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Well you didn't get the point of his argument at all. The point really isn't against 'Pursuit of happiness'. It really is a very general term. And let me tell you criminals are pursuing their happiness too.

The point is photo sharing, status sharing, killing pigs with birds turned out to be made such a valuable thing that people felt it worth investing billions into it. That's fair too, because you are diverting investments towards where the demand is. But the core of the problem was that the 'actual innovations' got the short end of the stick.

When I look at Elon Musk, I see a person with a mission. As much as it may sound unpractical at times, the person worked on things that have solved genuine problems. Problems like making payments online easy, building electric cars, building cheap vehicles for luggage delivery into space. When I see Bill Gates, I see somebody who radically changed the desktop industry. Who is now investing time and energy fighting diseases, hunger an poverty around the world. All these great men, built business that genuinely changed things around us. Though I use Facebook, I feel no such respect for Zuckerberg. I am jealous of his money. But if I have to be that rich someday, I want to be doing work for a better cause.

I understand that games and stuff like that have their own value. But when they are glorified so much to make genuine work utter useless, unrewarding activity. Things begin to look bad.
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I've been trying to examine the suitability of Go as a language for creating video games in, which is extremely difficult to search for, for exactly that reason.

If anyone on HN who is familiar with Go has any thoughts on that, I would love to hear them.
This doesn't show the ineffectiveness of surveys but rather the effectiveness of surveys as a brainwashing tool.
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The only problem with any maps app written by Google is it cannot be the default. Friend texts you an address? It will always open in Apple Maps.
The article ends on a strange note, essentially a guy complaining that his Google SEO doesn't carry over to the new Apple app?
@jjm both Brightbox and AWS have to give notice before increasing prices. Again, I maintain the hourly on-demand price is a fair comparison
That's why I got Apple. But getting siloed apps wasn't part of my game plan so I might switch back for my next machine. Especially if I can get a laptop to work after a mere hours of fiddling rather than days :)
And a word of warning, at least for those outside the US, you are probably still better using cyclestreets.net than googles cycle directions, They sent me down a dual carriageway last weekend (and generally got every part of a 50 miles journey wrong)
>>If a lot of people can make money from social networking then that is definitionally a good thing

A lot of people make money selling drugs too.

Demand, doesn't automatically make the item in demand good.
And what happens if you try to make a loop? Do you think it sensible that the universe provide you with the ability to make causal loops and then somehow forbids you from actually making them, even though once you've been given the ability, they are very easy to generate?

Additionally, if the universe is going to keep stepping in your way of what it has given you the ability to do, there's no reason for it to forbid you from making causal loops. All it has to do is forbid you from generating a paradox via such a loop.

I.e., you can have a self-consistent universe that has unlimited FTL and unlimited time travel as long as everyone plays nice. In fact, you can have unlimited time travel even is everybody is trying to kill their grandfather. They just won't ever succeed.

Never did I assert anywhere in this entire thread that a universe where causality is violated--or even one with closed causal loops--is impossible. They do have serious issues, however. And for anyone to propose FTL travel as a serious possibility and then ignore the causality issues as non-serious, either indicates some amount of either ignorance, disingenuousness, or rationalization.

If, on the other hand, a proponent of FTL travel plainly states that they have no problem with a universe that always steps in somehow and prevents you from succeeding in killing your own grandfather, then at least they've made their position clear, and everyone can make up their own mind as to whether that's a likely way for the universe to be.
I upgraded and I agree that overall it's worse.

However, Apple are also using some OpenStreetMaps data. Forget Google Maps. Let's petition Apple to spend some of their billions on contributing data back to the OpenStreetMaps project.
I'm not sure if that's the case. Pixar's campus is another example of a large, low building and it's central atrium is specifically designed to encourage random encounters among employees.
I think filmmaking and other pursuits like music will continue to bring great authors without any community funding. Every great artist just got started with limited means and their work shows for itself. A good artist doesn't need a few thousand dollars to get started, they just get started, and that initial work is either good enough for the artist to move forward or it isn't. Peter Jackson started his first film in his backyard with his friends on the weekend, and through sheer persistence just kept going with it long enough, and with interesting enough ultra-low budget footage that he got a grant to finish it, based on the quality of his work. Every other successful artist I know just had the hustle built in: the act of producing. You can't pay people to find out if they are going to make great work. It's there or it's not.
I think the devil is in the details here. Yes, all of these things could slide into micromanagement if the intent and execution of them are not done properly. I've had experiences with managers who want to meet every week for a one-on-one, regardless of whether it's needed or not and it had to be endured for the full duration. It was miserable. On the other hand, having a bi-monthly meeting where I know that I have my manager's undivided attention to ask questions or air grievances is great. Not to mention, on the other side of the ball, it's a great time to be able to gauge the stress level of the employee and ensure that they are happy with where they're at.

As for the educating the manager part, I understand where you're coming from. You shouldn't have to sit down and teach your manager what the MVC pattern is, or how it's implemented in the language your company is using. You want to bring Grails into an organization that's never seen it before? Okay, I can understand explaining the technology to those folks above you, giving them the pros and cons of working with it and letting them make a decision on whether it's the right fit for the organization.
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Did it happen? What does it mean? Our history is far more embarrassing/surprising/extraordinary than we like to admit. Which may be why we like to speak so much of science and so little of history. But history holds its own. Often it's not the happening of an event in history that we have difficulty with, but its meaning. Consider the historical accounts of Christ ("the King"). He happened, in history. We read the letters written by those who persecuted him, believed him, walked with him, saw him do the things he did, those who loved him and those who hated him. Did it happen? To the historian, of course. But to the common man, what does it mean? And there we grind to a halt... mistaking naturalism for science, unfamiliar with the nature of historical evidence, textual criticism, the death of form criticism, practicing historical revisionism, historical denial, conflating possibility with frequentism etc. But did it happen? If it happened, what does it mean?
What color scheme do you have in your terminal?

And I think people are looking for a way to use arrow keys or the like to look around, not just a list. :)
The (annoying, but working) workaround is the following:

I imported my Vagrant-managed Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS VM into a trial copy of Parallels Desktop 8. I then logged into the VM manually using the Parallels VM window using the default Vagrant user / password (vagrant/vagrant) and changed the password for my custom Vagrantfile dev login. Then in Parallels I switched the networking on the VM to Bridge Mode (so I can access it via IP address on my local network).

Remarkably everything in the VM worked and I'm back to coding. Would like to see a quick fix for VirtualBox so I can get back to my Vagrant awesomeness.
Lisp implementations have had excellent GCs that are broadly better than the JVM for years.
It's a one-dot-oh release. So that is the level of expectation that I am giving it.
These "sciences" are limited because they don't follow the scientific method. In the scientific method, only conclusions are accepted if they can be reproduced infinitely. The lines get blurred often because experiments cannot be conducted indefinitely. The media (or organizations) tend to skew the retest of experiments for their own agendas.

Hence why, for example, Economics is also not a science.
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Im not really sure whats going on here. Github without a doubt is great, however, I'm not really sure how people like these changes. The UI and general flow is going from a concise, fairly simple site (design-wise) to a bloated feeling over-designed (useless icons, far to much white space, and removal of info) website.

This is concerning because its a sign of to much focus, going from x1 amount of resources to x10 means you risk over-developing what was great. You have too much time, to many resources, so you over develop things when they truly don't need any changes (at the time). The only saving grace here is they could be in the middle of a shift to a much larger vision, so these changes all seem poor until it all comes together in the following months. I have to ask though, why the shotgun approach to the updates then, they should take their time, once a week would be enough change for me, allow me to actually feel out the changes before adding more. =/
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They essentially issued a "no comment" recently but wishy washily commited to supporting multiple operating systems.

I'd imagine they're hedging their bets. Working on an iOS version while improving the web app version because you never know what will happen in Apple's App review process.
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It's been deployed globally on tens of millions of devices removing the existing solution.

That's the level of expectation that I'm giving it.
Google is surely working on a native iOS maps app, but (when) will Apple approve it?
> They want large teams of mediocre programmers to produce code that is very supportable.

Ken Thompson is known for many things. Catering to "mediocre programmers" is not one of them.
Looking at the pricing reminds me of how expensive cloud computing is if you keep them all running 24/7..

The small one would cost:
server: £0.025 * 24 * 30 = 18.00
ip: £0.0035 * 24 * 30 = 2.52
20 GB /m out: £0.12 * 20 = 2.4
5 GB /m in : £0.08 * 05 = 0.4

= £23.32

Is this estimate correct? For this price you can get four and a half virtual 1-core servers, with 4 ip's, 4 TB of outgoing data and unlimited incoming data.

Of course, cloud computing has additional features, so I'm not saying it's never worth it. But it seems like a bad deal for most uses.

Am I missing something? or is this just the price you have to pay for the cloud "extras" ?
"Hey Joe, thanks for that article you submitted this morning. Listen, it's a bit too technical, could you add something, you know, more emotional?"
I recently had an immediate need to use Fusion in a Vagrant-style environment, so I hacked 'Tenderloin' together from an old version of Vagrant: https://github.com/lstoll/tenderloin . It can work with Vagrant boxes, and handles the base functionality I needed.

Now that VirtualBox no longer works on my machine, turns out this this was a pretty lucky move. If you're in the same boat as me, it might be worth giving a go.
I am / We are considering using Go, but I'm a bit reticent about its maturity compared to Erlang, which is a very, very solid system. The 32 garbage collection issue is a big question. Arm support is another. Also, all the extras Erlang gives you in terms of writing robust systems look pretty attractive.

That said, I'm about 99% that Erlang will always remain a niche player, along the lines of Smalltalk and Lisp, whereas Go has a shot at 'the big time'. That's something to keep in mind in terms of hiring people and getting other people up to speed on the language. Go is something that other people will look at and 'get' a bit quicker than Erlang.

BTW, interesting article on Go concurrency vs Erlang concurrency: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1768317
Could we also get an option to just look at all of the themes on one page? I know it is a lot of images... maybe split it into batches of 10-20?
Fair or not, it's a first release that's directly replacing a much more mature and complete product. Is it really unreasonable to expect a comparable feature set? Downgrading the iOS Maps application like this is a remarkably un-consumer friendly thing for Apple to do.
People keep comparing EC2 and other hosting providers in terms of performance and pricing. However, the biggest value in my mind is related to the agility it provides (you can basically model and control your infrastructure through a programming API) and the whole ecosystem around it (CloudFront, Route53, Beanstalk, S3). Some vendors, including Brightbox, have some of that functionality but it is a very small fraction of what is possible with AWS
A 'gallery' would be much more useful, showing the same screenshot(s) in multiple themes, rather than having to look at each one individually.
Good.

Now you have evidence of criminal intent. Someone took something through false manipulation of a system, then attempted to set a price to give you your own things back.

And they chose a price that's well into the serious range for just about every country (in the United States that's felony grand larceny.)
the web version (google map in mobile safari), is far less useful compared to native app.
Those people are wrong. Malloc and crt0 aren't VM's.
No joke, I would switch to Android in a hear beat if they don't. I am 100% reliant on my map app and therefore am willing to pay for anything with the best experience.
The social sciences are to business as the hard sciences are to engineering. The theories of persuasion that came out of communications and social psychology departments revolutionized marketing. The Likert scale was developed by a psychologist, and is one of the foundations of all surveys.

Much of what we think about "big data" and applied statistics were pioneered in Sociology departments.

Anthropolology informed how businesses do intercultural communication. I know a professor who did a side project for a multinational about connotations based on color and imagery in their products and how a particular culture would relate.

And I know for a fact that the CIA hires out of regional studies departments. So yes, the government is paying people trained in the social sciences a lot of money to figure out what will "happen next" in the Middle East..
I am not sure what you find unappealing about those websites, but I find Go’s website very easy to navigate and for browsing the standard library. When looking for software to depend on, I think I prefer a visual design that does not attempt to be in any way “mysterious,” but rather simple and predictable.
> However, I wasn’t convinced I would lose any significant weight by fasting only two days per week, so I’ve planned to follow a more strict diet of intermittent fasting for at least one month.

You risk putting your body in "starvation mode" - your body will suddenly start grabbing as much energy from any food you do give it as it can. Thus, weight loss will not be sustained.

In general "diets" are harmful and don't help with long term weight management.

A new regime of healthy eating combined with exercise (10 minutes of raised heart rate per day; preferably several sessions of 30 minutes raised heart rate per week) will be better and more sustainable.
Ok? That doesn't mean iOS6 "broke" anything. It does it different now. Using "break" is the wrong word.
This is why crowd sourcing alone might be a solution in AV industry to quickly push patches.
I think that's relevant though. Essentially the article states that for end users of the mapping application it's a poorer experience and step back. Secondly, business users who have come to rely upon iPhone customers to find them via search are also upset by the changes. Of course, the first group is clearly an Apple customer and therefore Apple should be concerned. It's less clear that the second group is an Apple customer so it falls more into the "People talking negatively about our brand" problem area.
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It should be given the same level of expectation as the thing it replaced. If Apple had run this maps app as an optional beta program, and not replaced the google maps app, things would have been a whole lot better. Then they could've waited for iOS 7 to make it default, just like they did with the messages beta for OS X.
Agree. I don't actually consider it a fail. I generally treat forays like this as exploratory research, and like many other situations, you have to pay for information.

6 invitations != 6 conversions, but yes, I'd agree that 25/conversion would be pretty reasonable. I haven't done recent metrics on what my customer LTV is, but its at least in the ballpark of 25.

I entirely agree that this needs some split testing -- I didn't explore the reddit advertising tools enough to see if there's an easy way to split test, but it didn't jump out at me.
Something like 60% of Iranians are under 30. This is Iran's way of limiting any easy communication and organization amongst a younger generation seeking change.
Poor old Tom Tom is completely on the back foot and trying to distance itself as far as it can without throwing a super major partner under the bus.
I get why you'd want to check for weak or common passwords, but why not just require passwords to contain numbers/special characters? It may be a pain in the butt, but it takes users' lack of care for security out of the equation.
1. Even if they roll it out to all their login pages fresh computers are still a problem (it is addressed in the article), but the current state of affairs is that "users can't tell the difference between a hacked site and a legitimate site". When this system fails it is just as bad as the current system, when it is setup it is significantly safer.

> You can never remove the customization.
2. Google can just announce they are moving away from the customized login page on their login page. The customized login page is trusted so the new information is trusted.

The customization can be framed as an extra security measure that power users who want to protect themselves from phishing attacks can setup on their home computer. Similar to the way google rolled out two-factor authentication.

>They'd rather have you authenticate to your browser or via a device anyways, long term.

Long term this is right login screens will move off of the browser, but security must be concerned about the now. Note that phishing still presents a risk on mobile device login screens. As long as your security depends on something you know, phishing attacks will be relevant, and client-side identification of trust will still be relevant.
You are asserting your opinions as facts, without giving reasoning.

- "it has nowhere near the expressive power of those languages"

- "this is LESS powerful than any OO dynamic language"

- "there are quite a few use cases where there is no answer"(a link to a 100-post thread is not good enough)

- "Scala can do the same thing (and more elegantly)"

- "large teams of mediocre programmers"
Thanks. I wasn't aware of this.

I generally just look at changes in my google analytics numbers rather than absolute values to see if I'm doing better or worse.

Admittedly not the most sophisticated GA approach.
Also this quote explains the design of Go (even thou he said it in the context of Plan9/Inferno)[1]

"Thompson. The aggressive use of a small number of abstractions is, I think, the direct result of a very small number of people who interact closely during the implementation. It's not a committee where everyone is trying to introduce their favorite thing. Essentially, if you have a technical argument or question, you have to sway two or three other people who are very savvy. They know what is going on, and you can't put anything over on them."

Rob Pike says the same thing. "All three of us need to be convinced for a feature to make it into the language"

[1] http://genius.cat-v.org/ken-thompson/interviews/unix-and-bey...
>Users also reported missing local places, such as schools, or strange locations. Another screenshot showed a furniture museum that was apparently located in a river.

From a twitter account called @fake_iOS6maps ? Seriously, BBC?
I believe they are just using (old) OpenStreetMap tiles on their iPhoto application.

Edit - in some places, it appear that they are, actually using OSM data - in Islamabad, for example. Possibly, therefore, in places where there is no TomTom data
> You have so called "social sciences", but they are pretty much useless otherwise there would be someone paying them a lots of money to figure out what will happen next for example in the Middle East.

It doesn't follow from "nobody pays social scientists" that "social science is useless", if it were true there could be many reasons why nobody paid for research in the social sciences.

But in fact someone is paying them a lot of money for them to figure out what will happen next for example in the middle east, e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Social_Policy_and...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Political_and_economic...

> Sciences are very limited once you get a human being with free will into the equation. And then you multiple that by culture than by genes then by experiences and then by 6 billion.

Free will, if it exists, isn't the problem that the scientific method has when dealing with people. Any system as complex as a person has too many variables to be able to control in an experiment.
If I understand your point correctly, you're asking how critical it is to always give different/random salts to each password?

Even if you know that hash('password', 'salt1') hashes to a a user's hash, you'd need to recompute hash('password', 'salt2') to check if it's the hash for someone else. It slows them down by increasing the amount of work. If they had the same salt it would be the same hash for multiple users.
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Yeah, but they sell like crazy: http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Sports-Outdoors-Exercise-...
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Same here. Used iPhone since the day it was released. But I can't survive without a functional map, buying an Nexus One tonight. Good Bye iPhone :(
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Try installing a native OpenStreetMap app - there's plenty to choose from: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IOS
Dell has done this before and the service went away. I have zero confidence that won't happen again. Sorry Dell.
I love the design and the icons, but I'm not confident I'd want to spend $7 on something I could probably whip up in a few minutes in HTML + CSS.

I can see this being useful to a lot of non-tech-savvy bloggers, though. Good luck.