skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is Apple.

See: The In-App Purchase controversy with eBooks and other applications. For example, did demanding the removal of all links to Amazon.com from the Kindle app (because Amazon didn't want to hand their eBook margin to Apple by using Apple's IAP API) make anyone other than Apple better off?
And why exactly would they go to all this trouble for displaying the correct number of stars in a password field?

Unless, of course, they use this local data for actual security purposes. In which case this is a huge gaping security hole and I wouldn't trust them with a bit of my data.
> In fact, if played correctly, I could see it as an acquisition target of a company like Github.

GitHub already has pages and wikis and is heavily invested in GFM and is killing it in the commercial market. Why would they want a non-Ruby reST product?

> You can make money and serve the open source community at the same time.

And Gittip might turn out to be a way to do that.

Maybe Eric wants to be a person, not an acquisition target.
If you think it's an American thing, go look up how IKEA avoids taxes sometime. In exactly what country do most companies voluntarily pay more tax than they're legally required to?
I really do hope they do.

I've been using the beta and all through it, there were no routing apps available for my area (San Antonio, so not exactly a tiny city, according to Wikipedia we are the 7th largest population wise)

Now that iOS 6 is out, I decided to give the Maps app a shot again. So I pulled it up, thought for a second since I am used to the old interface, clicked the wrong thing a couple times, finally got to where I needed to go. Scrolled through the saved list of directions that I've used in the past (very helpful). Clicked the bus button. Got routed to the App Store. There were 8 or so apps to pick from. Which ones sucked and which ones didn't, no idea. It's too new to tell.

Picked one at random, it's 99 cents, which is fine, I don't mind buying apps. It installs. And then sits there. Wait for a bit, maybe it's thinking or something (I'm on an iPhone 4, not 4S or 5). Okay, it's not. Go back into the maps app. It hasn't saved where I am, I'm back to the default screen. This time I remember so I go back to the directions. Click the bus button. Get routed back to the App Store again. This time the app I have says ROUTE. So I click it. It shows some introduction screen. I click the start button. Directions are blank.

Go back into maps, back to the directions, click the bus button, back to the App Store, click the route button, and the in the routing app, are two very different addresses than the ones I entered in to the Maps app. Scratch my head wondering how that happened.

Close Maps, close the routing app, delete the routing app, launch maps.google.com, get the bus schedule almost immediately.

I have no idea what anyone else's experiences are, but I have never been so disappointed.

Now as mentioned, I'm still on the iPhone 4, and I'm at the tail end of the contract, I believe next month is when I qualify for the upgrade without paying full price. I'm seriously looking at the S3, although the new report of the exploit via NFC is a bit troubling. I'm not particularly worried about the apps I've purchased on the iPhone. I've spent maybe 150 on apps on the almost 2 years I've had the phone, and as I was talking about it to a friend, he pointed out that as a smoker, I spend more than that per month on cigarettes, which really put things into perspective for me.

Never has Apple tastes so sour.
Agreed, the author attacks a strawman and then prescribes the most trite cliche in all of self-help: "do you what you love and the rest will take care of itself". Its anti-advice.

I've had essentially the same goals and dreams for over a decade, and still grow more deeply fascinated by the month. But I'm not getting any younger, old enough that I can no longer expect that things will naturally fall into place. That I too often find myself compulsively reading HN at 3pm and ahem navel-gazing at 3am, instead of "moving my feet" down the path of progress, is not due to a lack of love or inherent drive. Rather, its the steep learning curve against a background of distraction which disrupts "flow". Has for years.

I wish I hadn't thought so cynically of self-help when I was younger. But its only recently that I've found insightful any particular resources. "The Willpower Instinct" audiobook is readily available and highly recommended, and BJ Fogg's free program at tinyhabits.com complements it well. The lift.do app complements both (daily dont's can track your will-not-power). Also, the Pomodoro Technique is a good no-nonsense alternative to GTD and other complex productivity systems.

One last thing I read somewhere and keep in mind, was a study which showed that focusing on the positive outcomes of not doing [bad habit/thing] is more effective at changing behavior than fearing the anxiety and guilt felt after doing [bad habit/thing] (which was actually found to be counter-productive as a preventive technique).
No, the gist of my argument is that this isn't an additional security risk. Worrying about this is tantamount to looking at the lock on your front door, which itself is made out of plywood with a hollow center, and of course is attached to a house with several standard windows, not to mention sliding glass doors, one of which you tend to leave open all the time --and then screaming, "OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY DID THIS! THIS LOCK COULD BE CRACKED BY A GUY WITH A HAND SAW IN 5 MINUTES!!! THEY REALLY SHOULD GET A STRONGER LOCK!"
Hmm, since the case hasn't been concluded yet, does that mean that that is a valid thing to charge a person with?

Also, the part you quoted ends with:

> "The government, however, has interpreted the anti-hacking provisions to include activities such as violating a website’s terms of service or a company’s computer usage policy, a position a federal appeals court in April said means “millions of unsuspecting individuals would find that they are engaging in criminal conduct.” The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in limiting reach of the CFAA, said that violations of employee contract agreements and websites’ terms of service were better left to civil lawsuits."

Also of interest:

> The rulings by the 9th Circuit cover the West, and not Massachusetts, meaning they are not binding in Swartz’ prosecution. The Obama administration has declined to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
I welcome these changes. They might seem draconian at first, but I think it could do wonders to protect project supporters.

It could also serve to protect neophyte project originators who have no clue as to what it takes to get a hardware project from a rendering or a garage prototype to a real finished product.

There are a myriad of technologies available today to produce very high quality prototypes that look like the finished product. Forcing project originators to show an actual product rather than a rendering will simply force them to make the time and financial investment to get the project to a far deeper level of completion and really think it all thorough.

If someone will not take the time and spend the money to put together a prototype that is a real representation of what it is they are proposing I don't think they belong on Kickstarter.

I would imagine that it would still be OK to show renderings and animations so long as the actual physical product is shown as well. The reason I think this is important is that this can also show supporters important details that may not be evident or easy to demonstrate with actual products. For example, animations could show internal mechanism and how they work. 3D renderings could show ideas on variants or configurations for backers to discuss and provide feedback for.

I have a couple of projects that have been slated for Kickstarter for months. I've been too busy with work to really get to them. In both cases my approach has been to fully develop the items to the point that they are basically ready to manufacture. The Kickstarter push would simply serve to gage interest and pay for tooling and other NRE's that would make it possible to fabricate the items in reasonable quantities at a decent cost. Of course, I've been in product design and manufacturing for a long, long time so I tend to be very realistic about what it takes to get something done. I've seen projects go on Kickstarter that would not have a chance in hell to be completed at the requested funding level. Not a good thing.

Above all, what this indicates is that Kickstarter is watching and listening, which is excellent.
It matters a lot in whether or not you should /implement/ your design, not whether you should try and patent it.
It's not in the plaintext of the HTML. It's in the DOM. You know, the think that you can hook in to capture your password when you type it in...
There isn't an issue in creating a process to bring business models into new markets that are working. It's innovative in a way and that's cool.

But it's not cool how they at least used to operate: contact US startups that had traction, and tell them they wanted to invest and bring them into EU. Ask for info on the business. Then, clone it.

As a side note it actually isn't great to have such a short cycle between startup traction and inevitable cloning. It means small startups have to rely on things like (gasp) the patent system to protect themselves from paying upfront to work out a business model only to have someone come in immediately to fragment the market.
In the rich world, people seem to be driving less than they used to.
So this is sort of like a Meetup with no specific shared interest/activity, except a vaguely romantic objective?
Hold on a minute... Apple had already started working on replacing Google Maps approximately a year before Google had launched a single Android device?

Wow. Just wow. Now we see how strategically brilliant (and utterly necessary) Android actually was.
Good to see it got a maintainer. We use this gem together with postfix, all mails goes to postfix will be redirected to the gem. Then we use this postfix server for all our apps on staging, works pretty well.
Not going to lie, I backed my first kickstarter project the other day with Boosted Boards. When I decided to back it my thought process was "Oh, get it in May, perfect timing for my brothers birthday"... now I understand, it might never come.
The G4 Cube doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. It was a work of art.
I guess it depends what the idea actually is but I'd suggest forging ahead anyway - there is always going to be someone out there with the same idea.
I think it would be hard to market a product without being able to show prototypes and mockups and whatnot.
Wonderful. So, now owners of the iPhone 4 and 4s will have two options:

1) Upgrade to a newer version of iOS to patch the exploit, and suffer a major functionality regression with regard to maps.

2) Not upgrade and risk having all the personal information on the phone stolen by a malicious website.
> Apple and Google frequently get more free passes compared to Microsoft

Microsoft used up their free passes almost 20 years ago now.
Hope no one using Apple's iOS6 maps tries to land a plane at the "Airport Strip" in Mississauga. Its a strip club.
http://getsentry.com/ Is already doing it. Sentry is opensource https://github.com/getsentry and hosted service.
I'm loving the product so far, thank you very much!
Ask HN: Given IFTTT, is Zapier affected and how should I forward tweets?
I don't know the specifics, but is the Zapier integration of forwarding tweets to other apps in jeopardy? I ask because we use it.

Then, if IFTTT/Zaiper are gone, what's the best way to take tweets "from/about [subject]" and forward them elsewhere?
Their investors obviously got tired of waiting for a return. When that happens at any VC-backed company they start ratcheting up the pressure on the CEO and executive team. And if they don't start generating a return quickly enough, they put their own guy in place. So co-founder Evan Williams moved on from his CEO position in late 2010 and the new leadership purged the old guard. Dick Costolo took over.

Either it took 2 years for his profit strategy to come together or the pressure started ratcheting up on him, too. After all, investors have sunk a silly amount of money into Twitter; they expect a return.

Either way, I wouldn't want to work at Twitter right now...
> There is one way Apple's maps already surpass Google's: no advertising.

For now. Let's not forgot Apple tried to push full screen, "interactive" iAds. While banners ads have been more popular, the extra screen real estate on the iPhone 5 could eventually become devoted to ads.
I think it's inevitable that twitter will one say shut off all third-party access. I work on a service now that uses twitter, and I fully expect it to be removed soon.
I kind of read it as this: in light of all the self-help "do the work" type discourse that's been flying around the internet/HN, maybe think about how much time you're spending reading that sort of stuff. What does that tell you?
or by sending you the email while it's still stored in memory from you signing up
What if the pilot has a feature phone with no maps at all??? Think of the children!
Jim Dalrymple (who is an unofficial mouthpiece for Apple) says nope:

http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/09/20/on-the-rumor-that-goog...

If I were Google, I'd hold off on releasing a Maps for iOS just a little while. It's firmly in the "killer app" category at the moment and might help spur Android adoption just a little.
I think it is less about the customers being out-of-touch with transit users and more about the decisionmakers and the developers...
Given that Apple already has two Apple-branded chips on board, that's somewhat likely.

Some of the chips, specifically ones that are mostly analog or mixed analog/digital, will likely remain discreet for quite a while.
You seem to have misunderstood "mere accusations."

Takedowns due to "mere accusations" to me means that I can fire off an e-mail if I see a kickstarter project that looks sketchy and have it taken down post-haste.

To me, that is highly suboptimal.
Empirically, the iOS App Store is not a marketplace like ebay, either.
Basically, encryption allows you to expose data to the public without disclosing its contents by keeping another, usually much smaller, piece of data private (the key).

In this case, your passwords should be private to begin with. If they are accidentally exposed, it's likely that the key is also exposed, so you gain little. You can't hide the key because you need to use it to e.g. authenticate people logging in.

It's a bit like a business keeping all of their cash in a safe to protect it, but because they have so many people who need to access the safe, they basically have to write the combination on the door.

Hashing passwords is like a sealed black box where you can go up to it and say, "Bob is here and claims his password is X, is that right?" and the box will give you a yes or no, but it's extremely difficult to crack it open and get at the actual passwords. Much more secure than the safe, which really does little in this case.
There is also https://github.com/MSOpenTech - that has the redis 2.4 version for Windows using bksave-cow (background save in a thread with copy-on-write) instead of fork()/save...
Indeed. The implication here is that, generally, "Hardware and Product Design" projects always fail. But rather than ban them entirely, they are simply preventing anyone from "marketing" them. So you can still do a hardware project, you just have to sell it via the plan and specs only, without sexy adornment. That seems fair.
It looks like a pretty good product to me. I think it's silly they have forced it onto people already but I wouldn't say it's bad. Just not as good as the competition yet.
So the word "fanboy" is not an accurate term to describe anyone or the level of discourse about a subject?

You think that everybody on this website is engaging in rational, high-minded discourse?

It's easy to assume every mind is a willing convert. It takes a realist to understand that many minds are already made up based on bullshit and bad logic and you will never change those minds.

You're just as closed-minded as the "fanboys" I decry. Don't take the easy way out.
Okay sure, I'll try again. I see what you're saying - I thought you meant a quick distillation of the key argument, but you were asking for a restatement in an equally convincing, albeit clearer, voice.

"What right does Greenspan have to condemn Facebook on the grounds of social value? Just because Greenspan finds Facebook distasteful, does that mean Mark Zuckerberg and those who work at Facebook are wrong to do so, or wrong to find pleasure and satisfaction in their work - or that those who use and enjoy the site and its services are fools? Facebook breaks no laws, and the terms of our society clearly stipulate that, provided we recognise the law, we are free to choose what we value and the paths we follow. We all have our own definitions of value, and clearly many people find Facebook both useful and a source of pleasure in their lives. Who is Greenspan to say that they are wrong?

Indeed, what right do sideline critics in general have to spurn the work of entrepreneurs simply because they "fail" to meet their personal defintion of social value? I propose a label for such efforts to enforce one's own moral standards through guilt: Founder's Guilt Complex. I think this is hokum. Sure, some entrepreneurs may choose to tackle the "big" problems - poverty and disease, for instance (and bravo for them) - but there is plenty of space in our society for ostensibly less "high-minded" ventures. I am all for noble endeavour, but I believe the boundaries of what we consider worthwhile are and must be wider. After all, much that is good has come from unexpected sources.

Life is complex, and we all have our own ideas about value. You may think that something I enjoy (such as reading Latin) is frivolous, and vice versa, but our mutual opinions do not negate the fact of our mutual pleasure. So, unless there is active harm, please leave your judgement and criticism at the door."
I have a simple question: is the root to all of this infrastructure problems (proxys, abstractions, etc.), the fact that Java introduces a fear of changing state (i.e. the existence of the "private" keyword) ? Since Java guards private variables so effectively and proselytizes a fear of state, the natural evolution of the community to build these layers.

Clojure is not a good comparison, since it avoids fear using immutable state.
Ruby/Python is also not a good comparison since, well, it does not respect the privacy of state in any manner. The frameworks that have naturally evolved there, reflect the philosophy of need-to-keep-things-simple (which is the only way to work in a world where state cant be abstracted out).

Perhaps if you ask someone to build a Java framework WITHOUT using the "private" keyword, maybe it will lead to a whole different revolution ;)
No, you'd like the App Store to be a marketplace, but the way it's operated since its inception clearly demonstrates that Apple, as is their right, runs it as a curated store.
> The iPhone is $200.

The cheapest new iPhone on sale (the iPhone 4) is $450. If you think it costs less, that's because you have let Apple and the carriers fool you.

The cheapest Android, meanwhile, is less than $100. Even better, you can even get a new Galaxy Nexus for $100 less than the cheapest new iPhone.
the collusion of private actors from acting against the common good

Net neutrality is not, per se the issue. it is one policy x of a set [X]. The argument/stratgem maybe far too narrow in scope to address the entire set [X], if for no other reason that its technical reference x not [X]. That was part of the larger point being made. There are alot of [laws] one may be breaking at the same time. If you are cute withrule Z an equally-hypertechnical look at law W might not be good. And if you try to undermine some of them (viz: a sythetic transaction) they are structured to see through to the end effect (don't care about the structure). So, if you are cutting off [insert name here] services to legally protected classes, for example, net neutrality might be the least of one's worries. And it might not matter the method. etc

Just something to think about. Also, this comment doesn't have anything to do with texas or whatever. Its just a general precaution. The issue is one of pre-texted market collusion, which being subject to abuse, is a dangerous precendent to allow.
I agree. It's a serious vulnerability. But it's not the sci-fi crowded subway car hack that the headline implies.
The attribute name may be obfuscated, but it appears to be always the same (at least in my browsers): bc673ea54a2b7153aaafbf178e9b0892e1f2e56be5aaa5a7
This would kill Kickstarter.
When I saw the title and URL, I initially thought that it was an extension to integrate HN comments with the actual articles. That would be pretty cool too.
Just because some startups don't start out with a viable business model does not mean that all startups follow this model; there are plenty of startups being created with clear ideas about how to turn their idea into a business.

The definition of a startup is, technically, a newly established company. There is no reason to subvert the terminology.
I bet not
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-...
Sacha,

If you are interested, I would love to team up with you to contribute an open source design and I will do the markup. As a developer, I have long hated the design of many sites. After the awesome redesign of http://git-scm.com/ I wanted to make contribute another design to one of the terrible OSS sites that are out there. What do you say, are you interested in teaming up?
I guess in that sense, my 'map app' (a photo of the street I live on) also surpasses google's because it doesn't have any ads.

No, maps are not of any use if you can't use them and rely on them. It has nothing to do with how Google chose to monetize it. If your ad-free version works well enough - great. But the whole point is that the new maps don't work well enough.
My portfolio is at http://twogiraffes.com
Living with Your Introvert
That's weird, because I have Google Voice and three other browsers on my iPhone...
Then they could have spent the money hiring armies like Google's to get the map data right.
Companies look the other way re: ToS violations all the time, when it benefits them. Then, when it threatens them, they take it all away. How is this surprising?

The larger discussion point here is what twitter stands to lose and gain by alienating integration.
Actually, proof that a provocative but false headline on HN will still get the sheep to vote up your article. ;-)
Turn-by-turn Field Test: Apple Maps vs. Google Maps
Microsoft should run for president. Isn't this one of the qualifications?
Ig Nobels feature exploding colonoscopies and left leaning views of Eiffel Tower
Like an HN toolbar similar to the reddit toolbar? That would be great, maybe I will do that next. Probably wouldn't be that hard.
Lots of companies let you bring dogs to the office. Instead of taking care of the puppy at home they can all bring their puppies to work. I'm not sure whether that's adorable or just strange.

OTOH, I'm not sure giving away puppies as a job perk is really in the best interest of the puppies....