skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you just robbed a union hall or a non-GMO organic food coop, then Uber has your back... ;)
> I don't know. At this point Google might need to pay me to switch.

That's just being a troll about things.

As for me, I'm considering switching now, but as you said, it's not a strong feeling, Dropbox is a big part of my life now.
Probably true. I think it's a matter of patience
Well, that's not surprising given that it was never a documented feature to begin with, to my knowledge.
Maintaining the Front Door to Netflix : The Netflix API
I'd like to throw Das Keyboard into the ring: http://www.daskeyboard.com/
Oh, I definitely think that there are people for who might tend to drive drunk after drinking. I'm just saying that "but I made the decision to drive drunk while drunk" doesn't get any sympathy from me.

Even if that sort of behavior while drunk caught them completely off guard the first time it happened (which I think is very unlikely, though not impossible), they later made the decision while sober to drink again. The made that decision while sober and with the knowledge that when drunk, they do things like drive drunk.

Edit:

Brief responses, since my commenting appears to be limited at the moment:

justin66: I am not like the person that did this. I do not steal cars. I don't drive while drunk. I don't flee the police when pulled over. I would never flee on foot after crashing into other cars and people. People who drive while drunk typically do it frequently. I never have.

Codhisattva: "meta-consciousness impairment occurs well before losing consciousness from alcohol poisoning." I am not saying that I have never been impaired. I am saying that despite being impaired many times, I have never been impaired in such a way that I had any desire to drive while drunk, or any delusions about my ability to do so.

unclebucknasty: "Yet, you are questioning the judgment of someone who, instead of repeatedly drinking himself into a potential coma, stops somewhere short of that and decides he can operate a vehicle." You bet your ass I am. I may have endangered my life while having a little to much fun in college, but I never drove while drunk, and I never killed anybody.

"Well, that's the thing: the grandparent is judging people who drive drunk repeatedly, while he himself repeatedly drinks to the point of losing consciousness. I just don't see the difference."

I'm going to go with the most obvious difference being body-count. That is obvious right?

Furthermore, don't worry for my health. As I have mentioned on HN in the recent past, my current drinking is down to 4-6 nights a month. I am drawing on my experience drinking, not currently struggling with drinking.

I take exception to your implication that drunk driving is some sort of inevitable phenomenon that people who drink to the point of drunkenness are powerless to avoid through anything but luck. Drunk driving only happens if you allow it to happen. If you drive drunk, it isn't because of alcohol, it is because of you. There is nobody and no thing to blame but yourself.
They won't if Google doesn't put back in a storage card slot and replaceable batteries like the Nexus One had.
Hey @cordite
Do check out their latest work, like Caminandes, It might just change your opinion :)
Caminandes Episode One : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOhiWY7XmoY Episode Two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4C82eyhwgU
Comparing gambling to guns-in-USA is not a great example, because many other countries do not recognise the right of the people to guns.
There is no such thing as a 7-minute workout that will completely get you in shape. This is a great set of exercises that, if performed twice with a short break in between and at the level they suggest, will leave you totally wiped and feeling like you received a great workout. When I'm in a good workout rhythm, 4 days a week (2x running, 2x amended 7-minute) seems to work pretty well.
Do these instructions for selective sync not work? https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375083
Comcast in the bay area charges $77/month for a residential-class connection at 50 Mbps down / 10 Mbps up.

Even if you go for a business-class connection, it's $70/month for 16/3.

In short, you need to find a better ISP. :)
> Compared to traditional game development where usually you have access to all the source it is a big pain (for me at least).

Which commercial engines do offer full source code access?
You mean like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_interlock_device ? It's operational here in nl, about 100 people a week are forced to have one installed.
You say that like I have a choice for my ISP.
We (Fivetran) connect to databases but don't support editing, our product is for analysis. Our users data comes from production SQL databases and cloud services, so editing wouldn't really make sense.
Europe embraces common charger rules to end mobile compatibility nightmare
I find it amusing that their servers aren't much more expensive than what some companies charge for an additional IP.
In access an expert can set up relationships which will cause them to be automatically joined when a less expert user adds both tables to a query.

Some knowledge is usually required to make sense of the results though but I'd say a non-expert still has more chance with access than any other tool.
That their support organization does not care about actually supporting the product is very telling to me. Especially when you have somebody willing to spend $160/mo or more and you basically tell them to 'go away'.
eli5 your posts are marked dead, so no one will be able to read them.
Where does that sort of hair-splitting get you when you consider a land line, and does that logical endpoint still make any sense at all?
For other readers, thats the Ikea POÄNG chair

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/series/07472/
Not to enter the Google v Dropbox argument, but with data caps, it's easy to slowly build up a lot of backed up data that you cannot really retrieve all at once.
Adobe Brackets, an actual free open-source editor, along with Brackets-Git (https://github.com/zaggino/brackets-git) does much of the same.
Thanks for the response. I was interested in renouncing my citizenship once I've obtained citizenship elsewhere; I should have included that in my post.
>In my opinion if there's one thing a reader should take away from this it should be that Single Page Apps and separation of server and client are The. Best. Thing. Ever

Those are two orthogonal things. All my sites have a complete separation of presentation from code and access a nice API to get data. Including the ones that are purely HTML and have no javascript at all.

Single page apps are good for things that are actually apps. Except that I want to leave the app open, and several other apps, and not have it interfere with my normal browsing. Until browsers realize this, it is actually pretty irritating to use browser apps.
Do you know why it's OSX only? Why didn't they code it multiplatform from scratch? I wish I could try it :/
Lego robots solve Rubik's cubes at Big Bang fair
got 2 invites.
Couldn't the NSA just loop the security tape to keep you warm and fuzzy while they get your drive?
"Leverage" doesn't always equate to profit (or even revenue). The "goal" of the NSA is not profit, but mass surveillance. Whereas surveillance historically has been centralized, with the onslaught of mobile devices, we now have prevalent distributed surveillance (and perhaps more so than surveillance).

All the data everyone is feeding into FB/G+/Twitter/etc about their friends and acquaintances could not have been collected on such a mass scale by the NSA alone.

If you're a privacy conscious individual, there's definitely reasons to be fearful of this approach to surveillance by any governmental intelligence agency.
FYI, it looks like Google will not auto-upgrade your 100GB plan to be $1.99/mo. You need to go into the plan settings and do it yourself.
I believe in alcoholism. I believe that anybody can develop a dependence on alcohol. I do not believe that alcohol categorically has the power to make anybody drive drunk. I don't accept "I was drunk" as an excuse for anything, unless you were unknowingly drugged.
Google Drive doesn't work, at least for me. It won't reliably stay connected. There is no reconnect option either, so every time it disconnects you have to exit/restart and then it has to re-index all the files.

Sharing is clunkier, when you share a folder with somebody it doesn't appear in their drive. After they accept they still need to go into their options to get it to start syncing.

There are a lot of Apps that have Dropbox built in. They use Dropbox as their storage.

I feel Google isn't putting the effort into their Desktop client that Dropbox is. Google wants people to use the web. They are both cheap enough price isn't an option.
I'm thinking that this also has more to do with the sorts of jobs that would end up on a job board (like Indeed or Monster or Dice) versus the types of jobs that appear in the "Now Hiring" HN sections.

.NET being more of an enterprise technology, I'm not surprised that the first step would be for HR to make job postings on Indeed or other sites. With Node, I don't have the same impression of it being accepted in the enterprise yet (though MS is pushing it with Azure, for instance), and it's also such a young technology that not too many organizations are hiring maintenance developers for legacy projects yet.

The relative trends chart is exceptionally misleading.
It is a bit scaremongery because if you're using it for backup you can just switch to another service if they announce its pending retirement. It's an inconvenience for sure, but not truly a significant reason to not go with Google.

Besides, who knows where Dropbox or anyone else will be in 5 years. In 5 years they'll need to be turning a profit which could have a major impact on product and pricing, especially for the "backup" use case.

Incidentally if backup is what you want, check out an optimized service like Backblaze.. $5/month unlimited storage.
Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
Google Code Jam: https://code.google.com/codejam/
Topcoder.
I want a vim/excel/database (and sed/excel/database) hybrid more than I want a web based one. I've no trouble accepting that I'm weird, though...
>you can have one team working on the API and one on the interface and the only place they really need to communicate is in the API documentation

That's already how you should be working anyways. Unfortunately, most language don't seem to have support for a decent template system that makes this natural. People need to start making heist clones in their language of choice so doing things right becomes more common.
Long-time Austinite here. This is indeed a sad day, and our thoughts are of course with those who were affected. At the very least, I hope that this situation will cause us to make real strides toward improving the currently deplorable state of public transportation in this city, as it's now proving to be a real danger to human life.

I've lived here 12 years, and the only improvements to public transportation infrastructure in that time have been the addition of a single train line and a few of those long buses that bend in the middle. As the fastest growing city in the country, a city that relies so heavily on the tax revenues generated by the ~2 weeks of debauchery that is SXSW, we'll need to seriously improve the ability to move folks around without automobiles or the maddening traffic and inability to safely be on the roads (or, indeed, standing near the roads) between 1:30AM-3:30AM will continue to plague us.
Punishment is just one way of ensuring doctors pay attention. And as many people find out, it doesn't actually work simply because doctors make mistakes anyway.

Now, for a price $10 I don't think anyone should expect any kind of liability. It's advice. If someone gives you a $10 take it as such and go see another doctor for $100 if you're unsure. To my understanding CoinMD simply provides what market needs: cheap accessible advice of reasonable quality. If you could sue doctors there, prices wouldn't be as low.
[PATCH] Most symbols in Ruby level are GC-able
Or, record all of it that you can into a daily or weekly cache, and then keep in indefinite (expensive) storage the things which are Statistically Interesting but outside our current budget/capabilities to store forever.
My activity has dropped on amazon significantly in the last 1year. The prices on amazon.com have gone up, I always find something cheaper else where online including shipping. And now this, just cancelled my subscription.
An alternative explanation is simply that a lead of 11 points tends to dwindle because the good players relax at less than maximum effort while on the court when the win is in hand. That would be statistically indistinguishable from intentional point shaving. (In fact, it IS emergent point shaving, just without any sinister motive.) This also explains the postseason discrepancy, that players wouldn't let up in a tournament game.

The correct resolution would be for the pregame betting line to account for that tendency, taking into account the favorite's likelihood to coast during garbage time.
Where is php? I suspect nodejs and php would be inversely related to one another.
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probably best to store the same data on multiple services.
Comment points, or karma points are meant to be for contributions to the discussion, rather than agree / disagree. Think of it as insightful versus wasteful. It's obviously abused and thus the mechanic doesn't work as intended.
That keyboard has the aligned key columns, which I think are a big part of Kinesis's advantage. But I also love the two wells for the separated halves, which helps minimize extra motion. Plus the wide variety of thumb keys.
Everyone's death is impending. Life is by it's very nature limited. It baffles me as to how some very intelligent people seem to believe that we can "beat" death, that death can be cured! What a curious notion advocated by none other than the director of engineering at Google!

Someone once asked a sage, "Why do we fear death and cling to life so much?" The sage said, "We fear death because we have prepared nothing for it while we have constructed for ourselves a comfortable, familiar life. Why would you look forward to going to something for which you haven't prepared anything and why would you look forward to leaving something for which you invested all of your time and effort?"
I don't take it as scaremongering, but I'd add that the switch cost from drive to dropbox is pretty low. Google will announce if it's going to close drive, and in the meantime you're paying some fractional percent of what dropbox charges.

If google shutters it, it's not like copying a bunch of files from one place to another and waiting for it to auto-sync is a difficult endeavor.

(right now my money is on Yahoo! acquiring db to better compete with Google...but the price might be too high).
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I'd love to post in there, however HN doesn't seem to offer any private means of communication and I don't want to post my e-mail address in public if I can prevent it.
All these things are true of Drive, though. The only real reason I haven't switched over is, like you, all my stuff is already in Dropbox, and they're pretty much the same thing, so I wouldn't gain that much by switching (I actually use Drive too, but only for its original form, Docs). The new price is a big discount, but we'll have to see if Dropbox moves to match it in some way (they have less room to optimize there, but it's certainly feasible...amazon has been cutting their rates too).

If I was new to the market, though, none of that reasoning really applies.
Yes, they are a splinter group of Interpol. Jackie Chan is one of their detectives.

edit - there should be a scifi detective/cop show called "Godwin's Law" about police vs Nazis, in space. That would be awesome.

In fact I am slightly annoyed that it doesn't exist already.
What about driverless cars? That'd pretty much solve that problem completely if I'm not horribly mistaken.
The requirement for being present in the US to open a bank account comes IIRC from the Patriotic Act

The multinational banks won't help you with this.
It's conversational English. Consider applying the Principle of Charity. He meant "Google would need to pay me to use the service in order for me to switch.". This doesn't even explicitly mean that. It just means "I don't find this offering compelling.".

See, we could have avoided this whole thread by applying the Peter Principle in conversation.
> The AMA's members are physicians, and other medical personnel; you may look at the AMA as a union, lobbying group, or a professional association, but it is certainly not advocating for the interests of the insurers.[1]

Explicitly, certainly not. But in some ways they do end up empowering insurers (whether intentionally or corruption of their original intent).

(And by the way, I didn't mean that this was the case either; just that it was a slightly less ludicrous interpretation than the original statement.)
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Dropbox is profitable yeah? Why wouldn't they be around in 5 years? Google's prices are so much cheaper than Dropbox

You just answered your own question. Dropbox is convenient because you've already installed it everywhere. Google Drive is already on your Android phone and in your e-mail inbox.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder how self-driving cars would impact this situation? Also: what would happen to a self-driving car that went through a sobriety checkpoint with the drunk person as a passenger?
wow, what does "marked dead" means? First time I see someone mentioning it on HN.
I'm impressed by your insight into the industry - A lot of your observations really resonate with my own experiences. I'd love to talk shop some more sometime if possible! My email is pshin45@gmail.com. I tried reaching out to you on Twitter just now as well.
I actually get annoyed when Dropbox doesn't consume my entire upload pipe.

90% of what I use Dropbox for is stuffing files in my Public folder and getting a URL from them, and that's a synchronous action--I can't do anything until I have the URL. So it should use all the bandwidth it can.
I for one LOVED wave and used it every single day. My friends and I spent many months looking for a viable replacement. fwiw we settled on glassboard if anyone else liked wave and never found a suitable replacement.

it doesn't have threaded commenting which is sad, but the mobile apps are much better.
If there is a choice - it is better to place your bet with the company whose main business line depends on the service you are using.

I don't see how that's a hard and fast rule. File storage is Dropbox's only business line - if it fails, they're gone. If it helps their other concerns (Gmail, Google Apps) Google can prop up Drive even if its unprofitable.
Agreed. My $100 Garmin GPS tells me what the speed limit is, an what speed I'm doing. I've often wondered why this wasn't just built into cars to ensure they throttle lock at the speed limit.
I actually find the redesign makes it more obvious what is an ad and what isn't. nothing beats a descriptive labels that tells it like it is, and the subtle background color can vary hugely from monitor to monitor such that it's barely visible on some.
SeatGeek: Event Pages Through the Ages
What best practices do you imagine him not to follow?
I'm skeptical about using the Oculus or any kind of fixed monitor screen hovering in front of my eyes; I tend to move back and forth while working, adjusting distance to the screen as the day passes. I think working with screens at a fixed distance would make your eyes stay locked to a certain focus amount for too long and you'd lose the little motions you'd otherwise do, not to mention the extra weight on your head.
No category for $100,000-$150,000?
Fluent Conference 2014
well, no, not for a list of links that you know in advance is going to be a list of links. Body copy is another matter.
That was my first thought as well - I would've liked to see how PHP compared in terms of demand.
> I've been drunk enough to loose consciousness my fair share of times, but I have never been drunk enough to do something like get behind the wheel of a car. If that point of drunkenness exists for me, it exists beyond the "alcohol poisoning, facedown on the floor" point.

One wonders what experimental technique you used to make this determination, if the driver of that car felt the same way, how valuable our judgments about our own behavior while drinking can possibly be, and so on.

You've outlined a belief that acknowledges the horror of what alcohol can bring about but allows you to keep drinking a lot anyhow. And it allows you to think of yourself as completely different than the guy who just killed those people. I'll just float the idea - as a fellow consumer of alcohol and not somebody interested in judging - that you might unconsciously be a little too easy on yourself here, and your drinking might actually put the rest of the world at risk to some degree.

(not to mention our erroneous human tendency to think of criminals as a completely different species as ourselves, which can also lead to some questionable ideas)
There are a lot of folks on /r/mechanicalkeyboard that like this setup. I wanted to put one together but I have been on the massdrop request list for a little while now. Buying the parts for one KB is cost prohibitive. I am going to make an oak/cherry case for mine.
SXSW accident: Driver plows into crowd, killing 2
Google has shut down many more services than Reader. I am not certain why you choose to highlight only Reader as if that's the one thing Google has ever shut down. Even of the things Google hasn't shut down, many have been "wound down", with no updates or even bug fixes, until eventually being replaced by something only half-related with no upgrade path. The "more wood behind fewer arrows" thing kind of became a meme for a while, so the fact that people (it isn't just you) latch on to one example they've heard of as if the constant shutterings don't happen is highly strange. Even key properties that seem highly embedded in numerous products (Checkout) get this treatment, so it isn't like anything is immune.
Most files that are stored and take up space are photos and videos. This could really hurt dropbox.
I managed to open a US account with HSBC without being in the US but it was incredibly painful.

It involved getting a solid introduction to a client manager and relentlessly following him up over the course of 2 months to make it happen.

Incredibly painful when we were waiting for an account to put our investment capital into. If I had to do it again I would likely fly out - so long as I could tack on some business development in the process.
I would love to have a device like that, kind of a reverse cruise control The only times I've gotten speeding tickets is when I was unaware of a drop in the speed limit. Maybe something that combines GPS, plus a dash cam that recognizes road signs (so that it can pick up construction zones, etc).

Only one major problem with this -- many areas are funded in large part by speeding tickets. If it is impossible for a car to speed, what will these areas do for revenue?