skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great point. Despite coming from a very different starting point, it really resonates with me.

I love running, absolutely love it. In the past, I used to run at least 10 times a week and do a 4hr+ run in the beautiful mountains near my home about once a month. I enjoyed the nature, I felt good, and it did wonderful things both for my body and mind. It's amazing how easy everything feels when you have a resting pulse of 50!

On the other hand, I don't run anymore and unfortunately running fitness can be built or lost very quickly. After a few months of inactivity it really is mostly gone. Looking back on it now, it's very difficult not to feel a little bit guilty about all the hours I spent on running trails. I too, would prefer to have been building lasting skills such as learning a musical instrument or dancing.

The one exception is the times I went on long runs with my old roommate. That was worth it in every way since we often had great conversations and got several hours worth of running outdoors as a bonus!
A key differentiator here vs. Dropbox that I think people are overlooking is the fact that you can actually edit your files and collaborate easily. The transition to cloud-based apps is underway, and Dropbox -- in this respect -- is about to be stuck in the past.
This is a nice story but it makes everything seem too easy and I say this as someone who had a similar experience at secondary school. Even though it has been 7 years since it was over, I still relive it.

I was rarely bullied but I was almost completely ostracised for two years of my life. Before these years I had only a few friends and acquaintances. It's difficult to pinpoint any particular reason, but it was probably because I had truly awful brace treatments and that I was shy to the point of awkwardness; my geekyness and creativity could have been offset if I had been able to socially manouvre. To my detriment, my upbringing at home was fairly traditional and my parents believed that I should 'be a man'. I kept quiet. (They also didn't believe it was worth the money to buy me a school dinner so I could sit with everybody else, or drive me to friend's houses more than a couple of miles away... sigh)

To survive: I learnt to cope with silence, I learnt to be my own person, I learnt to concentrate on my hobbies, and I learnt self-control. However as the weeks passed and I 'stood strong' my actual thought patterns deteriorated. Weird fantasies of not existing or martyring myself crept into my mind, and I began to find it difficult to pay attention to school work or imagine a better future. My grades dropped from A/Bs to C/Ds. I was very depressed, and my upbringing and personality gave me little opportunity to get help. All the time this went on, people washed their hands of me, understanding me to be yet another introverted kid who was happy to be on his own. I suspect there is very little which could have helped me even if I had spoken out.

My point is that: a few days alone is uncomfortable, a few weeks unbearable, but a few months or years is traumatic.

But, I will tell you the upside. The stressful moments in your life generate the person you are. The old adage is true: "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." and so one day I lay back and decided I would fix everything.

Few will understand: after a difficult life, all adversity is shallow. "Ethos Anthropos Daimon."

I destroyed my social anxiety. I gained back my self-confidence. I am driving myself like a machine to work and to educate myself.

But it is so difficult to atone, and I am off the beaten track with strong individualistic values, constantly striving to be more. While I can empathise with all that have struggled, who can empathise with me?
It seems to be disabled for google apps?
I have a friend that works as a veterinarian. Yelp called his business often to try to get an advertising deal. After he declined, many of his 5 star reviews disappeared from the site. After losing a lot of business, he signed up for the advertising. The next day all of the 5 star reviews returns. This was just a few months ago.
Drew Houston has an amazing sense of humor. https://twitter.com/#!/drewhouston/status/194837482490179584
Thanks for the love. If you read our previous post on our dev process using Trello it might interest you to know that feature came out of the internal idea inbox. We all quickly fell in love with it and pretty soon almost the whole team was working on some part of this feature. We took it from idea to launch in less than 6 weeks. Very proud of the work by our team.
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They're actually working 40-hours weeks still. They just do it in 4 days instead of 5. They've only shifted the hours, they haven't added to them.

If you redefine a workday as 1/6th of 40 hours, then I do 6 days worth of work in 5 days.

The number of days isn't really that important when talking numbers. It's only important when talking psychology. You're more rested after a 3 day break, etc etc.

After a little longer at this company, I may suggest it here. I'd make it clear they're getting the same number of hours, but I'll be happier and more refreshed each week (and more productive), so everyone wins. I don't think it's quite the right time yet, though.
Err... He is talking about Google having access to your files, not whoever else you choose to share them with.

Any company that deals with sensitive data probably already does not use any sharing service. If necessary you could write a custom sync app that encrypts on upload to gDrive and decrypts on download. I have worked for a company that had implemented automatic encryption on emails, including attachments (at least with it's largest clients).
This is interesting, but I feel as though the author shouldn't be instructing one on writing a parser by hand, because this is highly impractical and there are parser generators out there that target JavaScript. One's time is better spent studying the abstract math behind how parsing works. Context free grammars are complex, and it's far too easy to do something wrong.

That being said, writing an interpreter is fun and anyone with even a mild interest in parsing or compilers should do it.
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Thanks, we're excited to get it out there!
Outsourcing the Startup
What? No. Absolutely not.

Being bullied is not because you behave wrongly. You're being bullied because they others are assholes.

In the adult realm, there are still people behaving differently. And they're not getting bullied. You know why not? Because there is a state that punishes bullying among adults.

We need only one thing: punish bullying among non-adults. Currently they get a free pass. And every generation a million kids get scarred for life. No more.
One-star reviews of Fahrenheit 451 will make you want to burn everything down
Still arguably breaking the law. You'd also most likely need more access than just FTP to do that so that so that would involve having to break into a shell or something.

It would difficult to know what to do in these situations because your choices are going to be limited to doing nothing and letting them get away with it or going vigilante and possibly exposing yourself to legal risk.

You could inform law enforcement but they are likely to either do nothing or decide to arrest you instead (I knew someone who had the police come to his house and confiscate his computer for over a year because a fellow student saw him using DOS prompt on a school computer and decided to report him for "hacking").
1995 corollary: the < mover / restaurant / hairdresser / babysitter / dentist / chiropractor / handyman / etc.> is invariably a brother- or sister-in-law.
I ordered one. Hopefully it'll get here by Friday :).
Skype Home is user-hostile and staying that way
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I came from a much smaller set of phones (iPhone 1, iPhone 3GS, Droid Incredible)... so I was also really skeptical.

For me, it's probably damn near perfect in terms of form factor. It took a day or two to get used to holding it, but after that it's been nothing but awesome. The extra real-estate is really appreciated. I'm a bit faster at thumb typing because the spacing is a bit more comfortable.

I dig it.
Doesn't work on android =/
They've changed their existing storage plans and policies. I bought additional storage for my photos through Picasa. The storage was made available across all Google products.

I had the 20gig for $5.00 plan. I say had, because I went to the Drive plan page and was told:

* Your current plan is no longer offered. Learn more.

The page redirect goes here:

http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

No idea why it is called butter.

The excellent thing is that you are grandfathered in.
No linux client turned me off of full adoption (especially when dropbox does support linux)
If you are one of them, let Page and his team(that would include you) know that they are doing a good job with the new direction the company is going towards.
Anyone know of some other remote locations looking for computer engineers / sys admins that might be a little warmer?
You decided to use copyrighted music, "Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk 1959" through your "How it works" video, which I got to by clicking a link under the giant "Data Entry Blows" text on your main page. Did you actually obtain the rights to use that music? Or are these two startup accelerators encouraging particpants not to worry about "stuff that blows" (like dealing with copyrights)?
I'm a little surprised by all the negative responses you're getting. I and my sister were homeschooled from day one. We turned out fine. We're both gainfully employed, and I'm president of a local community group. :-)

The second half of high school we basically took the "remedial" classes at the local community college. I got almost straight A's.

I remember spending more time socializing with adults than with kids my own age, but I hardly consider that a bad thing. (Today I still do things like play with Lego, so I don't think I was warped by this.)

After some of the horror stories I've heard about public high schools, I honestly worry that I might have attempted suicide at one of those places.
For those interested, at mach 20 it seems to take 98 minutes to go around the equator (on the surface). In the nine minutes of sustained flight, it could have covered 3675km on the ground.
wow. i didnt realize what an aesthetic achievement the dropbox sync checkmarks were until i saw the google drive ones...
Open source it and we will help maintain it.
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I just can't believe the no Linux client schtick. It makes no sense.
Hey Tal, Nice post. Good to see you're still workin on startups. Had no idea you had become a technical guy.

Keep up the good work!

Joe (from Anthillz)
isnt pusher.com pricing better? why would we choose this service.
When copying a design, once should at least improve upon it.
This is largely true, but I think it paints the telcos as more irrational than they are. They're using their "delusional flailing strategies" to "delay the inevitable" because those strategies are going to make them more money, at least in the short term.

Long term, yes, running a network is not going to afford them the kind of lock-in revenue they are accustomed to. I"m sure they know this. But still, they have a duty to their shareholders to produce revenue now.

They're only irrational if you see an obvious course to a future of greater profits. But you don't provide one, and frankly I don't see one either. The phone industry is going to need to shrink, revenue-wise.
Surely ease of use trumps price?

I was an original Box user. The ease of Dropbox integration makes me shudder at the thought of giving up that hassle saver.

Features-smeatures. I want an online file system that is exactly that.
Downvoters should turn on their brains before voting. This was very much on topic. gggrrrr
Wait, people actually use Yelp? Seriously?

I find that to be the most shocking statement in the article.
Security aside, the catchall routing directive is a maintenance nightmare. The router is precisely where you should catch buggy routes, as well as document valid ones so they come up in rake routes.
Also add the linux version of Google Earth - it's a joke
from 5$ a year to 30$ (2.5 a month) a year. That's 25$ increase for just 5GB bump in space.
What does this mean for Dropbox?
SO doesn't do questions of opinion
I actually contacted the guy who made Square's videos and it's in the tens of thousands of dollars. My memory is hazy but it wouldn't surprise me if it's around $50k+. The videos more than pay for themselves, however.
Because I love my work and I want more of it :)
It's kind of disingenuous for them to call it an "open platform" when the only way to get API access is to distribute your app through the Chrome Web Store. What if I want to build something that works on multiple browsers? Am I just out of luck?
The landing page seems perfectly fine to me, and adequately describes the functionality of the service.
dropbox presumably pays for s3 slightly less or slightly more (depending on redundancy level) than goog end user price:

Over 5000 TB / month	$0.055 per GB	$0.037 per GB
Were you homeschooled for religious reasons, though? Because especially in certain areas, many homeschooled kids are in that situation only because their parents believe the public school system will force them to believe unacceptable things: the gay agenda, evolution, Jesus wasn't an American, etc.

It's that kind of homeschooling that rubs people the wrong way, because it is specifically motivated by a desire to shelter rather than educate (it's also precisely the reason the Discovery Institute cares about this issue at all; they don't want kids growing up in a system that normalizes homosexuality, religious diversity, or an evidence-based worldview). Most of the bizarrely maladjusted homeschooled kids that I knew came out of these types of situations (though that's not to say that all kids coming out of religiously motivated homeschooling were socially inept).

When parents homeschool because they actually think their kids will learn more effectively, that's a much more positive situation that I have no problem with.
I agree abou the headline, I don't think you could call the design beautiful.
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I'm actually curious how the compilers would handle this. The compiler may inline the gotos so it's really:

int init_abc()
{
if(!init_a())
return 0;
if(!init_b())
cleanup_a();
return 0;
if(!init_c())
cleanup_a();
cleanup_b();
return 0;
return 1;
}
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Web intents!

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/08/connecting-web-apps-with-we...
I use symlinks all the time in Dropbox. Works perfectly both in Linux and OS X.

Anything that a) has no Linux client and b) won't deal with symlinks is about as useful as a chocolate teapot to me.
I think the point is that working 4 days a week didn't preclude them from raising money from investors. Not that funding is the key metric, but to show working extremely long hours isn't a pre requisite to raising money.
The main difference I can see is that insync creates MS file formats when it syncs (.xls, .doc etc) whilst GDrive creates .gsheet, .gdoc files which for me just open Google Docs in Chrome.

Interesting difference. Google's approach isn't very good for interoperability.

edit: and incidentally insync has failed to comprehend me moving a stack of files into a folder and instead created duplicates. Syncing is a hard problem with lots of edge cases (and on that note Chrome bookmark sync deleted 5 years of bookmarks)
That's the only thing I use them for. It's more convenient to search for "bar" and see a list of actual boozeries, vs. searching Google Maps and finding metal manufacturers, and various businesses that happen to have "bar" in their name.
This article made me want to try making a compiler or interpreter when I get a block of free time. I actually stopped reading because I want to try to figure out as much as I can on my own.
Because that is precisely their business model for GMail?
Can anyone (perhaps from Google) comment as to whether the OCR feature in Google Drive is just Tesseract + OCRopus, or something different?
Really? I didn't see that.

Nevermind. Looks like I'm sticking with dropbox.
oDesk has this work log software they want you to use. You clock in, tell it what you're doing, and it periodically takes screenshots so they can prove you're doing what you say in the event of a dispute. (You don't have to use it, but their payment guarantee only applies to hours logged that way.)

Also, you might want to check out Craigslist. It still has a huge amount of chaff to get through, but most freelancers I know recommend it over any of the "real" freelance job sites.
Over and over and over again I read negative articles about Yelp. These kind of places are ripe for scammers. These businesses know that you're randomly searching for a service, don't know you and don't plan on ever seeing you again. Yelp's system is, apparently, very easy to game. They've been accused of extortion. And yet, billion dollar valuation. It's laughable.

We're so out of touch that people are talking about how this space is ripe for disruption and a new startup. Umm, Yelp is an extremely young company. I guess once you're public you're seen as old hat? Pump and dump, and move on to the next thing. Unbelievable.
To those expecting Dropbox to meet Google's prices, they might not be able too. Google can easily lose a fortune in this until Dropbox and other small players go bankrupt.
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I disagree and I have no affiliation with Dropbox or have any vested interest in their success.

I just tend to think that the optimal cloud solution is as close to invisible as possible while letting people use whichever software tools they need. I don't really see any single entity owning the software and the storage because no single entity can own the collaboration tools. I view collaboration and syncing as two distinct business lines without a whole lot of interdependence. Personally I use Google docs once in a blue moon, and even when I do, I don't see how Google Drive makes that process any easier.

It may be that I just don't understand the product, but I don't think this will be any more successful than its competitors except for the fact that, when compared to Dropbox, it is substantially cheaper. But then again, Dropbox may be able to parter with Amazon to keep Google out of the space as much as possible and keep costs down.
Getting a new demo set up is going to be a little slow right now (didn't anticipate this much traffic).
> I think it's a brilliant move that shows Google thinking ahead

to me this looks just as a reaction to Apple's cloud offering, which already integrates all data for apps running in iOS.
Are you saying it's Yelp's responsibility to protect unsophisticated users from themselves? Also, I am not quite sure "a lot of people" will behave as you describe.
Digital preservation
But if you're in a "I'm moving across the country" mode, a negative review of a moving company may be worth much more than a positive review. (Possibly $2,000 more, in this case.)
I recall using HelloFax to sign and fax legal/tax forms, an upgrade from having to do it physically. This takes it to a new level of convenience; now one may apparently sign/fax docs, clicking right through docs stored on Google's cloud, which is a pretty nice reduction in friction.

EDIT: I'd also add that when you have a busy day, having a simpler way to manage/deal with periphery tasks like faxing, makes a significant difference to your workflow. I don't have a need for faxing people right now, but bmarked for when I do.
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Do it, there are APIs!
I have the same problem. I've pinged my friends at Google to see if a feature request can be put in.

It's really annoying that this use case wasn't thought about.
Symlinks are specific to individual devices; also, symlink implementations are different from operating system to operating system.

So, if Google Drive or Dropbox were to support that, they would have to implement some very complex solutions (along with some probably very confusing interaction with the user) in order to be able to sync reliably across devices, even devices running the same operating system.

You can always[1] move your Documents inside the Google Drive folder, and then put a symlink at the place Documents were.

[1] I haven’t tried this with Google Drive yet but I suppose it should work. It is what I do with Dropbox, in Linux and in Windows. It works fine.
Yelp wouldn't get your SSN; they'd only get a boolean response as to whether you're an actual human being or not.
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So if I upload all my music to Google Drive, and let my friends access it... will the FBI send a paramilitary team to confiscate Google's servers at gunpoint?
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... what do you mean I can't take the hedgehog?
The only thing that has changed from your experience 2 years ago is that it has gotten worse. Yelp is the modern day Better Business Bureau.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-m...
If you just wanted an offsite backup option, you should check out the startup backblaze.com

They're offering unlimited storage for $4/month.
It's a very fun thing to do! Especially if you construct your own virtual machine--function calls aren't as simple as they appear. Also fun is targeting the Java Virtual Machine using a bytecode library such as ASM.

I personally enjoy using ANTLR for parsing, so that might give you a place to start.
Alright!! Obi-Wan Kenobi.
If this bias occurs across all businesses on Yelp, then still, wouldn't some places will be rated higher than others (even if "higher rated" comes to mean "has fewer bad reviews")?

Like you say though, Yelp is just making the playing field uneven in favor of those who pay to play, so none of this matters anyway.
That sounds bad. Since I am primarily a laptop user, I am very picky about which online sync and backup services I use based on the resource usage of their desktop clients.
"people are most motivated to write reviews when they are outraged. ...your site runs the risk of becoming a soap box for ranting."

There's a great big gap between letting all your angry customers (which hopefully you don't have a lot of) leave rants and creating sockpuppets so you have nothing but great reviews. The space between is the basics of word-of-mouth marketing: ask your happiest customers to talk about you.

No one is stopping American Eagle Movers from asking their happy customers to head on over to Yelp and leave them a review. They just don't seem to have any happy customers. So they have to fake it. And then Yelp steps in with their [seemingly] shady selection practices. Hence Justin's disastrous experience.
And that is the "cost" of free services with lots of added value. If you want privacy, pay for it. If you don't care, embrace free stuff!

I have learned to "not care" anymore about privacy stuff like this, if I want the product or service, I'll sign up and just forget about it.
It is a great law if used properly. It does however stop my friend from selling beds and sofa's online from this shop because he is afraid of people taking advantage of this law. Large shops can swallow the cost but independent retailers suffer when consumers take the piss and just send stuff back. The shop can't send it back to the manufacturer and is generally stuck with a sofa that has been slightly customised in some way by the customer.
Bootloaders are pretty ubiquitous in embedded systems today; just about every device with a microcontroller runs one. I'm writing one to learn about them and support specific protocols. This is a first working prototype of a bootloader, but it does explain how they work and what they do.