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The problem with open street maps is that it so much worse than google maps. Orders of magnitude worse. I love the concept and in theory that concept is unbeatable (who else but those living in the area have the most intricate knowledge of roads, paths, etc?). But as of now, it is simply not comparable. Many features missing, and the data is very incomplete (many streets missing, missing buildings and street numbers, parks, POIs, ...).
I buy fruit and vegetables in bulk from a small local store and pick up beer and convenience food from nearby supermarket when I need it. It's crossed my mind more than once that the supermarket is the one that's most likely to sell my purchasing history, and within that data-set I'm a junk food addict. Which is why I sometimes throw some fruit into my basket, just to skew the data a little.
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This is a good example of the fundamental attribution error. The author seems to mistake his coming of age and discovering a world of available music for the rise of independent music and endless consumer choice. Independent labels have flourished since the beginning of recorded music, technology has simply easier to get to their product and much cheaper for them to reach their listeners.

Technology has had countless positive effects on musicians and the recorded music industry but in terms of people who finance the production of recorded music, be it artists themselves or big companies, 'free' music has not been much of a step forward. The only one that comes to mind is the sharp reduction in cost of allowing potential fans to hear music before they buy it, but this also irrevocably blurred the lines of what is free and what should be require a payment.
Key point:

> he predicts

He's avoiding it because he thinks it's the natural progression of the product these companies offer, not because they do, it might never happen.
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As the dominant consumer platform shifted from the web to apps over the last four years

Did I just miss this memo or something? Yes native apps have been enjoying a strong growth curve, but they have yet to overtake web usage in any statistic I've seen. If anything the app fad seems to be losing steam.
This is vastly better. My next advice would be:

* work on the copy with a native English speaker and, ideally, with someone like this: http://copyhackers.com/

* revisit the name and add a logo

Good luck.
Yes, I'm sure the hackers downloaded the iPad app and logged in to your account before you changed your password (as opposed to the 6 million other peoples passwords). Paranoid much?
If the requirement is "access tokens become invalid when the password is changed," then you should simply delete (or mark as deleted) the affected access tokens from the server-side database inside the ChangePassword() function.

Session ids are often just ephemeral access tokens, and any other sessions for the same user should also be deleted from the server's session store when the password is changed. I would keep just the one session that actually issued the change password request, as I hate it when sites log me off when I change my password, forcing me to enter the new password a 3rd time.

Since an access token trumps the password, perhaps it should be equally hard to derive an access token given the database dump as it is to derive a password. In this case, you would want to use bcrypt for hashing the access token, the same way you use bcrypt for hashing the password itself. Alternatively, make sure the keyspace for your access tokens is 'very large'. But if hackers have read access to your database, perhaps brute forcing access tokens is the least of your concerns.
I hope they will do same with appengine prices. I'd be willing to return if they had more reasonable pricing.
> "Evan Davis asks his executive guests how they spend their time each day. What does the activity of running a company really involve, and what do the guests' diaries tell us about the nature of their jobs?"

HN readers may be interested in other "The Bottom Line" podcasts, which are discussions between business leaders and presented by Evan Davis. He's pretty good at this kind of discussion.
Nice. I like this idea.

Would there be any straightforward ways to pull this off with Git on my Windows machine?
Maybe there was a basic expectation that he would use what the rest of the company was using and suggest it if he needed to go off the trodden path. To assume otherwise would be micromanaging.
Life insurance is a bet on someone's life, but it's one that the insurance companies pays out if you die. Annuities are a bet that pay out when if you don't die.

How else would people hedge against this stuff?
Different perspective:

I am an environmental studies major and I have serious health issues. I willingly pay a premium for food to keep me out of the ER. I am hardly the only one. I met one guy online who grew a garden to have control over food quality for his wife, going so far as to test the soil and amend the soil to get the nutrient content he wanted. It did make a difference with her health issue.

You could market this as environmentally sustainable for people concerned about that issue. You could also market it as something that lets you grow your own organic health foods.

As for the small spice thing, that is a great place to start. Organic spices are quite expensive. You can briefly note it will pay for itself over time but frame that as a "bonus". The appeal for people willing to buy organic is that this the freshest possible spice, picked from the vine mere seconds before adding it to your recipe. Having it in your kitchen means it is fresher than anything you coukd bring in from the back yard.

I have known people who grew their own cilantro to use it as an alternative treatment. These are the type of people who would buy something like this. You would be in the business of making it easier to be a control freak defending themselves from living in a toxic world and also in the business of making the world less toxic by letting people grow their own locally, eliminating transport pollution, eliminating chemical fertilizer, etc.
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> Unemployment rate

> 2001: US 4,8; Euro area 8,1

> 2011: US 8,9; Euro area 10,2
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Hashing the access token with bcrypt isn't really a good idea. Bcrypt is designed to be slow, and hashing the submitted token on EVERY request would really affect performance. Bcrypt is great for password hashing which only happens once per session. You are probably better off securing access tokens using a fast hash (sha) and compensating for security with a long and random access token.
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... Microsoft has recently disclosed that they are producing tablets. Phones are a short stride away. I don't think Microsoft is going to treat Nokia any better than SGI in the long run.

> Nokia's worst case here is more then likely getting bought vs. being left for dead like SGI.

... for 10% what they were worth at the time Elop gave the "burning platform" speech.

SGI was technically bought as well. That's really a bad resolution for Nokia, and is far from being a "worst case". If MS decides to produce phones themselves, it is likely Nokia will be left to whither and die.

It might look unlikely now, but unless you were in the know, just a month ago it seemed very unlikely that MS will make their own tablets.
He detests Apple products because he feels that Apple users allow themselves to be defined by Apple through their purchasing decisions. So, he refuses to buy an Apple phone -- even going to ridiculous extents to exercise a non-Apple option -- ironically, allowing himself to be defined by Apple products!

If Apple goes left he will go right, if they go up he goes down; he is still deciding his tech choices based on Apple's choices, only he's navigating the whitespace where Apple fans navigate the blackspace. If he were truly free, he would simply choose the best phone for his needs and lifestyle. Instead he is as slavishly bound to Apple as the people he mocks.
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Amazingly the author of this Sarah Needleman actually called ICANN "a nonprofit that regulates the Internet" and said that "new domains like .net and .org haven't exactly taken over the Internet".
it's reasonable to assume that, if you steal a pile of passwords and then release them to the web for cracking, people will change their passwords. given that, it's not too crazy to write some kind of script that gets (and renews, as required) a valid session key for each password you crack - it's a simple, smart way of keeping access to the system even after the expected change in password.

sarcastic comments don't make things any better.
Many people have no idea how the music industry works, or has worked, and this includes the small labels as well as the big labels.

People think that concerts make money, or that merch makes money, or that royalties from being played on radio makes money.

People don't really know how bands work - where does the money for instruments come from? Practice space? Recording demos? Studio time for recording stuff to be released? Engineering and production? Artwork? Then, if any money is made for the band how is it split up; how do you pay a drummer vs a bass player vs a singer song writer?

So they think "this download is only a dollar, it's nothing really, they won't miss it." not knowing the effect that has on the artist.
I didn't realized until now that the
Ethernet port is gone. I need that! That might actually be the main and only reason for me to not buy this. How sad, I really like the device otherwise.
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There are just as many, if not more job listings for ASP.Net than *nix related web development environments.
Textmate and terminal look amazing.
I am reminded of the stories of insurance policies being sold on Jews in WWII knowing it was pure profit for the company since there would never be a death certificate issued with which to collect on the insurance.
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They will be happy to sell you yet another adapter. http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/product/MC704ZM/A
That you're a fattychunks and need to be charged a higher premium to compensate for your vegetable-free diet. /s

Data mining is very hard to get right. Suppose I swipe my card at McDonalds every few days. That charge alone doesn't even mean I'm eating unhealthy food. I could be buying food for the homeless dude outside, or just buying bottle after bottle of Dasani for lulz.

People do unusual and unpredictable things all the time.
I thoroughly agree with all you wrote, save for the mother problem: iOS is the first platform where I've ever seen my mother seem in control and empowered by her computing experience. After five years those interaction models and expectations are seared in to a large number of people and it is going to take an absolutely incredible product to make her move to another platform.

I do not see Windows-ish or Microsoft-esque software to be an asset in the mobile field for the great bulk of consumers. It is not a desirable experience, just a now-familiar one.
This seems to be common behavior (many people want to buy their healthy food fresh and local), so the insurer will be aware of it.
They knew about the plans when they even signed the deal. They sold a decent bit of phones and made a good name for themselves with WP7, with WP8 it looks like they're gonna release a bunch of new phones and go all in.
Am I mistaken or is the author one of the MakerBot founders?
I perceive Qt's ownership by Nokia as negative, as Qt in fact is the only crossplatform UI framework for C++ that is up to date with the current industry demands in the field of UI, graphics and animation, and Nokia of course ignored the platforms of their competitors. Instead I would like to see Qt as a crossplatform framework for all the important mobile and desktop platforms, then I could use it for my projects. So I hope Qt will go on as completely free software not belonging to any particular capitalist.
This article is spot on, but it is easy to read it incorrectly. MSFT has a problem that the best/most popular consumer apps are being developed for the web or iOS, then Android, then far down the road they MIGHT make it to WP7 and someday maybe, eventually they show up on Windows proper.

For the last 2 decades MSFT's whole company strategy is to get developers to make apps for Windows Desktop. Name the last big "Windows App" that made you buy a copy of Windows? The web killed that and iOS and Android made it worse.

Now Microsoft needs devs to make Windows 8 apps and they are hoping that the inherently huge Windows Desktop ecosystem will make it so cheap to port to mobile that developers will build tablet and mobile apps from their Windows 8 codebase.

The only problem is if you have a native app you are talking about 3 or 4 codebases to deal with - iOS, Android, Windows (and its variants), and the web. As it stands now most devs will stop after doing iOS, Android, and web. Who knows if Windows App Store is going to sell enough software for it to be worthwhile to add a 4th codebase.

The opportunity in this is for shops who are willing to port popular Apps to Windows. At this point the only apps that are worthwhile to build Windows first are games.
"Only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Business is ultimately managing risk and figuring out how to make it both profitable and (sometimes) fun.

If you're hung-up on and/or scared of the risks of starting a business rather than earnestly evaluating each bit of information for it's situational value, and moving agilely ahead... you're probably going to run into issues.

Keep risk in mind, but be courageous enough to act/execute without having it pull you down. Be an opportunistic and optimistic realist, with a cynic's backup plan.

To put it simply:

"Scared money don't make no money."
Just FYI: Mountain Lion has been out (for developers) for over 6 months, and is almost complete now and will ship in a few weeks.
If someone had asked, "how do patents stifle innovation?", we'd get a thread full of stories of independent developers and startups with useful products being sued because some tiny detail of their product, likely some de rigueur aspect of modern UI, violated some obscure patent. Nest vs. Honeywell might be a good example.

What you have in those stories are cases of valuable enterprises that usually benefited in no way from the disclosures in the original patent; the patentholder and the "violator" are usually standing on the shoulders of the exact same giant.

So, what's the equivalent scenario for copyright? The a band called Apotheosis couldn't do a remix of O Fortuna? One supposes there's a valid case to be made that we're all somewhat worse off for not having access to that remix... but it's hard to put it on the same plane as a startup being sued out of existence because something they designed and implemented was inherently fenced off by a patent monopoly.

So what's the better example?
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But there are also plenty of applications where Google's higher quality doesn't offer a significant advantage.

At my last job I started to negotiate with Google about their (old) new maps pricing. They kept pointing to features that made no difference for our application. We needed Ok maps and decent forward and reverse geocoding. We were in their free tier, but needeed to find a solution for when we outgrew it, because their pricing was way way too high for our business model.

I left that company, bust if nothing else, this new pricing will further delay the day that they consider replacing Google maps. For new projects though, I'd probably skip google maps altogether, or at least use them in such a way that the client-side code would be totally provider independent.
People have long been worked up over net neutrality.

But what about payment neutrality? It seems like it's just as important, if not more. Why don't we hear enough from people demanding laws that prevent payment processors above a certain size from discriminating based on categories of goods and services?

Why can't we make it illegal for MasterCard and Visa to stop processing payments destined for Wikileaks, or PayPal to stop processing payments to VPN providers? This seems to be to be a clear abuse of monopoly power or at least market share, and there isn't even a whiff of transparent, due process in it.
That's definitely not true for jobs doing consumer-oriented web development, as Marco was talking about.

Even if it were true, though, it doesn't contradict my point.
Most of the web does not run on ASP.Net ... that's a fact.
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There was a US supermarket that threatened a customer who was suing them after he slipped in their store - they said they would present the history of his liquor purchases to suggest to the court he was alcoholic
Beat me to it!! I am currently working on the exact same problem. Lets see how my version turns out!
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The mistake is selling them to Homo sapiens. Root of all evil there.
That's not a completely correct analysis, as the insurance premiums are a recurring payment. So it would have to increase the present value of the stream of recurring payments by more than ten cents.
The debt is backed by real assets not represented in dollars. Those aren't just inherently valuable like gold, but the engines to create more value.

There also isn't a fixed pie. A software company can turn $1M in salaries into $10M in revenue. This isn't new debt, but new wealth.
I don't think that this is actually anything new. I recall similar language when I looked at their maps licensing terms ~four years ago.

When I dug deeper, it appeared, at the time, that this only applied to features of the app that required payment. So, we were free to offer maps features on our site as part of our free offering. We could still have premium features without paying for a premier license, so long as those premium features didn't rely on Google maps.
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Up voted you elsewhere, but you're claiming that flagship 2012 software features could or should fit into a device sporting a single core ARM processor with 256MB of RAM and a GPU that is verging on obsolescence. We're an order of magnitude further out in performance AND userbase, and a trillion dollar market is up for grabs. This is the new life cycle.
What does 'do no evil' have to do with this? That was always more about not being another Microsoft and using monopoly power to strangulate and crush promising parts of the tech ecosystem. Their API pricing foibles are a far cry from that.
> Not only that but I had no way of really discovering new music bar what was given to me by my friends.

This has always been a problem, and still is a problem. Breaking out of your musical bubble is difficult and most of the online solutions don't really do a great job of doing that. They present you more of the things that you're aware of, and if you're lucky they'll give you something very similar to what you have that you really like and haven't heard of, but they do a poor job of presenting you with something novel.

> The second free music became available the traditional music economy was dead. The idea that you would have to pay money to be happy or comforted or angry was gone. No longer will people have the notion as I first did in the early days of listening to music, that their emotions were being used for profit. People now want to be musically satisfied for free, with no-one sequestering money as a result.

The sentiment expressed in this paragraph is abhorrent to me. I'm someone who is happy to pirate a lot of material, but I make sure to pay[1] for it if I keep it or delete it if I dislike it.

> Even with sites like Itunes and Napster who charged much less per music (but still relatively large in comparison to production costs) they still chose free.

The author makes no guess as to the production cost of music. And, really, that's a hopelessly naive view of pricing. In the chain of music production you have musicians trying to make a living from making music.

> Where as before these lablels and artists would have to adhere to the zeigest and merge into it and maybe create something different near the end (for instance radioheads slow morphing into a much different sound but having started as a rock band)

There are two concepts here. The author is wrong; there have been challenging bands for a very long time. Bands making music that they liked, not for other people. Maybe that's made easier by not having to pay to have vinyl mastered and records pressed.

The other concept is also wrong, and will continue to happen for a long time. "I liked their first album but now? THEY SUCK".

That article was a wrong headed mish mash of confused misinformation.
I'd disagree that this has any relation to it being 'better for developing web apps'. I write code and work with teams coding a multitude of languages and environments (on Windows, Mac, and various nix flavors), and the developer experience in the Microsoft toolset is pretty impressive.

I'd expect the shift to be more a function of cost, since it's a lot easier for a startup to spin up on OSS vs. procure Windows licensing, and it's also a lot easier to get free hosting deals like Heroku, etc. than Windows (although I expect BizSpark is changing some of that).

So I do agree that there are some appealing reasons to start projects on nix and OSS, but ease of development and quality of tooling (i.e. a 'better development experience') is likely not at the top of the list.
I've been using cash for certain purchases for several years now, because consumer-protection laws, regulations, and policies are far, far, far behind the tectonic shifts that have already occurred in the world of data mining.
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Thank you, that article describes the matter pretty clearly. Now excuse me I have to go throw up.

(to clarify my comment to others, what I'm amazed at is the idea that some company bets to EARN money upon someone's death. With any 'normal' insurance policy the company wants me to live long and prosper and never have any problem)