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I find Evernote quite useful for specific domains, namely interviews. When preparing to give interviews, I gather all the info online using clipper. I can then categorise information based on the interviewee. After publishing interviews, I probably won’t access that information again until relevant information appears when researching about my next interviewee, e.g. a statement or an allusion to the previous person.

The latest significant development I saw from Evernote is its tie-up with the Nikkei newspaper, which was still a meager addition of the “Clip” button to the online version. (It’s well-known that Phil is a fan of Japan; Evernote even tied up with the Nagatanien bottled tea.)

Perhaps, Evernote can expand its offerings into paperback books, in which annotations are not yet effectively digitised. I’d also appreciate if they could release a suite for members of the press, who need to research, organise, and release information.
Tracking is one thing that bothers me. The other are video ads that hijack my speakers and sap my bandwidth, pop over ads that hijack my screen focus, etc. Those are where I draw the line.

I don't use explicit ad blockers, but I do run with NoScript and Cookie Controller. Simple, well-behaved banner and sidebar ads are fine. Overly aggressive ads get killed.
I used to use Evernote back in 2012. I found the ui confusing and not very useful for my needs. I then adopted Workflowy for simple to do lists, organizing info, and that works great for my style; have not gone back to Evernote ever since.
If the original author reads this; I found the combination of webkit anti-aliasing with a thin body weight to be instantly eye-strain-inducing, and the deliberate hiding of scroll bars even on non-mobile viewports made for a persistent sense of unease.
This is not correct. The extension and the webapp authenticate the same way, and neither send the master password over the network.

Criticism to using the webapp is generally JS crypto being broken. Code delivered every time coupled with the browser not being good place for crypto (any code can eat any other code..).

Extensions, being a separate program that lives mostly apart from the web pages your browser visits is slightly a more trustworthy environment
Any plans to support LINE?
It's kind of strange to me that you think OneNote is clunky. I might have agreed with you about the iOS app six months ago but it has improved quite a bit since then.
And then of course, the recent winner of MHacks 6
https://twitter.com/mhacks/status/643194428975390720
On a similar note, people seem to think that internet access will magically allow people to lift themselves out of poverty in developing countries. I personally find this idea to be pretty stupid; just because you have the sum total of the world's knowledge available to you (a paraphrased quote from the article) does not mean you are going to do anything with it or you can do anything with it.
About a year or so ago, my dad called me out of the blue and told me that my mom was crying because "internet ads were following her and making her anxious".

Earlier that day, she came from a doctor and ended up searching for a medical condition on a famous search website. After that, she started seeing ads for various bullshit remedies all across the internet. Almost every website she visited, showed her same types of ads. Even when she wanted to forget and take her mind of it, she couldn't because these ads were constantly reminding her of it.

She got so disgusted that she quit using the web for the rest of the day and cried.

I guided them on how to install ad blocking addons and how to change default search engines (she now uses Startpage) But we couldn't easily block it on iPad so the solution was to switch the search engine and clear cookies.

All these companies that make money off tracking people and are selling search results really need to rethink their business models.

PS: She also wrote an email to Tim Cook complaining about this and got a reply from someone that they will "look into it". I'm glad Apple will now a provide solution to block these kinds of things on an iPad.
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Fab is already a "dead unicorn" in most people's eyes. During their Series D in 2013, they had a post-val of 1.17B, only to be acquired earlier this year for 15M.

I think the biggest problem these current VC-backed unicorns will face is when "venture tourism" comes to an end sometime in the future and all this available cash becomes harder and harder to raise as mutual/hedge funds back slowly away from the private markets:

http://blog.pitchbook.com/if-winter-is-coming-how-well-are-u...

I hear a lot of chatter about how IPO is the new down round in tech, and it seems to make sense to me. I don't foresee the high quantity of venture-backed companies worth over 1BN being able to keep up with such valuations ESPECIALLY if they try and hit the public market anytime soon. I also don't see how they're going to be able to maintain increases in valuations thus making it pretty safe to assume an impending "down round" period for those unable to find sustainable revenue. And lastly, there isn't a huge M&A market for companies with a price tag north of 1BN.
Not worse, just not any better.
The use case was, for me, fragmented into many other services. Evernote was sort of my second brain before, not any more.
Microbial chemical factories. Now there's a hell of a pharmaceutical future. Combine with GMOs and CRISPR-CAS9...

Holy crap.
I ported all my writings from Evernote to Google Docs the day when I read that their CEO said that he was building a "corporation for the next 100 years" a couple of years ago. There's nothing wrong with such desire, but I thought that the lack of realism/humility of this CEO would run this company into the ground.
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> As an user of Evernote, my guess was that it was a small operation with may be 50 people tops, may be with 10-20 million dollars of funding.

Evernote has had a very large, prominent building on highway 101 from SF to the valley for quite a few years now. The building has no other signage on it, so I assume Evernote occupies a large part of it. Is that the norm for 10-20 million funded startups, or is your estimate way under?
Really useful! no more 'okay google i need drag cursor png actual size'!
Ah, sorry, I should have specified that I'm referring to the Android app. I've updated my comment accordingly. Not only is the interface a pain to work with, it has frequent syncing issues as well.

On the desktop, I'm forced to use the web client for OneNote and OneDrive, due to the lack of Linux support. I would definitely describe both as "clunky", though OneDrive is decidedly the worse offender of the two.
So exciting to hear that they will be posting the videos online ... I'm definitely looking forward to following along.
I use evernote every day, multiple times a day. I don't care... I find it damn handy.
I agree with some of your examples, but geometry is best learned old school; with the use of a protractor, compass, etc. for diagrams and reasoning about proofs in your head assisted by paper. I have no scientific evidence to offer so the statement is purely based on experience.
Another possibility is that people will learn to care about what they read, and learn that it costs something. We don't have to tip, either.

Also, I'm sorry, but I'm never going to login to Facebook to read the Economist, and I stopped using Twitter's mobile app when they introduced sponsored content.
THC extraction is not unlike caffeine extraction, which is pretty easy with liquefied CO2. You could even do pharmacy-grade column extracts if you wanted to make it extra pure.
Who are you? What are your skills? What's the idea/s?
Evernote lost some of my data, which is like a money market fund breaking the buck. You just can't allow that to happen. If you do you'll get carried out. Twitter could lose a few of my tweets and it wouldn't matter, you lose my valuable notes? GTFO

I should add that I was a paying customer.

I was already struggling with the crappy UI and looking for an alternative when the data loss happened. For a while I tried different apps, then Microsoft released OneNote for iOS. OneNote works great for me but now I'm snake-bitten and worried about Microsoft losing my data.
Every business will still have a web site for their own products and services. Amazon won't have a problem. Wikipedia will go on. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist are already pay sites, and they're almost the only news sites with actual reporters. Pay TV will continue to fund news networks, which will have sites with additional content to get people to watch their TV.

All we'll lose are the millions of bottom-feeder sites which take content in, hang ads on it, and hope to get paid. No big loss.
Substance http://substance.io/ is well worth taking a look at.
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Right, that part needs some improvements. I'm thinking, advertisers might compete for viewers by paying more for a given keyword, i.e. the prices are not fixed and the highest bidder wins the viewer.

Another question is whether these ads are skippable or not. Can I skip the ad, go straight to the article and not be paid? Maybe content providers could decide.
Your fingerprints are already on the phone, they don't need to ask. After getting access to the phone owner accounts and data they can use other investigation methods to get proofs that can be used in a trial. Tl;dr, fingerprints are a password replacement only against people that can't read them.
How do we do so? Find real men, brave enough to cry and express emotion! From a social pressure point it will be hard.

More seriously: you reverse things one step at the time. Creating awareness and correcting media would be the first step I think.
> A smart man once told me that college is a place to learn how to learn.

Good point. People such as Steve Jobs, Michael Faraday, John Carmack, Ernest Hemingway, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Michael Faraday, Srinivasa Ramanujan and others like them should have just ponied up the money and learned how to learn! One can only imagine how much better the world would have been.
>There was a lot of "first" in the previous comment, which might as well be synonymous with "front" in this context.

Not really. It's literally doing what was done before, 30 years ago.
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Ah, well I must tell you the Mac and iOS apps are first rate. The iOS app is easily one of the top 10 apps (in terms of polish) on my phone.
You're incorrect about Windows. If you just click next several times the cert will not be added to trusted. To do that you'll have to override default settings in a non trivial way (deselect "Choose cert store automatically" and select the correct cert store) on one of the steps

I'm sure that's intentional design
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Why don't more publishers try to detect the ad blockers with stuff like this? https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock

And then they could throw up a page that says "Sorry, AdBlock must be disabled to view this content"
That's great, for the 15k students that go to Stanford. I always feel left out when I hear that massive celebrities/billionaires/etc visit and/or teach classes at Stanford all the time (e.g. Reid Hoffman, Paul Graham, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Vint Cerf, et al, et al). I'm in my senior year at a decent engineering school on the East Coast and it's huge news when we get one person with even a quarter of the prestige that all of those people have. Stanford just seems like a privileged club that a few thousand students (out of millions that apply) get into - then get access to all of the fame and genius and money they can handle.
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...somehow my right to something that I created that never existed before is subject to a social balancing?

You already know that the answer to this is that once you've shared your creation with others, it's no longer yours. The copy that resides in their brains belongs to them. You cannot, without the artifice of copyright, claim ownership of pieces of others' brains, or what they later assemble from those pieces.
Damn, that article took a strange leap with discussing what better ads would be. Somehow it entirely skipped the possibility that more ads might resemble the ads of the most successful advertisers of the web (like google, facebook, twitter) and instead leaped on a dystopian slope where all ads are served by the content platforms of those companies.

Saying that twitter, google or facebook ads cannot be blocked is just bogus. People use them on normal web browsers that quite easily could block them. The reason they're not blocked is that it's not worth the hassle, because the ads are clean, small and polite. You know, better ads.

Such better ads are not patented, and switching to pleasant text ads like the industry leaders leaders did would make ad blockers a marginal phenomenon.
you aware of Google Keep?
I'd also note that to predict someone's future behavior, you'd have to predict everything in their future environment, and I'd assume simulating a large part of reality would cost a lot of energy - and if we're facing heath death, energy is all we, and the minds, have got. So economically it would be a minor form of suicide.
I'm sorry but how do you know it was the search website that sold information? It could as well be the first web site that she opened that happened to be on the same ad network as other related web sites she visited. Just guessing.
I didn't see anything about the price of the certificates. Will it be free ?
http://simplenote.com/

It's like Evernote used to be. Just text, not even formatting. It just works for me. There's clients for mobile, mac, web. For Windows there's a client called ResophNotes:

http://resoph.com/

I've been using this for the last couple of years, and it's perfect for my "synced cloud notepad.exe" use-case.
From a quick scan of the actual OECD report, it is quite clear that the authors are far less certain of the general conclusions than than the reporter from the BBC.

"With this data, patterns of correlation can be identified, but these must be interpreted carefully, because several alternative explanations give rise to similar patterns"

and

"Nothing guarantees that students who are more exposed to computers can be compared to with students who are less exposed, and that the observed performance differences can be attributed to such differences in exposure."

and

"Non-random selection and reverse causality thus plague within-country analyses, even after accounting for observable differences across students and schools."

http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/educati...
I was a heavy user of Evernote until I tried using it across multiple platforms. I'm not sure if things have changed since then but a while back my notes on my laptop and iOS and Android would all render differently, I couldn't control or edit as easily on any of my mobile phones and the syncing was never consistent. I constantly found myself reopening the app and forcing a sync to make sure I could access a note on another device.

While I do like OneNote better in some ways its organization style is very old fashioned (at least with Evernote it was easier to stuff tons of things into it, tag it properly and get it back easily). Once you get past 10 or so notes in a single section (depending on screen size) you have to scroll in OneNote and it just makes things a pain.

Google docs is awesome for documents but for notes? No thanks, it's too much of a pain in the ass to navigate. At least with Evernote or OneNote I can quickly access a note within the same interface.

Honestly I feel like there is room for a killer note taking app here that can go cross platform. But it would quire so much effort to build something even to parity that I don't know when or if that would happen.
Squatting would remain problematic because the owner of physical property would no longer be able to start and stop using their property as they pleased; they would have to wait for the squatter to vacate, and would be subjected to the sight of their property in use by a squatter (humans are territorial). As well, squatting often results in damage to the property. If these concerns could be addressed, why wouldn't squatting be okay?
Ad blockers could become smarter in return.
> We don't have to tip, either.

And in Australia, we don't.
The How does it work section of their website doesn't explain how it works and the FAQs are empty. How did you get enough information about their technology?
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I would consider a specially-crafted hosts file a form of ad blocking.
I was always a defender of a site's right to use advertising in lieu of any better way to pay for its content. As someone who'd had stabs in the past at making content sites with useful content, I understood that it was a case of etiquette. If you want to read my content, do me the courtesy of allowing an unobtrusive text ad to exist off to the side. On that basis, I never blocked ads. Sometimes the ads were even interesting.

I use an ad blocker now. Too many abuses of my willingness to let the publishers show me ads and I eventually just got sick of it. Where the line was crossed for me included:

- Videos (or audio) autoplaying over the top of my own music; especially when they're in some other tab, halfway down the page, forcing me to go hunting to figure out where the sound was coming from

- Links commandeered by popup launchers; especially when they cancel the original click, or load my link in a new tab and override the current tab with the ad popup, which often resulted in me accidentally leaving the ad tab open while I closed the tab I actually wanted.

- Hover ads that activate because I was careless enough to not pay precise attention to the location of my mouse pointer

- Page content scroll positions jerking up and down as ads appear or disappear (usually just the former)

- Overlay ads appearing on top of content I'm trying to read, and in particular those which make the close button either hard to see, unresponsive when clicked, or which respond as though I've clicked the ad itself

- Content that just won't display because it's blocked by ad resources that have stalled while loading

And so forth. I'll stand up for publisher's rights, but only to a point. Eventually the noise and bad behaviour just becomes too much.
It's not the author's fault, directly – it's a problem with the platform (syrah.co). I upped the font-weight from 300 to 400 in Chrome dev tools, and everything was instantly better.
That is a ridiculous, close minded statement. You enjoy the fruits of space experimentation on the ISS every day. In addition, much of what is space technology today and the research done to develop it finds its way to civilian aviation, transportation and so many other fields. But you enjoy your naive, small scale, narrow point of view. Like a horse with a saddle, ignorance is a bliss.
Sorry for asking a potentially dumb question : but is it possible for me to set up a domain name thecitibank.com and ask letsencrypt to issue me a certificate ? I can then create a login page to steal IPINs. Isn't that why we have humans in the loop for issuing certificates ?
The only thing I use, and pay, Evernote for is digitising printed receipts and similar documents, managing which otherwise I find troublesome. The document photo taking features which make taking pictures of receipts easier is pretty nice, as well as the ability to search for text through saved images.
Because you can block adblock killers with adblock. So what's the point?
It's possible that some advertising will merge in with regular content and become covertly invasive over the long term. Publishers become credibility farms, where credibility is built using real articles and sold via "propaganda" pieces. One possible example is the Wired tennis physics link posted recently [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10210808
Wish I had a browser extension that changed any font weight lower than 400 to 400, any foreground color lighter than #e8e8e8 or so to #e8e8e8 and any background color darker than #101010 to #101010.
Ideas don't matter. Execution does. OP gave a taste of their opinions on execution. Seems sufficient to me.
You're a Distributed Hash Table? :-)
Additionally, anything more aggressive than DuckDuckGo's "Please turn off your ad blocker, or tell others about us, thanks!" will really upset the people who use ad blockers.
To the extent that we can infer desire for salary optimization by choice of major, I'd exclude humanities, social sciences, math and physical sciences (research is not particularly lucrative), and education. Those, taken together, are 46.4% of undergraduate degrees in 2011-12. CS, engineering, and business, on the other side, are 28.6% of undergraduate degrees [1].

Consider how arrogant it is to look at the history and present of human civilization, its institutions and customs and art and languages, what it claimed to know and how, what it fought for and why, who held power and how people thought about its legitimacy, what it valued and worshipped, and think "Nope, nothing there could possibly be interesting or important here beyond what engineers can discover in their spare time. Nobody should bother studying any of this." I'm glad there are people who disagree with you.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_318.20.a...
Actually no, POCs have been made which allow you to deploy setups which allow for live updating apps in production. Apple even allows RCE as long as it's executed in the JS engine.
I see, so as long as the code can be looked at, it can be circumvented?
> The only solid solution to the Fermi Paradox that does not require some new and presently missing piece of scientific understanding

There's at least one more: somebody's gotta be first (in our light cone).
It's a cat and mouse problem, almost in the same nature as DRM. You create an ad-block detector, and someone will create an adblock that can evade it.
SSLmate (https://sslmate.com/) actually makes things similarly simple — I've been using them for a few months now.
I was a heavy evernote user a few years ago and then migrated to OneNote. I think one of the challenges that is causing evernote users to drain off is as its organization model for notes is broken unless you are highly disciplined in using tags.

As your usage grows the product becomes worse for you for non-search navigation and discovery.

MS OneNote on the other hand feels like an upgrade from evernote in terms of its ability to provide a simple hierarchy for organising and navigating between notes and notebooks.

A key thing for any productivity tool is to balance between it being easy to adopt for new users and continue to improve its utility as usage grows over time. Very few companies have managed to do this effectively.
That's called "retargeting" [1]. In some cases it feels harmless, in others it feels very creepy. I tend to use incognito windows when I search for things I don't want following me around everywhere, to avoid them getting stuck into tracking cookies. But I assume most people don't, so it causes them trouble.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting