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When was the last time techcrunch posted something worth reading?
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Most people do their investing before they retire.
Doesn't seem like a stretch to imagine Dropbox has very attractive margins.
Erik Meijer has complained about this in the past. The answer is that it require a change in thinking. Object-oriented programming encourages the programmer to think about objects first (duh) and later ask what methods are available to them. Functional programming is the opposite. You think of the verbs first; the nouns themselves are interchangeable. So the simple answer is this:

(fo<cursor>

Pressing tab (or whatever invokes your auto-complete) would pop up a list of options such as this:

(foo
(foo-bar
(foo-bar-baz

As for exploration, Clojure has tools such as doc and find-doc to help you search for a particular function.
Downvoted? really? for pointing out a huge problem with Dropbox business model?
People who make great choices, can end up in bad situations and vice versa. I think people should stop trying rationalise bad circumstances.
Uruguay's likely cannabis law could set tone for war on drugs in Latin America
According to http://neo900.org/faq, an assembled device is expected to cost from €600 to €850. For that price you get a bunch of obsolete[1] hardware packed into a case design so outdated it's still got a physical keyboard.

Also from the FAQ, their goal is to manufacture somewhere around 200 devices.

[1] http://neo900.org/specs

* CPU: Texas Instruments DM3730, 1 GHz
* RAM: 512 MB/1 GB
* Storage: 1 GB NAND + SD card
* Screen: 3.5" TFT, 800x480, resistive
* OS: Debian GNU/Linux
Holding onto mine until I see a dip; this is shooting straight to the moon right now.
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Why on Earth would that be relevant?
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The only thing that I'd label as being inspired by chrome is their proximity to the top, which is what people saw as new and innovative at the time. If they'd just stopped there, you might have a point. But they didn't.
Very similar configuration as mine: http://imgur.com/PiehG1V

I have simplified and totally removed the search bar.

Some tweaks to get just an icon for the menu in the top left and also remove the close buttons in each tab. Probably something else I don't remember.

I thought this australis revision would make firefox look better integrated in the environment, not less, it seems they want to make it look the same in all plataforms...

I'm not a huge fan of that, but I'll wait to see if it can be integrated better of not.
That would however permanently damage Amazon's AWS business, which Bezos believes could become their largest revenue generator. Amazon and Dropbox aren't even competitors at the moment. Very unlikely.
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> That is a complete non sequitur.

Agreed. I'm not remotely a fan of the war on drugs or its consequences for the prison-industrial complex or the militarization of the police.

The real root is really shitty legislation based on shitty moralizations based on shitty philosophical grounds, the absurd nature of how the police are funded, and the ridiculous political reality of law enforcement offices. It's such a multifaceted problem that I'm unwilling to try to tackle it myself.

But all of this was just a handy example for why wishing for an "empirical investigation" is not necessarily the right way to go about things.
It's a new mobo for an existing N900.
I don't think religious attendance necessarily means moral education. Some people do get that out of religion, many do not. Some in fact get ammunition for frameworks of immorality.

My feeling is that, today as a hundred years ago, the bulk of moral education comes from watching and interacting with other humans. Parents, teachers, friends, and neighbors hurting you, helping you, being hurt by you, being helped by you, and discussing all of the above.
I should note that the Rust version currently omits some features of the C++ version, such as read-limiting and the actual counting of the throughput. These things are cheap, but they may explain why Rust is faster in that one case.
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So as soon as you looked solemn/depressed on a regular basis, people started flocking to you? :)
Step 3 doesn't have to happen for money supply expansion to take place. If the bank lends out $0.90 of the $1, people in the economy will be acting like $1.90 of money exists.
> Deflation is a good thing in a currency since it increases it's value when you aren't spending it.

Its a good thing in a store of value and a bad thing in a medium of exchange. Modern currency mostly tries to optimize for the medium of exchange use case, which encourages investment in other things -- like businesses, land, etc. -- for store of value of purposes.
Startup is giving out free Bitcoin today
You would think an 8billion dollar business would be able to afford a server or two (or datacenter or two) and not be reliant completely on someone else
Now I'm curious what part of the T&C makes it problematic to use Flash on a VM. What exactly is it that you're afraid would persist beyond a VM deletion?
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Not sure, There are a lot of indirect costs as well which dropbox needs to pay off. IMO, If they are profitable, PM would be >30% before taxes.
I'm not sure I get this? This seems to be "Governments control outsized amounts of cash and make bad decisions, for which well financed private markets exploit their bad positions sucking at the tax money and eventually a crisis occurs ending the situation till another political arbitrage occurs."

it's just that a lot of the crises listed are to me less "political corruption and collusion with financiers and more the road to hell being paved with good intentions. ending political corruption is feasible, ending good intentions?
Do they still? I would have thought that by this stage they'd have started building their own (at least mini-) data centers.
Although I see your point, I think it's being a bit unfair because I could tell you the same thing:

new <cursor>

What would tab show you? All the possible objects?

You at least need a base to get started.. in lisp, it's not uncommon to have functions defined as (character-move), so (character-<tab>) works well. But even without that, since lisps use functions at its root instead of objects, it makes sense to know the ones you want to use.
We did some benchmarking on IRC today in light of this post and we found that Rust's stdio is currently quite slow due to a flag not being set properly in libuv which causes it to punt to a thread pool. There is currently a fix in the queue: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10558
W3C CEO revises history of patent war
I'd expect the CIA to know how to launder money competently. It seems like a ridiculously obvious thing for them to learn how to do.
Thanks, how did you find out this was the right place?
A bigger threat would be Amazon competing with Dropbox, not some passive-aggressive slight.
Those old enough to have been online for the W3C patent wars ought to be incensed by this. My reply is here:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-restrictedmedia/2...
It was Python trying to figure out where its modules and such were. It would try a bunch of likely-seeming directories and get ENOENT until it finally hit the right place. Most HPC systems are kind of expecting that you'll ship a single compiled C/C++ binary to each node, each of which may read a file or two of input from the fileserver. With Python, we had a thousand times as many requests and it just killed the poor thing.

This was on an IBM BlueGene. You can make your own call on the design quality of the system.
This is HN. Trash talking anything Java related is image-enhancing amongst code fashionistas.
Senate takes a close look at Bitcoin
When a man cuts my lawn for free, I try not to complain that he doesn't also do the hedges.
Twitter's and Dropbox's business models couldn't be more different. Heck, everything about their businesses is dissimilar. This comparison is idiotic.
Are there any plans for Dropbox to move to its own infrastructure? At their scale, I would think it would be much cheaper just going by how much Everpix was paying Amazon for storage.
...and their own ISPs, and their own operating system developed completely internally...
...

500 clicks * 5% CR * $10 Conversion Value – 500 clicks * $.25 CPC = 125.00

750 clicks * 5% CR * $10 Conversion Value – 750 clicks * $.375 CPC = 93.75

...

This list made it seem like bidding higher makes all clicks more expensive. Would bidding $.375 CPC not also get you those 500 clicks @ $.25 CPC that you were getting before?

I was under the impression that your bid is the highest you are willing to pay, so you should bid up to your earnings per click.
Interesting approach, and not unreasonable, I'd guess.

Current demand (presumably resulting from its recent traction in China) is insane. Price is marching straight up and to the right even as I type this.

So, looks like the demand from new entrants is establishing at least a new range. Barring some horrible news, it's becoming difficult to see the sharp drop we've seen before. But, I guess that depends on how you look at it: The new entrants are either feeding the bubble or they're actually transferring wealth into BTC for the longer term. This article suggests the latter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6756614

EDIT: In addition, there seems to be a momentum building around BTC with Senate hearings today, more recent VC activity, and more media coverage, etc. I'm wondering if we're seeing a threshold-crossing here, and we'll look back to see this as the moment when BTC's future as a real alternative currency was sealed.
So lethal force isn't justified, say, if someone is coming to take your family into indefinite detention or slavery? So long the attacker isn't going to kill or seriously hurt them physically, then you've got to just try to talk them out of it?
I found it funny that a German, often associated in the U.S. as a serious humorless country, was curious about why Russians never smile.

I can attest though, having spent a little bit of time in the Russian interior as a student that, at least to this American, Russians in public come across as rude, cold distant and all that, but once a Russian gets to know you (usually over some vodka and pickles) are almost unfailingly warm, kind and generous people who have ready smiles in the intimacy of close friends.
Valuing any company by comparing it to Twitter, a company many consider to be crazily overvalued, seems somewhat inaccurate... I'm sure the Dropbox board has a better idea of what the company is actually worth.
Yes, if you could subdivide and send Beanie Babies around the world in minutes for a few cents.
With fractional reserve banking, it's not that the bank has to keep 1% of the money they have on deposit, it's that the bank gets to invent 1000% of the money it has on deposit. And it doesn't have to borrow money from the Fed in order to do it, it gets to make up the money on its own. Steps 2 and 4 should read $10 and Step 3 doesn't exist.

And step 4 should really read "Bank A marks Customer B as having $10". The vast majority of the money in our economy is numbers on ledger sheets. From there, Customer B uses it to pay off a debt of some kind with Customer C, who then pays Customer D, etc., until supposedly the money eventually gets back to Customer B in some way. Except Customer C deposited the money in Bank B, so Bank B can now lend out $100 to Customer E.

That's why pyramid schemes are illegal, the banks hate competition.

So yes, it especially doesn't work for bitcoins, because how do you make a blockchain for fractional bitcoins based on a mined bitcoin? The mined bitcoin is the one that has the blockchain. You can't make a bitcoin transaction without first checking the blockchain for double-spending, say nothing about 10x spending.
Why would AWS sink what I presume is one of their biggest customers? This is analogous to claiming that any distributor could go under if their supplier refused to continue to supply them.
Man, please don't reason in terms "better" or "worse", this is way to nowhere.
I've faced so many cases of mutual aid or lack of it where very different nations was involved, that i generally can't consider this as competition.
Yip, we have a lot of cynics and history moments like "government fired your asses again, hehe", we have advanced prison culture and argo as fell as French do. But if there will be case that i stay without supplies in the middle of apocalypse, Russians isn't the worst choice ))
Another offer of support - drop me a line if you want a hand with not just technical security, but Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) aspects to such a project.

I suspect a project like this has more complex Governance, Risk and Compliance issues than most. Where possible, work with an existing charity working in this area, as they should already have practices in place to manage this.
Why should Amazon do that? Does not make any sense they need and want to keep businesses like DropBox on AWS.

They are a service provider and want to make money.
E.g. in Norway you don't receive welfare unless you've been actively employed for some years.
Just received 0.0007 BTC (0.54 USD). I'll take it.
Their traffic is not even close to Netflix and yet, Netflix runs on AWS.
Netflix, with a market cap of 20 billion, has their infrastructure completely dependent on AWS, as well. Doesn't seem to be spooking markets.
I was experiencing much worse battery times on a MBP which is why I'm reluctant to get a MBA, yet it is such an appealing notebook.
Anybody have any idea what the distribution is here for consumer vs business?

I've literally never heard of anyone, company or individual, paying for Dropbox.
> "Hiring people takes my time. People who save me time will make my job easier, so I'm more likely to hire them."

Uh, yes. That is trivially true. Do you think you stumbled upon some genius snarky comment? Given two options with zero tradeoff in quality, I will choose the easier path.

Internal studies also showed that employees who contributed to OSS were more productive, more loyal, and created better value.

It doesn't really matter if you'd want to work for us or not, so keep that zinger in your back pocket. (Considering I don't even work in that field anymore and you'd likely be unqualified anyway.)
That sounds to me a great way to alienate the casual fan. What will be the effect when the team decides that it needs a new stadium and wants tax breaks, subsidies, and so on? This could be the beginning of an era of common sense--but probably won't be.
If you could on expand why you would have expected that, that would be interesting to hear.
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I think your assertion that havesting grain led to civilization is the most likely hypothesis but, I'm not convinced we started harvesting grain for food. We've discovered cups with trace amounts of beer that pedate plates with trace amounts of bread by 3,000 years. Again, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence but the theory that we brewed beer before we baked bread is well supported. But, just because we may have invented civilization around beer does not make it the cornerstone of a healthy diet.
Are there not several DropBox clones on GitHub?

And several competitors already there (and something called Box that is less consumer orientated?)

Add in the switching costs are low to non-existent (it is just git isn't it?) - surely their competitive most is almost non-existent - in which case their profits are going to constantly eaten by competitors.

What is it I am missing?
Unless there was nobody bidding more than you, or nobody whose (bid * quality score) was better than yours, you won't get those 500 clicks at $0.25 anymore. Your ad will now appear higher than some other ad it appeared below in searches, and you'll pay what it costs to outbid that other advertiser. Increasing your bid almost always results in increasing your average CPC.

If you are bidding on searches where there's no competition, bidding more almost always means paying more for no benefit, too. I have bids on my searches related to my sites' brand names, which nobody else advertises on. When I set a CPC of $1 per click, Google would charge me something like $0.65 per click. When I dropped the bid to $0.50, they'd charge me $0.35 for the same clicks on the same placement. If I bid too little, they won't show the ad at all.
I really, really want a physical keyboard.
You may go a little faster with `--opt-level=3` and no `-Z debug-info` for the Rust.
They were planning to change at one point, I believe, but Amazon lowered their prices - and later introduced Glacier - which may have dissuaded them.
WITH OR WITHOUT THIS INFO, what do you think? Is real life like the matrix?
It doesn't; I can assure you of that since I made it.
Doesn't seem like the kind of person who can give security lessons to anyone
Seems to me that most alternatives have far shorter battery times than the MBA, even those that cost more. Could somebody who uses Linux (Ubuntu pref) post their actual battery times? I haven't found any notebook that will run for more than 3 hours that is lighter than the MBA.
>Are there not several DropBox clones on GitHub?

Why do we keep believing that a better, freer mousetrap has anything to do with valuation?
I agree wholeheartedly. Pilot programs, while not definitive, have shown drastic reductions in complaints against officers, as well as use of force:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/business/wearable-video-ca...
I'd give my right arm for something that did this auto-magically for my bookmarks.

http://cottontracks.com/
I as an individual don't have the power to stop, detain, and imprison someone. I don't have a "license to kill".

Putting GPS on cars that are paid for by the taxpayer and are used by people with more power than a regular citizen is hardly some far reaching nanny state, it is just good practice.
I see a lot of comments about Russians being inherently miserable creatures, the climate not being conducive to smiling and even bad dental work as reasons. Let me give an example from another culture where smiling is risky: India. When I first moved there, I quickly realized that people smile only at those they know. Strange women don't smile at you for fear of inviting harassment. Soon as a guy, you don't smile at anyone so as to not invade their space.

When I first came to America, I realized that a lot of Americans had this unique and amazing ability to blast you with a radiant smile and cheerily ask after you. It is a meaningless social convention that can get annoying at times. It is always intriguing to me when I travel abroad, how my cheery attitude slowly dissipates and then how the readjustment happens when I come back to America.

tl;dr: people are different.
Netflix also has a very different use case. Building a data center that can meet the storage needs of Dropbox seems much simpler than building one that can meet the compute/bandwidth needs of Netflix.
nitrogen's posts indicate that he works in the field of mocap, and so he probably knows just as well as I do that these designs/developments are ridiculously hard to do.

Besides, kickstarters that rely on hardware fab probably have the highest failure rate on the whole site.
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I'm not saying he's right and not criminally liable for his actions. I'm just questioning why people are so confused as to why this is justifiable, in some peoples' opinions.

As to the specific example: If someone is trying to shoot you, no one would wonder why you shoot back. The bank robber would be held responsible because it's his action of robbing the bank that started the whole mess.

If you were sitting peacefully in your home, and someone broke down the door and started firing, you'd be quite justified in returning fire. (Even legally, depending on state, AFAIK.)

Folks sympathetic to DPR are more likely to view him in the second category. He was peacefully minding his own business running a marketplace when someone threatened him, his buyers, and his vendors. These folks are likely to view access to medicines as a moral action, and thus DPR and people involved with SR to be people doing the right thing, despite an oppressive government
So a bitcoin is a cryptographic hash, right? Not much more than a GUID that is truly G and really, really hard to calculate. To make a transaction, you have to check the blockchain of the bitcoin to make sure it hasn't been double-spent, that the person you're receiving the bitcoin from has the right to give you that coin.

How would you fraction a bitcoin, thereby allowing 10x spending? You can't just invent new bitcoin hashes, because the creation of valid bitcoin hashes is the mining process itself, and is designed to be time-consuming.
Unfortunate.

I've moved on to using DLT with 60-120 FPS cameras but I always root for depth sensors. The problem with the depth sensors is that the sample rate on them is just horrible (25-30 Hz which is unusable for any human motion that is beyond a stroll).

We'll see how it shakes out.
One must give advice understanding that it will probably not be heard as told, and may be ignored without or after consideration. But still we seek and give advice.

I wish that I knew: that computers are fascinating to work with; that I could make a living at it; that, well, lots of things.
So I just updated from the nightly PPA, but for some reason, I still haven't gotten the UX changes... Anyone know why this is?

Building tarball right now to see if the changes are there
With all of twitter and dropbox and youtube I think about how with ubiquitous IPv6 they might get replaced with P2P protocols. A fancy OceanStore client could eventually do everything dropbox does.

All these operations seem so vulnerable to innovation that is quite likely in the next eight years. I'm skeptical about the super high valuations.
That'd be a great explanation if accurate. It just shows that pure incompetence/greed on behalf of the admin brought him down, not any special government capabilities.
It's incredible how cynical everyone is in this thread about the valuation of a company that actually MAKES MONEY and how optimistic people were about the Snapchat valuation in the thread from last week, a company that hasn't made a dime.

It seems the only way to really get a massive valuation as a "company" is to make sure you don't start making any actual money, otherwise people will stop harping about "growth is the only thing that matters, this valuation is accurate" and switch to "profit is the only thing that matters, this valuation is ridiculous."
I don't think this is the case. After all, Twitter, LinkedIn, Netflix, Square, Foursquare and eBay are pretty much JVM-only shops, almost all of Facebook's important stuff runs on the JVM, as well as much of Google and Amazon. I don't think anyone honestly thinks the JVM is not very much in fashion.
Why do they only want to track the policemen and not the policewomen?
NVM, posted too fast -- UX is working in the tarball but not in the PPA-updated version for some reason...
I just get a blank grey page.
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If you want to call something stupid, it's likely to go over better if you can provide a coherent justification for saying so, instead of linking to a gigantic page of Harry Potter fanfiction and expecting everyone else to reconstruct the argument you had in mind.

Also, "wrong" is not necessarily the same as "stupid", and "disagrees with Eliezer Yudkowsky" is not the same as "wrong".