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1. buy cheap houses

2. buy fried chicken places and convert them to coffee shops

3. ???

4. profit!
I'm pretty excited about this one. We've been using Paper internally at Dropbox (under a few different codenames) for more than a year, and we now run almost all our collaboration through it--design docs, specs, etc.

I'm on the infrastructure (storage) team, so I haven't really had anything to do with its development. My team's use started out as "dog fooding", like most internal adoption, but now we'd all be pretty pissed if it disappeared because it's simply way better than the array of tools we were using before. Great usability, speed, etc. Feels lightweight but powerful at the same time.

Anyway, hopefully you all like it too.
Indeed we do.

What is worth what?

That's the question put before us. That we have it, and a meaningful, plausible, non violent answer is just. Not easy, mind you. And the ones who benefit are powerful and seek to advance that power too.

We let them get there. We are going to have to value a remedy enough to check that, or we get what we get.

Edit: And to put a bit sharper point on that, look at how people regard politics. Most of us, and this is my anecdotal experience talking, just don't have time for it.

Why not?

Scenarios like this are direct artifact of a disinterested populace.

If more of us put just a few percent of our free time into basic political action, we could very quickly remedy many things.

What is worth what? Seems that entertainment, play, hobbies, etc... are worth more than a better state of governance is. Even more intriguing is the impact people under 30 can actually have! Not only do they have the time, but they stand to benefit in their lives the most! They quite simply will be living in improved times.

The most active voters are elderly people, who are thinking of a future they are not likely to see.

How fucked up is that?
Perhaps they do both.
Not defending Dropbox, but aren't most of the big companies already sharing our information anyways?

Microsoft/Skype - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/20/nsa-prism-tech-comp...
To hijack your tongue-in-cheek comment...I genuinely would appreciate it if someone, at some point, looked at analytics before and after syndicating to Medium to not just compare number of visitors between the original blog and Medium, but whether PageRank for the original blog dropped due to duplication penalties applied by Google's algorithm.
The Dropbox Valuation Is Irrational
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386214
The ECI leaks mention that the FBI "compels" U.S. firms to "SIGINT-enable" their stuff for FISA purposes. So, they must have some authority over at least some U.S. companies. If it's classified, they also can (and have) use secrecy orders.

Then, they pay them too. Many companies, esp govt contractors, were more than happy to help for tens of millions.
Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
The fear in that child any time someone spoke or moved near her... unimaginable.
Sure - stack everything against women working in tech - early education, hiring, work environment - and then if "they choose to stay out of tech, I guess that's their choice."
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10390732
The real answer, also an INFOGRAPHIC(!):

http://i.imgur.com/SOurzsH.jpg
Given that the Magic Keyboard can be used while plugged in, and the Magic Mouse (clearly) can't, this should be read as a design decision, rather than simply lazy placement.

My guess is that in testing, they found quite a few users were keeping their KB/Mouse plugged in and charging all the time.
The Keyboard remains relatively stationary, whereas the mouse moves around quite a bit..
Given how frayed iPhone Lightning cables become when you move them, Apple probably (rightfully) worried that using the mouse while plugged-in would lead to damaged cables and a bad experience.

Moving the charging to the bottom stops this behavior.
People will charge their mouse, then use it wirelessly..

While I think a better solution may have been to re-engineer the lightning cables to be more resilient, this doesn't seem insane.
They're trying to use design to encourage certain user behavior, while discouraging others that don't work well.
so many tech companies desperately try to hire women...those percentages of women at tech companies are higher than the percentage of women earning/pursuing technical degrees. They want that percentage to be higher. Subjectively saying that the industry is biased and tries to keep out females is very deliberately ignoring facts.
But you just have to eat less beef - spinach isn't inherently obesity-preventing, if you somehow eat 2500 calories of spinach (I mean, good luck, but...) but only expend 2000 per day, you'll gain weight!
I'm skeptical, if not for the sheer improbability of our own abiogenesis event on Earth.

I think that if we do find naturally occurring "life" elsewhere in the universe, it will be unlike anything that we have ever dreamed of and challenge our definition of the word. Or maybe it will be cellular just like ours and responsible for seeding Earth.
Water is used to produce hydrogen, so it'd get cancelled out.
True, although oftentimes way slower and getting the types of feedback they were using in the video would be tougher. On the upside, I'd expect this would work far better for heavier objects.
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And paper, you know, that wood pulp material we use to wipe our asses, amongst other less important things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper
Doesn't matter. A particular group doesn't get to define racism for the rest of the population.
Strange star that has serious scientists talking about an alien megastructure
Did you upgrade your antenna with the digital switch?
The most disruptive technology of the last century was home appliances
Ya but ispeech accuracy is not that great
Thank you for this info. This is the tipping point for me; I'm going to start using something else.

I humbly suggest people look into the following, and am eager for suggestions from other HN readers:

- rsync

- btsync
Pruning is/will be a client feature, so your data would never be pruned out of existence, it's simply up to clients whether or not they want to keep it around.
This is so meta ...
Blockcast is incredibly easy to use!

All of the abstractions related to signing transactions and messages are handled by a wallet that adheres to the Common Wallet standard.

There is a Common Wallet adapter for the Bitcoin-QT/bitcoind JSON-RPC as well as a simple javascript native wallet that we mainly use for testing.

https://github.com/blockai/rpc-common-wallet https://github.com/blockai/test-common-wallet

Everything related to reading from and propagating to the blockchain are handled by any number of different Common Blockchain adapters. In theory they should all behave in exactly the same manner.

As well as supporting the JSON-RPC interface, there are a bunch of unofficial Common Blockchain adapters for services like Blockcypher and Chain.

https://github.com/blockai/rpc-common-blockchain https://github.com/andrewmalta13/blockcypher-unoffical https://github.com/andrewmalta13/chain-unofficial

You could be creating applications that are reading and writing from the blockchain without much hassle at all!
Looks exactly like Quip.com
how is everything stacked against them? None of those 3 things are true.
Early education is identical.
Most tech companies try very hard to hire women to help their statistics and diversity
work environment? Modern HR is pretty damn strict on things like sexual harassment so please, back up that point...I dont even know what you could be arguing
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In the excellent book: On the Rock: Twenty-Five Years in Alcatraz, Karpis claims they did survive
It's a bit obvious, right? Or maybe I'm the only person that had a pin box toy as a kid (https://www.fatbraintoys.com/toy_companies/toysmith/classic_...).

Nine Inch Nails also did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDsqpeiTqg8. Which, to me, is a bit more impressive even if it is CGI. A 3d pin video screen would be massively cool. I want to say someone else did a similar music video in the '80s, but can't remember.
>You'd have to open a page, walk away for an hour, and hope everything was OK when you got back.

This was my first experience with the web in high school, with a modem, on AOL. I loved it.
That's my opinion as well, but I was trying to stay neutral.
hell no.

I'm actually fine with that. in fact, public officials should probably use open communication. it's the save rule that allows my employer to read my work email as they wish.
> Personal cars are going the way of the dodo.

I have to laugh every time I read such statements. It's like the man who invented the apartment claiming houses now obsolete. Price is not always the driving force. If it were, SUVs would not exist, nor would BMW, Merc, Ferrari any every other performance car brand.

Cars are as much personal statements as houses, probably more so. Relatively few people see you in your house, but everyone sees which car you drive. Setting aside the robot driver debates, these are fashion items. Society isn't going to abandon such vanities simply to better leverage a new technology.
And meanwhile the government is saying that Edward Snowden should have used official whistleblowing avenues instead of going public.
but you'll never have the security of the original blockchain going with an alt-coin -- and I don't just mean technical security.
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We AABN tested injecting delay into rendering the MSN home page and found a direct correlation between amount of delay and the abandon rate. People are not tolerant of delay. Here is the team I worked on: http://www.exp-platform.com/Pages/default.aspx
I mean McDonalds has a guy like this, eats 2 bigmacs a day and has been to 6 billion different McDonalds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv5iVOEizsA
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Not to pry, but how did you get into it? Where does one start?

I'd like to do something like that for some time.
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The "So where are the women section?" section seems weak compared to how important it is. Here are their options:

1. gender stereotypes (from an early age)
2. lack of talent pool (STEM majors)
3. in-group favoritism (in hiring)

The first thing that jumps out at me is that (1) and (3) could cause (2). If it turned out that most of the gender imbalance in tech was related to (2), we'd still need to answer why (2) was happening.

It also seems like (2) and (3) should be fairly easy to study. If the number of women graduating with computer science degrees is about the same as the number of women going into tech jobs, then presumably (3) is not a big factor. (Though favoritism could factor into other aspects of the imbalance, like promotions.) Then the big question would be "Why are so few women graduating in computer science?" That could definitely be related to (1). But it's not obvious to me that a brogrammer/machismo culture in the profession would have a big effect on students in high school and college, before they've had much contact with the profession. (Though if there were more women in CS as freshmen, and that number dropped off as women did internships, that could point to professional culture problems after all.)

So the main question: Is the percentage of women in CS in college on par with the percentage of women in the CS workforce? Can someone more familiar with all the different ways to measure this please chime in?
It would be complex but no longer unique.

If you randomly generated 3 billion alphabet characters, would it be instructions for building a Saturn V rocket? The blueprints for building a single cell?
Have their opinions ever really mattered to the "majority?" Any clear thinking person looking at history (both distant and recent) would conclude mostly no.
Well damn.

I'm in Bangalore and being forced to use mobile 3G for now. The data charges are atrocious and each page load saps an MB.
There's a law called The Funeral Rule[1] that, among other things, requires that funeral homes provide a General Price List and quote prices over the phone without the consumer being required to give contact information.

The equivalent is sorely needed in healthcare. One of my biggest (indeed, one of my only major) complaints about the ACA is that neither the GOP nor Democrats saw fit to make any moves towards requiring pricing transparency in the law. Its a travesty. This is a free-market reform that would have completely on its own transformed the economics of the industry, even for consumers that couldn't do the research under acute circumstances.

Even without that, the ACA is far from a trainwreck. I'm guessing you didn't have to spend a lot of time dealing with procurement of individual policies prior to the ACA. I did, and its a godsend.

[1] http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0300-ftc-funeral-rule
G.fast can offer ~1Gbps of bandwidth over a standard copper pair and BT OpenReach is currently trialing services at 330Mbps down with the expectation of rolling out nationally within the next few years. You can do quite a bit with a copper pair, though the distances involved are quite short.
Namecoin doesn't match all specific use-cases as documents expire after ~200 days.

It also lacks the infrastructure of exchanges, APIs, tools, and software that support Bitcoin.

Ultimately we feel that Bitcoin sidechains are a better approach to crypto-currencies than having competing alt-coins.

https://github.com/blockai/blockcast#what-about-an-alternati...

Still waiting on those sidechains...
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Well Moleskine are pretty good notebooks. Although I get your point.
That tool is handy, but I think the more standard one, especially if you're looking for antenna advice on somewhere like the CordCutter reddit, is actually under 'Check your address for free tv'.

Same major data provided, but in a table that's easier to pass around and you generally don't need the map unless you're just curious.
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I agree that you don't need a blockchain, but can you elaborate?

I think proof-of-work is a bad mechanis to prevent sybil attacks on any new blockchains except bitcoin because someone can just cause a massive jump in computing power for a dayand destroy the whole network. Now the infrastructure is there, we need proof of stake or something else.
I'm in no way "victim-blaming" . But I believe Malaysian Airlines are also to blame for the incident.

All I'm saying is the company flying over east Ukraine put its passengers in danger for the sake of saving fuel which I find as disgusting as the attack itself.

You're somehow suggesting that i'm a "putin-bot" and a russian troll which is insulting and ridiculous.
The benefit of voting system I'm describing is to prevent fake or missing votes, and not to allow for anonymous voting. If you don't need 100% anonymous voting, then the blockchain works well. The voter registration used to distribute vote coins would ensure that coins go to the right people, but would not need to be made public, so there is still general privacy, but an individual could sign something with their private key to prove that the vote is theirs if they had to.
I'm imagining a plane this big and it's awesome. I can already see the Michael Bay film. A little impractical right now though I think we can all agree. I think by the time hydrogen becomes feasible for planes, the landscape will likely be wildly different.
I've been using Chromecast since it came out, and prior to that I had a similar setup that I configured myself. Never really needed/wanted an antenna, as I don't really watch much T.V. anyways.

What's interesting, is that when my parents saw my setup they immediately canceled their T.V. subscription with Comcast and bought 3 Chromcasts (one for each room) & a Netflix subscription, and switched to an antenna for their local news.

Once their friends saw this setup three or four of them setup the same thing.

It seems pretty popular among the older generations which grew up with antenna anyways, plus with the ease of using Chromecast, they can cut their bills down and get everything they want.
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At the risk of feeding your trolling...

Bitcoin the currency isn't seeing a huge amount of adoption (or even speculation) lately, leading to a fairly stable price.

Bitcoin the protocol (a permissionless, decentralized database, or as the media calls it: "blockchain technology") is seeing a huge amount of innovation and a wide variety of applications coming out. I suggest you read up on it.
No African American is perfectly fine.
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Alexander the Great had a very personal relationship with his horse [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus].
But this is more of a comparison of next-generation fuels. Gasoline is only included in the post to provide a baseline comparison that people can easily understand.
Excuse me. I didn't realize this wasn't obvious.
How do you define "positively evil"? If there are people whose objective is to destroy our quality of life (material or otherwise), is it immoral to make an effort to eliminate them?
Now, I do have serious doubts whether the drone program actually serves that purpose, but are you suggesting that we should ignore legitimate threats to our well-being, or perhaps that there are no such threats?
Irrelevant: such a cloud would be useless for this application. NSA more likely will use a massively-parallel cluster with FPGA's. Potentially ASIC's if the numbers added up.
It's worth nothing that Medium described this syndication workflow as an expected use case during the announcement.

I don't think they would have done that if there was a knowing SEO downside. It would hurt everyone.
I would love this. My company just updated their public-facing website and it has a 28MB 1080p video playing in the page header. The site was outsourced, but I work as a web developer for some of our products and was asked by the marketing team to give the new site a look over.

The marketing team was surprised to learn how big the file was since the outsourced team "ensured" them that the new website would be lightweight. Oh well... Now the video has been reduced to a 16MB at 720p, which is still ludicrous to me, but they just really like having the video on the home page more than they want a truly lightweight page.

And to be fair, the video does not load when viewed on a mobile device, so at least there's that.
Anyone who eats above their TDEE for an extended period will become obese, which is trivially possible on a vegan diet of french fries topped with sugar and olive oil. What does this have to do with a vegan diet?

Since you're asking personal medical questions, my blood pressure/blood tests are all nominal, my RHR is ~55, and I eat a high-protein vegetarian diet, with the primary protein sources being skim greek yogurt, whey powder, eggs, tofu, edamame, and seitan. Besides that I mostly eat vegetables and noodles.
"In general, relativistic and rest masses are equal only in systems which have no net momentum and the system center of mass is at rest". This is the case of a system being heated. I'm still led to believe that the mass is still increased by the increased motion of the particles in that system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity
Not necessarily. Miners who mine ethereum are mining for idealogical reasons, and lose money to do so. As the cost to support this mining increase (in part due to the size of the Ethereum chain) it's reasonable that they will stop mining (thus bringing security to the potato), and/or prune the blockchain and stop hosting for free.
What does the author mean when he says:

"Toyota has gone, to put it midly, full macintosh."

I assume the fuel cell stuff is mostly running on inertia at this point, as full electric vehicles and battery tech advances they'll be first to go except for a few tiny niches.
>I like how this article has a lot of facts.

I humbly encourage you to look at the sources they provide: http://www.nextgeneration.ie/sources-women-in-tech-project

I find an overwhelming proportion of secondary & tertiary sources, very few empirical sources whatsoever, and a large majority of political opinion pieces and mainstream media coverage of feminist politics.

I don't think this infographic is the fruit of intellectually-honest research.
I would love to build/use an app that generates RE investment market suggestions based on some of the datapoints you're mentioning. Maybe see if there's some way to automate the analysis of socioeconomic status of the neighborhood with the distribution of various types of businesses and then map price/price delta over time. Might be some cool data in there. Re racism comments...kinda.
I wasn't aware that avoiding death was the main impetus for a standing desk. I thought staying mostly awake for the entire work day was a primary motivator.
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If you're on Windows you can use the Network Emulator for Windows Toolkit (NEWT): http://blogs.technet.com/b/juanand/archive/2010/03/05/standa...

I've used it to emulate what it's like on a high-latency or high-loss network. Relatively easy tool to use.
Dropbox Announces Paper, a Google Docs Competitor
Working on a solution for this. ;)
>Getting treatment is literally getting help from other people. In other words, it is not doing anything about depression themselves.

Yes, but for it to have any effect, it needs to affect your own brain, so you do need to do it yourself (even though you might get help from other people).

>I'm not sure why you even brought up these 'some people' who are not mentioned anywhere in the submitted link

I was referring to the constant articles being posted/upvoted here that have dubious science showing that gut bacteria might cause anxiety/depression, while ignoring/denying the overwhelming evidence showing that brain influences gut.

>The word 'responsibility' has connotations of duty and obligation. The term 'personal responsibility' as a whole is a dog whistle used commonly in American politics to attack vulnerable populations of people. It is innuendo

I'm just writing a comment on a forum, not a peer-reviewed journal. I have no idea about the use of the term in American politics.

>Is it not at all conceivable to you that you can say something that bothers someone for good reasons?

Sure it is. However when you get angry about something that someone didn't intend, it stifles discussion.
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As for the 12 second block time, that's a bug not a feature. If you don't know why, you should spend some time looking into it.
This is something I'd personally use. A lot of alternatives exist on the market but none of them look as refined as Paper.

Paper looks really similar to http://onword.co (by Daniel Eden at Dropbox) regarding the minimalism and limitation on formatting. I guess Hackpad team is working on the backend.

I just hope this project will not end up like Mailbox. I've been using Mailbox on OS X for half a year. Although once in a while I encounter some bugs, it's still very usable. A few months ago, they released an upgrade from 0.4 to 0.7. The UI became uglier in orders of magnitude and many basic functionalities just broke. After experiencing it for 3 days I switched back to Mail.app. I have sent quite a few bug reports and suggestions, but got no response. I wonder if they still care about Mailbox at all.
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