skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've started using Hubic since then but I haven't completely gotten rid of Dropbox yet, I just don't use it for anything important.
I kept Dropbox because they appointed Rice. Dropbox is forced to navigate complicated political, regulatory waters. To do that successfully you need someone who knows how they works. People move from the public to private sector all the time to do exactly that.

(edit: why would you downvote this? that's crazyballs!)
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When put on small terms, like this, subsidized education always starts to look bad. Scaling it up makes it seem much more fair. As an American, I understand the concept of doing it yourself and not paying for things that don't benefit you. That said, I also understand that paying extra taxes to get more kids in better schools has more benefit to society than letting me keep that money.

Personally, I'd be happy to subsidize it in that way. The overall cost to me is low and the overall benefit to society is quite high.

It seems to me that most of the resistance comes from this "I had to do it, so you should too" mindset and it's really not beneficial to anyone. As Retic mentioned, this isn't a zero-sum game and thinking about it like it is doesn't help anyone.

A better use of your example would be to point out that both of those people may have been able to pay for a third person that couldn't have afforded it otherwise. The fact that one of them could have is irrelevant.
1. The poll was framed in a way that did not make my opinion
available.
2. Nobody else had expressed my position so I thought that it
was uncommon.
3. I assumed the poll was meant to try to force Dropbox to drop
her from the board.
4. I expressed a position that wasn't that political but that
I knew would anger or confuse political witchhunters.
5. It is quite common for people to downvote information that
does not agree with their ethical aesthetics.

I think those are good reasons and I think they're quite common. However if you think you can argue beyond a mouse-click go ahead.
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and the solution to that would have been to travel to the past and tell them: "don´t get a liberal arts degree! don´t study english literature! go apply to that hairdresser offering now!"?. A society puts people into incredible debt for an education with not much direct market value because it values that market more than itself?
If they want to reach a billion people then starting off by targeting all 1 billion is probably the wrong way of going about it.
Germany has not so far produced a single website or app that is hugely popular internationally. It does not mean it could not - it certainly have educated population to do it but the fact is it has not.
> of which the two largest components are "student services"

I also had to pay for student services at my (Canadian) university, for things like meal plans, supplemental health/dental/vision insurance, subsudized bus fare, etc. It cost about $300 a year, if I recall correctly. However, I was given the option of opting out. Are you not also given that option?
Mediocre performance is what you get with a system like the one that is in place in Germany.

Let me throw in two numbers first:

- over the last 15 years the total number of students has increased by ~48% (while the total population has shrunk by 3%)

- the number of available majors has tripled within the last 7 years (with the large part of the new majors being in non-science fields)

People have not gotten smarter over the last 15 years, but the majors are getting less less challenging and more specialized. The universities focus on pushing as many people threw the system as possible. There is no place, time or money for excellence. They produce what the german industry wants, not more and not less. This can be good or bad, depending on what you want.
Guns scare the shit out of me.

When I grew up in Australia where there is basically no guns. I used to walk on streets even on a drunken Friday / Saturday night without fear.

I moved to the US a few years ago and since then every corner I turn, I see people and I worry.

I don't worry about getting robbed. No. I worry about a gun fight somewhere and a stray bullet hits me. I worry that someone drunk might hold me at gunpoint and at a moment of misjudgement he/she shoots me.

It is pretty hard to get killed by being punched. On the other hand, it is pretty easy to lose your mind for a second and shoot someone

I hate this project, because now the barrier to entry of owning a unregistered gun is so much lower
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I still using Dropbox but I'm migrating to Syncthing
Our first bastion is websites, you can think of it as filling in the gap that Microsoft left when they killed VB6. 15 or so years ago, someone could open up VB6 draw out a couple of forms and put together a simple "Line of Business" app themselves without having spent 10 years of their life becoming a professional programmer. The modern VB6 would do the same for websites. :)

> Unless Eve brings a 10x improvement to those tools

We know the bar is pretty universally an order of magnitude and so we've planned accordingly. Our primary target here is selling a super power: you couldn't do this at all before, and now you can. Joe in accounting doesn't have the opportunity to build things to support himself (short of studying programming), but with Eve he could do everything from automate several of his workflows, to building a dashboard, to building dynamic reports for his bosses, to creating internal tools to track and measure things.

There is a fairly clear gap in our ecosystem around these kinds of programs and they represent what I would argue is the vast majority of programs that should be written, but aren't because of the cost.

There's also the opportunity to just make websites an order of magnitude easier to build for programmers and we're getting there. I was able to write an entire editor for this thing in itself in a week for one of our prototypes - there's some real potential there.
I agree with you, but Rust is mostly targeted at C++ developers so it makes sense that they'd use C++isms where they it wasn't crazy. Examples of crazy being resource declaration mirroring use.
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> The typical government member in my experience tends to think in terms of "people will just pay more" rather than "they will go somewhere else".

That's a pretty stupid viewpoint in this context, considering I've already demonstrated my willingness to leave and go somewhere cheaper (Canada -> Vietnam). You'd think they'd rather have something from me than nothing.
I took a picture of the original dissertation once. They should've scanned it in color:

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Is that high speed really necessary or that high reliability.

So what if the sever goes down for a few minutes or a hour sometime, your files will just sync when it comes up.

A small virtual server in a data center can do a decent job of it.
I don't think people have linked lists in mind when they talk about merge sort.
I don't even use Emacs, and what you just described sounds like Emacs. That said, LightTable is a lot more noob friendly than Emacs.
You make a claim that,

it is wise for us to have more political links to the US government.

but you fail to explain why. Perhaps that's the source of some downvotes.

You also write,

Politics is irrelevant to me

which demostrates that your 'opinion' comes from a place of indifference, perhaps another reason for downvotes.
I don't feel comfortable sharing my phone number with businesses because I have seen what they do to my email inbox.

This has nothing to do with me being untrusthworthy and everything to do with _you_ being untrustworthy. Work on changing my perception of you, or don't.
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I got pissed off at dropbox because they keep trying to suck my entire Photo library into it, and the client crashes a lot, but I haven't gotten rid of them yet. It's only a matter of time, though.
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I prefer not to think of unit tests as a write to reason about the code you're writing now, but to let the system confirm that your current reasoning doesn't contradict with your previous reasoning (about other parts of the code).
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It's true, enum design in Rust can be a fine art. Specifically, knowing when to make the tradeoff between big inlined enum variants and pointer-sized variants that require an indirection to access. This plagued the Rust compiler for a long time as well, as the AST was formerly represented by a ludicrously large enum with something like 120 words per node.
I really do hope these guys are able to accomplish their goal, but I remain skeptical. We've seen efforts from folks like Google and MIT down to small companies trying to solve this "problem", when it seems to me that the underlying reality is simply that software is hard. Layer abstractions over it if you must, but at the end of the day those will only get the layperson over the hump of trivial problems, leaving one disillusioned when the tool is unable to realize loftier goals.
> NASA spent nearly 20 years developing a form of space ice cream that astronauts found palatable.

When will the internet get over the space pen meme?
it might be cheaper to send someone to school but it only is so provided they are able to use that education. there is also no need for a complete college level education for many careers.

Instead they need to focus on provide the required education to get those who are economically disadvantaged into a higher and sustainable income level.

Regardless, we should not be in the business of paying for people to be students, especially those who can easily pay for it and for those who have no real goal in mind other than to be a student. Society is not at the point where we can simply employ people to learn who put it to no use.
1. I strongly disagree with the torture program, but I still don't think it's grounds for boycotting Dropbox, unless you are under the impression that she's pushing for a Torture Division at Dropbox.

2. Foreign diplomats are not subject to warrants and are exactly the sort of people that get spied upon. I guarantee you that every major country is spying on every foreign diplomat, limited only by their ability. While I don't think private citizens should be spied on, if you are in a diplomatic post you should just expect it.

3. I view the Iraq War as legitimate, as do most people, and she did a stellar job in her role as National Security Advisor.
It's an intentional pun.
Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all this stuff.
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I'll be excited when I see it.

Light Table was announced to change the way we're writing code, too. But the execution didn't quite match the vision.
> Can you clarify what you mean by that?

I'm saying their merge sort was likely not actually in-place.
> Is it a legal binding contract between me and the comany? No.

In the U.S., Web site terms of service / terms of use can indeed be a legal, binding contract:

+ If you click on "I agree" or something like it, then it's very likely to be binding, as more than one user has discovered to his chagrin. [1]

+ If you continue to use the Web site, and the site has a sufficiently-prominent notice that terms apply, then those terms are likely to be binding. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browse_wrap; see also the Ninth Circuit's extensive discussion and citation of cases in http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/08/18/12...
Agreed on this point. If 1Password supported Google Drive (specifically on mobile) I would drop dropbox.
So the Sidekiq is a product that allows to implement service/daemon in Ruby? I am not a Rubyist, and couldn't figure out what this does ...
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Started using rust just this week.

Used more hours than ever expected on it. Simple put you'll fall in love with the compiler, because it point out so well your mistakes.

Another thing to note is that it greatly encourage you to fix your warnings too. which for me coming from java and php world isn't something you'd give much thought.
Using a linked list is effectively equivalent to doing things not in place. Except that the memory locality is worse and for word-sized data like integers and floats, the overhead is permanent 3x instead of just temporary 2x. But yes, for linked lists, merge sort is a great choice since it doesn't depend on O(1) indexing.
We noticed that all of our instances -- in 3 different availability zones in US East -- all cycled at the same time. That was pretty disappointing. Kind of defeated the purpose of having things in different AZs.
Dropped because BitTorrent Sync is better for my needs.
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At the time the appointment was announced there was a fair bit of outrage, and a big call to action around boycotting dropbox over it. It seems like following up on that call to action is actually a pretty interesting thing to do.
Heh okay, emacs is extremely programmable. I don't really consider it an IDE but that's fair.

It'd take a long time to explain the differences but emacs is far from lightweight, it's a beast. LT is very barebones. And LT is written in HTML/CSS/CLJS which makes it stylable and programmable as such, a real advantage over emacs.
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He's just very dramatically pointing out that, oh, there are some changes we now need to account for, and Intel didn't tell us poor open source developers about them, and that's (supposedly) totally unreasonable. Besides the fact that Intel does not owe De Raadt anything (other software makers pay a hefty sum to be partners, while OpenBSD developers insult anyone who doesn't give them free shit), these bugs are a given in any production process. I don't care if you're Ikea or Exxon or Apple, you don't adopt new shit into your product and not expect shit to break. So his outrage is both presumptuous and facile.
I still use Dropbox, but I've started using SafeMonk within Dropbox for sensitive files.
We're working on this now, should be up in a few hours.
Looks like the BitTorrent Sync specs have been updated http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/tech-specs
A perfect example of how security theater can do more harm than good.
I got my Mou licence the same way the author of the blog post got his and I'm still very happy with Mou for my casual markdown need.

I don't blame him for selling a few things on the side. It's not like they'll take up a lot of time once you organized the manufacturing etc. They just sit there and you ship them once someone orders. I don't think that's a problem to do on the side. Can't say I'm a big fan of the fundraising idea. I'd rather just buy it once it's finished, I don't even expect upgrade pricing.

Just to add to the article, he's also selling MouStand.

[0] http://moustand.com/
Sure, but German universities are also surprisingly mediocre considering how good the Germans are at everything else.
Interesting, thanks for the hint!
> How good is PyPy for production code nowadays?

Unless you are using CPython extensions, PyPy is usable as a drop-in replacement that's significantly faster in almost all cases. In order to notice any significant speed gain, the JIT needs a chance to "warm up" though, so on short running applications or on web applications for the first couple of requests PyPy can be slower than CPython.
Totally agree. Particularly since US citizens are so obsessed with guns and violence. I mean, look at all the shootings and massacres happening, by people of all ages and races, it's crazy! Couldn't stand living in a society like that where everyone's allowed and legally motivated to keep guns.
> Why would anyone care? Is it a legal binding contract between me and the comany? No. It might be taken into account if we go into court, but if they have it in their TOS that I bought an elephant from them - it will not hold.

That's interesting. Do you have any sources on that? Why do these services even bother having ToS?
I had been through exactly that a number of times before starting a business where you can order custom parts online 24/7.
Good point! I'd completely forgotten about arm64.
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This is the kind of attitude that makes it very difficult for someone who has made a mistake in life to recover from it. Nevermind the fact that the laws & bias application of them leading to many arrests are a mess.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/30/w...
> Plus the way the law is structured in the UK, you cannot out-clever it.

Funny, that. The US has a similar on the books with regard to drugs - the Federal Analog Act -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analog_Act - if some compound is "chemically similar" to a schedule I or II drug, then it can be treated as if it were also on those schedules.
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I agree with all your points but I think he's trying to say, "... and you can ,too."
He just said there is no tuition cost in Finland so that is why it does not take place in Finland.
Very low compared to what ?

I would say that is lower compared to Scandinavian countries but generally high.

From Wikipedia:

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