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I lolled.

Interestingly your name anagrams with mosad.

https://owner.io/ Hosted in a german data center under the strictest security standards.

Hypocritical much? Why do you speak for the whole HN? The community clearly does care as evidenced by a number of comments about Rice in this thread.

It needs to be brought up in every Dropbox thread, and voted to the top comment. There is literally no valid use case for Dropbox, everyone using it needs to give it up for something else, and anyone who hasn't been made aware of that needs to be.

Even if they end world hunger.

What boggles my mind is that there are many people who would pillory the guy who got canned at Mozilla because he gave $1000 to people to fear-monger about LGBTs, who gets multiple few-hundred-comment threads, but we talk about someone who could charitably be described as a war criminal, and also add ardent supporter of NSA surveillance and such, (i.e. things a lot more harmful and important than marriage equality) and the outrage is so lukewarm as to be non-existent.

I really don't get the culture here sometimes. Eich gets hung out to dry (which is something I still agree with, for the record) but Rice more or less gets a free pass, despite Rice having been responsible/complicit in a hell of a lot more evil in the world?

We cancelled my premium account and my girlfriends premium account after we decided we could not support Dropbox's new direction.

Rice does not inspire confidence with a company handling private data.

I'm doubtful about paid accounts having a significant impact on their bottom line. Do they publish numbers on that?

Thanks to Obama she will never be judged for the alleged crimes her and her pals commited.

But the reputation of USA as the leader of the free world is safe,we can now give the russians moral lessons.

She's not, of course. The people who claim she is tend to be pushing a fantasy concept of international law.

Take a look at https://www.dropbox.com/developers/webhooks/tutorial#best-pr..., specifically the part about managing concurrency.

There are rate limits (per user) on the Dropbox side, but they're pretty high. I think the bigger concurrency issue is going to be on your end (making sure you don't process the same changes multiple times). Taking a lease per-user is a good start, and we're going to publish a more advanced sample in the coming weeks that uses a queue to really eliminate duplicate calls.

Same here, except I went with BTSync. Really glad I did - it's a nice little product.

Webhooks don't require SSL. We're going to publish a little Python script soon that can generate fake webhook notifications for local testing, but in the meantime, I'd suggest just using curl. Something like this:

curl http://127.0.0.1/whatever -d '{"deltas": {"users:" [12345]}}'

Another possibility is to use a tool like ngrok or localtunnel, which is what some of our beta testers did.

Things that come to mind immediately:

Dropbox works equally well across platforms with near 0 synchronization issues. It's just a folder. They aren't trying to add cloud to their own platform, they don't care what device you use or if you use Apple's word processor or Microsoft or Google Docs.

Dropbox has has a firebase/Parse style API you can use to build applications that store that application data in the cloud.

My favorite Dropbox API uses:

automatic syncing of O'reilly Media books. Whenever O'reilly updates one of their ebooks, I always have the current copy, because O'reilly syncs it with Dropbox.

1Password synching.

automatic Hackpad backups (they had that even before they were bought).

I installed this new app the other day, Trickster from the Mac App store, it automatically detected I was using Dropbox.

But I'll mention some negatives:

Those new recent android apps were really bad and I uninstalled them. Carousel and that other one, I don't even remember what it was now. They were just terrible apps, at least on my Galaxy S4.

For me it's 'stays connected' For some reason Google Drive will disconnect periodically and there is no reconnect option. You have to exit and restart, and then it needs to re-index everything.

Multiple Dropboxs. New feature, but I can run my work and home dropbox at the same time and they sync to different folders.

Sharing is cleaner. When I invite a Dropbox user to a share, the share appears in their drive. With Google drive, they get access to the share web only but it doesn't sync to their drive. The UI to get it to sync to drive isn't clear, so I end up doing a lot of 'support'

I also find the Google Drive .gdoc files bizarre. They aren't actual files, users don't understand you can't copy them out of the drive to back them up, etc.

LAN sync is only available on Dropbox and is incredibly useful.

The Packrat feature is also nice.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/113/en

If you pay for the business account, you get unlimited space. If you actually do use multiple terabytes, then the per-GB cost is pretty good.

Someone correct my if I'm wrong here, but if you're referring to PRISM, that's not lying. Note that Dropbox as well as any other US company is subject to (distasteful, but otherwise legal) demands for information.

PRISM is basically a secure upload endpoint, not some automated, unaccountable, secret data siphoning tool. (Though they have those as well..)

If I were a popular enough internet company to get frequent NSL requests, it would only make sense to sign up. I have to provide the data, might as well make it as painless as possible.

Easy downvote. I don't think any of your (inflammatory) assertions are supportable.

Guess what: 99% of people don't give a flying fuck.

git-annex is quite difficult to use, even more so if one of your nodes is a Windows box.

The sheer number of symlinks put me off git-annex.

At AudioBox (https://audiobox.fm) we have a strong use case for it. We are already providing our users a "live filesystem" with Box, exciting that Dropbox is also adding this.

We'll have a look at this after our next release.

If you're polling client-side for a single account, you should just be using longpoll_delta[1] and delta[2]. But maybe I misunderstood the use case?

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#longpoll-delta

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#delta