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Hmm, mature, tested, and working platform now, or broken and weak platform which may be better "in a few years".

Difficult decision.
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Without knowing the details of the Apple-Google contract, it's still hard to say. It's entirely possible that Google forbade use of directions for turn-by-turn navigation in it.
If metformin works for cancer the way aspirin does for heart disease, with an overall long-term prophylactic effect, people will just take metformin. It is very easy to get metformin.
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You need a domain to get information about a person, such as where their server is.

That domain does not have to be the server they use for microblogging or whathaveyou. It shouldn't be, honestly. You can host your identity anywhere and point to the microblogging server using a link.

So, I can be wilkie@mydomain.net, as familiar as an email address which is REALLY important for usability; the UI can drop the domain if you think it is ugly or hinders readability, and we go on from there.

This is what webfinger + xrd gives you: http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/wiki/WebFingerProtocol

It's already used by status.net, rstat.us, etc etc. tent.io ignores it and wants to reinvent everything.

Now I can switch microblogging sites if I want by just pointing to a new one. But, just like changing your name is a hassle in real-life, changing where your identity is held is also hard. Using DNS and having your own server for at least your identity are ideal.
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You're only going to take metformin if you have risk factors and/or metabolic syndrome/diabetes. Metformin has side effects. It's not as simple as aspirin.

(I'm not on it, but my wife was after our first kid was born and there was a concern about gestational diabetes).
Subway salads & In&Out protein style or McDonalds burgers & milkshakes style fast food?
Might be interesting if it's used on the mobile version of skype.
YC accepted the guys who did the Pebble watch back when it was the InPulse for Blackberry.

There are also hardware specific incubators and accelerators. Most hardware base startups will have some software component
It's the people who worry about the flavor of the week (the early followers, if you will) who take the language from "sexy, trendy, and unstable" to "productive, stable, serious, and pragmatic."
> I am trying to run a command line flag in Google Chrome. I have no clue how its done, so I went to the 'how-to' page here ...

But the page you linked is about chromium, not Chrome. Similar but not identical. This would have been a better choice:

http://www.ericdlarson.com/misc/chrome_command_line_flags.ht...

Here's an example of a launch with an argument (in a shell session):

$ google-chrome http://news.ycombinator.com/

And with a flag:

$ google-chrome --make-default-browser
I almost feel like for any of these to truly win (besides FB) they have to be somehow integrated into the browsers.
That analysis sounds like nonsense.

His options #1 and #3 are a false and (and misleading) dichotomy. (#1 being continue as is, and #3 being cut the cord)

Of course apple wants to ship its own mapping stuff once it can. But there's no reason it can't continue as-is until their own stuff is done.

So Gruber's claiming some kind obviousness here which is based entirely on the fiction that there was no middle ground. Based on his analysis of decisions made by people he can't even name and certainly doesn't know, he so confident in this that he insinuates that Google (and of course Apple) would have come to the same conclusion, thus that Google is lying about being suprised.

I think that's reading waaaayy to much into all this. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Of course google expected apple to do this at some point. The surprising part is that they did it so early, when their own stuff is hardly done, when the alternative (wait a little longer) has so few apparent downsides.
What 'regulatory approval' does it take to ship a printer to e.g. Europe? Is this to do with CE marks, or shipping chemicals or something? $300 per customer extra seems rather a lot.
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Do you use addons like noscript or refcontrol maybe?
This one won: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So5LnQB7iyE
AFAIK it will be used in future skype versions!
The brilliant jerk will sabotage a growing company.

When the company is no longer relying on their expertise the jerk needs to supplement the adrenaline rush of being important, so they create drama around the new people you have brought on board, justified or not.

That is the case for firing them. It is something of a 'coming of age' for a startup when amazing employees can't handle the growth outside of the garage.

If the jerk is not sabotaging the growth then by all means, give them new challenges that are crucial to the company.. but perhaps you don't actually have a brilliant jerk problem. You have a brilliant employee who can learn to change and grow with the company. That is not what the article is describing.
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Thanks! I actually just used upstart for the first time, previously I'd always created daemons.
I see you're talking about Android circa 2009. We're talking about Apple's new Maps app.
Seems like a monetized CatBlock that you can choose to use in lieu of buying your music normally. Can't say I see a problem with that. Ad injection without the additional blocking has been subsidizing free wifi for years now.
> lack of VirtualAlloc() and VirtualProtect() functions

While these API not be in the "modern" SDK, the system calls behind them still work just fine. (They have to: otherwise, malloc wouldn't work.)

You can walk ntdll's export table manually and find NtProtectVirtualMemory and friends.

Also, SYSENTER is a thing.
I think that they could have a far higher conversion rate at a better price. I'd immediately switch to a paid plan if the service was $2 to $4 per month, even if it is beta and has a small number of users, just to try it out. $12 is far to high to 'impulse subscribe', and most paying users will probably not use a lot of disk space or bandwidth.
Has there been discussions about handling private data in Private content? Yes - and there have been efforts in making that possible in OStatus, but since OStatus itself is just made up of other specifications it currently awaits those other specifications to get extended in a way that supports this - not sure what the current status really is.

I personally though would prefer to have the main use case - the one with just public data - work first and learn from that and get that rolling before moving to the more complex stuff.
YouTube already has copyright infringement bots that mark copyrighted content and either give the holder the option to put ads on it or take it down.

Search also puts a lot of effort into identifying duplicated content to punish content farms. I've heard they're making progress on detecting algorithmically spun articles too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning).

Oh, and they have it for images. Here's the search result for the one they used: https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZivFQlmjC8rcxWC0MZ...

So yes, it'd be trivial for them to do so.
This sort of ad replacement has actually been done plenty of times before, by malware and by shady toolbars. Pretty much no one is going to be okay with this: the music industry and the US government hate the guy's guts; it's directly stealing money from Google; it wants to directly compete with iTunes; it's directly stealing money from every random blogger and press outlet that might cover it; and other companies doing exactly this was responsible for destroying Microsoft Windows' reputation in the eyes of consumers. Oh, and it's a backdoor held by someone considered wildly untrustworthy. So on the list of parties that have a vested interest in seeing it fail, we have:

- The music industry
- The US government
- All ad-supported press outlets and blogs
- Microsoft, Apple, and Google
- The computer security industry

Oh, and it's also probably illegal (under copyright and tortious interference grounds). I think this is really just a signaling ploy; Dotcom wants to be able to say that he tried to come up with a monetization model for the music industry. But to say that this is doomed a fairly significant understatement.
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Very funny. Unfortunately I was talking about the Maps application, of which Android's offer is currently better in every conceivable way.
I find it a little baffling the amount of animus Apple's mapping has generated on HN. The alternative to Apple doing their own mapping was to continue relying on Google. How is it not a great thing that Apple is competing with them on this? Don't we need more well capitalized global mapping infrastructure?
Bummer. Try https://wiki.projectmeshnet.org/Hyperboria
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Ultimately I suspect the up-front cost of any non-trivial software project may be the tip of the iceberg. Yes, it's still a saving, but the risk (to the charity) is that they unwittingly take on a maintenance burden they would not have wanted with the benefit of hindsight.

Sounds like the only viable answer is to have a grown-up conversation with the charity, just to make sure they go into this kind of arrangement with their eyes wide open.

(Sorry, talking to myself, thinking out loud)
I completely disagree with your comment about perceived distance from ATT.

When I was using Twilio to write a telephony-capable web app, my main motivation was that Twilio made it dead simple to get from zero to phone calls. No sales people, no digging through stale brochure sites, no "fill out this form and someone will call you" enterprise sales process -- just provide a credit card, get an API key, read the docs. They totally empowered me as a developer to jump right into an area which traditionally takes a lot of inside knowledge to navigate.

I've met some Twilio folks before, and I went to their hackathon/startup weekend event a while back -- the sense I get is that they are strong on culture and have solid, core definitions about who they are. I understand the "stink will rub off" concern, and that is definitely something which has happened to other startups, but the Twilio team has earned my trust and I would continue recommending them.
DHH said on Twitter "this will ship as default-on in Rails 4.0 Gemfile" - https://twitter.com/dhh/status/251024691337244672
Yeah, like Java. :P
> Nobody loves Java

You don't, and I don't, but some people do.
Good article!

Sorry to be nitpicky but the font size/line-height makes it really hard to read. Perhaps make both a bit bigger for optimal reading?
let me know if turning lastpass off helps
Setting noscript to allow all on page worked - sorry for the bother. Edit: it did work the very first time for some reason (I wanted to have a work and personal account).
> But all three of those options came with a heavy price.

Maybe for Apple Inc, but a better Google Maps app (#2) isn't a "heavy price" for the user.
I am a beginner so can you walk me through the steps from step 1?

I am in Terminal right now, is that step 1?
Step 2, what do I type in there? I need simple, clear instructions like that because I don't know anything about this.
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It's odd to me that Google was allowed to go through growing pains, but another company attempting to do the same be criticized for it. Seriously - would you expect Google to make a different decision if the roles were reversed?

Re: your reply below. Well, that I believe. It had better be since it's had those years to perfect itself. And I can understand why people would be unhappy with the switch away from Google Maps on iOS - if it were as good as that on Android. Which is wasn't, and sounds like would have been an ordeal to make it so. Google didn't make the app, Apple did. Why put the effort into perfecting the Google Maps app, when they could put that same (more obviously) effort into perfecting their own?
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll keep that in mind.
That is certainly a possibility. Its kind of a sucky place to be where you have to choose between one bright engineer or a bunch of less bright engineers because they can't work together.
The business model is that it'll have users install software that replaces 15% of third party ads on web pages with their own ads. This sort of ad replacement has actually been done plenty of times before: by malware and by shady toolbars. Pretty much no one is going to be okay with this. The music industry and the US government hate the guy's guts; it's directly stealing money from Google; it wants to directly compete with iTunes; it's directly stealing money from every random blogger and press outlet that might cover it; and other companies doing exactly this was responsible for destroying Microsoft Windows' reputation in the eyes of consumers. Oh, and it's a backdoor held by someone considered wildly untrustworthy. So on the list of parties that have a vested interest in seeing it fail, we have:

- The music industry
- The US government
- All ad-supported press outlets and blogs
- Microsoft, Apple, and Google
- The computer security industry

Oh, and it's also probably illegal (under copyright and tortious interference grounds). I think this is really just a signaling ploy; Dotcom wants to be able to say that he tried to come up with a monetization model for the music industry. But to say that this is doomed a fairly significant understatement.
That was it, I needed to allow more than just the top page.
Has anyone seen the Motorola phones they're criticizing? The DROID line is really, really good. The newer DROID releases have a Blur that is even more minimal than the already very-minimal recent Blur. When I watched the demo of the RAZR I (with Intel), I was floored at how clean Blur was and how close to stock it was.

Turns out, the RAZR M that's available like, everywhere, is also the same way. Huge screen, smallest bezel I've ever seen, same form as the iPhone 5.

I was a lot, lot, lot more worried about Android a year or two ago. A year or two ago Blur was god damn awful. And irremovable. And there were NO phones on the market that offered an updated experience or an unlocked bootloader. Today, we have the Nexus line. We have Motorola and Samsung offering "Developer" edition phones that we can load our own OS onto.

tl;dr Android customization has been reigned in, though likely because of consumers buying in patterns and HTC/Moto/Samsung realizing that fewer and cleaner modifications in Android allow them to perform updates faster.

(also, I think Google would do themselves a favor in more than one way by accepting T-Mobile Theme Chooser into Android proper so that Motorola/HTC/Samsung could use that to provide visual differentiation instead of brewing their own theming jars.
>>> For my research I am using Wizard on data sets with ~3 million rows, and it works like a champ.
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Is there anything in particular that's available in Java that you couldn't get in Go or Python?

A cross-platform UI toolkit that's pretty good all things considered? A reporting toolkit that produces PDFs according to custom templates?

(Swing and JasperReports, respectively)
By the time the packet sniffer says that my password has been compromised, it's too late to do anything about it. I suppose I could come up with a new password, test it while watching for no network traffic, and if there was none then go ahead and use the password. I'd rather teach people not to type their passwords into random web sites, though.
I've been playing with pjax lately, and it works really well - there's a very subtle improvement with rendering pages, and it does feel faster. Looking forward to trying out Turbolinks.
There is also the possibility that Apple truly wants the full Google Maps experience on iOS. However, if they bundle it in, then they could be perceived as leaking more user data. But if Google releases the app, and users have to consciously install it, they can't blame Apple (well, they might blame Apple unfairly) for violating their privacy or the overall spirit of iOS.
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Precisely the one I was thinking of. I love that page.
My guess is you read Gruber's summary of the WSJ story but didn't take the time to read the WSJ story itself. Google refused to provide Apple with turn-by-turn. Turn-by-turn is a huge win for users.
It's not novel at all, really -- this technique has been used many times before.

The only gotcha is: all the software that's used this technique before has been malware.
I'm inclined to believe that $250,000 could provide temporary motivation, but over the long haul I feel the effects would start to wear off returning you to the same state you feel with an income of virtually any level (incomes which do not fulfill basic needs perhaps excluded).
You're right, saying that you were whining was out of line and I apologize for it. It is what I would say to my real-life friends to challenge them, but it is not appropriate with someone I don't know well and in any event it is not appropriate on Hacker News.

However, I hope you understand why I had that reaction. It is because you complained about how hard it is to get ideas like yours heard (and certainly "complaint" is a fair word for what you have written) rather than taking it as your responsibility to find a solution. I do take some offense at that, because I have some close friends that have worked very hard to become academically established so that they can find collaborators and get their ideas disseminated. You don't seem to value this work, or you consider it not worth your time. Rather than do it you are content to leave your work to "internet archaeologists" of a "more scientific" era.

Actually I agree with you that it's difficult to get revolutionary ideas heard (let alone funded), and that members of the scientific establishment sometimes go out of their way to stifle ideas that could threaten the theories on which they have built their careers. And today I think many professional academics would agree with you also. It's always been this way. What I admire is people who take this difficult terrain as a given and find a way to get to their destination anyway. These are the people that have driven human understanding forward. Of course it's hard, but it's an acknowledged part of the job description.
For the most part you could piggyback off the Google Docs API and SDKs if need be.
It likely didn't exist yet. These things take time.
On a related note, the folks at LLBLGen wrote a post on getting a non-WinRT desktop app listed in the Windows Store:

http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2012/09/12/the-windows...

The process looks completely messed up and will likely turn off many Windows developers (like myself).
As another mentioned, email has this issue. Email (smtp) is a federated system, much like http. Basically, we can all have our own clients, servers, and live on our own, but still interact as a whole. Just like ostatus powered websites. It then inherits all of these scenarios.

Users can be migrated, although it is easier if the identity is separated properly. Webfinger does exist to solve a lot of the migration headaches by allowing a well-known place to link all of your services to a common identity. You want to migrate? Just link to that new service. You then have to multicast some announcement, which is the hard part, and messy... but possible. Webfinger is usable from status.net, rstat.us etc etc... but they also allow you to host your identity with them.

Your privacy argument thus holds true for email as it is a pull system where your email can be read by any intermediary server. You solve this problem in both instances with keypair encryption. The problem is not a technical flaw (closed, centralized systems are opaque about your data, which can be seen as worse.) but rather a flaw in presenting and educating people to use secure practices if privacy is desired.
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And I would say that it's totally up to any OStatus client to improve on that in their UI if they want to. Mobile phones and e-mail clients rarely uses the raw numbers and e-mail addresses in their UI:s but instead uses data from eg. an address book to make it more userfriendly.
Turn-by-turn is not so great in Germany. Traffic info sucks. Both of those are much better in Apple's new maps (especially the traffic info, extremely current and detailed).

Sure, that's limited, but it isn't all bad.
Once they get the manufacturers to stop using different launchers and dialers, then they'll also have to stop users from selecting different apps for each intent to preserve the purity of Android as Matias and Andy intended it. Or they could just not bother and let people buy whatever phone they like and install whatever they want on it.

Is TouchWiz Angry Birds really that different from MotoBlur Angry Birds or CyanogenMod Angry Birds?
Whenever anything with Facebook goes up on Hacker News why does at least one person always feel like mentioning that either they "dislike using facebook" or "don't use facebook at all"?
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Thanks for making this. This is exactly what I imagined when I first saw that XKCD.
Please, this guy. He defends Apple as if it were a deity. I don't think I've ever seen a truly substantial criticism of Apple come out of him. Do we really believe that Apple is infallible?

It makes sense for Apple to seek liberation from Google's chokehold on Maps, and to make plans to deploy this when it was ready. So, out of his extremely malformed recounting of Apple's available options, choice #3 is the best in the long term, but it's not the best choice right now, when Apple's in-house version is leading people down dead-ends into wooded areas when they're almost out of gas (http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/post/31930446388/neithe...) and doing similarly perilous things all the time. This should be blatantly obvious to everyone.

iPhone would continue to thrive even with less featureful maps support. The addition of Latitude would not be an invasion of privacy as Gruber suggests, because it's off by default and in fact when I try to enable Latitude (on road trips, so family can track progress) I typically have a hard time finding it. While neither option 1 nor option 2 is ideal for Apple, both were plausible, reasonable solutions until their in-house maps solution was ready. This, again, should be obvious.

It is immensely irresponsible to rip out something as critical and relied upon, not just for convenience but for safety, as Maps and replace it with a half-baked, disastrously incomplete lookalike. I totally sympathize with Apple wanting out of Google's grip, but we need to be serious here. They released far, far too early, and their draconian and self-serving policies for App Store inclusion have left customers (in some cases literally) stranded.

Apple did a bad thing with this maps release. I would call Google right up and strike a deal to push an OTA update that put the old maps back right away if I were them.
That is what the WSJ reported.
Probably this would help :) http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwinningracecond...
rstat.us has at least one user running on linode as well. Not much more to the set-up. deploying straight to AWS is also... surprisingly easy.
I was thinking the same thing! I actually considered doing something like this (using the image as a game map) last week, and being able to jump/fly around with a jetpack or something (or maybe import antigravity), but then realized I had no idea where to even begin. This project will be an excellent starting point.
Just launched a free Apple help site that uses iMessage and FaceTime, ask away!