skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow.

15 Files affected here. I haven't checked to see if any of them are unrecoverable (none of them are vital), but this does seem like a very bad bug.
"Permanently Lose Your Files" -> "I am able to restore each file from Dropbox's version history"

It's also important to remember the meaning of the word "permanently", while this is a UX disaster, the title is misleading.
Sigh, I really wish it had some local storage. I know, I know, the 'cloud' is my storage, and I get the whole Google meme that someday the world will have 4G LTE type speeds everywhere and we'll have fixed legislation such that we don't have to worry about non-local data being seized next to someone's illegal content. But that time is not now. And my pain is not psychosomatic. I really like to have some local stuff.
> We don't have any fancy videos like Chrome. Just me emailing.

Does it count if I thought of dancing gophers while reading it?
IANAL, but if you happened, purely by chance, to create a file that was bit-for-bit equal to a decrypted DVD, that would be fine (since it's practically impossible to do, anyway).

It's the intent that matters anyway. What the government has now is a stick they can hit people with (they had the stick already, now they have permission). Like speeding, if you rip your copy of E.T. you bought at Walmart and put it on the family's iPad so the kids be quiet, or by god you're going back to Winnipeg, nobody is going to be knocking on your door. However, if you start a site called www.dvdtomp4.com and offer a mail-in DVD-to-MP4 service, you could expect to receive an interesting visit at some point in the future.
The difference is that a backup service shouldn't ever be able to corrupt your primary copy.

Bugs happen. If a bug happens on the sync-ing service and it trashes your 'back-up'/history then syncs and trashes your primary copy, your toast.

Sync'ing != Backup. They are for different problems and have different restrictions/pitfalls.
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...except the author permanently lost files that were 0-byted before some sort of internal Dropbox process wiped the version history.
Coming from a background of working with security for financial institutions (Banks, Creditcard companies and so on), I'd highly recommend re-evaluating this implementation from a liability perspective.

Feel free to send me a message (contact information in profile), and I can share advise on how the banking and creditcard industry deals with cross authentication and verification.
Unlike others here, I'm really excited about this feature! Buying bitcoins is one of the hardest steps for new people getting into it, so if you can provide a faster and easier way to do it, then good!

That said, you should absolutely ensure your security is top-notch. You should also be getting frequent public security audits.
This guy didn't backup his computer before upgrading the OS? That was his first mistake.
It's very scary to rely on something like GameKit that is unproven because all your bugs are showstoppers, and you need to wait on Apple to fix it. And it's not like you can escalate iOS bugs against Apple...
> Also, you have a typo, 1 Petabyte = 10^15 bytes I believe.

Thanks!

The power-of-2 system was quite popular for a long time when applied to computers, but always clashed with the much older (and well thought out) SI system where everything is defined in powers of 10, and that is used everywhere else (think physics,...). I think harddrive companies where the first to switch their definitions to the decimal based system (for the obvious reason that their disks would then seem bigger to people accustomed to the common power of 2 system...). A decade or so ago the kibi, mebi, ... prefixes where introduced, and at some point people more or less switched to those. There seems to be an even more detailed article about this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix .
The Woman Who Invented the Kitchen: She couldn’t cook.
Why not create a Jekyll blog on Github Pages? It's free and fairly simple to use (once you've set it up)...
What about that is hipstery? That's how people dress here in NYC.
When I co-op'd in college in a medium-sized city I got $12-13/hr. My recent job paid interns $15/hr plus housing allowance.
It would have been entirely possible to accomplish both missions. Tell the story of unblinking-dropout-denying-father-commune-living-india-visiting-fruit-eating-acid-dropping steve, at the same time that you tell the story of how he built Apple, Next, Pixar, and Apple 2.0, and what it meant to him.

I don't think there was a single follower of Steve Jobs that was very satisfied with Issacson's Biography. I didn't even really feel like it told me about Steve Jobs the person.
Noah Kagan in Chicago notes from a talk
I`m the founder of Mu6.me. I want to sell my startup to one of company.
Mu6.me (http://mu6.me) is a social sharing service. It`s fast, easy-to-use and cross-platform. You can easily share your music file to your friends with only 3 step without register. It also has an intelligent music detection to read the detailed information from uploaded music. Mu6.me is massive with Facebook social traffic and the top 8,000 website of Taiwan. Everything sounds good, and I love my startup.

Well, as the founder of Mu6, I have a lot of personal reason that I have no enough funds and resource to continue keep Mu6 servicing now, so I want to sell this startup to one of company that can keep Mu6 servicing for the world.

If any companies interested please contact me directly.

Or if you are the kind of person who can help me to sell this to other companies, you will 5%-10% of the price.

My email is angel.lai.cat@gmail.com

Looking for you, thank you!
I agree with everything you wrote, but I'm going to continue with the ridiculousness for the sake of discussion.

> It's the intent that matters anyway.

What if I intend to sell the product of my emu-packing operation? Surely, we did our own work!
Well, ... it is DROPbox...?
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That looks quite amazing! Thanks!

As an aside, I've actually been meaning to learn about writing drivers for a while, especially in preparation for a uni course. So with windows 8 here and all of it's cool touch gestures, it would be even cooler. So I'm not sure if you would know this, but can you point me towards any resources for essentially simulating touches? I was thinking of building a battle Etch-a-sketch app for a school project, that would actually have two players use two etch-a-sketch systems in drawing stuff. If it was only one user, I could use the mouse pointer, but being two, I probably need touches. I hope I made myself clear enough. If it's better for you, just email me at alexsb92 [at] gmail [dot] com. Thanks.
Yeah, the 16GB option is a joke for anyone who plans on installing more than a couple of games on one of these things. The lack of SD card is boneheaded.
Maybe something like that does exist in the US, but I've never heard of it. Very few businesses deliver; pizza, sandwiches, Chinese food. That's about it.
It's not as if we're letting them decide the law by putting something on their website. We are letting them tell us what their interpretation of the law is.

I don't know why the lawyer was telling the Supreme Court what the record companies' interpretation of the law was, but it doesn't sound especially nefarious.
I agree. Giving empathy generally evokes the empathy of the recipient, forming a positive feedback loop.
Employees are not fired because of a plummeting stock prices. Falling prices are typically the by-product of the underlying business.
Video game with biofeedback teaches children to curb their anger
PSA: with CrashPlan, you can simultaneously backup to your own server(s) or external hard drives right alongside their service. You can also backup to a friend's computer (this was actually their original business model--P2P backup).
yeah, the new john allison ones put the old logo ones to shame, i hate to see the old style still in the wild.
UK City Hit With £120,000 Fine For Failing to Encrypt Email
Ask HN: Best WebGL Framework
What is the best library/framework to use for drawing and animating graphics? Specifically in the area of data visualizations in a 3d environment.

So far my clear winner is THREE.js by the wonderful mrdoob... Curious if there are better performing libraries with similar functionality & ease of use.
My first thought was that this is probably a virus.
In this case, GO Transit runs a commuter rail network (on the surface) so underground bombings shouldn't be a concern.
What does "reasonable" mean?
FYI: I'm pretty sure Windows users can navigate to their Dropbox folder and type 0 bytes in the search bar to see if they were affected.
Would Apple still exist without Wozniak? Nobody knows

Luckily we can test your theory. Woz left Apple in the late 1980s. What happened to Apple. Did it die? No. From the history of Apple, its obvious that Jobs with Woz is able to make a massive influence on Apple.
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Cool, send me an email (check my HN profile), and we'll discuss.
Huh. Is there an easy way to confirm files affected versus files that were intentionally set to zero bytes?
The video's chopped in shorter segments so as long as they fire 3-5 people at the same time, they are good.
Tarsnap is amazing for Unix systems. Flat out, one of the coolest services I've ever used, and one of the cheapest. I'm backing up my VPS with it, and I can't recommend it enough.

I have a friend that strongly recommends CrashPlan, but I haven't tried it out yet on my Mac. I'm curious to though.
BSOD'd my machine... Chrome Win 7
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IANAL, but don't those have a maximum of life (25 years)?

To threaten defendants, they also stack each single charge one on top of each other to make 5 cases look like a maximum of 125 years too.
nimius illectus - "the excessive amount that is unread"
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Video demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7u2CYVUucY
Yup; it was an article on her work in NYMag that 'diagnosed' me. I think it was 'The Power & Perils of Praise.' I remember reading it and thinking, "holy fuck, that's me!" I think that was also when I was exposed to the "Talent Doesn't Matter" meme, with which I disagree.

Talent does matter - no one disputes that some people have learning disabilities compared to the average; yet seem hesitant to accept that some have learning advantages compared to the average. It's just that talent isn't enough. As a Jamaican, I can tell you that Usain Bolt dominates because of an almost freakish talent AND working till he vomits on the track at training. His training partner, Yohan "The Beast" Blake, is well known to be a much harder worker than Bolt - It was Bolt who nicknamed him "The Beast" when he saw how hard Yohan trained. But Bolt still wins.

I wanna work hard enough to maximize my talent.
Since I was a trader for five years and help build an equity research firm, I think I have enough domain knowledge to stand by the assertion I made in my second point.

Wired may have a much better understanding of the technology and the industries that these companies operate in, but I was discussing the fluctuations of the stock price not the relevant business lines.

I will now re-iterate what I said earlier; stock price != the company. Don't confuse the two.
The last two years, Apple has done things that no company has done in the history of capitalism. It really is remarkable, and should be taught in history books.

To say that they've peaked is not to say that they're going to fail or flop or anything like this, but I don't see them getting to a $1Trillion market cap without a major disruption in television. To say that they've peaked and that their stock is unlikely to go up is not necessarily a critique of Apple, but an acknowledgement of gravity.
* Effectively mitigated by countermeasures

* Access scoped narrowly to a simple use case

* Backend by the assets of a very significant stakeholder

* Risk outweighed by benefit

I'm not saying Coinbase is unreasonable. I have no idea how they work under the hood at all. I'm just saying, it is not suddenly O.K. to give bank account information to startups simply because there's a way to use Paypal that also takes that information. Paypal also doesn't have my account information.
There's a lot of wiggle room in the word grumpy.
At least one of my files was effected and not recoverable (hopefully the zero-size test is reliable).
2 files here. it did delete a boilerplate site i was working on...thank goodness i backed it up locally.
Crashplan hangs on to deleted files for quite some time. I just used it last weekend to recover some stuff I'd deleted about a year ago and realized I wanted back. I was pleasantly surprised to find them still in the system.

It has a lot of options for retaining old versions, too:
http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/reference/version_rete...
This distinction is really without a difference. Dropbox consistently advertises themselves as both a syncing service as well as a backup service. Their tag line is even "Dropbox - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy," with secure backup being ahead of sync and sharing. [1]

"Even if your computer has a meltdown, your stuff is always safe in Dropbox and can be restored in a snap.

In fact, if you're using the Dropbox desktop application, your files are backed up several times. The primary copy on your computer's hard drive is synced online and that copy is then backed up again for safety (emphasis mine). If you are using Dropbox to sync files between multiple computers, your files are backed up on those computers as well. If that isn't enough, Dropbox also keeps backups of all of your deleted and changed files too.

...

It's hard to imagine a scenario where Dropbox could lose your files. Hypothetically, let's say a nuclear bomb blows up the data centers where your files are saved. Even then, your files are still safe and sound on your computer and any other computers linked to your Dropbox account."

Clearly, though, Dropbox appears to have lost files (at least if we take it on faith that "these are bugs in Dropbox's syncing logic"), despite the fact that I see no mushroom cloud nearby.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/122/en
How do you determine the highest possible volume that doesn't introduce distortion? My sense in trying to find the right volume ratio for listening to an iPhone in my car is that it's best to not turn the iPhone volume all the way up, usually I use 75% or so. Is turning it up until you start to hear something funny the only way to do this or is there a more reliable way?
I know about hashes -- read my post.
I think the £50 would be a fairer choice or even the £20. Alan Turing on the brown £10 does not seem the best choice of note perhaps. The £50 is pinkish and the £20 a purplish colour. I personaly like the £20 the best astheticaly.

For reference on UK bank notes:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Pages/current/defau...

It is also worth mentioning that Alan Turing is already approved to be on a UK bank note and is on the waiting list so to speak as seen here:

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Documents/about/ban... (those names highlighted in dark grey have already been used upon a banknote)
Curious at who got to assign which props were held by whom - playing with the giant Nutella jar probably being the most coveted of all assignments.
I think this is it..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4703264

Now I see the problem of private subnets is fixed at the L3 dns servers that were borked 2-days ago (4.2.2.1 4.2.2.2). The one the popped up today is still borked (4.2.2.5).
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How much does the #1 game on the iOS store earn in a day? $199k (I think)
I think it’s just called fashion.

That hipster bullshit is getting tired. The stereotypes are stupid and it all comes down to berating people for what they wear – for whatever stupid reason. Why would that ever be cool?

All I see is lots of young people who know how to dress fashionable.
yeah i was.. i was just saying that those kids look waaay to interested in what that guy is doing, and his facial expression also seems a little off.. i may have miss-communicated my intention, for that, i apologize
Would collisions in MD5 really matter in case of legal documents? How would you use it to forge a contract? Take original, make alterations, then add data to the non-visible part of the file until hashes match? Wouldn't that be easy to detect? "What is that 15 Kb of stuff doing there? It is not normally part of pdf that any sane program would write."

Or are there some more sophisticated methods?
>Even then, your files are still safe and sound on your computer and any other computers linked to your Dropbox account."

Unless, as happened here, Dropbox erased the file and synced a blank version across all your computers. They they're safe and sound on any computer linked to your dropbox connection that hasn't been connected to the internet since the file got corrupted.

If you catch it in the 30 day window when they keep old versions you're find, but there are files in my Dropbox that I don't use every 30 days.
This looks like it's come a long way from the demo a few months ago with the visual diffs of objects. Good job on getting this far! I might have to bring in a few of my projects just to play with it.
What style of dress do you expect for people in their 20's dressing casually? This is such a silly label that it's almost not worth arguing over, but I fail to see what expectation has failed for you here.
For all the people saying you need a local backup, in this case you not only need to keep a local backup, but also it have to be a versioned one.
http://www.spotify.com/dk/download/previews/

# 1. Add this line to your list of repositories by
# editing your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

# 2. If you want to verify the downloaded packages,
# you will need to add our public key
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59

# 3. Run apt-get update
sudo apt-get update

# 4. Install spotify!
sudo apt-get install spotify-client
You can also crack the toughest coding interviews by being a good coder who has created cool things and completed some challenging coding projects. You could also review the stuff you learned in algorithms right before your interview.

I'm not worried about losing a potential job because I couldn't crack some obscure mind puzzle.
Django's admin is brilliant if it fits your use case. I've solved so many customer problems just using the admin, it's silly. It's what's kept me on Django and off all the microframeworks du jour.

So add me to the list of people who'd like to see something comparable on Go.
I think this is best translated as: Back in the day you couldn't get this kind of business off the ground without a huge fulfillment center, a huge server farm and a huge fleet of trucks. Today all you need is a notebook.

And for those who aren't aware, WebVan attempted to do roughly the same thing over 10 years ago in the dotcom boom and was a poster child of the famous crash.
Just in case anyone missed it – you should be able to pan the image horizontally to see more people. (For some reason, this didn't work for me the first time I loaded the page.)
It does have local storage--it just doesn't have an SD card slot for storage expansion.

It's safe to say this will come in 16GB and 32GB varieties, and hopefully there will be a 64GB option.

My Galaxy Nexus has 32GB, and my Nexus 7 has 16GB, and I've never hurt for storage, even with movies (Nexus 7) and Spotify playlists at "extreme" quality (Galaxy Nexus.)
Maybe compared to what Europe sentences murderers. But in NY State, 2nd degree murder is 25 to life and 1st degree is life.
Everything is illegal, everyone is a criminal.

There are only two ways you protect yourself:
- Money.
- Knowledge.

So sneakernet it up my friends. Hide yourself in plain sight by creating false information about yourself. Hash and salt your passwords. Encrypt that laptop. Backup and encrypt that data.

Maybe you'll live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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You have clearly not spent enough time in Williamsburg. Or you've spent just the right amount of time. Delete as appropriate.
"flickers of video" Dec 2005
can I see the URL? I would love to check it out :) And perhaps we can brainstorm an idea or two?
I'm from Copenhagen, Denmark and we've seen this here as well. Especially lately I feel that a lot of 1st-time parents stay in city apartments instead of buying houses in the outer parts or in the suburbs.

I have several friends, whose apartment complexes within the last 5-7 years have turned from housing a bunch of 50+ year old folks without kids to primarily young couples in their 20's/30's with 1 or 2 young kids.

I think this have a lot to do with the city's development and "marketing" towards the younger generation. Maybe the Danes just want to stay "young" longer and longer ;)
It's not that simple. I've found in my rig, minimum noise is achieved with the guitar volume at 7 or so and preamp gain at minimum. If I turn up the volume on the guitar I can switch on the pad on the preamp, but this adds noise. I then add tons of distortion and gain in the software realm, so every dB of noise floor counts. Even clean guitar sounds are usually distorted.

The sound console is different. You want everything in the console to be trimmed to around 0 dB on the console's meters, and NOT as loud as possible without distorting. Trimming it to 0 dB gives you consistency between channels making it easier to work with the faders, and gives you however much headroom the console is designed to work with. "Loud as possible" will mean somewhere like +24 dB on some consoles, which is too hot to work with. Yes, they have that much headroom -- nominal line level is +4 dBu, around 1.2 V, and consoles have internal voltages in the 15-24V range.

The same goes for recording, you typically want things to peak at something like -18 dBFS. Making things peak "loud as you can without distorting" is the job of the mastering engineer, and it happens right before you stamp out CDs or MP3s or whatever.
If the OP reads HN, send me an email to aaron AT markedup DOT com

I used to work on the evangelism team in the US for Microsoft (left in August to start my own company;) I can connect you with folks who can help you with the certification process.
Assuming a uniform distribution, there's only a 1/256 chance of that.
Why not The Web App Design Handbook? It matches your branding...
Thanks! I've found it useful so far, for my own printable projects. Defn play around with it, and let me know what you think. Any feedback is helpful, both good or bad. Always looking to make it more useful and friendlier to use. wil@cubehero.com
crashed my nvidia driver, chrome win 8 (win 7 bootcamp drivers)
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