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Sorry if I wasn't clear. I did muddle that. See, sometimes they give Portal away completely for free. They've done it two or three times now. What I'm suggesting is that Valve gives everyone a free copy of Ep3 (or HL3, whatever they call it,) for Linux. Then I'm confident you'd see large numbers of gamers installing Linux partitions. And they could still charge for the Win/Mac version.

Of course, that's insanely unlikely. But I think it would be their strongest card in the "let's get everyone off of Windows" . I also think luring everyone to Linux (by filling in their catalog with "one purchase, all platforms" games) is probably cheaper for Valve than creating their own console.

But then, I may well attribute more good will to them (that they'd rather home computer gaming be on an open platform than another closed one, even if it was their own) than they deserve.

/edit: Ohhh, you mean "Portal wasn't a full fledged game, so... Unlikely." I get you. Sorry. Yes, I agree. Like I said here, insanely unlikely. But, as a tool to get more people to get away from Windows and the Win8 store... It would be irresistibly strong bait. And that's definitely in their long term interests.
Gee, that almost sounds like something worth considering before starting a thermonuclear war.
I'm hoping they will provide access to the Humble Bundles as they do on Windows. It is a pain keeping up to date with them manually.
Rust indeed looks very promising. I hope it'll pick up usage beyond Mozilla internal projects.
The iPhone 5 Display: Thoroughly Analyzed
You've obviously never compiled java at google :-)
"Windows or Mac"

No thanks.
I think Apple doesn't really care at this point where the iPhone is essentially a cash cow five years after launch with 600K apps in the app store. Incremental improvements are enough to sell millions on launch and later with many people guaranteed to buy it regardless of how many flaws it has.
It says : To search outside India, change the country appropriately (e.g. United States – English) at the top right corner of the page. Change the country to India for richer maps of top Indian cities.

Edit: You will see the new bing maps once you change country to USA. Which is way better than older version.
I really don't agree with this. I had no experience with coding, but after messing around on Codecademy I was able to put a website together > http://outgrow.me/ Isn't that the whole point?
Wow! What an awesome critique. I'm in awe.

First off, rather than just saying Khan Academy missed the point, Mr. Victor goes over in extreme detail with full examples with ideas on how to do it better.

Second, he really went into some detail about how to think about things. Not just the solutions but ideas and ways of thinking to come up with better solutions.

Third, he's set the bar for critiques higher than I've ever seen. Next time I want to critique something I'm going to feel at least some responsibility to give good and clear examples of both what I think is wrong and what I think would be better with reasons.

Fourth, even if I never write software to help learning programming or help programming advance in general I'll certainly be influenced in my API and system designs by this post.

Thank you Mr. Victor
yeah, was confused by that part a bit, since their website mentions 3%. perhaps that's just the listing fee vs. how much they make for each night someone stays at a listing...
I'd say it was, or at least as ready as it could have been. Problem is that everyone is behind Google on Maps. They're on Mars, everyone else is playing with baking soda and vinegar at Cape Canaveral.

Apple would have to acquiesce to Google on a lot of fronts to get better maps features (that are a major improvement in many places), and get stuck working on something that could never compare in perpetuity. Launch or die, right?
(I understand that you’re probably being somewhat sarcastic, but for the sake of semantics…)

It’s pretty clear by the amount of change (and Apple’s marketing efforts) that each OS 10.#.0 release is a "major" OS update, on par with the relative significance of each iOS #.0 release.

But Gruber may have over-generalized here. Indeed, Apple has added major new features in iOS .# updates, e.g. AirPlay and AirPrint in 4.2, or the Personal Hotspot feature in 4.3.

What they haven’t done is change key functionality in a point update, let alone introduce regressions. (In fact, before this incident, I’m struggling to recall Apple ever removing/crippling existing functionality.) If they were going to perform a full Maps switch-out, maybe they felt that now would be the best time, if only because there is so much positive press out there to temper the backlash.

Edit: Regarding removed features, I was mostly thinking of Apple’s record with iOS. As gurkendoktor points out, they have certainly removed ("simplified") functionality in Mac OS X, often creating great frustration.
Honestly I never trust Apple with iCloud. Still need to do backup with iTunes regularly. I wish iOS has better integration with Dropbox because I trust it. But again, if Apple takes over DB, then I would lose my trust. This guy isn't for web service except for music/app downloading.
They could have rolled it out as a standalone app first, with the clear goal being that they want users to try it out and report issues. There's no reason the first version had to replace the google-backed one.

I'm sure there'd be thousands of people willing to give it a go, and people would be much more forgiving of errors if it wasn't the only option.
And, it can now open more than 9 tabs.

That "feature" alone is enough for upgrading to iOS 6 (for iPad users)
> He also had a scheme that would let you "transclude" text from other documents.

And even at the time, he planned to modify copyright law to allow this.

(I believe launching a successful land war in Asia was next on his list.)
so everybody now knows exactly what Steve Jobs would or would not have done ( i.e. whatever you don't agree with ) ?
Heh. Judging from the URL of this post, it might be Half Life 3.
How has anyone ever sold a product before? You market it.

The App Store isn't the sole place you should be marketing your app. If you have ever counted on just releasing your app into the store and have it somehow gain traction with no other effort, you've always been doomed to failure.

The App Store should be treated like a supermarket, after a fashion. You may get your product on the shelf, but simply relying on people walking by and seeing it is a terrible way to get people to try it. It always takes outside marketing to get people to look for your product or learn about it.

So you already have put a lot of work into making your application. Now go do some more legwork and get people talking about it.
Doesn't actually seem to be an intentional redirect, though—if you truncate everything past the "b" in the URL, it still works (and similarly for other blog posts). I have a feeling it's just doing a "best match" based on the URL.
While I'm not a fan of the new iOS maps, I'm reasonably happy that Apple chose to break the relationship with Google rather than throw my privacy under a bus to get a contract extension.
Wouldn't moving from Google to Apple maps be adding the new OS features rather than removing them?
I'm pretty sure that the iPhone asks you if you want to keep a local copy of your contacts & calendars when you remove an Exchange account, so you may have hit "No" on accident.
Rust is not particularly object-oriented; idiomatic Rust code leans more toward the functional style as opposed to the OO style.

The language is designed to make it harder to write buggy code at the cost of some amount of language complexity. Whether this is an acceptable tradeoff will depend on your particular situation.
Is there any evidence for the claim in the headline? There's a lot of numbers, but none that I see that indicate the problem is worsening.
but it's not really earnings is it? that's 20x revenue, so even with really good margins that would be at least double. You're right that amazon's P/E is insanely high, but on a revenue basis they trade at 1.5-2.0x. I guess with the kind of growth AirBnB has there's nothing really comparable... just trying to understand how they're justifying that valuation
Yes you would be annoyed. Chutes and Ladders consists of activating a spinner, moving a piece along a path based on the number pointed to by the spinner, going 'up' if you land on a ladder or 'down' if you land on a chute, and you 'win' when your piece lands exactly on the last spot. You would probably get as few as 3 and as many as a half dozen 'buzzes' as you figured it out.

So you should try the test (or try it on an unsuspecting test candidate) my experience has been that no matter how 'simple' the game is, the fact that it seems completely orthogonal to the person, their ability to 'shift gears' and learn a new thing so that they can get on with the desired thing is blocked. It is especially true if you put a time limit on getting the desired thing done.

The challenge is that a number of things seem to have an assumption about your basic skills that may not be valid. An acquaintance went nuts when an app required that he cut and paste something on his phone. He had never had a reason to do cut and paste before so to complete the task he had to learn cut and paste. He was making zero progress on that goal. I did it for him, then later went back and showed him in a non time-constrained / outcome-desired setting how to do it. That worked fine of course, and now its part of his tool kit.
IOS 6.0 in Sydney? No suburb for you
And who is the grand 'We'?

Seems to me that you, along with some others, are getting a tad overheated. He goes on to say "The idea that Alzheimer’s might be Type 3 diabetes has been around since 2005, but the connection between poor diet and Alzheimer’s is becoming more convincing". A perfectly reasonable statement.

This is a short opinion piece which will alert those interested to look further. If this is not to your liking then check out this one:
http://www.monbiot.com/2012/09/10/the-mind-thieves/
which has plenty of references. May be right, may be wrong but it's an interesting idea.
How would this work with something like Angular JS? I'm guessing that JS frameworks that do DOM manipulation won't be very happy when all of their DOM references just vanish - I'm guessing there's also the possibility of leaking tons of memory here if the event handlers aren't unbound.
The thing about Chutes and Ladders is that winning is subject to random chance. I don't think we want that to be the case with technology.
I have Steam for windows installed through wine, and haven't had many issues getting my titles which I purchased from the humble bundle running. Since many of them have linux native versions already, I don't suspect we will have any issues.
> programming in which abstractions must be zero-cost and control over the machine is crucial

How well does Rust do in this zero (or low) cost department? In C++ STL there's the same goal, but it compiles to code very far from what you would write in assembly without abstractions.

Eg. how are code compactness and data layout optimizations?
His expectation sounds reasonable but part of that is he's not an objective third party -- he's presumably writing to emphasize the reasonableness.

We really don't know what happened between when his 87 year old grandfather walked into the Apple store and when he walked out with a restored machine. I can think of a lot of ways this ends up "just not working". Maybe grandpa used the word "restore" at some point not aware of it's specific meaning, heads were nodded and miscommunication happened.

Wife and I were planning to get her mother a tablet to video chat with before she passed unexpectedly a year ago. Had we done so and had we been in a similar situation I doubt I would have sent her to the Apple store with only the words "icloud backup" scrawled on a piece of paper. I mean it's total speculation but I think I would have had an email explaining exactly what to do or told her to wait until we were there to handle it.
Ask HN: Interested in a Wikipedia parsing tool for data mining?
I recently developed a C library that parses Wikipedia, with the goal of being _fast_. For example, I was able to parse and extract text from the entire wikipedia dump (~35 GB uncompressed) in under an hour (on a 5yr old iMac).

It is a work in progress. If there is sufficient interest, then I will clean up the code and put up some documentation.
This looks very similar to my startup's product, Site44: www.site44.com.

I'm not sure I follow the connection to "mobile," though. Some of the examples (like a static blog or landing page) don't sound at all specific to mobile. Can someone explain? Is this general-purpose static hosting, like Site44, or is it something different?
We dropped nginx because of no native support for session affinity. SSL support has been introduced in HAProxy very recently.
For all this talk about App Store discovery, why hasn't anyone set up an alternative means of discovery? After all, all you need is a link to the item on itunes. It should be theoretically easy to set up a mobile webpage with a list of indie apps, and with improved searching it'd be very easy to bootstrap such a site with at most a week's worth of effort.
I've wanted to tackle this idea forever, it's always seemed like low-hanging fruit. I'm super excited to see someone take it on full-time. Best of luck!
Agreed, but in my experience the rooms are better than a hotel.
The site is sort of sparse on details. Just gave you my email addr. Can I link this up with my own DNS?
I totally agree. Check out the rest of his site too, he is a genius.
Well I'm a big fan of many concepts of Singularity. And I like rust. I guess that's no coincidence ;-)
This looks like an interesting project ;) I'll definitely check it out.
what is "that"? 50% off? 75% off? I've been using AirBnB to book places for my conference speakers for 2 years & I usually get between 30% and 55% off from a comparable hotel.
Maybe it depends on your area, but I really think the bad press on the new iOS Maps App is overblown. I took a 700 mile road trip last weekend and Maps worked flawlessly. The turn-by-turn directions were neat, and the ETA and remaining miles were useful.
Quotes from the article, this batch from FDA inspections of supplement factories:

> Some firms don’t even have recipes, known as master manufacturing records, for their products.

> Others make their supplements in unsanitary factories. New Jersey-based Quality Formulation Laboratories produced protein powder mixes and other supplements in a facility infested with rodents, rodent feces and urine, according to government records. FDA inspectors found a rodent apparently cut in half next to a scoop, according to a 2008 inspection report.

And this shoddiness has a grave impact on real people:

> In 2008 more than 200 people — including a 4-year-old — were poisoned by selenium after taking liquid multivitamin dietary supplements that were sold in health stores and by chiropractors, according to a medical paper published on the mass poisoning. The products, called Total Body Formula and Total Body Mega Formula, contained an average of 40,800 micrograms of selenium per serving instead of 200, according to the paper.
Snoopy: A distributed tracking and profiling framework
> In fact, before this incident, I’m struggling to recall Apple ever removing/crippling existing functionality

Mac OS X has had plenty of that. You buy a Mac Mini with a remote so you can use Front Row, and bam, Front Row's gone. But that is probably why Mac users are a lot more careful with updating their systems than iOS users are/were.
What does "many" mean? 10? 20? Out of how many programmers who were active back then?

20 years ago most programmers were not using Smalltalk or lisp machines or whatever, even if those things existed they weren't used often, so the author is technically correct about the "state of the art" with the caveat that their were many attempts to go beyond this but nothing got any traction.

Also, you are incorrect about 20 years ago. The first example of liveness and directness in programming was in...1962 with the Sutherland/Sketchpad demo. 50 years ago.
Remember he usually calls half-cooked products or apps as "turd"s.
Have you looked at dbpedia.org? Perhaps your tools would fit in with their project.
It's about the timing of the decision, not the underlying rationale for the decision to move away from Google Maps at the cost of user experience.

Gruber says only:

>If Apple had stuck with Google Maps for another year they would have been forced to renegotiate with Google in a situation where both sides at the table would know that Apple ... had to agree to whatever terms Google demanded to extend the deal

Does Apple somehow have less leverage in the past? They can always use App Store gatekeeping as leverage. Perhaps Gruber is implying that Apple's antagonism towards Google's ally Samsung means it will receive unfavorable terms?

Even if Apple has to pay a bit more one would think it would be worth it given that Apple has lots of cash and the risk of shipping a poor maps implementation is losing further marketshare to Android.
The new search layout shows very little information,is heavy and crashes now and then(true on 4S but not so on the new iPad where the search result displays more information at once with no crashes so far).
The Genius tab is a real loss for me as I don't use it at all.
I like to browse by category but now I have to tap twice where once was ok...
The result in itself are also plainly wrong most of the time.
I've stopped using it and I've switched to AppShopper, way better(I am absolutely not affiliated with this app^^)
codeavengers.com is way better...you dont have to search through forums if your answers are your wrong.
This figure is not from a single instance though. When running a single instance of WP I've always found it to be fantastically slow. The greatness in the described stack really lies in Nginx. It's really not WordPress serving 70k requests here, it's some decent load balancing that achieves the effect. The title is somewhat misleading.
Why no "C" api?
If you are in Southern California or willing to relocate, please reach out to me.
> The elephant in the room is that go does have garbage collection, and that ain't free.

Since HN is Lisp country, it has to be said that having GC isn't an "elephant in the room" - though a slow GC implementation may be.
Isn't there a complete database with the information in Wikipedia available?
The average public don't even know what Jelly Bean is, much less which device to buy that has it. I would guess this only has to do with maps. Related; Reading a negative review will definitely influence negative response. There are so many different reports of failure to do with the iPhone 5 launch, whether all the report they've are legitimate or not, is not known.
Sorry to go off topic, but did anyone else close the article right when they got to the ad with the "Article continues below" link above it? They've got stats showing that users don't realize their articles continue because they throw ads right in the middle of them, and they fixed the problem with an anchor link? Good god.
I have the same experience as a student at Hackbright, a 10 week programming course. Prior to hackbright I took a lot of codecademy courses, but it never got me from newbie to 'yes I can do this' programmer. Yes, I can follow the exercise and figure out how to pass each quiz, however, I believe CodeCademy essentially suggests that you have to follow 1 way to do things to be correct, which is not how problem solving (and programming) works.

At Hackbright however, I found learning with CodeCademy to refresh some knowledge is helpful, especially with a teacher around to ask questions. Most of the time, the questions confirm that my solution is also valid, but it's just different from the CodeCademy answer.
IMVU releases their real-time server statistics package
Personally, I'm hoping they don't. Or rather, that if they do, they find a way to do it while expending zero time and energy on it...

Fragmentation in the Linux world is one of the major things that is stopping developers from jumping on board. Valve should focus on supporting one distro and supporting it well.
There are a couple of things that cause a lot of pain.

One of those is the backup not being from the same iOS version. It will let you restore it to a new device, but then it doesn't complete (ie apps and such).

Just went through this going from an iOS 5 iPod Touch and an iOS 6 iPhone 5. The downside is that it makes old devices like the iPad 1 (which can't run iOS 6) going to say iPhone 5 (which can't run iOS 5), impossible to restore.
Go tell that to the guys coding device drivers, so now device drivers API are private?!

Nice to bend the reality to fill into your argumentation.
Also works if you remove 'eta-late-than-never-3'.
Yesterday I connected a webcam to Windows 7, I had to download drivers (about 100MB of it from Logitech) only after this it started working.

Also the same day I wanted to install my old HP 4300C scanner, connecting it to Windows 7 and using some old driver for windows xp didn't make it work. There are no drivers for Windows 7. The ones for XP are also quite old and are some kind of a "remastered" Windows 95 version sometimes they don't work.

When I did the same on linux (Debian Wheezy, default kernel 3.2.x) both devices just work I didn't have to do anything apart from running an application that uses them (Skype or scanimage).
This deserves to be a full blog post.
Would be better if they'd drop using DRM.

Let's hope GOG will follow with shipping native Linux games. With their DRM free stance - they'll be very well received by Linux users.

If you are interested, you can vote to show them that there is a demand for it:

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/site/add_linux_versions_of_ga...
Opensource radeon driver is pretty good if you don't need 3D. I would actually say that it is much better then the AMD one - there are no problems with suspend and the card initializes more quickly.
Carbon Wheelset Review
Happy Birthday, Google! (Google's 14th Birthday)
I've never heard of anyone not get incredible speedups with APC. We're talking 250%+. Every (large) production PHP deployment I've seen, disabling APC would make everything fall over. They would need 3-4x as much capacity.
There's a video from WordCamp 2012 where Barry does some Q&A about large WordPress setups:

http://wordpress.tv/2011/08/31/barry-abrahamson-ask-barry-ab...
Block Or Unblock Websites without software
really? that might have been worth mentioning in all your other comments trashing opcode caching. that was 5 years ago.
The logo: https://encrypted.google.com/logos/2012/Googles_14th_Birthda...
I agree completely.

I'm trying to remember the last app I download(let alone purchased) by browsing through the top whatever in the app store. I think it was the flashlight app I got when I first bought my iPhone.

Now, I don't even bother with trying to browse apps. If I'm going to buy an app on either iTunes or Google Play, I'm searching for the specific one I want.
Linus needs his RMS and vice versa. Don't frame this as 'empty ideas' vs 'noble industry'. Both are necessary.

There are many reasons, none of which need to be justified to the public, as to why a person may turn down an opportunity.

His article made a short criticism of KA missing the forest for the trees and then provided a very long and detailed analysis of ways to improve it. For free. So everyone benefits.

I suspect the videos in his article were not dummies, mocks or faked, but actual working code. If you visit his website you will see a mind numbing amount of examples and demonstrations in the same vein and length as the article. The effort required to fake these would be truly enormous. Again, his reasons for not releasing code don't need to be justified to us.