skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scott Aaronson has some good motivation for "QM falls out naturally if you try and use a 2-norm for your probalities instead of a 1-norm." See http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
You don't "specify a duration" for the valuation: an infinite duration is baked in the valuation itself through the time value of money.
If the annual interest rate is 10%, 100$ in 1 year is worth 90$ today, 100$ in 10 years is worth about 35$ today and so on.
Of course, in the case of company valuations, you have to also account for the uncertainty (both on the upside and downside) of the future cash flows.
I think it's doing something crazy with fsfilters because I notice the DropBox process kick up CPU usage when I'm copying files in a completely unrelated directory (or even at the terminal). I think it is trying to observe all file changes on the filesystem.
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All of the accounts I use are paid. It seems rather stupid to harm your paying customers the most! They could have solved the multiple free account issue by only allowing one free account logged in at a time.
Every level 5 (senior) engineer at Google and Facebook converge around $250k in total yearly income (probably more for facebook recently since their stock tripled in the past year).
The only thing holding me back from subscribing is the cost for entry (beyond free). I have plenty of storage space between the different services that I don't feel the need for as much space as they offer at the starting price.
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What about using the Tiled map editor? [1] Maybe your project could support features of maps created in Tiled out of the box.

1. http://www.mapeditor.org/
Because so many others have been doing this so for years? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ see 'pcwalton's comment.
> Venus' atmosphere is much more dense than Earth's

Won't help:

"The ships would float 50 kilometers (31 miles) above the planet’s surface. Here, there would be only one atmosphere of pressure, and the temperature would be a reasonable 75"C."

75 C is 160 F. Granted that's cool enough to keep water from boiling, but unless you're a tubeworm you're probably not going to be happy living there without air conditioning.
I had misspelled it, "Heron".
It's like being 1000 miles down the road and going 60MPH. There's nothing inherently contradictory about the first number being bigger than the second.

(Of course, the calculation for a business valuation is a lot more complex than a simple distance = rate * time.)
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It's not a linux kernel issue, it's a distribution "no bundled libraries" and packaging issue. Google doesn't want to maintain dozens of binaries (and their respective packages) in order to support dozens of distributions. It may be that containers can sorta solve this, a single container that can run on any distro that has container support. But this is still not anywhere as straight forward as say OS X where DropBox (like many other applications) are simply drag and drop into /Applications to install, or uninstall.
Or they're expected to expand the file-sharing market, either to entirely new customers, or by converting customers who were using non "file-sharing" storage options.
Agreed, its why i stop using it. I started using btsync instead so that my machines where synced up without needing a cloud store.
"We know to a degree of certainty that the maintainers have no interest in turning a profit of us, their user and will not do anything that would harm us"

Why do you believe this?
How do you know they aren't on various forums selling ways to exploit users by inserting bugs, or whatever?

Most open source developers do not in fact, make a lot of money from their programs alone. What stops them from being just as greedy as corporations?

Note also this already happens, where open source maintainers sell access to their installers or whatever to malware companies.

Why would one believe it won't happen to debian maintainers?

Also, i'll also point out a lot of them are employed by corporations you distrust so much, and history shows most people will do what they are told, so if their corporations told them to do something, they'd probably do it.

So again, i don't get it. There seems to be no actual reason to trust them more or less. I just see misplaced trust in "the good of people". (Which study after study after study has shown, often goes out the window for very low prices :P)
Because she was George W Bush's National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. She was a proponent of the NSA's warrant-less wire-tapping.
I just spent a fantastic vacation in Ireland, traveling between Dublin, Cork, and Galway by car--which meant a lot of narrow but very well-kept roads between many tiny towns. The idea that double, even triple, the population of Ireland would somehow not have "forests and open space to adjourn to" is...well...it's interesting.

Wait, did I say interesting? I meant "horse manure". That is an empty country, with plenty of room and remarkably little need for the sort of xenophobia you've espoused in this thread (a xenophobia that no one I met in Ireland seemed into, either!). And I don't think HN needs it, either.
Next time don't put Condoleezza Rice on your board of directors.
You might be interested in the opinion of Richard Muller:

In 2010, I watched one of his talks in which he had very uncharitable things to say about some groups of climate scientists and why he did not consider them trustworthy [1].

At about 34:28 of the video, you can hear him say the following:

This is why I'm now leading a study to redo all this in a totally transparent way.

He did [2].

What was his conclusion? Global warming is real, and in all likelihood the culprit is indeed CO2.

How did he come to that conclusion? Because it's the only proposed mechanism for global warming that actually fits the data on the 250y scale.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbR0EPWgkEI

[2] http://berkeleyearth.org/
If you own a boxed copy of Office I can understand why you don't get this for free. When you buy a boxed copy of Office 201x you should understand that you're buying a perpetual license to that version of Office. Expect it to work and receive bug fixes for a reasonable time (MS do 7 - 10 years of maintenance per major release?). But basically, no freebie big ticket features or upgrades to Office 201x + 1.

If you pay for the subscription, you're paying for a non-perpetual license in return for access to whatever the latest version of Office is. So big ticket features come free.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding your needs, but have you considered sharepoint?
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Wikipedia actually has a section just about her and Dropbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice#Criticism_of_...

I'm kind of surprised, personally.
Google has a history of acknowledging the existence of consumers on Linux, and has published Linux binaries for various closed source products in the past. I am writing this comment to you at this moment using one such piece of software.

Does Apple have a history of publishing applications built for non-Apple BSDs?
My mind is blown that so many people report poor experiences. Perhaps this is the wrong audience.

I exclusively recommend Dropbox for file sharing. It solves problems for families and small businesses, especially at its free tier.

Even on a strictly philosophical level it excels. It's not that it solves problems (all the competitors do), but HOW: with folders. Everyone knows folders. People working together really ought to keep it simple and share a folder. It really idiot proofs what is otherwise a nightmarishly IT-esque process you get from Google Drive and Box.

Like where do your Google Drive files live? Do they live in Drive? Do they live in Docs and Sheets? Why is it called Sheets now? Am I emailing a copy of the document, a link to the document, did I share it with this person? What does "anyone with a link" mean? Why are there forty ways to do the same thing?

I think so many of us are missing the point on usability. I've only seen one poor experience with Dropbox: When a mom tried to install it by Googling, and somehow ended up in some kind of keywordspam site and installed some other garbage.

Then there are the features that are great not because competitors lack them but because they're easy to explain. "View previous versions" and "Show deleted files" have saved the people I "IT" for. More importantly, it's trivial for me to explain, "Right click on the file and click, Show Previous Versions." But explaining to people how to interact with the hilariously multi-modal UI that's constantly changing on Google Drive? Sure it works, but it's so difficult to explain.

I'm not disagreeing that on a whole, Google Drive is a more useful thing. But I'm not talking at some crazy high level of abstraction. People who don't "thing" but write essays, make movies, plan trips, send links, share tax info, share music, do research... It's a one-author-at-a-time each-person-is-a-stage-in-the-pipeline workflow. Dropbox really augmented what people already know how to do without opinions like Material Design, use Android phones, popups that suggest to use this non-built-in browser and non-built-in maps tool. Dropbox steps around all of Microsoft, Google and Apple's synergistic and collaboration-hostile bullshit.

Google Drive makes a ton of sense for an organization like Google or Microsoft, where the prevailing reality of work is: A bunch of people work together to make a report for their manager's consumption and need to toggle on-and-off permissions across a variety of stakeholders. But jeez guys, can't we see that the giant-corporation nightmare isn't the reality of how things are done for the vast majority of normal and productive people?

It would be shame if Dropbox allowed the enterprise mentality to creep in. IT is a horrible thing and I wouldn't want to inflict it upon anyone.
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Is it just me or is this a totally uninteresting article? There's no evidence stated for how Dropbox's competitors are "catching up" or how Dropbox might be "struggling" other than maybe some troubles scaling sales.

I feel like this thread is just general discussion of things people don't like aboit Dropbox as a response to the headline, rather than a discussion of Dropbox.
All they need now is Himanshu and Joel and they'll have most of original iSEC back together under one roof.

Congrats to Alex.
And just to see if I understand correctly, if you exercise on vest, you have an extra $25 of taxable income over the four years, but then $25 less at year 5? There is no sense in which you have more taxable income; its distribution over time has merely changed.
Better question: how long can Yahoo retain the people he hired? There are some pretty amazing people still there.

For the record: my guess as to why he left Yahoo? Because he was offered CSO of Facebook.
$904 million is the revenue in the industry per year. Valuation is the "present value" of all future revenue, i.e. what all of the profits the company is "expected" to ever make are worth today.

To give an example, if I were to give you $100 every year for all of time, you would certainly pay more than $100 today. Maybe even $500. And if I were to say I would give you $100 the first year, then 10% more every year such that you'd get 100, 110, 121, 133.10, etc... you should be willing to pay a lot more because in 30 years you'd be getting $1700 / year and growing.

That's why businesses that are expected to make money for a long time are worth a lot, and those who are expected to last a long time and make an increasing amount of money every year are worth so much more today.
> Occam's razor is a rule of thumb and an aesthetic boon, but nothing more.

Occam's razor is a bit more than that. It isn't just that given a theory X and a theory Y = X + ε, both of which fit the facts, you should prefer X because it's "cleaner" or more aesthetically pleasing or whatever. You should prefer X because you can prove it is more likely to be true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc...
I'm surprised no one here mentioned Seafile as a competitor. They are completely open source => from client to server. I host my own for myself and my family for like a year now and it's super smooth[1]. I have the system setup with an actual certificate. It also allows you to enable client side encryption[2].

[1]: the deployment process is incompatible with how i manage my servers, so that was a pain, but mostly figured out.
[2]: encryption may leak some information, but it is better than nothing.
Programmers would really benefit from a professional organization. Just like medicine, the law, or engineering, the world cannot now live without code. It's irresponsible to go on without professional standards, and we see the effects practically every day (hilariously insecure smartphone apps, vulnerabilities that affect 90% of web services, etc.).

We've also ended up with a glut of programmers who end up doing nothing but building database frontends all day. When people talk about a programmer shortage, they mean there's a shortage of programmers who can actually code. There's simply more work than there are workers able to do it.

The result of this is that all programmers are treated as suspects. No other profession requires you to do a dance in every interview you'll ever undergo. Your experience and connections speak for themselves; the interview is to root out personality issues and establish expectations.

The reason, of course, is that law/medicine/etc. have serious consequences for incompetence. You have to be licensed, and you have to prove your competence routinely. Coding should be the same.
Google should punt and release a library and let application developers worry about working with distributions.

Edit: never mind. They have published specs. Are they not good/stable or have no devs stepped up yet? https://developers.google.com/drive/web/about-sdk
Nice article, but

> There is another key difference between Lisp macros and many other macro systems: in Lisp, the macros operate on expressions: the data structure of the code itself. Because Lisp code is written explicitly as a data structure, a tree made out of lists, this transformation is natural.

The author seems to be consciously avoiding "homoiconity", but this is still yelling "homoiconity". And "homoiconity" makes absolutely no sense. The source code of every programming language is an AST literal, and in principle every language can have macros by allowing compile-time AST to AST functions. This is precisely what has happened with Scala.

The only thing special about Lisp is that the AST is a list, whose operations are familiar to the programmer. With other languages the programmer has to learn some specialized API to write macros. The advantage of Lisp macros is that they are easier to write (than say, Scala macros), but this extra expressing power is enabled by having macros themselves instead of having "homoiconity".
Carousel has always supported that. Select some photos, "Share", then "Get Link". The recipient doesn't need an account. They can also download as a .zip file.

(The recipient learns your full name though, so I don't want to give you an example link... But this has always worked great for me.)
One thing I'm curious about regarding matrix.org:

As a federated protocol, is there anything at all in the spec that would discourage someone from piggy-backing on the federation to acquire initial users, goodwill and a head-start on features, and then locking users in once they've gained enough momentum by making proprietary modifications?

You know, the same tactic countless companies have pulled with XMPP?

I've been eyeing matrix.org for quite a while now, but it seems to still lack a "killer" client app. One that can at least match the features, polish, stability, usability and platform ubiquity of existing proprietary messaging apps, an app that can help matrix.org grow user mindshare and keep it.

The open source community just doesn't seem to do a very good job of churning out these kinds of consumer-oriented apps. And if some company ends up building such a "killer" app for matrix.org and gains momentum, they'd have some very sweet incentives to lock in their userbase.
Her appointment to the Dropbox board was to me another reminder that when you reach the upper echelon of power, be it honorably or destructively, you get to stay at the top essentially the rest of your life. No one invited ME to the Dropbox board, despite my resume stating very clearly up top:

* 2001-2005 - Did NOT advise POTUS to spend 1.7 trillion dollars and thousands of military and civilian lives on obviously shaky WMD testimony.
The moment you hook into those systems, you're segmenting your userbase. If you rely on iMessage for transport, you can only talk to Apple users. The situation is similar with Hangouts and WhatsApp - while you're not limited to one device manufacturer, there's no official API, and any attempt to do so is a hack that could break at any time with no warning.

Telegram is slightly better in that it at least has a client API, but you're still locked to a single provider (the official Telegram server).
Swift is really starting to show it's superiority to ObjC. I think we'll see a very significant inflection point in iOS development when Swift is open sourced.
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Is there a good replacement for dropbox, for the purpose of filesync between machines?
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Right, Apple was already a market when Microsoft started to grow. That's maybe how Bill Gates got to have a peek at the GUI effort and PARC source. They have a special relationship.
...Except the number of query plans is O(n!), where n is the number of joins.

MongoDB's query optimizer actually works like this, which is only tractable because it doesn't support joins.
Other commenters have mentioned warrantless wiretapping-- she served as National Security Advisor for George W. Bush and was also integrally involved in approving and overseeing torture.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/23/condoleezza-ric...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04...
I have looked at StartSSL when I registered my domain. I was turned off when I was told my domain wasn't old enough. I understand why-- I just decided to wait then.
> I'm getting downvoted for saying VCs are idiots. (elsewhere people are getting upvoted for saying "Deniers are morons", so it's not the name calling. Its' the "if I can just get thur YC and get VC funding I'll have it made!" ideology that pervades HN.

No, there's a critical difference between your statement and that one: VCs are an identifiable class of people. Saying they're all idiots (something you don't know, couldn't possibly know, and indeed is not only false but obviously so) is attacking a specific group of people. "Deniers are morons", while obviously not a high-quality thing to say, is closer to a tautology. Both break the HN guidelines, but the former is worse.

This is not ideological. One needn't agree with everything every VC ever did to insist that calling them all idiots is wrong, breaks the site rules, and is correctly downvoted.

Sam once wondered whether we should make it explicitly against the HN guidelines to attack whole classes of people. At the time I said that sounded too legalistic. But it stuck in my head, and I have to say that every example I've seen come up in practice since then has suggested the value of such a rule. This is a good example.
From the first paragraph of the article:

While Dropbox led the $904 million global market for business file-sharing last year with about a 24 percent share, No. 2 Box and No. 3 Microsoft each took about 21 percent and doubled their slice of the pie, growing almost twice as fast, according to researcher IDC.
When a company issues an employee an option at below its fair market value, it has literally created income for the employee, not in a funny accounting sense but in reality.

Replacing vesting with options artificially discounted to the FMV of the company at hire might not be different fundamentally from vesting, but it seems like there's lots of ways to abuse the capability of issuing discounted options.
There has never been a true Socialist society, a book titled "A Great Book" doesnt mean its a great book.
Frozen custard seems to be having a moment now -- in the US, a large ice cream manufacturer -- Dreyer's (AKA Edy's) -- came out with a line of packaged frozen custard that showed up in supermarkets around 2 or 3 months ago:

http://www.dreyers.com/FrozenCustard
I do, and if there were to be a price/fee war between the different crowdfunding platforms I expect that price to go even lower. Indiegogo just lowered their 9% fee for campaigns not fully funded to 5%.
Wait you're replacing Dropbox with two companies that are known to turn over data to the NSA and don't have client side encryption?

Not much of an improvement.
The thing is, it's not just the temperature measurements fitting the greenhouse gases. It's also all the biological and physical evidence. Bird migrations, plant species ranges, glacier and ice cap shrinkage and growth, permafrost melting, polar vortices occurring, etc.,etc.,etc. Screw the models: look at the reality.
Even for a single query, the optimal query plan changes over time with the distribution of data in the table (and in other tables), as well as things like database load. There literally is not one best query plan, even with perfect information. Also, keep in mind that an abundance of even fake indices like this can have adverse effects on planner results by forcing it to consider more (and therefore, more suboptimal) cases with its limited budget.
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Microsoft is obligated to its stakeholders (investors and employees) to capture all the value it can for the products it creates. They're not building software out of goodwill. You do have the choice to not buy Office if you don't like the pricing scheme.
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Unfortunately, the paid version does not get rid of this. It's quite annoying actually, I even had one of my friends ask "Why are you sending me a Dropbox signup link?"...
that's not including the very fast caching - so much much much more than just a bus :)
I was about to write "Ummm...column order doesn't matter, so it's O(2^n)", but then I did some thinking and a bit of googling, and I guess it does. Yeah, O(n!).

Although, in practice, most tables would only have a relatively small number of columns upon which you'd want to consider building an index (usually on columns (often IDs) that you'd use to join to other tables), so that'd cut it down to O(m!) where m < n, and for larger tables, m << n.

<thinking out loud> Hmmmm, I wonder if you could use frequency information--or even the proportion of distinct values--of columns to guess a bit more intelligently... </thinking out loud>
I wonder how much the expansion of Culver's has contributed.
It certainly seems stupid to mishandle someone with multiple paid accounts. I, on the other hand, have a pretty large free account with Dropbox which I acquired by evangelizing them, and have had various paid accounts from companies I worked for. Do you think it makes more sense to harm me?
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I can recommend to watch Schafmeister's Clasp talk[1] at Google. Its quite impressive.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g
Looks like a great service. Very Cool
Very slick.Looks to solve uber headaches.