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My point was the legacy is there and it's pretty large, should not be understated. Apple may not care so much about compatibility between releases or with NeXT binaries from 1987 (though I don't think Windows code from '87 works so well on NT either), but the old code is there and if your argument is that sort of thing doesn't help binary compatibility, then that's a problem. I was making my point in shorthand fashion, so I didn't even touch on Mach which is very old as well.

People have this impression that OS X is flashy and new and immune to or not experienced in code rot, and I didn't think it rings all that true.
Intuition, most of the time. Here are some quite common ones:

http://www.splashdata.com/press/PR121023.htm

There's no reason why you would have a three attempts limit, or five, or ten, and so on. If I get three per account, I'll just use the top three and try again different accounts. If I get three attempts per IP, I'll use many different IPs and do the same.

To remain user friendly, delays are the way to go. E.g. you could have three different delays that add to each other: Account-level, IP-level and global. Increase each with every failed attempt up to 30 seconds of wait time, and add them together. This will slow down brute force attempts to the point where they're useless, while still allowing legitimate users to login (just with a little inconvenience).

As a result, if I failed three attempts with one account, and three one next, etc., my IP-level limit will prohibit me from moving on to other accounts. If I try a lot of passwords on one account, the account-level and IP-level ones will slow me down. And if there's a distributed attack with many IPs, the global delay will reduce the damage the attack can do. All the while legitimate users can still use the service.
I agree implicitly. I've seen all kinds of drama play out, and at the end of the day, it never really matters. I've learned to just tune it out. It's best just to accept that you approached the situation the best you could, and figure out where to go next.
I don't understand why does Apple have to do something it simply can't do? Why not let people use something that is already good enough? At least until you come up with something extraordinarily better? I guess Steve Jobs would not have let this happen.
Might be passing through Death Valley over Christmas, wanted to head out to Racetrack Playa, any recommendations on the closest place to rent a jeep?

Was planning on winging it but figured a recommendation or two might help.

I'm from BC and usually when I'm out in the back country I'll pick up a forest service map, are there similar maps for Death Valley?
Ask HN: Why Not Upvote Civil Disagreement?
Instead of downvoting all comments that you disagree with, if you upvote the civil disagreements then you will help to curate deeper and more meaningful discussions. Upvotes are a reward for good behaviour - they release dopamine in the brain - and civil disagreement is not bad behaviour.

Of course, this means nothing without an official seal since PG already proclaimed that you should downvote disagreements. But I thought it might be worth a discussion. Are there any downsides to this proposal?
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The $80k is not invested by YC. I get the impression from some of the threads about this that people don't realize that.

YC still invests $11k + $3k per founder, as we've done for years. The $80k is a separate, additional investment offered by third parties.
I had to go to the main emergency room in Oslo last week. iOS6 couldn't find it, or even the correct street. Looking at the map in detail later, it didn't even have a building at the correct location. I was furious.
A lot of this depends upon your attitude toward abstraction. For example, there's a Python idiom for flattening a list that is just sum(list, []), taking advantage of the overloaded + for lists. (This is considered bad style for Python; use itertools.chain instead).

However, if you're a Haskeller (or a mathematician), this makes perfect sense. Any type with an associative binary + and an identity element is a monoid; any additive monad (MonadPlus in Haskell) is a monoid; List is a monad; therefore it makes perfect sense that operations like "sum" that are defined on monoids should work on lists.

This is just the age old abstraction vs. traceability debate that's been going on in programming languages for 40 years. Die-hard C programmers look at Java code that says a.dot(b) and say "How can I possibly know what this does? It depends upon the run-time type of a. Much safer just to do vector_add(a, b)." Then Java programmers look at Python code that says a.dot(b) and say "How can I possibly know what this does? I don't even know what interface a and b have to conform to, they could be anything." Then Python programmers look at Haskell code that says a * b and say "How can I possibly know what this does? You say it depends upon the type of a and b, and it could be either a dot or a cross product? And what's this -XOverlappingInstances flag I need to know about?"

Somewhere, there's a happy middle ground between impenetrable code vs. rewriting the same thing over and over again for different types. Personally, I think you won't find it with a blanket rule like "never use operator overloading", and it depends a lot on which abstractions come up in your problem domain.
PL/v8 is now the richest procedure language
Well hey, I guess I hit it on the head with them being at least within an order of magnitude, eh?

You forgot to take into consideration the thermal conductivity of solder. Although there's only 1/8th the current going through the solder than that of the wire, solder has a much much lower thermal conductivity than copper. After a bit of googling, copper's thermal conductivity is 401W/(mK) and bismuth solder is 19W/(mK). Although there's less current going through that solder, it's so much more thermally conductive it'll probably see its temperature increasing faster than that of the copper.

That certainly doesn't help when solder's melting point tends to be around 140C and copper's is 1000C. Also, while you may have said a 50/50 mix of solder and copper is extreme, if the OP was an awful at soldering and was using something like 16 gauge wire, it's not so ridiculous that there may be a 50/50 mix of solder to wire, hell that might even be a bit low.
NSA does not own a foundry anymore. Modern top-of-the-line foundries cost too much, even for the NSA.

Instead, they participate in a program to partner with domestic companies to manufacture their chips: http://trustedfoundryprogram.org/
It helps to have some context. Being moderately aware of global politics, I know that Russia is considerably more corrupt than the United States. Russia is reddish; the USA is yellow-ish. The rest I can figure out, and the numbers and labels make it all a bit more quantitative.

To be fair, the infographic could be better, but I think all the information is there and relatively easy to parse, so calling it "not very informative" is a bit extreme.
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Can't help noticing how those who've never had problems with Apple Maps are usually people from the US. The iPhone is sold in other parts of the world too, you know.
It really wasn't clear throughout the whole market what the "right" computer was -- for businesses, sure, PC, but there were a lot of people still using "word processors" with CP/M, various old machines, etc. And there were crazy quasi-video-game systems sold to schools, like the Commodore PET.

My first computer was a ColecoVision ADAM, around Christmas 1984, which was really a horrible choice -- never shipped in large quantities, and discontinued a month later (which is why it was cheap). An older or less capable machine with a larger userbase would have been a whole lot better. I hate that I missed out on Apple II, C64, and TRS-80 culture.

Fortunately I went to a crazy gifted/talented pull-out program once a week which had a lab full of Mac 512k (and later, plus and SE) (for a public school in Pennsylvania!), and even better, there was a modem. I went out of my way to be there as much as I could (skipping regular classes to "work on projects" there, etc.). Eventually I got a dumb terminal and modem of my own. Mmm, VAX/VMS and Cyber 205.
> But I've never heard that plagiarism is a legal issue. Are there actual laws on the books that criminalize plagiarism of public domain material?

It's more typically an issue of academics ethics. Plagiarism is a very serious charge in academia (and to some extent in politics), regardless of the source of the plagiarized material.

As to its being a legal issue, I don't think so, but IANAL. My earlier point was about proper attribution.

> As I already said, the point of my example earlier was to wonder whether someone could hypothetically transcribe the Foundation stories from the audio recording and sell the resulting novels, complete with a cover reading "Isaac Asimov's /Foundation/" (and perhaps with "Edited by J. Smith" in small text somewhere).

I have to say I don't know how that would play out. I guess the example of Shakespeare's plays stands as an example of the freedom one may have in such a case. But that's not plagiarism -- defined as claiming another's work as your own.
Man of Steel : une nouvelle affiche pour le film
Une nouvelle affiche du film Man of Steel a été dévoilée par Warner. Les premiers volets du long-métrage Superman sont disponibles en téléchargement.
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Everyone seems happy aside from people driving into an Australian desert they've never been to with no supplies— oh, and folks who need transit directions.

Just to clarify, these people weren't driving into the desert, just into a town. The GPS took them 70 kilometres away and left them in a position unable to find a way out.
Also, dear god, put a couple cases of bottled water in your car. I do that even when driving around the Bay Area (if nothing else, $0.10/bottle water vs. $1.50/bottle water at the gas station is a win), but it was weird being in SW NV seeing people with absolutely no preparations in their car.
NASA: Why the World Won't End
Ask HN: Flurry vs MixPanel Vs Countly Vs?
Wondering which is the best analytics platform available for iOS apps these days.
Whatever happened to reading road signs? They are actually pretty easy to use.
This technique is sometimes used in cognitive behavioral therapy. For example, one might record themselves telling a story with the most feared outcome, then listen to it repeatedly. After a while, it becomes easier to face the possibility of the fear coming true, and also puts it into perspective, as it is often not as realistic as imagined.
WTF? This is clearly a dupe of the story from several hours ago.

"You're posting too fast."

FUCK YOU, HACKER NEWS.
Is corruption actually the problem?

Perhaps nations with high levels of corruption are lacking basic legal institutions that tend to allow open market economies to function effectively. That is, corruption is simply a side-effect of institutional deficiency.

Chris Blattman (http://chrisblattman.com/2012/11/05/corruption-and-developme...) says: "Most of us fail to imagine that corruption can also grease the wheels of prosperity. Yet in places where bureaucracies and organizations are inefficient (meaning entrepreneurs and big firms struggle to transport or export or comply with regulation), corruption could improve efficiency and growth. Bribes can act like a piece rate or price discrimination, and give faster or better service to the firms with highest opportunity cost of waiting."

Likewise John Wallis (http://www.nber.org/chapters/c9977.pdf) wrote an informative economic history paper about American corruption in 2006. The conclusion? "No society with a systematically corrupt political system has limited government. The economic system is always at risk, entry is limited, competition is fettered, and economic policies are shaped by politicians to maintain their political control of the government. Crony capitalism is not a manifestation of venal corruption—it is a symptom of systematic corruption."
Apps like that could be enough to show off what you can do, but what's more interesting to employers is to see some creativity as well as ability to code.

I suggest looking for something a little more fun and interesting than a simple blog.
Another comment on Prismatic (it took me a few days to get around trying it): Hacker News and Reddit are good for finding interesting new information, and they combine it with a pretty good discussion that usually attracts experts. That combination is really fantastic, and even if Prismatic improves the information-finding, can it also link me to an expert discussion of the article?
Yes, well because we all know the officials aren't on the take. It's not like the UC Board of Regents doesn't have massive ties to the financial elite, do they? That's just a well known example.
Why Microsoft let piracy run wild in China (video)
A friend and I have really been enjoying this game. There is a good bit of strategy in active cities with how links are made and blocked for other teams. The community is certainly a huge portion, because you really do have to coordinate with people around the city. Many portals are too strong to take out alone, so it is great to bring a buddy or group along.

I have discovered so many cool things around the city that I never knew about. The game leads you out on a site-seeing adventure into pockets of the city that you may no frequent. Many of the portals are real places of interest that deserve a little attention. Furthermore, some portals aren't accessible in a car, so you are forced to do a bit of walking or cycling. My bike has seen plenty of use in the past 2 weeks and today I was walking around town with friends for about 7 hours.
Versus 1/10 of 1/2 of 1% voting 'yes', and continuing to ignore the rest of my points. The real issue here is simply that it is insane to require 30% of "all users" of a website to vote on something, if you want to call it a "vote"... the United States presidential election, which involves tons of bulk mail, door-to-door solicitation, pressure from schools, commercials on television, numerous news segments, and centuries of tradition to get a population of people who we are pretty certain actually exist and aren't just "test accounts", only gets about 50%-60% turnout. Half a million people is incredulously high for this situation: if you had asked me how many people would have voted on this petition when it started, I would have guessed at most 10,000.
I do post my email here (profile) and would love to chat with some HN people around Atlanta and/or GT.
Covering the whole country with Google Fiber could cost $140 billion
You can see it more broadly, at least in Australia. I've been going through some of the examples listed at this blog:
http://www.unsanelygreat.com/blog/2012/6/24/google-maps-vs-a...

Many don't line up with GeoNames data, but they do appear to be cases where a town name clashes with the name of a local council area, and Apple Maps have chosen the council area instead. Wanneroo is another example here:
http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/post/32038150409/wanner...
Khan Academy video that uses Illinois as an example of what happens when pension obligations are underfunded: http://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/american-civics/v/illi...
Ask HN: If you had to develop happytables, which technologies will you use?
happytables.com uses ThemeForce(https://github.com/themeforce/framework), an open source wordpress based framework to power its restaurant website service.

If you are asked to develop a SAAS application similar to happytables which language/framework/technologies you will choose? Why?

Here are some features you may need to implement :

1) Account Management & Billing System

2) Admin Backend : Where customers can login and update their website information. It should be available as both web & mobile app.

3) Front-End should be made available as installable themes (similar to wordpress themes). Third party developers should be able to develop a custom theme using HTML,CSS,javascript, etc.

4) REST API
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Did you find it on the Google Map website/web app?
iOS port of $P Point-Cloud Gesture Recognizer
can't see why this is downvoted... the fact that this is true and that the author replies that he actually had to extensively prepare for it... and the fact that he would be in the same trouble as the watch guy had his design had a large battery... anyway, i'm on silent ban so posting just out of habit.
I'm not sure there is much significance to this article.

It points out "The technique doesn't apply to online attacks, because, among other reasons, most websites limit the number of guesses that can be made for a given account."

Same applies to Windows.
God damn it Illinois, can't we get our shit together?

/Illinois resident
Out of couriosity, I navigated the Kalahari with both a map and a TomTom. I was quite surprised to find that the paths were quite accurate - but shifted by roughly 5 kms. So I could use the maps, but not the navigation capabilities of the system at all.
Let me just compliment the design of your website, with design being not just the visuals, but the structure, presentation and the content as well. It is clean, simple (but not simplistic) and comes across as a frontend of a company with a substance. Not to technical, not too fluffy, good balance. I would however expand the About section to add some specifics - where and whos.
My guess is that they have made this into a fun way to get us to send them maps data. We are giving them route data in places that street-view cars cannot access. Players can also submit new portals with geotagged photos, which could help maps/street view/Field Trip/places. Indoor mapping of public buildings might benefit as well. They might also be able to use XM (energy orbs placed around town) to lure players to areas that need mapping info.
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I lost my father as a kid because he crashed into a truck that broke down on a freeway in fog and had defective tail-lights. Maybe there is something he could have done, but what exactly could I have done? Mind you, I am not complaining at all, and I'd rather loose a cool guy than live with an asshole father. But I also saw people die of cancer, and not just the obvious "smoke, get lung cancer" kind. And I could go on.

I still agree with the blog post and loved it to bits. Simply because blaming others seems to be a default position for many (I know it often is for me), and it truly is a trap. Seeing it from another perspective is refreshing and vital. And it is always, always true (that it's our fault) when it comes to our inner state, to how we feel and think about what happens, and, last but never least, of how we treat others. Of that we are truly the masters -- but even there you could mention deception, (involuntary intake of) drugs or brain defects. So, it's not that simple.

Life can also be cruel and random and there is fuck all you can do about it other than suffer and/or die. Accepting that and still saying yes to life is kind of a superpower, too.
I would pay money for a google maps app.
I can't do much with your point about the trustworthiness of research in the social sciences given that it's anecdotal and I have nothing to compare it to (anecdotally), nor do I see how referencing a list of 31 college dropout billionaires has much to do with the argument about predictive power. I'm aware of logical implication and correlation vs causation and so that seems like a whopping non-sequitur.

I don't want to get into a pissing match, but I genuinely am interested in knowing how you would suggest codifying education?
Apple does at least build things, but it still has hundreds of bogus patents that it uses offensively to retard innovation. Perhaps we need a new derisive word to cover that behavior.
Thinking about it some more. Is the only practical exploit of this the case where a rogue sysadmin wants to figure out user passwords (without resetting the password and therefore alerting the user)?
Patent office strikes blow against “Steve Jobs patent”
Google Fusion Table is very similar to this, however, their API documentation is not very good in my opinion. I think a product like this is very useful if you want to give a client access to their database in the form of a spreadsheet.
Based on no scientific evidence of my own, I would imagine they just went away because the trend of those kinds of banner ads simply kind of vanished. I haven't seen very many "Lose belly fat with this one secret tip only single moms know" ads in a while (I think they were all pitching Acai or something). There are definite trends of ad types across the various ad networks, but like any other market looking to hawk the-next-big-thing, I would think they dried up because business was elsewhere.
You nailed it. tired enough to pay probably matters more than even the rate of getting tired.
A career mistake that capable people make
For jeep rental, the best place to rent from is:

http://www.farabeesjeeprentals.com

For maps, the NPS site is your first stop:

http://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm

The specific back country road map is:

http://www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/upload/Backcountry%20R...

If you want specific details and more information, contact me directly. I can give you more detail, depending on your experience/desires.
I think what they're referring to is having access to the physicial harddisk. In linux terms it would equate to having a copy of the /etc/passwd file.

For example the FBI seizes someones computer. This would allow them to brute force without said restriction.

So yes, from an online, or standard entry viewpoint this is a moot point. Also a properly encrypted hard drive using something like truecrypt is still pretty impenetrable regardless.
Thanks so much, same username on twitter?
Religion has no use for evidence in creating or revising any idea. But I still get your point.
I believe the threshold is 400 karma
I really enjoy this game. I love a new take on the classic block game. Lumines is a personal favorite.

There is no music in this game and that would be fine if you could listen to iTunes or Spotify while playing it but that currently doesn't seem to work. Any plans on adding this feature? The gameplay does not need to "sync" to the music in any way, it's just that I would love to be able to listen to music in the background.

Once again, very well done. It's a visually appealing, fun game. I also like the animation on the info page.
Audio in general is still in very infant stages. That is, vendors are experimenting, but unless you're going for "only works in X" there isn't much truly interesting stuff you can do currently, even on PC. I'd love to be corrected on this, mind you. But so far it's either all vendor prefixed from what I can tell, or still rather simple.
I keep hearing 500. It used to be 200.
Every time I turn my Garmin GPS it warns me that maps might not be correct, so it's not just Apple.

That said, Apple should have written a big fat check to a company with much better data. (I still think Apple needed their own mapping and apparently maps improve as more users use them.)
I don't find the comment derisive, in that it does not express contempt or ridicule. Rather, I find it somewhat patronising--it dismisses Peter's blog post as not specific enough by focusing on the question of content rather than tone.

The blog post was an exhortation to open our minds, to be more constructive with our peers and more creative as a community; I found it unfortunate that Patrick seemed to dismiss Peter's input by making that sort of detour in his comment. I probably would have ignored it except that the entire point of the blog post was to try being a bit less rigid with each other.

I didn't mean for my comment to become a "scrutinise Patrick" thread--it was just a comment.