skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, but if you qualify for Medicaid now based on your current income then you should enroll, as it's expansion (increasing the income levels) was part of the ACA too, assuming you're in a sane state

Do they care why your income is low? For instance, if I lose my job, and decide to take a year off before looking for another job, could I go on Medicaid for a year? Or is it like unemployment benefits, where they get testy and stingy if you aren't trying to get a job?
Google encrypts search text in China
This is the same price as Amazon Glaicer at $0.01 per GB.
I think this is a really cool tool! I'd love to be able to select columns/rows in the results so I can copy/paste them elsewhere.
I think at this point I'm a little more comfortable paying more for a company that I know won't abandon this market.

I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time?

Google is very haphazard with their web properties. Sometimes they shutter them, sometimes they stuff them in the closet.

Google Reader, Wave, etc, you know. the stories. What scares me more are the ones that are visibly on the chopping block. You can see their agony from space.

Google Groups used to be huge, now to get to them you must click Apps -> More -> Even more from Google -> Scroll to the bottom of the page. It's 5th last. I expect them to announce it read-only within 2 years and totally closed within 5.

Google Finance was once the best stock screener and data-mine. Back in the day it was the only free service with real-time stock update. Google was proud to announce that and it was amazing. Today it still uses Flash, the stock screener is broken, portfolio's can barely be rearranged.

What guarantee do we have here? Why should I be more comfortable letting Google back up my stuff instead of Dropbox? I need a strong, material answer from Google on this question long before a few dollar bills become the important matter of distinction.

~~~

I'm sorry if I come off as scaremongering. The point I'm trying to make is that most people who want their data backed-up well, for a long time, probably care less about the exact dollar amount and more about (perceived) longevity of the service. Sometimes, Google exits markets for reasons that are unclear to many, and it needs to tangibly remedy that perception.
Because the race has already started a while ago. In this space, network effect is quite important as popularity increases usefulness. Also, Drive does not work as well -- no delta sync, no Linux client (that I find incredible, really -- it's OK that there's no Skydrive client for Linux, but Google Drive?).
Also, mobile sync is worse with Drive as it tries to direct you to Google+.
When we were renovating our house, we kept about an order of magnitude more liquid than usual. Writing checks for $O(15k) on a weekly basis will cause you to do that.
Agreed. I wonder if percentages would be more appropriate.
Nope. From another article:

"The suspect was asked to pull over at a sobriety check point and instead sped away from a police car. He smashed through a police barricade and then plowed down people, some of them lined up outside a nightclub, over a span of two blocks."
Warning, if you have cookies blocked, this will hang the page, at least Firefox. That's a new one.
How do other Bay Area county/city systems match up? E.g. have you tried making a similar arrangement with AC transit and was/would it have been easier or harder?
The same kind of arguments are used to argue against the Second Amendment: "I don't care if guns make people safer in their homes. If it's that easy to lose control and shoot your spouse, we shouldn't encourage it."

The fact that immoral men exist and occasionally do terrible things should not bias us against the vast majority of good men for whom such acts are unthinkable.
I'm not saying there's a fix for it... Or that it's even a broken system. I just, out of the kindness of my heart, wish a guy down on his luck could at least have some worry lifted off of him when his life is literally ending. Do I feel for everyone else struggling in the world? In some cases, yes, in others, no. Circumstance dictates my feelings. Tell me another sob story and I'll likely feel for that person as well.
Toroken: incentivizing Tor nodes with Bitcoin
per month? That's $120/year, or $360 for 3 years.

I think you can buy a couple of 3 TB hard drives for that.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was some attempt to get more of your data for ad analysis.

I'd rather stick with Dropbox or AeroFS, at least security/privacy is a priority there.
If I'm going to be automating jobs away, they may as well be jobs that are generally loathed.

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Yes, but it's zoomable.
It's a significant market, not just in size, but in willingness to spend money.

I didn't find Windows complex -- One nice thing about the MS world is the homogeneity of the stack, which makes a lot of things easier if it works for you. If you want to run something else, you probably don't want to run it on Windows anyway.
Is this true? Seems like a huge oversight - why would you implement syncing without deltas?
Since it's a new model,How is the response from drivers you try to recruit ?
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Something with Wordpress business model would be great. You build a tool to build tools (or a tool to build ERPs). Provide a few samples, ready from the shelf; a way to end users build simple enough systems and a way to software architects build complex and niche ERPs and sell through your marketplace.

The architects would be the WP designers, creating the ERP "themes". Sounds neat to me.
$9.99/month for Dropbox 100gb plan.
I'm sorry, I didn't do any other research other than the info on the project website.
I recently got into BOINC again because of my frustration with so many people having their computers churning away just to generate a few $ worth of cryptocoins each day.
I was looking for some interesting projects to grind, and found WCG.

I find it really sucky that it hardly gets any traction anymore. Our combined computing powers are vastly growing every day, yet these efforts are not reaching mainstream.
Bigger companies who'd love to show they are involved with the world, would rather post donations.

Maybe donations are more effective, who knows.
I have a feeling we are missing out. I've been thinking of ways to have the system get more traction, or something that would stimulate development/improvements of a distributed computing grid for world problems, but can't figure it out.

If anything I would love to contribute my time and efforts to promote such a thing. I think being able to prolong the live expectancy of many patients, cheaper cures, or right-out curing some types of cancer is a very viable platform that could get some traction down these lines, and a very important one at that.

I can see why the idea of looking for ET or analyzing gamma ray bursts to map neutron stars is a bit distant for people.

I think this proves once again that scientists suck at marketing. Maybe we can help out, start a combined collaboration project to improve the efficiency of distributed workloads in this specific field to start with.

As I'm writing this, more and more I want to do this. But I'm just a webdev with the powers of Google at my disposal.
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Neither of them are. Grid (http://www.binarythumb.com) is the closest thing to it.
Why a XML mapping file? If you don't like getters/setters no one is forcing you. A fully function JPA entity class is:

@Entity
public class TableName {
@Id public int primaryKeyColumnName;
public String someOtherColumnName;
@Column(name="DESC") public String fieldThatDidNotMatchColumnName;
}

How the heck did you get to thousands of lines of code without even having an functionality? You can create a RESTful webservice that does basic CRUD ops to a database in just a handful of lines....

And unfortunately there are tons of legacy APIs (backwards compatibility...) available in any Java EE app server like GlassFish. Hopefully they really will start pruning things from the spec.

Do you want to create a basic CRUD web service with your hip-Startupy method of choice and I'll create a Java equivalent so we can compare? I'm curious about how it would play out.
I recently started using Google+ Photos to upload my pictures to the cloud, it's awesome. I would definitely recommend, especially now with the new lower price.
In my experience on US networks, the ring that you hear is completely artificial and the network will have it start before the phone is actually found. That's how you can get a minute or so of ringing followed by the "cannot be found" message.

Seriously, what is the thesis here, that the phones are still 1) intact, 2) charged, 3) on the network, 4) cannot or are not answered, 5) cannot be located? How would those things even make sense, several days after the planes disappearance? That plane sure as shit isn't still flying...

People are identifying something that they consider weird (phones of people on a lost plane ringing) and are using it to justify their pet theories on what happened (involving the phones actually legitimately ringing), without explaining why their pet theory makes anything less weird.
I can not see how Saudi Arabia got that far,corruption is sucking billions there yet it ranks higher than many other countries.
It's rational to be irrational, because being irrational feels good, which is what makes life worth living. At least this is true for the average person. There are individuals who get a lot out of a more methodical evidence-driven life.
By the way, if you're a developer who wants to try Atom, go ahead and ask someone on the HN invite tree:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7376063

Keep in mind that Atom is currently OSX only.
Is FUD really necessary?
Single biggest shortcoming about Google Drive in an enterprise environment: There's no option to download an entire folder from a shared (public) link.

We use Google Apps but not all of our customers / partners / contractors do, and some large collections of shared files need to be downloaded and not simply viewed on a public webpage.
We haven't, but that's a great idea. There are some limitations that tether us to cities (so networks like SamTrans in Palo Alto aren't ideal), but AC in the East Bay would be an excellent fit.

Thanks!
It's hard to predict the future, but it seems grids are very basic and powerful.
$99.00 annually, $8.25 average per month for 120GB
They're providing power, redundancy, and network connectivity.
Docs for reversers and searchers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia
Well, no official Linux client. There's SyncDrive, which is based on Grive.
Just because you have "intellectual" in your name doesn't mean you're not a group of disingenuous idiots.
I currently pay Google $5/year for 20GB. I use half of this. I'm supposed to be really excited about what a good deal it is that I can pay five times as much for five times as much storage that I'm not using...?
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Out of curiosity, which plan were you using? The basic $5 VPS?
That's not a fair comparison.
Very nice laptop, pity they couldn't match the retina MBP screen resolution.
And backups/replication/off-site storage, security, maintenance, etc.
I recall reading about bribery in North Korea fairly often. I mean, as a foreigner I'm sure it wouldn't get you there, but if you actually live there it sounds fairly common to use bribery to get better jobs, access to schooling, food, or what have you.
Is anybody else bothered by the "The Google Drive folder selected is not empty. Please select an empty folder" thing of Google Drive? Or just me?

If you have 100G / 1T of stuff in Google Drive, you cannot copy them from one computer to another computer's google drive folder. You have to wait Google Drive for downloading all of them from the cloud... Insane...
Great points all around, thank you for making them! Please don't help perpetuate this myth about whole life being a "rip off" though. Your statement is semi-accurate, but a bit misleading.

Don't get whole life - it's generally a rip off

Yes, if purchased from a non-mutual, financially shaky insurance company, it's quite likely a bad idea.

However, when purchased from a financially strong mutual insurance company (Northwestern Mutual, Guardian Life, etc.), it can make a great complement to term life insurance (and can be beneficial to the overall financial plan for a number of reasons).

One wouldn't want to "fully" insure themselves with whole life (that'd be cost prohibitive and inappropriate from an asset allocation perspective), but again, as a small piece it can make a lot of sense.

Anyway, didn't mean to detract from your overall points. It's hard to put a specific number on peoples' insurance needs without knowing their situation, but the spirit of your points was spot on. Especially about "own occupation" disability coverage - which I think is especially relevant for programmers.

TL;DR on insurance: Talk to a professional that you trust, figure out what amount of protection makes sense, and get protected. Term life insurance is an affordable way to get a lot of financial protection for your family. Your ability to earn an income is perhaps your greatest financial asset (edit: assuming you have many working years ahead of you), so treat it as such. Think about protecting it with disability income insurance.

I'm heartbroken every time I read one of these deeply personal stories. The situation is already stressful enough - one shouldn't have to worry about how the family will keep the lights on.

[Source: I once worked in financial services]
It's possible I'm mistaken, but all the examples of 'abandonment' you've listed are free.

Here, you're paying. It's a business. You've got the same guarantee as you've got with Dropbox.
Well one of the interesting things could be house buying. A number of people during the dot com meltdown were buying houses and waiting to exercise their options at the last minute because they wanted the price to be as high as possible. Except that when it came time to buy their stock value had plummeted. Forcing them to either sell more than they intended, or abandon the house purchase, or restructure the purchase.

People with that experience might sell their assets, hold the money in their account until everything has settled, and then move forward.

Also folks who sell stock options often have big tax bills to pay. But rather than slosh that money into and out of something that pays .5% interest they are just leaving it in their account until sending it to the IRS on 4/15.

The bottom line is it is that the answers look different from two sides of the bank balance :-)

I don't think I have ever left that much money in my account for any length of time, but I do recall the CEO of a company I helped get started put the $1.5M series A check into their account while waiting to transfer it over to the newly established corporate accounts. He joked the bank staff treated him very well after that :-).
fifty times as much storage.
My wife was at the Mohawk, an hour and a half before this happened. :( Pretty scary.
HA! I was using their $160/mo option with 16gb of RAM.
Fair point, Google does abandon projects. Although I think that Google is very focused on the cloud, it's a key market for them now and likely in the future. I think nothing is future proof but Google Drive is likely just as good of a bet as the others.

Worst case, you know Google will give you plenty of options and time to select a new provider if they did indeed shut down Google Drive.
Hey, indeed, part of the easy learning curve is that all of the kits (i.e. the part that developers actually use in their projects) are open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/prismicio
Also, learning how to develop with it could really hardly be easier, check out the 10-minute video on the developer's portal: https://developers.prismic.io/
So sad :(

These incidences always force me to think something is wrong -- seriously wrong -- with this world. But keeping the faith.
This should still raise the question: do sobriety checkpoints save lives? Even though this was the fault of the driver, and obviously an extremely rare event, would those people still be alive if the driver had just gone home?

I'm not anti-checkpoint or anything.
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Google Encrypts Search, Aims To Foil China, NSA
FDIC insurance is generally on a per-bank basis. You could have multiple accounts across banks each up to $250k.

Generally though there's things like Brokerage Accounts etc which offer higher levels of insurance (SIPC) and easy mechanisms to spread monies across several banks and account services (CDARS for CDs and MMAX for money market accounts).

At that point hopefully you have someone managing your money wisely to help navigate these kinds of things.
To add to this:

I find Digital Ocean's community/blog content impressive. In most instances I can google "Install X on Digital Ocean" and they have a solid, well updated walkthrough.
I just downloaded brackets, but it won't let me use Firefox, it forces me to use Chrome, so no Brackets for me.
I was two blocks away at Stubb's when this was going on, and I walked through that area many times already during SXSW. I very rarely realize how fragile my life is, but events like this make it real.
I think the question of where you incorporate depends on two factors. First is citizenship. Are you (or your friend) U.S. citizens? If so you have a bunch of tax hobbles that will slow you down.

Second is where your customers are. This is both a tax question (you want to pay less tax) and a business question (you want to collect more money more easily).

If you need Stripe or its equivalent, you dance to the tune they play. Organize in the USA and bend to their will.

If your customers are in the USA you have to look at whether you have "U.S. source income" -- a defined technical jargon-y concept. If so, it doesn't matter where or what you (or your company) happen to be. The U.S. wants tax.

You have to look at brain damage, complexity, and cost. Don't focus so much on financial cost when thinking about your business structure. Think about opportunity cost. An hour spent thinking about this is an hour you did not spend writing books or marketing them.

Until the stakes are high -- several million a year of revenue -- don't get too complicated. Yeah Apple 'n Google do fun stuff. But they have billions of dollars and you (and I) don't. :-)

Keep it simple. Don't optimize for tax too early. You'll make more in building your business fast than you will spending the same amount of time and thinking on tax strategies.
I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years.

As a counterpoint to that, Dropbox might not exist in 5 years. Google most likely will.

Basically, there is no answer here that guarantees the future of your cloud storage. It's useful to access your files from multiple locations, but using it for long term file archival seems like asking for disappointment (as well as being a neat way of throwing money into the sky).
It nags me that even at this great price I'm not jumping up and down to switch from Dropbox. Why is this?

-- Once you start using Dropbox there are some serious network effects. It takes a lot of work to get all your friends (both work and personal) to move.

-- Even though Google Drive is so much cheaper it just doesn't seem to have the usability of Dropbox. I find the web interface really hard to use for some reason. Finding documents, figuring out who share what with who.

I don't know. At this point Google might need to pay me to switch.
No problem. I thought that as well until I had to boot linux on my mac for an SSD upgrade.

Witness the help pages organized by specific MBP version: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro yes, it is that complex.
Put them on a server I control and check access logs.
Are they on AWS or hosting your own hardware? What OS?
Sorry, you don't know that Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years.
The sad decline of Google Finance from best in class to also-ran is really depressing. I use Yahoo Finance now, which includes an outrageously easy API.
As someone who is averse to risk and wants 1-2 years of equivalent salary reserves, what are some other options?
Changing the headline on this article REALLY REALLY SUCKS.
22 Billion in Cash found in a drug lord's home
I don't have to imagine this, though, I've done it on iOS. It works fine, because you're rarely working with 1000 items at once. With pagination, you cache the old results, and only calculate the new 50 or so rows at a time.
Chinese researchers debunk high-profile stem cell study
Who cares? If they close it, you signup for a competitor and re-upload the data. Even if they do close it, you'll have months to copy everything.

And besides, if you're relying on a single system for all your backups, you're doing it wrong.
Yes. A policy that covers you into old age costs WAY more. But by that point you hope your dependents are financially established.
I'm sure I am in the minority, but avoid bus trips wherever possible because I get horribly motion sick on them. I few years ago I had a job with a 20 minute bus commute and it was torture. I'd break out in a cold sweat every time and stagger off the bus feeling light headed and dizzy.

This does seem to be an inherent problem for me with road vehicles. I experience a similar problem riding in the back of a car. I'm not immune from motion sickness on trains, but it is an order of magnitude better.
Same here, I hate it. Perhaps it's just resistance to change, but have been acutely conscious of seeing less information (due to the larger font size) the last few days and feel less inclined to search iteratively.
Are most sobriety checkpoints in an area with a lot of pedestrians nearby?
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This is slightly off the mark as you can't edit data with this tool, but this past year I worked on building a tool for manipulating data from an rdbms in the browser using only clicks. It was an effort to get beyond traditional enterprise reporting frameworks, but more importantly it was my "learn Clojure by building something kinda useful" project. I have it hosted on Heroku here:
http://efreportsdemo.herokuapp.com/

Since I mostly use this project for resume fodder, it only uses one dyno and could probably stand to be a bit more secure (my postgres db should probably be a "follower"). Tangentially, it really wouldn't be very difficult to get this to support multiple datasources - some even csv file based.
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What AWS gives you is much more flexibility and a broad ecosystem of services. So you can start small with a micro in the free tier but be able to scale to Netflix-level if/when you need it. If you want one-click like deployment capabilities you can use third-party software like Bitnami images http://bitnami.com/stacks , which are also available in the AWS marketplace (disclaimer, I am a cofounder of Bitnami). We have also a Cloud management tool that offers a similar Digital Ocean experience on top of AWS http://bitnami.com/cloud and that has a free tier.