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It won't even boot unless you add noapic to the kernel line in your boot loader. And that's just the beginning... http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple...
One of my accounts got stolen by someone from Paraguay last week. Rather than getting it back, I just set up a new one. All I use it for is for getting coupons and deals when a company makes me "like" their page to get 5% off a hot dog.
It is possible that Nokia didn't want to license the map data. That can be a selling point for windows phones now. Since Kindle is not a smartphone platform, it is not competing with Nokia.
I see. You get to baldly assert that SpaceX and Tesla are hard to copy, though few have yet tried, but when I point out that people have tried and failed to beat Facebook at their game, these things take time?
Gotcha. So you're offering similar services in an accommodating market.

My personal opinion is that niche social networks are the way to go, so if you guys feel you can compete than power to you!

Good luck!
Would you invest in a startup coming out of a hackathon?
I am trying to evaluate why I should go to the next hackathon. I had the following reasons until now. but I realize I am just bluffing myself.
1. Network with some hardworking and like minded people - This is still somewhat true. But I realize that I am only in touch with people I teamed up with and not the whole crowd. Besides I think if I go to an iOS dev meetup (since I do iOS) I could network with a lot more iOS devs and other people who show up.
2. Future co-founder - I now realize that you cannot judge a person in 24 hours of a stressful hackathon. And would not know if you can work with that person for the rest of your life. I feel its better to find co-founders at your day job where you've worked with that person for atleast 6 months and you both respect each other. This is coming from my experince.
3. VC exposure - Very very rarely you'd hear a startup that comes out of a hackathon. I really doubt if any VC would pour his/her money in a startup that was formed over a weekend with core team members who barely know each other. You might be able to network with a VC but till date all VCs I met were not only interested in what I was talking but also had a 'Meh - im here just coz these organizers begged me to come' attitude.
4. Starting a startup - I now realize, hackathons or startup weekends are nothing more than fun weekend knowing few people and trying to demo a product to amuse some judges and audience shiz. I would like to hear of a startup that was born at a hackathon and raised at least a million dolla.

There may be some long term benefits. But I just feel all hackathons and startup weekends are overrated.
So basically my question to a VC is, would you invest in a startup coming out of a hackathon knowing all the above?
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2012: Facebook is ... (e.g. like a jail - http://duvet-dayz.com/archives/2012/03/07/1192/ )
Unrelated to your post, is your username a reference to the soda "Moxie"? If so, do you actually enjoy it?
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Unfortunately you can't use any of the MTA's unlimited passes (daily, weekly or monthly) to get on the PATH.
Not quite the same thing, although they do have some similarities.

The Selective Availability "feature" of GPS worked by fuzzing the time readings output by the GPS satellites. The fuzz was time-varying but only changed every few seconds. Because it affected nearby receivers with similar amounts of error, if you had access to two receivers in the same area you could quite accurately measure their positions relative to each other.

The Chinese map obfuscation scheme is basically a secret map projection (it's not a constant offset, it varies over locations). GPS coordinates go into a black box and out come obfuscated coordinates, which you then use to plot on the map. Because there wouldn't be much point to GPS receivers that constantly show your location on the wrong point on the map, receivers sold in China actually incorporate the algorithm, and it probably wouldn't be too difficult to reverse engineer.
You're being obtuse, people have money invested in the Apple ecosystem, it's not easy to switch, and no other mapping app will have the iOS integration Maps does. Until a comparable app is available on the OS, yes Apple is forcing users onto their product.
I rather have the Activity feed as the default view and not the public repositories. Activity is far more dynamic and useful.

Now the activity feed is two clicks instead of one. Not a problem, just a slight annoyance.
> isn't his Yelp address example still a non-starter?

Yes, without jailbreaking it won't be possible.
OSM doesn't do elevation. OSM doesn't do geocoding. OSM doesn't do routing. OSM doesn't do 3D. OSM doesn't have a cleaned up dataset of Points of Interest.

I love OSM and I use it every day - but I know what it does, what it is good for and what it is not meant to do.

Getting a list of towns for the entire world is easy. Solving the issues in the listed by the OP's tumbler requires data that OSM does not have.
In summary "This is a problem. Somebody out there should figure out some way to fix it." No insights here.
As of today, I don't know of any Apple Maps alternatives in the iOS App Store. And switching a mobile platform is neither trivial nor a short-term perspective … I hope Google is busy worki on its own Maps app for iOS — for the time being, Google Maps in Mobile Safari has to do it for me.
I'm not sure how one framework developer's naming choice (a framework which by the way, needs to do some pretty meta things in regards to creating factories for other factories, and which is using the term "singleton" to mean something different than usual) is a criticism of an entire language.

You can come up with ugly names for classes in any language.
The vector is the same as for QR codes, paste a different tag overtop of a legitimate tag that takes the user to a URI with a browser or other application exploit. Or physical world version of phishing. Again it is the application that is the root of the vulnerability. NFC would be no worse than a QR code or even a malicious URL printed in plain english on a poster.

The only unique theoretical option would be to hack a very highpowered antenna and transmitter to try and pick up blast out RFID-compatible signals to/from the very weak NFC radios of handsets from further away.
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Yes there are other maps programs available for iOS - the Google Maps app that comes with iOS 4 and 5 is very capable.
That makes sense, but you miss one point - Google isn't the only game in town. Why not contract with Bing, which has it's own mapping app on iOS and use that for iOS 6 (either permanently, or as a stop gap while you perfect your own mapping software). I would be surprised if Microsoft would reject that offer, given that it would help them get more search share and mindshare. I wonder if they tried this at all.
I've been off facebook for half a year but I'm still tempted to return. There isn't a good alternative for sharing photos with a group of friends, though hopefully something will emerge.
As a person who plays around with Node, has used (and hated) Jade, thank you thank you for doing this. I wanted Jinja for javascript so bad, and EJS simply didn't deliver what I wanted.

Let me quickly state something about Jade: I think it's great for those whose philosophy is "as little typing as possible." For me, my goal is simplicity, not minimal typing. That's why I don't like Jade. I can take a Jinja template, show it to somebody who only knows HTML, and they can figure it out rather quickly. Jade, not so much.
I wouldn't say that the App Store is broken, but that it is terribly hard to use. For instance, after you've searched for something and paged through you want to view more information so you tap on it. After tapping to go back to the results, you're placed at the beginning of the results. If you want to compare applications that are deep within the results it's going to take quite some time.
this is a current requirement for everybody submitting a patent application
> does apple have a maps program on the android devices?

not that i'm aware of. i don't believe there to be a browser interface for their maps "solution". i could be wrong.

> are there other maps program available on the ios devices?

yes. google maps, or any other maps via the browser. sure, not the kind of integration one gets from an app. but there, nevertheless.
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This is great! I work as a dev on a related travel product (mentioned in a comment here actually) and our in-progress redesign has the things you mention as priorities (speed/clarity).

I'm going to go ahead and say travel apps in general suck, so I'm not surprised to hear your sentiment towards TripIt's iPhone app haha.

One thing that I appreciate is that you understand the difficulty in designing these kinds of apps. On the surface it's "oh. well it's really just a bunch of lists and buttons with labels and text", and I think that's the approach a LOT of travel companies take. They value the tech/info more than the way it's presented. Luckily there is a LOT of room for improvement in this industry, and with devs who care about experience and designers who understand tech we should be able to make a big dent. I honestly thought TripIt would be one of those companies though...
I'd have to agree. We saw this very recently in the Middle East & Turkey as well.

Out in Dubai it hurt us in terms of talent drain at crazy prices from a number of well established local firms. Their marketing spend helped to grow the local and regional e-commerce market (and still does via ventures that are still operational), but the nature of some of their exits when shutting down has ended up forcing consumers and other stakeholders to re-consider whether to trust e-commerce start ups and businesses in general. Not ideal when the sector is still very nascent.

Coverage:
Wamda: http://www.wamda.com/2012/08/rocket-internet-to-exit-turkey-...
http://www.wamda.com/2012/09/goodbye-mizado-hello-jumia-insi...
Venture Village: http://venturevillage.eu/rocket-internet-to-shut-down-turkey...

As an aside, JP Morgan has put in a significant amount of money recently into some of Rocket's ventures: http://venturevillage.eu/lamoda-jp-morgan-zalando and http://venturevillage.eu/jp-morgan-rocket-internet-the-iconi...
Sounds like everyme did not get the wide acceptance that was hoped for, and now the company is attempting a rebrand.
Did you happen to try copying the application to another location before updating, and over-writing the new version of an app updated via the App Store?

I'm not trying to be difficult; it's an honest question.
That level of detail in elevation data generally requires LIDAR and that definitely doesn't exist for all municipalities, and is pretty expensive where it does.
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I would very much rather see higher-level crypto, especially crypto that could be used declaratively, without JavaScript. (Something similar to Enigmail, but for browsers.)

Heck, there isn't even a standard way to verify a hash on downloaded files.
In Switzerland, the information density is much lower in comparison to Google Maps and much of the still available information is wrong or out-dated. Outside rural areas, Apple Maps mostly shows a vast emptiness instead of mountain peaks, hiking trails etc.

There's definitely room for a lot of improvement …
This is very exciting, as there's a lot of strategy to American football that isn't plainly visible when the camera just follows the ball as it does on television. It's not going to showcase technique very well, but it'll go a long way towards explaining e.g. why some wide receivers are always open, why some players always seem to be in the right position to interrupt a pass, etc. I'd actually find it very interesting to see something like a Coursera course using film from this to explain different plays, packages, etc.

However, I'm not sure it's of wide interest to HN. As far as I can tell, I'm the only one here who likes NFL football.
Well I've used iPhones for several generations now. I pre-ordered before any reviews because I have a pretty good idea of what the general experience will be like and I'm looking to upgrade my phone to one with a larger screen and faster hardware. The iPhone 5 ticked those boxes for me while still allowing me to use my same apps and devices in my home. I'm not really interested in switching to an entirely different ecosystem at this time as I have a lot invested in this one.

It is unfortunate that the maps application is a step backward in some regards but I've been bracing myself for this since I first heard they were working on their own map app.

I don't live in a city where I rely on transit directions so that didn't effect me a lot but I can see how it would be frustrating to people who do. However, because I mostly drive everywhere the turn-by-turn directions is a huge addition for me. So, I'm not entirely disappointed in the new map app.
As you can see, not only did you miss his point, you injected two points that he didn't make. It is also very hard to rationalize how your version is "better" than his; in particular, it does an extremely poor job of making its point. "As long as you abide by the law, you should not be criticized"? Approximately 0% of all HN readers agree with that, including George Grellas, who has written persuasively on HN against things like patent trolls.

PIH is a great charity. A great, great charity. Do you want to try again? I think if you ask around, you'll find at least a few people on HN who will tell you that I am not completely full of shit about this. But you have to actually do the thing I challenged you to do.
I believe you are suggesting that we make a more foolproof API like keyczar. The original idea of DOMCrypt was along those lines as well. I don't think we will be able to avoid specifying and shipping the low-level API at this point. It would be nice to define such a foolproof API on top of the low-level API, prototype it with a JS implementation, get feedback on how useful it is (i.e. whether it is too limited for the use cases people have), and then push browser makers to provide this safer API natively. I think the main concern with a keyczar-like API is that we won't be able to create one that significant numbers of websites would actually use.
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I've been using this for about a day now, and I have to say I'm really impressed by the thought that's gone into it, as well as some of the technical problems that must have been involved. The natural-language use of landmarks for wayfinding and contextual street views really make this feel like a next-generation mapping app.

Overall it's a well-considered UX, though some of the controls seem a bit awkward, like the persistent caption on the share button and the fact that "Nearby" is the label for starting a new search. I'm pretty excited to see where this goes next.
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I think that's totally on the right track, but if people start to do that, chances are that they'll start to create exploitable patterns again (maybe they already exist, I don't even really keep track of how my password cracking dictionaries are evolving).

What I recommend is that people use diceware (http://www.diceware.com) to create a six-word passphrase, which they use to secure a password manager. Then use the password manager to generate random 12-character (alpha+numeric+symbol) passwords for each login.
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Tijs, come to NY some time to see how bad it can get. :-)
The title should be: "My kids are using Facebook less these days".
Good point. I say I never sign an NDA, full stop. There's no way that I can know their competitors are working on the same idea.
Man, I can't even imagine what Facebook would look like after 20 more years of them abusing user privacy. They will probably have their own line of video-enabled shower faucets by then...
I think it's fine to ask about and discuss already approved patents on Ask Patents. See the answer to: http://patents.stackexchange.com/q/191/288

> But you can still ask for or post prior art and potentially make a difference.

> Even though you can't just submit that for free on a granted patent, you make it a bit easier for the folks that do have skin in the game by sharing what you have on the problematic patent(s). That way, if someone is sued for infringing, they'll be armed with what they need to defend themselves.
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This tumblr isn't a bad way for apple to collect "problem" spots since regular users generally wouldn't normally be motivated to click "Report Problem".
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Thank you! It's been a long road even to here, and we'll keep pushing.
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In terms of predicting customers' behavior, this concept of holding a human context to Big Data is best illustrated with the story earlier this year in which Target predicted that a teenage girl was pregnant:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...

In terms of predicting financial meltdowns, I'm interested in seeing how MIT thinks their data will change human behavior. For the most part, people know when financial bubbles are not sustainable; they just choose not to act.
You could also go to hackathons for the sheer joy of it.
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The fact that Steve let "Ping" go through means we should probably stop using the "Steve would have never let XYZ go through" meme ...
However, I'm not sure it's of wide interest to HN. As far as I can tell, I'm the only one here who likes NFL football.

HN users probably aren't much into football, but they do seem to enjoy finding out about strategy involved in things they haven't thought much about.
> what happened in contract negotiations with Google to force it out.

This is almost certainly Apple being pissed off about Android and continuing to untie themselves from Google.

It just isn't working out as well as they had planned.

Google give Maps for free to other providers as well, as long as you bundle search/gmail with it.

Apple decided to pick out and replace the only part that Google don't make money on in iOS, the part that had the most technical risk and the part that Android completely kick their ass on.

Google right now are asking why they should bother going to the trouble of producing a no-revenue Maps app for iOS when so many users suddenly discovered a greater appreciation for Android today.

Apple completely screwed up here. In more ways than one - and it was all because of a grudge.
That's exactly how I feel. I think Jade is awesome, just not my cup of tea. I know several people that love it.

After developing node apps for a year, I'm tired of constantly battling my templates. I hope that this benefits others as well!
This is pretty funny, and yes Spring itself is pure insanity, but it's not really fair to equate Java the language with Spring the framework.
Let us hope so.
I know homeschoolers from Howard County, Maryland who are still far exceeding the public school graduates in their achievement in higher education and careers. Thinking just about the "M" (mathematics) part of STEM, I'm pretty sure that in Maryland most of the county winners each year in the state mathematics contest for high school students, and also the MATHCOUNTS winners among middle school students, come out of an informal coaching program that is run by a homeschooling parent. Maryland devotes an exceptional amount of money (including federal money) to its public school systems, and has some great public schools by the meager standards of the United States, but even at that there are families that still find homeschooling a more challenging academic choice for their children.
We've discussed much of this before on HN, and I am slowly but surely starting to see exactly what you mean. Getting everything in crypto just right is a hard problem, especially with the disparity between different crypto providers and how it should be implemented to be secure.

The biggest issue I have is that unless low level primitives are available it is hard to work together with various other libraries/standards. Getting Java and OpenSSL based crypto to play nice is already harder than it should be, I can't imagine what a mess it would be to try to make it work with yet another standard. And at the same time if those low-level primitives are available people are going to use them instead of the higher-level functions because they have certain specific requirements.

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Any specific reason as to why AES-CBC? If seeking is required wouldn't AES-CTR be a better choice? Or are you making assumptions that the payload size is small enough that decryption of the whole object is feasible?
> It's simply way too early to tell anything.

It's always way too early to tell anything until it's too late to predict because it already happened.
Can I ask what the point of enabling websites to create vulnerable cryptosystems is? I don't mean that snarkily and I'm not trying to make a point. What are the applications that would not be possible with a high-level "envelope" interface that are key use cases for the Web Crypto API?
I think it speaks more to the community than the language (and arguably there is also no such thing as a community).

After years of consulting I can't remember how many times I've walked into an Enterprise Java Shop(TM) to find TemporalSystemLoadOrganizers, IntransitPredeterminedApplicationUtilitySources, MetaphysicalManipulatitiveQuantityDisorderRecognizers only to find out that at the end of the day these abstract-factory-driven-decorated-decoupled-dynamically-injected-frameworks tend to do such obscure/complicated things as "Update a user's first name" or "Show the last item the user has purchased"...

Again, not Java's fault and no question you can write very fast, beautiful and clear code in Java. I'm sure every language has specific warts and most of them probably reside more with the community than the syntax.
If they were after the quick buck then they would definitely do this. Also, if you're working for a company who's only purpose is to copy other companies, you should realize it's all about money...
If this had any truth to it, Android would have already walked away with the market due to the iPhone's longstanding mediocre Maps app.
No, Facebook is not dying because Facebook is the Walmart of the internet. I'd prefer not to shop there but sometimes there's no way to avoid it.
> I think the main concern with a keyczar-like API is that we won't be able to create one that significant numbers of websites would actually use.

I'm personally much more concerned about websites using an API with significant faults than fewer websites using a solid API. The fact that an MITM or XSS can completely undermine this makes it equivalent (outside of the secure RNG -- a definite good thing) of doing all your crypto in JS. As long as the server controls how the building blocks are put together, what keys are used and when, etc, the trust model is broken.
Hello and welcome to 2008!

Seriously though, if you are going to rehash this tired schtick then at least make intelligent points about the problems with the language. I have been writing Java for over a decade and I can tell you are a number.
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