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The two biggest bugs/issues I've had with Evernote are:

1) The sync/merge sucks. Despite having a common baseline, if there's any sort of conflict (usually due to one of my machines "forgetting" to sync every 5 minutes), you just get two copies of head and have to do a baseless merge by hand.

2) If you're not subscribed to premium, the mobile app seems to actively remove notes that you had already downloaded if you're offline for a while. I got quite the surprise when I had planned out lots of day trips in Japan, switched between two notes to check on tomorrow's itinerary, and then got a, "you need to upgrade!" message for the one I was just reading.

It's also kind of sad that the iPad version doesn't have even basic handwriting input with OCR and text search, ala OneNote for tablet PCs from ~2002.
Then you fire them for the cause of not doing their work. You don't fire them because they were blogging.
For the longest time I've been looking for an Evernote alternative that is open source and able to sync my notes between Windows and Android (and desktop Linux) but haven't found one.

I really hoped that Mozilla would diversify and offer something in this regard. No such luck though.
Platform Competition: How 3 Similar Products Use Contrasting Traction Strategies
If they have a feature/smart phone why would they want a 7 inch tablet? I would love the option of a good camera on the 7 that was one feature of the iPad that my niece really took too. The only problems being that the regular sized iPad is a bit too large for her and for me its a bit too expensive for her to run around with.

The new iPad mini has a good camera but also an obnoxious price. It may be that refurbished iPad2 or even iPad 3rd gen are a better deal.
But, but... I actually LIKE the syntax of Erlang. It's neat. Consistent. Very simple. And it's modifiable with parse transformations.

Does Elixir give you anything other than ruby-inspired syntax?
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Fluency in reading can only be achieved by extensive practice on all the interrelated aspects of the reading process. To accomplish this we must READ, READ, READ

I have little experience learning languages, but it seems that this sentence is pretty meaningless; we can replace the word "read" with any verb ("jump" is an amusing one) and retrieve the old adage "practice makes perfect". Is it your opinion that an hour spent reading Chinese is better than an hour spent practising with a speaker, or writing translations from English?
Typecast acquired by Monotype
Nobody has any inherent civic responsibility. They may choose to, at their discretion, participate. Your only responsibility is to follow the letter of the law, in such a way that benefits you the most.

If one believes that the private education sector serves their kids better, so let it be for them. The welbeing of other people's kids is at most a passing concern, and it would be in fact unfair to your own kid if you had the resources to "improve" other kids but not focus it entirely on your own kid.

YOu might think such a philosophy is selfish. I would agree, but only because not everyone is following such a philosophy (and of course, other inherent unfairness in the world, like amount of money you have). But such is the world as it is. I don't hold it against anyone who does the same, for I also would choose to do the same.
>Using big words not only improved your grade, it also took up space, getting you closer to the critical 5 page minimum.

I have to disagree with this point. Using "big words" (or "fancy vocabulary words"), often makes it difficult to reach the minimum word or page count. "plant that emerges from its seed with a singular leaf" for example, is 40 characters (9 words) longer than "monocotyledon".
Ask HN: Has there been any attempt to Wikify HN?‏
Has there been some attempt to compile Hacker News knowledge into a hierarchical FAQ/Resource format?

eg. "if you're looking for Scalability architecture solutions currently in use, start here."
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If a "google.com" request is MITM'd because it's not encrypted, then the MITM can do all sorts of extra damage, using that as a platform, to sites like "mail.google.com"

Hence when google.com is forced over SSL when you're logged in, but not forced over SSL otherwise.
// Build 2012 live keynote Oct. 30, 9am PDT
I've tried both Puppet and Chef. Puppet fits my mental model more, but I had for more success with actually getting Chef up and running.

Puppet, on the surface, has less 'messing about' to do in order to get things running - but my experience was that I encountered a few issues which basically caused me to spend way too much time mucking about rather than working.

Ideally I would like to use Puppet, I feel like it's cleaner and it seems more 'logical' to me at least - but I only have actual experience of Chef working, so make of that what you will!

Once Chef is up and running, it absolutely flies, which is always good!
Both Gnome and KDE became touch-ready over the years.

As someone who has loaded Ubuntu onto my Asus Transformer tablet, let me tell you, no they haven't.
This blog is really hard to read. What's with all the colored rectangles around the words. Tiring...
I have three uses of saved pages.
- The open tab: return to it later
- Panorama: want to return to it at some point but don't want it off my radar
- Bookmarks: pages I read and close a lot. i.e. a folder full of android news sites

Admittedly I also use bookmarks for pages I visit once in a blue moon too or for very specific functions.

The bookmark experience can be improved, with things like opening all bookmarks featuring a specific tag from the address bar. But I feel that where Mozilla drops the ball the most is with Panorama.
Another one is Babushka, for serious simplicity and speed http://babushka.me
A next big step to reward you.
Extra hardware + extra complexity + extra work + extra costs.

Personally I'm in the camp that thinks the Internet would be a lot more secure and free if all traffic was always encrypted. But the business reasons for not using encryption when it's not explicitly required, are fairly obvious.
I don't think that was the point made by anyone above.
> It's neat. Consistent.

That's quite debatable, ",", ";" and "." definitely have a logic about them but I wouldn't use "consistent" to describe them. fn/named functions is rather similar (the syntaxes are rather different).

But the syntax is rather small (if noisy and with more keywords than you'd expect), which is good. Still, it's no Smalltalk.
You don't have to wonder. Every single AZ AWS postmortem says that's exactly what happens.
Considering AMD is now a fabless chip design shop, not doing any design work doesn't make sense to me. What is their value add? They may as well have ordered a shipment of completed processors from Nvidia.
"One of the things I admire about Apple is their plainspokenness"

What?
Same thing happens to me (Chrome/OS X), even on the github page (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#carousel)

There must be a bug.

Edit Tried it in Firefox - OS X and Chrome - Win7 .. same thing :(
It comes up from time to time but as far as I know it never goes anywhere.
It seems that they're no longer using tablet UI, even on Nexus 10 (i.e. it has status bar on top, navigation buttons are in the middle of the screen). That's weird, and I definitely don't like it, but it might not be that big of a problem.

Good catch. This will hopefully be configurable on custom ROMs, as I'm with you on this one: I don't want this on my 10" tablet.
We built a Distributed Realtime Video and Image Processing Middleware for Blade and GPU clusters using Erlang/OTP and OpenCL.

You can see the demos here:

http://youtube.com/clastrsystems

Unfortunately this is not a large enough market for a startup company.

We building a new exciting product using the same technologies.
Is this a joke? I don't get it.
The rise of no-name designers
Very nice. I was sad to see it stop when it had done the tree.

The Joy of Painting is great (Bob Ross Incorporated, not so much). I don't think I'd ever hang one of those quaint images on a wall. But the quick techniques to achieve a certain effect are fascinating, at least to an ignoramus like me, e.g. pushing down with a certain brush to get tree branches, or swooshing down on previously drawn stuff to create reflections on water.

Incidentally, I've always thought there was something almost algorithmic to it: the motives themselves were really formulaic, and the techniques reminded me of certain Photoshop tools and brush effects. The submission is a fantastic start, but I think you could go much farther than that.
What if I make mistake during typing? If typosquatting works then many people do such mistakes, why I must think that I am special?
For those who prefer to read the transcript, it is here :
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FAQ/resource for what exactly? HN is primarily focused on news rather than solving problems. There's a lot of knowledge scattered around but you'd probably be better off just looking at StackOverflow rather than pulling together all the isolated little sound bites.
> I'd argue that a student who has memorized the formulas and can apply them to that test and get correct answers is a success story.

but what is the goal here? I assume the goal is to teach that person how to notice a situation in real life, and use the knowledge learned at school to cope with that situation.

Does rote learning actually help for such a goal?

I argue that it _might_, but only if the situation "looks" similar to one of the pre-prepared situations that the student has studied.

Those who have grasped the concept, and is able to gain deep understanding of fundamental principles, will be much better prepared for that eventual situation mentioned above. And if i was an employer, I'd want to hire that person, instead of the one who learnt by rote.

Now, granted, there isn't really an easy way to distinguish between the two above. Which is why the standard test is used - its the best we've got. But if the teaching method is allowed to be influenced by these standarized tests such that the student, instead of gaining a deep understanding, is relegated to just rote learning, he/she will never really be able to apply what they've learnt to situations they've never encountered before, and thus, the goal is not fullfilled.
I like that. Makes switching easy.
Or a happy little bird.
Cool! Thank you for the links, I didn't know that it had a name, mine were just mere observation.

To me it stand to logic that different hardware has different capabilities, and if an implementation can use these characteristics then the implementation can have a different O. But my point still remains that as a theorical concept, the O does not depends of the hardware in the sense that it is not a necessary piece of information to make the calculation of O.

Also i would like to point that in my original definition the math paint has a purpose of utility for society. To build magic hardware would be like telling Picasso here is infinite canvas and infinite degree of colors, what can you do with them? The magic is not in the resources or the tools, the magic is in thinking independent of those tools, and then using the tools to implement. I understand that people might come from the other end of the spectrum and think that we need to begin with the tools, i just don't share that view, and it has worked for me just fine.
See comment above - 'if they are blogging instead of producing' being the premise here.
I said no because 1 day is not going to help. Its a very kind gesture but if you are affected by the hurricane (This coming from someone living in Florida), one day is not going to make a difference and at this point YC is probably not even on any of their minds.
It's funny, because I was thinking exactly about ';', ',' and '.' when writing about consistency. ';' separates clauses - in functions, 'case', 'if' and 'receive' alike. ',' separates expressions - everywhere. And '.' ends definitions. I find this consistent, but - this being syntax - it's purely subjective, so it's not like I'm disagreeing with you - I just like it the way it is.

It's not Smalltalk with it's six (IIRC) syntax constructs nor is it Lisp, but compared to the syntax of C++ or other rather baroque syntaxes it is simple :)
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Wouldn't this just clutter up an already crowded home screen? I like the Favourites list in the phone app as it is.

I suppose you could put Favourites as a folder on the home screen, but that would defeat the purpose since you're back to two taps for a call.
Actually, nobody likes pushy sales staff, ever.
iolists map nicely to gather-write writev(),
but unfortunately there is no Erlang primitives for scatter-read readv()
The true essence of a hacker and entrepreneur: they'll figure it out one way or another.
Thanks, I've been waiting for this. It's still experimental (under "about:flags"). Stacked tabs are great, but unfortunately "tab grouping" is not that, it's just a feature that makes it possible to select several tabs at once?!

With real tab grouping in Chrome, including a feature to only load tabs when selected, I could finally make the switch from Firefox and the great "TabGroupsManager" addon.

Unfortunately, Chrome dev team decided that opening all tabs on startup is a good thing and marked intelligent lazy loading of tabs as "won't fix". I cannot find one good argument against this feature, unless it's extremely difficult technically (which is unlikely).

Source: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105666
Play with the iPad mini before it's out
Thanks for this.

We were left stuck in 2.0.4 for a project , it will certainly come in handy.
My bad, you're right, it's not exactly the same. I just didn't think about two people working on one document in two different places at once.
Hurricane Sandy knocks out Gawker, Gizmodo, other Web sites [including mine]
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My 6 years old daughter often wants to play games on my phone. Some mode which restricts her access (I don't want her looking at Youtube etc. for instance) so I can leave her unattended with it would be very useful.
I m sorry to hear about the experiences of your wife - i feel that whoever reassigned her to juvie might've even done it with the best of intentions, but is incompetent and made the worst possible decision.

The open courses may lead to a more distributed education paradigm, and i think that ways lies the future. However, the process of ranking is such a subjective method, that i don't believe there will ever be a way to do so and not have it tampered with either via politics or personal gain.
You're "attacking" the author, not what he wrote.
Entitlement to what? Common ideas?

The fact that you would bring up a hosted service that is extremely complex and costs tons of money shows that you don't understand where I'm coming from at all.

Markdown is not some amazing patented invention that John Gruber is entitled to perpetual dictatorial rights to forever. It's a simple derivative idea. It's out there in the wild and people make tremendous use of it, but none of this use costs John anything, and it's successful on the backs of many implementors, not just Gruber. It's all fine and good to say design a competing "service", but people do do that, and all it does is lead to yet another variant which further exacerbates the problem.

To be clear, I'm not saying John owes anyone anything. He's free to do or not do whatever he wants, but so are other people. Precisely what courtesy do you think he's due if he refuses to act in any reasonable capacity as a steward?
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Perhaps part of the problem is that a lot of parents wash their hands free of the process, but complain when their kids don't get the high marks they think they ought to. And looking for someone to blame, instead of looking at making it work.
What was slow? The compilation time for the Puppet catalogs, or the run time on the clients?

Compilation is way quicker in 3.0, averages a couple of seconds per node for me. Client side is parallel, not sure how it could be quicker.
Not "OTOH" ... what you've said is the truth. Some of the methods Netflix uses still apply but others are indeed financially non-viable. I'd love to have a Simian Army of my own and I think that would translate to any PAAS provider.
Same here, Chrome/Windows and Chrome/Ubuntu.
No. Awesomeness is not correlated to bad weather. To all yay-sayers: invent life storm hack. Submit on time.
"Hey guys, I'm one of the millions of sites who use Bootstrap/Foundation on xyz.com!"
Is Evernote really worth more than the New York Times?
I feel like I just stumbled into a jr high lunchroom conversation.... What the hell is wrong with you people that this makes it onto the first page?
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Hijacking the thread a bit here. Foundation (http://foundation.zurb.com) also released 3.2 on October 26th:

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/changelog.php
Here's the part I don't understand. This was a record 13 foot storm surge. Is it true that, had the pumps been located above the storm surge, service would have continued uninterrupted? It sounds like everything else in their data center is just fine.

This makes it seem like there was a serious design flaw. These pumps were a critical part of the system, but were located in a vulnerable area.
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Memory usage for that many processes. Even with all the sharing it tries to do, its per-origin (there's usually at most one process for each origin, not for each tab) overhead is much higher than Firefox's.
> If they have a feature/smart phone why would they want a 7 inch tablet?

Yeah you're right, why would someone want something that can achieve 9 hours screen-on battery life when they could just be content with killing the phone battery and taking the risk of not having enough juice left for an important/urgent phone call.
There's also a huge difference between a 4" screen and a 7" screen, you don't really know how much until you've used both. The smartphone is good for quickly checking your mails and stuff like that, but the Nexus 7 is much nicer for browsing the web, gaming, reading ebooks.. reading books on a smartphone is not an enjoyable experience, but doing so on a Nexus 7 is. My experience with the Nexus 7 has also shown me that it's at the sweet point for a small comic/manga reading device. Any smaller and you can't really comfortably do that. Any bigger (like when I had the iPad 2) and it can be a bit too heavy depending on the way you hold it for prolonged use.

The smartphone can be a quick fix when you're not at home and not carrying your tablet (I don't carry my tablet all the time) but at home there is absolutely no way you'd chose to use the smartphone over any tablet, be it 7" or 10", when you're reading ebooks, browsing the web on the couch or watching movies in your bed.

Samsung did try to make a device that can be somewhat good at both, the Galaxy Note 2, but it's not really pocketable so it loses the appeal of a smartphone, and it's not as nice as a Nexus 7 for tablet use cases.
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Multiplatform, sharable, exportable, background syncing GTD getting things done implementation. Basically a really elaborate "to do" system that puts all the complication into the system thus clears my mind.

If I had to do it over again, I could do it in google drive or dropbox but evernote always seems to have that one killer feature (out of the 100s of useless ones) that I just can't live without. Evernote 0.00001 would be a no brainer I'd drop it like a hot potato, but each user has a different killer feature they'd can't do without...

I also make one EN notebook per major project and upload "everything" into it as a centralized location. GTD events in the form of a note flow back and forth from my projects to the GTD system as required.
i doubt anyone is claiming that having 10,000 hours put into a skill/craft is going to make you successful. It's merely a pre-requisite, and not the only one at that.
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Yes, a little shameless, sorry. Just trying to show how some of the new features can be used.
Ubuntu Looks To An SDK, Improved App Development
The real problem with Amazon-lense is that it provides lots of irrelevant search results. I cannot remember the last time I paid for single album. It's all about subscription services now.

I do like that they are experimenting with integrating the desktop to internet services. The only thing that keeps me from disabling web services is the integration with google docs and ability to open them from Dash. The sad part is that there is no obvious way to only disable Amazon, you also lose the docs.
On the Android app anyway, clicking on the note text brings up the edit box.
"there are seemingly minor problems with the Mac app "

Depressingly my solution was to uninstall the mac app and use the web interface. As a workflow its very much like my Palm3 from 1997, heavy editing and importing on the desktop and magically all my data is accessible from my little android phone when necessary. Its part of the eternal wheel of IT, there's nothing new under the sun in IT. If you loved your Palm PDA in the late 90s (I did) then Evernote is basically the modernized version.
I've heard surprisingly low, especially for roles that aren't a simple "frontend engineer at [real-]profitable startup with 20 staff." I think much of the reason is that (especially these last few months) the job board has rarely had fewer than 4-6 posts at any given time.
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Gruber invented Markdown, full stop. If people want to come up with a 'better Markdown", fine but call it something else.
FastMail.FM: New interface and login screens rolled out
Windows 8 Success Hinges on $10 Component
Stanford Grads Get Most Startup Cash, Harvard Counts on Facebook Effect
what about anonymizing and cleaning the communication such that you cannot decipher any actual information, but can grasp the gist of the topic about which this thread discusses?
Lots of transformers blew. My power is out and I'm at 10th street and 6th ave.
Agreed - the article content is misleading at best..and some of the other comments on this thread smell like astroturf.
direct link:

http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/university-en...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4716905
Holy crap. I sure hope Monotype doesn't break Typecast (with their record of 'you-can't-embed and all: http://print21.com.au/adobe-takes-agfa-monotype-to-court-ove... )
Device Distribution For A Universal iOS App
Maps, Charts, Photos: Assessing the Damage From Hurricane Sandy
This happens at Microsoft, too.

Have a bad year, get "underperformed". (I dare anyone to have a long career without having a bad year at some point).

Ding! Now it's really hard to move until you've scorched that badness from your record. Your mission is to get a bunch of good reviews, or get promoted, or find a sympathetic ex-manager who's willing to hire you anyway (this is why you need a network, and one reason why the "patron" mechanism emerged -- the patron model compensates for a broken review system and a bunch of busted policies that surround it).

I've been in the software biz 30+ years and I've had really horrible reviews 3-4 times. It can be devastating if you're in an organization run by robotic principles. [btw, I'm not a bozo. You only have my word for that, I know . . . but I'm not :-) ]