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Officially, up to you if you believe they are following their policies, all of the companies have published statements on how long they keep their data after deletion (which custom…

>This is an aspirational statement and not a requirement of DTP, so it's problematic from a public perception standpoint to make the claim that DTP provides the user with more cont…

Super welcoming :). Re: Java, ya its in the roadmap that the adapters should be language agnostic. Forcing them all into one language, regardless of what it is, is kind of lame. Ch…

Howdy, (I work on DTP) I wanted to provide my thinking on some of these very valid wories, Re: Copy vs. Move: This was a conscious choice that I think has a solid backing in two th…

Howdy (I work on DTP), I'd say suspicion is always wanted with things like this. If you know of other services you would like to see data transfer to/from, please let us know, we w…

It turns out reports of the Data Liberation Front demise have been greatly exaggerated. We are still very actively improving Google Takeout[0] as well as developing other products[…

I am having trouble figuring out how in the world they can make the numbers work. - The lowest possible rates I've seen for personal loans are ~9%. - From the article: over 50 year…

This is a very nice collection of Buffett QnAs. It would be interesting to see these in a timeline to see how his various answers have changed (or not) over time.

It's true the sales people do out number us here in Chicago, but we do have O(100) engineers in the office. We are working on lots of cool stuff: Ads, Search, and Privacy to name a…

It does, there was a lot of debate on whether it should or not. If you have strong opinions one way or the other I would love to hear them as we are open to changing that behavior.…

Sorry about that. Did you try the move to drive option? One of the reasons we added the ability to move the finished archive to Drive was to allow users with unreliable internet co…

When you create the Takeout or when you try to download the archive?

Just as an FYI Takeout's zip files are limited to 2GB (for compatibility reasons) so you'll actually get a couple zip files, if you want just one file you need to pick one of the o…

No Takeout was affected by the outage as well unfortunately.

We are rolling this feature out slowly, right now only about 1% of people have access to Takeout's of GMail. But we hope to increase it to 100%, including Google Apps accounts (if …

This may be a myth. Nanex ( http://www.nanex.net/ ) does a lot of detailed analysis of the HFT. Their view, and it is supported by a lot of data and many very detailed, if not intu…

I agree it is complicated and busy, on the other hand I hate having to refresh a CAPTCHA 20 time to find one I can do. My two concerns would be it seem to load pretty slow for me (…

Just signed up, couple thoughts: - I think it is pretty clear what you do, so that is good - The left right buttons on the homepage weren't working for me - after signing up its we…

Hey guys, this is a little extension of the game posted on Friday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3138712 hopefully people find it fun.

Hi guys, X-stream.ly is a push messaging PaaS that requires no servers to use. We'd love for people to check it out and give us your feedback. Thanks

I disagree that it is the opposite. In fact I think it is more like LucasFilm is saying Just Sue Me. From the article Seth (I am assuming he is a reliable source as I know nothing …