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It's not "optimized for App Store SEO". The way the App Store works is that it ranks items by total downloads, as long as you have a certain keyword (in this case, "picasa"). The reason that "bad" app comes up first is because it's a free app, so of course it has way more downloads than a paid app would.
Udemy [www.udemy.com] has quite a nice range of courses and many of our teachers are making good money by selling their courses using our platform (teachers keep 70% of the revenues from paid courses on our platform).

Interesting article about that: http://thinktraffic.net/udemy

Probably unnecessary disclaimer but... I work there.
Special Relativity only applies if the space between A and B is relativity flat. As long as space is flat in the vicinity, then the predictions of Special Relativity hold true. It doesn't matter if you made some weird topological wormhole that provides a shorter path. If Special Relativity has shown you how to, for instance, make a closed causal curve in the flat part of the space, using the events that occur in the flat part of the space, then SR will be correct in that prediction. The fact that there are non-flat parts of space elsewhere that were used to facilitate the aforementioned events in the flat part, is irrelevant to SR.

If, on the other hand, you are talking about cosmological wormholes that might let you travel some place that is far, far away--e.g., outside our Hubble sphere--then Special Relativity might not apply. For instance if the reason we can have a wormhole is because
space ever-so-slowly curves back onto itself, and there ends up being a short little bridge between two pieces of the universe that turn out to be very close to each other in the space that encloses our 3D space, but far away when measured as an ant crawls within our space, then Special Relativity won't be of use because the space between A and B is not flat. But in that case, GR lets you violate causality with such wormholes, even if you can no longer analyze the issue with SR:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_holes#Time_travel

You can write to me at doug at alum.mit.edu, but I can't provide much deep insight to GR, as my knowledge of it isn't much more than that of a knowledgeable layperson. I only really understand SR and when it can be applied.
The lack of including public transit routing was a huge miss -- the "Designed in California", everyone has a car confused the decision making.

I've found the Embark transit applications to be a great alternative (at least for Chicago). It doesn't make up for other missing features like Street View, but you'd be surprised how many users did not even know those features existed.
+1 That's a really good idea, I'm kind of surprised it hasn't been there from the start.
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This is awesome. I had to crop user generated photos for thumbnails in a photo gallery and a lot of times it would miss human faces. Does this guarantee it won't happen?
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I think it's more the former than the latter. Restricting or controlling the flow of information is a standard tool for authoritarian regimes; it's easier to control your population when you can control how they perceive the world. The Iranians have additional incentives in their national security concerns, as they'd obviously like to avoid a repeat of the Flame attack.
Does anyone know if developers can track Facebook likes? Can you connect your App Store page to your Facebook page and track who shares it? Will iTunes connect show Facebook likes?
A quite handy tool for online base64 encoding and decoding
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haha I decompiled their jar the other day actually, and they basically just combined abc4j with the YIN method of finding fundamental frequency for sound and, a table between frequencies and notes. I doubt it works nearly as well as most alternatives, because they made no provisions for noise in the signal or other complications. Very simple implementation even by hackathon standards, but it was presented like magic so I'm not surprised they wowed the judges. One of the team members even said this though "We just used Java, which is really basic programing. We didn’t even use fancy web app stuff, which is why we didn’t expect this at all. I don’t even know what to say about this" -theDP
Primer (2004) is surprisingly good indie film made for just $7000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28film%29
You're comparing them to a handful of the most successful games of all time. Yes id hasn't produced the best selling games of all time, but overall their games have been successful. Even comparing Minecraft's 7 million copies to Quake's 1.7, you need to consider that Quake sold most of those copies at a much higher price point. Mojang (at this point) is also larger than id was up until Doom 3.

I'd not arguing that id is still a dominant force in the industry (they aren't), but calling all of their games after Doom commercially unsuccessful is a little extreme.

Your definition of a hit being 5-10 million copies per platform means the only hit game is Call of Duty. If an average AAA title sells 5-10 million total it is wildly successful, and 2-3 million is usually still profitable or at least breaking even.
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Wikipedia says the resistivity of gold is 22.14 nΩ·m; tungsten is 52.8 nΩ·m. While there's a mild difference there, I'm not sure it'd be easy to detect, particularly as it has a very low resistivity to begin with. (Copper is considered an excellent conductor at 16.78 nΩ·m.)
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Wow, those are some seriously annoyed users Evernote has there. As noted in the thread, the old version is still available (for now at least) at:

http://www.macupdate.com/download/39932/skitch.zip

I've never used Skitch, but have heard raves from so many people that I've been planning to take a look at it; based on the feedback in this thread, though, I made sure to snag the old version.
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I'm not as knowledgable with 3d printing - but have heard of Makerbot before. Anyone know how this compares to Replicator #1? Is there improved fidelity? (i.e. less print lines?)

The replicator 1 was pretty kickass when they had a demo @ Disrupt SF, but had some noticeable lines.
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Really? Although the maps show less information, I found the navigation feature much more usable now. For me, it's the most useful feature since I don't have a car with GPS and TomTom's app is pricey. Now I have it built-in.

For finding other stuff I can always use other apps or Google Maps mobile, which is very decent too.
Ask HN: Most engaging forms of online interaction between strangers?
Well, it is likely that some deal-making (or lack thereof) behind the curtain is why Apple had to release a new maps tool in the first place.

But for users, yes.
Trying to understand the most effective ways in which users online engage with each other, especially with people we don’t know. They could be games, groups /forums or comment threads. Conscious that this is context dependent. Commenters on Scobleizer/Kawasaki Google+ posts are engaging in an online experience which is very different those playing WOW.
That is very few exceptions in the paid plan. You don't need that many users before it becomes far too expensive to use.
Primer is probably my all-time favorite. I'm in love with the whole thing. The story, the acting, the soundtrack, all phenomenal for what is basically the work of one guy.

The best part, though, is the feeling that you could go out to your garage and build something amazing.
Changing the maps you use on your web site and changing the maps on a person's smartphone are hugely different.

Without knowing more about your web site I can't do a detailed comparison, but unless people use your web site every day, on the move, to search for transit, business and social locations then the use cases just aren't the same. Not to mention that the biggest issue with Apple Maps is the dismal coverage outside of the US.
Yes, in most cases the algorithm will ensure that the face is included. However, there are a few instances ( for example, if the face is blurred, or is in a weird pose ) when it will miss it.
If you read all the IM's, carefully, and you know a bit of Facebook history, you should see that the targets Zuckerberg chose from which he stole the ideas he used for Facebook, like Greenspan, were the type of people who could easily be taken advantage of. He knew who he was dealing with. But there is no empathy.

In the IM's Zuckerberg goes so far as to tell Greenspan he considers him to be "like a friend" (see IM for exact wording). This is really sickening.
This is another benefit of still being on Lion. I didn't have to deal with weird homebrew issues and now I don't have to deal with this. I have not upgraded to Mountain Lion on any of my machines, and the way things are going I'm probably not going to until forced.
Right, but you are taking a very web centric view there. What would you call the guy who's work impacted every shopper in a supermarket? There were people doing what is now called "data science" with supermarket loyalty cards, credit cards, frequent flyer programmes, etc looooong before there were "data scientists".
There are several reasons not to do this:

1. Unless Google can roll this out in a short timeframe to all their properties with 100% reliability, it's basically useless. If half of their login screens don't have it, there's no way for a consumer to tell the difference between a hacked site and a legitimate malfunction (such as a cleared cache, or fresh computer installation). Luckily, Google's web logins are already centralized, but people also log into Chrome, their Android devices, etc.

2. You can never remove the customization. You better be sure you want to support custom images forever, because you are committing to a promise: your customers' login screens will look exactly the same from now on. The only way to migrate away from it is to bite the bullet and deal with a ton of people who think that their browser or Google has been hacked because it's missing their custom picture.

That's too much commitment to a stopgap measure for a password form that Google wants to obsolete anyways. They'd rather have you authenticate to your browser or via a device anyways, long term.
The internet is (obviously) one of the best examples of the network effect.

Sure you can technically wall of a subset of it and live on your own, but why would any sane person want to? I mean I get it, they want to limit access to non ideologically compatible ideas, which is most of everything.

But then that severely limits the utility of their new internet. Right now the economy is coasting pretty heavily on oil exports. If unlike say Qatar, they don't invest massively in more long term sustainable economic growth (which tends to require education, hence Qatar's massive education boom) then in a bit they are going to be pretty screwed. And cutting off this access to information is just so short sighted.

It's like blinding yourself because right now you can afford the servants to take care of all your needs. Long term, when you run out of money, you might wish you had eyes so you could earn some new money.
Basically:

Oracle: We reported the bug a long time ago and still Apple released the update.

Apple: ...

Me: How the fuck am I going to work tomorrow? Maybe going full Vagrant wasn't a good idea after all :(
Don't underestimate Iran. They aren't quite the US or Japan, but ahead of any middle eastern non Israel nation, probably ahead of India in many ways, and on par with Brazil or Spain or maybe Italy in terms of domestic engineering talent and ability.
"3. This is really the tricky part as an attacker can wipe browser cookies at will."

No need for an attacker, I do wipe them at will. Every time I close the browser.
Or to attract a lot of people to the field and drive down salaries.
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Actually transactional topologies are superseded by Trident, which is much easier to use:

https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Trident-tutorial

Here's an explanation on how Trident achieves fully fault-tolerant, idempotent semantics:

https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Trident-state
Kudos! This is a quite brilliant idea for building simple API prototypes.
Is it just me, or wouldn't it be fairly trivial for a troublesome country to just point a satellite at Iran and give citizens access that way?
I am surprised Samsung didn't pounce on this opportunity in their marketing materials.

Instead they are propping features like "Palm Picture Capture", "Tilt to Mute", and other dumb things that nobody really cares about.
http://images.latinospost.com/data/images/full/5424/samsung-...

Things like this is what differentiates great companies, from ones that just doen't get it.
Users don't care about useless feature list, they care about end experience.
Anybody else play TTYTRK? PATROL? COMBAT? all Basic games.
Which one did you get? The Samsung 550 is the one to get IMO, the touchpad is pretty great.
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I don't get sore very often anymore from weight lifting, but when I do, I know I pushed hard.
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Oooh, I'd love to have a link to that. Is this recent work?
And somehow VMware Fusion doesn't have any problems after the same update ... sometimes you do get what you pay for (then again, I remember when an earlier Fusion update bricked itself, so YMMV).
You are measuring yourself wrong
Your tool looks pretty cool and useful, but it seems quite a bit different than tools like Coverity and Astree which reason about the behavior of programs under all possible inputs. Coverity can detect race conditions. Your tool looks like it's using technology closer to that of Refactoring Crawler, which was a quite impressive achievement, but not a static analysis tool.
Thanks for your reply, Moxie! How would cloudcracker fare against the four-word combos recently popularized by xkcd[1]? Even if it were known that the password was made up of four English words, what sort of time frame might it require to crack?

1 http://xkcd.com/936/
Does this also apply to Mexican drug cartels?

Not that I am comparing FB to drug dealers, but I'm just curious how to apply this handy definition of capitalism. Are there any limitations?
But if you go from sedentary to P90X, you'll see results.
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I think it's a tricky question.

Wait six months: increases the pain iOS users feel, and possibly increases migration to Android, but by how much? If you've bought an iPhone 5, in many cases that means a 1-year contract (or renewal). And in six months, Apple may have released a better Maps app that fixes the problem.

Release Google Maps for iOS sooner: iPhone users feel less pain, but Google Maps keeps more users.

Actually though, the more I think of it, even in the latter scenario, Apple still wins, because whenever they release their fixed Maps app, they win back the entire market because they own the platform. So maybe the first strategy actually makes more sense.
It's all about the rate of chargebacks and fraud. I would hardly be surprised if your average porn site was subject to both frequent chargebacks and heavy use of stolen credit card numbers, if not both at the same time.

That and association. PayPal just doesn't want their name associated with stuff like that. It's hardly limited to just porn. Anything remotely sexual is rarely sold via PayPal or a major non-Adult-oriented payment processor.
Google has made several apps that duplicate functionality (Gmail, Chrome, etc.) Apple doesn't care.
I noticed some increase in activity in MDSD including discussion over on quorum and some recent conferences. With the promise of accelerated delivery for resource constrained pivoting SMB, do you see any future for MDSD in the world of the high tech start up?
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> They just want people to have access to their services.

They just want to have access to the people :)
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I was thinking the same thing when reading the About page on his website. After the first few paragraphs I was like 'he's not even going to mention Facebook - how baller is that' and thought he had moved on in a very healthy way. But then I kept reading, and he devotes well over half of his about page to the saga. Sad. Really sad, that he is letting this define his life.
SF & NYC are the two most transit heavy cities in the USA. Cupertino is a 1 hr drive from SF, and I bet many apple employees live in SF. I'm fairly sure this was just a cut feature for the time they have and they probably already have it working or are developing it for iOS 7.
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Yeah, the removal of the graph sucks.

Call me silly, but I really liked that graph .. it gave me a little boost of pride to bring up my github page and see the effect of a burst of hacking activity in visual form. Obviously the info's still around in the commit logs, but it seemed much more obvious in the graph.

I guess computing the graph did probably consume CPU time, but isn't that exactly the sort of thing that differentiates github from a "dumb" git repo provider?
I wonder how much this decision was affected by the Twitter / Apple partnership.
How ironic is it that a major phone company in a country that won't let its people browse the REAL web, or interact with people outside its borders without spying on and filtering them, chooses a WEB BASED OS for its phones.
Looked at your Contracts library for Ruby. I was just thinking yesterday about starting a project like this! Some thoughts:

- I like that the contracts are right there in the code and not in a separate file.

- The actual Contract methods only run once upon loading each class, so they don't cause a performance hit. I'd like a way to make them all noops (so they don't add any instrumentation) when running in "production".

- My thought is that if you can define pre- and post-conditions as you're doing, then you can cut out a lot of the checks in your tests, so that as long as the tests exercise the code, you can rely on the post-conditions to do quite a bit of the validation. Plus you're validating outputs all over the place constantly, so you'd probably catch edge cases you never even expected.

- I'm disappointed that your system seems to offer little more than type checking (unless I'm mistaken). I'd like something that gives me true pre- and post-conditions: basically passing a block of Ruby code for each one, with common idioms abbreviated so I don't need to write a whole block if the conditions are simple.

Good luck on the project!
This was more true in 2008-2010 maybe, but recently Apple has been much less restrictive. There are 3rd party browsers (chrome, opera, Firefox)*, 3rd party mail apps(gmail, Firefox), and 3rd part maps apps (tomtom).

That said, the lack of third party transit from apple is pretty horrible, and the API for the maps app is pretty limited (you have to throw the start and end points to your app, there's no overlays or anything like that)
> If I were in Google's shoes, I wouldn't be launching
> a native Maps app. Period.

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 not working on fixing that.

Loosing iOS users for some barely noticeable amount of switchers is hardly a good business for Google—do they even make money from Android phones someone sells? I heard Microsoft makes more money than Google does.
I'm seeing forks just as prominently as "owned" repos, so I don't see the problem.
> I didn't have to deal with weird homebrew issues...

Just out of curiosity: which weird issues? The only "issues" I had involved installing XQuartz, and chowning /usr/local/ back to me[1]

[1]: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/27985816073/the-hitchhiker...
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This is obviously not going to solve the problem of cyber attacks. As I remember, even the stuxnet attack on their nuclear reactor was ultimately caused by transmission through a pen drive into an isolated network. No reason, the same cannot be achieved even if they isolate the country's network. More entry points as I see it.
I wonder when people will stop using services that arbitrarily censor users and kill accounts without any recourse or due process.
iOS6 maps simply does not work in Tokyo. Here's a comparison my friend posted.. Tokyo Station doesn't exist at all, and the level of details is woeful.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/27725...
Sorry, I am being dense: and, given the two possible results of the Turing test (population correctly/incorrectly guesses which is real/fake for each side), what are the implications for the argument, if any?
Neither Tesla nor SpaceX rely on millions of fickle web users handing over their personal information and regularly signing in to a website to look at photos and status updates. Nor can they be easily replicated by a competitor who is not a jackass.
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How about Kudos to Zuckerberg for screwing with so many people and winning without tipping his hand?
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Ask HN: If you could have a one-night-stand with any programming language..
..which one would it be and why?
This is not really a problem. Just pay a few bucks to someone off of Craigs List (or spend a little time learning to do it yourself) to clone one of their cheaper phones to one you buy (get one with a bad ESN cause they are cheaper) off of eBay or CL. It is really pretty easy.
"They are not about authoritative control over who gets access and locking their users in a walled garden."

You think the iOS maps app was stagnant for such a long time because of what? Because Apple is lazy?

It's obvious they don't want to be on the hand of a competitor. Google Maps used to be free with a large API quota when released, remember? Then, once everybody was using it, they updated the API and imposed a much more limited free quota (almost useless), and released a premium version.

Well, I tried getting in touch with anyone at Google to get a quote about the price for their premium API. I couldn't even talk to a human, let alone pay for the service. Now imagine you're Apple, and how much Google would charge.
This clearly makes commercial sense for Google in the short/medium term, but fails "don't be evil".

I got screwed by iOS 6 Beta's lack of transit directions in NYC this summer; I had no reason to expect a serious feature regression, and I'm amazed this made it to release. It might be a Cupertino vs SF thing, but really, even a car owning Bay Area tech person is going to use the subway when visiting NYC or some other cities, so even Apple employees though have prioritized it.
Is there a discussion with details on the issue? Parallels and VMWare release new versions all the time for compatibility issues, they just fix them before the update comes so their new version is ready. Should VirtualBox just fix the bug on their side, or is this really an Apple issue?
The routing is nice. The maps themselves are much less detailed and in many areas have no detail at all or are completely incorrect, in the sense that they show roads in places where there have never been roads, and roads which have been there for 30 years are absent.