skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry. You missed the point. Google wants as many people to use youtube & search. It makes money via ads on both. Having it as default is good (google pays money to FF to be default for example) and even if it is not the default, people can use google by typing google.com in safari. From there, the experience is identical.

Similarly for youtube, google wants the widest audience. Wider the audience, more the ads and more money.

If apple switches from google to bing for safari default, apple gets to spite google a bit and google may lose quite a bit of traffic. This hurts Google. Google will never want to block iOS users from search or youtube.

Secondly, neither is a competitive advantage in smartphone markets. No one is going to switch platforms for either search or youtube.

Maps on the other hand, does not have much advertising. The previous app did not have any advertising at all. They got location data from it but they can get that from android phones. Google loses nothing if they don't release an app. If they don't release an app, it is a great advantage for android. So they have a tradeoff to make, whether to maintain that competitive advantage or release a maps app and gain some audience. If I were google, I wouldn't release maps. For the first time ever, android is way way ahead of iOS in one of the core features.
They do not start/stop.
Duplicate of : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550441
If what you say is true – which I have to disagree with: If you built a third-party Maps app that duplicates the functionality, you would most certainly be subject to API fees – there is the secondary issue of Apple allowing Maps (and Youtube, for that matter) to completely stagnate. The iOS 5 version of Maps was still a pretty poor experience for the timeframe, even if you feel it was better than the new version.

What incentive was there for Google to back Apple's poor implementations when they can just release their own versions that actually bring the features Google wants to offer their customers on their own schedule, as they are doing now?
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> Java logging is a clusterfuck

Care to explain? Logback is easy to configure and extremely efficient

> Something as simple as wanting symbolic links in a Maven build requires a third party plugin, last updated in 2007 (maven-junction-plugin) that requires something no longer in the central repo;

If you are still using Maven it's your problem. Switch to Gradle and your life will be much better.

> No lambdas yet;

True, but if you really need them use Groovy or Scala. Groovy 2.0 is almost as fast as Java and Scala is fun.

> Type erasure in generics and the consequences thereof (eg inability to create generics of primitive types unlike C#);

True, but doesn't this lack of feature harm framework developers mostly? The same people which the article is critiquing.

> Checked exceptions;

You can just ignore them when you write new code. If you have to deal with code that throws them, just deal with them. Most of the modern frameworks nowadays don't use them.

> No function references, lambdas, etc (still a year+ away);

Groovy, Scala and the favorite kid on the block, Clojure

> Eclipse is a hot mess (IMHO). And, no, for Java at least, vim/emacs simply are no better. IntelliJ is but for some reason they insist on making it hard to make plugins as their API changes every major version. Jetbrains seems to be going out of their way to make it hard;

This is the only point for which I tend to agree. Eclipse is difficult to work with. IntelliJ on the other hand is a valid alternative. These days I mostly code in Sublime Text 2 though.
by the way, the post you link to was on Quora before I signed-up. I mention it in a post last year called, Confessions of a Quora Newbie. Many thanks!
This has a lot of ads. Scared me of possibility of abusing my twitter account in the future. Do we know and trust the owners of this? How long have you been using it, is it accurate?
Well, Apple's lack of innovation is going to remain in the spotlight for a very long time. At least they didn't copy Google Maps lol
Headstart over whaat? Even ie10 has it.
> Find the traitor: who sold our emails to spammers

username+trapkeyword@gmail.com
I mean, you still have to support IE6-9 in the meantime.
It's not. Saying that everyone should murder (all the time), and not doing it, would be hypocrisy.
But yeah, you're right. People would probably be distracted by the whole "murder" thing.

Even if there's no consensus on whether some beliefs are good or bad, such as in politics, doesn't hypocrisy show some sort of "character flaw" in the perpetrator? It's dishonest to push views you don't hold yourself, or rules you don't even try to live by.
I'm not sure, why should someone rely on long polling alone. Default fallback mechanism is websockets (supported on iOS), long polling (not supported anymore, obviously) and then follows separate ajax calls. It is not uncommon that something in this sequence would break by design, unsupportedness or bad data connection, so fallback should be used.
It already has that, to some extent.

When you click somewhere, one of the options you get is “Report a Problem” which lets you say that something is missing or indicate where a point of interest _should_ be by placing a pin.
IOS6 design - what's going on?
This isn't about CSS at all!
The dialer on my old treo looked better. Am i the only one upset by this? Don't even get me started on the new appstore...
IOS6 Maps are bad? Google Maps aren't that much better
Extreme amounts of bad press is streaming out of every snarling vehement blogging apple fan boy and hater alike due to their somewhat lacking in user testing / quality control over their new "we can do it on our own" maps.

Annoyingly, everyone seems to be ignoring all those times where Google maps have been less than adequate. All those times "canoe across the river and back again" direction instructions, the fact that it still can't navigate around my home city (Cardiff, Wales, UK) and then there is the absolute blocker for me with this whole Google ecosystem: Google location services.

Now I'm not sure entirely why this has been SO bad at getting my location, but since I upgraded my Galaxy Nexus to the latest Jelly bean, I have not reliably been able to use the GPS or any location services. The same goes for my Nexus 7.

It thinks I'm in Washington DC. Or at some college library in the states. I assure you, I've never been to the states, and when my Facebook updates say I'm currently posting from Seattle Heights, or that when you open the maps app on my device, and get a map of the west coast of the US rather than a map of the bottom of Wales, just remember that a shit map with a working GPS is better than having no idea where you are.
As a Swiss I'm amazed to find this all over the news today. I didn't even know that this train station clock design is that famous.
Personally I would run a grep to find if someone has already been doing that. This is also difficult to use in forgotten password forms.
Fascinating! 1961-2 was such a formative time, I look forward to following his Jetsons analysis. To put it in context of the times: The first human was sent into space, Kennedy vowed to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade, the first quasar was discovered at Mt Palomar California, people were building backyard fallout shelters in case of nuclear war, the first US rocket landed on the moon, the first American orbited the earth, the oral polio vaccine came into use, the first trans-Atlantic television signal was relayed, the US Airforce began investigating using lasers to intercept missiles...
Too little, too late - they don't need 6 developers working for 6 months to improve their map code; they need 600 mappers/data entry guys/data-gathering car drivers for a few years to improve their map data instead.
Have you tried defending that notion in court? Actually I think the inventor is the party who has the highest marketing budget to spend.
Our memcached server bit the dust, and it took a while to populate a new cache machine so we could switch back to dynamic serving. In the meantime, our Varnish box served the static cache (showing up to step 8). So our teardown team was still working like mad, and it took the servers a bit of time to catch up.
By selling luxury watches to Chinese millionaires.
Isn't this likely to result in bad things happening to Instapaper? If this messes up Instapaper for people who are careful to visit NYT infrequently and save stories to Instapaper (me!) then I'll be unhappy.
That was more a reference to the Swartz case. But there too, jstor was more than one hop away.
If you've read the article, the issue is with unique POST requests coming from client-side. That kind of behavior is absolutely unacceptable.
Yes, except that many websites (most?) erroneously forbid using a "+" sign in an email address. This drives me nuts but there's not much you can do. Sometimes I try to disable client-side validation, only to find that the check is performed again on the server.

It would be interesting to build a webmail service that would allow this same functionality with another character, maybe an underscore (of course that would mean that addresses could not contain underscores).

The other solution is to use Mailinator; but all email sent to it is public so it's less than ideal.
My http://unicodelovehotel.com site has really been coming in handy lately.
Often, they execute more efficiently than the companies they copy.

Easy to say when the guy out front is taking all the arrows. Onlive went out of business because they had too much capital tied up in servers and not enough customers. Competitors now know that tying up money in servers is not the way to go. A fatally, expensive lesson learned by a technological leader.
Most services don't seem to think that's a valid address.
Just be happy you don't live in Ireland.

[1] Our prime minister explaining what cloud computing is - "A wireless connection to shared storage" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzaQxLFl3rQ

[2] A senator explaining why the abundance of rain on the west coast of Ireland makes it particularly suitable as a base for, wait for it, _cloud_ technology - https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056460271
Unicodelovehotel.com was on hacker news a while back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837359

Check out the source to see all the fallbacks I implemented to make at least something show up in most browsers/platforms.
Now this makes sense. As I said below, it seems really strange that this would go unnoticed, especially since one-connection-per-domain affects all sites and not just ones doing long polling.

Still a pretty bad bug, though.
I've been using NCrunch for some time now, and really enjoy the instant feedback it gives on failed tests. It constantly chugs away in the background like a faithful dog.

I can see things like Instant C# meaning I have to build less: a great productivity enhancer.
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The Swiss had the right idea, but they made a crucial mistake in their implementation: they completely missed that people might want to look at the watch while on the move, and opted for a stationary, heavy and immobile implementation.

By putting it onto a small, portable device, Apple arguably added the crucial ingredient to make it a mass success (billions of users instead of a few Swiss citizens, who even have to be forced by their government to use it).

So I think Apple added the most important aspect to the mix and should therefore be considered the inventors of the clock design.
Open-source editor built on HTML, CSS and JavaScript
You know about the Mailinator second email address to prevent exactly this problem? (http://mailinator.blogspot.ch/2008/03/introducing-alternate-...)
>Say again? Open-sourcing equals abandonment?

More often than not, yes. Open-sourcing is where lots of commercial products go to die.

>It's such a shame that it and Linux have no future -- after all, they're open source, "and presumed abandoned."

Ho ho, I appreciate the sarcasm, but it's misplaced. Linux was open source all along and carrying on a gigantic community. LibreOffice too.

Projects like TextMate usually don't fare as well when open sourced. There are lots of examples.
Just renamed my wireless networks with a cityscape and bar theme: https://img.skitch.com/20120921-8r3d1uchbsphatfjf9iuc9wx2c.p...
Unfortunately, it won't solve the problem for all iOS users. For example the WebSocket protocol is blocked on most UK 3G networks (e.g. O2's censorship proxy only handles real HTTP traffic)
Bah, the "foo mentioned you on twitter.." SMS' kept me in the loop.. Now I probably won't even notice :(
They only use javascript to grab the content of the page - nothing illegal. If anything NYTimes should upgrade their blocking and redirect away from the actual article.
And the funny thing is

Mondaine clocks may be good for a train station, where they are meant to be read at a distance, by people with less than 20/20 vision

But it doesn't present any real advantage on an iPhone

Too much skeumorphism again
Spamgourmet (http://www.spamgourmet.com) is a service that allows you to do something like this, and more.
I don't see anything wrong. Could you describe your worries?
Nobody seems to have provided any quotes or citations yet that indicate that Apple had to pay Google.

Such a maps app is more like a browser visiting maps.google.com - browser vendors also don't pay for doing that.
Node js open source social media automation app, interested to collaborate
Just hoping to maybe find some other people working on similar projects or who may be interested in this one, basically I'm hacking on a node js project with some ideas to integrate social media platforms to automate some tasks that may be useful to a user, using various API's of the social media websites. The end goal is to use light heuristic AI to perform some tasks

Example:

User is browsing a group they like on a website like meetup and then decides they want to connect with similar users on linkedin, it would use linkedin api and grab users based on some search parameters taken from the meetup page they are viewing (would be from meetup api actually)

I have some simpler use cases in mind too, more of an exploratory project and good practice for my node js skills as I'm new to it, but if anyone is interested to work on a fron-end (my app is just json api, no front-end) I would be more than happy to collaborate.

just get in touch through my git hub page if interested:

https://github.com/devs1010/Node-Js-Social-Media-Automation-App/blob/master/twitter.js
It's easy to just remove that +... part at the spammers side - I mean, it's the most common trick in the book, a spammer would have to be stupid not to handle that.

A great service to simplify and pinpoint spam sellers is http://leemail.com/ - I've been using it for a while and it's working great.
Apple's 1.0 release are always kind of buggy. I remember iOS 5.0 was really buggy, and OS X 10.X.0 releases are notorious.
Actually, you really can't. A very good & common security process is to keep your payment system separate from the rest of the site.
Sneakemail.com has been around for years, and basically works exactly as described in the article.
This blog is not on Svbtle. It's is a stolen copy of Svbtle's design; even the code is copied and pasted.

How is this acceptable?
The image on your error page made me hesitate clicking the Reload button.
Services for the first one have been around since the beginning. There are 3 or 4 instances of such web services, most notably http://useqwitter.com

The idea of service+username@email.com subscription is utilized by many admins who run mail servers and demand granular control over whitelists. I do it with couple of my domains that have catch-all.

Here's my idea you guys could steal. I'm giving it away for free. A social network where you connect people with their friends and relatives. Now go build it!
How easy it is to set up untraceable companies
Over 2,000 devs gathered at NHN 2012 DEVIEW. What have you missed?
I believe it uses wp-svbtle as many people do https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle
My link was to the code that made xkcd #1100 ;)
Your arguments are invalid:

1. Swiss people are not forced to use the railway, the literally love it. Also the design was licensed by other European railway companies e.g. Deutsche Bahn

2. You can already buy mobile devices (watches) and even a licensed iOS mobile app with the design. E.g. the German edition http://www.bahn.de/bahnshop1435/shopxml/design/zeitzeichen/a... or the Swiss original http://www.sbbshop.ch/pub/index.php?page=goods&c=8&l...
So I'll never get my Hexy the Hexapod kit or my Ouya console?
Your "basic math" fails on many levels.

1) "an average speed of 35mph in the city" is not going to happen. In Manhattan that's 15 MPH. In midtown Manhattan it's 1.7 MPH. So 10 MPH on average would be more realistic.

2) You forgot gas

3) You forgot tickets

4) You forgot car insurance

5) You forgot car maintenance

6) You forgot car accidents and the cost of replacement

7) You forgot tolls

8) You forgot lawsuit costs

9) You forgot parking costs (and time to drive from and to parking)

10) You forgot the costs of the hiring process (try hiring 10 drivers in 10 days)

11) You forgot the cost of routing of all these cars (you have to organize 10,000 cars somehow)

12) Your guess of $40,000/car for design, approval, production of a specialized car is way off.

13) You forgot server costs (stitching the images)

14) You forgot storage costs (storing, transferring) millions of photos.

15) You forgot IT and management costs to support all this shit. $8M will buy you a few executives in charge of this project.

16) Your estimate of $10/hr for the driver salary is way off (assuming it's just a driver, and not a trained technician). Average salary of a cab drive in NYC is $25/hr. Chicago - $17/hr. Los Angeles - $17.5/hr. That's not counting the benefits - health insurance, social security, etc.
People who aren't serious don't really matter, unless they become serious. The new design will alienate people who had gotten used to it and enjoyed that it was easy to find the resources they needed. Also, any language not already attracting new users probably won't have many incentives for keeping them around (I'm thinking of lisp with its scary parentheses).

Being fairly new to programming myself, I've actually noticed that the most powerful languages usually have websites with terrible aesthetics. It usually means that instead of worrying about how the site looks, most of the people involved are solving problems with the language. The only changes come when usability is hindered.
Fair point. Why not directly contact the author of the blog?

May be more productive than derailing the HN thread on the content of his post.
Public WHOIS for better email deliverability
From the FAQ:

Isn't this unoriginal?

Yes, in the same way svbtle is unoriginal. See the original ["inspiration" for svbtle].
All those things are already done, I can't believe this got upvoted.

As an example, take a look at this: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=sms+backup&c=apps
Dealbreaker :(
Thats a very interesting article.

What about a crowd sourced financing option, but different to kickstarter?

Kickstarter is not a financing option, its a "pre-order" system in which the crowd pays upfront for their product, and is not owed any profits or equity from the business.

i propose a crowd funding financing option, where you propose your product, and propose the amount of equity you are willing to give out. Say, you give out 50% equity. Each crowd funder can pay their desired amount, and will get a % of the equity that is equal to their contribution divided by the total (which is unknown till the end of the funding round). For example, if 10 people all contributed $10 each, then each will get $10/$100=10% of the 50% equity, or 5% of the total equity.

I expect that a game could be funded by thousands of people, each paying a few dollars each. The profit structure could be that each % of the equity is worth that much of the profits from the sale of the game.

The game developer(s) thus have full creative control, and the risk of failure is spread to many thousands.
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Yeah, but those are not really digital, so they are irrelevant.
Apple has the power to change the web on a whim. If this isn't fixed it could cause almost every web-service to actually send a `Cache-Control: no-cache` header on it's POST responses. A long shot, but maybe they are doing this deliberately (like they did with <video> vs flash) for some reason?
The PHP site doesn't need a massive facelift, but honestly, this is actually a bit of a problem. The site is basically just a hosting of the resources already, why not make it easier to find things from inside the site?
Well, it's in Unicode... why not recreate the control character smiley faces from the US IBM code page? :)
"On the other hand, you might consider simply finding what you love, and letting the rest take care of itself."

damned if this isn't the mantra of pretty much every self-help/self-improvement guru out there. And in writing this, the article basically goes back on its own premise.
I don't get it. IFTTT complies with the new API policies. Infact, cool stuff like IFTTT is exactly what twitter should be looking for as platform apps which use their API creatively.
Bluetooth was originally included but disabled

What?
This should have more love on HackerNews - fascinating article.
Please let the Swiss speak for themselves as to whether they are honored or offended by this. There's nothing more annoying than having somebody else tell you how to feel about something.

For my part (and I'm Swiss, for what it's worth) I appreciate the homage; though I fully understand SBB/CFF's need to protect the trademark. These clocks in Switzerland are iconic and immediately associated with the SBB/CFF. Much like Apple needs to protect its trademark & trade dress in order to remain full owner, SBB/CFF must protect its design.
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If someone thinks of himself as racist, then he probably don't think racism is bad, so there's no consensus.

EDIT: eh, I've read your post again and I'm wrong, you're right, it's the same situation.

But is racist with with friends of other races really classical example of hypocrisy? I hadn't encountered it (but I live in monocultural country).
Pretty unlikely, especially undocumented anywhere. I'd ascribe that to stupidity rather than malice and would guess they tried to change something in the caching subsystem (e.g. cache POST with an explicit cache-control spec — makes sense for a mobile phone) and they broke the default case.

This would be supported by max-age: 0 failing to make resources "uncacheable".
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