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Well, thanks for the "lying" comment. They don't have to pay taxes either, but that won't last long.

As for the literally one line of code, I don't believe that's correct. IANAL nor an implementor of a COPPA-compliant product, but my understanding is that even storing a copy of an email that contains personal information will be in violation of the law without parental consent and certainly without the ability for a parent to view it and delete it. Storing any received and sent email may be enough to count as collecting personal information.

Can you name any email provider that will knowingly allow children under 13 to use the service without having a parent controlling the account? When you do use the family accounts in hotmail or yahoo, you have to actually provide proof that you're an adult, and some level of proof of connection with the account (joining the accounts actually looks rather difficult, through hotmail, at least. Usually a parent account sets up child accounts). Setting up that system literally takes more than one line of code.
> says in the US 44% support the status quo and 11% support less strict [gun] laws.

A solid majority don't know what the laws are so "support the status quo" is interesting.

They tend to believe that the laws are less restrictive than they actually are. When you quiz them about specific "proposals", which happen to be current law, you find that those proposals are significantly less popular than the status quo.

Two examples of this are wrt concealed carry and automatic weapons. On the former, very few people think that police should have complete and arbitrary discretion wrt CCW, yet they do in the jurisdictions with the majority of the population.
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> hard earned cash

What??
Xerox had the first "fixed drop-down menu". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i...

Apple's Jef Raskin did come up with drag-and-drop though so that's pretty much the one original thing they did.
Does this mean it will also fail ahead of schedule?
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The "big" advertisers are usually more focused on what is called branding - metrics like brand awareness, ad awareness, brand favorability, purchase intent - as opposed to direct response metrics like click-through rate and conversion rate. In fact many of the brand advertisers don't even sell products through their websites.
and share how much the fee was...

("accepting and verifying a credit card number in connection with a transaction" is one of the COPPA approved methods of verifying adulthood)
It's in Facebook's interest for those shareholders to be long-term investors.

The real damage I suppose is that, if it continues to drop, they'll certainly be a number of newish hires that have their option grants underwater. Not practically a big deal because there's certainly a cliff to their vesting, but underwater options aren't much of a retention tool.
This is very cool. A very useful demonstration of what you can do with R, for those of us who are non-researchers.
Most worrying quote for me:

Dropbox today said a stolen password was "used to access an employee Dropbox account containing a project document with user email addresses."

(What else is being left around in data dumps?)
But it's an exclusive invite-only blog network!! /sarcasm
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The cleaner look isn't bad but it is impossible to resize the text, even when attempting manual zooming. This is certainly not the first site to be conceited about text size but come on: this is a site for reading things and who knows better than the user what font size will be comfortable for doing that? Also, I recall something in their blog about designing "for 2012" and focusing on "the user", so where exactly does screwed-up layout fit in to those goals?
Microsoft had the same problem.

Facebook employees apparently work pretty hard. They get huge rewards, when their stock goes up, so they want to company to succeed.

Once the stock stops shooting up, they stop caring about the company. They won't make money from their stock options, they'll make money from getting promotions or a good bonus. Impressing their manager is going to be more important than the company's overall success.

Employees will lose interest, and managers will have to introduce more rules, to "incentivise" the workers (and other managers).
blue tooth tethering sucks. it keeps disconnecting and i have to go through like a 8 step process to get it working again. FoxFi worked beautifully until i installed an update and it was blocked. now FoxFi is working on getting around ICS 4.0.4 on sprint. WTF is sprint thinking? why do they think people choose android over iphone? it's supposed to be more open. im so tired of this bullshit cat and mouse game.
There's no mention of how many users were in that document. I've had a Dropbox account for many years with a Dropbox specific email address and I did not receive spam, so it must not have been everyone.
Looks to be hardware dependant. On 32bit Firefox 14.0.1 under win7 64bit, I only see the thin line if I disable hardware acceleration in my settings.
Use / learn Git, however it wouldn't be terrible to know both.
Given they state that some accounts were compromised by stolen passwords from "other websites," it would make sense to run some sort of dictionary attack using lists from those sites.
Dropbox did not get hacked. One of their employees used the same password on multiple other sites, and one of those got hacked. This is awful journalism.
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It really is simple and very difficult, build a great product, get traction, wow your users. After that, be patient and keep doing it. The early exits you hear about are the exception, not the rule. When you begin a startup be ready to spend the next (on average) 7 years.
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Prizes like that are prestigious because of history and because everybody knows about them. I don't think the money attached to the prize has as big of an effect as the history.

For a concrete example, the Fields Medal is better known than the Abel Prize despite the fact that it only comes with $15,000 to the Abel Prize's ~$1m.
I don't think fun jobs are the goal. I think merit based opportunity is the goal.
I don't mean "trust" in the sense of "willingness to incorporate input into one's rational model of the world," but rather in the sense of "deep-seated instinctive aversion that is difficult to change." One can consciously consider the word of a doctor as highly valuable input, while simultaneously having a visceral distrust of the abstract concept of doctors that is beyond their immediate control.

It does not follow that this instinctively learned distrust must necessarily extend to schools, though perhaps if a particular person's distrust of doctors originates in a general distaste for authority, it is possible.
Meh. This has already been posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4320429

Also, kindly avoid the linkbait title, dropbox did not get hacked, some of its users' account credentials were compromised on other sites.
>You need to temper any goals you have with maturity and realism. I'm a terrible basketball player, but I'm sure if I spent 1hr/day every day playing pickup for 1 year, by the end of a year, I'll be better than at least half of the regulars. But if my expectations are that I'll be able to dunk and beat Michael Jordan, I'd be delusional.

I believe that's the point of the article. If you do your hardest, but still fail to beat Michael Jordan in a dunking contest, it's not because you were too lazy. It's not because you didn't try hard enough. It sure as hell isn't because you didn't bother trying.

It's just that you simply weren't lucky enough to possess some of the natural advantages Michael Jordan had. And it's important not to lose sight of that fact.
Really? Why an employee is keeping customers email address in his/ her dropbox account. What kind of internal control Dropbox is employing? There is an limit to dropbox fanboism.
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> It turns out a Dropbox employee’s account was hacked, allowing access to user e-mail addresses.

This is misleading.

> Some Dropbox customer accounts were hacked too, but this was apparently an unrelated matter.

Unrelated how? What I read was: "Our investigation found that usernames and passwords recently stolen from other websites... A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account"

This article dangerously leaves the impression that an intrusion was made into Dropbox's system to access the employee's account, and possibly an admin interface. In reality Dropbox let a spammer with a valid email and password look at someone's files.
U.S. trade policies seem designed to put "low-skilled" workers in direct competition with low-wage workers around the world, while protecting "skilled" workers from international competition. For instance, health care costs might be lower if foreign doctors could more easily practice medicine in the United States, and if Americans could more easily seek lower-cost treatment outside the U.S. I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say that skilled workers, who generally are wealthier and better-educated, have greater access to the levers of power and to protectionist tools, than unskilled workers do. Think of the AMA for doctors, the ABA for lawyers, and opinion journals and TV shows for journalists.
I believe your dropbox needs to be secure as your email account because it deals with storing your personal data.So offering 2 factor authentication is a step in the right direction, like what gmail has.

Other than that dropbox can't do much about people using the same passwords for different sites or social engineering attacks. You can educate and warn people about it, but it's ultimately up to the user to follow through.
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Thanks for the link, I liked it a lot.

Too many doubt worshippers around = too much thinking and not enough learning by doing.
I'm considering buying a Retina MacBook. Can anyone that has one confirm that this works, and comment on what it's like?
People tried it and didn't find a reason to stay. It isn't that it is bad, but there are a lot of sites that solve this problem, with established communities. In that situation you really need something to make your solution stand out.
I think your Timeline analysis is spot-on but I don't think it is the cause for the difference in acquisition prices.

BM seems more focused on big brand/Fortune 500 customers with a big focus on analytics. From what I read they were making a lot of money too.

Wildfire seemed like more of a SMB tool.
Someone would need to not only have possession of your phone, but your password as well. So for a hacker to work this:

First, get your password. Second, find your location. Third, steal your phone, which for most people, is almost always on their person. Finally, crack whatever security mechanism you have on your phone.

For someone to go through all that trouble ... you must be storing some very valuable info. If that's the case, may I suggest that Dropbox is probably not the right platform? In fact, any internet connected platform is probably not the right answer.
awesome read. Had a good laugh.
At $22, they are just fine. But if it continues to drop, then you will start to see some changes at FB as they have to free up high operational expenses. If it goes sub-$15, then they'll start making some tough decisions.

Edit: So based off the downvote, either someone didn't like my lack of explanation, or it Zuck is lurking on HN. I'm guessing the former, so I'll explain. FB's value is so heavily tied to future growth expectations. Current P/E is 116, and compare that to a peaked out company whose P/E is more typically between 10-20 (see: YHOO, GOOG, APPL, ADBE, ORCL). If FB gets to $15, it's a P/E of 82, $10 = P/E of 55, $5 and you have 27. At $5 and its current earnings, FB is basically toast as an "innovative" company. So, I say a "sub-$15" value above because once it gets to that point this quickly after the IPO, dropping into single digits has to be a possiblity they consider. They won't have billions of dollars at their disposal to do whatever they please and will have to be more judicious in their spending.

P.S. I'm a programmer, not a finance-guy, so please correct me if I'm wrong about something.
Well that blog post was a self-wallowing waste of time.
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Blindsight seems to be a powerful demonstration of how a brain can perform high order actions - e.g. respond to social stimuli such as facial expressions - without consciousness. It's a reminder that many things we think inseparable from self awareness and consciousness are no such thing. Perhaps you could consider a person with blindisight to have been "downgraded" to the condition of a mammal without consciousness.
I don't want you to come away with the impression that I'm attacking what you're doing. Day to day you're providing a hell of a lot more opportunity than I am... and creating a lot more value at the same time.

I think the root of my emotional response might lie in an idealistic desire to see the opportunity for merit based latter climbing. Rationally, however, just creating a revenue source for people is a hell of a leg up.
I don't know what's wrong with your phone, but I have no such issues. Bluetooth is perfectly reliable and takes one click to connect/disconnect.
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:) The sad part is they got a "free" $200 from you. I don't think they mind losing you as a customer!
My name is Tzury and today is my birthday, and when I navigate this morning to Google.com a birthday doodle was there, and hovering over the doodle shows title: "Happy Birthday Tzury".

That's a very nice gesture - to get your own Gogole page for one day.

(see screenshot linked)
Usmanov owns 32% of Digital Sky Technologies which in turn has investments in Zynga, Groupon, Facebook, Airbnb and has strong ties to Goldman Sachs. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Sky_Technologies, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov)

If your allegations are true... I'm sorry, I can't finish this sentence.
This is not a single-round game. The financial markets represent effectively an infinite game (in game theory jargon), where you assume that the operation isn't closing today. Therefore, you have to consider both the short-term effects and the long-term effects. Short-term this is good for FB but long-term this is terrible (have to give more equity to attract people, you can't borrow as much against your shares, etc.)
I wish websites with user accounts would offer the option to "login via email" - as in you'd type in your username (or preferably your email) and maybe a captcha and then you'd login by clicking a link it sends via email afterwards. Ideally having a password associated with the account at all would be optional.

I have a Gmail tab opened just about 100% of the time I'm on the computer, so this would be very convenient for me as an alternative to having to remember passwords for sites that I visit once a month or less (and end up having to get a "password reset" link via email every time I log in anyway), and then I'd only have to keep my Gmail account secure (which I do via 2 factor).
It's even worse than that.

First, the connection you're talking about is 50/25 Mbps, while Google is a symmetric 1 Gbps. Second, Google includes 1 TB of Google Drive, which Google normally sells at $50/mo.

Granted, it's cheaper for them to give you Google Drive if you're a fiber customer. And, of course, you might not even want it, but it's one hell of an extra if you want even part of it. I wonder if that's one of the things they're testing with Google Fiber: What do people do with a lot of cloud storage they have fast access to (at least at home)?

Even on the TV side, the comparison isn't that bad once you realize Google is throwing in a DVR (with 8-way recording??). They lose some ground because of the bundle savings (unless you count the Nexus 7 / local storage towards that), but the competing high-end plans are so expensive (~$200/mo for FiOS) and still a lot slower (3x download, 15x upload) that it's no contest, assuming you want the speed.
Security is fungible. You're applying some subjective standard that divides what constitutes a hack and what doesn't. If I had to guess, you wouldn't treat a buffer overflow where some code was executed the same way. This is arbitrary.

Considering a dropbox employee, corporate information, and internal security practices are on the line here: I think the author made the fair, ethical call.
Dude it's just a pep talk we tell each other to focus us on executing over psyching ourselves out with over thinking, over strategizing, and noise of others telling us its stupid. Kinda like you're doing now. Apparently you'll need a new customized phrase to help you focus so here it is: Shut up and just do it.
From all the cities I've been to I can only remember 1 or 2 that approximately fit the description and then again, only at a certain time of the day. In most others, the goal of a public transit service is to get you to destination eventually.
Most of those 10 rules read like of a list of his pet peeves rather than rules for good writing.
Tomorrow is my birthday. Let me see if this happens for me too :)
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Is it just me or has there been a lot of security mishaps like this for various high-profile services? LinkedIn was a victim on a much larger extent not to long ago. This is becoming ridiculous.
This new Digg is utter crap. What a waste of the Digg name. I have no words to express just how disappointed I am.
An employee account was compromised and privileged information (in this case user email addresses) was accessed. The attacker exploited a flaw in dropbox's password policy / authentication system to access the information. Dropbox is modifying their systems and policies to prevent this sort of attack in the future.

All that together certainly adds up to an intrusion and is well within the definition of a "hack".
Not really. The opportunity cost relative to whatever else the founders could be doing is substantial (especially compared to the typical YC investment they get).
High (but not really [1]) film of a UI doing nothing interesting, with no useful conclusions and not even a side-by-side comparison? How is this useful information in any way?

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As they say at the end of the article, what will really be interesting is to compare this to high-speed camera footage of an iPad doing a similar series of transitions. The fact that they're saying it feels like iPad-esque smoothness is a massive win for Android users.
Thanks for the recommendations! I do tend to avoid media about meditation as a matter of course since it's so hard to escape the mysticism. I'll definitely check those out.
So a while back I wanted to make some ads for my web comic. I drew some pictures of the female protagonists and made an animgif cycling between them, because, well, sexy girls get clicks.

Then I looked at it without the text, and there was… something there.

So I did a poll on my blog as to which version people felt they'd click on. Things were split very slightly in favor of the one with the text, but I wasn't convinced. So I dumped 'em both into the same Project Wonderful campaign, and told PW to do the thing it does where it displays them at random, and starts changing the percentages based on which one gets more click-through.

A couple days later, the one with the text was almost never being displayed.

Of course, if everyone starts doing this then eventually people will get sick of ads with "important" information missing. Maybe I'm glad I got in before the rush.
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"J.C. Penney shares right now are around $22.55, Facebook shares are around $21.75"

I wouldn't trust the opinion of whoever wrote this. Pure stock prices are meaningless, you can't compare them.
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No, the article is flat-out wrong. "Dropbox got hacked" means their system security is breachable by a malicious attacker. This is simply not true.
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In this case it wouldn't have helped, because the intruder apparently had access to a Dropbox employee's email account.

EDIT: Disregard what I said, apparently the attacker had access to the Dropbox employee's Dropbox account.
I agree in large part - and I actually think this contributes to the low-ish level of interest Americans have for graduate study in science and engineering. The AMA and ABA are definitely cartel-like organizations - and by getting a degree in these fields, and American can (to some extent) gain protection from foreign competition. The opposite is true for engineering - not only is there no protection, but the US actually created a specific visa to bring in higher numbers of engineers that we'd normally get from the standard immigration system. In short, the US has pursued public policy designed (unintentionally, perhaps) to discourage its own citizens from pursuing engineering in favor of other degree paths.
So far, 6 Olympic Doodles (and 11 more to go)
Very few startups attempt space travel.

This is the evolution of the Web.

Only the giants will be able to build scalable, secure Web services.

Discuss.
Just to be clear one of those users was a Dropbox employee who had a document containing user details including but not limited to email addresses (some that had only been used for Dropbox). These details were then provided to spammers
It appears that the attacker had a list of stolen emails and passwords from other compromised sites, so your Dropbox account would probably be safe.
I'm tired of people making insinuations about some sinister motive behind the WiFi logging without evidence. How did that debacle "align with Google's business interests"?

What use is there for fragments of WiFi payload data logged from a moving vehicle that also happens to be hopping WiFi frequencies? If there was any intent to exploit it, wouldn't you try to log more comprehensively? That is, by grabbing full HTTP transactions, or whatever.

Of course, this isn't meant to minimize the very clear fact that someone there fucked up. That case appears to be one where the accident label is justified.
This is one area I'd love to work if I end up not doing my startup. The qualifications are pretty steep though. 5+ years Objective C experience :).
Go with Git. Although I never used Mercurial personally, I considered it at one point because it was in Python but someone else mentioned the fact that there is a version difference because of the split between Python 2 and Python 3. That can complicate things.
But, if you figure out how to predict random numbers, you can win the actual lottery! Who needs this prize, when there's real money to be made?
I agree it's probably not a good thing to have subsidies "baked in" by the carriers.