Recent submissions

Comment · 13 years ago
Do iPhones use standard MicroUSB? The non-standard port is a business decision.
Comment · 13 years ago
Yeah, I was wondering whether he meant to write "I can't agree more".
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Yeah, "0.9999... != 1" posts would never happen on HN :)
Comment · 13 years ago
I got some, can you dupe me a GPOW? TPTPTPTP~~~^_^
Comment · 13 years ago
How would one know this is a nuke? Earthquakes happen.
Comment · 14 years ago
Pretty! I had wanted to make something like this, but one feature I thought of and you didn't do: For the entered regexp, generate 20 random matches and show them to me.

Use case for this feature: You encounter an undocumented regexp in someone else's code and want get a few quick examples of what it matches.

Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
Correction: It appears I'm wrong and you're right.
Comment · 14 years ago
From your reply, it sounds much worse than I thought. I had no idea my team admin could see all my data until now!

If joining a team account changed after your October changes, then maybe it's okay now. But I included in my post the email I got for joining the team, and it makes no mention of the fact that the team admin now owns my data. One would think this email should be less bland and more cautioning.

Comment · 14 years ago
A lot more storage and some more features.
Comment · 14 years ago
Hey, OP here -

First of all, in Dropbox's defense, I probably did not give you guys enough time to respond before going public with this (also, living in Israel I sometimes forget that Sunday is a weekend for most people in the world). I apologize for that. I am not a journalist/blogger, and I was driven more by my emotions than by "journalistic ethics" (?) when submitting to HN.

Second, according to your support email (updated the original post with it) it looks like my particular case is going to be resolved. However, it does not seem to resolve the malicious use case I hinted at (and which people on HN did not seem to want to discuss that much): Give someone a terabyte as a gift, and then delete their account. In fact, from the support email it seems like it's even worse: The support staff will need the team admin to approve the account re-enabling. In the malicious case, the admin would not approve.

[EDIT: Recalled a third point I wanted to make.] Third, regarding what you said "it's not possible for us to differentiate between Team data and personal stuff in the same account". I simply don't understand why this is true. Maybe the general case is not like mine, but my Dropbox folder just has a bunch of subfolders, exactly one of which belongs to the "team". Is it possible that certain folders have mixed personal-and-team content? How does that even work? If you saw my account (I don't know if you can... but your code can) it would be blatantly obvious which folders (all but one) are personal.

Comment · 14 years ago
I have never received such an email. I totally did not see it coming when my account was deleted.
Comment · 14 years ago
I didn't even notice that until now, and definitely not when I originally clicked the link :)

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton