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It's just Apple's turn. It has been said many times, "It's an early version of an application Company X copied from another company. I'm sure Company X will improve it to a workable but inferior product in future versions."

The first debacle with their Maps app (not crediting OpenStreetMap.org) gave me the feeling that Apple doesn't really have experience with software and data at the scale upon which they are currently operating. Sometimes it looks as if they are using too many interns to write important code.

What is a concern is that there seems to be no grasp of the difference in responsibility a developer must recognize between GarageBand and a mapping application. Sure it is irritating if one's remix of Call me Maybe doesn't come out quite the intended way. But an appendicitis sufferer may die if they wind up five miles from the hospital.
Growl 2.0 now available with support for OS X Notification Center
Techstars founder David Cohen is coming to see French startups
I'd forgotten that, strange that Google has mentioned anything either.
> Without dynamic linking it cannot replace C/C++ for
> lots of the intended use cases.

What use case requires dynamic linking?
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Yeah if you could get the supported browsers for IE back to IE7, I could see that improving the usefulness of your plugin.
Around me (SE Michigan) it's a huge improvement over both the old Maps app and any of the turn-by-turn iOS alternatives I've tried. Using Siri and saying "directions to..." any local business I can think of brings up turn-by-turn directions in a snap, and it looks great. Smooth animations, great fit and finish on the UI. I suspect that their European maps are of lower quality and/or the writer cherry-picked some entertaining but not terribly representative examples.
Agreed, I would pay for priority queue in a heartbeat!
The good (brilliant) thing about Play for Java, was that it wasn't inline with the Java philosophy.

So, Revel not being in line with the Go philosophy could also be a great thing.
Apple's Maps have been good for me so far in the north east United States. I greatly prefer the UI of Apple's Maps to Navigation on Android which is way too cluttered IMO. I find it easier to get things done with Apple Maps especially with the way turn-by-turn is integrated with the pop-over notifications and lock-screen integration.
Remember about.me? These guys basically copied flavors.me.

It's a really, really easy personal website CMS with support for all conceivable web services. With a huge focus on design. It allows everyone and their dog to set up a website - with flavors.me hosting it - and it's really hard to make an ugly webpage.

Companies, brands, celebrities, et a. can also use it to great effect.

Here are some example websites: http://flavors.me/community.

Someone compared it to FriendFeed, which I guess is fair, but I'd consider it more of a homepage than a social feed. It's a good way to find out where that person hangs out online - or to use as a portfolio/CV.
Is The iPad Mini An Elaborate Chinese Hoax?
>iPhone 5 is more likely to be blessed by Jobs than not. I am not sure how long Apple product pipeline is, but I seriously doubt they had iPhone 4S ready for production, but not iPhone 5 in the advanced design stage.

Yes and no. Jobs may have signed on to the idea of replacing the maps with an in-house solution, but the implementation wouldn't have been finished until shortly before launch. And when it turned out to be as bad as it seems to be then he might very reasonably have reverted to the previous maps app for at least this version of iOS (if not scrapping the idea entirely).
There is definitely less information visible on the Dashboard page than before. The idea of collapsing similar items together would actually add some value, instead of just adding more whitespace and changing the icons.

> People don't like change.

Never say never, Less is more, blah blah blah.
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HHGTTG was my first thought, too. But there are two whales (and no petunias).

Did anyone else see the raptor in the grass?
is this particularly bad in the uk? there's now a guardian article too - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/20/apple-maps-...
I'd probably keep an eye out for changes to the Crunchbase profile: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/flavors-me.
I thought iOS maps was based on OSM (+ other datasets when OSM had a bad quality), similar to mapquest.
Still, even as a Gooner, to not be able to find Old Trafford with a search for Manchester United Football Club is beyond fail. It's the most popular ground and most successful club in the country.
[Feature Request] Display absolute time along with the relative time
Can we get the absolute time an article was submitted instead of relative time?

I keep HN (Both the new and the top headlines page) open in tabs in my browser. When I return to the tabs after a while, all stories are 5, 7, 8, 10 minutes old but from when?

Can the absolute time a post was submitted be displayed as well so that we do not lose track of where we were in the list?

Thanks
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These slides don't really give very much without the accompanying talk, or at least some notes to go along with them.
You are assuming that pen drives are still in use on their isolated networks. It matters such as these, it is very possible that the pen drive tactic works once, before measures are taken to prevent it again.
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Don't know what country you're in, but cycling down a dual carriageway is not particulary uncommon where I live.
Thanks for the Cloud9 reference. I've wondered about such product for a while.
Publishers Agree to E-Book Price Deal in Europe
Hmmm...I live in Florida so our outside glare is pretty bad. I have a one year old MacBook Pro and have never had a problem (even outside in the shade in the summertime).

I'm sure there are very good Windows laptops. As the previous poster wrote, if you do your research, you can find one. I don't want to do research.* I want to walk into a store and say "I'll take that one," and have it work.

* Useful, accurate online information on laptop battery life and other performance statistics is pretty much nonexistent. The only trustworthy information source is to ask strangers "How do you like your laptop?"
pgbench will only stress your disks if the test database is too large to fit entirely in memory (controlled by the scaling factor option).

bonnie++ results would also be interesting.
I second that. I'd love to hear more about your progress in selling the plugin. Congrats on launching.
The tall-narrow screen is just a case of classic Apple orthodoxy.

There is nothing in the dimensions of the iPhone 5 that make it inherently a better viewing experience over a wider configuration.
If Apple had convinced itself to be less parsimonious and obtained larger (width wise) screens at better margins I'm sure they would have made that one of their USPs. Instead they cheap-ed out on the acreage.

That screen is dumb and in a sea of larger and similarly fabulous screens (including the upcoming Nokia Lumia 920
which incidentally has some stellar mapping alongside other great features) it just doesn't cut it.

Tim Cook and his core team seem to be a bunch of frugal zealots. He bungled the layoffs at the Apple stores too.
Upon a backlash he had to hire some of them back. This launch is probably the first one where nearly every detail leaked well ahead of time.
The screen, the connector, the no-NFC, the LTE and several other parts.
It certainly is all down-hill from here. There is no longer that halo around the Apple experience.
Unless of course people want to accessorize their attire with glass-slab jewelry which the iPhone 5 has been likened to. The first-on-iPhone apps are the only draw.
How Toggl has gotten to 20.000 paid users, and counting
1) Go to maps.google.com in Safari on your iPhone or iPad

2) Hit Yes when it wants to know your location

3) Hit Yes when it pesters you to add it as an icon (for once, it's not bothering me). The icon is snazzy.

4) Enjoy your almost-as-good-as-the-app-was mobile Google Maps experience. Complete with transit directions.
One Google query = one Apollo moon program's worth of computing
>No, that is the normal way I do it in Erlang

It is also the normal way you do it in go. Read the examples, that's exactly why go has multiple return values.
1) Go to maps.google.com in Safari on your iPhone or iPad

2) Hit Yes when it wants to know your location

3) Hit Yes when it pesters you to add it as an icon (for once, it's not bothering me). The icon is snazzy.

4) Enjoy your almost-as-good-as-the-app-was mobile Google Maps experience. Complete with transit directions. But, alas, no Street View.
We ARE working on the payment module right now to give paying customers priority. For now, we just try keep our servers up to handle the load :)

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Sorry - I just answered the "Why do you use it in a VM" bit, and ignoring the "why a Mac" bit :-)

The "Why a Mac" bit is because I find I'm more productive on a Mac - and I like them.

(By "more productive" I mean I've actually tracked and measured the stuff I get through each day during several months of using both platforms - ubuntu on the Linux side - and found I come out ahead on the Mac. I didn't try this with Windows coz, until Windows 8, I actively disliked the OS and didn't feel I needed to use something I didn't like even if I did turn out to be more productive :-)

I am very happy with Linux. All our boxes that aren't Mac's are Ubuntu - including some folks personal machines. My personal view towards hardware is you get whatever you feel most productive on. I've been using Unix-ish platforms for large chunks of my working day since 1988. For more than five years I used nothing but Unix-ish boxes (SunOs then Solaris then Linux). I spend large chunks of my day dealing with unix via various terminal windows. I don't find Linux scary or confusing. I just happen to like Macs, and some of the work that I do is easier to do on Macs.

"In other words, putting your environments on a Linux box doesn't remove the ability to have copies of the deployment environment or building, deploying or testing automatically - it adds a massive number of additional options for how to do it. In particular, it lets you do it in ways that translates directly to private or public Linux based cloud solutions."

I never meant to imply in any way that putting things on a Linux box removed the ability to have copies of the deployment environment or building, deploying or testing automatically. My apologies if I was not clear about that.

I know how lxc-create et al work. If the number of virtualisation options were the main factor I had in picking the OS of the machine my keyboard is attached to I'd be using a Linux based laptop. For me, personally, it isn't. So I'm not. That is, of course, in no way saying that Linux laptops are bad (have 'em, use 'em, love 'em). Just that they're not the best fit for me and the work that I do (and I have graphs to prove it :-)
Naturalism and the scientific method are not at all the same thing. Which is why it would be right to say that the definition quoted is an example of "scientism", a pejorative term, and not science.

Science is just the study of the natural world as we observe it. Naturalism precludes anything beyond the natural world, but does so on the basis of speculation, for we have no tools of reason with which to make such an assertion.

The tools of science and philosophy cannot be used to reach beyond the natural world. They were never intended for it. They are not suited for it. By definition, science would not presume to be interested in it, and philosophy would fail to grasp it.

From our side, we can't rationally say that the supernatural exists, and we can't rationally say that it doesn't.

Hence Carl Sagan:

"An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence."

So we can be agnostics, but we can't be atheists, not rationally at least.

But while from our side, we can't reach out, that's not to say the supernatural, should it exist, can't reach out and reveal itself in a way that would make sense to us and give us a rational basis for belief, for instance if the supernatural were to collide with our natural world in an extraordinary event.

The tool to tackle this then would be history. As a Christian, I believe that the right place to start digging is the historical accounts of those who saw the life, death and resurrection of Christ, in history. Did it happen? What does it mean?
I recently stumbled with this : http://sajithdilshan.github.com/blog/blog/2012/08/07/transfo...

It should help. ;)
Yeah - that's fair comment, we don't have the same breadth of products as AWS for sure. I agree absolutely that agility is what it's all about though.
For one, when travelling, you can sometimes go for a while without having a chance to plug in and charge (due to not being on one place for long, bags being inaccessible, not having outlets on a long plane ride, etc).

But even when not travelling, I will sometimes forget to plug my phone in one night. It's really frustrating when it dies the next morning before I have a chance to recharge it again.
Whatever length of time it is Apple still did it in a fraction of the time Google has been working on its maps.

Also maybe I live in a weird place (Minneapolis) but I've been using the new maps since WWDC everyday and honestly have no complaints, the turn by turn is quite good as I just used it non stop in New Orleans.
The article identifies Dudley and Stratford-upon-avon as broken in Apple's app. Both Dudley and Stratford-upon-avon are identified fine in the TomTom (nee Tele Atlas) online route planner if you search by name [1]

If you compare the first example image from the article [2] with the TomTom data [3] you can see the minor roads are present in TomTom's data, present in Google's data, but absent in the screenshot of Apple's software.

This may well indicate a problem with Apple's software.

[1] http://routes.tomtom.com
[2] http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63010000/jpg/_63010615...
[3] http://routes.tomtom.com/map/Sunderland%2520Street%252C%2520...
> In contrast with Android where Google can remove most of the apps and majority of users stuck with 2.x versions won't even know.

This isn't the place for childish digs at competitors. Apple removed maps and replaced it with an inferior version for millions of their customers. As a result, the poor quality of these maps has made front page news.

Trying to invoke "Android isn't up to date" is childish and uninformed. Maps is distributed via the Play Store. You are wrong in every substantial respect.
I'd also recommend to base your decision on the overall service you get over the 1-2 years you'll own your phone. I've had an Android phone the past 2 years and am completely disillusioned with Android/Google/HTC. Everything is great for a few months, then issue after issue kept piling up.

For example, the first system update my phone had problems installing. It took two weeks of Googling and Verizon store visits to figure out that I had to do a factory reset for it to work. The second system update has been lingering on my phone for about 3 months. The install process simply never finishes, no matter what I do.

Second, apps simply stop working one by one. Flipboard doesn't manage to load images anymore. Wunderlist can't sync anymore. Installing Instagram breaks the built-in camera and gallery completely. Lots of random errors in other apps. The weather app stopped automatically refreshing. The alarm app doesn't go off anymore. Not to mention the application cache limitation to 150MB. So even though I have 500MB available storage, I can't install more apps, since they don't have room for temporary files. If that's full, apps simply stop working (only fix I found was a 1-hour phone-rooting process).

The touchscreen sometimes stops responding (off/on fixes that). Tapping a bookmark on my home screen loads the browser, but not the actual link. The phone randomly restarts at times. The unlock screen started misbehaving recently. And on and on.

In comparison, my 4 year old iPod Touch is more reliable and more fun to use than my 2-year old HTC. My 3.5 year old MacBook just upgraded to iOS6 and everything runs smooth as butter.

So my experience is that Android phones get worse over time, and Apple devices get better over time (or at least stay the same). Of course, your experience may differ, and maybe Android is more mature by now. But I'd highly recommend not to base a switch on a few features, but to take the overall service you will receive over two years into consideration.
Very good point. I am a big fan of what you are trying to do with Gondor.io.

Yes, bootstrapping freemium is hard. I would love to see discussions on how to do it right.

Don't get me wrong. I am revenue driven. I am not crazy about freemium. But I see way too many entrepreneurs not putting themselves into the mind of their target users.

I would trivial Gondor.io as a more specific Python oriented version of Heroku. The benefits are hopefully more obvious, and I would argue that freemium is not important for Gondor.io.

However, the problem I have had with micro-blogging platform is in the details, which often results in me not using it more than twice or thrice. I would easily pay $250/year if ThoughStreams worked for me, but I don't know that. Currently the site looks great and it makes me really want to try it, but I doubt that I will be able to make a decision in 30-days. I am willing to try though.

Best of luck!
Could have something to do with their competitors (like Minted) becoming more focused on the community aspect of online stationery.
The new maps is way off. I took 4 pictures last night while fishing. When I looked at the gps data of where I caught the fish one was on land and three others were 4 miles off as they had me on the other end of the lake I was fishing on. Apple really messed up with this change.
In 1991, the first time something I drew was fabricated (20 kips of prestressed double tee for a parking structure), I thought, "So that's what it really looks like."

I still have the same sensation today, when exposed to built work. The only difference is that I am aware of the gap between representation on paper and presence while I am designing.

The image is not the building. The rendering, like any drawing, is just a communication tool.
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'j' and 'k' is fine, and quickly added. It just breaks if your using vimium browser plugin. I know it's a small thing, but just wanted to say :)
The real dissonance is that this topic is very interesting but the presentation a bit dry. I don;t care about the (lack of) bell and whistles. Put the content in an interesting flow. That will get you the audience.
Loadable modules like the way Apache/nginx do, or Nagios or quite a few other basic infrastructure applications.

Another related issue (though not specifically dynamic linking) is with client libraries for server software. For example say you wrote something like Redis in Go. You write a Go client, then you want to start porting client libraries. You will be starting over from scratch because you can't expose your Go code through any kind of native interface. If you write client libraries in C it is pretty easy to create language bindings in all other popular languages. So if I wrote a server in Go that I wanted to distribute widely, I think I'd have to write the reference client in C.
If you think mapping and cartography are much easier, you've never given that a shot, it's a can of worms.
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I've been using the maps and find them MUCH improved in the car. I wish I could turn off the voice prompts, but it is very usable and has got me where I'm going reliably.
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None of those apps are competing with Apple on a level playing field, because all four of the Apple apps update in the background (via iCloud or special privileges) and third parties either get a restricted version (eg no web API for iCloud) or nothing at all (background mail polling).
Don't like iOS6's (lack of) transit directions? You need this.
My employer got hit by this yesterday so I'm seeing occasional Sophos notifications. Sophos sucks just as badly as any other AV program: it slows down my laptop, shortens battery life, and has an uncanny knack for deciding to run a full scan right when I'm in the middle of something important.
It's not your fault, I shouldn't have upgraded :( Thanks for vagrant it's really awesome!
I like things small. My work iMac running OSX makes everything very small. Your comment doesn't really relate to my problems. I need things in Linux to be smaller and more compact. Even with your 1280 x 1024 resolutions screens, everything is still too big, clunky and difficult to use.

Also, I'm using a laptop for my Linux install, there is no scope for an external monitor. The requirements really are quite simple. A UI that isn't bulky.
Ask HN: Technical/Code Validation as part of an investment round.
Hi all,

My startup is actively pursuing seed investment, and I was wondering about technical/code validation as part of due diligence. Is it standard practice for code to be examined by a third party prior to investment being made? I would imagine in biotech, green tech, clean tech, etc that it would be fairly standard to get the core technology validated by independent experts. But is this normal for a strictly software startup? If placed in this position, what sort of protections should be put in place to protect both parties?
No, just people piling on, and probably the Guardian using the BBC as a news source.
Also: he's been using it for all of two days. That's still the honeymoon period; anything seems amazing for a couple of days/weeks before you start to come back to reality. If he was writing this post a year later I would give him more credit than if he was writing this post two days later.

I loved hosting my website through GoDaddy for two days as well.
Also known as: how to serve static images using Varnish.
You should really take a look at Scala too. It's actor implementation is inspired by Erlang and very elegant. Plus you've got the whole Java ecosystem so it doesn't really matter if Scala doesn't become (more) mainstream.
As a matter of fact, I am "a graphic designer or something".

And yes, you're right, those sites all look great. In fact I might just print out screenshots of them and hang them on my wall.

But seriously, I know HN is focused on technology, but we can't pretend like there's no such thing as good graphic design and that these sites are just fine.