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Agreed, 2 days is ridiculous. If the timeframe to shutdown is that fast, surely they could send a compressed version of the userdata with the email?

How does one go 7 years without negotiation experience? In any case, my experience suggests that you won't be happy working there, even if they pay you your 70k - it's clear they are after a junior (3 year exp) and value the role commensurate with that. Unless you are getting desperate / it's urgent (in which case you've already lost the negotiation game) I'd recommend looking for a position more in-line with your experience if you want a salary matching your experience - a world-class chef shouldn't expect world-class dollars if he works at a fast-food outlet.

I think the point was that resyncs (exchanging game state) are too intensive (hence the prohibition on "join in game") - as you say if people are prepared to wait a few minutes it's less of an issue. Having said that, this explains load screens on joining multiplayer games much better for me (first load is a state sync, but subsequently input-sync could be sufficient).

Domain renewal is something like $140 per year !?

I hope you mean web hosting.

//edit: Ah you mean for the .com + .org + .net etc. Still can't see this being 140 but makes more sense

I'm surprised your webhost hasn't stopped you having a "receive a copy" tickbox - spammers use these to get your service to spam people (e.g. fill in a "Buy Viagra" spam message, put in the destination email, and presto using your good name to spam users).

I think the point wasn't about the cost to Dropbox so much as the opportunity cost (i.e. a lot more people would convert if the free package wasn't so good). Then again maybe if the free package wasn't so good, people wouldn't be such Dropbox fans.

Interesting thought, but do you know any poor politicians? I don't. I certainly wouldn't expect poor corruptible politicians in a country full of corruption.

As a long-time FF user (and Firebird before that, and Pheonix before that) it would take a bit to sway me. Having said that, you're right that add-on development is unnecessarily tedious (seriously, it should start as easy as that cool link I saw on here that allows you to setup jQuery scripts ala easy-Greasemonkey) , I have to say that FF is surprisingly slow these days, and why does it update on launch (surely it could do a pre-update behind the scenes, and do a switch over of .exe on launch or something).

So there doesn't appear to be a description or anything here, which is odd as Amazon has one and a rave review from Tim Ferriss among other things.

In any case:

"Best known for creating CD Baby, the most popular music site for independent artists, founder Derek Sivers chronicles his “accidental” success and failures into this concise and inspiring book on how to create a multi-million dollar company by following your passion. In Anything You Want, Sivers details his journey and the lessons learned along the way of creating CD Baby and building a business close to his heart."

I had a very similar experience with Virgin Blue (Australian national flight service). We arrived an hour late to a flight (daylight savings mixup) and fortunately the plane had been delayed. Not only did a Virgin Blue staff member get us to the front of the line, they let us purchase space for luggage and check it in late (we had cheap no-luggage tickets), and made sure to check with flight staff that the luggage would be on our flight and that our seats were still available.

Contrast with Qantas, where being less than 45 minutes early to a flight usually means you cannot board (you certainly cannot check-in luggage).

Sydney apparently has good public transport (I found it fine on holidays), and Melbourne's trams aren't bad, but Adelaide is terrible and none of the cities compare to European cities in terms of reliability, coverage or frequency in my experience.

I'm pretty amateur on cryptography, and this is cool and everything for basic security, but for those more in the know does the fact that the algorithm knows a password is "wrong" weaken the cryptography (I realise it's a cool feature of this app, I'm talking generally)? Presumably you would have to test each decrypted result for language words etc. otherwise to know if you had decrypted it correctly.

I'm pretty sure there's a companion to the 3rd "output" example yielding a nice symmetry, i.e. :

When general details cloud knowledge of specifics (I know they live in Australia, which is that place on the South of the world .. oh what city was it again?).

I agree with you 100%. It seems as though the UI team came up with this concept, which is a cool prototype, but naively misses a lot of the functionality that the standard interface has evolved over time. As such, it either needs to be better integrated (e.g. just an active desktop + widgets all over again with some flashier task switching) or purely for mobile devices (say a special edition you can install). As it stands it's an ugly hybrid of both UIs that just screams "we don't know how to make this work well for regular daily operations (e.g. file management)".

Presumably if we could extend life, we could also extend the period of life in which you can produce and create useful things. There would be little point extending lives if it meant you spent an extra 30 years confined to a bed with no memory of your identity.

Wow, 180k for a 4BR house!? Houses in the poorer suburbs of my city (the poorest capital in Australia) are still $400-500k +. Rent for a 4BR is about 450+ a week.

I think depression, as distinct from unhappiness, is something you dismiss as unhappiness (i.e. circumstance driven) until you experience it and realise it is an illness.

The clearest example I can imagine is, take someone who is down on their luck, unemployed, in debt, medical problems etc. and fly them to the best doctors in the world, then give them a great new job with a million dollar signing bonus - I think they'll typically be pretty happy. Do this to a depressed person and they'll probably try and kill themselves because they consider themselves unworthy.

I guess I was responding to "hunting down sparrows and enemies of the state" rather than the revolution specifically, so I will accept they are in a different league.

Still, I'm not sure killing around 3% of Iraqis is something that can be dismissed as "foolish and wrong-headed" either.

Which is so different from the War on Terror and the Patriot Act.

It takes light 40 years to get there and back at 1,079,252,849 km/h, and the fastest spacecraft we have currently are the Helios Solar Probes at 252,792 km/h - it would take over 170,000 years before the probe returned.

In response to this summary of FTC complaint, I'm just not sure how Dropbox have violated their agreement with the customer.

One of the strongly emphasised features of Dropbox is deduplication (i.e. so you won't need to re-upload massive files if someone else already has), and if you are particularly security conscious, presumably you would have made the effort to read about how Dropbox stores their files and considered whether this method was adequately secure for you prior to use.

I'm assuming the single key is related to deduplication, and although I don't understand why you couldn't simply store a key per user, I'm not even sure whether that would be more or less secure given that insiders with access to the encrypted files can probably also get access to the database of encryption keys.

As far as some select employees having access to your files, surely this is to be expected - the alternative is they get sued/charged by the authorities and are forced to implement an even more compromising solution than a couple of Dropbox employees having access (e.g. a backdoor for the RIAA).

Electric companies, ISPs and browser vendors have competition. When Facebook is a dependency, it becomes one without easy alternatives.

From the article:

Judge William Alsup described Edge Games as 'trolling' and suggested that it could face criminal charges

In his order, Alsup even created info-graphics comparing Dr. Langdell's USPTO filings with the actual products, describing in detail "evidence of fraud" that forces the court to play "spot the differences:"

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This judge is brilliant.

So shouldn't we wait to hear the facts/details first? I believe HN is about intelligent discussion, not idle speculation.

[Not HN] - Assuming this qualified as interesting/useful to hackers, which I disagree with but obviously it's on the front page, this is two paragraphs (at least currently?) saying Bin Laden is dead, statement to come, i.e. completely devoid of information.

Some tags/different colours would be cool. Also there's a bit of a mouse bug if you click on one column, drag, then reclick on another in the same sort of motion (you get two columns/days drawing at the same time).

Would be useful to have some borders or something too (I had no idea where to click or what I was dragging first go).

Nevertheless, conceptually it's sound.

Though this could be said for nearly all research until it is complete.

"Cultural memory" - is an invasion from around 800 years ago really that devastating on a daily basis to the people of today?

I'd also beg to differ on your point that Canadians have no ancestry of invasion - Canadians descend primarily from France and the UK (with a little German as well), and it would be a tad outrageous to pretend these nations haven't endured bloody and violent invasions throughout history.

Or the three body types most bodybuilding + weight loss forums discuss: endomorph, ectomorph and mesomorph.

Extradition.