skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't actually know any details. All I know is that when several of my coworkers upgraded to 10.8 components of their homebrew setup stopped working. It may have been related to ruby.
We have the freedom to build what we see fit - without the need to to justify the act by saying it improves humanity.

If it doesn't improve humanity like a cure for cancer, but ends up creating happiness in the lives of its users, is that wrong?

I tried to get the spirit of the words. How did I do?

Quibbles: I thought several issues were conflated in the original post by grellas, so honestly I don't think I could possibly do justice to all the unstated assumptions.
Apple's Innovators Dilemma
One implication is that people making arguments do not necessarily have to believe in them. And that anyone with adequate rhetorical skills can make any argument, even one that is not consistent with what they truly believe.

Example: Readers might believe some rambling gibberish about there being no need for any startup founder to have a conscience, and they might attribute it to the poster's own beliefs (it's ok not to have a conscience), when truthfully the poster might believe otherwise (he does not really believe in screwing people over, to the point of having no friends or a lifelong reputation as a con artist) and might just be advancing an idea that would benefit his business: the more social networking startups and the more money flowing into them, the better for those who take a cut.

The other implication is that you have to first understand a position in order to argue it effectively. The claim here is that one commenter does not actually comprehend the other commenter's position. And an easy way to show this is to ask each commenter to argue for the other's position, instead of against it.
Anybody in San Diego interested in all chipping in to get one? I will front the cost, and we can work out some kind of time share...
I am not crazy about the new design. It actually feels less designed to me.

Particularly I don't like that the activity is now hidden on profile pages. I often like to look at people's activity, and it bothers me that it is an extra click away every time now.

I miss the blue to distinguish your own commits from commits by other users.

Information that used to be available right on top such as organizations, and people the user is following are now harder to find or below the fold (on my macbook air 11").

Also now that the filters on top have more emphasis (All, Public, Private, etc) I think they should remove ones that are not useful. For example I don't have any private repos or mirrors so I feel like there shouldn't be links to empty pages, but this is a minor detail.

On top of that I think the page itself has a bit too much white space. It feels a bit plain to me.
Well, not every IPhone user upgraded the past week or so. Some people might think twice about upgrading to the IPhone 5 based on the complaints on the Maps app.

While there are people who are loyal Apple fans, there are some that are on the fence. This might be enough to push them over to Android or Windows Phone.

Once you go to another platform, you're likely locked into a 2-year contract and it's going to be hard for Apple to get them back.
Why does google care about people using Google Maps? The little bit of money + data they'd get from it is nothing compared to the level of frustration and outright hatred that a key app misfunctioning like this might create.

I'm betting Apple won't fix it in 6 months unless they start buying map corps.
It is possible, however it is inconvenient and sometimes impossible for the majority to gain access this way. Also a large portion of the population uses internet cafes to access the internet, and they'd have to switch over the the national interanet.
On the other hand, they are not geniuses to solve the problems of internet security once and for all. All they might manage to do is stop free flow of information into and out of the country. The "Iron curtain" never helped anyone.

To use Huawei's equipment to achieve their national security needs is just naive. You might as well handover your country's internet infrastructure to China itself.

[EDIT: Added some links regarding Huawei (Whether the allegations are true or not, they are controversial and risky to trust):

http://www.truthalliance.net/Archive/News/tabid/67/ID/9347/C...

http://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/2012/sep/14/are-foreign...

]
> If we need to increase revenue, raising the cap from $102k to... something like $110k

It's already $110k....

> or $150k would capture a moderate amount of money with almost no real pain to most people

SS benefits are monotonic in "contributions" so increasing the cap increases the eventual payout for folks who contribute more because of the increased cap. In other words, increasing the cap doesn't just increase the revenues, it increases the costs as well. The increased revenue may exceed the present value of the increased costs but ....

And no, you can't ignore future payouts. If you don't fund with NPV, you're setting up a death spiral that will hit those on the bottom hardest.

Or, are you planning to leave the benefits cap where it is?

The "contributions" cap was put into place by SSs early advocates because they wanted it to be ignored by well-off people. The cap on benefits and contributions accomplishes that. If you cap benefits but not contributions, they'll start caring, and that probably will not work out well. The alternative, uncapped benefits and contributions means that Ross Perot gets $200k/year, which is political suicide.

In other words, raising the "contributions" cap is not an easy win.

I've found that it's best to assume that things are the way they are for good reasons, that the people who came up with {whatever} were smart and well-informed, even if they didn't have digital watches. It may be possible to do better than they did, but if I don't know what those good reasons are, I don't know enough to propose something better. Yes, there are exceptions, but they're rare enough to be ignored.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012: 9 Hot New Things for Developers
I remember tech pundits years ago saying that Android needs a killer app. I guess Android finally has one. It's Google Maps.
the Chinses government is doing this too.
hate the Great Fire Wall
You guys do realize that new panels can be added to the world at any time (and existing ones can be modified). Who's to say the world is static?
I love the fact that I can parachute in to some random city and walk around like I know what I am doing between maps and Yelp. I do not want to give that up.
NASA starts developing warp drive
صفحة الحكومه الكويتيه علي تويتر كويتنا 2012 kuwaitna
Really? We had to jump to "awful" for missing that one feature? Don't get me wrong, it sounds awesome and like something they should definitely add back in... but really? "Awful"!?

Our language is being diluted.
This isn't true. I registered a few weeks ago using my social security number.
THANKS! I saw this at XOXO but there was no name and I wanted to explore it more.
I really, really miss the traffic graphs. Before I moved to github I had google analytics running for each of my projects, which was absolutely amazing for discovering when people talked about them. The increased contributions is worth the trade off, but I do miss that info.
I would pay a lot of money for a native Google Maps app. It's the single most used feature for me on my phone.

The only feature I want is the ability to download maps to the phone. Going to another country and not having maps is debilitating. I spent $300 by not realizing how much data I would download, and download a map while in the middle of one of the Great Lakes in Canada. Being able to download maps while at a wifi connection for the city that I'm in is crucial.
No NFC — So What?
I think the headline of the original article was misleading.

It's not necessarily that the surveyors' moral compasses are confused than that opinions are more nuanced than agree / disagree.
Mark Zuckerberg's opinion of HTML5 is meaningless
Just throw an old 3GS or 4 in your pocket and use Google Maps by creating a private WiFi hot-spot with your iPhone 5.

Wait a minute. The iPhone 5 doesn't do that. Hey, but it's longer, thinner and faster. What else do you want?

It almost reminds me of Microsoft Word. Once MS Word got to the point where it did pretty much everything the majority of users wanted it to do there really was not reason to upgrade. As my own example, the only reason I upgraded some of our systems to Office 2007 was because we needed 64 bit systems for Finite Element Analysis and Office 2003 wouldn't go there.

I know that they'll sell a lot of iPhone 5's, but I really think that they are starting to loose the magic. I, for one, don't really care about thinner or lighter beyond the 4S. A little larger, maybe, but there are so many things that the next generation iPhones could or should be doing that I can't imagine why Apple would pull resources into trying to out-map Google.

3D fly-over map views? Really? How much money did they waste on that crap?

It's almost like Siri. It's a big smelly, smoldering pile of crap. I don't know of anyone that actually uses it. And it sure as hell doesn't work one bit like the TV ads. What a waste.
Regarding the last point, Colorado has a decent online voter registration system. I don't think it's a "swing states", but the polls seem extremely close at least.
If I were Apple, I would had been very pissed off with Google's inferior Maps app for iOS than its Android one. If Maps is so core to a smartphone's overall experience, perhaps it is better to break it from a competitor's control sooner than later.
If you can't wear some kind of mask a store could use face recognition for tracking customers. And I predict stores from the UK will start doing just that.

Yes you can pay with cash, but you have to be physically there to do that and until we'll be able to make anonymous payments on the Internet, nothing can guarantee that you are anonymous.
Slow down there for a minute, man. It was in reference to the new command bar feature they recently implemented, being able to search & filter stars, the addition of the commit status API and all of that was introduced this month. September has been a very busy month for Github in terms of changes and functionality, so yes I'd say killing it.

As for the outages, at least they were honest and transparent about the outages unlike many other companies who try and sweep it under the rug. Accountability and transparency are 2 great traits to have in a company.

No need to be so cynical erichocean.
The new Google Map pricing affected the Top 0.35% of its API users.

What kind of site do you have?
The maps are okay for me, but I'm in a big city (São Paulo). Since the map data comes from TomTom, it should be decent, at least that's the GPS everybody I know uses.
Oh I love responding to recruiters who have no idea how to approach a programmer.

For really vague/template type emails I email the CEO of the company to give them feedback about their recruiters. Generally, they appreciate it.

For competent recruiters, I tell them to have the founder(s), ceo, or whoever is hiring to call me directly at XXX-XXX-XXXX. I like to cut directly to the chase.

That being said you should totally respond to interesting companies, see what they're working on, and then decline politely.
DoD runs multiple separate versions of the Internet (I'd call them Internets vs. just a big intranet due to size and scope); NIPRnet for unclassified and SIPRnet for Secret are the two big ones. It's totally reasonable for Iran to do something at that level.

Huawei probably won't help the USG vs. Iran, so using Huawei for this is a better choice than using Cisco, actually.
You do realize Apple created the app, right? Google only provides the data.
Oh wow, it's so much better than airbrake.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2126879/Screenshots/0q.png
MakerBot to open 3D printing store in NYC
Right, I understand why. And, if I have two in the same scope, jshint will rightly alert me that I have an error. But I don't have this issue once in ~20k lines of js. So in my case, jslint not honoring its own -vars option was just a nuisance.

And while I agree that declaring vars at the top is closer to whats actually happening, I disagree that it makes it easier to comprehend.
> do they even make money from Android phones someone sells?

Their goal isn't to make money on the devices, so that's a little like comparing the margins on a Kindle Fire to the margins on an iPad.
If you want me to actually read the blurb on the fancy graphics on your homepage, don't put it on a fast moving Javascript carousel. Having never even heard of the Replicator 1, I wanted to actually read something about it. :/
Is Google and its Android Partners a Mafia Mob Out to Kill China’s Aliyun OS?
I'm pretty sure that 95% of iOS users don't even know that it WAS Google maps. All they know is the maps on their phone suddenly don't have as much information as they used to. (and hey that new flyover thing looks cool)

I don't really see holding out on a release being beneficial to Google, in fact quite the opposite.

Now people will have an app called 'Google Maps' that will be the one they know and love, and might even get them to consider 'hey, maybe i should check out those Google phones as well'.

I'm personally going to hold out on iOS6 for a little while longer while some of the issues get explained or ironed out.
Unfortunately, Embark's applications don't do inter-city transit, and they only exist for a few large cities. Even with a 3rd party app installed, and completely ignoring the regression in UX, iOS 6 has a major regression in functionality. Try typing the following into Google maps: "Redondo Beach to UCSB" Then look at the public transit options.

This is a completely plausible scenario, and look at how Google shines:

1) Seven different transit agencies are represented in the first four suggested routes: LA County Metro, LA City DOT, Culver City Bus, Amtrak, Metrolink and Santa Barbara Transit

2) Google has no trouble mixing and matching the agencies to find the best route (but gives the user the option of reducing transfers).

3) Each route option only requires a subset of those, usually three.

4) Google knows that UCSB means University of California Santa Barbara, and picks a reasonable location on campus

5) This journey works my iPhone 4, but not on an iPhone 5
If it works for you, keep doing it. :-) But many companies run more than just a website, and I think that's who these services are primarily targeting.
Getting the Most From Ubuntu
End users maybe won't notice if they live in a major city and never want to leave. My town (which is small, but not nowhere: a fairly major tourist destination near a large city) has gone from detailed satellite imagery to no more than about 500 total pixels. You don't need to be a power user to see that kind of regression.
So Iran is making their own "AOL"? perhaps they'll call it "IOL". Hopefully, they'll mail CDs to their citizens with FREE 1000 hours of internet time.
Take Public Transportation? Here’s What To Expect From The Maps App On iOS 6
If you fork a repo and then issue a pull request, you 'own' the forked version, but the original still doesn't show up.

This breaks for the traditional git workflow, which doesn't revolve around the 'forking' step.

In other words, if I commit regularly to another person's repository, even if I don't have a (public) 'forked' version, those commits should still show up regardless.
Microsoft confirms hackers exploiting critical IE bug, promises patch
I'm not sure who to blame, these are the details everyone is posting so far: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10965 It seems like the VirtualBox community was talking about this problem for a long time already, since early september.
> Once you go to another platform, you're likely locked into a 2-year contract and it's going to be hard for Apple to get them back.

I think it would be very interesting though to see what would happen if Apple did face some sort of collateral damage whether for this or some other decision. Apple hasn't exactly found itself in many tight spots, or at least doesn't let it show. If a significant chunk of users left and Apple decided it was worth it to get them back, the fastest way to get over the contract hump is just what they've done occasionally in the past: cut the price, aggressively. Of course, this might not be realistic except in some warped little technodoomsday scenario, but still... I wonder...
What is the bug that can result from the "for(var i=0)" pattern? None, beause browsers ignore the second var for the same variable and do te ituitively right thing.

What's the bug that results from the "var i; for(i=0)" pattern? Someone refactors the "var i" away and you end up with a global var.

So, really, while the pedantic answer is to forbid the pattern, the pragmatic answer is to recommend it.
Here here. We switched our website's map system from Google to OSM/Leaflet when they jacked up the Maps API price. We love the new platform. But we just use it for yelp-like "create a bounding search zone and annotate places" effects.

If I had to use the same system to actually route myself from place to place, it would drive me insane. As an actual mapping product, Google Maps is peerless.
> countless examples

name one.

> We all know

I think you see what you want to see, and not any reality.
But there's just no possible way Apple can win out of this - there is nothing really comparable to Google Maps out there, and mapping has been core iPhone functionality from the get-go. Many people rely on it every day. Even if Google were charging a huge premium behind the scenes Google Maps have always been presented as "the Apple iPhone mapping app" not "Google Maps for iPhone" and so it'll reflect on Apple for messing it up, not Google.
I signed up for but never used Tiny Post, and I'm still getting emails about people following me. People with very similar accounts to the ones Dave mentioned.

For example, check out this profile: http://tinypost.co/users/jonig/#tab1

If you go through the list of people that "Joni" follows, you'll see that most of them don't seem to have posted anything either.
We highly condone misuse of the app, but yes it can still be used in that way.
Maps gives google a ton of information, and it's fresh. Remember that our information is their product. They can see which areas are experiencing growth, which businesses are getting increased demand, travel patterns, etc. They can see where you like to shop and sell ads to their competitors that target you. They can deduce your shopping habits and how likely you are to eat at a fine dining restaurant vs. a fast food restaurant.

Everything they collect through maps can eventually be used to enhance their advertising offerings.

So maybe Maps isn't driving a lot of revenue right now but it's definitely one of Google's most ambitious data collection projects.
People use it; it is not useless.
For me it was always Google Maps thanks to the navigation.
"I hope Google does just that. It takes a nontrivial amount of stupidity to think that Apple does not know shortcomings of its maps application and are working on fixing that."

I'm... not sure how to parse that sentence. I guess it's implying I have a non-trivial amount of stupidity, which probably explains my parsing problem.

Transit routing is a hard problem to scale - Apple has taken a shortcut and pushed it off to 3rd party developers, who can tackle the much more approachable problem of solving it on a city-by-city basis. Which make sense... but this is still a large regression as far as users are concerned. And doesn't help folks that live in smaller cities.

Yes, Apple is probably working on this. But now we come to an odd signalling issue - Apple has basically told 3rd parties that it is worth their time investing in this area. If-and-when Apple opts to plug this functionality hole, they've pulling the rug out from under these developers. And any app developer worth his salt has to be factoring that.

And I'd be really surprised if Apple steps in any sooner than the next iOS refresh - fixing transit seems like a wonderful bullet point for iOS7.

"Loosing iOS users for some barely noticeable amount of switchers is hardly a good business for Google [...]"

Err... what are they losing, exactly? Users aren't inherently valuable. If there's value these iOS users add to Google, I'd love to hear it.

Google is already generating local search and behavioral data via their large Android install base. Beyond brand visibility (which is going to be reduced, thanks to Apple's own offering), what does releasing their own native app get them? A native version that, again I want to emphasis, Apple is actively competing against their own product. Whatever Google releases, it is now going to be a 2nd class citizen, without the OS-level hooks Apple's own solution gets. And this assumes that Apple even lets them release an app. This wouldn't be the first time Apple has blocked Google from releasing an application on iOS because it duplicates existing 1st party functionality.

Basically - why should Google release their own app?

"—do they even make money from Android phones someone sells? I heard Microsoft makes more money than Google does."

I don't think I can adaquately address this in a response to a comment. Google is not a charity, and Android does add to Google's bottom-line.

In closing - I'd fucking love it if Google released a native Maps app. I'm an iPhone user that's gotten bit by this, and am sticking with iOS5 for now. But I'm not going to hold my breathe waiting. Particularly when I don't see a compelling reason for Google to save me.
Is Coursera the Beginning of the End for Traditional Higher Education?
Are you kidding? I use Siri every single solitary day. I use it to create reminders, I use it to dictate text messages, I use it to schedule appointments and find a local sandwich shop that delivers. Siri was one thing from iOS5 that actually met and exceeded the hype.

From what I've seen tonight with iOS6, Siri got extended to deal with movie showings (another thing I frequently do with Flixter) and the latency seems a bit reduced.
Ok, yes, I was a little cavalier in my phrasing, and didn't communicate what I meant (which was roughly "iOS devices with a cellular radio"). iPhones and iPads with cellular radios are typically multi-homed. Edit: And "typically" does not mean "exclusively."
I don't see where in capitalism illegal acts are included in its ambit.

It said let the markets decide, it didn't include freedoms to pursue crime.

At this point you could bring up the definition of criminal vs unethical.

Lets side step that by agreeing on the basic intuitions behind capitalism.

Capitalism is a system aimed at answering the question: what is the best way human beings can organize themselves to best distribute resources and maximize human well being while minimizing suffering.

There are certain acts and substances that can be shown to be immediately harmful to the well being of humanity and humans. Addiction causing drugs are one of them, and efforts to pursue it are marked as criminal, immoral and unethical.

Conflating Facebook with Drug cartels is conflating farmville with cocaine. It very clearly transcends all limitations on the immoral and unethical acts we would permit.
Lord knows that the main thing I want is an app that focuses on SEO over good design.
Yeah, that profile has the same stats as the people following me: 4 posts, around 3000 likes and 7000 following. Plus the user looks like an attractive model.

I wonder how many of these fake profiles they have going. I would love to hear what Tiny Post was/is thinking.
How does not adding features to a competitor's product fail "don't be evil"?

Sounds more like "don't be stupid". We don't see Apple distributing Siri for Android.
A nail in the HTML5 coffin?
I am amused by whatever they've concocted to create those paint-by-numbers hipster meme-y images.
Linked to from there is: http://tinypost.co/users/abhishek888/#tab1

It's like a self-growing ghost town.
war in afghanistan

2008 bailouts