skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While they talk about "unlimited" storage, it's actually set to 1,000 GB: all the quotas throughout the UI are set at 1,000 GB, and you have to contact them if and when you want to go over that amount (they do mention this stipulation on the features page[1]).

I've gotten close (~850 GB), but never over so I'm not sure if it's a "no-questions-asked, 1,000-GB-is-just-a-sanity-check" type of conversation, or if they start to get more hands-on and want a really good reason for going over.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/business/features
Officials say these bans aim to prevent nuisances that can be created by those living in cars, and most are enforced only on a complaint basis.

Nothing scares me more than comments like that from government officials. A law that is selectively enforced is effectively an invitation for police harrasment. Either the law makes sense, or it doesn't. If individual civil servants get to decide when to apply a law, you've got a big problem.
This is very interesting! I wonder if it'll ever come to the point where it'll be cheaper to just do trial and error more often and keep fixing issues than to take the big-design-up-front approach.
Good luck building anything in Palo Alto.
Dropbox Debuts Carousel, A Storage App For Your Entire Photo Archive
Kuler [1] is a great tool by Adobe that I love to use

[1] https://kuler.adobe.com
To be fair. There are already quite a few players in the enterprise space. Eg AgilOne and Splunk.

I don't disagree regards the "startups for startups" point though.
Does dropbox allow others to upload to specific folders within your account? Can I create a folder for each client then send a link that will allow them to upload documents to their folder?
Under that context, it sounds like a straw man. I have literally not seen one person concerned about his Constitutional rights being violated.
To me, the core of Haskell is that: "Haskell is C with one semi-colon per function."

This forces you to put all your code into method signatures. This, in turn, means Haskell (or C, if you follow the 1 semicolon rule in C) can understand almost everything about your program.

If you actually follow the 1 semicolon rule in C, you'll get very verbose syntax. All of Haskell's syntax is in service of making programming in this style palatable.
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Wow, what an article.

Ants in Texas are terrible. Off the top of my head --

1. I was stung by a swarm of fire ants when I was ten years old. I had been standing, and hadn't realized that I was standing right on an ant bed. I remember an adult carrying me away, and blinding pain.

2. Ants infested the office of my last job in Texas. Every desk was equipped with an ant motel. One of the water fountains near my desk was completely unusable because of the infestation. All attempts to eradicate the ants failed.

3. At my last apartment in Texas, the ant infestation was so bad that significant numbers of them would crawl up the tires and get in my car. I'd be driving along and realize that there were ants crawling on my hands. I was actually worried that I would take the infestation with me when I moved to the bay area -- but thankfully I haven't seen one since I moved.
I am curious about which static code analysis tools pick up this problem. Could it have been found automatically by Coverity, for example?
My advice:

* Save at least 10% of your income. "At least," because you want both long-term/retirement savings, and a "rainy day" fund for unexpected expenses.
* Minimize your debt. If you have lots of debt, prioritize paying it down.
* If you aren't good at the first two items, create a budget, and stick to it.

Also, if you want professional advice, ask around and find a good financial adviser, particularly if you are looking for an investment strategy for long-term savings.
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I really enjoyed this show, I don't think there has really been anything like it-- but then again I never saw "Betas". Mike Judge brings some interesting things to the table, I had no idea he was a math major and had geeky leanings.

This show has lots of promise, and not just for IT industry folks. It's a great ribbing of the mentality of the giant tech companies who promise to make the world a better place--

"Hooli is making the world a better place through minimal messaging transport layers." -- laughed my ass off.

What did HN think of this show? Did you watch it? Will you keep watching every week?
In the comments, someone gave this nice solution:

for x in range(100):
print x%3/2*'Fizz'+x%5/4*'Buzz' or x+1
This guy is popular. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

Basically, spend as little money as possible until your dead. It's surprisingly good advice.
Hard to fathom that a 30-year seasoned veteran of software engineering can't find a shred of work in the heart of Silicon Valley. According to the article, Mr. Smith hasn't worked since 2006? Something is terribly amiss here.
> Can I create a folder for each client then send a link that will allow them to upload documents to their folder?

Yes, as long as they have their own Dropbox account (free version's fine for this purpose). You can otherwise share read-only access to folders with anyone.
I think a few could very definitely be said in a sexist way, more information on the context needed though.

The one I found most interesting was the one about non-profits and charities. I don't consider women to be more likely to start these sorts of companies (I don't know the numbers though), but I can sort of see where that might come from, and I can totally see how that could be insulting to a female founder.
Only 15 emergency shelter beds in all of Palo Alto?! And an estimated 150 men, women, and children competing for those spots every night? That's disgusting.

Companies who have HQ's in Palo Alto: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Companies_based_in_P...

Not one of those companies, some of which are valued in the billions, could pick up the cost of sponsoring another ten emergency beds? Another five, even?
Ask HN: How do you estimate hours required for projects
Is there a de-facto standard formula that can be used to calculate how long it will take to complete a web application project for clients?
I charge $47 per hour - even do business apps in any of the rather-awesome frameworks at that price.

Because my rates are so low, I don't have to spend time making mockups, bid proposals, or have to deal with the know-it-all nephew. I also get to work on fun "what-if" projects and my customers happily pay their bills.

The dirty secret is that I charge for hosting - 60% of my income comes from hosting for solutions made in the past, and I don't even have to lift a finger.... well unless someone finds out about an SSL vulnerability. :)
I just open Firebug or Chrome's developer console and delete the overlay. Annoying as fuck.
Yeah, they do that because it will presumably lead to business. With that said, I agree that the price was too high and I lowered it to $5.
Possibly, but they'd have to bring in their profits from offshore, and that would be taxed.
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Projects like this where it needs urgent attention but it's so horrendously complicated and virtually impossible to get implemented correctly are very hard to commit to. You're going to be in for a world of hurt no matter what you do.

Unless there's an actual federation behind the project that can fund it and keep it stocked with talent and oversight, something Mozilla or Apache could do, it will continue to be an unmitigated disaster.
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I'm not familiar with the real estate situation there beyond "people are being priced out of Palo Alto". Is the city averse to all new construction or just lower-cost housing?
There was a tv version of JPod? Astonishingly it looks like there was also a movie version of Microserfs that came out in 2011, but I've never heard of it. So much of what made those two books funny were the email exchanges intermixed with the narrative--it'd be a shame to lose that in a movie adaptation.
As much as I like Quora, I don't think it is growing as fast as it should have as they rely heavily on search engine traffic for new user registration.

I won't be surprised if they add linkedin like features of networking and may offer quora groups, the whole site still looks very beta.
VMware's Horizon 6 launches, targets Citrix
I love Mike Judge. And as entertaining as Silicon Valley is. I find Betas to be more genuine and well rounded as a show, give it a try! Both are good.
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I have a question. Seems like the practice of billing for a single physician is problematic in understanding potential fraud/inefficiencies. Is there a reason why it can't be mandated that the physician responsible for care not be the one who is on record for payment?
In my experience, enabling it causes strange behavior with some plugins and even Chrome itself at some times. If the CRL check fails, related secure connections will fail with no notification.

This led to a bit of problem with a proxy server at work. A filter update blocked the CRL link, and suddenly nobody in my office could sign into their Chrome browsers. You'd hit "log in", it would appear to work, but nothing happens. An error saying that CRL checks were at fault would have saved a great deal of time....
Agreed on both points. Kicking him out seems kind of harsh since it has been his home for decades, but is there a real solution? He can't afford to live there anymore.

There are tons of LTVA (Long term visitor areas) in southern CA and AZ that he can spend months in his RV for under $200.
For Dropbox, it is their core business. For Google, it's a drop in their massive bucket of cash that comes from advertising. If business reliability matters to you, Dropbox seems comparatively better.
I've just recently watched a very good documentary about ants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-gIx7LXcQM .
They are a truly amazing organism. Does anyone know of any ant games? I thought it would be cool to have a strategy game where you build an ant colony, defend it from disasters and attackers, etc.
Literally the hottest girl in the club.
I saw SV's first episode and found it overly boring.

I got the jokes and even got a couple of chuckles here and there, but the show as a whole is not worth the hype it currently has behind it. I'll keep watching, however, hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
If this is true why so many homeless are white men? If this is true why being a soldier, the worst job in the world (because amputations and PTSD are no fun) is done by so many white men? Where is the "privilege" you talk about there?

And there is no intrinsic racism against others by white men, where I'm from (Colombia) everyone is brown-ish but there is still a lot of racism against black people, just for being the majority not for being white.
There are plenty of designers who can't code, who are both male and female. Really way too many. Consequently, unless you're beyond extraordinary, demand is low as are the salaries. However, if you're a designer who can code i.e. a front end engineer, you can get a king's ransom regardless of gender.

I've known plenty of designers who aspire to code "one day" but they never do for whatever reason.

I don't doubt that there is gender discrimination and ageism in the industry. However I don't feel that this is a case of one.
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Wasn't Quora hot like years ago when it came out? Do you guys actively use it?
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They don't need to build a better touch screen... they just need to add wacom or ntrig digitizer layer with a stylus. Think: Macbook Air with a flip or detachable screen and wacom baked in. This would probably vaporize the iPad as the duality of fully tablet and fully laptop negates the need for both. I like my MBP, but I am seriously considering a Surface Pro so I can get the tablet form factor and a full PC in one. The added bonus is handwritten notes and practicing digital art which used to require a Cintiq or another peripheral device.
At the risk of sounding (or even outright being) cruel, Mr. Smith's real problem is that of terrible financial management skills. Keep in mind that when he moved out there in the 70's, the Valley was not nearly as expensive as it is today. And, with a software engineer's salary during its heyday, he could have very easily purchased -- and paid off -- a place for him to live. As he, himself, said, he made a choice to stay in the area even after he lost his job. He could have made a choice to move somewhere cheaper.

At the age of 70, after a long -- and I'm assuming successful, based on his highest salary -- career, having only a "meager" savings is no one's fault but his own.
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I especially like this property of maps that cannot be done in either records or JSON ( had it been supported as a primitive)

M4 = #{{"w", 1} => f()}. % compound key associated with an evaluated expression

And of course self-referencing is a welcome addition (especially on the terminal)

Fac = fun(0) -> 1; (N) -> N*Fac(N-1) end

~B
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I've used Citrix ShareFile for this purpose, and it works wonderfully. Great thing is that they "brand" it for your company.

Worth checking out.
It's only an invitation for police harassment if you're breaking the law. And in your version, you would instead have been arrested / fined immediately regardless of anyone reporting you.

The bottom line for selective enforcement is that the police recognize that there is a priority structure in laws. They have limited resources and cannot enforce every law, everywhere, every time. While I would rather see this law unmade, the second best thing that can happen is exactly what is, which is the police only getting involved if an actual legitimate issue is raised.

EDIT: A second pertinent example is noise ordinance, which this is similar to as a "public nuisance" law. The law is not worded that it's OK as long as all your neighbors are OK with it. In your world, police would be walking around neighborhoods with a decibel meter and fining every non-compliant house, regardless of whether you cleared everything with your neighbors, or even if your neighbors are the ones making all the noise at your party!
To start simple, make sure you don't spend more than you earn (excluding exceptional circumstances). A simple table, GNU cash or even pen + paper are enough for that: record every transaction you make, no matter what tools you use, as long as it's reasonably low-friction.

I used a simple table with columns date, account, value, purpose. "account" helps getting a sum total for each bank account and for cash, to check how my table compares with reality (ie. bank statements and the content of my wallet).

Simply by tracking money flow you already learn a lot about your habits, while collecting data that helps you optimize it if necessary. I also found that making spending a conscious matter like that already reduced impulse buys.

After that, the other ideas are good ones - and you'll know if they're achievable for you and how.
Perhaps you're right in his particular instance.

But the issue is the same even for those who end up homeless through no fault of their own.

Moving for the homeless has many hidden costs, including the time and effort required to rebuild the local network of support one has built over many years.
Google "Palo Alto NIMBY".
> Amy admits she'll "never know" if she wasn't hired by Google because she's female, because she's not an engineer, or whether there was something else wrong with her application

Because she's not an engineer. The company folded, the underlying tech may have some value. The branded design? Her years of toil? Did the company have a cleaning person for the office as well?

Someone post this to /r/TumblrInAction already.
If you want an alternative opinion from somebody who

1. Has taught a lot of Haskell

2. Thinks LYAH is better as a reference than a step-by-step method for learning Haskell

Then see my Learning Haskell gist here (it includes Haskell Fast & Hard, and other things too).

https://gist.github.com/bitemyapp/8739525

If anybody is learning Haskell and needs help, please email me.

Edit: I agree with nnq, I think LYAH moves too slowly and fails to show you what about Haskell is truly different and worthwhile in a compact enough format. That said, it is great as a reference as the explanations of concepts are stand-alone. (unlike RWH which is more project-oriented)

Edit2: You are going to feel a bit lost after Haskell Fast & Hard. This is natural. That's why I have you do the NICTA course. It firms things up.

Edit3: I think RWH is a great reference as well, but the mid-to-late chapters have a bit of an "in media res" thing going on because there are projects being walked through cross-chapter. That said, it has a very nice and simple example of, "pre-monads, ugly code; post-monads, pretty code". RWH also covers topics that you'll care about if you're doing Haskell in production.
I thought it was "meh" until the doctor started pitching the main character on his startup during an appointment - then I lost it
There are a lot of restrictions on what you can do that only make sense to enforce when you are actually harming someone else. This is just one example of that principle.
This. After doing my initial skim of the article, the first thing I noticed was they omitted sockets. I always thought sockets were the standard for streaming, real-time communication over the web and would at least be mentioned in a post like this.
>Did she not put in long hours? Did she not sacrifice her personal life, etc, in a way commensurate with the developers?

So why do the developers get paid more than other (white male) workers who work longer hours doing harder work? Because "long hours" and "sacrifice" have absolutely nothing to do with what anyone gets paid.

Your pay is not a function of just yourself. It's a function of every other person who could have done your job instead. The more of them there are, and the worse their other alternatives, the lower your wages will be.
And worse, the Debian developers would be at fault.

This is a sticky situation, really. On one hand, StartCom's pricing structure is fairly upfront. On the other hand, extracting $25 from every customer because of a bug they have no control over is dick behavior of the highest order.

Ideally they'd put out a notice saying that they will offer a one-time rekey for free. Without getting into ethics, it's an entirely automated process and costs Startcom absolutely nothing.
give users one Dropbox for personal stuff and another for work stuff. Users can easily access both Dropboxes from any of their devices.

Sounds awesome!

Minimum 5 users

Well, phooey. This seems...arbitrary. Do they enforce this limit just to reduce support queries from low-profit customers?
Exactly correct! Google and Motorola put a barometer into the Xoom to test GPS altitude improvements, and it turned out that some developers (like me, and like the opensignal team) discovered that the sensor actually has world-changing potential in atmosphere modelling. Huge benefit from a simple sensor addition that didn't even really have a clear purpose at launch.
I dont think it is fair to equate the fact that Google Drive is less reliable than Dropbox, just based on the fact that Google has more irons in the fire compared to Dropbox. They also have orders of magnitude more employees and resources than Dropbox.
Just make it 9 Billion. Seems the way the valley goes these days.
They are in front of it, they've intentionally decided to continue charging for revoking these certificates.
I like the illustrative design a lot. Other apps are so plain and boring flat iOS7 while this app has personality :) Well done!
Well, it's $15/user for unlimited storage. Google Apps is $5/user for 30GB for each user, and then you have to start buying additional storage with "licenses"[1] which brings the price a little closer to Dropbox if you have a lot of data. I only use a Google Apps account so I don't know how well the clients work with multiple accounts (private Gmail and Apps). Maybe Dropbox will handle it better?

Obviously, Google Apps gives you much more than just Google Drive so the comparison will greatly depend on what other services you need/use, what your employees and contractors already know, and whether you have Linux clients since Goolge Drive still doesn't support Linux.

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/1726914
Pretty good initiative but you want to be careful, merger of 2 startups who are not doing well won't make a successful one (successful once normally don't have finding a co-founder as high priority nor they will merge easily with others).

Always make sure, your personality, character and goals matches with the other person, the rest is all secondary.
> My Heart Bleeds for OpenSSL

Looking at their web site, they have a link right at the top to buy a support contract and another to contract a team member. This level of publicity probably equals big consulting dollars for them.
Please don't post comments like this to Hacker News. They violate the two most important values of the site: substance and civility.
Actually, most Python I write (influence from reading experienced programmers) tends to the last one, although it's semi-jokingly:

def fizzbuzz(n):
return 'FizzBuzz' if n % 3 == 0 and n % 5 == 0 else None

def fizz(n):
return 'Fizz' if n % 3 == 0 else None

def buzz(n):
return 'Buzz' if n % 5 == 0 else None

def fizz_andor_maybenot_buzz(n):
print fizzbuzz(n) or fizz(n) or buzz(n) or str(n)

map(fizz_andor_maybenot_buzz, xrange(1, 101))

It's pleasing to use HFOs in Python, as long as you don't abuse lambdas. Also, some functional types like `defaultdict` can be used to describe code/business logic with datastructures rather than a bunch of if's, keeping things tidy.
No one's mentioned the wikibook. I've not read through it much, but a colleague found it far more readable than LYAH: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell (I loved LYAH myself, though, so YMWillProbablyV).

Also, there's no substitute for talking to people. Hop on the Haskell Beginners mailing list (http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners) or drop by the IRC channel (#haskell on freenode), where people couldn't be friendlier.
I loved it. It's like big bang theory meets start ups and IT.
How does this differ from / integrate with the existing camera uploads in dropbox?
This was what one of our Java coworkers wrote a while back: https://gist.github.com/1337/8155054