skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect it would last for quite some time beyond the officially supported window (possibly until the vast majority of those devices are no longer using Google's map data either via upgrade or retirement). Absent Apple or someone else unreasonably taking advantage of the "legacy device loophole", Google doesn't have much incentive (and some disincentive from the potential PR fallout) to shut it down even no matter what the contract allows. I'm sure sometime after that support windows they'll want to roll out something where it's easier to break existing clients than to keep them working, but until then...
Hopefully they add basic RPM bundling as well; as much as I like Ubuntu I think if you are distributing binaries we should be able to expect support for the latest Fedora as well.
Or an Nvidia, or an Intel, or ... All accelerated cards have had their share of bugs.
You're not damaged goods. Since you're not being burnt out by your day job, you should keep a humble personal project going to keep yourself sharp. Also, it gives you something to talk about during interviews. "I've been working on this x. I wanted to learn y so I'm using it on my project."

When you find a company worth working for, they won't care about the gap on your resume. They'll see you talking passionately about a personal project and give you exactly as much consideration as the shiny guy who's bored with his lame-o Fortune 500 gig. The right company won't turn you down for the wrong reasons. (They might still turn you down, but it will be because someone else felt like a better fit fair-and-square: Just like you'll feel at the place you finally end up working.)
We're talking ... late 2007 here. I must confess that I didn't keep an engineering diary.
Yes, we eat our own dog food.
True, and if it is, I might use it when that happens.

Maybe.
Not sure in this environment, but I've been using Percona builds of MySQL for the last couple years and it's a great drop-in. Good optimizations for InnoDB Oracle-owned bits.
No, I'm saying they shouldn't be responsible for where those things are or how to get them back when they aren't there anymore. Hence, "management" or "maintenance". I'm not quite sure what word I'm looking for.
I have to completely agree with this
77.5% satisfaction -> 76.5% satisfaction

It's easily within the error margin for a survey of 1600 customers... A better title would be: "Users are as happy with iOS 6 as they were with iOS 5, but not happier", which is surely a fail, as new iOSes ought to be better. But it's TechCrunch...
I was bitten by that with my new iPad. It is not at all obvious that 'backed up' isn't actually all backed up.
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Very, very true.

Think of web pages with POI data (store and restaurant locators are probably the tip of that iceberg), a long history of location-related searches including data from "front door" web searches, data on how the results of those searches were used (which Google uses to great effect in other places) and so on.
That and get a better site design that doesn't use bootstrap. It looks like I'm staring at some early, somewhat-thought out prototype.
Hi,

I guess I have to decide whether I am ready to pay a monthly fee on Heroku during bootstrap time as opposed to basically nothing on app engine. You said you were familiar with app engine, globally are you satisfied with the platform? I will use Python, whether on app engine or Heroku.
I think maybe the title should be:
Snapjoy Adds "Brilliant" Copy Feature.

They stored a reference to a thing instead of a thing. Not exactly groundbreaking.

That said, it's nice to see a photo service catering to a modern hyper connected audience. Techcrunch is the problem here.
Maps are hard.

The original Google Maps was pretty bad. Mapquest beat it much of the time. There was one road in my hometown, and none in many countries.

Google devoted enormous resources to acquiring data (petabytes worth), processing it, correcting it, to give us the product we have today.

Even though Apple acquired some neat companies that made data look good, they obviously underestimated how much data was required to make it useful. No amount of QC could have prepared them, frankly.

The upside is that Google has been fairly closed with their map products. They're miles ahead of Apple, who will need every partner they can find to close the gap. Hopefully it will give the data providers a bit of leverage to get refinements back out so it can be used in endeavours other than showing where the nearest pizza joint is.
It's Geek Squad, and why do you put it in quotes? That's the name of the company they acquired in 2004(?)
Cars also lose value through continued use much more rapidly than "space". Doubling the utilization rate of a car may halve its usable lifetime.

There's also the issue of liability and risk to the user. A poorly maintained car might be dangerous to drive and difficult to recognize.
Would like to recognize Volkan here for volunteering to write this great blog post for us at geekli.st - The time and thought put into it goes beyond what we could have asked for and has stirred great dialogue. From all the Geeklist family, thank you Volkan! - Reuben
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With such a wide range of kernel versions, OS differences and various flavours of drivers from open, proprietary and closed sources, yep it's going to take some work.
People with no technical experience using modern technology, sometimes I explain this to folks as the "Chutes and Ladders" problem.

You set the problem up like this, person comes to you and wants to buy lunch. You put down a "Chutes and Ladders" game (minimum age 3) and you say sure as soon as your piece wins. Now wait and watch them. If they do anything that isn't in the rules you play a loud buzzing sound and scold them.

The thing is that "Chutes and Ladders" is like the simplest game ever, but when you combine "I'm trying to do X" with "Your trying to force me to learn Y". A number of people's brain just freezes up. I don't know if that is like some deep psychological principle but the fact that doing "Y" is totally unrelated to trying to get "X" done its like your brain refuses to allocate any cycles at all to learning Y. What is worse people get emotional and angry because dammit they want X and before you blocked them they knew how to get it.

We forget that as children when things were 'new' we expected to not know how to do them. But when we are set in our ways that level of change is much less tolerable. In a lot of ways all sorts of technology is like that.

One strategy I've had some success with is to take people who aren't trying to do anything with the new technology yet and just explore it with them. That goal of exploring allows them to ingest new concepts, and then when they try to do something with the technology some of those 'learn the game' concepts will already be in their brain.
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This still doesn't explain why they didn't ship it in iOS7 then. If it wasn't ready and they only want to ship such things in major versions then hold it till the next major version. It wasn't ready. And bug reports aren't the solution to get it ready either. They needed better expertise and better quality data to start with.
How can we thank Google for their commitment to free expression?
It seems to me that Google has been taking a lot of heat lately with denying the request to remove the Mohammed video and their Brazil chief being detained for refusing to remove a user-uploaded video attacking and "slandering" a mayoral candidate in the country. If Google were to censor something, we'd be all over it. Maybe we can figure out a way to let them know how much we appreciate their stance?
I had the same problem. On a cursory run through, the app seemed pre-alpha in quality. Most things didn't seem to work, and what did work was couched in awkward and annoying animations and poor image quality (especially maps).
If I were a developer from KA, I would be very grateful for this kind of crticism, no matter how harsh it is. Bret basically did a lot of free research work for them. Some of the ideas are hard to implement, but there are quite a few things that can easily be added to their products.

Inovative ideas are rare and fragile. We should be thankful someone sharing them.
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I don't think that counts; they would have had to have gone to school to study mad science.
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The Brazil chief was not detained over the Mohmed video.
I recently left a job that initially gave me a iPhone 3G ~3 years ago. When I upgraded to a 4S I just transferred the settings over.

When I left I decided to delete my email account because why would I need it anymore. So I remove the account from the iPhone and went to eat a bagel.

Imagine my surprise when I come back to my phone to call my sister except iPhone tells me I only know about 8 people.

Apparently the iPhone tied all my contacts with the company account so when I deleted that, there went all my contacts with it.

No problem right, I'll just retrieve my backup from my computer from the last time I synced and I'll get my contacts back and then I'll figure out how to transfer over the contacts.

Except apparently when I got this phone with iCloud it turned off backups when I synced with my computer. Okay no problem, iCloud should have it right?

Except iCloud has been telling me that it doesn't have enough space to backup my stuff for weeks. I just assumed that meant my apps weren't getting backed up, which is fine. But apparently they don't update anything else, even if you've already backed it up (this is definitely not all Apple's fault, but iCloud is pretty confusing about its backup rules). Not sure why I couldn't retrieve my contacts from right before when I deleted them but they were no where to be found.

So finally I just bit the bullet and synced with an old backup and lost about 3-4 months worth of text messages. Yay.
A beginner, who is willing to put in a bit of effort and that wants to discover the magic and beauty of programming?

Check out the Abelson/Sussman lectures: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
> rather than continue to pay licensing fees until they got it right

It's not like you just buy the data at Wal-Mart -- you have to negotiate licensing terms with Google and the terms that Google wanted were, reportedly, onerous.
The article states 16,000 not 1,600. Still, like you state, it is a small percentage of users overall.
Traders really don't trade that many companies a year - they specialise - and if they did so many that they followed canned news - well lets just say they wouldn't be in business very long.
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I recently had a problem with corrupt file system (that's what I initially thought, but right now I think the disk is dying). Anyway, what I did was re-partition my 750 HDD and installed Mountain Lion in another volume. Then, I copied "~/Music/iTunes" AND "~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync" folders from the (supposedly) corrupt ML to the new ML, and the next time I attached my iDevices to the Mac, they synced back without a problem and I didn't lose a single item. Of course, I also had iCloud sync set up before hand (and now I learned that I can use both the iCloud and manual backup to my computer, which is extremely convenient).

It was a little off-topic, but I just thought sharing that little story with others might be beneficial. I searched a lot before doing that but couldn't reliably verify I can move my Synced data between multiple installations, so maybe others in the same situation find it useful.
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I am a user of his ideas. I read through his article without taking a break, which rarely happen these days.
Its possible that oversight here was on Marco's part and not the Apple Store's. If his grandfather had told an Apple Genius that "he wanted to make sure he could transfer his stuff onto a new iPad in case this one ever broke", chances are that the Genius would have known what he was talking about. Instead, Marco doesn't trust his grandfather to explain that coherently and has him write down the cryptic words "ICLOUD BACKUP". To be fair, those words don't mean much by themselves and I could see why the Genius thought he was doing the right thing.
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That would also be genius marketing if they wanted to "flex nuts" and see just how strong of a following they could get if they ever did want to try to lure more users away from Windows, given Valve's Win8 complaints.

Of course, if it failed, it'd look odd.

Of course, also, if they gave out Ep3 for free with a Linux account like they sometimes do Portal... Well, half the gamers with PCs would be swarming boards to get help booting Linux partitions. Then Steam would just have to get other publishers on board the "offer Linux too" train, like they did with the "one purchase for PC and Mac" strategy.
How does it not explain it? Maps deal expires 6/13; iOS 7.0 launches 9/13. What do you ship from 6/13 to 9/13?
Congrats on releasing. I just installed it and poked around a bit. Very smooth and clean.

As aawc also already mentioned, I too expected that when I clicked the colored bars I was going to zoom to the specific area with those videos but instead it was just defaulting to a different area.

I'm a .Net dev myself and I'm very curious to hear about your experience getting this in the new app store.
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The iPhone since its first version will only ever pair with one iTunes database on one computer. Although, yes, you can still backup your phone to any computer with iTunes, just on restore you won't be able to reinstall apps and music until you sync with the original computer. This is a political policy put in place and not any kind of limitation of iTunes Sync. I and several people have filed Radars on it over the years explaining why this was a bad policy but it always went into the black hole that is iTunes Radars saying "By Design".

The issue is moot now that you can back your phone up to iCloud completely avoiding the iTunes step. It's slow and could be costly if you have a lot to backup, but at least it moves things in the right direction overall.
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Map data will certainly be updated constantly, not even requiring an update to the app. Any time there's a road closure or the map changes in some way, it needs to be reflected live. So I wouldn't be surprised if other aspects of the map are updated server-side as well.
Ok, can someone help me? I’m quite confused. Apple’s maps have undeniable problems. Pretty big ones in some cases.

But are they really unusable? From my perspective it seems as though Apple’s maps are merely inferior, not unusable. Some aspects are even better than they were before (on iOS), some (very few) are better than Google Maps (traffic info in Germany is quite impressive).

Everyone here seems to take it as self-evident that the maps are unusable. I don’t get that. To me it looks like a slight (again, depending on use case) regression in the short term.

I also don’t get the deification of Google Maps. I remember they weren’t that great in Germany only two or so years ago. I still encounter mistakes regularly. Google Maps are awesome despite those flaws.
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That's pretty much what the entire article is about, no?
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From the post, it looks like they are only supporting Ubuntu. Not that that will stop it being repackaged for other distributions when it's released. From the collaboration with Intel, it will be interesting to see how much attention they pay to the other drivers.
The iOS 6 app store is less dynamic than other prior app store iterations. Example being I have an app listed as number 19 under a particular search. I've been checking that search every day and we are always 19 on the list. No change whatsoever even though our downloads have fluctuated in that time. Why are we 19? No idea. Before it meant we had less downloads than the people before us. Now I have no idea. It reminds me a lot of the Chomp search results. Not really sure what Chomp said to convince Apple that their search algorithm was better than what Apple was using.
Here you go: http://imgur.com/oMU0G
I've always found AirBnB not to be that much cheaper than hotels.

Maybe it's just me?
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> Google has done a fantastic job at a lot of details such as colors and readability of street names that really improve usability.

This made me recall this great comparison between Google and Bing Maps from 2011: http://www.hostileuser.com/2011/01/06/google-map-legibility/

Added: It appears the source is no longer available.
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Aside from the insurance coverage, Airbnb appears to reduce risk for involved parties by humanizing the transactions. They encourage getting to know your host, and I'd imagine people are more likely to respect other people's property when they are aware of and can relate to the person behind the space. Even before transactions take place, users are encouraged to have rich profiles and social connections to demonstrate reliability and facilitate trust.

There may be potential for this sort of humanization in other areas where the perceived risk of a transaction currently outweighs the benefit. One way to think about it may be to consider things that you borrow from a friend. Airbnb covers the sleep on a friend's couch/spare bed niche quite well.

Some interesting things I can think of... perhaps using space on a more granular level such as holding a meeting in a conference room or watching a movie on a home theater system. Things like renting parking spaces might be interesting as well in some areas where parking is very limited.
> Of course, also, if they gave out Ep3 for free with a Linux account like they sometimes do Portal...

Er... unless Canonical is paying for the license, I can't see how that'd happen, Ep3 (if it ever exists) won't be a 2~3-hours side-game bundled with two "full-fledged" games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orange_Box)
>> We will be using a sign up page for the external beta. Information about the sign up will be announced in a future post.

Now I need to bookmark that blog. :-)
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"One thing that always surprises me is seeing configurations where Nginx is merely a proxy or load balancer into a bunch of Apache instances. Are you nuts? Stop doing that. Just use Nginx and FastCGI -- thank me later."

Problem is - you can't flush the output buffer.
You could say say something similar about UI design of things like iPhone.

Some times you have to show people what they want. And then when they see, they would know how awesome things are.

Not all projects are started after research and data. That way many projects would never start.
Well, sound support was sort of finally properly fixed in 2010-2011. :)
This seem pretty subjective ... I love the various aluminum ipod-mini/nano models, for instance. In my experience, they're almost perfect.

Apple's mistake with the earlier metal ipod seems to have been not that it's made of metal, but that it's made of highly polished metal (which will of course be subject to scratching, fingerprints, is more slippery, etc).

"High-quality plastic" can easily suffer from the same issues if it's glossy; I own phone made from very glossy plastic, and while it's beautiful and extremely well made, it's also very slippery and very prone to picking up fingerprints.

So using a metal back with a less finicky finish, as they did with the iphone 5, seems a pretty reasonable move.
So far I've been very happy with iOS 6 on my third generation iPad. I might very well feel different if I used maps very often, but in fact I've used the old Google Maps app on the iPad so seldom that I wouldn't be able to make a reasonable comparison.

The main difference that I've noticed is that Safari is much more stable than the old version. Under iOS 5 I used to have Safari simply quit on me a couple of times a day. Now it only quits a couple of times a week, and, so far, only when browsing Facebook.
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I don't really get your analogy. I've never played Chutes and Ladders, so I would probably be annoyed, but if the game is as simple as you infer, I suspect I would be able to accomplish the goal fairly quickly.
Was looking for some translation guarantees or quality measures but could not find any.

Also the terms of service talk only about "videos" and there are things like

"LICENSE TO OTHER USERS: You further permit other users of the Sovee Service permission to view your videos for their personal, non-commercial purposes, including the right to copy and make derivative works from the videos to the extent necessary to view the videos. The foregoing licenses are in addition to any license you may decide to grant."

looks like this service not ready for any real world translation work.
> Strangely, Microsoft hasn't put the Bing app in the Canadian app store.

Isn't in my mainland europe store either, though I have "Bing Get MeThere" which is apparently for London traffic and public transport (I'm not in the UK).

> It's like the intern who's job it was to ready the international version got fired and nobody checked his pending workload.

And considering the biggest issues Apple Maps have are outside the US, really doesn't make much sense to promote Bing Maps when they're not available to those who'd benefit most from them.
Why do you want to have a startup?
Imagine you could create custom dashboards and debugging views for your domain types and your domain logic. Not just tailing the log and navigating some variables in a standard debugger.

I believe this will help immensely when approached from the right side, e.g. projects split into separate components with each having its own IDE setup (world, if you may) developed from the ground up together with the component itself.
Or they could have tried not bringing a water gun to a thermonuclear war.
Wood would be very beautiful and nice to touch, but it seems difficult to make it thin enough without having horrible durability problems.
I'm torn. On the one hand It's frustrating "major" tech new sites are now feature announcements for selected companies. On the other hand, this is a big problem. I do want a feed of cool new tech, but I guess I'd rather get it from the horse's mouth and decide whether I want to continue to follow or not.

Sorry this is OT, nothing against Snapjoy, I guess I just wish this was on the Snapjoy blog rather than from TC.
Lifestyle business vs Growth startup :)
Seconding this. If you remove the '-3' at the end, it redirects back to the URL above. Cheeky, I like it.
Agreed. But why not think about it? It's real.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Gruber. IOS6 Maps still suck balls.
A sensor of some kind seems like a natural and not very hard-to-do thing. Similar to the tags workers with potential radiation exposure wear to capture & monitor exposure over time, a sensor could capture heat, motion, etc and be retrieved via bluetooth or USB afterward (if not wirelessly in real time). Like a "black box" for your pet.

Has anyone made anything like this?
Agreed that it's all arbitrary/relative. But still interesting to think about.
Are you sure? Sometimes wonder if talking to inanimate objects is just standard behaviour in Starbucks...
Who cares about the timing? The maps experience, even with turn-by-turn, feels worse than what I had in iOS 5. I hate it when companies deliberately make things worse.
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