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I saw someone on ebay offer 10% of all future earnings for XXX some years ago. I immediately liked the idea because it could really help some smart, motivated, & broke students take risks (college, startup, w/e) and not worry about money immediately.

Without a doubt if someone had offered me 100,000 for 10% of my earnings when I was 18-24 it would have been a great deal for them and I would have taken it. But, there are legal issues with indentured servitude (I looked it up because the concept facinated me).

If we could offer equity stakes in ourselves that were legally binding - then we could use people & companies to fund the best students in exchange for future earnings. The amount of money that would flow in would dwarf the government.

Imagine the Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation purchasing equity in 10,000 up & coming students. The dividends from that would end up in a very advantegous loop. But then instead of companies being treated as humans we would have to allow people to be treated as companies.

I for one would love such a system.
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I believe that it means foreign names have more vowels. But not sure if it's really so.
I showed the article to my girlfriend and she suggested adding the cleaning cost to the equation... well played!
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Pardon, why does not having the camera at school help here? If they want to they can take the photos at home. In fact, I doubt many such photos would be taken at school even without a camera ban, why risk someone walking in on you?
Can anyone link me to the kickstarter project they mentioned?
But you would still have to generate links for each individual file in there right?
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Clickable:

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Interesting concept however it won't work.

The pestering calls are random agencies trying to get your permission to recruit for their roles. Give them permission and they won't pester you unless they legitimately have a good candidate. Usually a recruiter will send a maximum of 5 candidates per vacancy.
Their job is to place a candidate with a client. They're good at it otherwise they would have died out long ago.

The gripe I hear from colleagues is X, Y, Z always ending in 'and they take £££ from me a day!'

My post notes the problems with the model, but it isn't broken.
For this summer I changed the AC at home to match when I was at work and I'm saving $20 a month. I did not realize it would be so much.
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>> the clients are totally different on each platform to the point where it get's hard to use.

I've been annoyed by this too, how hard is it to keep the UI somewhat alike, at least between the desktop applications?
Use multi AZ then, which performed as expected. There have been so many warnings about single AZ that you would hope people get it by now.
It is fine to enjoy something while it lasts. For the rest of it, who cares. That is Google's problem. nerdvana will always be where the nerds are, not tied to some product.
"To the receiver of the link DB just looks like an old fashioned file-sharing site a la megaupload and not something special."

How do the direct links help DB look "special"? To me, they scream "generic CDN".
Add "?dl=1" to the second one it is a simple link again

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3wlvb7h36o5uvb/20111022_131203.jp...

Magic!
Something similar, to a lesser extreme, exists in Egypt. I believe this isn't an issue of security but an issue with the profits telecoms make on international calls. Telecom Egypt is sustaining significant losses due to VOIP and I assume it must be the same with Ethio Telco.
There's:
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/s3wlvb7h36o5uvb/20111022_131203.jpg...

But clearly a) if it ends on .jpg it should be an image and not html and b) the direct link should be on the html page with a fancy "Copy to Clipboard" button next to it.

But instead of (b) they are actively preventing getting a link to the image by hijacking the context menu.
What cost increases? Hasn't the price stayed roughly the same, or gone down in the case of the MacBook Airs?
The exception being when an entirely new product line has been introduced (like the Unibody MBPs and now the Retina MBPs).
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Well actually,

https://photos-5.dropbox.com/si/xl/Y-dAUouiiTV2IbOuAMZKe2t7k...

I am not sure if it could work at all times, but you can check for the URL of the picture within the new-style dropbox page.

Which is of course not same as Public folders.
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To get it I have to have my browser open. An extra completely unneeded step IMO.
Releveant speech from the Oslo Freedom Forum by exiled journalist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pECH8Co_oxE (also provides some background - 40 000 put in camps during 2005 elections)

Having lived in Ethiopia for almost 10 years, this is has been systematically going on for years. It ofcourse started as a way to keep revenue coming in from long distance phone calls, blocking services like net2phone. I've also been told that the whole country had a 2Mb satellite connection and everything was dialup. Traceroutes left Ethiopia and came back 750ms later in New York, but they now have fiber connections and seem to be connected through Djibouti.

Now they're blocking Tor and snooping on opposition parties (what's left) and bloggers. SMS traffic also can be shutdown whenever they want.
A hint to everyone:

If you got the link, made by "Get link", and you don't like the innecessary preview in browser, just add "?dl=1" to the end of the link

example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1axoy96uwa80wko/matfyzak%20%281%29... - ugly preview page
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1axoy96uwa80wko/matfyzak%20%281%29... - sane PDF link
So after all the furore on HN surrounding the choice of platform for this game, a friend urged me to point out to everyone you can now get the alpha :)

Here are the original HN posts:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3440596
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3470164
I don't get why everyone doesn't do this, it's the best and most logical choice. Not to mention what's even the point of having a lid if it's never used.
Mozilla's multi-processing project is called Electrolysis[1], and the process-per-tab variant is used in mobile versions of Firefox. I think it's pretty far off for the desktop version, and as long as blue sky ideas go, I'd prefer to get the security advantages without the increased memory consumption (maybe with shared heaps within a privilege level, whether or not multiple processes are used).

As far as increased responsiveness, that's addressed by the Snappy effort, which you can follow here[2] as a sort of sister-blog to Nicholas' MemShrink reports.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/tglek/
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I meant if anyone knew whether Skype had any plans of updating the repo since it's owned by them (http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/), or whether they intended for people to just use the provided packages.
If it's patented, you can just read the patent.
You say that, but we've sent back plenty of candidate cvs with a firm "no" the moment they arrive from a recruiter.

Would be interesting to have financial repercussions for low quality cvs coming through.
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The multi-threading is proceeding on a few fronts. The project to run chrome and content on separate threads, "super-snappy", is going to have nightly builds soon. The bug is here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718121

Off main thread compositing and image decoding are in progress too. After those are done the "electrolysis" project to have separate process for tabs and addons will probably resume.
I am one who thinks "Yay! Another accelerator to the Microsoft death-spiral" when reading this.

I am not sure what data it is you want me to put in my data bank, as I do not buy your premise that getting bought by Microsoft is any kind of validation. Quite the contrary.

You can get rich by playing the lottery, just as you can get rich by making a crappy product that you manage to get enough hype around to get sold to Microsoft. It does not mean you should bet on the lottery as a viable business strategy.

Getting the world to think your crappy product is the newest silver bullet might be a viable way of making money (see Zynga, Madoff, et al), but it does not lend itself very well to reproduction.

If you have some specific details on what makes Yammer objectively superior to alternatives (and not just a fad) I am all ears though.
Google has made G+ intentionally unattractive to most people, and has encouraged the 40-50-ish white male technology self-promoters to be the focus of the network. They could have made other choices. This isn't our problem and can't be fixed by us.

Games, as currently implemented on social networks, are a terrible and useless waste of human time. (Imagine a true social networking game. We haven't seen it yet, but it's out there somewhere. But trying to figure out how to make people come back to your app every two hours to "harvest crops" is dumb.)
Why make apologies for crappy retail management?
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I think the future is WebRTC, it's an open standard and the browser is one of the most ubiquitous software you'll ever run. I don't use Skype much, but I have friends using Skype, MSN, Facebook, gchat (I still haven't used hangouts). All these services requires registration and sometimes a specific software to communicate. I wish that by the end of the year it won't matter what service you're using, you'll just send a message like "Hey let's talk, click on this link"
The trivial way to avoid that rule is to avoid collecting and disclosing personal information from any players of your game, which seems pretty easy.
There's a ton of stuff you could do, but it depends on what you've already done and who exactly you want to target.

One effective thing I can think of - Ask @pud nicely if he'd put an ad on fandalism.com
I think it is more than a drawing tool, this is what the TBL intended the web to be. Where you can view and update pages from the same interface:

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

A bit like a wiki but more rich.
Would be interested in trying it and giving feedback but not for $20. I think most people here would agree. Screenshots look great though.
What would happen if I were stressed out? I'm quite I'd pull the trigger differently then.
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English major here. Your landing copy needs a once-over. "Express your thoughts more freely and less tiring" is wrong. Changing as little as possible, it would be better to say, "Express your thoughts more freely with less stress."
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I believe that, at least for AWS, the us-east data center is drastically larger than eu-west.
As far as I remember, previous failure which happen with Amazon earlier this year have also affected Multi-AZ deployments too.

Anyway, I don't think that we are ready to invest large amount of money on Multi-AZ deployments to the doubtful reliability. Cloud solutions even with single AZ should not loss data.
That's why state monopolies are bad.
It's not state that owns the monopoly, it's the other way around.
Thanks, you really honed in on that mistake. <runs away>
> Would we support laptops that required replacement every year or two as applications required more memory and batteries atrophied?

This is the key misunderstanding most people made: a 2010 MacBook Air still makes a fine system, even for software developers. For almost all users, hardware capacity has exceeded their needs for years and the newer battery technology holds up better than the older designs as well.
"Let users host web sites out of their public folder! Hand craft HTML still has a place among basic users who just want to put up a web page about their dog!"

I'm not sure about that. Isn't that what all of the free blogging services and/or facebook are for?
I'm not sure I understand the "which does not have actual data" part of your statement.

Could you explain that a bit more?
> Go peruse your local grocery store's gift card section and see how many you relate to, then consider that in order to be profitable most of those cards must relate to most people. (Those that don't are replaced by those that do.)

But... but they're all atrocious. There must be some covert dynamic that counters that selection pressure. Maybe they're supposed to look attractive when people are actually looking to buy them on a specific occasion, as opposed to impulse purchases such as candy usually placed near the registers.
>Google has made G+ intentionally unattractive to most people, and has encouraged the 40-50-ish white male technology self-promoters to be the focus of the network.

Could you explain your reasoning? I'm not sure why you believe this to be the case. Introducing games was just one sign that they wanted to attract a wider demographic.
It seems like most people here seem to be missing this fact.

From the Dropbox staff response:

"All current users retain their Dropbox Public folder, and it's function continues."

This news was intended for developers who rely on Public for app functionality. The public folder is not going away for existing users.
>Cloud solutions even with single AZ should not loss data.

You mean you think all cloud db solutions should implement replication for you? There aren't very many backup solutions that never lose any data.
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>> - put media specific folders in the public folder (maybe at different price tiers) and turn it into a flickr/soundcloud/youtube competitor!

Is it really a good idea to open multiple fronts against services which are 'pro' at what they do?
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I've been using Opera Mobile for a while now. IMO it does tabs best for tablet browsing - however I've had to switch to Maxthon as Opera was just too unstable on my android device.
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> As far as I remember, previous failure which happen with Amazon earlier this year have also affected Multi-AZ deployments too.

Which failure? The networking issue which had nothing to do with RDS and left your data unaffected?

> Anyway, I don't think that we are ready to invest large amount of money on Multi-AZ deployments to the doubtful reliability. Cloud solutions even with single AZ should not loss data.

Any server can go down. The very modest increase for a multi-AZ setup buys you real, meaningful improvements as you just learned. I'm sorry that you had to learn a lesson the hard way but there's a reason why AWS recommends a multi-AZ deployment for failover and it's not revenue.

The next step up would require you having multiple widely separated servers, which is where you really start talking about large amounts of money because you're talking about non-trivial engineering and taking on the operational overhead of 24x7 support.
It does the same thing as OK.
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Does anyone else think this can be easily fixed with a Powershell (or batch) script? Preconfigure it with your public folder url "id" and make it so it copies the generic url to the clipboard (complete with filename) and just appends a "?dl=1" at the end. Make a shortcut to the script and send it to the context menu.

Don't say Dropbox creates a unique token for every link made, which means in that case, we'd have to create a link through Dropbox first. Anyone see any huge flaws in this? (first post)
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Point in Time backup was created before the actual failure and does not contain the latest data (~ 1 hour).
Already done: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/yammer-accelerates-m... in the section "Platform Growth":

Yammer released a number of key enhancements to its platform, enabling integration with a wide range of business applications:

[...] Yammer released a new version of its SharePoint integration, adding a highly secure, real-time social layer to the native SharePoint platform, making it social, mobile and engaging for enterprise employees.
My 2010 MacBook Air, which is 20 months old according to coconutBattery, still holds a four hour charge. This machine was fine for the final two years of my degree. Hell it can even play Diablo 3 pretty well.

I would expect to make a return on my investment when I sell it later this year. No other manufacturer can claim results like this.

A MacBook Pro will have an even longer life, this is just a 1.4GHz processor.
Google limited the appeal of G+ early on when they started enforcing their real name policy. Throwing out users when you're trying to expand the user base turned out to be counterproductive. But the policy seems more misguided than intentionally unattractive.
Probably he means that the data from the backup is not up-to-date (i.e. not actual).
I got a 3G radio with my last Thinkpad (1.5 years ago) and have barely used it. It seemed like a great feature, but because WiFi is almost ubiquitous (and when not, it's easy enough to create a hotspot on my phone), I haven't been willing to commit the extra $10/month and get an extra SIM to share my phone's data plan on another device.
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I keep seeing it in all my classes and just can't get a grip on it.
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'I agree with this' is not same as 'objective and balanced'.
The site is language neutral, but I do go beyond standard Docco for Objective C and Java apps.
It makes more sense for CoffeeScript to exists as an independent language, rather than as a JavaScript generator.

The syntax is beautiful, it had potential; why be a difficult-to-debug JavaScript 'compiler' instead?
Apple realized users realized notebooks get replaced far more than they get upgraded or [non-Apple] repaired. Why expend money/volume/weight/logistics for something most consumers won't use?
Roddie McCuish, the leader of the Argyll and Bute council, on Radio 4 has stated the he has "instructed senior officials to withdraw ban"

Finally, some common sense.
Wow, how are people using their "Public" folders? I'm honestly surprised at all this outrage.

I was unaware you could share any folder/file before so I just played around with it. From your file manager, right click any dropbox file or folder and select 'Get Link'. The browser will open and send you to a page displaying all those files and folders. You can copy/paste that link to anyone.

Is the only difference that in the case of linking to a single file, rather than a full directory, the link clicker now sees a preview of the file (with a big Download button) instead of downloading it directly.

Isn't that actually an improvement, so the linker isn't just blindly trusting and downloading a file from some random link? That seems ripe for abuse, if users got used to that mindset.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22137761 always leave the lid down. The poo spray is real.
Why must Google try to be just like Facebook to "win" at some fictional game of who is the most popular. I am pleased that these games are gone not so that G+ remains a nerdvana, but rather because It further focuses on the things that G+ does better then Facebook. If Google wants to focus on quality gaming content then fine but lets not lie here, these are not the most intellectually stimulating experiences being removed. Its bejeweled a simple time killer of a game. If anything this should remove some of the noise that populates the game section of G+.
>Snowcrash is a cartoon, it is a caricature of a future with new stuff.

Obviously. I'm struggling to understand why this is a problem.
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They're absolutely jammed, but you notice that you never have a problem finding an employee to help you? I was at the Apple Store in Hong Kong the other day talking to one of the floor guys as he was ringing me up; he told me they have 150 people on shift in the store at any given time. Granted, the Hong Kong store is massive, but that still seems like an extraordinary number for a single shift.
Adding to gold sinks -

WoW I think had some of the most visible impacts in terms of gold sinks (some I am sure were pioneered by other games and MMOs)

They brought about the concepts of vanity items, which were absurdly expensive and went from there.

Whats even more interesting is seeing the progression and evolution of these economies.

Wow 1.0 auction houses and others barely had the concepts of gold sinks, nor any of the finer tuned economic catches that blizzard introduced by the time it reached its 3rd expansion - Wrath of the Lich King.
Yes, networking issue which brought down even multi-az deployments.

I don't want to setup highly available fault tolerant systems, I just want a good level of reliability of a service provider. Probably, we will migrate to the dedicated servers out of Amazon soon. It will be harder to maintain, but cheaper and, as practice shows, more reliable.
The sentence " The new legislation empowers the state-owned telecom to prohibit the use not only of VoIP services, but also of video chatting, social media, e-mail, and any other data transfer service capable of communicating information. So that encompass pretty much all communication except for speaking aloud and talking within your own mind." scares the shit out of me...
This is a major downgrade in the Dropbox user experience. It makes it more confusing to know what is shared WITH THE ENTIRE WORLD and what is not, which is a tremendously important thing to know. Simultaneously, it makes it more difficult to share files. Dropbox "gains" by adding their splash screen into the file download process, but every user of the product loses. This is a decision made by the marketing department.

A major step backwards for Dropbox.
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