skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python's is far superior to Javadocs.

JavaDocs is one of the earliest (popular) standard tools for documentation, so I'll give it that, but it suffers a number of problems - problems which are partly relics of the Java language, but that's no excuse.

JavaDocs is too focused on documenting classes, rather than documenting functionality (Python docs, by contrast, focus on modules, which are themselves arbitrary chunks of code with connected functionality).

JavaDocs doesn't make the package/class hierarchy terribly clear - this is intrinsically tied to Java's overcomplicated class hierarchy and needlessly complicated package system, but it carries over into poor documentation as well.

JavaDocs also doesn't have a culture of providing complete examples of code, which exacerbates the two aforementioned problems.

That said, JavaDocs has inspired other good tools, so I'll give it some credit for that and write these criticisms off as vestiges from a time long past.
I love the one of houston highrises with gas stations on each one (they're actually the corporate headquarters of oil companies).

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mantx26oqv1rhptwbo1_1280.p...
> antitrust regulators?

> antitrust |ˌantēˈtrəst; ˌantī-|

> adjective [ attrib. ]

> of or relating to legislation preventing or controlling trusts or other monopolies, with the intention of promoting competition in business.

In pretty much every thread about Apple on this site, you will be reminded that Android enjoys amazing sales.

> Wasn't the entire IE shipping with Windows situation based on a competitive functionality?

Microsoft was found to be a de-facto monopoly on the desktop.
Oracle Database suffers from "stealth password cracking vulnerability"
Wow, that was easy. I have a bridge to sell you.
Neither do most fallacies.
I'm not a lawyer, or even that educated, but I would be highly surprised if Apple couldn't do whatever they wanted with their own app store.
> Surly it's not legal for Apple to potentially reject an app on such grounds?

Of course it is. The only ways for it to be illegal would be 1. if it infringed on freedom of speech (no way that's going to hold) or 2. an antitrust action (which would require Apple to be a monopoly)
I am curious how much of the employment contract would be enforceable considering that the internships were unpaid.

To go off on a moralistic tangent; if the "Mentor" didn't want to create competitors he should have paid the people doing work for him.
They can legally do whatever they want. They've pulled apps before for the same rule. It's part of playing in Apple's ecosystem. As a developer you always take the risk that Apple will decide to wield the ban-hammer, and you basically have no recourse.
If I'm understanding this straight:

google+: a network that restricts that people _write_ via their website/apps.

twitter: a network that is now starting to restrict people to _read_ only via their website/apps.

technology does evolve and diverge in lots of directions.
"Duplicates a native service" would be my guess". "We'll refuse what the fuck we want" is an other possibility.
Facebook to Charge for Posting Consumer Offers
I browsed the restrictions and sort of understood how they changed the game for 3rd party clients, but this is something different, isn't it?

Obviously Twitter is still benefitting from IFTTT publishing to their platform. It would then be a mutually beneficial relationship, then, when IFTTT benefits from Twitter's platform. Twitter is a leech.
That's not the "only valid answer". Maybe people with big hands can just buy Androids, and Apple can cater to the small-to-medium-size-hand market. I don't know if Apple has a problem with that, but I don't.
Clojure functions are Java classes. It's not much different from using a Java functional libs. Except that Java will probably be faster as Clojure still doesn't do primitives and stuff (not sure about that one, may be it already does)

You can do all the functional stuff in Java, Clojure is doing exactly that. It will be more verbose, but once you learn the ropes it just looks different, it is not different.
That army is also on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, Wordpress, LiveJournal, MySpace, and any other free website that allows them to publish themselves for others to publicly see. That doesn't mean that those services aren't useful to those of us who have friends that aren't narcissists.

If your Facebook news feed (or your Twitter stream, or whatever else) is full of nothing but self-indulgent crap, then maybe you should find some better people to be friends with?
Discussions already underway:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550601

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550625
It affects the iPhone 5, which is coming out tomorrow, not to mention all the other iDevices that can run iOS 6. I'm sure Apple will have it patched soon enough.
10gen really nailed this; the meetup groups, customer support, drivers, docs and ability to get going are all awesome compared to most products, let alone the other databases competing with them.
> My tool of choice for Java is however IntelliJ, which is simply light years ahead of Eclipse (IMHO).

I agree.

Eclipse seems to always become unstable once enough plugins are installed. After a few updates and removals it ends up tipping over regularly. I suspect the underlying OSGi plugin system is a tricky thing to get right.

Intellij IDEA seems to "just work".

That said, I prefer coding in Clojure with Aquamacs but I've yet to get Clojure into a production system.
Because most games on Steam will still only run on Windows. Until game developers take up the charge (which Steam on Linux might encourage), it's just a window (no pun intended) into what could be.
It's all very simple. The trick to always succeeding is to take all your failures and make yourself think they're successes. If you can't fail, you've got no fear. Being delusional or mentally/emotionally unstable helps.
But there isn't any evidence that there's anything fundamentally different about dyslexic students. We have no proof whatsoever that they enter school any different to their non-dyslexic peers, but we do know that they leave school with poorer reading skills. To say that these students are dyslexic, rather than saying that we have failed to teach them to read, is a political rather than scientific decision. We are arbitrarily labelling those most poorly-served by school as learning disabled, for no rational reason other than to absolve the system of blame.
I don't believe Apple has any responsibility to provide freedom of speech within their closed ecosystem.
Getting Started with Google Closure... and Lisp
I worked for NASA then, you are making stuff up.
Discussions are already underway on the front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550601

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550625
correct it is speculation, but from a business perspective I wouldn't see it as beneficial for Google for them to not allow apple (at one time the most popular smart phone worldwide) additional features upon request. Googles bread and butter is search and data collection. But yes there could possibly be a reason.
I'm surprised by how poor this Nokia comparison is. Maybe it highlights the difference of that company vs Apple or Google.

The post focuses on the reach of their maps by showing lots of numbers in a comparison. They would better demonstrate their point with side by side pictures, like the ones from OP of this thread.

Personally, I wonder about the reach of this marketing angle. I take 2 international trips per year. I'm in the same city 330+ days/year. I don't care if the maps work in Columbia or South Africa. I just want it to work well where I live!
You're not allowed to do that.
You own the content of your tweets. But you don't own the instance of the tweet that is stored in Twitter's database. They are are under no obligation to make it easy for you to save them ex post facto.

If you want to archive / cross-post your content you need to store it some place that you have ownership over. Whether than be a word document, spreadsheet, open source microblogging software, or whatever else, you shouldn't expect a media/advertising company to provide CMS features, that's not why they exist.
I am disappointed that I cannot post tweets to Facebook with this any more. However, using twitterfeed to post them should be fairly straightforward . . .
Overengineering at it's best.
Actually, Jobs would never have allowed Maps to be released in this state to begin with.
SURROGATE PAIRS.
I see zero links with polls of mainstream dems flip flopping. Where is this countless data?
We're definitely going to implement something like this; thanks for the suggestion.
You need to post them into a service that you have control over (maybe an open source microblog that runs on your server for example) and then cross-post into Twitter.
or maybe you could embed your hack in on of these ads. http://nfctimes.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/poster/nf...
I'm sure the TomTom deal will change things fairly soon. The agreement was signed three months ago, and by then Maps for iOS 6 was clearly already too advanced to incorporate much of what TomTom can offer. I suppose we'll see updates coming thick and fast from here to Christmas, especially considering the current wave of negativity surrounding the app.

I wouldn't be surprised if Cook decided next week that they might as well buy TomTom outright.
The best do it because they can't not do it.
>Is there any scenario where Apple would 'approve' an application by Google that would be instantly significantly better than their native App?

Yes. The scenario we're currently in. By approving Google Maps app now, they give their users back the experience they expect without having to pay Google for the use of the Maps API. Meanwhile they can keep working on their own mapping solution until it's ready to take over, at which point they can pull Google Maps from the App Store.
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There is a option to apply with one of this ideas too, if you are really excited about one of them.

http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html
Disrupting Amazon: Rethinking eCommerce
I completely agree with this. And Twitter is now leeching the benefits off of IFTTT without giving anything in return.
It's worth noting that their campaign page has been reduced to a simple "Sorry, this project is no longer available" message.

This, despite Kickstarter's claim that projects are kept on their site forever. Their FAQ states that "Projects are not closed or taken down, they remain on site for reference and transparency.

I blogged more about this here:

http://misener.org/despite-claiming-otherwise-kickstarter-qu...
Eight submissions and counting ...
Even if it is approved and released shortly it still doesn't solve the problem of it not being the default Map app. Contact links & location links will still open in Apple's Maps. Still waiting on something comparable to Android's Intents in iOS
Just like Microsoft could legally do what they wanted on windows vis-a-vis Netscape and IE.
I agree with a bit here (doing what you love) and disagree with a whole lot more. I'll just make two quick points.

First, self improvement is a broad area that covers many topics. How can the author discuss one topic, make a vague claim, and then dismiss the whole area?

Second, things in life are rarely black and white. Saying 'forget self improvement' is like saying 'self improvement is the most important thing in the world'. Both stick to one end of the spectrum. What is right probably lies somewhere in the middle of this spectrum, and changes depending upon the person.
GIFs standard is awesome, it is that most of the software does them wrong. To recap:

You can update multiple rectangles each with 0ms delay. Issue is that most browsers don't like dealing with 0ms updates, and will consider rectangle update a frame update. Some browsers will silently increase delays. [1]

You can pause once all necessary rectangles for frame have been updated. [2]

You can have full colour image provided that it is built from multiple rectangle updates, where each rectangle contains its own colour map. [3]

[1] : Browsers not respecting GIF rectangle update delays : http://nullsleep.tumblr.com/post/16524517190/animated-gif-mi...

[2] : gifsicle [image] --delay [delaytime] #[start]-[end] : http://linux.die.net/man/1/gifsicle

[3] : True Colour GIF : http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html
Totally. I've worked on some frameworks, and I get that things get hairy supporting some really crazy general and re-useable concepts. I'm not even saying Spring is shitty, or Java is shitty or anything. I don't really care... but don't you dare tell me that class isn't hilarious, because it is.
Wonder how this jives with Gruber's comments on the maps situation:

>Using Maps to Improve Maps

>> Scott Rafer:

>>What’s missing from this conversation is that map usage is critical. […] Google’s maps are going to start degrading. Apple’s will get better. They’ll meet in the middle within 18 months.

>The idea is that you need to collect usage data to improve your data. The only way for Apple to get from here to there is to release what they have now and improve the data as millions of people start using it.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/19/rafer-maps

If Google Maps is approved, far less people would be using Apple Maps.
I totally get their concern about people making their own Twitter clients. But it's difficult to really push hard and tell the world you're trying to become a platform when the single most useful site for letting people connect your platform with other really cool stuff is disconnected because of your new policies.
Kickstarter quietly removes several projects, despite claiming otherwise
Twitter is realtime communication at it finest. They are the breaking news channel. Last year there was earthquake in east bay. First thing I did (even though it was middle of night) was to check my twitter when I sensed the vibrations. And I wasn't disappointed. Within seconds, I knew what was going on and how strong the earthquake was.

The amount of data they generate is humongous and can be very valuable. Data scientists can go through that data can do lot of pattern matching generate interesting insights. From how your product is doing in market or even complex predictions. That sort of stuff twitter wants developer community to build not yet another twitter client.
The mapquest app is better than this. I wonder how much it would cost to persuade AOL to part with the mapquest division.
I meant to say "in the mapping space". The post originally had a rant about the inevitable full phone/GPS integration being delayed because of these silly corporate squabbles, but I removed it at the last minute.
Does being offline have the same effect as cannabis?
What is the point of doing something you are good at if it makes your life worse?

Andre Agassi is one of the most interesting people, though.
I see your point.

Would I be violating Twitter's policies if automated a process whereby, when I compose a Tweet, the words I write (which are my own) appear simultaneously on something other than Twitter? Is it the round-tripping through their API that has Twitter's undies in a bundle? Because I could just skip that part entirely.
Apple and Google had an agreement in place. It was apple that chose not to continue this agreement. Speculation: I find it hard to believe from a business perspective that Google would want to do anything to harm this relationship as the map and map search provider on the ios platform. Being the default service for maps on ios is a win for google. Even if they release an app at this point, they aren't the default which is a step backwards.
Ok, this is an interesting twist to the story. See my comments elsewhere on why I don't think an App version of Google Maps would see the light of day (if it did that would definitely count as 'plan C' in my book).

Fun times.
Add colors back to Github activity graphs (Chrome Extension)
It's not that IFTTT violates their terms directly, but twitter triggers give IFTTT users the tools to violate the terms.
Pogue and Gruber on Charlie Rose tonight
I think the "pledge drive" kind of mechanics that Kickstarter uses can encourage people to donate more than they otherwise would. Sure, you can replicate this yourself (see app.net), but it's not free. Also, the Kickstarter brand.
Oh totally. I'm enjoying believing that this commit was part of a patch submitted with the explanation:

"Added a new superclass because you wouldn't believe how hard it was to to create beans that create beans that create only singletons!"

Turtles all the way down.
Yes, but Microsoft did not completely ban Netscape from running on Windows like Apple did with podcast apps, Google Voice etc. so the situation is not exactly analogous.

Everyone could and many did install Netscape, IE 3+ was just better after Netscape stagnated at version 4 for years because of a rewrite. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Microsoft shipped their browser default since an OS without a browser did not make sense. The user was completely free to install any other competing browsers without needing to jailbreak the device.

If Microsoft actually stopped Netscape from running, could you imagine the backlash?
SportVU [1] already does some interesting work with NBA statistics based on computer vision (see [2]).

I wouldn't be surprised to see similar technology in the NFL soon.

[1]: http://www.sportvu.com/

[2]: http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/tech/post/_/id/492/492
So now it is Google's fault that Apple ships a crappy maps app? Sorry, I think Apple just were too full of themselves, and they were greedy at the expense of their customers.

As for the other story - sure, if Apple had demanded that the Google Maps app shows Apple Ads, not Google Ads, or that they get a share of the Ad revenue, then Google would walk away eventually. Obviously it is also worth something for Google to have their Maps on iOS, so they might even have paid Apple for the privilege for a while (either a fixed sum, or part of the ad revenue).

If Google were to publish a Maps app now (and Apple would accept it), it would simply be free and show Google ads, like all the other Google maps. Apple wouldn't have to pay a dime. Why should it have been different with a Google maps app shipping with iOS?

Maps are a central part of a mobile device, so I suppose Apple was getting desperate to get a share of the pie (Ad revenue and valuable data collection).
Any chance San Diego is on your radar? :o)
Show HN: Our New Android App
Hello HNers, We have just released our Android App for Finderous and it can be downloaded from Goolge Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.finderous.

Finderous (http://www.findero.us) is a location aware Q&A app with following places as the main feature. Finderous is also available on iPhone and was released a few months back.

I would really appreciate some feedback on the app with comments and suggestions.

Thanks
The only games that will be on GNU/Linux, at least at first are Valve games and crappy indie flash games. While it's the first step, most developers aren't on board. Yet.
It does, but I'm still not a fan. I find its attach/detach on remote servers a little wonky.
Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines after a bit of reevaluation. I just wish that I was thoroughly exposed to trading at a much younger age. Thanks for the input!
I feel like NDAs prevent this from being useful for lawyers.
This was just a publicity measure for the guy's constituency.

No pilot flying in VFR conditions is going to need to rely on a consumer map application running on a smartphone or tablet in the event of an emergency, because they're trained to know their alternate airports and to look out at the ground to identify suitable emergency landing areas.

Similarly IFR pilots are required to file flight plans which often require explicit identification of alternate airports in the case of an emergency and they carry so much redundant equipment that a need to fall back on Apple Maps isn't a realistic scenario.

If you want to highlight the real dangers of people relying on maps with faulty data there are far better examples. For instance in the city in which I live Google Maps for years showed a high-end hotel as being in a really, really bad part of town. Unsuspecting tourists could get themselves into a bad spot just following what their maps app was telling them.

With people relying on the built-in maps apps on their phones to an ever-growing extent, Apple needs to put in a lot of effort to fix Apple Maps and they need to do it fast.
Some great blogs that cover the Xs and Os really well.

Here's one - http://smartfootball.com/
I sympathize with how this inconveniences you and you make some excellent points about emergency information being trapped with inside Twitter... but from their perspective you're just not an engaged enough user. You should have your nose in your Twitter stream all the time so you don't miss these kinds of important tweets (or tweets from sponsors about the new Ford Focus).

That people can consume content without consuming it from them is exactly what they want to avoid.
I agree that we're only getting limited information. I'd love to see his personal IMs, because I think those would shed even more light on his character. It's curiously ironic how the man who has access to the secrets of millions of people has revealed so little about himself.
The headline is misleading. It's not really Kickstarters fault. If they get legal threats concerning one of the people using their site it's quite normal to take it down, at least until everything is settled.
Maps don't magically improve through usage. Fix a POI here and there from user input is not going to cut it for competing with Google Maps.

For that, you need LIDARs on the road.
Well, IFTT's twitter hooks were exactly that kind of innovation, and it was just shot dead. How is anyone going to use it as a platform if you can't even read data from it?
Heh, is that like "Those that cannot do, teach"?
This map uproar seems a tad hyperbolic.

I used it this morning and I was actually pleasantly surprised. My map experience wasn't worse as I expected, but actually much better with turn by turn.

The people most upset seem to generally be edge cases. I'm sure Apple will work those out as complaints roll in.

Google has had 7 years to perfect maps. Apple feels maybe a year behind in some respects and a year ahead in others, but definitely not 7 years behind.
Ask HN: Hacker / Entrepreneur related things to do when in San Fran
Hi HN,

I'm going to be down in San Fran for a week at a conference. Outside of the normal conference activities, I'd like to try to connect with the scene, people, and get to know a little about the life of an entrepreneur / hacker in San Fran.

Places to go, people to connect with, suggestions and thoughts are all appreciated.

Thanks
This post was another success for you.
Yep, typically freedom of speech applies to government censorship. A private party can shut you out of their system as they have no responsibility to provide you with a platform. "Freedom of speech" is so often a misused/misunderstood concept.
As I always say- What about those that cannot teach?
There's already a similar mechanism in the URL handlers, but Apple don't let you choose which application to use if multiple ones are registered. This still bugs me.

I'd also like widgets one day.
It's not always easy to judge. If a local weather man says 30% chance of rain in DC, does that account mean rain on in some part of DC, 30% of DC will get rain, the average chance of rain for the area is 30% with some parts of it having above 30% and others lower, or some combination of all 3.
NYPD 'Anti Apple Picking Campaign'
Full Show 9/19/12: Romney's "47%" Problem
I think you are confused. What happened (and what this post is about) is they are preventing this kind of application to be built. You can't do pattern matching or whatever without access to the data...