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jhurwitz··on The new Dropbox
Jamie Turner from Dropbox gave a talk at a Rust meetup in 2017: https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-may-2017/

Edit: at 30:05 in that video, he briefly talks about a forthcoming (as of 2017) "full redesign + rewrite of Dropbox's 'sync engine' in Rust." He claims it will use 10x less memory, and be 50x faster on key operations.

jhurwitz··on Tokyo's Underground Discharge Channel
As of last year, they now offer hourly guided tours 7 days a week for about USD$10. (In fact, I was just there earlier today!)

Note: it's about 1.5 hrs (each way) from Tokyo, and you need someone in your group who can speak Japanese.

Reservations here: https://reserva.be/guidetour

jhurwitz··on Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M
Dropbox previously acquired Hackpad (YC W12), Snapjoy (WC S11), and TapEngage (WC S11).
jhurwitz··on Divisibility by 7 is a Walk on a Graph (2009)
For a bit of an explanation, see David's follow-up blog post: http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2010/08/divisibility-by-7-is-...
jhurwitz··on MIT 6.858 Computer Systems Security Final Projects
I'll note that OP is a founder of the MIT Bitcoin Project.
jhurwitz··on Theo Jansen’s wind-powered sculptures
MIT Professor Erik Demaine talks about the math behind these sculptures in this video: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall12/lectures/C19.html
jhurwitz··on The Tech Behind Dropbox’s New User Experience on Mobile, Part 2
> If any of our conditions isn’t met, we abort auto sign-in and ask the user to log in with an email and password.

In this case, the install succeeds and only auto sign-in fails.

jhurwitz··on Does your browser rejected revoked certificates?
It looks like, as of February 2012, Chrome requires an update to receive a new revocation list: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/02/05/crlsets.html
jhurwitz··on What you didn't know your phone number could reveal - hackathon project
This is especially relevant today given the current #1 story on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6993968