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ghobs91on The new Dropbox

Maybe this is heavily dependant on the file structure of what's being synced, but I've tried Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive, and Dropbox, and all but Dropbox have exhibited the CPU melting issue you describe.

Dropbox was the only one that managed to sync 10s of gigs in a timely manner, without spending hours "analyzing files" before starting to upload.

ghobs91on Biggest Offender in Outsize Debt: Master’s Degrees

Then what's the explanation for the thousands of private non-profit universities who have never received state funding?

ghobs91on Biggest Offender in Outsize Debt: Master’s Degrees

If all people were buying Teslas using government-backed loans that the gov was then responsible to collect, while Tesla got paid up front and claimed to be a non-profit, they would absolutely have the right to tell them what they could charge.

If a university is going to call itself non-profit, they should only be charging whatevers needed to cover costs of operating. Tuition has skyrocketed in the last 10-20 years, with no reasonable explanation for what aspect of operating costs has gone up enough to justify that.

ghobs91on Biggest Offender in Outsize Debt: Master’s Degrees

This is what happens when there's 0 pressure on universities to price their programs competitively. If the government is backing every loan, the schools get paid up front, and the risk is then transferred to the gov to collect, why WOULDN'T a university charge as high a tuition as possible and hop on the gravy train?

Their non-profit status hasn't even done much to keep costs low, as they can just keep hiring tons of redundant administrators and have never-ending construction, thereby justifying higher tuitions as "operating costs".

The dept of education needs to treat universities the same way Medicaid treats healthcare providers. Determine what it actually costs per student per year to run a university, and tell the schools "Accept $x or shove off". If they're going to benefit from gov backed loans, they should play by the govs rules.

Look no further than this chart (https://i.imgur.com/B3sVMjg.png), around 2010 was when the gov started fully backing and giving the loans directly, and conveniently it's when students needs for loans skyrocketed. It's so obvious that colleges took advantage of it.

Enough is enough, this college cost situation is entirely the fault of the gov for allowing it to happen, and it's a massive drag on our economy and the potential of our citizens.

ghobs91on New Mac Pro

$1000 for a monitor stand is the pinnacle of arrogance from a brand.

ghobs91on Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system

If I had to guess, it'll be $200-300 for the base station and $40-50/m for 100mbps.

ghobs91on YC's request for startups: Government 2.0

A startup working on a secure digital voting system should be one of the top priorities here. As it currently stands, this is what the voting experience is like:

- Always on a weekday, so if you have a job and then a family to take care of after work, good luck finding time.

- Long lines, so that even those who find time are discouraged by standing around in November weather.

- The countless cases of voting locations in minority areas conveniently having broken machines or other barriers that prevent them from voting.

This environment has essentially optimized the experience for one group: retirees who have the time and energy to prioritize their day around voting. It's no surprise that legislation often favors this specific group as a result.

My high-level vision of how digital voting would look:

- A secure open source app that verifies your identity before letting you vote.

- Every candidate on the ballot would have a bio detailing their policies and views, to be filled out by them.

- A digital approach would make it easier to eventually adapt the system to involve things like ranked voting.

This would allow everyone to vote whenever and wherever they want, no relying on external factors like those mentioned above. It also provides one consistent place for every voter to see the same information about the candidates, rather than placing that task in the hands of media and their inherent bias/interests.

That's my 2 cents, I'm excited to see how startups tackle this.

ghobs91on ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei

In which case this move against huawei is "just business".

It's their problem now to figure out how to develop top tier hardware and software without stealing it from American companies and rebranding it.

ghobs91on ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei

Or maybe this is retaliation for the billions Chinese companies have made off stolen American IP. Ever thought of that? To imply this is pure protectionism is over simplifying it.

ghobs91on This Old House: The Rare Home-Improvement Show That Spotlights Skilled Workers

This is a pretty big generalization. If you've stepped foot in many construction sites and seen no "drama" between workers, you weren't paying attention.

ghobs91on Google suspends some business with Huawei

While true, this is also the case for Amazon's app store, and their app selection is a fraction of the Play store to this day.

ghobs91on Google suspends some business with Huawei

It appears they're only losing access to American hardware and software. So that would mean Android, Gorilla Glass screens, Qualcomm processors, etc.

ghobs91on Google suspends some business with Huawei

To all those stating that Huawei should just make their own OS, it's nowhere near that simple. Forking Android is the easy part, building an app ecosystem that thousands of developers across the globe actively partake in is incredibly difficult. Microsoft couldn't even pull it off with Windows Phone.

I predict their own Android fork and China-focused app store will do fine in China, but struggle big time in other markets.

ghobs91on The AI That's Too Dangerous to Release

Super clickbaity and low effort title.

ghobs91on London girl could be first to have “air pollution” listed as cause of death

The cause of death is respiratory failure, not "air pollution". I'm getting real tired of even big names like CBS getting in on this clickbait game.

ghobs91on Have a personal web site

Sounds like another lip-service law that European countries like to enact and then rely on the honor system for enforcement.

ghobs91on Millennials Tried to Kill the American Mall, but Gen Z Might Save It

I might be reaching here, but it's interesting that the largely Baby Boomer owners of physical retail use language like "millennials killed the mall".

Almost as if their business model is entitled to succeed forever, and millennials are these antagonists hell-bent on destroying it, when in reality they're simply choosing the commerce experience most convenient.

It just continues the narrative that the Boomer generation only loves the free market when it benefits them. I wonder if the silent generation wrote articles claiming the baby boomers are killing public transit by preferring cars/highways.

ghobs91on The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections

And just like it did in the early 1900s, the government will again adapt with new regulations that take the gig economy into account.

ghobs91on Rich countries tend to have a bigger middle-class, except the USA

Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but I found it strange that rather than googling "middle class income range SF", you chose to post this rambling humble brag comment.

ghobs91on We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage

and yet the exact opposite is happening to software engineer salaries, their growth is outpacing tons of other fields.

ghobs91on Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire

The cost of college I'll give you that. Pretty much very tech company gives employees and their family healthcare coverage as part of the benefits. As for gun violence, while the US definitely has higher rates of mass shootings, the vast majority of Americans will never experience any of that first hand, especially in high income tech cities like SF and NYC.

ghobs91on Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire

Until you improve on the pitiful salaries offered in Europe's tech industry, that's not going to change.

ghobs91on Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report

www.fakespot.com is your friend.

ghobs91on What the media universe currently looks like

CBS is owned by National Amusements, noticed that's missing from the chart.

ghobs91on MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

That's a big "if".

ghobs91on MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

It's not the cellphones they're worried about, its the network infrastructure. A cellphone simply has access to the carriers internet connection, whereas building a carrier's infrastructure on Huawei equipment means Huawei can spy on whoever is using that network.

ghobs91on MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

It's more a way to draw attention to the headline than anything.

ghobs91on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2019)

  Location: New York, NY
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: To Boston, Philadelphia, DC, Austin, or Phoenix 
  Technologies: HTML/CSS, Javascript, React, Redux, Node.js/Express, Python, Django, SQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Heroku, Netlify
  Résumé/CV: 
      - Full resume available upon request.
      - Github can be found here: https://github.com/ghobs91
      - Recently completed Lambda School Full Stack Engineering program
      - Before Lambda, was a self-taught coder who built shopping search engine startup. 
      - Got to pitch it to Carmelo Anthony at a founder/vc mixer which was pretty cool!
  Email: ghobrial [dot] andrew [at] gmail.com

ghobs91on Show HN: Medius News – A news aggregator that optimizes for neutral sources

Awesome to hear how well it performs on your Raspberry Pi! This is more of a side project/portfolio piece at the moment, so I don't see ads coming anytime soon.

Having a hamburger menu to quickly navigate/toggle sections is a great idea! I'll look into that more.

ghobs91on Facebook to ban white nationalist content

You're equating someone asking for a cake for their same-sex marriage to hate speech? Are you kidding?