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Probably because there simply isn't money to be made in being an e-mail startup.

Or, more correctly, there isn't enough money to be made to satisfy VC investors. Mailbox and the like could have lived quite comfortably as paid-for apps with comfortable but small levels of profit, but that isn't what Silicon Valley rewards.

EDIT: also, IIRC Apple's restrictions on background processing meant that they needed to have every user's account set up on their servers to process push notifications. Did that ever change? If not that's a non trivial expense/complication to scaling, especially when you're up against an OS-integrated app that doesn't have those restrictions.
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I was just thinking the same. Uninstalled it after reading the news.

The "free up phone space" feature was too good on my phone (old and limited space)
> Spark

Do you know if they're going to do a desktop version too?

(Or, to be more pessimistic: "How long until that gets acquihired and killed off too?")
I'm now getting nervous about Hackpad. Been using it for years and love it to bits. Another Dropbox acquihire...
Well, if I decide to question in court the validity of software patents in general, Facebook etc have still the right to get back at me.

So, no, webm, VP8, VP9, Google’s new stuff, etc is not "free of patents", it just happens to have patents which most users don’t notice.

It’s Google’s business model in general, make it just good enough that most never notice the drawbacks.
Not surprised at all, there hasn't been any updates or improvements in awhile, especially for the desktop app, it's nearly unuseable with its current bugs. Seemed like Dropbox never put enough resources into it for it to really get off the ground.

I've switched to airmail for the time being, but I'm definitely going to miss snoozing emails to specific dates.
Wow, this is radical! Don't forget that politics is a miserable thing (although we'd love to dress it clean about the topics we care). There is enough politics in FOSS about the FOSS, we surely don't need to bring more about something else! Please abstain yourselves from following this regrettable example of Notepad++.
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They don't work with other people's IMAP/POP3 servers?

(Well, the Gmail iOS app certainly doesn't; I haven't tried the Outlook client but the description in the app store suggests a very limited set of providers.)
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Mailbox helped me get control of an otherwise unmanageable email problem. Brad Feld recently recommended outlook. Which is funny because an old version of outlook was the thing that created my email monster & subsequent search for a better email client.
> That comment is in no way 6th grade level writing.

No, but the first couple of paragraphs of my most recent blog post[1] are.

> I think calling clear and understandable writing for "anti-intellectual" is the stupidest thing I have heard in a long time.

Yeah, that would be pretty stupid. Good thing I didn't do that, I guess.

> I agree with your sentiment that writings rich in vocabulary can be a "fun obstacle course" but if you have an actual message you want to convey, it is usually not a good idea to hide it behind an obstacle course.

Sure, but I think you're hinting that the "but if" part is a given in all writing. I mostly do technical writing where my aim is to inform. I also try to entertain since it helps people stick around long enough to be informed.

But that's a pretty narrow slice of the kinds of things people can express in language. Think about poetry, satire, koans, philosophy, and metafiction. Imagine what little would be left of House of Leaves after a technical book editor had their way with it.

A huge part of the experience of reading is decoding the author's language back into your own mentalese. For many authors, like mine, the goal is generally to make that process as easy and transparent as possible to help their reader focus their attention on the unadorned ideas.

But some of my favorite reading experiences were ones that required me to stretch my brain, or that juxtaposed a series of words together in such a surprising, novel way that I felt I'd seen a new color for the first time. Some ideas have lodged permanently in my head not because the author shot them into my skull with the ease of a crossbow bolt but because I had to tear apart the author's words with my bare hands and stuff each dripping piece of knowledge in my own mouth.

[1]: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-pro...
Uh, no, you do not need to create a currency. You might need that if you want to attract random outside miners, but that isn't necessary to have a blockchain.
> Authoritarianism is rife in much of the rest of Europe, and the rest of the world, for that matter.

Europe's recent trend towards democracy was never really more than a trend. Democracy requires peace to flourish, without it people are going to value strongman leadership. Europe has only very recently shook off the threat of war. Nobody expects another great war, but it still takes a few hundred years before democratic institutions become robust enough to resist all the different ways the area can slide back into tyranny. Europe is not yet one polity, but they're moving in that direction.

Once people start thinking of themselves as European first, and French / German / Italian / etc. second, that's when you know Europe is really ready for democracy. It takes a while. It wasn't that long ago that United States citizens thought of themselves as citizens of their state first, then of the Union, the civil war cured us of that defect.

Perhaps Europe needs one more war to draw them together. Maybe a few of them. With luck those wars won't have to be martial in nature.
Outlook (I assume you're referring to the mobile app, not the desktop client) puts all of your emails on MS's servers, so that's a no go for lots of people.

Last I checked, the gmail app only worked with gmail accounts.
Except the description specifically said puffy coat, and he is wearing a wool coat.

He literally doesnt fit the description.
(I don't know what this has to do with the article, but it's an interesting question)

Sure, why not? Games are just a simulation of something, and an AI assist removes some of the user-interacting parts of that simulation.

You don't need to manually reload your weapon in Counterstrike, nor do you need to worry about where to place your feet. Similarly, you don't need to pathfind for your units in Starcraft, nor do you need to manually fetch every single resource.
If anybody else thinks the new Bond has lost both it's fun and ridiculousness (from pre-Craig movies), but also its hard realism (basically only Casino Royale), check out Kingsmen, which at least gets the over-the-top fun right. 'Honest' Trailer: https://youtu.be/I1CI3e4w9CI.
Unfortunately, the ugly truth is that communal punishment is the only form of punishment that truly works.

Right now, Muslims won't turn in their neighbors and children to the authorities if they're radicalized. It's only when they're more afraid of the consequences of not turning them in that extremism will finally begin to be purged from their communities.

As long as Muslims say "they're not REAL Muslims" and absolve themselves of what their neighbors and family members are doing, radicalism will never be eliminated.

Since extremist sects recruit from within moderate sects, the moderates need to be more diligent in truly eliminating the extremist element. That means more consequences to the community. Which is unfair, but it's either that or the rise of the 'Sixth Reich' in a generation because right now, we're just kicking the can down the road.

Disclaimer - this of course doesn't touch on the root causes of extremism, namely the Saudi state and its support of Wahhabism, as well as the overthrowing of several moderate states in the Middle East during the 20th century, as well as the demise of Arab Nationalism (and secularism) and rampant inequality and poverty in many Arab and Muslim countries. Unfortunately the proverbial Genie is out of the bottle...
"Define a function h such that h(f(x), f(y)) is true iff x = y"

If an attacker can compute such a function then any cryptosystem would be broken because of the attack you give. The Goldwasser,Micali paper "Probabalistic Encryption" is a very important early result in cryptography about this fact.

The attack implies that no deterministic encryption scheme is secure.

"By our assumptions, the attacker knows f(1)".

There will not be a single value f(1) as secure encryption schemes cannot be deterministic.

There is nothing special about knowing one of the values of f(1) because modern cryptography assumes that the encryption algorithm is public.
I agree that e-readers are a great thing for convenience. I highly disagree that the Kindle should be recommended by default. Nook offers a similar experience to Amazon without being Amazon, and Kobo has more options for fonts (including custom fonts from the publisher).
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Cool products coming and going doesn't really even surprise me anymore. I've become a little jaded to the whole come and go of all the different tools and apps.

Anyway, if you guys haven't checked out Boxer [1] for email, it's the best. I went a little obsessive, tested every email client on iOS, and this one was without a doubt is my favorite:

* Push notifications

* Doesn't hijack labels with archive/to-do/completed nonsense

* Universal inbox

* Nice labeling/archiving/customizing via swiping

* Beautiful interface

I love it and highly recommend

[1] http://www.getboxer.com/
They're killing the apps I actually use from them. Carousel was quite useful for all of the photos I've uploaded, and handles uploading the photos pretty well too.

This is finally giving me the opportunity to explore using some of the other cloud storage such as Google Drive or even iCloud where I can save some money each month as well.
You are missing my point. I'm not saying the US government is correct, I'm saying no one else was counting the dead. And at the time, the US government had no reason to downplay the numbers since the voting population mostly didn't care.

And I don't have time to read your book, but I'm going to guess that the book relies upon the official government numbers and their extrapolates additional deaths based on some criteria. I doubt someone just magically found a new as yet undiscovered accurate death list.
The company will try to pay less whenever possible. And since your Argentinian friend don't have offers with higher salaries, he gets that particular amount.

All developers will get the same if not for regulatory barriers (working permit and alike).
If you want to migrate somewhere else - Google Photos for Android was updated recently with this feature and it was announced for iOS to come soon.
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I understand where he is coming from and why he should feel afraid, but luckily in this case nothing from the cops was inappropriate.

To the posters here suggesting they just take his address down (which he said was incorrect anyway) and let him go and sort out the details later isn't a realistic or correct solution.
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I can see the duck and the rabbit at once.

I don't have much of an opinion on the rest of the article.
>Did you not RTFA?
>> " To be clear, Mailbox is not going away.

When people say stuff like this when a startup gets acquired, don't believe them.
It's such a pain to process hundreds of emails in Outlook, and there's no snoozing like there is with Mailbox or Inbox.
People who care about 5% performance overhead will never use Go in the first place.
Yeah. And aren't there other verbs that have the same god-like implication as "is"?

I was thinking of "to do". If you say something like "X does Y", you're making the same kind of assertion E-Prime seems to want to avoid. Seems to me like another loophole.
What are the chances that these go down the path of HackPad and be turned into open source projects? I think it's a win-win situation if companies, such as Google and now Dropbox: let go of the responsibility of maintaining it and allow the project to live on in the hands of the community.
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Yeah, consumer reports is blaming the cell phones for poor voice quality, but it really seems to be the phone companies.

In a previous job most of my team worked out of Bulgaria, and I could hear them better over Skype on my iPhone than I could hear my wife on a regular phone call. Headphones helped the sound quality even more, but it really wasn't necessary.
I'm not the parent but Outlook's IMAP support is quirky at best and I very strongly prefer native applications to web applications. I also host my own email which marks gmail right out.

Email should be simple but there has been essentially no lasting innovation in email clients in a very long time unless you really want Google to host it for you
True, but it's easy to switch between these upper-level services. It's a pain to change cell providers (in the US).
I thought the business proposition of Mailbox and Carousel was providing more utility/centralization around Dropbox services/storage (via file attachments and photo storage). Which never was a great idea, but still.
https://youtu.be/XsnL6gmGOZA I think you can watch it in 3D.
But can I sort my unread emails by ascending date? If I'm practicing inbox-zero, I don't want to fight my email client to review my oldest (unread) emails first.
Self maintained automated farms are not going to be handing out beach front houses any time soon. Further, an economy where everyone get's their own complete copy of earth and can teleport anywhere is still finite.
Is this a sign the Dropbox's diversification strategy into a full collaboration product failed?

In other words, Dropbox can't move away from being a feature?
The "delay for later" feature is tremendously useful compared to traditional inbox handling.

Of course, to trust that feature, it also has to be tremendously reliable, and that's the biggest thing that Mailbox got right in the first place. That's also why it very handily beat out Mail Pilot, which had the same idea and got started earlier but to this day is still filled with terrible bugs.
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The logical conclusion of this approach is the Vega visualization grammar :http://vega.github.io/vega/

It gives you a declarative means of specifying the visualization and comes from the the same lab that created d3
Thank you for recommendation, I don't believe I heard about it before you mentioned it.
The DC Metro is an abomination. I regularly spend about 40 minutes waiting for my girlfriend at the end of one of the lines as she gets on a trip that should take 20. Everything from "Single tracking on line between EVERYWHERE due to construction" to train inexplicably stopping on tracks for 10 minutes, to trains simply deciding not to run in that direction with absolutely no warning, no explanation why, and no ETL on the next train.

It boggles the mind to think how any work gets done in DC when the public transit system is so terrible.

Oh, wait...
I'm still using Sunrise to this day, is there an announcement about it being discontinued?
"DYI fanatics"?
How come error-bars are so unusual in these sorts of libraries? I'm a scientist and NEVER make charts without error-bars on it, but they're rarely included in charting libraries and when they are it feels like an afterthought.
I only recently switched to Mailbox because I got tired of an annoying UI bug in Sparrow that was never going to be fixed.

I was just starting to get used to Mailbox. What mail app should I be using now?
A robbery had just taken place (presumably nearby), and the perpetrator had been described to the police as black.

There is a time and place factor here together with a description; they are not randomly stopping someone in a random location at a random time just for looking black.
Startups beware: If you care about your products, not just about the exit, don't let yourself get acquired by Dropbox!
> there isn't enough money to be made to satisfy VC investors. Mailbox and the like could have lived quite comfortably as paid-for apps with comfortable

I'm not sure that's true (see: Sparrow). I just don't think there is enough demand for people to want to pay for an email client. I imagine for a huge majority of people, default mail client's work fine enough for personal use.
It might have been an attempt by Banks to address some of the criticisms of the Culture - that it was "too good". Also the Culture's revenge attack by their terror weapon (literally) on the Chel who planned the attack on the orbital show's how nasty they can be if they think it is justified ("good" doesn't necessarily, it seems, imply "nice").
I wish they could open source Mailbox at least... That way it might survive.

[1] "Will Mailbox be open-sourced?

Unfortunately not. We gave a lot of thought to open-sourcing the underlying system, but this is ultimately not something we will support."

[1] https://www.mailboxapp.com/faq/
Also, it's not 'disruptive' which isn't very sexy. At the same time, no one's really disrupted email (probably since gmail) and even sms for the most part, as a form of communication because they are the only cross platform with a very low barrier to entry. Note that all the sms replacement apps still use sms as a fall back since it's a shit show of walled garden apps.
Bitcoin consists of two parts: a one-legged Merkle tree which I'm going to call a "merkle ledger", and a very very expensive proof-of-waste distributed stamping service to prevent double-spend.

One of the obvious things about Merkle ledgers is that everyone can have their own. You could have one per tradeable instrument on an exchange, for example. Anyone can start an altcoin; why not the BoE?

The proof-of-waste system allows the system to be fully distributed by continuously burning electricity such as to push up the minimum cost of overwriting some other node's choice of doublespend (note: NOT ability to forge transaction!) to very high levels.

If you discard the "distributed" requirement, you can save a lot of electricity by having a single or multiple CA-like series of authorized stamp-issuers. It then looks a lot more like Chaum's digital cash.

If you discard "pseudonymous" as well, noting that bitcoin pseudonymity is both fragile and directly contrary to KYC/AML, you can make further optimisations.

signature verification, P2P, cryptographic hashing, public-key cryptography

Old, but not yet widely deployed outside of the browser-CA system. Getting banks to use proper digital signature technology would be a major upgrade.

(Also, remember in the UK we have both EMV and "faster payments", so the US problems of stolen magswipes and waiting for cheques are not so prevalent.)
Don't use it?

Nothing can salvage C++ at this point.
It needs to be EOLed and put to rest.
"Animals doesn't have any You."

How can you possibly know that.
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Contest generally connotes a fixed length group activity with a single, or small and usually predefined set of winners. Game is really the correct term, IMHO, but it's still negatively associated with productivity, to the degree some people don't like to admit they play games, which is likely only true in their mind because of their overly constrained idea of what a game is.

We spend much of our childhood doing accelerated learning through play (games). There's no reason that can't continue into adulthood, except for it culturally being slightly unacceptable. That's really counter-productive.
Looks great. A heads up though. On your discover page under the 'process' section, the design guideline link goes nowhere.
Yeah, they're retired now
Yeah, after Sparrow was killed off I switched to Airmail for OS X (currently using Airmail 2). It's not without flaws and I'm always keeping an eye on the options.

On iOS I'm pretty happy with Microsoft Outlook (can't believe I just said that), I haven't found anything better yet.

I do use multiple accounts extensively so that limits my choices to just those clients that support multiple accounts well (unified inbox, etc).
You can't take every word literally from someone who just had someone break into their home.
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how likely is that they will shutter it down, rebrand it in a way that we/me will not like it.
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It seems like this would let you update lots of styles simultaneously, without having to keep track of exactly which styles they are.
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Thanks!! Let's fix this right now.
How will your proposed blockchain protect against double spends or sybil attacks without a native token? This was the entire innovation of bitcoin.
I've been starting to get HD voice calls when I get a hold of someone with a compatible device. The clarity is so improved that we don't end up talking about anything but how good the call sounds.
I'm afraid Hackpad is also dead—Dropbox open sourced it, and no one has touched it since October: https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad
No problem. I honestly liked it better than MailBox - and the built in iOS email client (for obvious reasons), Outlook, Sunrise, GMail, etc.
Fair enough, but you can always ask for that size. The relevant phrase at Starbucks would be something like "extra short" or "short with a little room". They're generally pretty accommodating, not just at Starbucks, but at any decent cafe.

I generally drink an extra-short Americano (apparently sometimes called an Italiano), at about 5 oz total, and no one has this on the menu, but everyone is willing to make it for me. It's not as convenient as having it on on the menu, but it works just fine.
At the moment its a horrible hack which is so specific to our environment I'm not sure I want to share it, but I might make something more generic and share that.
https://www.mailboxapp.com/faq/

Will Mailbox be open-sourced?

Unfortunately not. We gave a lot of thought to open-sourcing the underlying system, but this is ultimately not something we will support.
> You can have a blockchain without bitcoin, but why is that useful or interesting? Isn't the Nakamoto distributed consensus the key innovation of bitcoin as a protocol?

What does the second have to do with the first? Just because bitcoin was the first to use it, doesn't mean everything that uses same mechanism suddenly is "Bitcoin", at least not in the commonly used sense.
They will focus on Paper... until they decide to axe that, too , when they see they can't compete with Google. I think the axe-happy mentality sends the wrong signals when considering products. I'm not gonna use Paper, really, I'm gonna phase off Dropbox as well. I'm not happy they killed Carousel. It was a small simple product - maybe they need a couple of developers to keep it going. It doesn't have to be fancy. I just worked and worked well.
Sunrise is [being] integrated into Microsoft Outlook, I think.
I'll offer up a few prayers to Athena; maybe she can help keep those Carpathian trickster-gods off your backs. I certainly hope so--I've been looking forward to this since Starfighter announced themselves! (Though I've made it nine months so far, so another few days won't kill me ^_^)