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Ask HN: Should I hijack Dropbox and Google Drive for my own app?
I'm creating a web app that includes online storage for users (as well as other features). The storage is obviously going to cost me and therefore I'll have to make it a paid for service in some way.

However, I'm considering simply asking the user to authorise my app to use either Dropbox or Google Drive when they signup and remove the need for me to host their files, yet still have many Gigs of storage available to my app.

Does anyone see any drawback with this. I do recognise that it introduces an extra step for the user. However, if it means I don't have the extra expense of hosting many Terra-bytes of files, then I can make it completely free.
Or just deploy the half-assed solution, which will get the job done and allow your limited engineering staff to focus on higher priorities. Then, a decade later, when the company is worth hundreds of billions, you can rewrite it from scratch the proper way.

See also: A Tale of Two Bridges http://hintjens.com/blog:16
wow this is eerily similar to what we are doing at Purdue with The Anvil Cowowrking space: http://theanvil.us/ and the BoilerMake hackathon: http://boilermake.org/. Glad to see other students making moves as well. I'll be sure to reach out
Serves the same purpose (building a UI) but seems to have style differences and a few different JS UI plugins.
When you feed coins to an arcade machine, you are essentially renting someone else's equipment for some period of time. The idea that occupying someone else's machine for a longer period of time would cost more than for a shorter period is a reasonable expectation on the part of the consumer[1].

There is no similar expectation when purchasing a game. It doesn't make sense for me to have to rent more time on a game on my own hardware[2].

[1] Nevertheless, the comparison is apt in some ways, as the process of encouraging people to feed more coins often distorted the gameplay in the same was as it does with IAP-based games.
[2] I know, the current reason for much of this is that MANY casual gamers are resistant to put even $1 down initially. There are very few models that work for games targeted at this crowd, and IAP may actually be the best approach here.
Tox: secure messaging for everyone
What do you mean by LD and IC?
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Surprising, since this technology is pretty much at the root of any new car remote starting product.
The key:

His department was able to obtain some older laparoscopic equipment inexpensively.

Thanks to high-cost health care systems elsewhere spending enormous sums on the latest & best equipment on a regular basis, older equipment capable of facilitating very good (albeit not best possible) results becomes inexpensive.

In all the sneering at the high cost of healthcare in some areas, the consequential benefits to others gets overlooked. If you want the very best, yes it will cost a lot; if you're willing to settle for good instead of best, you can leverage what those buying the best paid for. If you cut the high cost options, the good low cost options may very well become infeasible.
That's what I think. Many Americans in my experience believe the "American exceptionalism" described there, in terms of the country being uniquely classless, or free, or whatever.
Interesting to see a Penn site here...
I really think it shows a disconnect between what the author thinks is good design and what IS good design.

But speaking of substance, there wasn't really much there. He talked about users like they were an inconvenience and were unreasonable, and that they had some odd psychological issue that needed correcting. Yet he never addressed the genuinely useful features that were removed, or the feeling by users that if they used features in Gnome they might one day lose them, even if the need them.
I would go for the brute force approach - write your own good articles, write your own good comments.

Otherwise, its just "hey look world this one is interesting"
with nothing back
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Googlecast (the software side of Chromecast's magic) is the real winner here. Having a device that can stream ANY content in a couple simple API calls is unlike anything on the market currently.

Chromecast supports everything chrome does (audio, video, web sockets, canvas, web audio, etc.) and it all just works unlike most of the TV dongles on the market today (which usually have issues with google play, Netflix, and/or Hulu).
When I was at Georgia Tech (graduated '08), I was forced to take CS and EE classes. You could easily get exceptions to prerequisites for classes if you asked, and so I did. Having open access to CS/EE changed my life, and I changed my major.

At the same time, reading "Hackers and Painters" and getting involved with the Georgia Entrepreneur Society, which encouraged startups on campus, changed the rest of my life.

Georgia Tech is a difficult place to deal with, but it does teach you lessons outside of the technical. Access to resources was there, you just had to fight tooth and nail to get it. That lesson in particular has served me well.
Looking forward to it, it'd be great to bounce ideas off each other.
The Wash U Programming Languages course on Coursera was pretty functional-programming oriented. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone.
Could 3D Printing Advances Be Dangerous?
At least one person thinks the Apple TV is a better deal. Two guesses as to who.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/07/25/chromecast-catch...
3 reasons and 20 URL's against surveillance programs and governments
* No circular dependencies (big win here)

* Package importing is easy and a first-class language structure

* Fast compiles (related to no circular dependencies)

One of the more controversial features is no inheritance -- only composition. It's an interesting break from vertical/horizontal inheritance schemes.
hah, thought I read the title wrong at first. Interesting perspective.
You don't have a credit card?
Thanks for the heads up! We just set up SSL for the main site, and obviously missed a few things--I'll fix that right now.
Yahoo And Google Are Both Spending Big Money On Acquisition Sprees
Wow, you did time at the North Avenue Trade School as well? Small world.

I've worked a little with local VC and they typically seem like they have money to put in but very few vehicles for getting information on where to put it. The startup communication channels aren't there yet, although you'd hope that GT would help to lead the way.

Atlanta is a great place for startups. I've been a part of several here. GT is a great source for new hires. I can't say that I've ever been disappointed with any of the dozen or so new-hire grads that I've worked with from there.

The airport is the busiest in the world and has direct flights to just about everywhere. The culture is a comfortable Southern-friendly mixed with a healthy amount of cultural diversity.

The weather isn't as hot and humid as Texas or Florida, but warm enough to avoid ever having to shovel snow off your driveway.

That said, there's nothing incredible about Atlanta. You'll never have the museum experience of New York, the historic experience of DC, the weather of California, the views of Colorado, or the food of Louisiana. It's got a whole lot of nice, not much bad, but nothing extreme either way.
Then grab your laptop, or your tablet, or any of the 5 other wifi connected devices laying around in your house.
How will this work in practice?
Agreed, when I was at Tech (03-08) startups were all the rage and there were tons of them forming around campus. I think times have probably changed in Atlanta thanks to the financial crisis, and startups are no longer as common.
If no more significant terrorist attacks occur, rainbow colored ponies will fly through the air to bring happiness to all the little children.

You can conclude whatever you want from a false hypothesis. The truth is that eventually some terrorist will find a way through all the security systems we set up.
Transparent Personal Data Dashboard | Weight, Bedroom Temperature etc...
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Literally JUST a skin. No idea how this crap gets voted up.
Do you know how much your meetings are costing to your company?
It will be interesting to see how actively they enforce this new ruling. Given that paedo-tourists are effectively given a free pass in Thailand I find it odd that Bitcoin would work it's way to the top of the agenda.
You clearly haven't used an Apple TV for many years.
That the car is self-driving doesn't mean there isn't anyone inside.
For sure. There's a great post by Stephen Fleming on the ATL startup scene, definitely addresses this - http://academicvc.com/2013/07/05/startups-for-grownups/.
dl.google.com isn't just a place to dump files to the public web, it's also got complicated ACL schemes that define restrictions on data access. dl.google.com is used internally.
One of the differences between Chromecast and an HDMI cable running across your living room is convenience.
But, in those routine cases, fee-per-service-rendered is pretty much exactly the same as fee-per-outcome, no? I mean, barring malpractice, which already has its own (litigious) path of remediation.
That's another good tip, thanks for that.

I'm hoping not to have this situation happen again, mind!
Idea Non-Disclosure Demands Kill Investor Interest
Look into partnering with the Atlanta Lean Startup Circle: http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-Lean-Startup-Circle/

I've been to a couple of their meetings and was impressed that they're doing some things the right way.
Even Nokia thinks there’s a Windows Phone app gap
You have to mod your console to play burned games. In the case of the xbox, they change their checking techniques every year and you would have to upgrade accordingly.
Ya, I actually had that problem with BS2 when viewing it mobile. I ended up redesigning the site anyway, but this may be a big plus for Bootstrap. As others have said, a lot of times it's simpler to just build everything yourself and grab some CSS or whatever from Bootstrap, but when it comes to mobile viewing, Bootstrap is going to save a ton of time (at least for me).
- Buying Bitcoins
- Selling Bitcoins
- Buying any goods or services in exchange for Bitcoins
- Selling any goods or services for Bitcoins
- Sending Bitcoins to anyone located outside of Thailand
- Receiving Bitcoins from anyone located outside of Thailand

I think what they mean is that its impossible for a company to do any of the above things legally. Its not possible to enforce this on the individual level.
Riddle me this.

How does banning bits in any way shape or form, prevent their transmission and storage?
UK Open Rights Group campaign: Stop Sleepwalking Into Censorship
He said "some crap UX survey", not "UX surveys are crap".
Airplane serves to avoid transmitting; GPS receivers (like smartphones) don't transmit, therefore airplane mode doesn't disable it. That said, it should be enough to switch to Airplane mode and disable the GPS.

But cellphones is general are tracking devices par excellence. One-way pagers are safer, but the message is transmitted in clear-text.
Ask HN: Could this be Elon Musk's Hyperloop idea?
1. Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX

2. SpaceX is collaborating with NASA

3. NASA has a futuristic transportation project called 'skyTran'

4. Elon Musk is working on a futuristic transportation project called 'Hyperloop'

5. Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla and interested in environment-friendly green technology

6. skyTran is an environment-friendly green technology that uses passive magnetic levitation

7. skyTran are driverless elevated pods. It is a lightweight high-speed urban rapid transit project. Unlike traditional maglev systems with skyTran there is no power used (wasted) to levitate the vehicles

8. skyTran is very "cheap", it costs a tenth of a traditional light rail system. It functions like a car and a train at the same time

9. The skyTran team - that is based at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley - said in an BBC interview in April 2013 that they are in discussions with a nearby city (hint: L.A.?) that hopes to be the first to test the system

10. Elon Musk wants to bring his Hyperloop to L.A.

11. Elon Musk is an investor in and the Chairman of SolarCity, the leading residential solar provider in the U.S.

12. skyTran's magnetic levitation system can easily be powered by clean energy sources such as solar

13. Here are three videos about skyTran:

a) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=echZPz4Pmig

b) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT1CjKtGFZs

c) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86hjy63bVA
If you're just using it for the minimal things, then you might look at the highly underrated Skeleton (http://getskeleton.com). It's got a reset, grid, forms and typography, but all are fairly minimalist, easy to override, etc.

I'd recommend Foundation as an alternative too, but that one's already been suggested. It's also very good, but slightly heavier-weight than Skeleton.
Because any application that can copy files over a network is eventually used as a deployment tool. I'm sure there's a netcat deployment tool out there somewhere. ("Hey look, with the -e option I can run a script to process the deployment on delivery!")
And suddenly, the whole "don't pirate, feed the poor hardworking people" story doesn't seem so believable, is it?
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S doesn't seem that interesting. Assume that S does not contain itself. Consider the set P, which can be constructed by adding P as an element to S. Note that P contains itself. Therefore, P is in S. Also note that every other element in P is also in S, and that every element in S is in P. Therefore P and S are the same set. Therefore S contains itself, contradicting our assumption that S does not contain itself.

If we assume that S does contain itself, then I do not see a way at arriving at a contradiction.
Bans themselves rarely directly prevent things. What they do is provide for punishment for people found to be doing them, which then provides a disincentive.
It looks like the Windows/OS X corners of that compatibility list are really because of Chrome. The dev kit is available for iOS, Android, and Chrome Apps: https://developers.google.com/cast/developing_a_sender

Since I'm completely unfamiliar with the structure of a Chrome App, I don't know what's sandboxed away in that environment. But I'm stopping short of calling full Windows/OS X compatibility there.
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you may be right; perhaps i have only remembered solutions with boundary conditions that would not allow such a solution. i will try to think things through again and perhaps do the maths. thanks.
Yes, as the statement notes, the Thai government didn't seek anyone out, and don't appear to be actively interested in whether people are making Bitcoin transactions. Rather, a company, Bitcoin Co. Ltd., asked the Bank of Thailand for an opinion on the legality of their operations and whether any licenses were needed. The Bank of Thailand responded that such activities can't be licensed under current law. Therefore, Bitcoin Co. Ltd. decided to suspend operations to avoid running afoul of the law.
Limited Duration: read temp job

Indefinite Contract: read permanent job (with PIPs, alas)

IC slots are only available to LD holders (ie. multi-year probation).
I started flagging stories last month when everything on the front page was related to Snowden walking across the airport and taking a dump, and other rehashed outrage at the NSA over and over and over, and it appears my flagging privs have been removed.
I've had heart surgery, costing very close to that six-figure the article gives. Every dollar was well spent. Tearing my chest open with a car jack, rendering me dead for most practical purposes, replacing body parts with cyborg components meant to last for decades, bringing me back to life, repairing the extensive damage caused, continuous monitoring for anything that could go wrong for a week, and sending me home in perfect condition save for a narrow scar, a daily pill and ticking like Captain Hook's crocodile - that's a heckuva process to go thru, it went spectacularly well, and I'm alive in great shape, heck yeah it was worth half the price of my house. They brought me back from the dead, how much is that worth?
Just checked and you are correct.
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>> Its not possible to enforce this on the individual level.

Why not?
From what little I understand it's pretty easy to spot bitcoin related traffic on a network, transactions in particular. Thailand already has some sort of national filtering/porn censorship set up IIRC.
Well those two things certainly justify it (no sarcasm intended) -- If you built it really just for yourself (experienced a real need), and people have already signed up for it, I must be wrong. Congrats on the users and product then.
Organizations, Security and Big Data
I like that you said you are an "iOS programmer" that's the problem with programming today. you are not a programmer. if you were a programmer, you would be able to make sense of that document. so to answer your question, 20 years from now, programmers of that era will be able to make look at iOS programming docs and understand it, meanwhile "20 year future language programmers" won't. I say this because I learned gameboy programming in my first year of college (1997) by learning z80 and reading gameboy programming text files that were probably around 5 pages. that low level programming, till today serves me well.
Thank you for your contribution!

The site is updated manually, so sometimes it takes a few hours for the number to update if everyone is asleep.
Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht
Most governments are of a size where it would be terribly inefficient for them to work on only one issue at a time.
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3 Chinese factories that make Apple products accused of employing minors:
Well, to be fair, OP only said apply to medical school, not get in...
As a maintainer and volunteer on some open source projects, the reason for CADT is that popular projects receive significantly more bug reports than could ever be handled by their volunteers. We're just volunteers and you can't just throw more developers at the problem. In the end, you get what you pay for. Nothing.
Much Ado about Diversity
Site is overloaded, so here is the Coral cache:

http://www.scottaaronson.com.nyud.net/blog/?p=304

See also the famous Crackpot Index:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
Yeah, the article makes the exact point about housing prices that convinced me to move out of the Bay Area.

Then again, it's hard to enjoy that acre of yard when mosquitos are biting the heck out of you. :)
No, it's perfectly common, not perfectly fine. Using international law to kill off grey markets is really not fine at all.
For anyone interested, I'll perform heart surgery for you in India for only $1200.
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Better to read the original article: http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2013/07/wired_... and not the Boing Boing summary.
Is it _literally_ just a skin? Looks like a mostly different codebase.

Compare mixins.less
https://github.com/sapo/Ink/blob/develop/less/modules/mixins...
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/less/mixins.le...

Personally, I like it. It's nice to have competition :)
This could be great. You need to monetize in a better way. Make searching free for everyone (cause no one is going to pay for it). Then, package up some pre-built searches (backlink search, competitor stuff, etc), build a special interface, and sell that to SEO's as a tool. This is just my first thought. You have data from over 140 MM pages. You can almost certainly use that data to make a product worth money to someone.

I just can't imagine selling searches will work. The big players in the space have made search into a human right. I know you have to make money somehow but charging for searches almost has to be the wrong answer.
I was at Tech from 2006-2010 in BME. So many senior design projects were being spun out as startups. Inventure also came out while I was there and was a big hit. If you had a good idea or executed on something well, it was probably going to be spun with the help of professors (you had to ask). The pace is definitely different at Tech, and for a major like BME, it was hard to come by free electives let alone free time (especially if you were doing pre-med). I do agree I would have loved to see more of a startup culture, but I think it was already brewing while I was there. I'd have loved to see more programming options offered for BME and other engineering majors beyond CS 1371, so we didn't have to get overrides and permits. CS 1371 basically made everyone shit their pants and left a sour taste of programming, although we needed to use the skills we had learned for future classes.
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In my experience, 90% of the time the clerk will swipe their own loyalty card if you claim you don't have one, so you get the benefit of any available discounts while remaining anonymous.
A much worse nightmare for tax collectors is an anonymous currency (such as cash). With Bitcoin the tax collector (and everyone else) can review the blockchain and verify that every account payed the taxes it owes. If they find an account that has not payed taxes, they can look at who payed into that account, and who that account payed, and use investigative techniques (IE ask amazon for the address that kindle was shipped to) to discover the indentity of the account holder.

The biggest mistake the Government can make (as a tax collector) is killing Bitcoin, as that will only increase the likelihood that a more anonymous currency will take its place.
> Given that paedo-tourists are effectively given a free pass in Thailand

Really necessary to drag that in to the discussion?
I hope this thread gains some traction.
Not particularly... The game boy's processor is more like a i8080 than a z80. It lacks the second register set used for interrupt handling and the iX and iY registers and the super-sweet addressing mode they enable.

Game boy assemblers do use the z80 syntax rather than the crazy i8080 syntax, thankfully.
It feels to close to Bootstrap without bringing enough new stuff to the table to be worth it. It's nice to see people making alternatives, but it needs to be a lot more developed.
Because nobody wins. Having the world dependent on US stability is a good thing.
At this point, if your CSS framework doesn't start with "why we're different/better than Bootstrap" I'm pretty much out. I skimmed the docs and see very little here that isn't a direct "Bootstrap does that, we'll do that too".
With driver-less cars, I suppose.))

Jokes aside, automatic delivery is what they making them for.