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Someone once reminded me of how all our digitally catalogued photos come with status messages.

I don't know what difference that will make compared to analogue Kodak moments, but it's very interesting to think about.

Mostly, I'm happy that my childhood photos won't come with horribly-spelt comments. :)
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Would you also be able to get all of your enemies files? or would your enemy have to share all his folders with the team?
Have your startup get you a separate computer. Not mixing work and personal life extends to not doing work development on your personal machine or vice versa.
I assume this would work against their model of giving away limited free space. With multiple account access, a user could sign up with multiple email addresses and essentially get unlimited storage for free.
systems monitors are often in themselves too complex :-(
OP here - (in my story) the Teams account creator did not do this out of cruelty, they just didn't know this is what Dropbox does. I imagine very few people realize that this is how it works.

What should've happened is this: revoke my access to the team folder and downgrade my account back to Free. (Then, annoy me and refuse to sync until I go down to 2GB of usage.) That would be good design.
I wonder if they've fixed the various breakages of dup3 and the equivalent fcntl that I reported about 4 months ago?
I'm the person who's repository and issue tracker (and house!) this is. I've been using Github for tracking house issues for nearly a year.

Partly I chose Github for user experience - it's a pretty good and simple issue tracker.

Partly it was ease of setup time, Github was to hand.

Partly I'm curious whether it being public can help. People might come and give advice on bugs, and in theory workmen could turn up and give me spontaneous quotes.

I was going to write a blog post about it before posting to Hacker News, looks like somebody else beat me to it!
I can't imagine Dropbox can punish the Teams account creator for what amounts to their failure to educate users on the implication of the action. The victim does have to accept the invitation for this to work, so any unintended consequence of their action is due to lack of knowledge.
That's good personal advice - but it's not really a solution to the problem for everyone.
No, they just have to remove anns access to any team based information, same as she was prior to joining?
Really not an issue. I haven't had any, and have been using it for a year!
Specifically, yes, but big picture, I think the interest here is that so-called cloud storage is not a silver bullet. There are real issues, problems that need solving (opportunities) and people need to be careful.
How about you just share from the account you created to join the team the folders that are shared with you by other team members with your personal Dropbox account? Now your Dropbox client will sync the shared team folders as well.

On the downside, the size of the shared directories would probably push the size limit of your account, so it's not a perfect solution.
The desktop environment is the same though.
There is a way to fix this madness

http://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674
Paging Google and Microsoft. Now's as good a time as any to promote your cloud storage services and help a guy out.
Why are you not linking to your report if you want to know? Your post is almost useless as it is.
I'm not really all that concerned by the project itself. This is what the NSA is for (protecting US communications and finding ways to attack communication systems). However, I would like to know who NAMES these things? "Perfect Citizen", really?!
I recently began using a support ticket system (OS ticket) for similar reasons. Everytime I find something that needs maintenance around my house or building, I email support and it makes a ticket, which is then routed to the right employee to fix it. My welder does most of the building repairs, and he gets contractors for bigger projects. Now I can just look at the notes on the support ticket to see what has happened.
The OP says he did that: "I tried contacting Dropbox on twitter and using their site’s support contact form, and they have not yet gotten back to me."
Dropbox could delete all data shared with the team from Ann's account. Then it could set Ann's account to read-only access until Ann deletes enough data to meet the new maximum size limit.
I built something like this once for a client, also in Clojure. I'm going to download and read the code to see how it compares.
As far as I know you can't get anyone's files if they don't explicitly share them (or put them in the Public or team folder).
Most people would not be able to do that.
OK, the notion that its a hardware limit appears (from my reading him many moons ago and now quickly checking wikipedia) to be his. Nonetheless, I don't accept this premise.

This theory always seemed to me to be attempting to account for the absurd size of our neocortex, and proposes a somewhat convincing rationale for this (i.e. the need to socialise and deal with many other humans).

Now, this sort of selection pressure has not reduced in the modern world. Far from it, one's ability to maintain larger social groups could easily be extremely adaptive in that you have both a greater opportunity to meet potential mates, and may additionally come into contact with resources through these larger groups which make you a better potential mate.

Therefore, it would seem to me that while Dunbar's limit may be at a particular level now, in our current society it may well be being selected for, and perhaps will be much higher in the future. Or perhaps I am completely wrong.
Yep, I'd already linked to it twice already in this comment thread! I agree fully.
Yes, plus there is no distinction between your personal account and team's account once they are merged.
Honest question.. what are the limits for caring about diversity? Skin colour.. height.. food preferences.. hair colour, eye colours.

tldr: Where are the famous midget programmers?
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Actually the mistake that set the project back the most was the opposite, from the article:

Stallman later admitted, “I take full responsibility for the technical decision to develop the GNU kernel based on Mach, a decision which seems to have been responsible for the slowness of the development. I thought using Mach would speed the work by saving us a large part of the job, but I was wrong.”

He made what he thought was a pragmatic choice that ended up being wrong, not the "perfect" kernel.
Interesting. Is your site a content site or are you actually providing a service? I am a physician with hopes to start something too (see my profile if you are interested).
I've honestly struggled with how to give feedback to other users on HN. It's not hard to be civil, but my automatic reaction is to look for things to criticize, not because I'm overly critical, but because I assume that's the purpose of submitting your work to HN in the first place...if you're confident enough to do so, I guess I just assume you have a decent amount of self-validation going and more patting-on-the-back is going to be less helpful than critique.

*

Having read your original post on HN, I noticed you didn't actually fix the problem that the rude user complains about. The rude user is definitely out of line, but are you really much better by just dismissing their point as simply "sheer mind-numbing stupidity"? Is the user wrong because he/she was an asshole or just wrong period? Because I think the user had a good point: you refer to an off-site video that you don't show until the very end, and you don't even link to the indepth NYT article that includes the video, which would be common courtesy for any SEO specialist.
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I agree. It is a quick reminder that if another person would have had access to it, that it could have been quite different. Potentially malicious.
Any info on what the startup actually does ?
I'd be interested to know of examples where sustained mild deflation has been accompanied by steadily high economic growth and steadily low unemployment.
I think someone needs to plug how awesome the Destroy All Software screencasts are (referenced in the post.) They are well worth their value, and have made me a better developer: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts
Good project must have passionate leader. Linus or Theo or Richard or Guido or Igor or Salvatore you name him..

Otherwise it will become a "kolkhoz". )
Actually, I prefer this be resolved in the public arena, rather than on a case-by-case basis for everyone who encounters this problem. If the OP is accurate, then this is a problematic implementation detail that every corporate user should be aware of.
I recently bought a second laptop for home, even though it was common at the company I work for to use your computer for work and pleasure.

Under California employment law, an employer can argue that they own anything created on company machines[1]. If you work on side projects, I think it's a worthy investment.

[1] http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-...
There is a place for public notices of foul play by companies, certainly. Normally, though, those accounts garner my sympathy when they explain the full support story and get snubbed by a represenative, usually after at least some waiting.

Not saying that the OP didn't wait plenty of time, but I would find his complaint more compelling if he would have mentioned how long ago he contacted them.
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I am in my 40s also. I have not changed much in the last 5 years, but then again that is just over 10% of my life. At 25, 5 years represents 20% of your life and the part of your life where most people change a lot. Perhaps we should both do something crazy and change our hairstyle for a couple months. Then we can reminisce later about that crazy period in our forties.

"Youth is wasted on the young" - George Bernard Shaw
I wasn't exactly sure who would look into this, but I started the ball rolling internally and asked if someone could investigate.

The post has been updated:
"UPDATE: After doing extensive checking with extended family, this has proven to be legitimate (though very unexpected). Please ignore the post and move along, Gmail is still secure for now! My sincere apologies for raising an alarm."

So, back to your regular Christmas Eve activities.
Lot of stuff here: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences

It's less about the quality of writing or how quickly you can absorb it and much, much more about fascinating ideas and concepts.

And I have thoroughly enjoyed "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" http://www.elsewhere.org/rationality/
It seems he calmed down a little afterwards and answered without all that rage and curse words, clearly he's upset but i don't imagine him going postal anymore:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1414130
I give some leeway for problems that seem to be bugs rather than intentional features. I doubt Dropbox intended for your account to be deleted in this scenario.
As someone in the comments notes, he incorrectly dismisses his own example that illustrates why he's not a logical positivist. A momentary cake in the heart of the sun would have physical consequences in the universe that a (sufficiently advanced) being could detect (or not detect), so a logical positivist would agree with him that the statement is meaningful.

I don't know that it's fair to say he's just a logical positivist. But he seems intent on layering LP with a lot of jargon from physics and information theory to create distinctions without difference.
But good design is hard too.
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They are equivalent. None of them is weaker. And, by the way, your PC (Von Neuman architecture) is an example of finite automatum.

I've seen the FA formalism used in computing theory a few times. Yet, I'm also missing whatever enlightment the author is looking for. But, if for no other reason, it's worth learning just because it's a very nice tool.
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Fantastic, Matt, really appreciate it! Hopefully we can fix it.
> There is a place for public notices of foul play by companies, certainly.

Why does there have to be foul play involved? Security holes largely exist because of negligence. As do poorly-implemented features. Not everything that is harmful is a result of evil manifesting itself.
No, as I said I didn't started the content site, because starting startup is much more interesting, easier and brings money fast and easier, if the idea, execution and marketing are well done.
For the uninformed, if something like this happened, what information should we save? You mentioned saving:

* a screenshot

* "network information" (what does that include?)

* cookie information - I assume you just saved the cookie, itself, but which did you save? Everything in your cookies directory at the time?

* ...?
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Reading the Dropbox help page, it seems like the situation might be worse if you were a paying customer: "If you convert your existing account to Teams, the balance you have remaining on your Pro subscription will be credited to the Teams subscription.". The language is pretty clear that an individual to Teams conversion is final, irrevocable.

That in itself is okay, but then the conversion mail should have come with big, red warning notices; not the bland email you seem to have received.
I think in the case of the "btn" class it's designed to be usable on a, span, button, input, etc.
They could restrict multiple account functionality to paid accounts only.
I've actually been through this twice now (its currently disabled from leaving the second company's Team account, I should have known better but I thought they would have "fixed" the issue by now). First time around they just needed my the guy at my last company to approve it being re-enabled (not sure why)... and waiting for that whole flow to start up again for this second time. I should have known better this time :( I really just don't get the reasoning behind the feature being implemented this way. I would imagine Dropbox would want to discourage signing up for multiple accounts just cause ones personal and one's work.
If you find a way around this, please post the link. I have the problem from the team side. I don't want to do any damage to anyone, but I don't want to share anymore either.
This is great news, especially since it will yield more goodies for other folks who are into c99 on windows. I love VLC (sans font searching here and there, heh). It's so much useful that I don't even use QT on PC for playback anymore for DNxHD codec qt files. It supports even MXF files. VLC and ffpmeg (ffmbc not so very much) are one of the best tools, free or not, for what they do, if you're in professional video.
Great job. As I've told most of my family and friends to stay off the desktop, except for Office, having a metro VLC will be a great addition.
Definitely. I'm comfortable using my employer-provided laptop to keep tabs on my personal email (and use multi-profile to keep it separate). However, if I was doing any side work at all I would keep it entirely off of my employer's systems and outside work hours, because my baseline assumption is that it belongs to your employer if you produced it with their resources or on their time.
We grew big too fast, our team can't handle too much costumers for now. I've bootstrapped, I have not time now to apply for a VC money and I can't work because I'm in last year of medical faculty, I must concentrate on my exams, medicine is very hard to study. So I decided to not accept any payments anymore in next 4-5 months. Also our initial website and branding was not so good and I thought it would be better if we rebrand and relaunch with a different name. I had bootstrapped that time and built everything by myself. Therefore I deleted everything in website to rebuild it. It's empty actually. Now I hired some top designers from Dribble, I think it will be ready in 40 days. I'll open a Show Hn thread for the launch.
I agree -- foul play was the wrong word choice.
I've been working on the Obvious Architecture, which seeks to decouple your app from both the database and your web framework. Treating Rails or Sinatra or whatever as just a delivery mechanism frees you from a lot of of the potentially bad design decisions that your web framework made about how you should structure your app, the worst offender of this is how rails implies the use of ActiveRecord. You should use Rails for what it's good at - web stuff (routing, asset management, view engine integration).

I've got an example Obvious twitter close/status update app in progress at https://github.com/RetroMocha/obvious_status

Obvious is still super new and I'm working on documentation and examples. You can read more about Obvious at http://obvious.retromocha.com
I opened up the Chrome Web Inspector, switched to the Network tab and verified that a couple of requests had indeed gone through, right clicked, and chose "Save all as HAR." That's how I saved the data specifics like cookies.
I have been using Bootstrap for this entire year on various projects at work. Nobody complained because I was using Bootstrap. In fact, I actually got a lot of compliments about how well the projects looked. The fact is, outside Hacker News, nobody cares if you're using Bootstrap. They care if your project doesn't look horrible, and more importantly, they care if your project works.

Now sure, I could learn CSS and do all the stuff you put in the last four sentences. But designing a good-looking style with all the components I needed - grids, buttons, navbars, modal dialogs - would take far longer than unzipping Bootstrap, dropping it in my assets folder, and actually writing the bloody code. Especially since I walked out of the office Friday after emailing my supervisor a two-and-a-half page list of stuff I wanted to get done this year but couldn't.
>So why are they not simply buying the rights of the translations they are using?

Why do you think they haven't done that? Or rather they paid the entity that owns the rights who at some point in the past paid those translators. Generally speaking the translators gave up their rights in exchange for money long ago.

Specifically google uses, for example, UN documents which translators were paid to translate and which are publicly usable.

If I write some code for a company, get paid for that code and then the company sells that code why should I get paid again?

Or do you think google is the first automated translation service? This has been done successfully for 30+ years commercially and academically. Nothing different just because it's on the web and not on some guys PC.

>How many jobs were lost when we found out washing hands before surgery is a good idea?

Actually, I'm sure there were all sort of quack solutions to infections and whole industries making them which went out of business as a result of doctor's realizing washing hands did the trick.

Edit: Not to mention the loss of jobs for morticians (in the short term), makers of amputation implements (and other tools to deal with all those infections), nurses specializing in dealing with infections, traditional healers (as doctors were now an even better choice) and so on. Lowering infections would have impacted every single person and industry that was built around the previous high-infection status quo.
That's trivial to solve. Only allow a single free account to be signed into. Multiple accounts are required to be team accounts.
Not quite. Gitlab merge requests are very useful but only act between branches of a single repo, not across repos. Hence "merge" request, not "pull" request.
What does "from any type 'a' to any type 'b'" mean? That sounds like a range of types, but I don't see how that makes sense. Did you just mean that the map converts from 'a' to 'b'?
This sounds rather...performance killing.

Too much abstraction is way way worse than too little, as well.
I strongly recommend CrashPlan for backups. They may not be marketing aggressively like Dropbox, nor will you find them mentioned N times a day on HN/similar venues, but they provide a damn good product/service.

You will not have such issues with them.
Easily fixed with extension methods for aliases you like.
You should probably read the article before speculating. It's not even that long. He says:

"In case you’re wondering, this is not a bug: it appears to be documented (sort of)."
I'm 32 and Facebook has turned into a nightmare cavalcade of weddings and other people's children. No more smiling faces, parties or high jinks, just more wrinkles, more responsibilities, more towing the line.
Good call on a non-js version, this was abstracted from some code for a larger project. When I find the time I'll update the repo with a branch for a non-jQuery version, but there are plenty of simple scripts out there.

Also, jQuery is 32KB minified and gzip'd AND that's if it's not already cached. Using the Google CDN helps as well, chances are you may not even be downloading it. Not looking to get into a jQuery vs. js debate.

"I don't always write jQuery, but when I do, I use Javascript"
This is not an 'issue'. This is documented behavior that is not immediately obvious to a general user. As a start-up forum where we have many of them using the 'teams' feature, I think it is relevant. Your idea of not enlightening people about a serious issue on a public forum for everyone's benefit seems scary at best.
It's really the only solution if you want to maintain some degree of personal privacy, and don't want to incur all your employer's liability on your personal account (and vice versa).
Had the exact same situation last year. Was interning at a startup for a couple of weeks. I joined their Team-DropBox and some time after leaving the startup, they (logically) revoked my access without either of us knowing what it would result in.

After an email back and forth with both the DropBox-Team-support and the startup, I got my account back in the exact same state as it was in, when my account got revoked. I still had all of the startups stuff but it no longer synced. As I was many GB over the limit of my free DropBox-account I deleted all the files belonging to the startup (which of course is the right thing to do).

I'm glad this is getting some attention, because it is clearly not working very well as it is right now. Hopefully DropBox will make the user experience better.
>PS: before you ask for iOS, you might have a surprise soon.

Have you guys figured out a dual license scheme for the core?

That's great news!
I presume you are a dropbox employee. You seem to be staunchly defending dropbox to everyone who argues in support of this 'issue'.
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I wonder if your ISP has a very broken proxy?

(should be irrelevant due to HTTPS, but still)
The wording of their FAQ suggests they are aware of this. From the OP:

“If someday you leave the team, it may not be possible to convert your Teams account back to an individual account that you can access.”
I can appreciate his enthusiasm, but that man is gonna have a heart attack one of these days.

He's right of course... Breaking semantics is bad.
The Ruby names are copied from Smalltalk, as is much of Ruby.
We had this happen over the summer to someone that left and were removed from the team. It was resolved by contacting Dropbox support, so I'm not sure why you've not had luck with that but then it is the holiday period. Dropbox's recent changes to how Teams Admins can manage connected accounts (which in my opinion are a bit excessive) might help with this process. Their ToS explains these changes but an email they sent round in October explains it better: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s5/sh/39bd6ae2-a0b6-41a9-87a4...
Read the theory again. Finite automata are quite weak.
Bad design most likely. Looking more carefully at the link in the initial email they sent you: 'confirm_migrate?'. This almost gives it away.