skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't a necessary evil when it isn't necessary. If you have isolation (like virtualenv) then each app gets exactly what it needs. Life is too short to waste it trying to make every single bit of Python use the same versions of dependencies, pinning the version in the package manager, etc.

The universe does not revolve around lazy sysadmins
Turing suicide in doubt
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At The Receiving End Of Bad UI
The discussions occur in practically any field where there is a perceived rivalry among brands. All you need is a forum and a critical mass of anonymous or semi-anonymous users (and trolls). E.g.,

lol do this in an unmodified civic you’d get your ass whipped by that camry

http://conceptmods.com/modified/camry-vs-civic/
Like a prion, Alzheimer's protein seeds itself in the brain
Previous submission with multiple comments (now on HN front page):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4150495
A bit too late?
Right, but it was eccentric while Turing was in favour, not anything for anyone to get upset over.
This price reduction looks like it is only for sites supported by advertising / unmonetised sites.

Any startup planning on charging for an app or service which incorporates any kind of map will still have to pay a minimum $10,000 a year license fee to use Google Maps, which is ridiculously high as a starting point.

What Googles mishandling of the charging changes has done is to heavily publicise the fact that the alternatives (mainly OSM) are now good enough for major companies to switch to without much hassle.
Looking at the sibling comment, I'll happily take back the word "obscure" if it sounds too negative and subjective. But I stand by my opinion that Ruby is unstable because most of the above changes could have been handled in a backwards compatible way (for non-pathological cases). That should-be 2.0 was turned into 1.9 does not help :)

Not that stability is always the right choice, I wish C++0x would have been more radical, for example. It does matter for long-lived codebases though.
You can edit a post ^
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
Tommy Flowers in particular, but whereas Turing was upper-middle class, Flowers was working-class.
And that is why Jeremy Clarkson's reviews should not be the final arbiter of what constitutes a "good" car. The Boxster/Cayman has been consistently judged to be a better driver's car than the 911 because the engine is mounted in the right place to begin with. It's very much similar to Intel and the x86 architecture where its greatest success is keeping it from future greatness.
Is there any way we can stop with the reddit and Rolling Stones posts?
Just a blank screen for me.
>The parties that will ultimately suffer most from this are Navteq and TomTom

Their time is coming up because these companies cannot update at the same pace as the rest of the world. It just costs too much. In many ways, this is similar to why Webkit will dominate as well.
Trace & Visualize Running Java Code
Postman A trending Android app on Google Play
Personally I like Jamendo. It is #1 repository for free music under Creative Commons. You can download legal mp3 for free or purchase for commercial use.

http://www.jamendo.com/en
Seen the slide at WWDC? Something like 85% of iOS users are on iOS 5. Now if the question is how to convince your boss....
SSL is available in the free API. Just load the API from here:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false

(set sensor to true if you're using any kind of geolocation)
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For context, I'm an American; I've read a bit of history, and I have a very American perspective on the last two world wars; Like most people my age, both of my grandfathers fought in world war two, and like most people, I place more emotional weight on stories told me by family members than accounts written by people on the other side, so my view of European politics is biased in a certain direction, and I don't have a lot of experience with Europe; I re-read this and what I write does sound a little bit racist to my eye; I hope that my question is taken more in the spirit of an ignorant person asking a question about another culture, rather than as a racist remark.

From here, it looks like Germany is now slowly getting, through economic means, what they were prevented from getting through military means during the last two world wars. I mean, sure, this is a hell of a lot nicer than fighting a war of that magnitude; I'm very thankful that I've never been in a situation where another human was seriously trying to kill me (and I've never been in a situation where I needed to kill another human, which, from what I hear, can often be more stressful and mentally damaging than being in a situation where someone else is trying to kill you, assuming you survive.) but... it just seems weird to me that the European community would let Germany reunite, then that they would almost voluntarily place them at the head of the European government.

How do Europeans feel about this? I mean, is my view of "give me the courts and the money supply, let the rabble have the rest" just not shared by most Europeans?

Is there a fear in Europe that Germany is taking over? I certainly haven't seen any of that in media coverage; but I would guess there would be some reluctance to express such feelings out of fear of appearing nationalistic or racist. (Of course, I'm aware that Europe is big; I imagine people in France and Italy, for example, have rather different feelings towards German dominance.)
Android devices spreadsheet (density bucket, generalized size, Android versions)
It's possible to use the free API on a commercial site.
Craigslist has been quoted, to an audience of investors, with not caring to maximize revenues. Regardless, don't you think Craigslist would see the effects of PadMapper going dark, and that would be the judge of it being a lucrative venture?
Well, google started charging WAY too much, so you have folks with started projects that simply became untenable. And the principal of something for free/cheap becoming very expensive after you've built an infrastructure around something is shady at best.
You obviously never used a Nokia N9.
There is some speculation that the richest address on the list, with 438k BTC, belongs to The Silk Road.[1]

1: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=82952.0
"Indeed, the police never tested the apple for the presence of cyanide."

That is dumbfounding. It alone calls the verdict into question.

Edit: according to http://sciencemuseumdiscovery.com/blogs/insight/the-spirit-o..., autopsy found that Turing's stomach contained four ounces of cyanide solution and the apple had nothing to do with it.
Private Facebook Data Powering Ads Outside Of Facebook — Is The World Ready?
Context is important here. Note that the article is on a hardware design website. The software development they are talking about is embedded software.

In the goverment contracting world in the 90s ADA was very common. The DoD mandated ADA in some development contracts. So, I can see how someone from this world might make the mistake of calling ADA mainstream.

In this domain a clear view of the hardware is important for maintenance. The hardware/software interface is where a lot of troubles may be found. Finding a problem with this interface through a VM takes longer to troubleshoot.

Back to language selection in this industrial segment. There were contract requirements imposing a particular language. Also upper managment might impose a language choice. Allowing the actual software engineers to select the programming language is a recent and not yet widespread change. How I read the sentence about selecting a language is to say the engineers doing the works should do so since they know best what the needs are.
Breach Reach : Google Insights
Calling the things we carry in our pockets today "phones" is nothing more than an artifact of history. (In fact, my iPhone is a terrible phone.)

Smartphones are devices we use constantly, all day, probably some absurd number of times per hour, and it is a statistic that is surely going up. It's hard to think of any other product we have a more intimate relationship with. It's become more and more of a tool that we cannot live without. These are the attributes of a product that cause an emotional attachment, and is the reason people get so worked up about "phones". (You'll note this ferver didn't really reach a fever pitch until after "phones" were no longer phones.)
A quick Googling uncovered the controversy about the leaks, which I wasn't aware of.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/06/news/la-pn-mccain-ca...
Using a Cloud Service at the Office Without Permission? You’re Not Alone.
Yes, you were right to have stopped reading because it continues to spout nonsense. It's full of memes, misconceptions and plain false information.

It's a shame, because there really is something to the C++ renaissance (I wouldn't know about Ada), and the shortcomings of Java and other managed languages in a few fields. It would have made an interesting article.

As a very long term C++ user, I find it much easier these days to write safe, efficient and maintainable code than it used to be. Much of this is due to the wealth of documented good practice and my own personal experience, but also due to language improvements, especially in C++11. C++11 is how all language updates should be: reduced verbosity, increased safety, common practice made standard, and even improved efficiency.
I guess he 100% sure, that his insurance company do not data mine techdirt.com ;)
Curious to know how they knew to target your webserver. Was it hosting a bitcoin service, or running bitcoind and connected to the network?
Ehh, the miles which I get by using my credit card wind up being worth about 2%, so you'd have to convince me that each five-dollar burger raises my insurance premium by more than ten cents.
No, but it's still old. There is no excuse to be using an old browser, especially in the age of painless auto-update.
I also think Marco seriously underestimates how many great developers still use Windows. Much as I dislike it personally, there are lots of reasons to: deep Windows experience, huge ecosystem of tools/companies/etc, games, targeting a Windows-heavy vertical, and so on.

Plenty of these people want to do more for mobile devices, too. Microsoft is in a position to give them an easy way to do that (especially given the shared base of Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8). Will it work? We'll see, but if it fails it won't be because Microsoft failed to interest great developers If it fails, it will probably be because Microsoft failed to interest consumers.
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I was just going by the "Do I need to use Google Maps API for Business?" in the FAQ here :http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps-faq.html .

"If you are charging a fee for access to your Maps solution, whether for a business or consumer audience, you are required to purchase the Maps API Premier."

To me this reads as, any SAAS web app which used a Google map anywhere would be required to pay $10,000 per year plus usage charges.
iPad 1 released in 2010 (two years old) lacks all features.
iPhone 4 lacks turn by turn navigation, 3D maps, Siri, and Facetime over cellular.

So I get what with an iPhone 4? Passbook, Facebook, and a maps app that no longer tells me what train I can take?

Im going to have to stick to the most features.
After I read it, I was so intrigued by his bold analysis, that I had to go read up on opposing views. I figured that there would be tons of economists in outrage on the Internet. And, from my point of view, I really like to understand differing views before I believe I can make a judgement. (Also why I'm reading it again)

However, surprisingly, I couldn't find any good opposing analysis to his book. Maybe because it's too newly published. But, the ones that I did find, seemed to appeal to authority: That Graeber wasn't an economist and was only an anthropologist meant that he didn't really get it. I didn't find those arguments particularly useful. If you can lead me to other materials, I'd be happy to read them. I'm still trying to make sense of it, myself.

Anyway, I can see why you took away what you did. Graeber frequently attacks the establishment and makes some analogies that are somewhat painful to my market-conditioned, western brain. But, my takeaways were still very different.
Sinatra in C
really? tell us more about what happened. how did they get from the webserver to your laptop? (e.g. what was listening on your laptop?)

I find these sorts of attacks very interesting (and very frightening) because if a sysadmin's desktop is compromised, without the sysadmin noticing, the attacker has access, essentially, to everything the sysadmin accesses with that
desktop. The best you can do, as far as I can tell, is to use some sort of 'the private key never leaves the smart card' system, and to run some sort of tripwire-esque intrusion detection system; the latter is key, because even with a theoretically perfect smartcard, if the attacker owns my ssh client binary when I authenticate to the server... it's over.
U.S. Sen. Schumer Asks Google And Apple About Their "Spy Planes"
One of the best explanations about all of this is in the book How an Economy Grows and Why it Doesn't by Irwin Schiff http://freedom-school.com/money/how-an-economy-grows.pdf

It seems this explanation is somewhat of a rehash of that book. The book is relatively short and well worth your time if you found this reddit answer interesting.
Padmapper should offer to be acquihired by Craigslist

their service is 100% dependent on Craigslist so they'd have trouble selling to anyone else
I think the focus on retina means we likely won't be seeing a 15" Air anytime soon.
All of the major review sites split their articles into 20+ pages.
Not everyone buys a portable device to use it outdoors. Some people just like moving room to room indoors.
Single page link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/magazine/when-my-crazy-fat...
The market cap measures sentiment, not reality. It's not that Nokia's underlying value went from 38 billion to 9 billion in that time, it's that people figured out they're only worth 9 billion and sold down the stock. The fundamentals affecting Nokia were already in play long before that 'burning platform' speech.
> Not one person likes to be wrong about the choices we make.

The "pain" of insecurity balances over-confidence to help us find locally-optimal decision points. Like with other types of pain, the usefulness of it in some situations can get misdirected and misused pretty easily now that we're out of the jungles and not interacting with each other face-to-face. The anonymity of the Internet is so different from early human encounters that we have a lot of trouble dealing with it.

> Just remember that all nearly all great discoveries stemmed from questioning what the majority took to be the truth

Then again, a lot of sheep die by straying from the herd and getting picked off by predators. Like most things, cutting the balance the right way and making the best decisions at the right time is really really hard.

If it were easy, lots of animals would be competing with us for dominance of the earth.
Nest Learning Thermostat reportedly taken off Apple Store shelves
The article was claiming that C++ failed in the 90s with the large migration from C++ to Java; it 'failed' at being the general-purpose industry language of choice. This is a reasonable statement.

And Java is often 1-2 orders of magnitude less efficient at memory usage than C++, so while 'several' is perhaps hyperbolic the general point still stands (execution speed wasn't being discussed).
I suspect that if you eat enough burgers that a 2% cash back is significant - it's not just your insurance company that should be worried!
I don't think it's parody-defying so much as burying the lede. Why don't they use a 13"? If it's because their eyes don't like it, then maybe they are an old fogey.

I appreciate those saying this is a matter of feelings, but it's also a reviewer's blind spot, their personal circumstances which affect their technology choices. They probably don't want people to think they're just writing reviews for old people (which would probably actually be a money-maker), so they hide it behind tradeshow one-upmanship.
It's not that easy in Sudan's case... That does not imply that toppling Mubarak was easy.
I can't really take this article seriously. There are millions of Windows developers, and you can't make broad, sweeping statements like he does about a group that large. If there's money to be made, developers will target the platform.
Thanks for the info SkyMarshal!
if Mountain Lion will optimize it as claimed...

It's always fixed in the next version! :)
> They are unquestionably a Microsoft shop now

This is only true on the phones themselves. Nokia are mostly Java based on the server side.
Immune System Weaves Cobweb Nanonets
The steady state looks a bit like an apple.
Oh come on! Calling yourself a financial hacker! A real financial hacker would:

a) Figure out the IP ranges that the chase hoodlums use.
b) Setup an alternate banner (without the word badassity in there) to show for those IP ranges.
c) Rinse and repeat for any other unreasonable demands.

PROFIT! :D
So - my company uses Google maps as the foundation of one of the features of a couple of our products, and, originally, we had free licenses. But the day we started using them, we had a conversation where we wondered what Google was eventually going to charge us, and when they were going to charge us. As it turns out - our original guesses back in 2004, where just a shade lower than what we ended up paying in 2011. Our volume is lower than others, and we get a lot of value out of each map display - so the pricing (around $10,000/year) is just a cost of business. We certainly don't consider it too much for our needs.

On the flip side - if we weren't extracting much in the way of revenue per copy of software, and/or our volume was really high - obviously OSM would be very attractive, and we would be waving bye to Google Maps, and joining that community (and hopefully helping to improve the material by donating to up-and-coming cartographers if we weren't inclined to utilize our GIS skills).

To some degree, I think Google re-enforced a very, very valuable lesson - if something is being offered very free/cheap, and is one of the foundations of your product, and you don't have a license/contract (e.g. GPL/BSD) guaranteeing you that pricing - be aware that you are at the mercy of that third party and plan accordingly.

We see this on HN over, and over, and over again with companies like Apple that end up screwing businesses that rely on the Apple store/iOS - I wonder if PG has written an essay on that - building your house on other people's foundation.
I think it's more basic than not wanting to be wrong.

It's not wanting to be disagreed with, even if right/wrong doesn't apply. If I decide product X is the best because of features Y and Z, and someone else decides product Q is better than X because they don't care about Y and Z, we may have both made completely correct choices based on our preferences/goals. It's not as though I was wrong about features Y and Z, or about their importance to me. But another person disagreeing about their importance can trigger psychological defenses.

The hate mail in the article concedes the phone has great hardware, but complains that it's a "nerd phone", "heartless", with "no vision". Posts on car forums might concede that a car gets great mileage but complain it has "wrong wheel drive". Blackberry guy thought it was important that he had a professional business phone that was designed with that role in mind. This is where that sense of tribalism comes in: someone has decided that a particular attribute is really important, and anyone who doesn't care about that is an outsider and a weirdo.

It takes a certain degree of maturity to recognize that things are good for different purposes and that it's OK if someone else's purposes don't match yours.
Yeah, it probably came across as a bit hostile, because trying to get accurate pricing models from various sources was a big pain. Google has/had a lead in this market because of an earlier behaviour of encouraging open/easy use of their maps and APIs. Without much warning, they significantly raised pricing, and now have significantly reduced it, in less than 9 months.

They've lost a lot of credibility, and it's becoming more apparent that the 'do no evil' era mentality there is going away. They didn't drop prices just because they "listened to customers". If they'd bothered to ask customers beforehand, they'd have known $4/1000 is just way too much for most users. Instead, they reacted hastily due to a perceived threat of Apple entering the market, and probably a big exodus of the smaller players who were using them before (also known as tomorrow's larger players).
> Any chance the team will stick together and recreate Troll Tech? Kind of like the Ximian/Mono team formed Xamarin after being fired from Novel?

The Mono team did not recreate what they had in Novell.

1. Mono in Novell put a lot of work on building Mono as a general platform. Xamarin is focused on where the money is: Mono for Android and iOS.

2. Mono in Novell was developed to form part of the SUSE Linux desktop. Xamarin does not do Linux, and in fact the devs themselves have apparently mostly personally switched to OS X.

3. Practically all Mono work at Novell was open source. Most of the work at Xamarin is closed source, the business model is to sell software for iOS and Android.

There's nothing wrong with either model, but just pointing out, they didn't just recreate the same thing outside of Novell. The two situations are hugely different, so it isn't surprising they are not that similar.