives?
I don't have to "Do it" with Dropbox.
One more piece of 'revolutionary technology' whose main goal seems to be to sell me things or make me spend my money in other ways.
Correct, you could already upload arbitrary files to Docs for a long time.
Maybe it's time to turn this challenge into a proper contest.
How can that be? They were just priding themselves on "even the big ones"
This will be a good war.
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There where only about 50 people in my age at the school, there is not as much diversety possible. You cant just hang out with 'the goths' or whatever, chances are there arn't enought to form a distinct social group. You get to know almost everybody, that means there is less jugment purly on visual marks.
This kind of reasoning actually led to the establishment of "Java schools" in the late 90s, and I hope we've all read Joel Spolsky's classic piece about them:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...
I'm running it just peachy right now on Fedora 16 x86_64. Add a repo, install the package, and it bootstraps itself. It's quite clean.
You aren't, I think this is an effort to give web apps file associations.

Or in other words, give _Chromebooks_ file associations.
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Distasteful is not serious. Consider the durian fruit, how it smells, how it makes us hold our noses and laugh. No, I don’t take this seriously. I have already forgotten it.
I also get the feeling the author has never heard of differential GPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS

Which actually leads to something I've wondered about before: Why couldn't you (with appropriate FCC clearance) set up GPS transceivers around a shopping mall calibrated to rebroadcast the signal at the appropriate time offset? It would work with everyone's existing hardware and be completely transparent.
Really helpful, thanks.
With the contract switching from Raytheon to Lockheed, the general NSF support contract should have a bunch of IT positions opening up next research season, I'd think.
A future feature that might get me to switch: automatically download many years worth of Gmail attachments to my GDrive. It would be AWESOME to go through picture attachments from years ago.
https://developers.google.com/drive/downloads
Manga/anime are essentially just cultural designations; they are referring to comics and animated cartoons (respectively) endemic to Japan. Note that "cartoon" here can refer to a long-form animated movie, as well. There are some things that make manga (especially) unique in contrast with comics published elsewhere, however they are predominately stylistic in nature with a dash of difference in publishing and consumption culture.

I actually disagree somewhat with slowpoke; many (including myself) would argue that the term "graphic novel" refers not just to the broad class of all comic books, but to a narrower format. Graphic Novels typically are self-contained works, and are not collected in a series (contrast this with "trade paperbacks" or "collections" that combine several issues of a comic book series into a larger volume or volumes, released serially). Libraries and bookstores however seem to ignore these distinctions and lump any long-format comic under the "graphic novel" designation. /pedantry

From what I've seen of the product in question here (the landing page + the youtube trailer), I wouldn't really consider it a hybrid; I would consider it a graphic novel that has key animated panels to help display motion and setting. The animations aren't completely necessary in the storytelling, but are an added artistic "flavor" if you will.
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This appears to have worked; my CPU is going crazy from GDrive activity, which I am guessing is some pre-processing compression step from GDrive before upload.

I am marginally more worried about whether the same reasons that GDrive didn't work right with a symlink inside it will result in other apps not working right with Documents being the symlink itself. We'll see, I suppose...
I too cannot wait for true AR. I have been dreaming about making AR apps for the iPhone since it was released, but have never found satisfactory solutions to the positioning issues. Can't wait to play a real world RPG, with GPS used for the world map, and IPS for dungeons with AR objects accurately placed.

(Just started Dennou Coil. It rules.)
Add the language you don't want to see to the preferred content languages in your browser settings and then make sure it's the last one in the list. Works with most Google services and many others to stop the automatic language selection based on IP.
I don't agree with the mentality that you're commenting on, but I can somewhat see where they're coming from. One way to think of it is to see all services as a mousetrap where the powers that be can snap the trap if they like, and fuck over a lot of mice (by betraying privacy).

Google may make really great services, but to people who view these highly-integrated services as potential mousetraps, it's just an irresistibly-gilded moustrap. It may be amazing, but it just means it's luring more people in to be snapped in the trap.

And I imagine you can become one of those people by being burned on privacy concerns, or by being pre-emptively vigilant regarding your privacy. There's been all kinds of news of services that have betrayed privacy in one way or another, so it's not totally far-fetched.
For any compiling work I need to do, I usually offload to my Linode install with 4 Xeons. Your mileage may vary, though.
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The article claims that " GPS and GLONASS can measure altitude, but generally the data is inaccurate and too low-resolution (on the order of 10-25 meters" - which I'm fairly sure is totally un-true.
did you actually read the post? i actually pre-rebutted both of your arguments.

i understand quite well what a CS program is, since (as i pointed out in the post) i've been a student in three university CS programs and taught coding at a fourth.

i'm saying that most of what goes on in academic CS departments is not what we need as a society and it's not what most undergrads hope to get into when they enroll. most undergrads get into CS to write software, not to learn "theory" or "compiler design" (although, again, as i pointed out in the post, if this happens to be your bag, more power to you -- but this isn't really about you, it's about the mismatch between what university CS programs do and what people and society really want or need.)

software engineering is obviously teachable (i've been doing it for 20 years) and that's true even if you personally didn't have any good software engineering instructors or mentors. it looks like you and i are in agreement that rapid change in software engineering makes universities not the optimal place to teach software engineering (that was the point of my post). but it doesn't follow that because universities are bad at this, that software engineering is "not teachable".
Lies, damn lies and stats. "Apple sold 44% less iPhones last quarter" is technically correct. But last quarter saw around a 150% increase in sales because of pent up demand and the holiday quarter. If you compare this quarter from one a year ago you'll see that sales are actually up.
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/24/iphone-activations-drop-...

Also, I call bullshit on the "razor thin margins" that carriers are making. They make plenty over the lifetime of the device contracts. Also, ask Sprint if it would like to get rid of it's iPhone deal. They are getting plenty of new subscribers thanks to the iPhone and are banking on making up their initial loss over time on their new contracts. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/analyst-who-downg...

The problem comes in on their aggressive upgrade policies. In fact, I believe Verizon just added a $30 fee for upgrades on 2 year contracts.

Apple's stock is down because the market is full of idiots. Analysts have bet against Apple for years and every quarter Apple has come up on top. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that this quarter won't be any different and overall sales will be through the roof.
And if someone were working on this (or hoping to) how could they reach you to let you know about a beta/alpha? (genuine question, I've been thinking about something similar).
Some of the responses are downright depressing:

Vijay Vasu ‏ @gunshotdigital

@drewhouston @Dropbox huh what? will people be able to search my files!!! #NOTCOOL
Text is high bandwidth, but videos are much better for communicating emotion.
Some jobs are better suited to learning than others. Whether it's working at a public library, being a night-shift security guard, or any other job that would allow you access to a computer (having persistent internet isn't even necessary). What you can get away with is different at different jobs. If you're motivated, you'd be amazed how much you can learn on top of having a full time job--often much more than the average full-time student absorbs. Are you leaning more toward redirecting your learning toward something you can pick up more easily or toward giving up on higher education in general?
If you quote, quote in full. The problem is not with Google sitting on a lot of data, it's with them exploiting people's ignorance to get it.
The biggest things here are the OCR, image recognition and (hence deeper) search feature for your files. It would be really tough for Dropbox or any other competitor to match these. The Google drive also seems to be available on all platforms so looks like a very good option.
Nope not jekyll, seen that one and I like it. I'm pretty sure this one had a woman's name though.
In some areas perhaps it hasn't got some of the functionality that Dropbox has, but it also seems to be scratching a lot of itches which Dropbox isn't even considering scratching.

This is not to say Dropbox should consider. Just I don't think you could say this offering pales in comparison to Dropbox. The app SDK in particular looks exciting.
It's being aired NOW though.
Consider using encfs rather than truecrypt. encfs encrypts each file individually and works much more smoothly with file storage services.
I'd say the pricing is about the same. You do, however, get access to a hosted environment with all of Hydna's plans (including the free one). You can use this environment to deploy rules and custom logic, reducing the need to set up a third party server.

Most applications during the beta so far have consisted of static files deployed to a CDN, running server-side logic in aforementioned environments. We'll be working a lot towards this workflow in hopes to make it as simple as possible for you guys to build and scale real-time-enabled applications.
Some more thoughts on where this could go in the future:

This whole thing is great for Chrome OS and Chromebooks. Right now, using a Chromebook is an experience that comes with a lot of sacrifice. You can't really do much with a lot of the files that you're used to using on Windows. You're locked to a browser UI that limits your flexibility.

But with the upcoming new Aura UI and Google Drive, suddenly you've now got an experience very similar to Windows. You have a desktop that you can put apps on, and you can open arbitrary files using any app that supports it and is available in the store. Now the distance between Windows and Chrome OS is suddenly very small relative to how large it was last year.

This makes me very excited to find out what Google plans to talk about at Google I/O. I wouldn't be surprised if they introduced a new Chromebook model built around the coming together of the new UI and Drive.
Playfire has released something that will tack a comment onto all your queries for you: https://github.com/playfire/django-append-url-to-sql/
I can see how being featured in the App Store can give you 100K users, but 4 million? Really?
We made the decision collectively. By being lazy, in a good way.
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Mutex issues and other problems with high insert / update rates. Google "mysql query cache issues" and "mysql query cache disable" for lots of posts about the various costs / benefits.
RSA has been selling such systems for years. My friend's container shipping company of 15 people has it. It really comes down to having a qualified IT person on board, rather than the availability of a technical solution.
Don't forget that Google also has a history of disabling accounts and providing no communication, support or other mechanisms to get it restored. Usually kicking up an almighty fuss in public if you have a prominent twitter/blog works but do you really want to be at their mercy for that?
Speculating that the author would be a bad parent, and now additionally speculating she's a page-view whore, is completely orthogonal to your main point about the tone of the article. It's a gratuitous attack that flies in the face of this specific community guideline: "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation"

Just because this is a journalist you are unlikely to meet doesn't mean you should so cavalierly impugn her morals. You can criticize an article without making it into an attack on the author.

How would you feel if I replied to one of your comments with a sarcastic, "Gee, you'll sure make a GREAT parent some day"?
What's the Delicious part?
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gcc/g++ has had __FUNCTION__ and __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ since forever (the first is just the function name; the 2nd in c++ has the argument types, class name and more) - might be a useful addition to your toolkit. It's easy to trace back from line numbers to file/function etc, but I find that the function name is actually more informative for me -- and is easily incorporated into macros such as yours at no extra cost.

C++11 and the latest C have standard equivalents for these, but I'm too lazy to look them up right now..
I believe proactivity is about having a purpose in mind
If Facebook isn't special, the startup industry will be adversely effected.

(I think Facebook's special. I think it'll be alive and well 20 years from now.)

Edit: as it's often said, venture capital relies on home runs. If the biggest home run of all (Facebook) turns out to be a foul ball, and then an out, I think venture capital will contract; especially consumer tech. (Again, I think Facebook will be fine in the long-run, provided Zuck stays its CEO.)
We bootstrapped this little app. with a three-person team. I'm really anxious and nervous to hear what the HN crowd thinks of it. Here are some promo code's to try it out:

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I ran into similar problems. a 32MB file would stop the syncing service completely and not resume.
Yes, my thoughts exactly. If all you have to sell is a big dumb pipe you'll make it the best big dumb pipe you possibly can.
Man, I totally agree with you! That state of ignorance you are talking about reminds me of Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)... that is (almost) what is happening nowadays.

And I am literally laughing out loud with the 'taking a shit' thing. =)
What about those of us who are already paying customers? A few extra pages, for loyalty?

(I understand the need to market. Nonetheless, it's difficult at times not to feel a bit irked when "the new guy" is getting for free what you're paying for.)
I'm actually on a Mac :) Should've mentioned that.
@boxy_brown Thanks! I'll take a look

@amirmc my username at gmail.
When did the "DOS Hacking" happen ? I did the same thing in middle-school (launched tracert from DOS) and was caught by a professor but didn't get reported to police luckily.
The reply would be, "why don't you invest in manufacturing companies instead of creative companies?"
Got it:
http://www.staceyapp.com/
Be very interesting to see if this spreads to the rest of Macmillan after a trial period, as well as if the other publishers will react similarly.

No matter what, though, this is a good sign and motivates me to make sure I pick up more Tor books.
Do you want to use it as a purely backup type thing or as the place that holds your only copy? If it's more a backup type thing, something like backblaze or crashplan at $5/month/computer gives you unlimited backup storage. Crashplan also has a 'family' plan that is $12/month for 10 computers.

Crashplan also lets you 'seed' a backup with a 1TB HDD that they ship you for $125.
I just might. Thanks for the tip!
Do you work at Google? I'm curious, because according to others, while 20% time does technically require management approval, it's usually not a problem.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3703018

Also, inferring company culture from the lack of a visible public beta is a bit of an assumption, don't you think?
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you can download the files and use whatever you want. Its just lower barrier, in terms of collaboration and sharing, getting people productive, etc. I know for example some docs created in Windows office suite vs Mac office suite, don't work well when editing on different platforms along with open office on linux. Even differentiators of file types like docx vs doc have issues.
"Easiest way to pick a date with your friends"

Maybe it's just me, but when I read that, I initially thought the app was like an OkCupid for my social graph. A more clear tagline may be something like "Schedule events with your friends"
I went through the library and I see most of the videos are pretty short. There is hardly 40 minutes of video on html5, same is true for iOS programming. At this point, I would prefer free Stanford courses over treehouse. What am I missing here?
You're right, but "look, GDrive has an API" is actually kind of neat - this complaint would be more justified on the other threads, IMHO.
Great. Can I use it to block anything I don't want. How do you tell a layman what it is for and how to make use of it.
As his about page states, the author is the founder of the Swedish (and first) Pirate Party. More importantly, he's a very interesting and well-argumented thinker on copyright.
No, it's true. The possible geometry of visible GPS satellites at any given moment (namely that they're all above you and none are below) means that the vertical error is pretty bad in comparison to the horizontal error.
It's not like Drive is that great. Actually it very much pales next to Dropbox.

That sounds remarkably sour. Nonetheless, it gets attention because it had been talked about for literally years (back to the latter 2000s). On the day of release it isn't super surprising that it's getting some love.
Dropbox also screw over paying customers who use shared folders. (Yes I complained, but they kept explaining it was for freeloaders repeatedly ignoring "paying")

If for example you and someone else both pay Dropbox for 50GB each - ie Dropbox is being paid for 100GB of unique storage - and then you share some folders they deduct their space from your quota. As an example if they share 20GB of folders with you then you'll only be able to have 30GB of your own unique storage and between the two of you there will only be 80GB of unique storage.

Do paid sharing with a few more people and you'll quickly be out of space.
We're also working on improving the compilation speed of the canonical implementation. 3.2 will have some improvements that should help considerably.
The best thing about this is that it will finally force Dropbox to offer more storage at a cheaper price point. $200 bucks for 100GB of personal storage per year? I've long thought it's ridiculously high for mass adoption and so many more would be using it if the price was a bit more reasonable.

For me:

1. I need much more space than 100GB - I'd ideally like a TB+ on the cloud.

2. The price has to be more acceptable. Say the cost of a TB hard drive on an annual basis. I'm not even going to talk about the likely $1000+ bill for a TB of space at the current price point.

3. I have to admit that Dropbox is pretty cool when it comes to a smooth, painless experience.
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It is a problem but I think the system is pretty well optimized to allow to jump around.

If after three years you want to do the mid-level instead of the low one you can just add a year and do it.

If you do the mid-level you can go to something called "Kurzzeit Gymnasium" witch will take you four years but you end up with the same with the top-level kids.

Even if you do a educatonaly simple job with a start from the lowest level you can do a 'Berufsmatura' combined with working. This gives you almost the same thing as the normal top-level would give you. You can go to some university (there is no word for them in english but you get a beachlor all the same). With one extra year of school you can go to all of them.

In that respect im pretty happe with the system. Socialy it works out pretty good too, you arn't some kind of idiot if you go to the lowest level.
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Note that ClojureScript is only related to the Google Closure project via the compiler. So a demonstration of jQuery to Closure Library API calls would serve an unrelated purpose.
To be blunt when I tried SpiderOak I found your client to be clunky, ugly, and a bit confusing to setup. One of Dropbox's best features and the reason it appeals to the mass market is that their client is the best. It's fast, light, and easy to use.
There's no engineering without a solid theoretical background. You want to do civil engineering, they'll make sure you thoroughly understand Newton's laws; electrical, Kirchhoff's. And that's just the start. In fact, you're much better prepared to build big bridges if all you've studied is theoretical physics than if you had personally built a crossing over every ditch on campus.
Would you mind re-posting the content of the post here?
I'd still bet on Google's security setup for its Apps customers over your friend's company. Also a consideration, Google would cost only $900 a year for 15 users, which is a considerable savings over dedicated staff.

I recommend Google Apps all the time. It's almost certainly better than what they're using now and is very good at not having problems.
FYI: Article refered to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874872
great and scary the same time.

before it was: "show us what you search for, and we will serve you relevant ads".

now it will be: "just store your files with us, and we will know what ads to serve you around the internet".
Heard you and agree. Changed the title of the submission to avoid any confusion.
Maybe try this introduction to web publishing with wordpress [1].

Google cache of the blog post:
Also, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

[1] http://codelesson.com/courses/view/introduction-to-web-publi...
If they have enough users that don't mind it, it's perfectly acceptable.

I never understood this american obsession with "customer support" anyway. In my country we almost NEVER call "customer support" for software and web services. What would they tell you? Which buttons to click?