skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - I remember the exact moment I first saw google maps and their clever ajaxy magical behavior. The only time I recall being so astonished by technology was the first time I used an iPhone.

Google Maps was the iPhone of Mapping, and continues to be so. And, much the same way others are pretty good (Bing Maps isn't bad) - they are all still compared to Google Maps.

Apple Maps is the Zune? No, that's not a good comparison, the Zune was a competent technical product. The Kin? Maybe not that bad. Apple maps is the Kindle Fire (original) of Mapping. Starts off kind of crappy, but might turn into something better with a lot of work. People will still want an iPad though.
If piling engineers can solve problems, MS would not be still struggling in mobile space.

Anyway I would rather wait for google maps. Just like I use Dropbox instead of iCloud. Sometimes you should not waste resource on things you are not good at.
The point isn't if IFTTT violated the ToS. The point is that if IFTTT violates it, then the ToS needs to change.

Twitter succeeded because it was a dumb, open pipe that developers made awesome apps for. Twitter is now acting like they don't have developers to thank for their success.
It's not about being "ugly" and needing help to become "beautiful". It's what you are trying to tell people.

Partly, it's a good thing if these sites look a bit amateurish, because they should look grassroots. It should look like: wow, I can join this. It should look authentic.

A nice example of this is www.drupal.org (where you can join) versus www.drupal.com (where you should "buy").

The new Git website is very nice. But is also a very mature project. It doesn't need help from thousands of people. It needs a lot of consumers and maybe some brilliant minds to share their
ideas.

What the Go website tells: this is a very young project (not even a logo), we have some backing from Google (hence the name and the colours), we have something good (by calling it "easy" and "reliable"), but we could need your help (by still calling it "The Project") and you might want to try (look you can even try it top-left on our homepage) this if you are curious and want to have fun (see our goofy, eye-rolling, mascot).
Nope. Maps is a huge differentiator. Search & Youtube is not. Windows and Android phones have good maps, iOS doesn't. No one will care much if the search is switched to bing or if youtube was not available as an app. Also youtube makes it money via ads which it shows in the latest app. I don't think google is monetizing maps much.
I think the Python Software Foundation was asking for redesign proposals for the Python site a while ago; so we might see some improvements for the Python site. I don't find the Python site particularly ugly, but I think the docs could improve a lot. Same goes for a lot of other python frameworks that use the default Sphinx template.
https://gist.github.com/3739562

Russ Cox and Dennis Ritchie remind us (from a decade or two ago) that just because you can, doesn't mean you should
I also can't downvote you, but the comment you refer is apprpriate, correctly written and to the point. The problem is that you don't like the content. That is not what voting is for.

On the other hand, your comment (and this one of mine) are pure meta-comments complaining without content.
For years and years writers have been able to employ sarcasm and dark wit without resorting to blatant labels tipping off the reader, "Joke ahead!"

Why now is this linguistic bludgeon required?
Meanwhile I'm having the opposite experience: my phone is more valuable today than it was yesterday.

The driving directions are quite nice, it's vector based so the map can rotate any which way, I think the colors are better at locating nearby green space to visit, and I can click on local restaurants to right to their Yelp reviews. Given the angry mob I was expecting to hate it, but I've actually been impressed.

I think it has a lot to do with where you live, how well Apple localized it for your language, and what features you care about (ex: driving vs. transit).
It's kind of silly to say that - Apple under Jobs did make several mistakes, over the history of the company. It's just that your recent image of Jobs is someone who was consistently successful, but even there Ping is a good counter example.

To look at a single flaw and then say "oh this is because Jobs is no longer there" is without warrant. Now, if there is a systematic decline in quality of products and services over several months/years, your claim begins to carry more weight.
It's nice to see them using Github more, but I'm surprised to see that creating a simple todo app is this much work: https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-mobile-services/commit...
> ... it's hard to believe Apple don't have automated tests to check for performance regressions like that.

Well, I mean, this is the same company that has received "some press" recently regarding the latest version of its mapping application.

Edit: That was a low blow, wasn't it?
You shouldn't take a look at anyone's config. When you spot a problem or limitation in your config, google a bit, read the documentation and improve your config.

Your config is yours, not his: his custom mappings and functions and plugins may or may not be sensible or improve or even fit in your workflow.

Add to that the clear fact that the guy doesn't seem to know what he is doing… seriously, that comment about s is just dumb.

set nocompatible is a red flag, look for it!
In Steve's words, this is a great "steal".

They probably thought the clock company should feel honored about it. I would like to see their faces now.
Hell, even elinks does:

Name: max_connections_to_host
Type: Integer [1..8]
Value: 8

Description:
Maximum number of concurrent connections to a given host.
I was thinking the same thing. If you limit rewards to '1' of the product you won't have any $1,000 or $5,000 backers. Hard to get to $1M at $100 a throw.
Right, one of the (many) things that Japan takes to the point of absurdity is brand licensing. If any sort of media content becomes successful, particularly anime/manga or J-pop artists, you can be sure that there will be branded drinks, foods, restaurants, toys, outfits, even red-light district "services".

Maybe it's just that coming from suburban America, I'm used to spending more time in a car (isolated from the visuals and sounds of ads) and the population density is lower, but the advertising/branding just seems that much more intense in Tokyo. Then again, I've been to NYC, and it didn't feel like that - for example, the train stations didn't have ads.
> There's nothing satirical about that. It's pretty obvious this is about perceived hypocrisy on Apple's part.

That's what I'm saying. This is pretty clear-cut. There's going to be a lawsuit. It's definitely ironic, and maybe a bit hypocritical, but when does it get actually funny?

Aside from the fact that it's IP infringement, this doesn't have a lot to do with the Samsung suit, and it doesn't even have that to do with Braun, which is whence the concept of "homage" enters the Apple lexicon. So where be the satire here?
Paranoia, maybe? But yeah, it's rather pointless. Even more so since GPS vendors have access to the algorithm.
> It's hard to know how many people feel like they're shopping at a store when they're backing projects on Kickstarter.

I'm feeling more like dumping money in the toilet and thinking "Hey. Maybe magic fairy will bring me some cool gifts next year in some vague relation to this act of me dumping money in the toilet."

I keep my fingers crossed for Ouya and new Total Annihilation.
Apple doesn't seem to be using OSM data in Maps, they're getting it from TomTom. They experimented with OSM in iPhoto, not sure what happened there.
I think the biggest thing, which is something Google can't bring to the table, is that any app that used the native API will now loom like crap. (iirc, that's how it worked)
A bit ironic that CNet is ripping off 2 other sites to tell us this.
Eclipse worked just fine in Ubuntu for me, although it's by no means my primary IDE.
scott forstall, apparently
Well... maybe I'm being too hyperbolic. But, I am under the impression that Safari is still the default handler for http things. So, links from the mail app or maps will open in Safari. I don't think it's that outrageous to suggest that malicious links have ever been sent via email.

We can all sit here on HN and say that you shouldn't just go around clicking on everything that arrives in your inbox, but phishing is still something that banks deal with.
Wikipedia has had article URLs with emojis for quite some time now:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🍔 -> Hamburger

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💩 -> Feces

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/👀 -> Human eye

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🏧 -> Automated teller machine
They should stick to making cool casings for tech that is two months ahead of what everybody else is working on.
PHP's main page is a good example of how not to design a main page.

- The first thing the user sees is a massive wall of text. The whole site looks visually cluttered. Everything is arranged haphazardly.

- The more useful parts (e.g. the introduction, documentation links, download links) are hidden away in small corners of the site.

- The relatively useless Events and News sections take up >80% of the site.

Python's site looks slightly better, but not by much.
Isn't google map data vector based too? Their maps rotate on android..
So, I /really/ made myself look like an idiot here:

>you can get l3 switches with enough cam for that and a few 10G ports for little more than half that.

Because I was confusing TCAM with DRAM; rather different sorts of things. (and that, I'd classify as a mistake of inattention. I made other mistakes in that message due to lack of knowledge, but, uh, yeah; I'm not usually /that/ dumb.)

Anyhow, uh, yeah. Looks like I also misunderstood what the parent comment was trying to do (/increase/ the size of the lookup table by breaking larger blocks into /24s, in order to reduce the number of cycles the CPU spends on the lookup.)

So yeah, in full? I'd delete my comment that I'm responding to here if I could. As I can't, I'd like to acknowledge my ignorance, for the record.

If I could rewrite that, I'd say something to the effect that huge amounts of effort have gone into making TCAM obsolete, and so far? well, progress is being made, but the progress isn't moving any faster than line-rates are going up, as far as I can tell. There are very smart people working on the problem, and they say it's a big problem. (my understanding and experience, as a sysadmin that also deals with networks, is that your linux-based PC routers can route something between 1G and 10G of line-rate small packets. Above that, PC routers can't cope with the PPS.)

Note, uh, I do have two spare E3 xeons laying about the office, and 10G interface cards for both, as well as (at least for a short while longer) two nice arista brand 10G switches, so if you are in the sunnyvale area, and you do want to test an idea or bench the current state of the art of software routers, well, it's something I've gotta do anyhow. I still don't have anything even attempting to route my new 10GbE Cogent port. (I've split off a 1Gbe connection using a switch, and plugged the 1Gbe connection into my existing quagga router.)
I might be wrong here, but if you're using long polling in your webapp, shouldn't you be using a randomized wildcard subdomain anyways? For example, Quora uses #.tch.quora.com as their long polling hostname, with the #-part randomized for each of the browser tab, which effectively allows for an unlimited number of concurrent connections to a single IP address.

I mean, even though Chrome allows 6+ concurrent connections to a single hostname, nothing's stopping users from opening 10 tabs of your application.
I don't own an android phone. I'm only comparing my iOS map app from yesterday to my iOS map app today.
No idea how many things they're testing but it does mention:

In testing, the 120-megapixel camera, combined with the computer vision algorithms, generated 810 false alarms per hour; with a human operator strapped into the EEG, that drops down to just five false alarms per hour.
Never on iOS though. Most of the features Google added to the Android version of Maps never made it to iOS, for whatever reason (be it Apple not allowing it or Google decided they didn't want to).
Settle down. It's just the logistics of socializing, not predatory.
sorry about the multiple posts. I did this on an app and it apparently failed miserably.
Show HN: Pandora Account Takeover Tool
This is a digression, but I have trouble with the idea of hypocrisy in general. It's difficult for me to conceive that, morally, espousing wrong beliefs and adhering to them in one's personal life is better than espousing wrong beliefs while at least doing the right thing oneself.

(Assuming the people who made these decisions have any interaction with each other:) If intellectual property is well grounded, Apple is right to defend their own, but wrong to copy others'. If it is not, they are wrong to defend their own, but justified in using others'. Yes, they are wrong in either case, but tu quoque is the sorry refuge taken to avoid having to admit that they are also right in either.
if we're being generous, maybe apple just thought that it was a Swiss train station clock nobody cares about (which, in a way, is what the clock actually was), which their team kind of just came across (maybe in switzerland!) and thought they liked it despite its being unremarkable and uncelebrated, like "found art". oops.

this just goes to show that good art really is timeless. it's not about bs marketing hyping up art that isn't art without the hype. as apple just found out, it's still art without the hype.
Sophos recognizes its own updater as virus
It actually takes courage to disengage from a group setting in order to signify romantic interest in someone you don't know very well. The comfortable thing to do is remain in the group setting.
With a little luck some developers from the Nokia maps team come on board and show Apple how a real maps application is supposed to work.
Yeah, it's an Australian $2 coin in one of the photos. I'm quite surprised that being ~16 hours ahead of the competition is worth an airfare to Australia but impressed nonetheless.
"Jobs was not being perfect at QA, and frequently made questionable decisions" does not contradict "Jobs was better than Cook at QA".
Linux Desktops on a diet (Rasterman)
I wonder why they disallowed selling vapor hardware but still allow equally vapor software? Of course I wouldn't be surprised if vapor software would bring significant portion of kickstarters income, so banning it would harm significantly their bottom line.
You seem to be mistaken. Some operating systems display them as colour images, but that is not essential at all. They are mapped to Unicode characters, and so when displayed as characters, as in normal applications with an appropriate font, they are vector-based and monochrome. See e.g. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
>If I get a S3 or an iPhone 5 via AT&T, the cost will be the same over 2 years.

Americans deserve what they get, good and hard.
I think this very in depth look at the history of gender targeting in Legos will help anyone think through these tough issues...

http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/01/lego-gender-part-1-...

A key critique of what Legos have become is that they enforce oppressive gender roles - boys build fire trucks; girls build hair salons - and that goes much deeper than the color of the blocks.

To my eyes, this toy looks empowering.
I realize that this seems to be a bit against the majority opinion, but I've had no problems with the new Maps. Yesterday I had it direct me on an 80 mile round-trip, and it sent me exactly how Google would have.

Since I also don't live in a good area for transit, Maps is an improvement for me. Obviously it isn't for other people, but it still feels weird watching all the fuss over it.
I'm using long polling in our application and I don't see that one connection per server restriction here.

I did however see that safari was not leaving the loading state (and thus not firing any of the loaded events, nor hiding the URL bar) if I started the long polling connection before the page was fully loaded.

Once I moved opening the connection to a setTimeout callback inside the onLoad handler (so not DOM ready, but actual load), this went away and the page works normally.
Internet Explorer's huge security hole
But one question is, does Apple's copy do any damage to the original designer? It is obvious that Samsung is hoping to "steal" iPhone sales; it is obvious that Apple did not do Braun's defunct products any harm. But how about this case? I'm undecided, but I still think Apple should have licensed the design.
Remember this is a company with billions of dollars in the bank, and collecting street imagery is a very parallelizable task.

Lets do some basic math. Lets say you pay a driver $10/hr to drive 8 hrs a day at an average speed of 35mph in the city. That is about 250 miles covered per driver, per day and $80. So you do that for 10 days and that is 2,500 miles for $800.

Now you build 10,000 cars with street view like capabilities, call it $40,000 per car, perhaps you get a car maker to help you perhaps not. that is 400M$ for cars, and 10,000 drivers is $8M for 10 days and 250 million miles. You haven't even spent close to a billion dollars and you've got street view like imagery for every major city on the planet in 10 days. Run this program for a year and you cover every road twice with your 10,000 drivers.

Its certainly doable by Apple if they choose to go that route.
Need a Job? You’d Better Learn to Code
It seems like they "fixed" people being able to read the passwords by replacing the the form value with __USE_EXISTING__...

It's still trivial to automate account takeover though. Here's a PoC to take over pandora accounts on your network using MITMProxy and Tornado: https://github.com/JackWink/Pandora-Account-Takeover-Tool
To put it simply, it's because it sucks balls.
These are unicode codepoints and handled just fine everywhere but on Apple gear, and (I think IE6/XP). If you've never seen them it means you are on Apple or never bothered to install the fonts.
Remember the time Tim cook said, that Apple cannot be the developer for the whole world?
What about original IPad owners who can't upgrade to IOS6.
The point is, Apple makes no bones about it being a carbon copy. If you asked them, they would throw their hands up in frustration and say, that is the entire point.

They absolutely intended for anyone who see's this clock to immediately recognize they were paying tribute to the original.

Traditionally, designers have appreciated these little nods of respect.

I'm not sure what happened with SBB, but I'm sure it will play out to their benefit.

In the case of Samsung, Apple _wanted_ Samsung to pull their product from the market. In the case of SBB, it would be slap to their face if Apple just decided to yank their clock off the iPad.

Hopefully it will all work out for the best - Apple will license the likeness for some moderate fee, and everyone walks away happy.
I submitted that post, so I have some vested interest in this. I came across this bug because I was converting one of my web apps to use the new iOS 6 feature of being able to upload photos from your Camera Roll to a web site.

However, when you upload a picture, apparently, they are all called image.jpg. Since the image name never changed, every time I uploaded a new pic, the first pic was being returned. I couldn't understand why, and as usual, stackoverflow had a good answer for me. I needed to add a timestamp option to my URL in order to work around this behavior.
I think hypocrisy is used most often when there's no consensus whether some beliefs are bad, and supporters of one view use hypocrisy of supporters of the other to make an argument.

When someone says "murdering people is OK" and then doesn't murder - nobody is going to accuse him of hypocrisy ;)
I see the sets as a way of defining constraint, i.e. establishing what an approved construction standard is. It then becomes possible for someone with extra bricks to invent a new model that fits in with the same scale/standards. Look at the fan-created models that scale to the modular building standard established by the Cafe Corner/Greengrocer sets for example. Sometimes a set of reasonable constraints leads to more creativity than there would be in a completely open environment.
End of the Manned Spaceflight Era?
Please, quit "pulling out the dead guy card". Ask why iOS 6 Maps shipped, but quit saying SJ wouldn't have allowed it to ship. I doubt you knew Jobs and, even if you did, I doubt you have any clue what he would have done in this situation.
Abound? ... I've just scrolled up and down and see nothing. I didn't even see many of them in the thread about the Swiss watch. But snarky anti-Apple-fanboy comments? Dozens of them.

It's official: Apple fanboys are the vegans of HN.
I believe the restriction is "only single keep-alive connection". This makes sense to me, no need for multiple overhead if one connection will saturate your bandwidth. It will open multiple if the server does not support keep-alive.

Workaround is easy:
make sure your long-polling connection is not keep-alive connection.
Take a slice of that rubbish bin's midsection, and you have the Mac Mini. Tilt that Mac Mini on its side, perforate either end, then add some handles, and you've got the G5.

You can play this game with just about everything Apple has sold since this machine was introduced. Virtually all of it has some design cue that can be traced back to the Cube, and no further. It really was the Genesis Box.
Swiss Federal Railways Says Apple Stole Its Clock
Transparent aluminum isn't that big of a deal. Scotty whipped up a recipe on an old Macintosh in like five minutes.
Deep Java source code analysis
Ive's work in plastics hasn't held up as well since the switch to metal and glass, but at the time it was a remarkable, groundbreaking example of industrial design. The next year, of course, they launched the titanium PowerBook that spearheaded that transition, though it would take about a decade for plastics to be phased out entirely.
What really enrages Muslims? Twitter knows
The heart of the issue seems to be that Google and Apple could not agree on licensing terms, which is why Youtube also disappeared. It is impossible for outsiders to say why the deals broke down, but it remains that Apple was left scrambling to provide some kind of solution. The only real alternative to this Maps release would have been to have no Maps app at all.
I'm not sure I agree with "Open source = huge security flaw". The Tarsnap client is open source - is that a huge security flaw?

It's not like the apps HTML/CSS/JS being open source means that the user's data is automatically at risk. It means that the author shouldn't distribute their own credentials.
New Internet Explorer weakness already exploited in attacks
Your CV suggests you are based on the West Coast. One of the complaints appears to be that it works on the West Coast where Apple engineers live and work, less so elsewhere.
The key is to remember that android is the trojan horse to get maps in front of eyeballs not the other way around.

You could even go as far as saying that mobile maps was the most important reason to create android.
> They don't give their source away, but they give their service away.

github is not open source - they have a closed source service that is available for free, with limitations. Unless you meant that they are building a business based on an open source piece of software, which is a little different from e.g. Sentry.