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> anything that the government funds should be open source.

Generalization to open source everything that the Government does, or taxpayers fund, might not be such a great idea. There are some projects which are supposed to be secret (Like a NSA that's focused only on anti-socials) because they give our Government an edge over others.

Probably a competent agency with an oversight to decide on open/closed aspect can help, but the subject needs much longer and detailed debate. IMO, healthcare, education, civil investigations are perfect examples where we can go completely open source. Or get disrupted the valley way.
Sorry, perhaps I didn't make this clear enough. I wasn't talking about those Java/MS certs. I was talking about this: http://cdn1.ncees.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Exam-specifi...
Ah, thanks for clarifying!

And I think it's great that BigCouch is being merged back into CouchDB. I'm just getting interested in CouchDB and PouchDB and it seems these projects deserve the love.
Thank you, and I think what you say is true.

Just bc I don't want to toot my own horn: I am not saying the marriage didn't fail bc I over-emphasized being Dad. I am saying that what I did do as Dad, didn't get the respect I thought it might.

Also: I didn't do parent for the respect, and I could have fixed a lot of mistakes without being less of a Dad.
The science of ice, melting, and chilling as it pertains to drinks
> One common thing I see is people will send a link to a particular document not knowing they've unwittingly given the person access to all of their documents

What? Share links for documents are just a link to that document no to the folders where they are
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I disagree with this. It sounds like he had the reasonable expectation that the files WERE backed up, living both locally and on Google's servers. He might have even thought he was testing his backups by opening one of the local "files" after he moved them.
Great site and thanks for sharing. http://Site2Pic.com also mentioned in this thread works just fine.
A little bit, but the biological clock is still an inherent imbalance for those people looking for biological children.

A man in his 30s, dating women in their 20s will find more of them amenable to reproducing right away, and it's not much of a big deal to the man, if a prospective partner wants to delay that another 5-10 years.

A woman in her 30s, dating men in their 20s will find fewer of them amenable to reproducing right away, and there are significant, potentially deal-breaking costs to the woman associated with delaying another 5-10 years.

There are alternatives (adoption, surrogates, etc) and perhaps through some social normalization they'll further close the gap. But the social/financial/identity[1] costs of such arrangements are going to remain substantial for some time.

[1] that is, a person's (potentially strong) preference for traditional, biological children, due only their own pre-conceived notions of how they'd start their family. Women have definitely been known to 'settle' for a lesser mate to avoid challenging that preconception. And that willingness to settle is a profound disadvantage.
RSU grants given to employees (including large grants given to new executives and key employees) are typically illiquid until 6 months following an IPO. The company has to IPO to make good on the compensation given to hire and retain their employees. If they never go public, employee compensation is worthless, and they cannot hire nor retain the best people.
> I think the author is saying that women have to put in the effort and act on what they want long before men do if they don't want any sort of repercussions.

I'd argue that women in their prime dating age don't have to put in that much effort, they just have to show up. A woman has to make herself available, and men will pursue her. The article is about the women who wanted others things (career, etc) first and thought the advantage they enjoy while they are younger would last forever, but too late they discover how fleeting this dating advantage is.

> You don't hear about 25 year old men marrying successful 30 something women because the lady is successful and charming. Not to say it doesn't happen, but its certainly rare.

This isn't because there aren't 25 year old men who are willing and able to marry these successful women, it is the woman who is making the decision.
Retargeting for Micropreneurs: How a guitar teacher made $13 for every $1 spent
I have started using it few months ago and I like it. Mostly because I can read hacker news as pragmatically as I have been reading google reader. I don't need to visit home of HN several times a day to find out if there is any new posts. I just open hckrnews.com and I see what have been posted since my last visit.
As bad as I feel for the OP, you have to take responsibility instead of blaming Google. Seems like they do a good job of explaining when you empty the trash in Drive:

"Files in your trash are about to be permanently deleted, including Google Docs in your Trash. Warning: When using Google Drive for PC/Mac, Google Docs aren’t actual files saved on your hard drive; they are links to files stored online."

If you want a real backup of Google Docs, try Takeout: https://www.google.com/settings/takeout
Only that's impossible as it is now (and will be for the forseeable future) because it wouldn't be very wise to give browser apps write access to the local filesystem.
It would be a nightmare to manage, and you would have to explain to all 400k of your customers how connect to the smtp/imap endpoint for that particular user.

Completely and totally unrealistic for an email provider. The support costs alone would bankrupt the company.
But this is how EVERY DAMN cloud drive works.

No. No, it's not. I have experience with Google Drive, iDrive, SkyDrive and DropBox. The only oddball one that leads to losing data like this is Google Drive.

With SkyDrive, it works very similar to DropBox. Your cloud drive is just a folder on your disk, synched between multiple computers. If you move a file from your cloud drive to your local drive, it moves the actual file - not a pointer to it.

Google Drive is a terrible morass of confusing design. It's not an exaggeration to say they should shut down and start over.
> I thought it was quite obvious that files created on Google Drive with their document editor were not actually copied to your computer with the Google Drive program.

For a techie, perhaps. For a non-techie, that's something they're unlikely to have ever seen happen in their filesystem. Even if they opened it in Notepad, they'd probably not know the ramifications of what's shown there.
I think the western male tech-centric demographic partly boils down to the fact that you just need to spend much time at the computer, spend much energy for writing and editing and have to be passionate about it and the topic you write about has to be provable/widely accepted (no personal stories, opinions, etc.). The combination of these things is exactly as it is, maybe except for the western part. I don't understand why easterners aren't participating more actively.
I'm just getting interested in CouchDB and PouchDB. I almost jumped out of my chair when I found PouchDB earlier this week. So brilliant!

Will you be sharing your development experiences somewhere? It seems there is less info out there compared to, say, Mongo.
Reminded me of this... :)

A store has just opened in New York City that offered free husbands. When women go to choose a husband, they have to follow the instructions at the entrance:

“You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are 6 floors to choose from. You may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you CANNOT go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to the store to find a husband. On the 1st floor the sign on the door reads: Floor 1 - These men Have Jobs. The 2nd floor sign reads: Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love Kids. The 3rd floor sign reads: Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids and are extremely Good Looking.

“Wow,” she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going. She goes to the 4th floor and sign reads:
Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help With Housework.
“Oh, mercy me!” she exclaims. “I can hardly stand it!” Still, she goes to the 5th floor and sign reads:
Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, help with Housework and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the 6th floor and the Sign reads: Floor 6 - You are visitor 71,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that you are impossible to please.
Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

To avoid gender bias charges, the store’s owner opened a Wife Store just across the street.

The 1st first floor has wives that love sex.
The 2nd floor has wives that love sex and have money.
The 3rd through 6th floors have never been visited...

(http://www.city-data.com/forum/relationships/276172-joke-hus...)
The title is misleading. The use of Skype specifically is only in the last sentence of the article, No problem, say his allies - if Rogers is ready to move beyond name-calling. Skype is only a computer click away. This is not in quotes, and is sourced blindly to "his allies."

There's a period, not a semicolon, between the "No problem" clause and the "Skype" clause, weakening the attribution. Because of that, I think the article author may have made that leap. In my opinion, "Skype" is used by sources as simply common parlance for "some kind of secure video conferencing", and the author perhaps unintentionally, and unfortunately provocatively, overemphasized Skype as the literal option to be used.
For security, Skype is a touch radioactive, and Microsoft knows it. That's one of their published reasons for centralizing its server architecture. I would expect Congress, and Snowden, to prefer to use something better, and more securely routable.
Only were that money guaranteed--guaranteed!--to go into public transportation projects (light rail, trolleys, etc.).
The Silk Road founder was caught because he was stupid.

My friend got robbed at gunpoint this week, her phone and purse were taken. The cops found the suspect because she had Find My iPhone enabled.

Simple things often lead to catching bad guys.
There's a marketing opportunity here for Dropbox. "Dropbox, we sync all your files, not just the links to them."
Over my years of editing Wikipedia off and on, I've come to think this is mostly a bad excuse. The issue is that very few articles meet Wikipedia's real standards for citations. Yet new content provided by experts is often challenged for lacking citations, perhaps because of a sort of status quo bias.

What needs to happen is that there should be collaboration between Wikipedia insiders who know the Wikipedia system and subject matter experts who have valuable information to add.

Worse, the demand for citations is often just absurd. There's a big difference between "this is a controversial claim that might need citations" and "no one has yet bothered to look in a basic textbook for citations."

There are real reasons why experts can't just come in and say "do it my way" but the response has to be geared towards saying "how do we take advantage of your knowledge without forcing you to learn arcane policies?"

Update: As for identifying experts, that's not altogether obvious. But if an article is an absolute mess, there should be a low bar for cleanup. If the article is in decent shape, then presumably someone is running around with a bit of subject matter knowledge, and can coordinate. Think about any area you know something about: how quickly can you distinguish someone who generally is on target from someone who doesn't have a clue?
Why do they need the overhead of HTTPS for internal use like this?
So you're saying lavabit is at fault for using SSL exactly how it was designed to be used?

Did you know that your bank uses the same exact approach to SSL security? Did I just blow your mind?
He mentions using Google Docs from the start, which eventually became Drive.
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> And surely it would be better to have many implementations than a couple?

Its probably better to have more qualified people working on (analyzing and validating, particularly) a smaller number of production implementations than fewer people per implementation doing that with a larger number of production implementations.

Encryption is an area where doing one, very precisely defined, task correctly is critically important; the considerations in that domain are different than in many other domains of software.
Before SearchMe was shut down and had its assets liquidated, I built the tool that took all of the screenshots for the search results. (SeRPs were presented as a series of screenshots rather than a list of links; see http://techcrunch.com/2008/03/11/searchme-launches-new-searc... for some examples.) The toughest thing to get right was consistent screenshots of Java and Flash content.

I can't get your app to load, but does it handle at least those two plugins? If so, how? And if not, do you plan to change that?
Your QA doesn't have to install an extension. Imagine cross-browser or cross-device testing (desktop, mobile, even IE!) or imagine the feedback comes from your (development) customers. Usually, you'll get unstructured emails with near-zero screenshots / meta information.
Charles Darwin, his was both a scientific and cultural revolution. All modern biology is taught with evolution as the overarching explanatory framework.
I have a problem with surveillance in general and I don't think that private surveillance is really any better. Because it still descends from government, I think you'd end up with most of the same problems in addition to problems resulting from trying to make profit.

I mean, what surveillance companies are going to get the most contracts and make the most money? The ones that 'discover' dissent groups, non-peaceful demonstrations, and terrorists. Given that these are relatively rare in our society, a business has incentive to forge evidence on groups and hand them over to law enforcement. Since we're just talking surveillance, no real crimes have to be committed. We can't expect the businesses to be transparent in their methods, because that's their competitive advantage. Whatever government agency signing the checks would be just as happy with this as with their own illegal spying, because they get to point to all these 'wins'.

I guess my point is that moving a controversial issue from the public sector to the private sector doesn't make it magically better. You can say you're fine with it "as long as it's legal", but that qualifier can be applied to government surveillance, too. The problem is that this kind of surveillance lends itself to corruption. I've seen nasty things happen at Thanksgiving parades. What percentage certainty do we need of a demonstration becoming disruptive before law enforcement comes down on the heads of the organizers? 90%? 50%? How often do you think a protest against the current establishment is going to cross that threshold?

Gah, </ramble>
Python bindings! Finally I can stop using dictionaries like a common peasant.
Disproportionate retaliation against insurgency has been popular at around that last stage of yours. It's not that innovative, though, and doesn't qualify as a step.
It is webscale...

"Locking
We use a database level lock implemented via a task-fair atomic spinlock queue for concurrency control ..."

Fantastic, database level locking!
If you move a file out of the Dropbox folder it is deleted from Dropbox
This reminded me of the Google Perceptual Diff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUAZt0PFMQk
https://github.com/bslatkin/dpxdt
"You put in other details"
It's just very unintuitive and it deviates from the popular and most accepted paradigm. I would think Google drive syncs your actual files, and that it would just choose Google Docs as its default editor.
You can get over money not made. It becomes harder and harder to get over lost opportunities for exciting ventures.

Do what most don't: take the risk and start something.
I don't think the one line quote from the hearing necessarily supports the headline, but I certainly don't have high hopes that the site is secure; the number of bugs and inconsistencies I found just trying to create an account dissolved any hope of that.
Looks like this is just a developer device (carriers wont be carrying it), but Tizen phones are set to launch before the end of the year.

With Firefox OS, Ubuntu Phone, and MeeGo/Sailfish, it seems that other open source mobile OSes are getting traction. At the very least manufacturers and carriers want to work with them enough to ship products.
Exactly. I live in Denmark and sure many of us use our bikes from transportation, but I guess that a large portion of the newly purchased bikes are for exercise.

Most of us can't afford a car that we drive just for fun, but most can afford even a $4000 - $5000 bike that's just for fun. Included in these statistics are mountain bikes and racing bikes that people ride only in the weekends.

The number of people commuting on their bikes are more interesting, but then the US and a few other countries are screwed because of the distances between the city and suburbs or industrial parks that are inaccessible by anything but a car (European countries have these too).
Yes, we are in agreement. I did not say "one single user".

Regardless, I think it's pretty bad design. I would naturally expect a file named "My Document Name.gdoc" that's sitting in a folder on my desktop to actually contain the contents of my document. That's how files normally work. Doing otherwise goes against longstanding convention.
Yes, yes and no.

Design a system where if the government wants access to one account, you have to give them access to everyones account to comply? Your fault.
As others have said,women initiate a legal divorce in ~70% of cases while some other studies have shown that women cause the divorce in over 80% of the cases (either by infidelity or some other issue which leaves the man no choice but to initiate the divorce).

It's not just kind intent, it's the world as it is. I wouldn't want my friend's marriage and family to be a martyr to the cause so I gave her the best advice I could with the knowledge and experience I had at hand.
You should serve up assets without a protocol
> They put up with their guy's frustrating habits and work to advance the relationship forward

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce#Sex_and_divorce

Myth busted
Not only is that not practical, it's not safe or healthy. People die of heat exhaustion sitting in their houses when air conditioners fail or power goes out.
This is the only way I use hacker news.
If they opened it in notepad they'd see a one-line URL, which is pretty obviously not the 5-page paper they typed. But I suppose many people wouldn't ever open it in anything other than the Drive interface, and I continue to agree it's not obvious enough for certain types of people.
So after reading that article, if I were a protestor or insurgent; I would be thinking about how to feed false information to these surveillance systems. For instance creating ghost marches; or faking mandatory response incidents in ways that are likely to get innocent bystanders beaten up or shot by the security services.

Anytime you have a fast feedback loop like this, you're going to be getting a lot of noise and a fair amount of disinformation.

Imagine a scenario in which Anonymous is sending out several hundred messages in multiple formats describing an incident in which "Just saw a guy in a suit shoot a cop at Xth and XXX" features prominently. Especially if police communications were being selectively disrupted at the same time...
You would not need to be able to edit the offline file. Instead it could still be just a link to the online version of the file, like it is now. But additionally it could contain the actual data that can be imported back to Google servers when it is accidentially deleted from the server.
As a pretty short, straight-seeming bi guy (5'2), I have a unique perspective that might be enlightening about the importance of height to women.

Although I hate projecting people onto the 0-10 spectrum, I'll do it here for illustrative purposes.

With women, I have a great deal of difficulty attracting anyone: it's less that I match with numerical ones and twos than not matching with anyone at all. Not no one--and those I do succeed with are typically even middling on the spectrum--but it's a massive crapshoot.

With men, I can go out to a bar on any night of the week and bring home someone in the top half and usually an eight or nine. Sure, that's meaningless shit, but converting those into relationships isn't difficult at all (or at least no more difficult than anyone in the gay community has converting hookups to relationships).

The difference is incredibly striking, and anyone who says height isn't a factor in women dating is so wrong that it's incomprehensible that they've ever bothered to even talk to a woman about how she feels about height in dating partners.
Whining is a pathetically accepted pastime in Europe. It assures they will never do anything about their position in the world, which should be equal or more with the US, and condemns them to live in a world where they are helpless.
social networks hv to be integrated into our real lives fr them to be susatainable.......nd ppl who cn do it will rule
Is it accurate to describe this as a faster Redis that doesn't have all of the useful data structures like lists, sets, etc?
I hadn't considered non-desktop testing -- thanks for the idea. :)
Thanks for the library and I'm glad you understand what I tried to say. The warning I was giving was not meant as criticizing your library. It was meant as a general warning when dealing with queueing ajax request when offline.
gDocs has been around for a lot longer
Doesn't really hold water as a stat unless you look at the demographics - Every child 3+ wants to own a bike in most countries.
Women are highly biased by attractiveness, and as a man, I really care about more than just physical appearance in a woman. So, yeah, you're incorrectly attacking men.
If you work on client programs, you know or should know that users don't read. It's important to prevent them from easily doing dumb stuff (where a single "do dumb stuff anyway" button does not really count as sufficient deterrence -- because it's not dumb from the user's perspective, it's only "dumb" if you know the internals).
This is surely true. It's also true that real world data loss is worse than nonsense internet flaming.

I think the arguments can be dumb too, but the guy actually lost files here. And it's the kind of mistake I could see myself making pretty easily. In other contexts you protect against this with non-local backups (ironically, that's probably 90% of my usage of Drive), but there's no equivalent in the cloud world. It's a real issue that needs to be addressed, I think.
No, I don't believe you.

By the way, I have tried now, you can just see or edit the document shared, nothing more
Outselling doesn't mean the competition/alternative doesn't have any usage at all.
Yes, but far, far fewer people. Most car hours are currently spent sitting in driveways and parking lots.
It's not a stereotype though, it's reality.
I would never use a spreadsheet for basing decisions on. It is just too error prone. I do not know how many trillions of euros (and dollars) have been wasted due to some excel sheets having off-by-one errors in marking rows or similar issues.
Here ya go:

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/british-police-may-h...