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Google releases new device. Top comment: "but the proprietary x doesn't work with the proprietary y." Proprietary software is the trap.
While Scala's Akka is pretty sweet for concurrent systems, Erlang/Elixir puts them all to shame. I think that Elixir and Phoenix will very rapidly assume position #1 for web frameworks, surpassing Node.js and Golang among the cutting edge but practical crowd in the next 1-2 years, and surpassing Ruby and Python among the more conservative crowd in the next 3-4 years. Java may be so entrenched in Entreprise systems that it will never be replaced, but if any ecosystem could do it, it's Erlang/Elixir.

That said, if you want to work with one of these two languages in a job now, Scala is obviously a better bet. But I could see that changing in as soon as 1 year from now.

Also, if you plan to mix a lot of computationally expensive stuff with concurrency, then Scala may be worth seriously entertaining regardless of the job situation or popularity, although for that, C/++ and ZeroMQ may be the best bet. Based on my limited experience, and what I've read from expert Erlang users, hybrid C/Erlang projects tend to eliminate a lot of the concurrency benefits that pure Erlang systems have.

But I've been playing around more and more with Phoenix and other Elixir and Erlang projects over the past month, and am pretty amazed at what I've seen. As much as I enjoy FP, I'm sad that I discounted Erlang for so long because of its lack of static typing (which is unfortunate, but far from being a deal breaker for me now that I've explored Erlang a little more).
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I really don't know why a custom kext is needed. I had great success without any of that. http://blog.mcohen.me/other-stuff/miitransfer/ I also made it so that when I pressed a wiimote button it would simulate pressing a kVK_ code. Maybe it's so that it gets recongnized as a gamepad directly? I remember that being kind of odd.
Agreed, but it is insanely better than anything else I've ever tried.

(I haven't tried that many things, but really I don't know of any decent competitor that runs well on multiple platforms, and does the basic things I need - which is text notes, other file types, and ability to tag and put into a notebook. And on a native app).
Why can't it just stick to its knitting, and continue to offer something that works and people find valuable?

Because now Google, Microsoft and Amazon offer it at a cheaper price and better integrated with their own products.

The broader answer here is "Dropbox took a bunch of VC money, so 'just doing well enough' isn't an option for them and they have to stop at nothing to grow faster"
Agreed; Google Keep has become my preference for immediate note taking. I think a major factor in Evernote's long-term survival is the friction of switching to a competitor (in conjunction with getting a lot of early traction with power-users).
I recently switch to jotterpad + dropbox for this reason. Plus, now I can quickly edit my notes on PC with vim.
From my perspective (as a UX'er). I'm seeing more and more projects & organisations need a 'vision' of what the product should be to help them focus product/feature efforts. There seems to be an underlying 'enabling' of superfluous dev effort due to the proliferation & ease of user of stacks/libraries/platforms.
> my USB audio device (an amplifier) is no longer working

I have the same issue with my two USB amplifiers! I couldn't find anything about it online though.
Isn't OneNote still popular in education, like students taking notes in class?
I wonder how effective their free to paid conversion is. I have never felt the need to move off the free account. I liked OneNote better but it didn't have the same reach as evernote at the time.
Oh, right, I've encountered examples before of Facebook saying "graph" when they mean "API".

That sounds like an even sillier thing to put in a database, then.
Maybe now they'll fix sync and iPhone editing? I've pretty much stopped using Evernote because the whole point was universally synced notes and todo lists but every time I would edit something on my iPhone I both had to deal with the formatting bugs in the iPhone editor AND the very high likelihood I'd end up with a "Conflicting Modifications" regardless of how many times I clicked sync.

As a paying customer it's been very frustrating to see "business" features like note sharing and chat consuming valuable resources while the reason I bought the product, managing notes and todo lists, becomes increasing unusable.
http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011/07/airbnb-nightmare...

> If the “her” he is referring to is me, then the first part of this statement is false (the second I cannot attest to). During the first week of my nightmare, the customer service team at Airbnb was - as I stated in my June 29 blog post – helpful, caring and supportive. In particular, one customer service manager - and the company’s freelance photographer - were wonderfully kind to me, and both should know how grateful I am.

> And since June 30? On this same day, I received a personal call from one of the co-founders of Airbnb. We had a lengthy conversation, in which he indicated having knowledge of the (previously mentioned) person who had been apprehended by the police, but that he could not discuss the details or these previous cases with me, as the investigation was ongoing. He then addressed his concerns about my blog post, and the potentially negative impact it could have on his company’s growth and current round of funding. During this call and in messages thereafter, he requested that I shut down the blog altogether or limit its access, and a few weeks later, suggested that I update the blog with a “twist" of good news so as to “complete[s] the story”.

> Look, despite what some of you are saying, I am not an idiot. I understand why Airbnb called me and asked me to bring this story to an end; it is in their best profitable interest to do so. Unfortunately for me – 5 weeks and counting – there is no end in sight. Too much about this case remains unknown and unresolved, and according to both the District Attorneys and the police, it could be many more months before the criminal investigation moves forward.

> And for those who have so generously suggested a donation fund be set up to help me recover, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and suggest that instead, you keep the money and use it to book yourself into a nice, safe hotel room the next time you travel. You’ll be glad you did.

I'll just leave this here.

https://www.airbnb.com/host-protection-insurance

> Effective January 15, 2015, if a guest is injured in a listing or elsewhere on the building property during a stay, the Host Protection Insurance program provides coverage for Airbnb hosts and, where applicable, their landlords under a general commercial liability policy.

There are a variety of gaps, and have been, where AirBnb and/or its insurance failed to cover things. It isn't until this year that insurance coverage was anywhere close to what I'd consider acceptable and basic. It still isn't "complete" as far as what I'd use for my rental property.
I find it far more frustrating when one of the last mile delivery services says they have delivered the package, and then it shows up a day or two later.

Amazon hasn't honored the two day guarantee for me in these instances.
Tinder combats overzealous swipers with Interana analytics
I understand that, but I guess I'm of the opinion that while we provide leeway to humans because of our nature, an automated system that drives below the speed limit in the case that it is blocking or restricting traffic be reducing the number of lanes flowing at full speed really has no excuse, other than purposefully slowing the normal flow to save money. I imagine that might be successfully litigated.

Could/would they drive well below the speed limit without legal problem when no traffic is around? I imagine they could, but I'm less interested in that (but understand my question was ambiguous).
I was discussing this article with another ex-Twitter employee yesterday. I quit in the middle of this monorepo clusterfuck, and my views are very different - I believe most of what happened was a Battle of the Egos. I can name names but its not worth the trouble, Twitter was a generous employer etc.
He remembers most of this as a Battle of the Languages ie. Scala vs Java vs Ruby thing. Seibel has this 3rd version, having joined much later in 2013. The list of ex-Twitter engineers is probably in the thousands at this point, so you are going to hear a whole different set of narratives.Twitter is Roshomon 2.0. One thing is certain. The lack of profitability is very much due to throwing lots of cash at lots of engineers who wrote and rewrote the same bits until kingdom come, driving each other and the market nuts as to what all the fuss was about.
It's strange that chainsaw10 is being downvoted for their comment. From the second link above, "Have courts upheld compelled false speech? No, and the cases on compelled speech have tended to rely on truth as a minimum requirement." That sounds more like there is not precedent to force people to tell explicit lies.
Well, it can, but there are several people here, as well as several Google results, which say that "fired" carries a much more negative connotation.
I'm having a hard time seeing how voting based on "the struggle" would help increase the quality of the discussion (compared to voting based on the actual merit of the comment).
So they'll finally build affordable phones that have all the interesting features and not faster ones with a random subset of them? Sounds like good news, but somehow I doubt it...
"Making great products means making difficult decisions," says Evernote CEO Phil Libin. "Our choice was between great user experience, and new features. We are proud to announce that our next release will have many new and exciting features."
> (daily crashes in USA)

I'm sorry, but a quick Google finds less than a dozen in the US this year. I couldn't find a definitive list, but searching "small plane crash 2015" found mostly the same events.

A puddle-jumper being flown by a certified commercial pilot shouldn't be a whole lot more dangerous than a commercial flight.

But yes, a small aircraft flown by someone who just got their license? You're taking your life into your hands, especially if there's a chance of poor weather.
There are a couple main reasons subscriptions really didn't work.

First, the scale difference between "power" pros and regular pros is pretty large. A "power" pro might spend thousands of dollars per month, whereas the median pro is probably spending a few bucks a month. How do you pick a subscription price that works for both of them? IIRC, when we switched over from subscription to the pay-per-introduction model, something like 80% of pros could have used Thumbtack exactly the same as they did before and pay less. It was just the huge power users would end up paying much more (though presumably still getting good ROI on their spending).

Second, when people had subscriptions fully paid for, they were incentivized to just respond to everything, even if they were not a good fit for the consumer. Any chance of getting hired is better than no chance. This is just a waste of time for both the pro and the consumer.

This process also played out over the course of years and wasn't based on any master plan. I created the subscription model when we were struggling to raise a Series A because the previous model wasn't really working and we needed to start making money or the company was going to go out of business. I had no idea if it was going to work or not, and when the first few people signed up it was incredibly exciting. Then it sort of got out of control where too many people signed up for it and then we realized the problems that came along with it. Though in the meantime we raised a Series A and didn't go out of business so that was pretty good!
Odd thought, I've heard Intel described as an IC Fab House that designs microprocessors on the side.

Perhaps Tesla is transitioning into a battery manufacturer that makes cars on the side.
Hantz Farms got a lot of flack for being a scheme to do that on a massive scale.
I was totally unaware of OneNote until it came with Windows 7 Enterprise at my first corporate job. I couldn't believe how great it was (at least on desktop), but I was too deep into Evernote by that point to make the switch.
> Elixir feels a lot like CoffeeScript

Elixir's syntax bears some resemblance to CoffeeScript (both were influenced by Ruby's syntax) but otherwise it's hard to imagine a language more unlike CoffeeScript/JavaScript.
So then it runs everything through a browser on your computer, and you have to navigate the file system? Seems like you aren't understanding the appeal/use case of plex. I can use a nice clean interface on my TiVo, Phone, Computer, Roku, AppleTV, X-Box... And watch TV, unless I'm trying to watch something on the computer I don't have to get out a clunky computer to play anything.
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Great analysis, and really glad Josh didn't out SLJ.

SLJ is great because, due to his anonymity, his ideas stand on their own merit. Being outed killed Fake Steve Jobs; it'd do the same to SLJ.
the !/$ on ECC has been craptastic for a rather long time. In fact, on GPUs, it's more likely your GPU is bad from the get-go than it is to encounter an ECC error:

http://www.robinbetz.com/papers/xsede13_betz_walker_ecc.pdf
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Just an FYI for any one reading this. Here in USA, when Apple does background checks, they also get your saary from former employee
Source: A friend who recently joined Apple
i think this looks potentially great - would definitely benefit from more real world examples of workflows
I feel pretty safe walking east of downtown, till about Eastern Market.
Perhaps you could post the source for your understanding?
I meant in terms of being obsoleted by their "base" language (JavaScript).
My [cynical] view is that people in the BBC tend to work through a production company so they can profit from the BBC rather than the BBC producing the show as a public producer that merely pays wages. They can then lock up IP in their own company rather than being the BBC's work-for-hire employees.

Shows like Gardeners Question Time (GQT) are stalwarts of BBC programming. The BBC could easily produce it, or commission it from a production company on the basis that it's made direct in to the public domain [in copyright terms]. But that would presumably result in less money to the producers/talent.

There was scandal some time back that BBC were paying "talent" upwards of £1 million per series to do a single show a week. Thing is at the time the talent of course were also the owners of the production company for their show and so the BBC were paying their company some greater amount. The BBC promotion of such independent production companies makes them world ranking sellers whilst there seems no reason that such shows couldn't be produced with only a name change and done under the BBC as producer.

Shows like Graham Norton aren't exactly ground breaking, you get an ex-hospital radio presenter (or whoever) to chat inanely with people who are there to popularise their latest book; you get the interviews because who doesn't want to advertise their film on primetime BBC, it's not rocket science. Why can't the BBC own a show like that? Why isn't Mr Norton, or whoever, employed by the BBC and hired out if they're in demand for other shows?

In short it all seems like a huge nepotistic mess of old-boy networks, and smoke and mirrors rather than a corporation that works for the people using their taxes and license fee money. As if the divisional managers in a corporation got together and said, hangabout we can make our divisions private enterprises and charge the parent company double to do what we do now??

But I'm probably completely mistaken ...
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What can I say, you have the winning argument. It also totally trumps groklaw and hundreds of independent google results.
IANAL, but it seems like if you have to have secrecy for some reason, it's a solid strategy. But chances are good you'd need a local lawyer in whichever country you want to begin your filing in, and need to pay that lawyer to manage all national correspondence. You'd also have WIPO fees and fees in the US on top of the fees in the origin country. So it's really just cost-benefits.
Whistleblower Snowden draws crowd with Twitter debut
The Future of Search
Eliminating car ownership makes a lot of sense in any urban area, but I bet people will continue to hang on in rural and some suburban areas.

In rural areas, an autonomous vehicle would need to travel long distances to pick up and drop off folks. It could be prohibitively expensive or inconvenient. People also use vehicles for other things in these areas, both work and play, which do not fit into the taxi model.

In suburbia, the taxi idea could work, but there might be advantages to owning your own vehicle. Maybe a family will own one autonomous vehicle, just one, but it would be in constant use throughout the day: mom goes to work, dad picks up donuts for coworkers, son goes to school, daughter goes to soccer practice, son goes to track practice, dad goes to get groceries, mom goes to get dinner, son goes to friend's house, daughter goes to football game, mom goes out to gym, etc. You'd have your one family car zipping back and forth between all these events in the family, picking people up, dropping them off, going off to do something else, and coming back again. Having an autonomous car in the family could make sense depending upon the costs.
I've been a stalwart supporter of Evernote for quite some time now. I've pushed through when feeling like the platform got slower and slower as time went by. I pushed through when it felt like their focus was scattered, like the core offering was being surpassed by other platforms.

Two months ago I pretty much decided 'ok you know what. This is it' after waiting for 25 seconds to get a note back that then turned out to be mysteriously 'missing'.

It happens, right. I get it. And I got it back with some support. But the focus wasn't there, and the platform got old.

Wind the clock back a year and a half (maybe two?) and Evernote was unstoppable compared to the competition.

Now? It's stale. Slow. Predictable and uninspiring.

While reading letters of layoffs is almost always a depressing thing, I sincerely hope that the 'focus' which they speak of is real. That everything, and I mean everything, gets dropped except making the core product as amazing as it once was.

If they do that, I'll come back in a heartbeat. I'll come back with dollar bills.

I got faith Evernote. Come back to the light.
> Even if the memory is physically further on a chip (and some memory has to be), the memory transfer happens on a clock edge, not just "as soon as possible", so the elements actually transfer at the same time.

Here is the key insight I was missing. Thank you very much!
I can't verify as I get "BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only." And I'm really not in the UK, that's true. Are there any links that aren't UK only and fully use the new technology?
How do you mean? According to Wikipedia OneNote was launched in 2003, and has been part of the Home and Student editions of Office 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016.
Awesome, good to hear. :-)
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you are everything that is wrong with the world.

be glad your two year phone still feels like current gen. keep your money. don't throw away a product that is full of heavy metals (yeah you won't throw away, but sell. but the person buying will throw his old one away. so it's the same)

but no, let's instead complain i can't consume blindly and constantly. sigh.
If it is built on PARI how does it improve upon it?

Personally I want to know how to define algebraic number classes. I attempted and failed write my own algebraic number types in Python.
Sometime employers try to beat this logic by saying..."when we are making hiring decision, we want to move very fast and have all the information ready. Thats why I want you to give your salary info right away"

I don't know how to say NO to that.
Agreed. It's a trade-off – threading leads to repetition and/or references to already-mentioned ideas. The more truly linear a conversation is, the better Github's style is, and the more a discussion splits into multiple independent conversations, the better the threading style is. Unfortunately, you can't know a priori which kind of discussion it will be, and most discussions are a hybrid.

Personally, I find a linear style with mentions, quotes, and backlinks (a la Discourse) strikes the best balance for most conversations. But of course we'll never all agree.
> There exists no financial innovation which will provide for fully-funded retirements for 100 retirees each having $100k to invest. (Sourced below.)

Sure there is! Nationalized sovereign wealth funds. Norway's has over $1.6 million available per citizen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund#Largest_...
[1] has rolling resistances for railways and cars on roads, which are almost an order of magnitude apart.

Intuitively, I'd expect that once the train has accelerated, it will keep its momentum very nicely, and (if electric) can easily return energy if it does need to slow down.

I can't find a real-world coasting distance for a train on level track, only reports during accidents/near misses -- 5km under emergency braking on a slight downhill slope, for one! [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_resistance
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
No I am afraid I missed it. It's probably me, but Perhaps these threads might be more widely read if there was say a link to a curated list on the FAQ page.

I think HN has gone from "we can expect everyone to pick it up" to needing a few more signposts. That's an interesting post but it passed by on my timezone / holiday / daily lack of caffeine hour.

Eventually we get the knowledge spread around, so it's no biggie. Just an idea.

Edit: of course you could improve the number of reads by changing the headline: "How Megan Fox taught herself Clojure in three weeks, launched a bitcoin healthcare startup that raised $4 million - all from her Apple Air"

Now, hell I would have read that. It's amazing what cat, pipe and the HN headline generator can do.
Twitter is ditching the 140 character limit
In fact a lot of (.) and ($) messing would simply go away if Haskell used the old normal syntax for functions.

But then, this notation overloads the parenthesis, what is bad, and would make currying extremely annoying, basically killing the language.

Anyway, I disagree with you about operators. Some operations are just clearer when infixed, and there's no reason at all to expect a random operator to associative. Now, right associative operators are indeed something to use with care.
Transport for London proposes onerous burdens on Uber (and other minicabs)
How would I know if I've lost flagging rights? Would excessive flagging cause that? Some days I might flag half a dozen things on the front page.

Do you think we could maybe work towards removing hellbanning/shadowbanning of site features for non-spam users at some point?
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