skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many teacups we talkin here?

In 2011 there were about 500K utility patent applications:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm
Many of those are not software related.

There are about 1.3M programmers in the US alone:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/19720/where-c...

So 20 teacups each to have each patent looked over 10 times? Sounds doable to me.
> Apple has always implicitly presented a deal where they tightly control their phone, but the experience is excellent.

That, IMO, is absolutely the deal you make with Apple. More money, less hackability, and better experience.

If Apple starts crapping out stuff, there's no point in buying Apple.
This is a great article that I identify with: http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-...
And if each iPhone user reports one problem, the entire POI problem will be solved.

I didn't calculate that, but I'm fairly certain it works. The only reason Google knew where my businesses were was because I told them. They kept that information walled up, so I guess I need to tell apple too now that there are millions of people seeing that database.

I haven't found where to add a POI, it may not be there, but marking wrong ones is easy.

Edit: Found it. Adding a location is under the "report a problem" under the curl up corner. Don't start with a new pin.
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tl;dr

"iOS 6, Navigate Differently"

[At least I find it amusing]
Complete Guide to What's New in iOS 6 Settings
There were. I think they called them "Sponsored" or something. It really annoyed me because if I'd search for something common like "Home Depot" it would give me random pins at places that were definitely not Home Depot but rather sponsored businesses.
I think that is a bit disingenuous. Nokia-Microsoft is a much better fit than Apple-Google.

Nokia has hardware and maps; Microsoft brings in its OS. That either is win-win, or lose-lose, but there is little reason for either party to be suspicious of the other at the moment.

On the other hand, Apple has good reasons to be suspicious of Google. Collaboration with google can be a win-loose combination, with Apple at the losing end: Google wins if iPhone fails.
It's just too bad Jobs is dead and is not here to personally fire the apple maps team.
ICFP 2012 had quite a lot of talks about DSLs. Just go to e.g. youtube and search for something like "icfp 2012 domain specific language".
Relatively!
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Is this true? My understanding is that the range issue of NFC has more to do with the non-powered nature of NFC chip, thus having very limited broadcasting range. If I had a powered device that broadcasted NFC responses over a much greater range, wouldn't the phone happily accepting this as an NFC chip response?
WAMP (WebSocket RPC + PubSub) for iOS - based on SocketRocket
Only the points the post gets matters.
Navigon for IOS
TomTom for IOS
www.google.com/maps in IOS

Take your pick. There are solutions that can be used to work around this issue and meet your needs.
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Good post! Thanks for responding..
When this issue comes up, I often hear the somewhat apologetic excuse that the countries at the top are there because of some combination of 1) rote memorization, 2) teaching to the test, 3) highly standardized systems which generally don't apply to the U.S. systems. Since my children were educated in the French system (in the US), I know there is some truth to these assertions. But, while it may be true in some or most countries that perform well in tests, I have read much about Finland's system that suggests in many ways the opposite approach is taken and yet with obviously good results (e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/860...).

I'd be interested in hearing from Finnish HNers on their impressions of their educational system.
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Apple Maps Is A Downgrade From Google Maps on Iphone
Yes, my dad has a Nokia and the last time we travelled we used it's maps application, not the one in my iOS 5. The old iPhone app is simply impossible to use with 3G, it looks like it downloads bitmaps instead of vector data, and takes ages to update.
Another happy linux user on Intel Atom Asus eeepc 1215N. It has done well with Arch and Ubuntu.
Tourists and expats are going to have issues in some countries, take for example Thailand.

http://imgur.com/7gkgx

Google Maps has street names in both Thai and English, whereas Apple Maps only has Thai.
I agree 100%, which is why I raised that in my post. I think it would add a lot to their credibility if they produced original websites for their startups..
> What use case requires dynamic linking?

Here's one: writing a plugin for AviSynth in Go.
Patent Office tries “Stack Overflow for patents” to find prior art
> Development of the new Maps app was surely underway when Jobs was still alive. What do you think happened? Jobs died and the executive team was like, "Alright everyone, we've got 6 months until the iOS 6 beta is out. Let's cancel our contract with Google and get this shit maps app in there pronto!"

No, I'm sure SJ wanted to get way from Google. But I doubt he would have let Apple release iOS6 maps in the state they're in if he were still in control.

Maybe they should have kept it US only and still use the old Google one for outside the US, as that seems to really be where the quality issue is with the data.
As I read it, the suggestion wasn't that you replace your virtualized Linux with physical hardware, it was that you replace your Macbook with a system that does what you need.

That was the question I was attempting to answer - I have obviously failed :-) Let me try again.

A Macbook + virtualised environment does exactly what I need.

I happen to prefer Apple HW and the OS X GUI. My partner prefers Ubuntu. We both run dev environment in a VM because automating the creation and deployment on a virtualised environment brings a whole bunch of advantages that running it on your base machine does not.

Virtualisation of the dev environment is a good thing regardless of what that virtual environment is running on.

For example:

* We can trivially run the current dev branch on multiple versions of the OS by just building on top of a different vagrant box

* It has basically killed deployment issues stone cold dead for us - since we're always deploying. Problems get found as soon as you f\\k up. You can't forget dependencies. You don't get tempted to make a quick tweak to a config file that you then forget about it. And so on.

* You get your automated deployment code "for free" since you're developing it as you go rather than thinking "okay - how do we deploy this".

* It makes experimenting with different infrastructure / dependencies / versions very, very cheap and simple

* Makes developing in odd/remote locations really simple. All I need is an internet connection, virtual box, our repo and vagrant and I can get a dev environment up and running.

* We each get to have the OS that we like for coding on, without all that tedious "it works on my machine" faffing.
> more of a foothold in the iPhone market.

More of a foothold? They already had virtually 100% (I'm exaggerating, but I can't think of anybody who used anything else for maps).

They don't have any incentive to make life easier for iPhone users. They have an incentive to remind iPhone users how they're really dependent on Google, not [just] Apple.
fire*wall
Does the iPhone app cover more locations than the Android one? Or is this just an out of date description:

iOS: "City Maps covers 27 metropolitan areas..."

Android: "Lumatic currently covers San Francisco and New York City, with many more cities coming soon."
theft

The word "theft" implies that someone is being "wronged" by the action.

If we ask ourselves "is this the case? Is anyone harmed by the actions of the Samwer brothers?" then, after we force ourselves to really sit and think about the answer to the question, and after we attempt to find real-world examples which support our point of view, then we find ourselves in the uncomfortable situation of being inexorably pushed, prodded, and shoved toward the inevitable conclusion: No. No one was harmed. In fact, just the opposite: the people who now have access to the cloned services now enjoy a higher quality of life due to it.

In short, inasmuch as I share your prejudice, I cannot figure out any way of reconciling that prejudice with the honest assessment that the world is now more enriched than it was prior to the Samwers.
When reading the part about how standardized and identical schooling is, I had this weird vision related to how some RPGs work. 4-5 years focused on the basics, reading, writing, PE (really necessary now that kids spend all their time in front of a screen), and math (elementary math needs a lot of updating but that's another issue). Then splitting into just a few different focus areas, maybe 3-4 like technical, communication, business, arts, etc., that still enhance those basics but in a way that orients around the student's strengths and interests.

High school is already more flexible and college is of course wide open so it would basically change the flexibility-vs-time curve from something of a trumpet shape now to something more like a cone.

In an ideal world this make school more relevant and interesting for the students and businesses alike. But I have to admit Morloks and Eloi are a distinct possibility.
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I think I agree with your points assuming Mark is evil.

I am not convinced Zuckerberg's lacking "human warmth." It didn't strike me that Mark thought he was actually friends with Aaron or thought he was betraying anything- that's Aaron's perspective, which was understandable but we can't be really nice to everyone who considers themselves our friends or disagrees with us on who owns an idea.

Facebook so far hasn't done anything I really disagree with. But my feelings on privacy etc aren't that strong yet, maybe a failure of my imagination because nothing bad has really happened to me yet (knocking on wood).
I live nearby and know the founders of the NEO Center. I think what is significant is how the founders used the L3C low profit corporation to pull this off. This law has never to my knowledge been used to start an incubator.

If you live in Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming this is an option for creating a startup hub.
Relatively easy.
How is this different from Path or FamilyLeaf?
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>>I'm dreading my IOS6 update which I am estimating will take me 8h

8 hours? What?
Still don't know how you can say that in the business world. Retail vendors do this as part of their normal course of action. So do the retailers themselves. Target and Wal-Mart will produce near-exact copies of expensive clothiers products. Are you equally outraged by that?
There are many sites created by graphic designers that look great but have no substance. There are plenty of sites created by engineers that have great information but no style. Luckily, those sites tend to be catered to people who like their pros and don't mind their cons.
It's a trap!

I'm serious. This is a horrible idea. It's simply a way to get you to forge your own new set of chains.
Couldn't agree more. Without the description of what the repo is, it's just clutter.
Hi Mike, yup. Our Android app is behind for now. We busted our butts to make the iOS 6 launch and that's what dropped. We are hiring a dedicated android dev, hopefully for our Singapore office if you know someone who wants it.
I use Siri around kids 3-16 regularly. Simply turn on the "Raise to Speak" option and it uses noise canceling to get rid of the background noise.

EDIT: turn on the option and use Siri by bringing the phone to your ear like a phone call.
It's funny no one ever mentions the fairly recent trend to tie driver's licenses with school attendance.

When i was in school I knew many kids who kept attending just so they could drive, and many of them never graduated, despite attending for 4 years.

I was in honors and AP classes, so I never had general education classes with these students, but on the occasion when I had elective classes with them, they were very disruptive.

I'm also sure they lowered our overall average scores as well.
Your laziness is not something to be lauded, and it is not cute or quirky (which I believe you think it is based on that emoticon).
Doing our best. Please push us.
I've heard that discussed at some CS conferences as the "mathematics trajectory", which a lot of computer scientists think is best avoided. Essentially, becoming a pure discipline with little funding (because the applications work has gone elsewhere), and with a position in the university that's largely internally funded by your professors teaching intro-level "service" courses for other departments, the way math departments get a lot of their teaching credits by teaching Calc 101 and similar.
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the source page that the google+ is commenting on was on HN a while back, but didn't get many comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807908
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I apparently stopped reading even earlier, when I got to:

> In the iPhone 4S’s case, the A5 SoC withstood hacking attempts for months — much longer than any other Apple device — before it finally fell.

In fact, we never found a bug in the A5's bootloader: Corona (the 5.0 exploit I helped implement) and Rocky Racoon (related 5.1 exploit) were purely bugs in iOS, and as of 6.0's release we are not much better off on the 4S than we will be on the 5.

(edit: OK, I decided to at least skim the rest, as I realized I should probably at least know if they said anything I'll have to deal with ;P.)

> The one glimmer of hope is that iOS 6 has already been jailbroken — but only on antiquated A4-based devices (iPhone 3GS/4), and it’s still only a tethered jailbreak.

So, iOS 6 is not jailbroken: the A4 is; this is a similar mistake to the earlier one, but in the opposite direction.

The reason this is bothersome is because I can tell you with utter assurance: if Apple releases iOS 7, and it supports your iPhone 4, we will be able to jailbreak it, and it won't even take much effort; I don't even need to see iOS 7: I can tell you that today.

It is thereby not at all interesting that we have a jailbreak for iOS 6 on these older devices, and doesn't offer forward any kind of "glimmer of hope" ;P.
What's that rainbow ring around the sun?
As a developer this kind of update makes me happy since it might result in Apple giving up some of its mobile phone market share to Microsoft and Google. I would much rather develop in Java or C#, instead either struggle through Objective C or use a third party developer tool to avoid doing so. Although, as an iPhone user it makes me sad. The UX with the iPhone has been amazing. I chose to use this phone even though I dislike all that is apple, just because to me when it came to my user experience it was leaps and bounds ahead of any other. Now that one of my most used apps has been pushed out temporarily it kind of makes me nervous. I have even heard who have applied iOS6, have lost all of their photos, luckily since I rely on a few jailbroken apps had not updated.
this author is always confused, he commonly posts jibberish that gets spammed here.
The first task for the first real job I ever had was to get gcc 2.something running on an HP-UX 9 system. I still have nightmares.
Actually, even in big US cities results are really bad in some cases. in Seattle, for example, searching for common well known intersections brings up results halfway across the country.
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But that's a big class of users and, so far, Maps is better for that use case. The Maps app from 10.5 was unusable for driving.

Thank you, you've written a more useful summary review of the new maps app than anything else I've read lately.

I've tried driving with the previous Maps app - with a borrowed iPhone, I don't yet own one - and was really surprised at how unusable it was. I was left thinking that not a single person on that project could have attempted to drive on their own with it, otherwise how else could it be so bad?

rant over
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Ah, thanks for the info; will update the story.

You edited! So I will edit too!

Thanks for the background info on the iOS 6 jailbreak.

Btw, have we met before? I recognise your name...
Link without NSFW images:

http://www.onlinecollege.org/Program-or-Be-Programmed
I'm pretty sure that CUPS was shipping by default on some linux distros as early as 1999. I know I installed Caldera OpenLinux (2.2 or 2.3 maybe?) and Mandrake Linux (version 6 or 7 something) and both had it, detected my printers, and "just worked".
The point was not that intent doesn't matter. The point was that intent is not enough when your language (verbal and physical) do not properly convey it.
First iPhone 5 teardown hits the web
First iPhone 5 teardown hits the web...…but it ain’t a kind of thorough analysis we’d come to expect from repair experts iFixIt. Instead, a German blog has obtained an iPhone 5 and pried it open, exposing the innards of Apple’s new device to the world.
I also have noticed this in SF. It becomes most frustrating when I want to travel to a location using routes I am unfamiliar with or don't ride often. This means I can't off the top of my head guess when the next bus would be coming before choosing that bus route. In that case I usually pick a live route app like Transporter to see how long of a wait till that bus comes. Unfortunately, that time spent in another application can prove costly if you are in a hurry.
Software Marketing : Product, Distribution, Product, Distribution...
Very interesting execution, but I found myself frustrated that it didn't want to let me control the scroll speed.
agreed, needs to be submitted to pypi now!
Google certainly has 3D view. It's on my iPad with Google Earth. They also have the more useful non-textured 3D maps in Google Maps for Android which is a lot more smooth (way less data transfer and being vector it's scalable) and you can even use them offline.

http://www.google.com/mobile/maps/3d/
I don't think Apple gets a pass here. If they are forcing users onto their product it had better be competitive, no matter how hard it is. Microsoft got so such pass with WP7 and that was an entirely new OS/platform!
Even if taking the bitcoins is not itself a crime in their jurisdiction, they may have committed other crimes as part of the operation to take the bitcoins, such as unauthorized access to a computer.
I've never understood why people like to pre-order something before even one review on it is released, or before they get a chance to see it for themselves.
Curious about one thing the author wrote. He said that the young programmer he met was one of a rare breed who liked doing game UI development. Is it viewed as not very sexy, or just plain difficult and unrewarding compared to hard-but-fun stuff like AI, or graphics?
It looks really cool, but it's also going to be very expensive (time and money-wise) to get enough prominent ROI and street-level images. Is there a solid plan in place to scale this beyond giant metropolitan markets, or are you leaving those for Google?
Yehuda Katz seeking input on Tokaido (rails.app) UI
Good point, everyone who has problems with Android must be an Apple """"fanboy"""". Even those who run Android-themed websites and have complaints -- they're covert Apple agents. We're through the looking glass here, people.
Totally agree. I use Google Maps for "route ideas" if I don't already know. And then switch to Routesy ASAP for the live arrivals.
Just had a mini panic.

Both Windows 7 guest (blech) and Linux 2.6.18 (aka Oracle Developer Days) guest just launched on OSX 10.8.2, VirtualBox 4.1.20r80170, no problems.

Oracle just release VirtualBox 4.2. Release notes mention Mountain Lion support.

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1842885

Happy Hunting!
I think this is different because it was pretty difficult to reproduce that antennae problem if you never put your hand in that spot. This Maps app is the only Maps app now and it's missing a lot of features.

Steve wouldn't have let this happen because it's a poor product and it's obvious (everyone uses Maps).
You are probably correct. However if you look at Google's moves in the maps API with respect to charging money the simplest explanation is that Apple and Google could not come to terms on the price for access and so Apple went with 'plan B'.

Given the pain Apple is causing Google in its patent assault I don't doubt for a minute that the senior management at Google would have any regrets about 'losing' the Apple map business vs 'gaining' a poorly executed maps product on their premier devices.

I also don't expect Apple to approve any Google "maps" application any time soon either given how strategic it is for their mobile business.

My best guess is that Apple did the math and said "Well its going to suck rocks but we have to dominate this space, this moves our time table up but doesn't change what we need to do, ship what you have and put your best team on making it excellent."

EDIT: Reminds me of Intel's response to AMD's multi-core where Intel literally glued two separate CPU chips into the same package and shipped it as a 'multi-core' CPU. That sucked too but they had an answer in the market, and they invested in making that answer competitive over the next 3 years to get a more real multi-core out the door.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D
He is and it has nothing obvious to do with the map issues. Remember the antenna issue? That was on Steve's watch. So was Ping. So was iCloud.
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Users report Apple Maps Problems on Social Media via Gizmodo
This may just be dogpiling on the iOS6 Maps fail thing that's going around, but I think this touches on something I haven't seen really addressed here.

Most people (and blogs) are concentrating on the sheer horrible data outside North America. Entire towns missing, roads missing, rivers in the wrong place, etc.

But even in North America I find the new maps to be nigh unusable. The data seems pretty decent everywhere I've looked, but interacting with that data is just broken. Address searches don't work correctly - I've had "[number] [street name]" searches assume I'm talking about a town and take me hundreds of miles in the wrong direction. In fact, my unscientific observation is that for the searches I'm doing, Apple's new maps fail >50% of the time - as in, doesn't even close to the result I'm looking for.

This level of failure is unheard of in GMaps' search feature.

IMO, from the perspective of the end user, this gigantic failure of Maps functionality pretty much undoes all of the UX gains from various upgrades that iOS6 shipped with.
This looks like it could be pretty useful. The main argument against crypto in the browser is that if you send crypto js over a non encrypted channel it's vulnerable to MITM, and if you're going over HTTPS you might as well just send it plaintext. If the browsers themselves implemented secure crypto it could be a boon to certain types of applications, for example S/MIME in webmail.