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My alma mater (The Ohio State University) has multiple Computer Science programs. There is an Associate program, an Arts & Sciences CS program, and a computer Science & Engineering program which is part of the Engineering school. I could see the Arts & Science program merging with the Math department, but the Engineering school will most likely hold onto the CS&E major.
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I think it's not really a case of who booted who off. I assume that Google wouldn't let Apple have any of the good features like vector maps or turn-by-turn navigation. Google Maps on iOS was already the shittiest mapping app across all platforms. So Apple have replaced it with an even worse alternative but at least it has some headroom to improve vs 2004 Google maps experience which was never going to get any new features.

I think Apple made the right move. Even if Google is 10 years ahead in mapping, the experience you got on the iPhone was Google maps from 2004. So Apple is only 2 years behind 'iOS 5 Google Maps' and given the resources they have to throw at the problem it'll probably improve quicker than that.
I am blown away, these guys have hacked innovation.

What this says to me is innovation is relative. If you've never seen an iPhone, and someone shows you a Samsung Galaxy, you would think it is mind blowing.

As far as the true innovators are concerned, because this is clearly a massive hack and not innovation, maybe this means there is a problem that companies have when trying to take a domestic company/app/service global.

Is there someone that could figure out how to deliver a service that simply takes any company's app and makes it globally distributable?... By removing government obstacles and language barriers...
Sweet. This is really gonna help my Madden game.
Maybe I'm missing something, but if I come up with a great idea and have any inkling that it may be patentable, why would I want to post the idea publicly before trying to patent it? Wouldn't that open it up to the possibility of theft?

Sure, the existence of the post could prove you thought of it first, but that doesn't prove that the idea was stolen from there nor does it pay for a lawyer...
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I was very excited when I saw early versions of the new app store that eliminated the need to page through search results five apps at a time and replaced it with a scrollable list. Then at the last minute though, it seemed like Apple had a change of heart and added the screenshot-centered design - very disappointing from my perspective as both a user and developer..
What's weird about professional sports is that the major franchises seem to think they're doing what they do for their own sake instead of entertaining their customers.
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This has got to be one of the most beautiful/ugly things I have ever seen!
For what it's worth, you can turn off emails for repos you're watching here: https://github.com/settings/notifications
For our logged in user A/B testing (often relating to email), we've built an in-house solution that uses a MOD based system to track group performance (as opposed to storing each group member in our databases).

Pretty clever implementation by the data scientist on our team.
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Na, Chromebooks have a full terminal built in.
That's not the point and you'll never get a patent if you make it public before filing.

Once filed, patents are up for discussion.
How is that even close to the same thing?

1) As was said above, no one will mistakenly buy an iPad instead of one of these railway clocks -- typically the grounds around which these IP infringement cases revolve -- and I'm not even sure if you can even buy this clock anyway.

2) Apple isn't illegally distributing these preventing their creator from a source of revenue they previously had.

This is quite obviously a digital homage to an iconic physical product much like the Braun calculators.

I'm not saying this is a good approach for Apple, or that they're safe from more general copyright infringement, but you've twisted the logic here so badly it misrepresents the issue.
I guess we're going to have to live in a world where there's a SEVERE shortage of leather bags.

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Getting emotionally invested in your tests is a good recipe for an emotional rollercoaster. Don't do that.

Instead try a bunch of things, and see what sticks. Be curious, not invested.
"So what happens if you decide to make a Kickstarter Movie about a couple of anthropomorphized robots who end up on a dessert planet only to discover one of the inhabitants is destined to overthrow a totalitarian dictator?"

That depends. Does the plot involve one of the robots taking a bite out of the dessert planet?
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Sure. Just without thinking about it I can pop off a couple...

The economic rescue packages enacted during the period spanning the end of the Bush era and the start of the Obama era.

Attitudes to military intervention abroad. When 80s Republican administrations were coddling Saddam Hussain as an ally, liberals were screaming about the injustices in that country and calling for intervention; when conservatives flipped to wanting to oust Saddam Hussain liberals were largely against it - though little had changed for the better internally in Iraq. The flip on Libya when it was the Obama admin working towards the overthrow of Gadaffi, etc. The Republican history of isolationism flipped to a bold militarism. Bush running against nation building/intervention then building a Presidency on it.

The free trade/human rights dichotomy re: China - where the parties swap positions from agitation to accommodation depending on who's in power. Similarly with NAFTA.

I suspect if you don't see policy continuation between administrations in the US, despite the extreme polarization of politics where most R voters will argue against ANYTHING done by a D administration and vice versa, which is exactly the point made, then it may be you seeing what you want to see.
Arbitration clauses inside a TOS are evil in my opinion.

I can definitely see the desire to stop a class action lawsuit that seems to punish the company and benefit only the attorneys, but in a TOS situation I would say it crosses the line.
Personally, I certainly never supposed that the current version of Apple's maps somehow proved that Apple had incompetent people on the problem.

At the same time, Apple has a carefully cultivated history of not shipping half-baked products. They famously worked on tablets for years before they built one that they were happy enough with to ship.

Now, for reasons that the end user surely does not care about, they have taken a product that was missing a key feature or two (navigation, street view) and replaced it with something that is much less reliable even for its fundamental task.

Yes, making a really good mapping application is hard, and requires many people on the ground, around the world. So either you need to make the commitment to do what it takes to deliver that app, or you should outsource the whole thing, and use Nokia Maps or Bing Maps or whatever. The third alternative -- doing it yourself and shipping it to end users before it's ready and without having done all the due diligence -- is likely to be embarrassing.
I don't think that's enough -- in fact, I think it's worse. The low level API inherently has a broken trust model, and using that as a stopgap is going to be worse for security than it not existing at all. If anything, the low level API should be tabled in favor of the high level.
It seems like you'll be able to watch at your own pace, it says "10hrs/week estimate"
However, I'm not sure it's of wide interest to HN. As far as I can tell, I'm the only one here who likes NFL football.

Nah, there's at least two of us.

#GODOLPHINS
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And can be set as the default app so when I click on a location, it takes me to that location without forcing me to jump through hoops in copying the text, and then clicking over and eventually pasting it? You know, like it was in iOS5?

Awesome!
A little Googling finds the founders - Jason Sun [1] and Ben Yi [2] - both worked at KILLSPENCER [3] before starting Vinted Goods [4]. While it's true that both sites have a top nav, I couldn't find any pics of someone operating a sewing machine on either site. Either way, the products seem similar, but what would you expect from a mentor/protege relationship?

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-sun/20/84a/124

[2] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/benjamin-yi/16/662/662

[3] http://killspencer.com/

[4] http://vintedgoods.com/

Edit: The owner of KILLSPENCER, Spencer Nikosey [5] has a few interesting interview nuggets [6][7]:

WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF?
I'm most proud of the upcoming products and relationships I've built with the members of our SPECIAL PROJECTS INNOVATION TEAM. (This is the team Jason and Ben were on.)

WHO DO YOU BOUNCE IDEAS OFF AND/OR GET INSPIRED BY?
I have a small group of mentors. These people are amazing at what they do. I give them products and they use them, and give me feedback on how to improve the designs, construction, etc. I'm so lucky to have such amazing people interested in supporting the vision.

TAKE US BRIEFLY THROUGH YOUR PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND. WHERE HAVE YOU WORKED BEFORE LAUNCHING YOUR OWN COMPANY?
I launched my business straight out of school. While in school, I had the opportunity to intern for some great people. Scott Robertson (Design Studio Press) is where I got my first work experience. I spent so much time observing and picking his mind on the business of design and watched him build his business from the start.

[5] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/spencer-nikosey/12/5a6/866

[6] http://swipelife.com/2009/04/15/the-newcomer-an-intervew-wit...

[7] http://www.carryology.com/2012/04/12/interviews-spencer-niko...

Edit 2: Google Cache of the Kickstarter campaign page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jQYA_YU...
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I really doubt that they charge Apple for shipping Google Maps on their phone. They want as many people as possible to use the app.
"Hey guy posting on NFL.com, thanks for assuming the entire fanbase consists of complete idiots!"

That's Michael Lombardi. Perhaps you are not giving him enough credit as a former NFL executive? He is more than just "some guy".

"ESPN/NFL films has been feeding this to us for years using their access to All-22"

That is a partially correct statement. They would highlight specific plays and break them down for us (Ron Jaworski is great at this). However, for the first time the fans can get these raw tapes of footage and break it down themselves. With no help from the pros.

Easier said than done.
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That's no weirder than lawyers thinking they're doing what they do to win a case rather than to achieve justice. The NFL entertains customers by being a serious, competitive league, just as criminal justice is supposed to work via an adversarial system. (Before anyone else points it out, let's just say the NFL works FAR better than the criminal justice system....)
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The question isn't whether Obama did X, Y or Z. It's whether Obama supporters will rationalize his actions and support them even when they are consistent with policies they opposed under Bush. Likewise whether Bush supporters now oppose similar actions by Obama (or previously under Clinton) that they supported under Bush.
OSM doesn't do 3D

For most people the 3D is an amusing toy, not really useful. I'd be happy without it frankly.

OSM doesn't do elevation

See 3D above

OSM doesn't do geocoding

They have data for searching on street addresses and towns, and the data is available separately for postcodes etc (TomTom for example will have sold a solution for this to Apple, so they could have gone down that route). Google has this down, as you'd expect given their search expertise, and Apple would have done better to pay them at least for access to this service if nothing else as it's a complicated area.

OSM doesn't have a cleaned up dataset of Points of Interest

Yelp does, and that's who Apple are using for POIs

One other point you didn't mention is that OSM doesn't do satellite data (their stuff is from Yahoo isn't it?), so that is a big area Apple would have had to sort out from another provider.

While you're right that there is no one-stop shop for mapping services, and it's a really complex area (i.e. just choosing OSM would not solve all these probs, as you point out) I do think Apple have missed a chance to form a symbiotic relationship with OSM and enhance the quality of their maps with an open process rather than relying on the often out of date commercial data available and having to either fork the commercial data from this point on, or merge changes. Dealing with all these fixes will suck up a lot of time they could spend on improving the app itself.
> One thing I would probably do as Archduke, after ordering a 70% tax on cupcakes, is have the bindings only work on HTTPS connections.

I support the cupcake tax (we can discuss numbers later), but I think making it work only for HTTPS connections makes that seem like the biggest issue. I believe that XSS attacks, simply due to the ease of discovery and exploitation, are a much bigger issue here. Hijacking connections to a site (whether via MITM, DNS redirection, whatever) isn't easy, but XSS is downright trivial in most cases; it's definitely the biggest concern in my mind.
If the m2.4xlarge goes only on X5550 cores, then that does work out to be about 26 compute units (as they claim). So I would expect a m2.4xlarge to perform the same as a Brightbox large (which is about 26 compute units too). The pricing (and ram spec) is very different though - not really a like for like comparison, but I see that it's important to note their use of cpu type. Interested in how xen vs. kvm is playing a part here too.
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I think NFC is a far less interesting attack vector simply because I'd expect NFC links to be with at least somewhat trusted partners.
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I recently heard of two teenagers (relatives of a business acquaintance) who quit FaceBook because -- well, because it's no longer the freshest gumbo. They no longer feel it's cool.

A few anecdotes do not make a trend, but FaceBook should be worried, because social networks can implode quickly when they stop being perceived as 'the place to see and be seen:' http://diegobasch.com/social-networks-implode-quickly

--

PS. I can relate to the author's complaint: "on Twitter I can find the stuff I’m interested in. On Facebook I can only see the stuff other people are interested in." Very true!
It's incredible that they're offering this tape--especially from a computer vision perspective. With enough data, one could conceivably write a program that predicts a team's next play based on the players' pre-snap formation and the previous plays.
You do realize that software development permeates everything in the world?
Also it would be nice if UpCounsel.com said somewhere toward the top of the screen that it's only available in California.

I just spent 5 minutes writing up a legal help request before I got to the State field that only has CA listed -_-
I think if you don't nail Web Crypto to TLS, people will see it as an alternative to TLS, which it isn't.
Ask HN: We are 23 and 24, should we apply to Y Combinator?
We are 23 and 24 and really want to get in the startup scenario but don't have an idea yet. YCombinator recently opened applications that don't require an idea and we can't decide if we will make good candidates. We have worked with a few startups in the past and have enjoyed working there and also learnt quite a lot from their founders. Have a look at our profiles at http://pulkitgoyal.in and http://sapandiwakar.in
"Mustache is great, but...lacks sophisticated features such as template inheritance"

Perhaps my templating needs are trivial, but isn't that what a parial is? Mustache lets you include any template within another template, thereby "inheriting" from the parent.
Planning to, but i bet they've fixed it by the time i'll get there.
Three, Phins fan here too.
So here I think you're nicely highlighting the earlier point. You are more interested in defending Democrats from some imagined charge of flip-flopping all the time. That's a charge I never made. The point I was making is that there is a lot of continuity in US policy from one admin to the others. This leads voters to rationalize their support/opposition to such policies based on who's in power. If you don't see that happening, that's great.
Hey,

Really cool app (and great timing!). I have some feedback though about the website (haven't used the product):

* I can't find anyway to contact you guys directly. Checked the Twitter page for an email address (no luck). Checked the blog for an email (no luck). Couldn't even find anything in the WHOIS (no luck, privacy protection enabled). You should add for a way to people to contact you (if not an email address, then at least a contact form)

* The Developer features look awesome! I am interested but I don't see any way to get more information.

* Seems like there's a lot of demand for more cities (while you're at it, add Toronto and Ottawa please :)). I think you should capitalize on the demand and add a form on the website for people to sign-up for notifications. So, something like "Not yet in your city? Enter your email and select your city and we will notify you as soon as it's available". This should help a lot with marketing once the cities are available.

* Little design nitpick: The text under "A new kind of city map" is hard to read because of the white-font. It might make it better if you make the background image a bit darker.

Otherwise, the app looks amazing and I can't wait until it's launched in Canada!
If anything, that's an indictment of the Spring framework, which you certainly don't need to write Java. For instance, there are over 500,000 Java apps in Google Play market, and I'm pretty confident most of them don't use Spring.

Now if you wanted to criticize Spring and cargo-cult enterprise Java development, I think that's reasonable.
At this point, I think it's more a comment on the quality of articles that are getting upvoted to the frontpage.
I grew up a Lions fan, but man, that HBO show Hard Knocks got me hooked on your team. Now I find myself wanting to watch Dolphins' games and hoping Joe Philbin gets it together.
Looks cool - logo immediately reminds me of Valvoline's - http://www.valvoline.com/
The NFL's policies on footage are an interesting example of information control. People in the audience can clearly see all the players on the field, but people watching at home are not allowed to. And even though the NFL has put tons of money into excellent cameras and awesome post-processing effects, they still hadn't released the most informative camera views!
Gosh what a silly argument, claim that 'computer science' as a discipline will fade away based on the evidence that computer classes are taught in different disciplines.

That claim is simple to rebut with the example of mathematics, which are taught in various forms for nearly every department and yet there are still mathematics departments.

It would have been insightful to observe that basic computer science knowledge is becoming an essential part of any curriculum. That elevates it to the level of 'broadly applicable skill' like math, and composition. I believe its important as early as secondary school but those courses are still foundering for direction (I've seen 'intro to powerpoint' as a computer class which is more like 'typing' was than basic computer skills)
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I see talk in those threads about how the "low-level API" is logistically the right move, but not a lot of talk about how it's right in an engineering sense. Is it possible that the cart is pulling the horse here?
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You keep focusing on those elected, where the point was about those doing the electing.
Not sure if Google is monitoring your posts or if their routing glitched before but doing the search just now gave me pretty much the same results on Google Maps... http://goo.gl/maps/fsfKF
I never understood the fear of fans wrongly criticizing teams/players/coaches based on the All-22 tape. All other sports make their own equivalent of it available allowing fans to see every mistake made by every player. As far as I know it hasn't resulted in any worse sportsmanship. Football in particular has always had Monday morning quarterbacks and always will. The media has always had access to the All-22 tape and do break down the best and worst plays every week. I'm glad they're finally opening this up but does anyone know what they were so scared of before?

This does open up a huge opportunity for third party analysis, most obviously for sports betting and fantasy football tips. With a much smaller sample size of games and plays football will never become as predictable as baseball but it will be exciting to see what the general public will do with this.

Also for any high school defensive backs who previously had no way to study how the pros play their position, this is huge!
Because sport tends to be shallowly, but intensely, interesting.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Sorry guys, screwed it over. My bad.
An interesting thread was on HN last November about this same topic (which at the time I had no idea about): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3275698
I've taken to posting photos on google's picasa web and marking them unlisted, then posting a link on facebook. It's not perfect, but when I tried to get everyone I want to view the pictures to get a free flickr account, it was just too hard. Only about 1/5 of them were able to understand and do it, and probably a small fraction of those that did every really checked for new pics.

The problem everyone has been trained on facebook and most have no reason to change. The people on HN don't like it, but the friends and relatives I have on facebook couldn't care less about the privacy and other issues. They just use it.
The original point wasn't a party political one, but I think your reaction demonstrates it nicely. What the administrations do isn't the question, its that their tribes convince themselves that their team has been consistent and that they haven't changed their minds... which is what the study was trying to show as well.
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Backwards birthdays, like 2311 for November 23. In Europe this would be the usual way of writing a birthday already.