skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what he means by that is "even if it was free, I still wouldn't switch". And from free the only way they could make the price even better would be to pay him.
The process you're describing is the Spiral Model, not the Waterfall. The major innovation of the Spiral Model was that you acknowledged that you would need to iterate - in the Waterfall days that was considered something to be embarrassed about.

The major innovation of Agile was that you acknowledged that the various steps of the Waterfall/Spiral happen at the same time - in the Spiral days, that was considered something to be embarrassed about.

I don't doubt, by the way, that you were taught that the Spiral Model was called Waterfall. But you should be aware that this was a case of historical revisionism on the part of whomever taught you.
At some point Amazon should put me on the "Don't use any shipping that goes through the USPS" list.

The USPS is horrible at my house. The whole point of prime was so that I could get away from having anything shipped through USPS, then Amazon started with this SmartPost thing. So every time I order something through prime, if it comes back that it will go through USPS in anyway I email and complain. Every single time they have canceled and re-shipped the item using a shipping company that can actually do 2 day delivery.
> im not a food scientist, but i strongly feel

If science has shown anything, it's that this is the wrong way to think. Leave the answers to those who do the science, feelings are a terrible way to come to conclusions. Blaming corn based on your feelings is irrational and very likely completely wrong.
And still making an easy profit.

Calculating it through, I think they make about $5 profit per terabyte per year, and that's using normal prices that I'd pay for hardware and power as a consumer in America.* That is considering costs for: buying drives (with a mean time to failure of 2 years), buying a server, power for the server and drives, and storing the data with 3x redundancy (two drives can fail and a third and fourth still have it).

* "In America" must be noted because power is dirt cheap there. Like .09 dollar per kWh while here we pay .2 euros.

I'm thinking of starting an online backup service myself for a fair price and no corporate bullshit, but as a student with no money nor experience I'm very hesitant. But I might try!
> I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time?

And how do you know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years? They can't:

a) Go out of business, or
b) Be acquired and have the service shutdown, or
c) Have some new application of the core technology become more profitable, pivot to that as their prime focus, and discontinue the existing service retaining the infrastructure for that new application.

> 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.

Or just type "Groups" in the Google search bar, and its the first result.

> What guarantee do we have here?

The same as you have with Dropbox.

> I'm sorry if I come off as scaremongering.

Then stop scaremongering.
Nexus is necessary as long as Apple sticks around as a viable competitor (which seems like the foreseeable future). Without the Nexus line there's no counterweight to prevent the public from associating "Android" with "crapware", because every OEM has an incentive to take distribution deals from crapware providers, and nobody except Google has an incentive to preserve the reputation of Android as a slick, easy to use OS. The Nexus line is so that high-end influencers can show their friends how awesome their phone is, so that mainstream customers think "I want an Android phone" and not "I want an iPhone" and then can go buy from a wide variety of vendors if the Nexus itself doesn't fit their price range.

It was pretty much the same story with Windows - as long as Apple was a viable competitor PC clones were pretty decent, but once Apple started going down the tubes you started getting bargain-basement Windows machines loaded up with crapware. The Apple/Google rivalry has been really good for consumers, as Apple forces Google to get better at user experience while Google forces Apple to be more open and support standards.
Oh for heaven's sake, there are other ways to get from A to B besides driving yourself or taking Uber. Blaming APD for this is a cheap shot, especially as the driver appears to have stolen the car from another town an hour's drive away and was thus not likely to be an Uber customer int he first place.
If Google Drive is getting shuttered, no doubt their competitors will immediately implement "Google Drive importers" using the API, if they don't have them already.
So seeing all these problems, how are YC companies solving them or better yet how do they handle the whole process to avoid this? PG said they are incorporating in Delaware but their offices most probably are in CA. Shouldn't this be a problem being in different states? Or it applies only to foreign related companies? Thanks.
No, not in my area at least. They always put them on the main arteries that lead to the freeways.
> Good thing APD is protecting the public by keeping Uber out

Could have done without the sarcasm here, but you are correct. Improving public transit options and treating car-dependent culture is the ultimate solution here.
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.

Alcohol is often used as an excuse for poor behavior, but in practice with most people it does not have the power to induce most of the behavior that has ever been attributed to it. For example, I might run my mouth and be inconsiderate of other peoples feelings when too drunk, but when I am drunk, I don't start fist fights. The difference? Being inconsiderate of the feelings of others is something that I sometimes want to do but hold back on while sober; starting fistfights is never something that crosses my mind while sober.

For most people, alcohol does not turn them into a different person. It distorts aspects of who they are, blowing some out of proportion, but it doesn't completely replace their set of priorities and desires with ones alien to them.

This is almost certainly not this persons first time driving while drunk. Almost certainly, this person has driven drunk before, sobered up afterwards and realized what the did, and then did little to nothing to prevent it from happening again. A person who drives while drunk is a person with a carefree attitude towards drunk driving even when they sober.
What a dumb comment to make, why even bother trying to contribute to the discussion?
I think the best CEOs generally get the most out of their time by spending the first 8 hours or so of each day reading about what other CEOs do.

Or, maybe each has his/her own style that works for him/her.

I viscerally hate these articles.
It's implied.

We all know(or should know) that GDrive is provided to us with a huge & complex infrastructure. Your TB drives at home do not begin to compare.
I'm quite torn about this. In some ways, it seems massively irresponsible, but framed another way, it makes some sense.

I think it's important to distinguish here between "screw experts they don't know anything" and "I've taken your professional opinion into account, and will be making my decision." The second has a long, long history in anarchist thought:

> Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In
> the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning
> houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or the
> engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a
> savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to
> impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the
> respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge,
> reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. I do not
> content myself with consulting a single authority in any special branch; I
> consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me
> the soundest. But I recognise no infallible authority, even in special
> questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the
> sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any
> person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to
> the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a
> stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
>
> - Bakunin, "What is Authority" http://www.panarchy.org/bakunin/authority.1871.html
Google Drive monthly plans cut from $4.99 to $1.99 for 100GB
It has been sometime since I used either one really intensively (I still use Django's off and on in maintenance), but for a long period of time, despite the advantages for sqla, Django was still a lot more newbie friendly.

Not much fiddling with engines, metadata, etc. Not to mention knowing the form stuff was going to just work, compared to third-party solutions (as good as they are) with the other.
For what it's worth - Derek Sivers chose Singapore:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3944339

http://www.guidemesingapore.com/incorporation/introduction/s...

AFAIK, you can always change to another country. However, I can't see the US taking it very lightly that you've denounced your citizenship. In other words, I would assume they would try to make your life a living hell if you wanted anything to do again in the US. (Have no idea, just assuming based on preconceptions about the way the US already treats it's citizens who live outside of it already) Derek seems pretty open, might be worth trying to reach out to him.
I have 0 invites, ping me here or the email on my profile

I'm out
If he meant he's switching from other Google plan then there're probably no changes except for quota.

If he meant he's switching from Dropbox it's not like Google's any worse or better in this regard. Both store files unencrypted (or encrypted with a key known to storage provider, although I somehow doubt it), both are probably not immune against a TLA-grade adversary.

If he meant he's switching from, say, Tarsnap or Cyphertite then you're right.
I completely agree, you would have to re-architect the whole app! I am just saying that it gives you the option to because it provides the services and scale to do so. Digital Ocean is great for $5 dev servers, but it is lacking (at least for now) the rest of services and functionality and scale that makes AWS great.
> What's the difference between paying you to switch, and just being vastly cheaper?

Time value of money.
I cancelled my subscription one month ago. Was a user for 4/5 years.
Are there any good monitoring tools out there for letting you know if your droplet is having problems? I know DO has a REST api and you can obviously check stuff out via the DO web interface, but I am curious if there are any third party tools too?
The big client issue for me is the bandwidth usage.

Google Drive has no intelligent throttling, so it consumes your entire upload pipe, which makes other apps unusable. This is not really what I want a background service to do.
Skydrive is amazing with 8.1 where you do not have to download the file until you open it but it still shows up in windows explorer like a regular file. I cant use anything else until it has this feature. Unfortunately no Linux client.
1) Fair, not fare.

2) Uber's not involved, unless that was intended as sarcasm of some sort.

3) Per the article, the identity of the driver hasn't been revealed. EDIT: Seems the article was edited?
Linode is twice as expensive per MB of RAM, but less expensive per CPU or MB of disk space.
I love dropbox, But I must say, this pricing is way too much tempting. And as a consumer I am happy.
You are one of the lucky few. :-)

Be sure not to invest your savings in mutual funds. Form 8621.

Be sure to avoid the local equivalent of an IRA if you want to do retirement savings. The IRS might not think it is a tax-free pension. And they might think that employer contributions are taxable income to you.

Don't own stock in a foreign corporation. Don't become an officer with signature power over the corporation's bank account.

Be sure to report all of your bank accounts and investment accounts on FinCen 114 (the new FBAR). Don't forget Form 8938 as well, if it applies to you.

I'm not saying you can't have a simple tax life as an American abroad. I'm just saying that you have to have a simple life in order to achieve it.

The problem is not with the U.S. tax liability. As you said, the foreign tax credit will take care of that. You won't pay U.S. income tax. The real problem is with the paperwork and the penalties for screwing things up.
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That's how my team at work does things as well. It actually speeds things along much more quickly than doing a bunch of fixes in one branch, because if one of your fixes is held up by QA, all the others can still be merged independently.
I know the graphic designers have long since won this battle, but I still feel like there's value in underlining links.

Underlined links are discoverable -- it's obvious at a glance that they are links, rather than body text.

Underlined links are noticeable -- they stand out from a sea of non-underlined text, drawing the eye to them.

Underlined links are self-explanatory -- it's obvious what you're supposed to do with them (i.e. click).

These are all valuable UI benefits.

The solutions that most sites that have abandoned underlined links have taken up in their place all have drawbacks compared to the good old underline:

Underlining the link on hover/rollover reduces discoverability -- you don't know for certain whether something's a link or not until you investigate it.

Making links a different color reduces usability for the color-blind; red-blind people have no idea that your red links look different than your black text does.

Making links bold, italic, or a different size all leave the possibility of confusing the link with body text that happens to share the same typographical presentation. (You can underline text too, of course, but that's relatively rare on the Web because of the strong association of underlining with links.)

Nobody cares about this argument anymore, I know, so I don't expect anything to change because of it. I just think it's worth noting that there are good reasons to prefer underlining links that don't boil down to "stuck in 1996".
Yeah. For me it was price and performance, both of which DigitalOcean wins.

I couldn't possibly care less about an admin panel. I'm a Linux guy.

I want cheap speed and reliability. With DO, you get all of them. Sorry Linode, but you're old news now.
As usual, cloud files are not guaranteed unless they explicitly mention backup policies. Do put your huge files here, but keep a backup.
> If the only way to get around in a city is to drive, people are going to drive drunk

How about not drink if they know they have to drive later. Drink only when you have alternative means of transport, or a DD.
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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, but the ease of use with Dropbox, and the fact that I have my families devices and computers already set up probably means I wont ever switch.

I take a picture with my phone? It's on dropbox.
My wife takes a picture? It's on dropbox.
I take a screenshot on my PC? It's on dropbox.

I even wrote a little silly bookmark tool to use the dropbox API.

Dropbox is amazing. It's more than just about the price.
they didn't tell anybody when they pulled support for sets from spreadsheets.
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Google Drive desktop client does have issues (Mac). However, the worst pile of junk is the Box.com client; even with their paid business plans the uploads are unimaginably slow. I searched and found long support threads on forums complaining about this problem. Quickly abandoned Box and remain perplexed at all the hype behind that company.

Dropbox is the best overall; has the best web interface and desktop client. Google Drive is second, but because more of my clients are familiar with, and already have, Google accounts, and I pay for Google Apps already, I use Google Drive.
I have a design for a suspended reflector tent that is pretty much exactly what you have there. I can't stand shadows and varying illumination when I read or work on electronics.
You missed the follow-up, fun question: What's your Robot Porn Name (SS# plus ATM PIN)?
Same position here. Ignoring the whole Google/privacy stuff, Drive seems fundamentally broken.

In my case it's things like if you need to replace a file it's luck as to if it syncs or not. First you copy it in place, but it renames the copy you just put there (no option to just replace it) so you learn to delete the thing first, but no, you'll replace it and the sync engine didn't seem smart enough to realise the file had actually changed, and you would end up with either the old file left on the server or worse it would pick up the delete operation and forget the replacement.

This was a few months ago, but that's still long after the service had been out in the wild. The concept of these cloud storage things, especially once proper APIs are available and we can switch storage providers independently of app providers, is a good one, but GDrive doesn't seem to get the fundamentals right.
>>>Download and then uploading a terabyte of data can be very expensive depending on where you live, and it can also take a very long time.

Not if you have Google Fiber!

Of course, you have to hope they don't exit that business, as well.
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I, too, would appreciate a lot more focus on the desktop client.

For me, it would be a matter of selective folder synching. Right now, you have to sync the entire drive. My Air only has 128GB SSD. I just want to sync a couple work folders, not my entire 70GB of stored files.

Unfortunately, Google's direction is pretty clear and I expect they'll discontinue support for the Desktop client before they ever enhance it.
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Sent email :)
I am just going to venture a guess that the kind of person who steals a car and flees cops -- first in a car and then on foot -- is not in Uber's target demographic.
Under $1,000

('pulling my hair out' frequently)
My apps don't require an online mode. I'd like to use iCloud sync at some point so you can move between devices and keep your favorites, scores, etc.
> The AMA, which is little more than a union for doctors, doesn’t allow any policy changes that threaten to increase competition and reduce their monopoly profits

That's like saying that Comcast/Time Warner are a "union for Internet users".

If the AMA were "little more than a union for doctors", doctors would have a lot more respect for it, instead of the great contempt that they currently do.

If anything, you could argue that, because power follows the money, the AMA is an advocate for the insurance companies that the doctors are beholden to (essentially every doctor in the country must pay their fees to the AMA in order to process billing, because the AMA has a monpoly on that[0]). One of the big disadvantages of dissociating with the AMA (yes, a provider can do this) is losing the ability to use these insurance codes.

I don't think that that characterization is quite fair either, but it's a lot more correct than saying that the AMA is a union for doctors.

If you want to know more about CPT codes and billing, my startup[1] works with hospitals and outpatient providers to handle the billing process - I am happy to tell you far more about CPT codes than you ever wanted to know. :)

[0] The AMA owns and controls the CPT codes - the billing codes that payers use. The providers don't always pay them directly (especially if they're not independent practitioners), but they do end up paying them in the end.

[1] https://www.boardrounds.com/ (plugging shamelessly because it's relevant).
It was dropbox who let their password protection be disabled so anyone could log in to anyones account(1).

I dont see google drive as being less secure, you can still use truecrypt or boxcryptor or encfs.

1: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/110650-dropbox-error-login-w...
This article is for real? Am I missing something? Sure, people want a diagnosis and other services from an unregulated, anonymous doctor with a reputation built by what? Amazon-like reviews? Come on!
There is a version using SQLite (compiled to JS using emscripten): http://sheetjs.com/sexql/sqljs.html

However, the source is about 2MB, so I thought it was preferable to use WebSQL on iPhone (and fall back to SQL.js when necessary)
Ask HN: Do you miss public comment point counts?
Comment point counts, as a measure of social proof, are double-edged swords: they might create feedback loops where more people tend to upvote the higher-voted comment, but they also act as informational signals. The message is simple: X number of users thought this comment was worthy of attention. But that can be a powerful data point when attempting to make sense of conflicting and equally persuasive views. Sometimes when reading a thread, I may wonder "how many other people agree with the comment I just read?" The most I can know is how many people upvoted it relative to the sibling comments, and even this is unreliable due to the time factor and the potential absence of any siblings.

Some people may find this to be intellectually "weak"... after all, in a perfect world, we would judge a comment based solely on the merits of its content. But sometimes our judgement fails, and it can be useful to see how it compares to the judgements of others. For example, I may read a comment and think "that's pretty stupid," but then see that it received 100 upvotes, leading me to think: "Well, maybe I missed something. I should reconsider the arguments being made; perhaps my perspective was based on faulty assumptions."

Additionally, if we see a comment that we strongly disagree with, but notice that it has received barely any upvotes, we may be less inclined to respond; we may think to ourselves: "well, nobody else seems to agree with this guy either, so it's not really worth picking a fight." On the one hand, the poster's views may go unchallenged, but on the other hand, it may avoid triggering a disruptive flame war.

Hiding comment points may be the best way to go; personally, I'm undecided. I just wonder if anyone else has any thoughts on the absence of public comment points, and how it affects your HN experience.
Inventions are often duplicated, especially in software. See the history of Knuth-Morris-Pratt string matching algorithm for a classic example.
Uber would not have done anything to prevent this from happening. Let's put this in perspective: the problem wasn't simply that the guy was driving drunk, the problem is that he fled from the police after they attempted to pull him over for driving drunk.

Based on the judgment that drunkard exhibited (fleeing from the cops) [edit: and the fact that he apparently stole the car], it's pretty clear he wouldn't have taken Uber even if it had been widely available.
I like DO for backup/secondary purposes, but until they allow more than 1 public IP per droplet (even for a fee!), I won't use them for any serious production.
Bill is incredibly smart. And provides interesting advice.

It's amazing to me that you can learn nothing from the article. Or that you think CEOs shouldn't take the time to learn from other CEOs.