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It is really shocking how absolutely mind-bogglingly ignorant people are when it comes to online privacy matters.

A side note, but it's shocking how people are unable to believe that others are capable of making informed choices. Case in point: I use Facebook. I often get people hounding me- "don't you care about privacy?!?", "Facebook is using your data!"

Yeah, I know. I don't mind. The way I see it, privacy is the new currency- Facebook isn't providing me with a free service, I am paying for the service in the form of targeted advertising. And I am OK with that.

And to go back on topic...

How could any business person in a sane state of mind choose to share its data with some 3rd party company.

Because it's very difficult not to? I have a database on AWS- Amazon has access to that. Doing anything else would be very expensive. Even if I get my own server, whatever telco provider I use for the connection could easily sniff through my data if they wanted to.
Have you looked at tarsnap?
I have no pity for this guy...seriously he only went by Yelp's reviews and did no further research.

This article just proves how stupid consumers can be when making important decisions.

When I read the article I didn't see the guy mentioning looking up the company on the BBB or even simply Google'ing "[Company] scams" or "[Company] scammers".

Yes, Yelp could implement better solutions to protect consumers but ultimately the consumer needs to do adequate research before purchasing.
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"Warning: Apps will not have any API access to files unless the app has been installed in Chrome Web Store. To test an app during development, you must first create a listing and install it."

While that does make it feel a bit more secure, that would be a huge hassel for anyone that wants to go stealth at first.
I'm not! It means hacking there is dead, and the whole company is run by marketing consultants.
Their free tier is unremarkable, but their pricing for upgrades is very aggressive. 100 GB for $5/month? Yes please.

I think a lot of people who only use free Google stuff will now start paying them a bit of money for this service.
Drew Houston definitely knew the threats to DropBox. I'm sure he already has a plan to counter this. He's been ready since 2007.
This is very interesting! I never thought of this before, thanks for sharing!
Great post, very well-balanced.

One of the dumbest things I heard growing up was that to be silent is to agree with someone, I can't remember the exact quote, I think there are a few variations. So I'd see myself as a hero when someone would say something I'd disagree with, and I'd vociferously disagree. When I thought about why I didn't have many friends, I realized, though I saw myself as a hero following this high-minded idea about silence=consent, I was really being a rude, mean, self-righteous jerk. Then I'd go to the other extreme and agree with everything other people said, but I'd have no self-esteem or self-respect.

In the real world, it is more practical to switch the subject or say there are parts of other's opinions I can agree with, without agreeing with the whole thing. It's all about balance and nuance. I've been around many people that act like they always speak their mind, but then I've been able to observe them in difficult situations, they are far more conformist than they'd ever admit.
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Interesting. On the other hand it shows a very American reality distortion field: the government is the main threat to privacy.

Two things:

The biggest threats are probably coming from private companies and private initiatives such as Google, Facebook because of the extent of the data they gather about you. The most worrying part about these kind of threats is that they can be kept secret and can be passed by just one manager.

These bills are backed up or even pushed by the companies mentioned in the previous point. It's not the result of some crazy politician trying to restrain your freedom on the internet but these bills are very often the result of lobbying. It's because the government is not implicated enough in the internet that this happens. Private interest with (relative) little efforts can go in this breach and push for legislation because the politicians are very mildly interested and think it's not a big deal.

If you want to win this war, it's really necessary to identify the real threats and enemies without any knee jerk reaction of typical internet crowds.
Mine said that also, until about 2 min ago. It now points to a different page with the new pricing.
I'm on the exact same page. I'm going to give it a week. If I don't see a response from DropBox, because price is a factor, I'm just going to switch. I know it seems harsh, but the reality is, we're talking about more than just drive space now. This integration with my Gmail and Docs is huge.
This seems like pretty much the exact problem that social networking was designed to solve.
Is OCR really the feature that makes Evernote a popular product? I don't use it, but I have seen people use it, and it looks more like a notebook that syncs across all your devices. There is little notion of "files". I can't imagine this will have much effect on Evernote.
Does any of the cloud competitors already offer a similar api that would let my app users use their infra instead of mine? Or associate my app into their ui? Or is this a novel from google?
It's funny that in the old Google Docs I was able to upload documents with no issues in any browser/OS, but it seems that in Drive I cannot do it using Opera on Linux (but I can using Chrome). Also, the way in which shared documents have been handled in the transition is just plain stupid.
We have put a lot of time and effort into making a local recommendation engine that is primarily powered by your real friends and acquaintances.

I'm not sure how it compares to other sites, but you can see the URL in my profile.
...about stuff Yelp has no business knowing, or asking about.
Oh wow, I just bought 1 year for $5 AFTER GDrive was released and I have now 25GB of storage, but now if I click on the link it brings me here: https://www.google.com/settings/storage/ and says my current plan isn't available any more. Sweet!
The Google Drive video is too professional and kind of boring.
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Same, I should have ordered faster!
It was available just minutes ago!! I landed a 200GB space for $50/year just before they changed the pricing plans. I should have gone for more :)
Apparently they've changed their pricing :(

http://i.imgur.com/hLreQ.png

I want to be able to pay per year, not per month.
Something about this struck me as odd – having interned in the Windows org in Redmond, there are no such things as “business managers” – this may be a byproduct of Sinofsky’s leadership, but up to the VP level core product teams only have SDEs (devs), SDETs (tests), and PMs (program managers). GPMs and others above the manager level were busy with meetings for much of their days, but the ICs were not expected to be at all of those, so the obsession with colorful boxes he describes wasn’t something I ever witnessed. Maybe his experience was with a different product, but Windows and Office are certainly quite different from this.
It's so crazy it just might work.
It's now a price war! good for consumers.....
I'm not sure what you mean. PhoneGap and HTML5 are slow compared to either the mobile web, or a native app. The UIWebView that PhoneGap uses on iOS doesn't use JIT Javascript, so it's going to be slower than mobile web.

Either one of those isn't going to have the responsiveness of a native app.
I'm blow away by the reactions here. It's as if everybody expects to make a lot of money while taking a lot of risks with other people's money. This isn't wall street ;o This is business and hard work.

You get paid when your business is successful and you are acquired. At least that's how VC's see it.

If you don't go to bed with VC's or external investors you can pay yourself whatever you want.
How does that work with the Mac client? Can you easily add a second or third account? Or can you only log in with one account?
Quick thoughts on Google Drive
Was it down when you visited it?
Seems to have been a mistake, they already fixed the pricing.

Old: http://i.imgur.com/wq9hz.png
General consensus from the last million threads along these lines: oDesk is the generally best of that bunch, and as long as you're working hourly and using their spyware they guarantee you'll get paid — but being the best out of those sites is kind of like being the winner of a paraplegic footrace. You'll do much better as a freelancer if you can do without them.
I hope to see some new tag lines form Dropbox:

"No incentive to explore your files."
"Not selling you anything except storage space."
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2MB file size limit???
The pure production costs (Animator + Voice Over) aren't going to be high. Anywhere from $1k to $5k depending on how much you outsource and how far away you outsource it.

The ability of a marketing department/agency to distill the product, it's benefits, how it relates to the brand and why you need it is something you can't really quantify. If you watch Mad Men think of the effort that goes into a pitch meeting. That is what you pay for. And that can cost a lot.
The biggest cost (once you get into those multi GB levels) is the weeks to months it's going to take to get everything up. That being said, I'd be very tempted to use drive to backup my photos (raw files, so sitting at 400GB or so). The price is cheap enough to put everything in there and forget about it, but not too cheap where I have to worry about the storage quality.
There could also a be a self-selection bias.

Kids who like to socialize might resist homeschooling even if their parents wanted it, because they want to be at school with their friends. On the other hand, "weird" kids might beg their parents to be homeschooled because school is so painful for them. So it would be too simplistic to say that homeschooling causes poor socialization. It could very well be the other way around, too.
I'd bet they'll be approved today. I thought I saw an iPad in a screenshot.
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Google Drive is here, and you can install it right now
Then I assume you are also not a big fan on any online service. An interesting trend I'm noticing is that people stop writing offline software.

Pretty soon anything new you want will only be available as a service. What then?
So there's a resource out there that claims to let the customer do a good portion of that research by aggregating real customer reviews and you berate him for using that research? Calling the guy "stupid" for believing a bunch of supposedly satisfied real customers while at least 10 extremely negative customer experiences were hidden from him is bullshit.
As far as I know, Dropbox is using S3, which has reduced its prices several times, so Dropbox should pass that saving onto its users just like AWS is.
And thus my increased agony - I could have stayed with T-Mobile had this been announced just a bit earlier :)
To me Drive feels like another part of Google's push to get everything integrated into one easy environment. The end goal is (potentially) noble, but I feel like they are trying too hard to push products out too fast, and a lot of the releases they are making feel quite forced. I don't think that Google and the Google userbase is ready for something like this, and even if this is a really good product I see it failing just like many of Google's other recent products.
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Wait a second -- neither do I! So if the two of you not knowing how to build it means it's secret (your point, right?)...then the three of us not knowing means it's... TOP SECRET!
Has anybody tried syncing extisting folders via symlinks? Using Dropbox this is how I prefer to keep track of folders outside of the actually Dropbox folder. Google Drive just seems to ignore them.
Not being able to include other folders would pretty much be a deal-breaker for me :( Any ideas?
Is this still the case? Mine only shows 5GB.

edit: My Drive updated!
You are currently using 17 MB (0%) of your 87040 MB.
Should have bought more...
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Well, I went to Google Drive again, and this time when I clicked the upgrade button I saw the pricing consistent with the official announcement.
I just bought 80GB a few minutes before the new pricing page went up. When I go back to my Accounts page and click on Storage-More Details I see the new pricing like you, but under my 80GB at $20/year I see the following: "* Your current plan is no longer offered.Learn more"

There is nothing yet under the Learn More link, but it says that my next charge will occur next year. I hope that means old storage buyers are being grandfathered in.

Thinking about it some more, I should've gotten 200GB for $50.
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Don't have a cow, man, it's nothing personal.

What does open source have to do with the reason your site was down?
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Yeah. I got all excited at the idea of paying $50/year for 200GB. The actual prices are still much cheaper than Dropbox, but not quite as radical as it first seemed.
http://www.youtube.com/html5

The YouTube HTML5 player is still in trial mode, just not stable enough to use on the homepage of a major product launch.

All in good time, there are definitely people at Google working on it :-)
The fact that you have to ask (and that the question sounds credible) is a bad sign.
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Simple: Everybody and their mother already has a Google account.

It's a lot easier to tell someone to use Google Drive instead of creating an account on Dropbox and installing their software and going through the whole rigamarole.

Unlike SkyDrive et al, Drive is aiming right at the throat of Dropbox and Google has the money to make sure it succeeds (see G+).

Dropbox doesn't have to compete on price (I don't think it's as big a factor as everyone makes it out to be), but they do have to think about improving the feature set.

If Dropbox doesn't respond, they do so at their own peril.
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What on earth are you talking about? Google's infrastructure is so large it can handle the same sort of influx that Gmail would have generated, whereas back then they couldn't.

Why on earth does that mean the company is run by marketing consultants?
I think this is newsworthy and awesome. Happy to answer questions here if anybody has them.
Dropbox enjoyed a near monopoly on their feature set and ease of use for a long time. Now that serious competition is showing up they're going to have to drop their ridiculous prices.
So I think I was right.

I just bought 80GB a few minutes before the new pricing page went up. When I go back to my Accounts page and click on Storage-More Details I see the new pricing, but under my 80GB at $20/year I see the following: "* Your current plan is no longer offered.Learn more"

There is nothing yet under the Learn More link, but I can see that my next charge will occur next year. I hope that means old storage buyers are being grandfathered in.

Thinking about it some more, I should've gotten 200GB for $50.
Yes, but that's not really what concerns me. It's that my workflow runs through those services.

To clarify, email (basically your identity online), calendars, device syncing, now file-sharing can be run through Google (and I'm sure a whole lot of other things too). If these were to disappear* I'd basically be left with a nice shiny box, where I could 'work' but in a much more limited way. It would feel like being on a digital desert island (e.g. I do this now by working in places that don't have wireless and letting things 'sync' when I'm back online).

I guess I'm just wondering how few companies are in a position to offer services like these, resulting in Google getting all my stuff. It's not bad per se but it is making me wonder what my options really are.

(edits for clarity)

*I'm referring to the odd story of people getting locked out of google accounts. I know it's rare.
I did a quick blog post with charts and comparisons to not only Dropbox but all the other major players: http://www.sachinagarwal.com/google-drive-charts
Those old planes will no longer be offered - you'll have to switch to the per month payments when the old subscription.
That's why I hoped it was code. He wouldn't want to acknowledge illegal activity on his blog; though technically logging into the FTP server is probably illegal in itself.
When I following the link you posted I get the new pricing page. It is just taking them awhile to propagate the stuff to all their servers. Give it another ten-twenty min and try again.
Of course Google Drive is not a surprise to DropBox but I still feel that a 'One does not simply counter Google' Meme could be appropriate here.
I have been looking (for years) for a "good" online storage/sync solution that allows me to store my documents using my own private key. TrueCrypt etc don't reach the "set it, and forget it" level.

But when you think about how much more expensive storing those documents will be for these companies (as each copy of the same document will be encrypted with a separate private key), and how much value these companies will miss out on because they won't be able to scan our documents, it's understandable why I may never find such a solution.
Really? It seems to me that the invitation scheme was meant to strum up artificial demand, with the side effect of not letting in a lot of smart people who could do cool things with the product.

The fact that the SDK is available on day one is also pretty great.
Well, first off - it's only advertising if the links are added in for this purpose - as mentioned in the article. If there are Amazon links already on Wikipedia, and I'm sure there are some, that's arguably alright to add affiliate links onto. However, the issue is that people may begin adding more and more Amazon links onto articles to try and get more money for Wikipedia - then it becomes advertising.

Finally, your second point - I like better service and I like lower prices, but I dislike DRM and I dislike companies that obtain monopolies and exert control. It worries me that, in future, you will get kindle-only books or books that can only be bought with DRM. Books that in 50 years time may be lost forever. It really saddens me that we are giving away control of our media. Anyway - that's a rant for another article!

Just for perspective: I really support DuckDuckGo using affiliate links with Amazon (and perhaps other retailers too) - I think that's a great way of generating money for the service without resorting to adverts. However, on Wikipedia, I don't think it should be used.
Anyone see anything about selective sync in the clients?
This is the big Google Drive we've been anticipating and rumoring about for the past 5 years? Google Docs with a different label and icon?

The icon is uninspired and un-iconic. Somehow this project looks incredibly rushed and simplified to me, but I can't imagine how Google would ever rush anything nor how they could have had too little time.
Why does every post on here need someone coming in explaining how it's wrong in some way.

Because that's how conversations are built. You either find something to agree with, or you find something to disagree with. Both are useful; even better is doing both at the same time.

But if you notice, you basically did the same exact thing you're complaining against.
I'm curious how this will work with google play music. if we can now upload songs through drive instead of that terrible slow desktop uploader, spotify may have just lost a customer...
Personally, I use the negative reviews much more than the positives. Especially on business reviews on Angie's List or book reviews on Amazon, I get a lot more info from the negatives. The company itself is usually able to tell me the positives. I don't let a few negatives rule out my business, but it allows me to compare more accurately between alternatives.
Everyone on my team works remote one day a week at their choosing.

We just have one Wednesday guys who swears by it, but im a Monday remoter and it's my jam. To each his own.

Ryan mentioned employee retention and even though I work from home during my non office day, it's definitely a huge factor when other opportunities come knocking at my door.
I can confirm that they still do this, my barber shop says they get hassled all the time.
Ask HN: Casually enquired about a job, mixed feelings about the response
Greetings! This is a throwaway, just to protect all parties.

I'm relatively happy in my current job (great people) but I'm looking around for other opportunities for later in the year when my living situation may change. A friend said that it would be worth shooting his boss an email to enquire about the open positions they have there, so I sent a casual email asking for any more information just to open up a conversation with them and I've got mixed feelings about the response.

It was forwarded on to their HR department (which I didn't know they had) and replied to by them. It was a simple enough response in that it offered a 'telephone interview' in the middle of the day during office hours, and asked me to send a copy of my C.V.

I'm actually feeling quite annoyed by it and I guess I'm looking for other peoples' opinions on how I'm reacting. I've never worked for a company with more than 10 employees and I've thus never run into a HR department before. I think I'm irritated by the person (who is in charge of development there) not responding personally and instead shovelling it off onto someone else, when all I was really looking for was a 5 minute reply to initiate a conversation. That, and asking for a C.V. straight away, already makes me feel like this wouldn't be a place I'd enjoy working. However, I realise that I may be an ass and I could be totally misjudging the situation.

Is it worth me actually putting together a C.V. (haven't needed one in ~4 years) and take them up on their phone interview offer? I already approached another company in the same way a month or two ago and got a response much more along the lines I was expecting (short friendly responses to get the conversation rolling), so it's far from my only opportunity; I just don't have much experience with larger companies and their communication process.

I'd be grateful for any replies; I hope it's not as much of a rambling mess to read as it looks as I type this now.
I'm on Windows :-|
While it is an excellent service, tarsnap is not a replacement for Dropbox.
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>I just love a good argument, to the point where I would provoke people I barely know into arguments about politics, religion, whatever.

This right here is the problem with "embrace your weirdness!" posts. You're not being weird or unique, you're just ignoring social cues and deliberately making people uncomfortable.

If your weirdness is that you're super into physics or anime or whatever then that's great, but if your weirdness is that you think you're above learning how to properly socialize with other people then it's not on other people to accept you for it.
That is correct. A few months prior to gmail announcement hotmail lowered their free offering from 5 MB or 6 MB to 2 MB.