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Is it Steve Jobs that told dropbox founders this?
Another prediction: Twitter.

2k+ engineers on staff without notable improvements to the core user-facing product in a while.

Declining signups, declining engagement.

Nobody stepping into the permanent CEO role.

I don't see how this ends well.
Everything about Evernote seems to get slower and slower; I hardly use it at all anymore for that reason. Even the browser plugin to save webpages is glacial, and that was a big reason I started with Evernote in the first place.
How can we know what the purpose of the NSA is? After all, the Presidential Order creating it (http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB24/nsa02b.pdf) in 1952 was classified (I think) until 2008. We can be pretty certain that the NSA is operating under a legal basis, but we can also be pretty certain that the legal basis is either not what we think it is, or is interpreted in such a fashion as to make the wording of that basis irrelevant.

How do we know if the NSA should exist, or if it's acting outside its jurisdiction? All that info is classified, or crapagandized.
That's a lovely bit of hacking! :)
And this is why Uber has such a crazy valuation.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298727
Nope. All those 6P 'checks' on a 5ish inch screen - that's what we needed. Oh, and OIS. HTC tried and failed at all this "bigger pixels" thing.
File sync is a feature of the Google Suite, but Dropbox is much better than Google Drive. Dropbox gets a lot of subtle things right. Maybe in the long term you're right, but I'm not so sure.

I think Dropbox Teams is too expensive but I'm paying it anyway because I think it's that much better. (I think that's a sign they set the prices exactly right)
While it's definitely plausible, and probably likely, I was looking for a source to the specific statement that Apple is "voluntarily giving the NSA zero-day vulnerabilities months before they get fixed". Are they giving them to the NSA? Is this why they're holding out on fixing them? Do we have evidence that this is their intention?
Sure there is: deflation. Increase the value of money by 10x and suddenly that $100K is plenty. Only problem is that anyone holding debt will end up bankrupt...which will just drive further deflation.
Go ahead and implement it, if it can improve user experience.
I thought I wouldn't care for it on the iPhone, but it's honestly a nice convenience. It's not for security, it's for simple auth (like when unlocking the phone or authorizing a payment on the app store).
Language rarely matters, but Scala is were the action is today and probably in the future.

Both languages could be considered "add-ons" on top of their runtime, so you have to think about how likely it is that the "base" language gets good enough to slow down adoption significantly.

In Scala's case it's quite unlikely that Java will ever be able to even decrease the gap let alone closing it.

Elixir feels a lot like CoffeeScript in that regard.
Actually, 2G is seeing a lot of growth in low-data-rate services. Providers are talking about switching off 3G instead of 2G. This 2014 article (in Dutch, sorry) states that there are still new 2G-only devices being made: http://tweakers.net/reviews/3453/3/mobiele-netwerken-het-twe...
Yes and most contributed modules are straight away too old to be used in D8. I'd have to reinvent the wheel over and over.
Bloomberg supports Python 3. Your information is old.
For me what's missing is Amazon instant video. I understand why it doesn't have it, but it's a real bummer. Would also be nice if I could watch NBC sports, but I think I might be able to and just haven't figured it out yet.
There are secret patents in the realm of national defense (think nuclear). The patent doesn't issue until the secrecy order is rescinded and the term begins once issued; IIRC.
Evernote's former CEO promised to focus on core features last year[0]. After 18 months with no improvements, the new CEO makes the same promise of focusing on core features. Seems like a sinking ship to me.

[0] https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2014/01/04/on-software-qualit...
Really feels like old-school IRC bots.

!pizza #1 address-on-file

!weather 92677
Part (a) of VC Section 22400 is what I was remembering from way back when I took driver training, and it states "No person shall drive upon a highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, unless the reduced speed is necessary for safe operation, because of a grade, or in compliance with law."

Wouldn't driving below the posted speed limit when there are no hazardous conditions fall under "as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic"?
I think the critical mass of people who are used to running a stereo plug from their iPhone/Android to a stereo or somesuch has been reached, they don't need anything more than the image with the device and a 3.5mm plug.
"Fired" or "terminated" tends to imply for cause which is something different from what's happening here. I'd prefer "laid off", but I think "let go" is pretty unambiguous.
I'm curious: why do you feel Dropbox needs to make something new and noteworthy? Why can't it just stick to its knitting, and continue to offer something that works and people find valuable?
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You seriously need to investigate what a cluster#$%! Xeon Phi is. Their attempt to kill NVIDIA was a joke and continues to be one for anyone not getting paid to say otherwise.

IMO if Intel really cared about "shareholder value(tm)" they would have acquired NVIDIA by hook or by crook. Instead, they bought the promising redheaded stepchild Altera.

Meanwhile, NVIDIA owns the ML/Deep Learning space for at least the next 2-3 years no matter what manure Intel tries to fling at them. If only AMD had a decent driver/tools team, this battle could be far more interesting.

That said, 2018 or so and beyond is a green field(tm) if Intel stops choking on its own process and exploits its process advantage to build a GPU killer either as a co-processor or by integrating sufficient multiple AVX units into the cores of its CPU roadmap.

All IMO of course.
It's an interesting link, and very interesting that these regulations are being litigated after decades of acceptance.

The big picture is that the FAA doesn't want the public to confuse the safety record of an airline with somebody flying a puddle-jumper (daily crashes in USA). The flying public just expects to get there without doing a risk evaluation, and puddle-jumpers are far riskier than airlines.

When you rideshare with Uber, there is a question of insurance.

When you rideshare a single-engine piston plane, there is a question of your life.
I was an Everything Addict
> Couldn't agree more. I remember when I first started using Evernote, the FAQs specifically said "you can't share your notes, that's not the point". Now it's all social and businessy, but I just want an easy and private way to organise my stuff!

This[1] article makes the point that they realized they needed business users to make money, and they were trying to appeal to them.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com.au/evernote-the-first-dead-un...
Mirrors or reflections give the appearance of another world, one we cannot touch or step into. Liitle wonder that there is so much superstition surrounding mirrors and ghosts.
Thanks!

I wonder just what he means by "full autonomy" though. When he refers to "autonomous driving...for highways" that means that the car manages the steering and acceleration but the driver is alert and involved at all times, and ready to take over any time the car can't handle something. I wonder if he's referring to a similar concept that works in more situations, rather than a car that can drive with nobody in it.

Or he might just be optimistic and mean full automatic driving. Hard to tell.
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same thing.

even had the audacity to keep charging me
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Sorry, I was speaking of character assassination of Edward Snowden, not of the NSA. I did not intend to insinuate you were being flippant, it was very possible you had not known this turn of phrase (not everyone is a native English speaker).
What makes 240 better than 120?
Indeed it is a nice app but it misses stuff like inline codeblocks and replying :(
> It's also something most people aren't all that interested in paying a reasonable amount for.

That's me! I have 0 interest in it. I just want the stuff on my doorstep when I get home and a way to address if it hasn't been delivered. Neither of these require a white-glove service I don't want to pay for.
What were the directions/products that have now been discontinued?
140+ char limit is gonna be revolutionary
> This team has achieved three incredible feats: they’ve created one of the most important productivity tools in history...

That's a very, very bold statement...
The switching cost between apps is practically zero so if someone else manages to figure out a better routing / experience with picking up people (some people use UberPool for dating, really creepy shit!) etc then Uber will become a footnote in history quick. It's now hard to disrupt Uber in its own market but when it's a new market?
This may be dissonance between audiophiles and regular people.

When I see that it works with my best, old-school speakers, I wonder if it has red and black posts for me to crimp my speaker wire to. But of course I know better and know that it will just provide line out audio. When they say "old school" they mean it has an RCA out jack, and when they say "speakers" they mean boombox, receiver, or modern powered speakers (the sort which often have an iphone connector on top to plug your phone into).

We as audiophiles know that the language used in the copy is imprecise and implies the wrong thing (hopefully we're also smart enough to know what it's actually implying). I suspect the average human would not be as confused.
It does, and the app also supports that, but I have ~4 scenarios I want to support (in order: iOS app, sms, keypad entry, fall-through to call my phone) prompting the guest to enter a code (with a timeout of six seconds before it says tells the guest that it'll just call me). IVR made it very quick.
How are you disagreeing? GRPN is at like 15% of where it opened.
I said either associative or parenthesized. People don't write a/b/c because they had 10 years of learning to use parens in arithmetic, but they write f a b all the time. For the same reason, my rule of thumb applies only to operators that you define.

The non-associativity of exponentiation does throw people off sometimes. Not all college students will correctly parse 2^2^2. IMO it's a wart in math notation. It could've been easily avoided by e.g. drawing a box around the exponent, so stacked exponentials would have boxes nesting upward.
You may want to default to Babelifying. Nothing was happening and I only discovered the problem by going to the developer console and seeing a syntax error.
On a couple of stories I've noticed discussion about changing the title, which is not always universally agreed with.

Is there a way to make this process more transparent, e.g. on changing title posting a comment "Changed title from [x] to [y] because it was clickbait".

I don't mean to disparage the great work you're doing moderating, and I don't want to throw pointless tasks at you for no reason, but I'm curious about the former titles (and wondering if others are wondering as well).
>But to suggest that we should skip the rules and instead try to build up intuition seems rather wrong-headed to me.

The problem with natural languages, and especially english, is that there aren't really any formal rules as there are in well-defined maths like algebras.

If there are no rules, how can you skip them?
Evernote feels like the Microsoft Office of the Notetaking world: it's huge, it's bloated, and it seems to be continuing to focus on stuff that the vast majority of its userbase will never use.

At some point I installed Google Keep, which is lightweight, easy to use, and syncs, without feeling like I just installed an entire suite simply to jot down some quick notes.
In exchange for living far away from city centers you can have a large amount of private owned living space. Then you require a car, you are somewhat isolated from socialization, and your commute generally becomes longer, and as a result of people moving out of cities the cities become less pleasant too, as they are full of cars and empty out at night as people go home.

But you do get a big house, yeah.
> ... markdown support

Yes, 1000 times yes! I so wish I could author in Evernote using markdown. Getting any sort of rich text done in a note is extremely cumbersome in Evernote, lists for instance.
This is already happening, as people with more money, more skills, and better health mate with other people like themselves, passing on their genes/wealth/knowledge to their offspring. (Health, wealth, and IQ are all correlated.)

As for what happens next...I think someone wrote a book about that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine
Pay for nap ? WaDaF*????
I started out with Evernote, but had issues with multi-device sync (I think that when faced with anything that even remotely resembled a conflict it would just duplicate the note). Actually started using OneNote and have been very happy with it!
Well, suicide pills are certainly possible. The question is whether any agencies use them. To that end I have no idea.

I do question exploding molar implants, however... that seems like something straight out of a cheesy spy movie. If those do exist I'd love to see what the idea in using them was, because that's kind of funny.
I disagree, and I think Evernote engineers would be making a huge mistake if they tell future interviewers they got "fired" instead of "laid off." Maybe not to you, but to many people "fired" implies wrongdoing on the part of the employee.
If there is liquid water on Mars, no one–not even NASA–can get anywhere near it
If I had absolutely nothing else on my phone - no apps, no photos, no videos, sure.
I think that a single-purpose app or service can survive in a world full of multi-featured competitors, but it needs to be insanely good at what it does in order to do so. Evernote is not insanely good at notetaking, and therein lies the problem.
Because problems inevitably occur and with full time staff it's more likely the delivery person has seen the problem 1000 times and knows exactly how to handle it optimally. In addition to knowing the ins and outs of your office or apartment, perhaps even recognizing you by name.

> I'd expect them to make better deliveries and more accurately.

I wouldn't. I'd expect the additional supply would get you faster, cheaper delivery at the expense of accuracy and a slight increase in other problems. I'm not against that trade off but there's no need to pretend it doesn't exist.

> Uber/Lyft have shown this model works fine.

Uber/Lyft and particularly Lyft where you're less likely to get an experienced professional, have shown that the model is not without it's tradeoffs.
I suspect your correct answer is wrong.

Organ keyboards originally had only the long keys (the white keys) because they only had the natural notes of the scale. The accidentals were added later as the short keys, and were added as short keys so you could still play as though they weren't there.

Piano keys are the same because they copied the keyboard from the harpsichord, which copied it from the organ.

The reason the long keys are in C is because a piano is naturally tuned to C. Tighten all the strings a bit to bring it up to D, and all the long keys will be in the key of D.
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"How will your grocery stores get their shipments?"

The plans don't prohibit vehicles entirely. For example, http://circulatieplan.be/en/content/faq describes the plan for Brussels:

> How are deliveries to be made in the pedestrian zone?

> Deliveries can be made in the pedestrian zone between 4 am and 11 am. At other times. Deliveries are only permitted in exceptional circumstances. The regulations for the pedestrian zone can be found here.

The "found here" document is in French, which I cannot read.

> Do you really want the necessary human or animal-powered commercial traffic such a city would require?

??? Who says that mass transit, taxis, etc. will all be removed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places lists many places which are car free. The more general term is "pedestrian zone"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_zone for a description of the variety of possible meanings. Few if any turn 'roadways into something more like the railways'.
Are you saying that there's no way of for the poors to dig them out of their poor-holes? How do you explain all the penniless immigrants and third-world inventors?

The problem with your rationale is that this type of thinking allows lazy people to blame their situation for their lot in life.
There's a stream of autonomous cars driving around Mountain View pretty much constantly, and their number has been increasing quickly.
Might just be me, but I'm stuck in a Catch-22 between being asked to read the ToS before signing up, and being asked to sign up before reading the ToS.
How did you reach that conclusion?

If driverless cars are a "thing" in the future then what is Uber's USP? Why would you use Uber rather than one of a dozen other companies? Is it just their capital advantage? Their network of now unemployed drivers? Just the name and nothing else?

What is it exactly that keeps Uber in business with driverless cars?
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Not remotely an expert, but the basic idea is that hobbyist pilots are licensed to fly for their personal entertainment/transportation only.

They are not licensed as airlines, so selling tickets at a profit is a definite no-no. But they can take their friends along for the ride and split the cost of fuel.

A number of apps/websites have popped up that blur the line between "operating an illegal airline" and "doing the equivalent of a carpool in a Cessna." That's the gray area that needs to be fleshed out.
GraphQL is almost totally unrelated to graphs, it's a way to compose API requests in a manner that fits modern web / mobile usage patterns better than REST. GraphQL has nothing to do with the actual representation of the data. I think the name has led to a lot of misconceptions.
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If a car company charged more to simply turn on a feature that ought to exist, like driving in a blizzard, then I would never buy a car from them. ever. I only have one life to lose and it's not going at the hands of some scummy company that intentionally holds back software it can install in an instant so it can nickle and dime me.
> Wouldn't driving below the posted speed limit when there are no hazardous conditions fall under "as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic"?

Not normally, driving below the posted maximum speed limit would not, in and of itself.

It might -- and, given the soft nature of upper limits, it might even without driving below the posted maximum -- in the presence of other traffic, depending on the road (what will impede traffic on a single-lane road is different than what will impede traffic on a multilane road) and particular traffic conditions.
"I was removed from evernote"
Not sarcastic :-). I see one or two almost every day. Their number seems to have been increasing rapidly in recent months, have you visited recently?
Agree (Kubernetes and OpenShift dev here) - OpenShift is actually bundled as a monolithic Go binary that contains the full Kubernetes stack and client, the Openshift admin client, user client, and js web console for exactly that reason (even though it is all technically micro services on the server side). The single binary comes with downsides (binary is 95M) but it makes the "try it out" flow much, much, easier to see it all working. But the converse is true - you have to be able to decouple those bits at scale, and you eventually will want to start leveraging the platform to run itself.
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This isn't a ruling, it was a hearing that will eventually lead to a ruling.

What this is about is that the FARs prohibit private pilots from flying passengers "for hire" but allow them to "share expenses." There are a number of tests to determine whether a private pilot who takes money from passengers is flying "for hire" or merely "sharing expenses" and one of them is the so-called "holding-out" rule: if you advertise your willingness to take passengers, then you are presumed to be flying for hire and you need (at least) a commercial license. Advertising on Flightshare is considered "holding out" by the FAA.

(I'm a private pilot.)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/25/googles-autono...
The "strong conclusion" pg came to:

Many who have looked closely at this case think Glossip is innocent. I think so. I encourage you to learn more about it and form your own conclusions. But one thing is certain: there is a reasonable doubt.

I just read the article you linked to from start to finish. From that article alone "on the opposite side of the case" I draw the same conclusion: there's reasonable doubt.

Further, I think your paragraph that starts "If not" is an awful lot of followup to your presumed answer to your unanswered question. Couldn't you even have prepended a perfunctory "If so, great" to it?
More willing and more likely are not the same thing. Men aren't experiencing the same level of supply restriction, and you can't use their current behavior to make a statement about what they would do if they were in that situation.

More specifically, if men and women had the exact same size pool of peers, would men "date down" more? I suspect they would, but have no need to currently because demand is in their favor.
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That's just one company, though. It might be awful because of their specific policies.
Groupon is still worth a couple of billion despite the beating it's taken from investors. Its revenue and EBITDA have consistently climbed in each year since going public, and there is plenty of cash on hand without a single cent of debt.

As usual, the Motley Fool's analysis is excellent: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/04/07/bull-vs-bea...
I'd caution the reader that this post is about purely functional, type theoretically defined languages. I haven't yet generalized to languages with implicit effects (tho I suspect it's possible). Explicit, type-defined effects via free monad-like setups are entirely possible with this, however.
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Interesting that the two operators that aren't associative are the two that you don't typically write as operators in mathematics.
"I hope civilization will be around in 20 years." And that's from an extraordinarily well-informed person.
> (like when unlocking the phone or authorizing a payment on the app store)

Aren't these the things where you'd want security?
Price of oil must factor in cost of military presence in Middle East which should be incurred directly by oil companies, not tax payers. Once such adjusted, green energy renewables suddenly become cost effective
It's been about a month. I guess I just missed them.

As a side-note, I love that I can't tell if a comment is true or sarcastic-faux-science-fiction, and it ends up being true. We live in a really cool time.
Nobody's going to bother to recreate your fingerprint, when it's much easier to beat you with a wrench ( https://xkcd.com/538/ ) until they get access to your phone. It's a huge convenience for you though, to unlock it without doing anything extra, as you're pressing that button anyway to turn the screen on. Much easier than typing passwords.
And they royally fucked up Mailbox after buying it.
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