Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite • Hacker News Board

Re: Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite

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Post by dang » Wed, May 25, 2016, 6:41 AM UTC

sneak wrote: post #21

Lest we forget: this is the company that let anyone on the internet log in to any Dropbox user account they wanted with any arbitrary value for the password. https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2011/06/yesterdays-authent...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11763935 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite

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Post by dang » Wed, May 25, 2016, 6:43 AM UTC

superobserver wrote: post #70

sneak wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will you run the closed-source Dropbox kext on your machine?

Do you suppose it matters when someone unapologetically extends their unbidden shill-like opinion favoring a more current employer? Running closed source code clearly involves a level of trust that permits abiding ignorance. Nothing more to say then.

I'm not sure what this means, but if by "unbidden shill-like opinion" you mean to insinuate astroturfing by another commenter, that's not allowed on HN without evidence. An opposing opinion is not evidence.

Re: Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite

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Post by astrange » Wed, May 25, 2016, 6:57 AM UTC

seanalltogether wrote: post #17

I'm a bit scared to figure out what this means for my users scanning their hard drives with Space Gremlin. I go through standard file apis to scan all the folders on the users system. Will it end up scanning the entire users online filesystem and not just the actual local files? Will getting file meta data on all those online files end up causing a fetch to DB and grind the whole scan to a halt? I've been resisting b…

Do you use getattrlistbulk() or do you only use cross platform APIs?

Re: Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite

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Post by pritambarhate » Wed, May 25, 2016, 7:07 AM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #6

As a paying Pro customer, I am a bit worried how intent they seem to be on pushing the business/enterprise products. First of all, Dropbox the web application is spammed with Dropbox Business advertising. I am already paying. And, no, my employer (a European university) is unlikely to roll out Dropbox Business. So please stop bugging me :(. Secondly, more and more features are rolled out to business users first. Why?…

Yeah, I feel the same. At least give us a simple checkbox, "Don't show this to me again". Every time I open the web application, having to get rid of that pop up is very annoying.

Re: Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite

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Post by fanf2 » Wed, May 25, 2016, 8:06 AM UTC

ja30278 wrote: post #12

So..the cost of an extra kernel/userspace switch was too much for a file request that is going to be serviced by a server on the other side of the internet?..really?

In most cases it will be serviced by a locally cached file.

Re: Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite

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Post by urza » Wed, May 25, 2016, 8:12 AM UTC

skrowl wrote: post #11

urza wrote: post #2

Thanks to dropbox inifit I discovered Infinit.sh - http://infinit.sh/ which I got really excited about. I wonder what is their experience with using FUSE and DOKANY..

I have a similar success story. Thanks to Dropbox spamming me with "OMG UPGRADE!" every time I clicked anything, I found out about SyncThing (specifically SyncTrayzor for Windows). Thanks, Dropbox!

I am happy user of Syncthing[1] myself. I currently sync 1.5 TB of data with it. And on windows the SyncTrayzor[2] is excellent. I also use android client[3] as a one-way backup of my whole SD card from phone to my other computers.

1: https://syncthing.net/

2: https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor

3: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.sy...

Re: Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite

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Post by medecau » Wed, May 25, 2016, 8:37 AM UTC

urza wrote: post #2

Thanks to dropbox inifit I discovered Infinit.sh - http://infinit.sh/ which I got really excited about. I wonder what is their experience with using FUSE and DOKANY..

I just hope inifinit.sh delivers on open sourcing.

https://github.com/infinit/infinit/issues/1

Re: Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite

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Post by 4ad » Wed, May 25, 2016, 9:23 AM UTC

api wrote: post #73

microtonal wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly, we should be moving in the opposite direction: make as much software as possible user-space and sandboxed. I assume a party as large as Dropbox can request Apple to extend the APIs where necessary?

If Apple shipped FUSE this would be a lot easier.

If FUSE semantics would be the same between systems, this would be a lot easier. But I'm not sure how that is possible, FUSE it too leaky, it exposes too much of the semantics of the kernel VFS layer, which is different between kernels.

Re: Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite

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Post by ccrone » Wed, May 25, 2016, 10:26 AM UTC

mrlinx wrote: post #30

urza wrote: post #2

Thanks to dropbox inifit I discovered Infinit.sh - http://infinit.sh/ which I got really excited about. I wonder what is their experience with using FUSE and DOKANY..

Got excited as well, even signups for news on their slack group. But nothing so far, not even access to the beta binaries.

Contact me (chris) on Slack, depending on your platform we may have a beta for you to try

Re: Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite

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Post by cadeuh » Wed, May 25, 2016, 10:54 AM UTC

urza wrote: post #2

Thanks to dropbox inifit I discovered Infinit.sh - http://infinit.sh/ which I got really excited about. I wonder what is their experience with using FUSE and DOKANY..

Don't hesitate to come to our IRC or Slack channel, we'll happily talk about our experience :)