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I look at this and can't believe Apple wanted to ship with this. And I mean that literally, not incredulously. I believe Apple wants to be in carol of its mapping future, but this product isn't ready yet, and I don't think Apple is so delusional to not be able to see that.

So that makes me wonder what happened in contract negotiations with Google to force it out. Did Google flat-out say "No"? Seems unlikely. Was it just too expensive? That's possible, especially if these negotiations happened during the time Google massively raised the prices on its API (completely random speculation: maybe the price increase was only about Apple), so Apple had to invest elsewhere. Did Google just want control of their map data or want to give Android a massive competitive edge so they backed out? That seems unlikely, but may be answered if Google doesn't put out a map app for iOS.
The article mentions that the "flaw had to be triggered 185 times in the exploit code in order to overcome some of the vulnerability’s limitations".

How long would that take to trigger through the NFC interface?
Those aren't underground jellyfish, they are underwater. That part of the word (west of center, where the ships are) is ocean. But yeah, it's confusing at first.
I've had a lot of grief with my iPhone 4. Let's see,
1. Shitty antenna - compensated with free case
2. Lack of free upgrades (Siri, maps)
3. Corrupted iPhone database meant I couldn't copy songs to my iPhone. Had to rebuild the phone to "recover"
4. All upgrades usually take me 1/2 a day to rebuild my phone, as everything is copied off and then back on.
5. Shitty iTunes that makes everything a bitch to get on/off my phone (see 3. Above).
My wife has had almost no issues with her nexus s, nor has my best friend with his (inc. free unconditional upgrades)
I'm not saying apple is bad, just saying the experience hasn't been as rosy as I would have "expected" given all of the pro IOS hype I read about, and the big price difference I paid vs the nexus s.
We've found that Google has historically had a very hard time in San Francisco, and many other big cities for that matter. The results often seem reasonable at first, but end up being impractical in practice. We've found that getting good routing results in cities like SF requires a lot of attention to detail in each particular city. Google has very smart people, but they can't focus everywhere at once.

Disclaimer, I work at Embark and we make transit apps. (letsembark.com)

Edit: it also doesn't help that Muni often doesn't run on schedule.
Uh, are you kidding me? If I'm ever buying anything questionable at Walmart, I just use cash. I usually buy condoms from Walmart, and I always use cash (and no, I'm not cheating on my girl). You're not thinking this through.
And you came to this conclusion based on one bad app? Quite the leap it seems.

What's missing in all of these conversations is that Apple's contract with Google for mapping ended this year. No one knows what really happened for Apple to make this change.
... it cannot replace C/C++ for lots of the intended use cases

Does Go need to replace C/C++ in all use cases to be a "worthwhile" language? If not, then is there some required percentage of use cases that Go must be better at than C/C++? If not, then what is the point in arguing that there are some things Go is not as good for? Of course, knowing what those deficiencies are is important but it sounds like you are trying to convince people to not use Go. Why?

Yes there is a lot of Go hype around here and I understand your desire to counter that hype.

Choosing programming languages and other technologies and skills is an unfortunately subjective and messy process.
It would take more than:

(1) them not believing that Go has design issues

for my argument to not make sense. It would need both (1) and

(2) them being right about said belief

for my argument to be invalid. And while (1) might hold, (2) is highly debatable.
Aargh. Microsoft didn't become Microsoft because of cogs. Microsoft is DYING because of cogs.
Why is originality so important? If they execute well and earn return on investment, that is the purpose of a business.

This is not art - it's creating and serving customers.
I don't think Google has 3D view at all. Those 3D maps were created by a different company whom Apple recently acquired. You can probably find the same errors from here as well, http://maps.nokia.com/webgl/
Vimeo Tip Jar lets users pay creators for content
It also gives people a chance to own a decent Picasso painting who would otherwise never have the opportunity, which deserves respect, I think.
IOS 6 Maps are horrible Get over it.
Is the experience any better when utilizing Siri as an interface? If you ask Siri for directions instead of relying on the built-in search functionality, is it any better or would both Siri and iOS maps query the same database?

Siri --> Address --> iOS nav via street address
Apple's cynical implementation of Do Not Track in iOS6
This is not the privacy experience you would expect from the greatest design company in the world.
Our experience with advertising on Reddit
> the NFC method as it's a relatively new medium for malware (though of course not a very practical one).

Why not? Ever since I heard of the idea of trying to replace QR codes with passive always on NFC I've thought that this will be one of the first methods for massive infections of smartphones. Just put one in a public place(public transportation, store, etc.)
Since Apple doesn't have a website for their maps, just knowing what is broken is going to be a problem for them.

I wonder if they will put in a map editor in their next version to crowd source fixes or at least bug reports.
Right. He, like most of the tech world, is using a Mac on his desktop.
There is no possibility that this platform change was over Apple's inability to come up with the cash to license a competitor's dataset. Their move was political, strategic, or both.
There was a recent post about advertising on Reddit, so I thought I would share our results as another example. So far we've been happy with the CPC we've been able to achieve (much better than attempts with Google or Facebook) and plan on more advertising with Reddit in the future.
They hurt local innovation and ecosystem development in emerging markets from Asia to LatAm to Africa. They come in, hire away talent only to fire them in a few weeks. they damage the budding trust the consumer has in ecommerce.

They are bullies and have a superiority complex boasting about their capacity to execute. They do not have a monopoly on execution. That's a farce.

They are greedy, selfish and generally think only of themselves. Not the consumers they serve, the local markets or their employees.

I have witnessed them come into markets, destroy the lives and dreams of entrepreneurs and employees in emerging markets and shut down abruptly.

Finally, this operation (thier ecommerce operations in particular) is a house of cards. Service quality sucks, customers are lied to and they engage in an epic waste of money

It is impossible to build online retail operations in 1-2 years. Yet this is their objective. Build fluff and sell to some unsuspecting corporate development team.

The problems groupon is facing is inextricably linked to the involvement of the samwers as far as I'm concerned. Elsewhere, flash sales and couponing operations do well. Anything these guys touch is ultimately unsustainable and fluff. Now they want to try online retail with its logistics, warehousing, etc in emerging markets without a long term horizon. Ha! In a few years time you will realize how stupid the praise in this article is.

http://e27.sg/2012/09/10/is-rocket-internet-losing-its-grip-...

http://sgentrepreneurs.com/2012/09/05/is-there-any-method-in...
I can understand how you see it as advertising but in my case it's not. I've needed a plugin like this for several projects and couldn't find anything like it so, as a learning exercise, I decided to build it. The plugin started out as a basic free version I submitted to wordpress.org and after I saw how many people downloaded it I realized it could potentionally be something useful for a few people. I decided to add more features and out of curiosity I threw it up on code canyon just to see what would happen.

Making this post on hacker news was also for curiosity's sake. I've never released anything and was curious what the hacker news reaction would be. So far, zero people have bought my plugin but I've had a lot more encouragement and well wishes than I imagined I would get. In my opinion, the encouragement and support is worth a lot more than making a small amount of money :)
Because they're not profitable and not making millions.

1) 19 reviews in the App Store.
2) It's free

Money doesn't grow on trees unfortunately.
I'd really like to know where the data from Brazil comes from, specifically Florianopolis, SC. The first thing I did when I updated to iOS 6 was testing the maps app. The building I live is at least 5 years old, but the map shows it under construction
Romanization of Chinese words gives a range of different results, doesn't it? To really disambiguate, we'd need to write 圍棋.

Good point about the searches.
I doubt it -- the range of NFC seems to be very bad. Unless the malware can turn up the gain, you have to hold the phones back-to-back within about a centimeter of each other.
You are correct about recommending the Galaxy Nexus over any Android phone at the moment. The specs might not be as high as the SGIII but its still the only stock device on the market. I recently, had a friend ask me which non iPhone smartphone to buy on Verizon. I recommend the Nexus, he bought the Droid 4. He returned it in three days. I had an HTC Incredible running cyanogenmod that was a decent experience. I am really looking forward to a new Nexus device.
Adverts.

Spatial adverts are a big thing now, with a big future. I would speculate that beyond the cost of licensing the maps or the contractual stuff is that Apple did not want to deliver to Google more advertisers that would further entrench Google Maps as the dominant player.

Apple need to be able to build their own POI database and knowledge of where all advertiser businesses are in order to get that revenue long-term.

Thus, Apple need control of the maps to control the method that advertisers get onto the map.

I think it's just strategic rather than contractual or short-term financial.
I am looking forward to the results! I have made a complete client-side AJAX powered movie website. It's home page DOM (latest movie trailers) is filled by firing an AJAX call to a movie API. Google never indexes that page, and I have tried 'fetch as Google bot' which only fetches HTML/JS code. I am thinking to have a server-side dirty escaped-fragment URLs for just indexing purposes. The site http://instamovi.com
Tech Conferences Done Right
The Samwer brothers definitely deserve respect in a world where execution is paramount. Often, they execute more efficiently than the companies they copy.

If anyone says it's easy to just copy a company, they've never built a company before. There are so many intricacies that go into building a company and culture the right way. When you look at a company, you're only seeing the tip of the iceberg. You can copy the part that you see, but without everything under it, you won't succeed.

One thing I would have loved for Rich to speak about a bit more is their treatment of the founders and employees of Rocket companies. I've spoken to employees before who shared stories of very harsh work environments and high turnover rates. Founders get very little equity. Employees get none.

From a business perspective, obviously they're doing something right and if people find enough value in being a part of these companies to put up with the downsides, that's their decision.

Still would love to see a deeper look into the negatives.
Difference is, it generally says, "Beta" right on the tin.
APWG Web Vulnerabilities: attackers confidently exploit legitimate websites
iPhone 4S with iOS 5 > iPhone 5 with iOS 6

Nice work Apple - that's going to save me a few hundred dollars!
I couldn't care less about what Apple was thinking before they released this. What matters is that they pushed out a living, breathing UX fuck-up of an application to millions of people that depended on it to get around.
Companies Trade In Hunch-Based Hiring for Computer Modeling
Apologies, I wasn't trying to represent what I said as fact hence the word "seems". However, I do feel that this has been a very lacklustre update from Apple...

I think it would have been worthwhile to keep the contract with Google (even if it's expensive) while investing in making a better Apple Maps app.
Uhh...Apple has plenty of customers in metro areas like the Bay Area or New York, Tokyo, etc. that rely heavily on public transit (I'm one of them). There are plenty of reasons to hate on Apple but stupid populist rage is not one of them.
The problem is I would have to wait a long time until Picasso comes to my country. Thanks to the Samwer brothers there is already a local painter, who provides similar services.
Now someone needs to create an app that detects this attack, prevents it and hits the attacker back using the same technique.
A good point for sure.

I think his reasoning is that, if all the options are going to be beta-level products, he might as well use Android. I think Apple has always implicitly presented a deal where they tightly control their phone, but the experience is excellent. You don't care who makes the maps app because it "just works." If that's changing, users might be happier in an ecosystem where choice is more pervasive.
Ask HN:  As a graduating senior, how did you get into startups?
Graduating Computer Engineering + CS with honors at a top 15 engineering school in the US here. Unfortunately, my town is dead and I have no interest in staying here. I have professional experience with Python (Sqlalchemy and django mostly), Java, Titanium Mobile, and a few other technologies. Class and hobby experience with C++ and embedded C.

After a few internships with IBM / a local startup, I think a startup-to-small-sized company is the right fit for me. I want a team that works hard and cares about what they do with as little bureaucracy as possible. I know I'm not ready to lead a huge team from a dev perspective, but can get there and I definitely have the people skills already. Despite whatever technical skills I may have, I think my business sense would probably trump it in the long term, and I know I can talk to customers / investors.

As someone not living in SV/Boston/NYC and still in school, can you recommend any places to look / figuring out interview planning? Right now my plan is to get in touch with companies that interest me and try to set up a week or so of in-person meetings/interviews assuming I can coordinate the timing/compensation. Beyond that, email communication is my only other plan. On a related note, would it be bad to suggest that the company brings me on under a provisional (6 months to a 1 year) basis before evaluating me for full time?

I've had no trouble in the past going to my school's career fair and talking to recruiters to generate leads, but this hunt is a little different.

I'm not looking for advice that necessarily applies to my specific case; I'd appreciate any advice/stories of how you transitioned from senior year to a startup. Please don't mistake my startup enthusiasm for naive "I want to be a startup hustler!" stuff. (private messages are welcome too, of course :-) )
> what makes a good microphone

That depends a lot on what kind of film you're making, but there are two that are particularly useful for documentaries: lapel mics and directional shotgun mics. Lapel mics give you better sound quality, but shotguns are good for impromptu situations where you don't have time to wire your subject.

Wireless is good for the obvious reasons. Wired mics are really good only for sit-down interviews unless you can also put a recorder on your subject (which is possible -- iPod nanos make dandy audio recorders). Don't worry too much about quality if all you're recording is people talking. I'd avoid mics that are selling for $1.99 on eBay, but you can find excellent lapel mics for low 10s of dollars. (Shotguns cost more.)

Yes, you can just plug a mic into the jack on your laptop. You'll even get decent quality. But 1) your laptop is probably much bigger and more power hungry than a dedicated recorder and 2) it probably only has one mic jack and you'll almost certainly want at least two no matter what you're doing.

If you're using an audio recorder that's separate from your camera, don't forget to put an audio marker on each clip so you can synchronize the sound later in post. You don't need a slate. You can just clap your hands (make sure you're in front of the camera and in range of all the mics). It looks goofy, but it works.
See: Clement Valla, Postcards from Google Earth, http://clementvalla.com/category/work/postcards/
Good job! It's nice to see new things posted, and also refreshing to see the encouragement and constructive criticism that you've been receiving so far.

You built something useful, and presented it well. Thank you for sharing it with us!
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10965 indicates that it's the Ivy Bridge skus, so I think your 2010 Air is ok. Caveat emptor: I do NOT own a 2010 MacBook Air.
Paris Hilton Announces Guys Who Use Grindr Are "Disgusting"
I was first put off by the talk of what “we” do, and “our” successes, which is the usually way of talking from someone who wants to make big pronouncements but doesn't know enough to say anything. Then was put off by the shiny chain of platitudes he offers in exchange for control over the education of “our” children ( “...following orders, obeying protocol...”; thats what they're “training” them to do? That's the problem in schools? Has he been in a public school lately?). And the solution to the failure of American students to meet undemanding standards on basic literacy is to drop testing altogether?

“Entrepreneurship! That's the answer! I'm so excited about it that I can't be wrong!”

Then again, perhaps the article is more subtle than that. Perhaps it's an attempt to demonstrate how far our standards have fallen by showing what pap some people will accept as proposals for school reform.
Hey, Josh (MinoMonsters CEO) here. Whilst I can't talk on the terms of this financing, we actually raised this round prior to our more successful launch. The money's now being used to accelerate our growth.
Peter Sunde is too busy running his donation payment company that charges double the transaction rate of any of his competitors.
> There's little status to be gotten from tinkering on "someone else's" repo.

Agreed. Additionally, even if you are a collaborator on someone else's repo it doesn't show on your profile, which greatly under-represents a user's activity on Github.
Please don't even ask about IQ in this context. We have NO IDEA about people's IQ scores here, other than the vague idea that the HN average is higher than the general population average. National-level data on average IQ are of very poor quality,

http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wicherts2010.pdf

and reliance on the purported datasets on that issue is a reliable sign of poor thinking about what IQ means.
I'm guessing the only short term solution (if Google doesn't release an app) will be jailbreaking the phone and replacing Apple Maps with the old iOS 5 Google Maps app. Someone will probably come up with a way to do that soon.
Weren't they going to use user locations in their traffic update service?
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You're right - but what happens when you have something interesting that the community might like - but there's no one to online to vote it up so that everyone see it!
It wasn't until about 3 years ago that Google Maps became the polished app that it is now, ie: vector maps, 3d building maps, tilting, etc. (Google has been in the map business for 10 years now?) Apple has a lot of catching up to do but it's very good at trudging ahead regardless of customers complaints until the product is completely polished and competitive.
How do you make a living wage (let alone SF rent) by working on Mechanical Turk?
Love it ++
1) We have 9,516 Ratings in the US, 19 for a small bug fix we submitted yesterday. (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minomonsters/id477750637?mt=8)

2) We're a free-to-play iOS game, our revenue is through in-app purchases.
And you came to this conclusion based on one bad app? Quite the leap it seems.

This isn't about "one bad app," it's about a core smartphone app that everybody uses. That's why so many people are complaining and the story is kicking off all over the place.
Yeah. Maps is one of the most important smartphone apps. They might have just handed the market to Droid.
See my post above. In many ways, I regret buying an iphone4. My wife's experience with nexus s has been much more hassle free than mine.
There are definitely things I prefer on iPhone. One case in point is that although I often see crashes on apps, they just shut down quietly and I restart. Android let's my wife know that an app has crashed.
I also upgraded my wife's phone to android 4.1. It took 5-10 mins total. I'm dreading my IOS6 update which I am estimating will take me 8h (inc. reinstall of my purchases via cydia - which I am forced to do if I want the functionality that I WANT vs what apple lets me have).
Design, Data, and Engineering Companies
I think there is a danger in Computer Science departments trying to become more theory oriented in order to survive. If applications are moving to their own departments in Business and Bioinformatics, CS may decide to become more theoretical. If this happens, though, growth in terms of research money will become even harder to find.
And I thought I had it bad with Bing Maps on WP7. Well, goes to show that lower-bounds exist to be breached.
> No one knows what really happened for Apple to make this change.

I find it very unlikely this move was prompted by Google. Honestly, it looks positively amateurish the way the change was implemented by Apple.

I will admit it will drive my next phone purchase: Maps are my #2 usage after mail, I very much depend on it to get around.
http://www.google.com/earth/explore/products/
There's a big difference between your examples and copying a company down to the pixel level. Come on, copying literally every pixel. As a designer and entrepreneur, I strongly feel there is something wrong with that. It is purely theft.
So when will job interviews stop asking about red-black trees?
Your comment is relative and adds very little to the discussion here.
You answered your own question by using the words "impulse buy" and "minor distraction".

Impulse buys, almost by definition, can always be deterred by minor distractions. Cost, and other seemingly important factors don't really matter.

The apple store exists in part because people make large purchases on a whim, same for car dealerships, etc.