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Hey Jon, really appreciate you posting about these pain points. I have been trying to get behind your notebooks since the launch last week, but as a user of the Moleskine notebooks I'm just not seeing the value add you guys are promoting. Hopefully you can help me see through my own myopia.

My workflow usually takes me through a few pages of a notebook, which I then scan immediately afterwards into an Evernote note, specific to whatever I was just working on. I often recap with dictation, and possibly add some new thoughts, but I'm never adding more than a few scanned pages at a time. So for me, it never feels like it takes "forever", nor do I have issues with image limits.

I guess, for me, and probably for many other people, we have felt like the real-time nature and benefit is lost. Maybe I don't fill notebooks as quickly as the next guy, but by the time I do, I usually don't have any need to search through most of my earliest pages. By sending the notebook away once it is full, the scanning seems to add limited additional value to me. And barring physical destruction of the notebooks, the archival value of being able to ship the whole notebook for scanning feels a bit forced to me.

Plus, I write primarily in script, and the OCR works just fine, so I don't feel the images are necessarily blurry/out of focus either.

I understand you have many users already on-board with the idea. And that's great. I'm not trying to say your product or concept is invaluable. You're a project I want to support, I just can't personally get behind you with my current perspective. I'd love to hear your thoughts on why someone with my perspective might want to switch to your notebooks.

Thank you.
Studies indicate that kids of gay parents do just as well as kids of straight parents. On the other hand kids of poor parents do less well than kids of rich parents. Therefore, make gay marriage legal and make poor marriage illegal. /s
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You're right, see for example http://www.qnovocorp.com/

Guess execution is king ;)
This is pretty damn impressive.

Wish I could work on something interesting to use it.
> I see a pretty good discussion where the overwhelming majority of people are expressing disappointment in one of Eich's actions

If it were really about expressing disappointment, then the work would have been done the last time(s) this was hashed out.

Bringing it up at the time he's receiving the office carries a clear implication: support for prop 8 should be a mark against considering someone for high profile positions like this or should perhaps outright disqualify them.
Instead of creeps silently going through photo feeds, they can directly ping you for more photos!

Seriously though, I hope this idea catches on and it can possibly be the start of a trend of social media users becoming more "humble". It would be nice to see things flipped on it's head and move away from the push model of "here I am, here is a constant stream of useless shit about me".
It looks like it is all speculation by cyberjock, and his assumption that data could shift by 3 bits or that metadata doesn't get corrupted is wrong.

I experienced memory corruption first hand (in my case it was not really bad memory, but bad PCI device which caused random bit flips).

Yes, it caused data corruption, and eventually I got whole pool broken. At one point when I removed a snapshot, my system crashed, and was panicking every time I tried to import the pool.

But I also had data corrupted on SSD that was using UFS2 (it was on FreeBSD).

Actually if anything, in my case ZFS saved me, because of its extensive memory usage (when you have 4GB+ RAM it enables ARC) the system was crashing every 1-2 days
Does it return that because `say` isn't defined inside its own function definition, so it evaluates as false?
This is an ideological sideshow. What do his political beliefs have to do with him being CEO of a company? Does he have to think doubleplusgood thoughts to run a company?
Yeah - I found that you had to be pretty good at moving off that build asap if you were scouted and the other player realised what you were up to.
Like I said - I don't oppose gay marriage - but the argument could be made that by establishing government licensed marriage as "something worth fighting for" it further entrenches the notion that government licensed marriage is a positive social construct.
I really wish a payment processor other than Amazon could offer a separate microtransaction rate[0]. For anything under $10, Amazon reduces their regular rate of 2.9% + $.30 to 5% + $.05.

[0] https://payments.amazon.com/help/Checkout-by-Amazon/Creating...
"you need to make a product people can use as fast as possible."

Isn't this what many car companies already do? You have individual features, such as anti-lock braking (decades old), auto parking, lane departure warning and its improvement lane assist, brake assist, etc that get put into cars that aren't fully robotic yet.

Except for the PR angle, I still don't see what would make Google's approach a fundamentally better one. That may be because of lack of objective evaluations, though. Anybody know of any?
My experience with StackOverflow is that answers arrive very quickly - usually within 30 minutes. The types of questions that aren't "on demand" are usually specific to an obscure API or language. I have a feeling that if the thousands of users on StackOverflow can't answer an obscure API question, then the handful of mentors on this new site won't either.
> Completely off-topic, but...

If you feel the need to append this statement, that's a good sign your comment will detract from the discussion.
I think you're undervaluing everything that Kickstarter adds in terms of a platform (collecting payments, notifications, social sharing, brand awareness for the platform itself that breeds trust, etc.). Kickstarter takes a small 5% percent of the total successfully raised.

For a documentary film or artist recording an album, it wouldn't make sense to yank your project and try to crowdfund on your own. In the case of Mod/Draft it was an MVP and they're shaping the offering differently -- notice that they were thinking of relaunching the Kickstarter.
Thanks! Fixed this - https://github.com/tburch/jsonblob/commit/4f70b44910b98224bd...
I still haven't found a single person in this thread who both supports Eich and didn't use incredible hyperbole/completely misleading info to do so. I'm loving the high frequency of "no one is perfect!" or "We're all guilty of lapses of morality at some point in our lives.", because, as we all know, since you made a small mistake once you would be hypocritical to criticize a company for hiring a homophobic CEO...and that is how modern logic works folks!
Why does any computer have a key which is far more often used for accidental data destruction than any useful purpose? Do the people who make the computer ever bother to ask this question?

Answering my own hypothetical: Mac keyboards (including the full-size 108-key models) don't have an 'insert' key, nor any key that does what you describe.

And sensible languages don't have buffer overflows, either...
there is also Telsa, Ford, GM, Toyota, Chrysler, Honda, ..., Oshkosh (not the clothes), John Deere, ..., and even the military - all of which are actively investing in robotic cars
VPN's definitely help. There's an effort now to purchase them for journalists in Turkey: https://unblockturkey.fightforthefuture.org/fight-censorship...
So is "the community" an accurate reflection of society at large?
I don't know if I got downvoted for sarcasm (which is a valid reason for downvoting). But just incase no one noticed, this was sarcasm.
> Maybe he was misguided, or misunderstood the reality of what Proposition 8 would mean

How could this possibly ever happen? You'd seriously have to be a complete moron. Here's the complete text:

Section I. Title

This measure shall be known and may be cited as the "California Marriage Protection Act."

Section 2. Article I. Section 7.5 is added to the California Constitution, to read:

Sec. 7.5. Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

Pretty fucking simple.
The funniest part is everybody's chatting about this like they actually have a say in who gets to be the CEO of Mozilla.
I've used the Stripe Transfers API, and am considering using it on another project soon, but I've also been looking at Balanced.

One of the pain points for me was that funds are only available to be transferred 7-ish days after the charge is cleared, same as when Stripe would normally transfer it to the bank account of the Stripe account owner. I ended up having a table of "scheduled" transfers that would be queried each time the balance.available webhook was run. Any transfers that were scheduled 7 days prior would then be sent to Stripe. If I messed up, transfers would fail because there wouldn't be enough to cover them in the Stripe balance.

It would have been much nicer if the balance.available event could tell you which associated charges had been cleared and made available. Also, Stripe has no way to pre-fund your account to provide a buffer for possible overages.

Also, you can't turn on the Transfers API until you associate a bank account, which I don't want to do with the account I use just for development/testing.
Wait. If we're disappointed, it can only be expressed during some specific window? And we can only be disappointed... once?

For whatever it's worth, I'd somehow missed this news about Brandon Eich the first time around.
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Sure, there are a lot of unique risks involved with building a marketplace. My cofounder Rich wrote a pretty extensive overview here: https://www.wepay.com/api/payments-101
Not the healthy ones. Healthy ones have a wide variety of choices, and the competition nipping at your heels keeps user-hating features out of the product. Right now the two smartphone operating systems are being made by two companies who are in court for colluding on hiring. That's the worst possible market, and as you would expect, it produces trash.

One thing I'm looking forward to with my future dumbphones are how disposable they are if they turn out to be horrible.
There's not much to discuss about BatteryOS until it's been verified by third parties. Every 4 months or so we get a news article about some amazing breakthrough in battery technology, and they never ever seem to pan out.
It's not designed to charge MacBook Pros, just Airs due to the wattage required. I don't believe that's any difference for the GBattery either.
IntelliJ + Scala is very productive for me, also not sure what he's on about.
A major advantage of dumphones over smartphones is battery life.

Hence why I'm using combination of a dumbphone (that I must charge weekly) and a 7'' wifi tablet. This gives me best of both world and also makes it easier to 'disconnect' from the twitter addiction while staying reachable for emergencies.
I've had a friend do this. He had all the smart phones from Palm ones up through the iPhone and then just decided no more. He's got a basic flip phone that's cheap and the battery lasts forever. Features include talking, sms and a calculator.

He's more than able to afford any phone out there, but just doesn't like the constant connection. He does own an iPod Touch that he uses on occasion with wifi, but mostly keeps it in his bag.
That statement was less of a stance than an explanation. The parent seemed to not understand why people would be so upset about Eich's homophobia, while at the same time not question his other views. My explanation is that people are more up in arms about issues that specifically target a sub-section of people.

While health care and environment issues may affect the poor more than the rich, someone's views on either topic don't necessarily translate to "I don't like poor people and want to restrict their rights" in the same way that financially rallying against gay marriage does translates into expressing specific views about a specific group of people.
The autocountdown thing is still horrible, because it can take more than 3 seconds to focus image in some cases (especially on Android devices).

In like 50% of cases when tapping on ping notification I end up with either blurry image of my feed or a blurry image of something else.

Also I don't really see what kind of value that counter adds to anything.
Well, wouldn't it make more sense for the compiler or VM to handle this kind of optimization under the hood? It seems needless that the direct way of doing it is the slower and "unless you just know" to do it this other round about way you'd never arrive at this.

Still I'd love to see the same benchmarks done with more idiomatic code.
Well, that -- the Memory bottleneck -- is precisely why we need a rethink of platforms and tool chains.

Languages will provide the semantics (in context of memory hierarchy) of data locality, and compilers that optimize for that.

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Just because I disagree wholeheartedly with you doesn't mean I'm not curious. Please go into more detail.
I'm saying that equating being gay with being a member of a racial minority is a false equivalence. Also, equating segregation with marriage is a false equivalence. These aren't radical opinions. They are shared by the majority of Americans and the majority of Californians, including racial minorities.

Since you brought it up, the parable you cited is a parable about forgiving people, not bigotry or oppression. A better parable about bigotry is The Good Samaritan [1]. It's not common knowledge, but the Samaritans were an ethnic underclass. The story is the answer to the question "Who is my neighbor?"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan
Agreed. I definitely think this is the sort of thing that would encourage you to share photos with your close friends (would you ping a random stranger for updates?). Think many smaller circles, instead of gigantic newsfeeds.

However, by nature of that alone, photos thusly shared are more likely to be of a private sort. I'm curious about what level of privacy these guys will offer and how they intend to back it up.
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I don't care what his personal views are. I care whether he can run a company or not.
> For instance, I'm 100% in favor of allowing 2 people of the same gender to marry, but I'm also 100% against a law that would require (or leave the issue ambiguous) a religion to perform those marriages to receive 1st Amendment protections.

I can't say I've ever seen such a proposal, the proposals I've seen[0] painstakingly carved a niche for exactly this[1].

It also has nothing to do with the case at hand, Prop 8 was not "specifically allow religious offices to not officiate in same-sex marriages if they don't want to", it was to add "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." to the state constitution following a mayor licensing purely civil same-sex marriage under the Equal Protection clause in defiance of Proposition 22 (the same as above as a law rather than a constitutional amendment).

[0] for legalising same-sex marriage, rather than legal challenges to laws going the opposite way

[1] and even if/when they don't, churches are allowed to discriminate in refusal of employment and services. They are specifically exempt from the Civil Rights Act 1964's Title VII for instance, and when the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church voted to refuse service and recognition to mixed-race couples in 2011 it was completely legal.
This is good feedback -- thanks.

(The 7 day transfer delay is going away.)
What's in it for the seller ? :) Buyers will always wait on, no?
Their battery technology sounds great but, honestly, I am a consumer so my point of view is "do I want to buy this for $139?"

Yes, I do want it, mostly so that I can set it next to my Macbook Air (mid-2012) for a full day's worth of power, as is the use case shown so prominently on the web site.

Take away the MagSafe 2 and I don't want it.
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Spent 15 minutes playing with the background on this page: you can push circles around by moving your mouse nearby, if you push circles apart connections break, if you push them together they forge new connections. Rather fun little piece of interactivity.
Pathwright just uses Stripe Connect. As pc mentioned, this lets them handle their own refunds and get their hands on their data. It's worked well so far!
A lot. By giving incentives, both explicit (taxes, pensions, medical benefits) and implicit (encouraging a social construct through government enforcement of licenses and contracts) government encourages people to get married or stay together who possibly wouldn't otherwise. It probably doesn't make up 90% of the decision, but it may be enough to tip the scales one way or the other.

Edit: Or get divorced for that matter - divorce laws enforced by government (which only exist because it licenses marriages in the first place) have a big impact on who gets divorced.
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Well, do you believe that suppressing someone else's right to free speech is still free speech?

Information isn't really the question here. These aren't sites telling people how to conduct DDOS attacks, these are sites where you pay them, and they run a DDOS for you. This effectively silences someone until they either give up on their message, or sign up for expensive DDOS mitigation packages (or Cloudflare).

You may consider that to be free speech. I don't.
Cool, just signed up - look forward to seeing it! :-)
Have you used the software?
Assuming that typo, I will suggest some possible ways in which restricting a phenomenon (let's say in this case "restricting" is taken to mean "advocating legislative means to restrict something)...

A) Alcohol. Let's suppose I say that "people under 18|21 should not be allowed to purchase alcohol." This technically counts as restricting alcohol but it doesn't mean I am anti-alcohol. It just means I think that below a certain age threshold, the balance of costs/benefits for alcohol availability land in the negative.

B) Patent laws. If I support laws restricting the ability of patent trolls to be their trolly selves, it doesn't mean I am opposed to patents as a whole. If anything I could value patents so much that I don't want this edge case of software patent trolling to fester and undermine the public's confidence in the patent system as a whole.

Of course you are right that in many (if not most) cases, an attempt to restrict a phenomenon is just a more politically feasible step towards a total ban by someone who is 'anti'-that phenomenon. But it is at least logically possible for one to restrict [X] while not being wholly anti-[X]

For the record I am 100% in favor of marriage equality and have been that way since I was old enough to hold my own opinions.
I am absolutely 100% intolerant of anyone opposed to gay marriage (or civil unions for straight couples/gay couples, same end result).
I like the idea and it clearly worked for you, but there's a problem.

You're not controlling your variables. You're changing 20 things at once, and then doing it again to get wildly different tests.

That's cool, but you're not going to get the same insight into WHY people convert better until you start controlling your tests more.

I get why you're not doing that, you want to change big things drastically and see what happens, but you're kind of shooting in the dark that way. It might work; it might not.

Even on the current test you're running, there are multiple different elements between a and b. You can do that, but to do it well you'd need to have a/b/c/d/...so that you can figure out if it's one change, a combination of changes, or what.
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To some extent, they would be justified in believing that. The US has a homicide rate more than three times as high as France, and France actually has a fairly high rate of violent crime compared to most of Europe. There are only a small number of localities in the US that would qualify as safe by European standards.
There are a few possible meanings of partisanship. The definition most relevant to American politics involves acting/thinking along party lines, as opposed to thinking independently about specific issues.
Thank you again, for such an articulate response. On principle I agree with your perspective, especially when the tabs that accumulate are 'to reads'.

I find there are times though, when gathering tabs is inevitable. Like when you're researching solutions to a problem and need to explore widely, before being able to filter your sources down.

I think our focus will be more about helping users filter tabs stemming from research—the letting go you speak of. These tabs tend to hang around because you're not sure whether they're relevant or not, until you've conducted further research.
Things I like about dumbphones:

+ No email--no, fuck you, you can't bug me during dinner because of something that just occurred to you.

+ No touchscreen--I can text without looking at my phone because I can feel the buttons.

+ It actually works as a phone, comfortably.

+ Battery lasts many days without issue.

+ I don't have to worry about it running arbitrary programs or getting viruses.

+ My old Nokia candybar was basically indestructible and waterproof. Even if it broke, replacing it was dirt cheap.

Do one thing and do it well.
Wow. And everyone thought 2048 was addictive.
I don't think robotic cars will ever happen, and I'll explain why.

Let's look at the recent MetroNorth railroad accident. Immediately afterwards, people were inevitably throwing around the idea of "why do we need train drivers at all?". The reason we need drivers is to satisfy a fundamental human misconception:

A while back, the DC Metro installed an automated train control system, with the intent of making the system independent of human operators. They flipped the trains onto automatic, and for a while everything ran fine. Then, one day, a sensor failed and one train plowed straight into the back of another at full speed while it was sitting in the station. That was the end of automatic train control in DC.[1]

Keep in mind that railroad traffic is a much more controlled environment than the open road.

Everyone knows that people make mistakes. We're (mostly) all engineers here, and we understand that technology is also flawed, like its creators. However, the public at large has this opinion that technology is magic; computers _don't_ make mistakes. The second that belief is proven wrong, people are immediately afraid of it.

Maybe one day a few robot cars will make it onto the road. But then someone is going to get killed by one. And despite these robotic cars having a stellar record up until their first accident, especially when compared to their human-operated counterparts, they will be taken off the road so fast your head will spin.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2009_Washington_Metro_trai...
I'm not entirely sure my previous posts were clear enough.

I'm not saying that Outlook / Hotmail is better or worse than competitors in terms of privacy. I'm saying that an MS Marketing campaign has helped create an unrealistic perception of MS email services for the public, which after this PR debacle has created yet another unrealistic perception of MS email services.
One has to ask if this 'disconnection' is not compensated elsewhere (by getting distracted with the same things in other places, like laptops, and/or watching more TV, etc).

The important thing is what you are doing with the newly discovered free time.
Yes, that would require you to prove them wrong. How tedious. They should just accept what you say as fact and be done with it.