skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a platform limitation: however, Apple also dropped the ball a little on this one and if Google had launched a native maps app on day one of iOS 6 they could have had quite a well integrated experience.

Previously, the standard way to open the maps app from within another app on iOS 6 was to call a 'https://maps.google.com URL. Rather than re-directing to Safari, iOS would pick this up and forward the user to the Maps app instead[1].

For obvious reasons, Apple changed this in iOS 6. Trying to open a maps.google.com URL now opens Safari. This means the overwhelming majority of apps that used to hot-link directly to the maps app now boot users off to the Google Maps website (since most apps have not been updated yet to support all iOS 6 features). It would be very straightforward for Google to adapt this to forward users back to their own app.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30058/how-can-i-launch-th...
America inventing the internet?
He's discussed it in interviews before, I think (fuzzy memory) he said he enjoys the experience of a launch. Must be nice if you're an Apple nerd to be queuing and see Woz roll up on his Segway.
And why convenience stores in Japan (and other places, I assume, though I haven't seen them) frequently sell the same kinds of merchandise as gas stations do in the US, but most don't sell gas because the margins are so small, the pedestrian market smaller, and real estate so expensive.
For what is worth, Rakuten is #1 at online retail in Japan. Amazon.co.jp is #2 but the difference is pretty significant.
So you are basically saying that Musk is lying. This doesn't sound too much like him, does it?

A simpler explanation would be that he's not telling the whole story, and that perhaps they have dedicated solar farms in development/deployment or something to that effect. Don't afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
"We think it would have been better if they had kept ours. But what do I know?" Schmidt told a small group of reporters in Tokyo. "What were we going to do, force them not to change their mind? It's their call."

Eric Schmidt a real gentleman always. Also this puts to bed the arguments from Apple cheerleaders suggesting that Google might be the one that removed Maps from iPhone.
How about not trying to solve this problem by artificially crippling the software up-front and instead just leave it up to national governments to regulate this sort of thing? We don't have special software in mobile phones to make them turn off when they're in a car, we've just made it illegal to fiddle with them while driving.

The same should work just fine for certain dashboard interaction.
First, the web 2.0 "craze" has already gone through its growing pains half a decade ago, we're in a different era now. Second, this is a false and misleading comparison.

What started the original "best viewed with" problems of the 90s? It was largely due to the lack of compliance with standardization. Every browser had its own buggy way to render content, often slightly different from the equally buggy ways that the competition rendered content. Most web devs at the time were undisciplined and lazy and they tended to use a standard reference browser as a guide for creating their layouts. This led to the insanity of sites that looked fine in one browser but were broken in others, typically due to accidentally making use of rendering bugs.

Now things are completely different. Standards compliant rendering is the norm for all of the most popular browsers. The issue today isn't basic compatibility as it was in the 90s it is now features. In order to push the state of the art in terms of new features on the web it will be necessary for some sites to remind their users that not every browser supports the features their site is built on.
I wholeheartedly agree. I recently finished a 4-year B.A. in History (in Germany, mind you, so my decision wasn't hard on me in a financial way). I didn't double-major in CS or anything, but kept programming and IT stuff as a hobby, contributed to Open Source projects, helped with IT-related problems at university and generally tried to learn something new all the time (The recent surge in online classes like Coursera and Udacity has helped a lot). Now I'm fully employed, directly from University, as a software developer.

Is/was my degree useless? No way. Those 4 years of studying history and doing lots of research (I think I wrote around 15 papers in those years, around 70% of which were on subjects with little previous research done before) have taught me to choose my sources wisely, to reflect on my own thinking critically (this is a prime asset as a historian, you cannot uncritically let your own preconceptions of the world direct your decisions) and to generally try to see things (and especially abstractions and thought-systems) from as many different sides as possible. All great skills to have if you code for a living.

I might not be as well versed in theoretical computer science as a CS graduate from a good(!) program, but I am familiar enough with the territory that I can pick up new areas/technologies/algorithms rather quickly and it prevents me from getting the "I graduated in CS, I know everything and do not have to make any effort any more"-attitude that I've e.g. seen in my predecessor at the current job I have (he used unsalted md5-hashes for passwords, wrote Java classes that are >10k lines long and used a mix of zip-archives of his Eclipse-workbench and hundreds of commented-out LOCs as a form of version control)
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I went to look at a flat and it turned out that the agent had booked someone else at the same time to view the flat and then tried to turn it into an unpleasant contest for who could be the first to bring him a deposit, even going as far as saying that we could have a fight about it, even though neither of us had shown any issue with the other.

We were both just standing there open mouthed and staring at him, wondering if he was for real. I decided there and then that it didn't matter how nice the flat was, there was no way I was going to have financial dealings with someone who was that much of an arsehole and told the other guy that as far as I was concerned he could have the flat if he wanted it.

I eventually went with a place that was equally nice, where the agent told me that the only people he had had round so far weren't all that interested, so I could probably take a few days to decide.

So if you are going to always be closing, don't be a dick about it.
See http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/76007...
Why not? The primary question here is whether 3taps is engaging in copyright infringement as Craigslist claims.

Does everything scraped by Google becomes public domain? If Google News scrapes an article from the NYT, can I then scrape the article from Google and republish it?
Nice and short? .com not available? .io being related to the business? Could be anything really.
That is true. I admit there are some that has this option. Unfortunately not all does. As a Mac user, this is missing for me. I have had the Sprint Sierra Air Card and the Verizon Mobile Hotspot previously and would rather have something more integrated or close to it.
Let's not be ridiculous here. Maps isn't run for Android, it's run for Google. In fact, in terms of hierarchy, they're pretty much on the same level. Google hasn't submitted a maps app because a/ it needs to build the demand for it and b/ it's not ready yet. People way overstate the importance of Android to Google.
I support your figures. However, my efficiency of my inverter is 98% rather than 90%.
I'd also clarify that the average during winter is a lot less than 20kWhr/day ... I know you said it was a maxinum :) It's most probably about 14kWh for me.
Scott Forstall Should Resign
So is canned spam :P
Do you have a source re: sustainably farmed/recycled wood? I was not aware of this, and so often hear about disappearing forests in Brazil and Russia. But I'm curious.
>This is something that in most cases could be taken into account by always starting with an anchor tag and then adding styles and javascript events. //

Would that really take it into account? Surely you'd be loading a new link without the state that the client has created, you'd need to push the state to the server and construct the links based on that - at which point it seems you're duplicating effort at the server and client.
Woz = Wizard of Oz?
Did he bring it to Australia though? I didn't see any reference to it in the local media here.
Cory Doctorow - Printcrime
"It's like, literally, right there in the brief manual. Takes an hour to read and understand."

Huh.
It should be noted that the belief should fall within reason.

So if something about the transaction is completely and obviously fishy, i.e. 'you should have known something was wrong'. Then its impossible to invoke the 'vertrouwensbeginsel'.
http://api.mongodb.org/wiki/current/Ruby%20Tutorial.html#Rub...
I did a liberal arts degree and some time afterwards a CS masters.

To me I got educated by doing arts and got qualified by doing CS. Being exposed to challenging opinions on what it means to live is not going to come up in an engineering interview but I don't feel poorer for thinking about it.

I almost feel like arts would do much better as a sabbatical from a real degree, where you took a year to think about yourself and your interests.

Certainly price is the biggest problem here, no college degrees are worth their current prices, what you bank on is that they allow you to skip ahead of others less qualified to get better paid jobs, with no defined career from liberal arts this is a massive problem. Your education had value, but to yourself and writing a check for a hundred thousand dollars to yourself at 18 is not a wise investment period.

On the other hand, CS majors are failed by their course too, everyone knows that a CS grad who only learns the prescribed texts is not the best grad. All college degrees do these days is determine intent.

Education right now is at a massive junction, I feel like an arts student who used their extra free hours to hit Udacity, Coursera and mitX as well as building a github and doing internships in software companies would be downright dangerous when they graduated.
The goals of C++ are performance and abstraction and I do not know any language which beats it in both points.

I appreciate "small" languages, which can do a lot with a little core and abstraction mechanisms (Scheme,Smalltalk,...). However, for maximum performance, you need a good compiler, which understands and optimizes your abstractions. In the case of Lisp, whoever writes the macros is also responsible for optimizing them. Unfortunately, this requires application programmers to be also good in writing compilers.

C++ certainly has deficiencies, which cannot be fixed without completely breaking backwards compatibility. Rob Pike probably has them all included in the list you linked to. E.g. irregular syntax and header files.

In my opinion D has mostly fixed those conceptual issues. Unfortunately, D is not mature [0] and development is slow. While D is certainly not the final word in language design, I consider it the only serious competitor to C++.

[0] http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=20
Not that it's really relevant for us end-users, but this still says nothing. It only means that Apple didn't want to continue using Google Maps. It says nothing about what terms Google was suggesting for continued use. If Google demanded something totally unreasonable (like a patent agreement legitimizing Android, or 10 times the money Google was asking before), then Apple didn't really have a choice to leave - no matter how Eric Schmidt is wording this now.

In the end the only thing that matters is that we end-users lose greatly functionality-wise because two large companies behave like children. And us end users don't know better than finger-pointing and playing along (not that we have any choice in the matter anyways)
> two large companies behave like children

I only see one child (Apple) here.
Why Raspberry Pi Is Unsuitable for Education
Life as a Service
>but with MongoDB it is trivial

We did not have this experience when I worked at a large datamining company. It was a nightmare.
More sad news on why Americans pay so much for crappy Internet and phone service
Any cool startups hiring?
Hey! I am young, ambitious, crazy, and I have had experience working for a few startups doing marketing, sales and some product management. I can also code front-end and design as well but I enjoy doing more of the business/marketing side of things.

I consider myself an out of the box thinker and love talking to people. I am 18 but don't let my age scare you, it just means I am more optimistic and move and think quicker.

My email address is in my profile.

Thanks for reading!
I agree that it might not be obvious what the site does when you see it the first time, I will put a up faq but i don't want to take room on the front page to explain the site, it doesn't seem right.
Former gas station owner here (don't ask). Profit is correct.

Typically a gas station makes 1 or two cents per liter. A 17 gallon tank is approximately 68 liters so that's between $.68 and $1.36 or thereabouts in gross margin for the station. Of that they still have to operate and service the pumps, and deal with periodic mandatory environmental upgrades and inspections.

You have to do millions of liters per year to turn a profit on the gas. Gross profits on store goodies are on the order or 20 to 30%. If they're refrigerated then likely it is on the low end, if they are non-perishables then it is on the high end.
Still, first follow your hunches. :) Many of these ideas "sound good", but somehow it feels to me then you'd just replicate the functionality of some other service (probably something that the original poster was already using).

Like this site and it's simplicity a lot already, I think there's a lot more interesting things to explore before you'd get on with the feature creep. Good job!
Apart from the proposed filter, I guess everything else is good.
I think you're meant to read "trueVal" as "the value I want n to have if expr is true", not as literally true. And vice versa.
Hootsuite expands to France; Paris a top 10 city on Twitter & Facebook
Electric cars are 100 years old and have not improved much, bizarrely http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/05/the-status-quo-of-ele...
Mission critical? That thing in the console of most cars is already anything but mission critical.

They want to replace the entertainment (including the navigation) software, nothing more. Android should be capable of doing that just fine and might bring some life into a rather dull field.. These systems have so many flaws and limitations that make them look like they're from the 90s (based on my experience with brand new Audi, BMW and VW [1] cars in the last 3-5 years). These systems easily set you back for more than 1000 EUR (usually far more) and are limited in terms of supported filesystems (like 2GB limits on SD cards), numbers of files or folders (truncating your playlist) and just .. so .. slow..

I'd love any 'mainstream' component that is integrated into the car, running on hardware that isn't far worse than my phone.

1: References: Had an A3 with ~every option~ as a company car in 2007, a VM Golf GTD with ~every option~ in 2010 and rented a lot of decently sized BMWs when travelling.
How can you possibly believe there is no genetic component in professional athletics?
This is obviously a very "disruptive" technology and/or business model, from every point of view, both positive and negative. Just think about how all disruptive innovations come to be. They are awesome and game-changing from a certain point of view (free charging/"gas"!) but can also have some big downsides (30 minute charging, only half a charge - at first).

But the part you should be focusing on is the first one, the positive one. Because that will change everything and to some people, the second part, the negative one, will be irrelevant just long enough for Tesla to work on improving it and years later making it "good enough" for most people.

Remember how the iPhone was awesome at user interface and interaction? But sucked at battery life (compared to other smartphones), had only a 2 MP camera, no video recording, only 2G connection and no MMS? That may not have been good enough for 90% of Nokia or Blackberry users back then, but the iPhone is good enough for almost everyone today, and the iPhone changed the entire industry. That's how disruptive innovations work, and I believe that's exactly how Tesla's new model will work.

Also, do you know how everyone says I wish I would've bought Apple stock when the iPhone first appeared? Well, if I was into stock, I'd probably start buying Tesla stock just about now.
Though if you can use a less common language than English, you might get an even better passphrase. I know the Passphrase FAQ says using another language doesn't make your passphrase harder to guess[0], but having worked a bit with language tech, I'm pretty sure that's only true under certain "ideal conditions". Most lang. tech is extremely English-focused, if there's a new development, it always happens with English first. In non-English languages, OTOH, it can be a challenge simply to find a good dictionary, and finding the corpora to do the kind of rating done by lsb's algorithm is even harder.

Of course, if the "other language" is French/German/Spanish, sure, it's probably not much safer. But if you're lucky enough to know a more marginalised language, I'd say go with it.

[0]: http://www.iusmentis.com/security/passphrasefaq/practical/#W...
They can choose to pay for 2 days, or 3 days - it's either 4 hours more, or 4 hours less for them, it's not going to break the bank financially either way.

If you can find a client who only wants you for 2 hours a week, would you take it? I wouldn't.
Perhaps, but you really just have no idea what conversations are happening behind closed doors.
I think the base of the problem you're describing is the small population base and (less so) tyranny of distance.

If you're in the US and come up with a product there are lots of options for accessing new markets fast. If you're in Japan then you have a much larger audience, captive, most of it in close proximity. Australia has low population. It's heavily concentrated in the cities, but they're a significant distance apart.

I became aware of this when I read "Barbarians at the Gate". Early on, it describes the rise of RJR Reynolds. I found it amazing that you could just get on your horse and ride on to the next city with your capital and ideas and make acquisitions and expand.

Australia could chase edge by becoming a low-tax or low-red-tape capital. But never does :)
Probably not, most countries prohibit them as they're not quite vehicles and not quite pedestrian transport.
And as in python3, filter returns a generator, not a list, the len call will fail altogether.
All we need now is supersized induction charging mats for electric cars.

I have a feeling that would be very dangerous for some reason, but I'm not an EE so who knows. Certainly would be pretty inefficient though.
It's the 15 mins you will remember.

He, on the other hand, remembers Dad going all funny because of a bird. Parents !

:-)
Living in the future is pretty awesome. I can't wait to see what even more future brings us.
As someone who signed up to coursera stats 101, err... Why 40%?
Google needs Android, to make sure Maps and other Google products are on phones and tablets. If Android didn't exist, and Apple stopped using Google products - and Microsoft use Bing - then Google would be in trouble.
Is there a startup 'scene' here? I set up a couple of sub-reddit if any Aussies/Sydneysiders want to post local info/questions.

http://www.reddit.com/r/StartupAustralia/
http://www.reddit.com/r/startupsydney/
Really? Reading that I was thinking "what an asshole, no respect for the scientist and engineer talking to him."
Well mechanical engines were there from a couple of centuries in fact. The steam engine was invented a ton lot of years before fuel driven cars caught on.
Can already do some of this, though not as integrated - an OBD2 to bluetooth adapter plugged into the OBD2 port and Torque running on an Android phone. I don't like the idea of tying something that will obsolete so quickly (an Android device) to a car, though - look how badly supported 2 or 3 year old Android devices are. Are ones in cars going to be supported any better? I'd rather a standard dock so that a smart phone can be slid in, held in position securely (not a stupid suction cup on the windshield), get access to power, OBD2 data, audio, steering wheel audio remote controls, and a GPS aerial (given it won't be under the windshield anymore)
The proposed filter was ludicrous and I'm happy to report it has essentially lost all political steam. It appeared primarily as a bargaining tool for the Labour party to work with a number of independents but even those independents have removed support for the proposal now. Last it appeared in the media, it was "delayed indefinitely".

I'm hopeful that the proposed filter is history, thanks in part to a number of ISPs supporting the cause and loud community support.

What is worrying for Woz is that the National Broadband Network (NBN) will likely be axed if the current party (Labour) falls in the coming election. Compared to his situation in California however, where he says no political party is interested in broadband internet, at least the opposition have a broadband plan (even if it's substantially less ambitious and possibly ill conceived).

Either way, I'd be happy to buy Woz a beer if he ever comes over to Sydney :)
Do you really not understand the point or is that just another vacuous remark to accompany your first cliche? If the former, then perhaps you are making a case as to why liberal arts is still important in society: teaching students the ability to critically think and reach logical conclusions from texts with gaps in information, etc.
Do you have to explicitly be submitted a story or your system is uber smart to crawl the interesting ones and generate the best? A system for the latter would be quite cool.
It is amazing what vision, a few hundred million dollars, and Chinese serf labor can do.
this puts to bed the arguments from Apple cheerleaders suggesting that Google might be the one that removed Maps from iPhone

It really says nothing to imply that there were not terms attached to the use of Google's maps that a reasonable observer would not conclude were unreasonable for Apple to agree too. It says nothing to imply that there *weree either, but we still can't say either way.
No. You clearly underestimate the importance of Android.

More and more people are exclusively using their mobile for the internet which will explode once smartphones take hold in India/Africa/China.

Given that Nokia/Microsoft doesn't use any Google products and it's questionable how long Google Search will exist on the iPhone they NEED Android. Desperately.
Exactly. It's about the same shape and size as New Jersey (smaller actually). I can't count the number of times I've driven across the entirety of New Jersey without a second thought because I wanted a cheeseburger.
I am just basing this view on the Sony vs Universal and Grokster vs MGM trials, which were both civil. Admittedly there is a legal argument that could be made for criminal vicarious liability, however from my understanding, that is usually only used for situations that could endanger the general public, where the lack of direct criminal action is deemed to be outweighed by the need to protect people, and that does not seem to apply in this instance. However, that said, I am also not a lawyer, so I could well be misunderstanding the issues completely.
I don't think there was anything in there at all about being a dick?