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It only failed when he left out the country name from the search. Once he added the country name the new map barely changed, but the new one got dramatically better.

The problem is very simple: The same city name shows in in multiple countries and the old map just didn't know which one he wanted.
Private pilot here. Mechanical attitude indicators don't need to be reset on level ground, when they first start spinning they're almost always tilted but once they spin up they level out on their own. Because they're driven by vacuum from the engine, sometimes they don't fully spin up and level out until the engine's being run up or takeoff.

I've always wondered how the attitude indicator self levels, and the OP's explanation sounds plausible. Next time I go flying I'll have to spend a few minutes in a constant rate turn to see if I can make the attitude indicator drift like he says it should.

Edit to add, here's a link to a youtube video showing the inner working of an AI, including the pendulous vanes, neat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUSklh3MKtA
Totally agree. I know, from many sources that a lot of human labor goes into making the Google data so good. They used to give out cookies to employees who would filter search results as porn/not porn. Algos can only get you so far.
There are quite a few arduino users waiting to make the move to 32 bit, arduino are not doing themselves any favours with their delayed offering, the appropriately named "due" and this is the third "arduino" like offering I've seen on kickstarter in the past month, the Galago, Teensy3 and now this, all trying to tease the developer scared of the raw GCC toolkit on to ARM.

The Raspberry Pi has actually emerged as the hardware of choice for the majority but while it has good support at the linux level, it is not so good down at the bare-metal level and the PCB layout, closed source drivers and choice of connectors were not the best for would-be hardware hackers (though many are trying and making progress).

RPi2 anyone?
Awesome. I'm just curious did you consider buying http://shoutt.it (if it was available)?
The lending market is just screwy right now, working capital is tough for a lot of smaller companies to get.
I wouldn't be suprised if they started making these sorts of loans to AUTHORS soon.
Couldn't be explained better. Do you teach?
Yeah, we need to give people some credit... If a dedicated stop button is the only thing left of the legacy tape machines and vcr's left us, then it makes sense to question that, too. Stopping the video by clicking on it is logical when no other options are given and everyone I've seen try this took about 3 seconds to figure it out. This gets even more logical if the video was originally started by clicking it.

Fitt's Law directly tells us how efficient "the video as button" approach is: if we presume that a hypothetical start/stop button is 1/10th of the width of the whole video (which would be one large button!) then the time to navigate to the button can be up to 10 times slower. (Testing this now with Hacker News' minuscule "reply" button.)

With touchscreens becoming more and more common, this probably becomes a standard anyway, as people are now starting to connect interacting with objects with the objects themselves, not with separate buttons.
Sorry but you don't have a clue what you're talking about. The problem IS the data.

Apple has four problems: (1) inaccurate street data coming from TomTom, (2) missing data for parks/green/open spaces, (3) missing internal data e.g. shopping centres, campuses and (4) missing POI data from Yelp.

The key difference between Google and Apple is that Google has initiated partnerships with key data providers in each country e.g. Whereis in Australia whilst Apple is relying mainly on two: TomTom and Yelp.
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Am I alone in enjoying "adaptive" and "perfective" code maintenance? Dashing off new code is fun, but making bad code into good code is immensely challenging and satisfying to me.

I think it's hard to write beautiful code straight off -- it very rarely happens to me, anyway. So for me, writing beautiful code is mostly perfective maintenance anyway -- or do I misunderstand?
Seems like fairly reasonable piece of hardware. But what I really dislike is the name. SoC is an established acronym in the industry, so at first I was thinking that they'd be developing their own free (as in speech) SoC. But instead they are just making yet another dev board for a proprietary SoC.
No IF/ELIF/ELSE necessary :)

take 100 $ zipWith (++) (cycle ["", "", "Fizz"]) $ cycle ["", "", "", "", "Buzz"]
Interestingly, the UK has just clarified that personal email/texts can be made public - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19775763
Google is good when it comes to managing the map data but it is hardly unique. Many data providers have been doing exactly what Google has for far longer.

And I don't see there being an increasing gap going forward. There simply isn't an unmanageably high turnover of street names/locations in most cities. And Yelp already handles turnover of POI data quite well.
This experiment is flawed. iOS 5's forward/reverse geocoders are using Apple's servers, just like iOS 6.

The only way to use Google's forward geocoder data is to make a REST request with your own API key using NSURLConnection yourself.

In iOS 4.x you can use MKReverseGeocoder which would return results from Google, but this class was rewritten in iOS 5 to be a thin layer on top of CLReverseGeocoder (using Apple's servers).
I think the upset is about the way they were treated after the problems were discovered, and not the problems. That fact that problems heaped upon problems should have meant the service became more attentive, not less.

Agreed that the pilots did the right thing, but the customer facing staff did not.

I think the question here is is this an institutional problem with AA, or a one off. From everything I can seen, and my own experiences flying in the US, this seems to be a regular issue for AA and other US airlines.
How do you get subscribers / traffic to reach 80k? Paid ads?
That's the ex-post return on equity, not the cost of equity. You could argue that the former is an approximation of the latter, but they are not necessarily the same.

Anyways, it's not really relevant for a small Amazon Seller who may get a _loan_ at which rate a huge S&P 500 business can get _capital_ (if a S&P 500 business wants a loan, I doubt it would typically even pay 5% these days).
Shoutt is a location based app. We are bringing the concept of shouting to your mobile phone - when you shoutt, only the people around you can hear you.

It's basically an information platform to share with people around you. It would work best in existing communities like colleges, neighborhoods and even cities. The network moves with you and connects you to the people you share the same time and location with. Also, there are no friends or followers. On Shoutt what you share is more important than who you are.

It's also a great way to find the most relevant information around you.
Similar story here, although I'm happy I got had this unpleasant experience with my first big website and learnt not to use them ever again.

This was my first website, over 2 years it had around 80M impressions and then suddenly, one day, everything gone. I was actually planning to drop out of school to continue with it as I had days where I was making $500-600 per day. Took a critical hit and the site actually fell through due to it. Fortunately, it happened before I dropped out and I'm happy about that, I try to avoid all ad networks now and try for private sponsors.
Thanks. It was, and we just bought it!
Maps need to be deeply integrated with other services, as in Google Now. This deep integration goes well beyond what map providers do. And this is where you'll see an increasing gap.

I'm in Tokyo right now, and I use my Google maps constantly, but I can imagine how much easier they could make it. I can already read Japanese web pages via Google translate, soon I'm sure the integration will be even better so I dont need to copy and paste addresses between. And Google Now would integrate all that with my calendar and contacts in my address book. If you've ever tried to read Japanese or interpret Tokyo addresses before Google's products, you'd understand the breakthrough here.

The needs are way beyond a map dataset. And we'll see how easy it is for Apple to just go out and license a few of those existing datasets you mention to get a product a deep as Google's.

EDIT: Integration is what -I'M- talking about because that will make the long term difference in a successful mobile product. Which is the real underlying question. And I dont see how Yelp's data can help me navigate Shibuya station (missing from Apple maps, very detailed on Google maps. Good thing as I got lost within the station a few days ago).
I think you're only right if you're just gauging interest for something you might build. Once you start building the product stops being (slash never was) that page you have to create, optimize and market just so you can double-opt-in users.
I find it interesting that the linked article is substantiative and provides data and thought-out conclusions derived from the data, whereas you replied with a snarky 3 word response. That's much of Hacker News in a nutshell.
Love it, orange and black is my favorite color combination. Idea seems interesting, too bad I am not stanford student.
I'm putting it off indefinitely for my iPod 4g, doesn't seem to add anything of use for me. Looks like the Apple way of minimising fragmentation works though!
Thank you very much, I'll start using this! Very elegant solution, indeed.
Amazon used that strategy to figure out which furniture manufacturers to carry. Drop-ship selling of furniture was quite big a few years back and when Amazon realized that they invited furniture retailers to join the marketplace. Once they had an idea of which items sold well, the return rates on those items, margins, etc. they formed relationships with the manufacturers and undercut the retailers by selling the same items themselves at lower prices. So it is both brilliant and very true.
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I will go to just about any length to avoid LHR. The only exception being when I am actually terminating in London and not transiting. It is really the most intentionally wretched airport I have ever visited, although they're all miserable in their own special ways.
I think it would be best if you didn't loop the little location aware hints. After a while, show one that says something like "Activities all around campus, now in realtime."
(or any other better marketing slogan)
"It's a tough natural language processing task"

It doesn't seem to be. For most part, it's the same e-mail headers that every other e-mail client uses to show threads: http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html
Why not just search for "sfo" or "airport", both of which return the airport correctly on iOS 6's maps? Typing out "san francisco international" and leaving out "airport" seems incredibly contrived.
Where is New Zealand on the icon and http://media.fogofworld.com/images/gpx.png? :P
>>measuring your waking body temperature as well (as an indication of your basal metabolic rate)

This would be quite meaningless, since there would be too many other variables to control. The average human body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, but fluctuates throughout the day by as much as 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit. Our bodies are cooler in the morning and warmer in the afternoon. In addition to level of physical activity, there are many other factors that affect the body's temperature, such as hunger, level of sleepiness, whether the person is sick, etc.

Basically I really doubt you'd see any kind of measurable change in the body's temperature just from standing up all day.
I really hope that this kind of ridiculous headlines get a much deserved backlash. It's the only hope to see fewer of them.
Yeah, thats a good idea. Will try and see what we can add. Thanks for that!
Apple relies a lot on Yelp for POI data which obviously isn't in NZ right now.

But I believe they will be there soon as they just launched in Australia and bought the NZ domain name. Yelp's strategy has been to partner with the local YellowPages equivalent.

So what you will see is a jump from bad data now to almost perfect data overnight.
Feel free to leave your email. We do plan to expand beyond Stanford in the future.
As a Filipino myself, I guess the president didn't completely understand what act he's signing. Additionally, cyber-libel inserted in the very last minute is not a very good practice. To take the fact that he's the senator that did some plagiarism and got what he called as "cyber bullied" by the online community.

Oops! I think what I said is enough. I might be charged with cyber-libel with this statement.
Two minor tweaks. As long as "An app for you and your campus" is going to be split across two lines, change where the line break is. I'd suggest "An app [line break] for you and your campus." This brings greater emphasis to the idea of "you and your campus," plus it makes that line and everything which follows (beta invite, exclusively at Stanford, and what do you want) increasingly long (left to right), helping the eye move through that part of the page.

Edit: I should add, though I'm seeing it after some other folks have suggested tweaks, I think it looks fantastic. Well done.
Google Maps != Google Now. So your use case is cool and may well be the future but that isn't what we are talking about here. My point is that street/POI data does not have a high turnover so the gap between Apple and Google will get closer not wider.

The interesting question is whether Apple is even going to bother to license data. They could well rely on Yelp's geo expansion to do the work for them. God knows what will happen if Yelp goes out of business though.
I have heard that drug patents are trivially circumvented by adding some irrelevant part to the active molecule. Instead it is the FDA approval process that prevents ripoffs.

Doesn't that mean pharma is the one industry where patents could be abolished with literally no consequence?
his previous work, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, was a fun read.
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> Why is it Firefox's problem if Apple didn't bother to go to the trouble of making non-Retina applications readable on a Retina display?

I'm not sure what they could have done beyond making sure Cocoa's text-rendering routines produce the right "retina" output. Which they do. Firefox (and Chrome) do their own text rendering and rasterizing, as far as OSX can see it they give it a big image to display. Not much OSX can do with that.
Not quite. You've added those to the body element (inline as well, which is a bad idea), whereas the background is on the #wrapper div. I'd suggest moving the background onto the body element, and adding the background-size definitions to the body element but within your CSS.

With that fixed, it looks very nice indeed.
Great point. We split it now to be
An app for you.
And your campus.

Looks good?
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I started learning PHP in W3Schools (http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp) for the basics. But after I got a hang of the syntax, I started a PHP project and just search in for some things I need. Mostly, stackoverflow got the answer for me.

I'm not a big fan of those step by step tutorial. I usually get into it just for their syntax. In my opinion, the best way to learn a language is to implement an application using it.

Good luck learning PHP!
Anyone care to do this for tech startups at large, for comparison purposes? If we're starting to see geographical diversification, that would be a (very) positive thing. Far too much talent and far too many networks are concentrated in the Bay Area.
I like the concept.

We recently A/B tested the hell out of our landing page at Sidelines (http://sidelinesapp.com), so there are some interesting things we learned that may be applicable to you:

1.	Coming up with an effective single-sentence explanation of your product will affect your conversion more than anything else. I don’t think you’ve quite nailed it with “An app for you and your campus.” Figure out what the most compelling use-case of your product is and make that clear on your landing page.

2.	Make sure your landing page looks great on mobile browsers (especially since yours is a mobile product). Right now, on Safari on my iPhone, I don’t even see the map.

3.	I would get rid of “Exclusively at Stanford University”, since I think it will turn off people from other schools. You should experiment with removing it or even better, showing it only if the IP of the person clicking the ad is in the Bay Area.

4.	I would get rid of the “What do you want to shoutt about?” I think for most people using these kinds of apps for the first few times, they start of as consumers of info/content and you later have to convert them to producers of content. Your value prop with “What do you want to shout about?”” here is all about the producer side, and I think that may not be as appealing for brand new users. Look at Twitter for example. Their landing page is all about the consumer value prop, and doesn’t mention the sharing aspect (“Find out what’s happening, right now, with the people and organizations you care about.”)

5.	A launch date and countdown would be awesome.

6.	Get people to connect their FB accounts instead of
just giving you their email. This way you could potentially send them FB notifications as well when you launch.

7.	Try putting your messaging front and center instead of to the bottom left. We got great results with this.

8.	Experiment, experiment, experiment. Anything I or anyone else here may tell you would just be intelligent guesses at what we think will work. You’ll get way better results from doing some quick A/B tests. We went from about 7% conversion to our landing page to about 55% conversion just by running a series of A/B tests.

Good luck!
So I can steal someone's phone, and just have it remind me of all that user's private info by walking around? Nifty.

Edit: I know the above is glib, and I'm not trying to rain on the parade of unbelievable achievements in data-wrangling that are going on here (I'd love to hear how it's done computationally), but I don't like knowing that all the privacy controls something like this deserves will be rolled out hastily in response to someone's life inevitably being ruined by the careless trust of one's life to a device that can fall out of their pocket. It's easy for the savvier of us on this site to say "serves them for not thinking to take precautions", but when we make it so easy to give a third party the reins, even we get complacent.
SkyScanner has better fares most of the times. But the sites it points to have bad reviews, so I have never yet tried booking though SkyScanner.
The pulses directly correspond to specific points on the map and we want the points to scale with the map on window resize. Making that change would require some more work from our end. We'll incorporate it later. Thanks though!
Depends on where you live: http://vore.cc/post/32503374905/old-maps-vs-new-maps
Yet a pedometer counts foot steps, not children. It's a weird language!
Last year Facebook and Twitter raised a combined $1.9 billion which should not be overlooked. Facebook particularly accounts for a full half of last year according to CrunchBase.

- http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter

- http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook
I used a standing desk at work for about four months earlier this year. I didn't like it because:

1. My feet would hurt from standing up all the time, which interfered with my concentration.

2. The desk was a continuous source of questions from coworkers. People would ask me how I built it, how much it cost, what benefits I've observed, and a ton of other stuff. I answered so many questions that I could go and sell stand-up desks for a living if I wanted.

3. It cost me 50 bucks in parts (from Home Depot) and 2.5 hours to build. I didn't have any previous carpentry experience, so I just nailed six wooden legs to a 1.5 x 4 feet board - it was basically a coffee table that I put on top of my existing table at work. While I saved a bunch of money, the end product wasn't sturdy enough to reliably support a laptop, a phone and an LCD monitor (plus my forearms) for extended periods of time. Occasionally it would start wobbling and I would need to hammer in the nails a little bit.

In the end I gave up because I decided that the potential health benefits were not worth the discomfort and the regular interruptions.
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> ... if you spend enough nights at a place, it calls it home

Finally! We can replace the old cliche where a girl has basically moved in with a guy once she has a toothbrush at his place, by a new one, where she has moved in once her phone calls his place home.
I like it! Pretty awesome designs. I like the spiderman sticker in the homepage.
I'm in Australia right now, working remotely 3 days a week from Seattle. My family lives here, and working remotely means I can see my friends and family in the evenings and on weekends, and not use up my vacation time while they're at work anyway. A month is long enough that I can work around other people's schedules to catch up, go away for a weekend with someone, etc instead of being all 'drop everything, I'm visiting!'. It's inconvenient being 18 hours off the home timezone, but it's not that bad and I would (will) do it again. The restrictions on communication have caused some trouble but mostly exposed holes where people aren't using expected status tools to keep records up to date, which is good to know anyway. Some of my coworkers I have gone away with on real vacations, so sharing an apartment with them for a bit doesn't sound that bad at all.

For me, visiting foreign lands for a week of sightseeing is lame anyway - I'd much rather go live there for a month in a regular rhythm, going grocery shopping and maybe for a drink after work. Different strokes.
I hear there's only 3 humans left in the world. I mean adult humans*

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Very helpful, thanks. Asymmetric keys explain it.
A lot of seriously dedicated "off-the-beaten-track" types will have solar chargers for their iPhones (or whatever), GPS works everywhere except near US Military Bases.

Or just switch their phones off, unless they need help, if you are lucky enough to have reception. The "off-the-beaten-track" types that I know use paper maps, or a Garmin GPS that lasts two days while continually using maps on two AA batteries, that can handle occasional drops and water.

I like hiking every now and then, but do not really see use for this. What does it give me over uploading my tracks on the many 'show my last hike track' websites?

Besides that, I can really see this being harmful for nature, people destroying vulnerable plants and animals just to remove a particular piece of fog. It's as sad as people completely 'flattening' a some spot to find a particular Geocache.

(I do like responsible Geocaching, but people should be made aware of damage that they could make.)
What kind of visas did they need? Does a tourist visa cover this activity?
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