skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Apple was unwilling to negotiate with Google because they are upset over Android."

Alternatively we could use our pretend mind reading in the other direction and say that "Google was unwilling to negotiate with Apple because they had them over the barrel?"

Or we could realize that there are two parties in a negotiation and come to the conclusion both did what would be expected and in the end users will certainly benefit the most by having lots of competition in the mapping space.

"Apple could certainly have improved its existing Maps app if they were willing to play ball with Google. "

Which would have left them bent over the barrel forever?

"every iOS user can plainly see that Apple is worse at mapping than Google."

Because previously so many users thought Apple was better at maps than Google?
You mean it's not as simple as:

1. Buy Instagram for $1 billion

2. ???

3. Profit!

I never should have followed that business plan from those damned gnomes!
The point about links is that other people can profit by posting links on your site. Before Ad(Words|Sense), you could freely allow people to post links in comments (without having to worry about nofollow or anything) because people would only profit from those links if what they linked to was relevant/interesting. Now just the act of following a link can mean a few pennies in someone's pocket, so allowing links to be posted to your site is a quick way to get seriously astroturfed.
My favourite part? The class names on some of the elements.

".jumbotron .heading"
".mega-icon"

I should name things like that more :)
Original article on Professor Paul Campos' blog:

http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2012/12/applicati...
The business side of things? The business side of things is people paying premium money to Apple for what they expect to be a premium experience.
It does, actually. It challenges your mistaken understanding of a what "hotel" stands for, its patrons, their economic social status & their affluence in relation to your average dweller.
Permanent solution? That's hard to say. No one should expect Apple to rest on their laurels for Maps though - they can't afford to admit defeat. They must continue to strive to make their Maps app as-good-as or even better than Google Maps. It'll be interesting to see what Apple does next.
Also note that everyone who has complained about Apple Maps either purchased an iPhone 5 essentially on release day, making them an early adopter (the 4 and 4S are still for sale) or is an early adopter by way of voluntarily upgrading.

Let's not overdramatize. And the iOS Maps experience based on Google's data was really terrible while iOS 6 was in development and when it was released.

There's also nothing wrong with Apple Maps that wasn't wrong with Google Maps literally years after it was launched.
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Google Ventures' Maris, Rose on Startup Investments
The Ballmer Peak was a fictional concept in an XKCD cartoon[0]. Hardly something to use as evidence in an argument.

But even if it were scientifically accurate, alcohol doesn't make you dumber (at least not at first) - it makes you less inhibited and slower-thinking, two traits that may actually be desirable in problem-solving.

[0] http://xkcd.com/323/
Job's homoeopathic influence?
Are Apple doing anything with those bug reports, though? In my area, bugs reported 2.5 months ago still haven't been corrected. (If you are seeing improvements though, more power to you.)
Free as in free beer science comics in every language.
> Google wanted more prominent branding and way more user data.

So yes, Apple decided that it would drop Google. They were in a tough spot, hating Google with every breath but then relying on them for mapping, but it was a bed that they made.

Considering that the YouTube and Google Maps applications rocketed to the top of the store instantly, do you think Apple was concerned about its users or concerned about sticking it to Google? Apple's users want Google's applications, Apple does not want to cooperate with Google. It's that simple.
I have a house on property about 70 miles out of the city. I would love to live there, but instead I share a house with some housemates in the city close to my job. I can work from home easily, but where my house sits only has dial-up and 3G, neither suitable for VPN and Skype all day every day. I hate living in the city. I want rural broadband so I can live in the house my grandparents left to me.
In terms of working while raising children, if you have the financial resources to make up for having one or both parents working then there is not much of an issue. A lot of folks don't have such resources, of course, and work out of necessity.

As for why folks have kids, the reasons are varied, but a significant percentage of those are not planned, they are either unwanted or mistimed. Jessica Valenti had a great piece in the Atlantic about this that was posted here a few weeks back - http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/not-wantin...
Developers Shouldn't Have Access to The Operating System
There's no black and white perfection and imperfection that you state.
Perhaps some variant of a buckling spring / clicky / mechanical switched keyboard? It's a lifetime-lasting gift.
ref 1 dates back to 2007, ref 2 is an isolated 'bug report' which no one else seems to corroborate and ref 3 seems to be written by you. You're not making any kind of case here for Apple being overrated.
70 is generally taken as the threshold for mild mental retardation. I was using 85 as the threshold for borderline and assuming a non-normal distribution.
haml and sass would be nice because they are often used in rails projects. It would allow me to easily integrate roots with rails.
Interesting application but I think they should bring a native french speaker on board. The french sentence provided in the only screenshot isn't correct.

"Puis-je avoir le menu encore, s'il vous plaît ?" is a word for word translation of english. Unfortunately, "encore" needs to be put before the complement and the correct form would be : "Puis-je encore avoir le menu, s'il vous plaît ?". And even like this, it still sound phoney and using "à nouveau" would be better. French tends to be more tricky than english as its rules of construction admit a lot of irregularities.

I don't know how they get the translation. Apparently, they have a set of sentences translated "by hand". Well, if I was them, I wouldn't be too prompt to criticised machine translation as they do on their home page. Google Translate got the sentence they failed right. With a huge corpus (Google uses the European parliament translations if I remember correctly) and proper alignment, the result can be pretty awesome. Google Translate is now really awesome for European language and will probably give as good if not better results than a phrase book but I don't know how good it is for Asian languages.

Did someone compare both Google Translate and Mantaphrase for Japanese or Chinese ? Of course, Mantaphrase still has the advantage that it can work offline.
They could at least add a menu button somewhere that makes sense instead of sending it to the soft button panel.
"But to non-technical people, those losses aren't obvious"

To most people, those losses aren't losses. You can't lose what you don't have. I don't think its just about techie vs non-techie people. There are plenty of people who could have posted photos online 15 years ago that didn't until more recently. Accessibility is one thing, a critical component. But, culture is another essential part. It's a component hosted services contributed too.

People didn't tweet before twitter because there was no way of tweeting, but also because there was no such thing as tweeting. The cultural concept didn't exist.
"Never has there been less hunger, less disease or more prosperity."

That seems unlikely to me, given the recent growth of the world's population. I would guess there are now more people hungry than there were people alive some centuries (or couple of thousand years?) ago. Wasn't there an article recently about human population being down to a couple of thousands individuals at some point?

Maybe he is talking about percentages, or just the 20th century, or something like that?
We do know that Google started pushing ads into Maps API results in such a way that had nothing to do with any negotiations with Apple, unless they fucked everyone by intentionally cutting quality data to Apple users.

Google makes money off of us primarily by selling our data, in one way or another. Apple makes money off of us by selling us phones, primarily.

One of those companies (Apple) was dedicated to keeping the customer experience positive and found themselves with few options. The other (Google) took an action that harmed customers they shared with Apple, to hurt Apple.

I know who I want to keep doing business with, as Google begins to close the Android ecosystem and people tend to forget that a significant core portion of iOS is open-source, just like OSX. I doubt Android will continue to be much more open.
Will we end up free and wealthy but lonely?
I like this. I don't know a programmer that wouldn't appreciate a high quality keyboard, mouse, mousepad, chair, desk, monitor, speakers, headphones.

But..it can be tricky since people are so opinionated about these things.
Absolutely! We're excited about opening the whole platform up so that the only limitations on what can be done are the physical capabilities of the robots. Cloning is a small piece of the gigantic array of possibilities.
I work for AdRoll. I left a comment on this blog post but it hasn't been approved yet.

We’d really appreciate the opportunity to do a real comparison. In this post, they are comparing a campaign without Facebook Exchange (AdRoll) to a campaign with Facebook Exchange access and using two different definitions for conversions.

It’s a little odd that FBX wasn't included with the AdRoll campaign since unlike PerfectAudience, AdRoll is actually is one of few PMDs that have a seat on FBX ( http://www.facebook-pmdcenter.com/fbx ) and has the most clients running FBX campaigns of any FBX PMD.

PerfectAudience’s CPCs and CPMs are likely lower because Facebook retargeting is cheaper in this regard, and if they ran an AdRoll FBX would likely be comparable.

Also looking at your charts, they never setup conversion tracking in AdRoll. Without this they are comparing (PerfectAudience) view through conversion CPA to last touch Google analytics click through conversion CPA. To analytics and online marketing expert, it should be obvious this is not a fair comparison.

A lot of the UI callouts are valid and AdRoll is working on new features and launching a new dashboard very shortly. If anyone wants to setup a real test and do real analysis of performance, we’d be happy to help.

-Tom
I think parent was referring to the inception of the patent system, which was well-intentioned. This is different from the trolls lobbying to keep the status quo, which is definitely not well-intentioned.
But I still don't see what motivation Google had for releasing an iOS 6 app. I mean they are already the undisputed kings in maps - and had they not released an iOS6 maps app, wouldn't have more users converted to Android phones? Just trying to understand all this, I'm not a business expert. Though I agree there wouldn't be any money exchange for this between the two.
Right. The reason they can't do that is because people can easily game the system by just naming their apps popular search terms.

It's the same reason simply owning 'thing.com' doesn't make it your rite to be ranked #1 in google for 'thing'.
Customize your receipt details
> One thing I was wondering in terms of reddit research - have you looked into this at all - is that they have users check a specific box if they are ok with their voting data being used for research - even if it's already public. My question then is this - is it somehow wrong to use (already-public) data for research? Anyway, I talk about my original aims for the project in some other comments.

Based on the dozens (at least) of papers published each year that use twitter data, I'm pretty sure it's kosher to use public posts. You might want to double check with your irb though. Depending on how you present the information, so users might be concerned about their privacy - I wrote a bot that replied to people posting variations of 'your comment history' with a link to the referenced person's redditgraph and several people said they were creeped out by it (a little more here, if your interested: http://www.roadtolarissa.com/redditgraphs-retrospective/).

Depending on what you are looking for the rate limit might slow you down a lot; you might want to contact the site admins:

> tl;dr If you need old data, we'd much rather work out a way to get you
a data dump than to have you scrape.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/reddit-d...
Nice work, man.

He's one of the good ones.
I wish it worked that way on iOS; I'm not sure what Google is doing with the app that prevents it ... other apps+accounts work just fine after restoring from backup.
That's not as relevant as you might assume. A lot of heath care in the US is often barely better than snake oil due to a willingness to spend inordinate amounts of money for minimal gain or even negative gain simply to do something. Doctors who actually understand what's involved will often go for less invasive treatments which are also far less expensive. They also know the risks of combining medications and tend to take fewer medications.
New NIST Document Offers Guidance in Cryptographic Key Generation
Just a few reasons today's Web trumps anything from the 'Technorati' (seriously?) era: Open API's that reply in JSON, Cloud VPS's at $0.02 per hour, 10 Gb ethernet, 54 Mb fiber in my house, multicore computers in everyones pocket, GPS at everyones fingertips, web frameworks like Sinatra (yes, it took more than three lines of code and two bash commands to publish 'Hello World!' to the web back then), caching solutions like Redis, data crunching pipelines like hadoop, payment processing like Dwolla...need I go on? There will always be folks hankering for the glory days of alt.religion.kibology and compuserve. Ignore them. Create something game-changing instead.
Does this mean that 4chan is Person of the Year?
Interesting article as I haven't gone down this path.

I tend to favor YAML files for configuration, and symlink them in the case of security concerns like private keys.

To roll up a standard access pattern in our app which has dozens of configuration files, I wrote this which allows local developer overrides via xxx_local.yml:

https://gist.github.com/4280751

I'll probably gemify it at some point.
I agree with you, that I should ask for a decent monthly salary. But having stock options is one of Startup benefits.

Regardless salary, how many stock options should I ask for?
> in 1990 was $6,830 per year (about $11,700 in today's dollars)

That $11,700 figure is a bit low. Take $6,830, compounded it at a very modest 3.0% and you will end up with over $13,000 after 22 years.

A more realistic rate of return would be about 5% which compounds to about $20,000 in todays terms.
This is a really flawed way at looking at the market. Including tablets and smartphones in the PC market doesn't work because most people have a PC and a table and a phone.
Absolutely -- the Aurelius Graph Cluster is some of the most impressive tech to hit the open-source scene in the last few years.

Titan is a real-time, tranascational graph database backed by either Cassandra or HBase, and it provides fast, horizontally scalable write performance that hasn't been available in an open-source graph database. Combining this with Faunus for batch processing and the Aurelius Graph Cluster's integration with the Hadoop ecosystem makes for an incredibly powerful platform for building applications such as social startups.

Kudos to Matthias, Marko and the rest of the Aurelius team for the years of research it took to design it and for their generosity in releasing it to the open source community.
Yes! This is what had me thinking that this article is the best one I've read all week. It's not about language wars, it's about finding the new applications of math. With the data and computational power at our disposal, big questions are going to fall and big industries will be disrupted.
Are you arguing that the Eternal September effect doesn't exist? Because having been seen the effect first hand in no less than a dozen different online communities over the years, I can confidently say that it very much does exist.

But this is in regards to specific sites and communities; "The Net" has long since become too large to be considered a single community.
According to Adam Smith, the basis of prosperity is the division of labour. When people specialise, they get better at whatever they do, because they practice it, spend more time thinking about how to improve it, and don't spend time adjusting to different tasks.

But specialisation is limited by the size of the market: if you are too specialised, then there aren't enough people who want what you do for you to make a living. But within a larger population, maybe there will be.

Therefore, prosperity is driven by increased market size, including: globalization; increased human population; more people being raised out of poverty (and so can buy more).

From a producer's point of view, these factors enable you to make a living by specialising in exactly what work you really want to do, that you find most satisfying and rewarding, that best suits your talents and ways of working.
"No, you still can't easily highlight-open / link addresses to open in Google Maps, for example."

I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to find what this is replying to.

"Among other things, Apple is responsible for the old, shitty map"

Which was wildly lauded when it came out and later stagnated due to mutual differences.

"they are responsible for not getting Google more native integration"

Seems like there were two parties involved.

"and having NIH syndrome"

It's not at all hilarious to scold Apple for NIH syndrome when we're talking about Apple and Google.

"Plainly, "thanks to Apple," iOS6 Maps is a failure, and it is a huge misstep for one of (of two) the world's flagship mobile-OS."

Plainly, iOS6 maps are passable and in some ways were better than the old shitty maps powered by Google and today's Google's maps is better than both by a big margin.

You'll note I don't say this is "Thanks to Apple" here but the "Apple is responsible for everything bad and everything good that happens is no thanks to Apple" meme that has taken over this discussion is utterly ridiculous.
The reason why people didn't post photos 15 years ago was that digital cameras barely existed back then. There was a revolution in photography in the early 2000s which made sites like Flickr possible.
Certificate pinning in Android 4.2
Measuring in GDP is ridiculous (assuming that is how the comparisons are made), given that any person who researches the topic can rather quickly realize the numbers are heavily manipulated.
> They were in a tough spot, hating Google with every breath

I think it's more likely they hated the thought of an ad-heavy maps app that shuttled enormous volumes of their customer data to another party. Apple is an enormous company with significant value tied up in the success of their flagship product, the iPhone. "Hate" – or whatever emotions you're suggesting here – might occupy the minds of leadership, but they're going to make decisions based on what's best for the company. Clearly they thought an ad-heavy maps app was not best.
I hope it's not lost on people how long it took for Facebook to come out with fully native apps for iPhone and Android. There are costs to going full native, even if you have as many resources as Facebook does.
I completely agree with you. He's just nostalgic. We can do everything we did before and much more. The social aspect of the web seems very positive to me. Communities like reddit, twitter, kickstarter have real impacts on people life. If nobody wants to go chat on IRC anymore it was their option to do so.
I have a 3Gs running 5.1 and the new version is much slower than the original. I'd guess about about 5FPS, and 2-3x slower. This app needs some performance optimization.
I always found it cool that when you can't come up with any business at all and you're totally desperate, you still can do ads.

But for Instagram, sorry Adstagram?? They could do so much more. Fucking money sharks.
Having said that, US inflation for the last two decades has been at or below 3.0%.

http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation/DecadeInflation...
Accessibility to truth? Tell me more about how you used to access the truth in 1998.
> a willingness to spend inordinate amounts of money for minimal gain or even negative gain simply to do something

This sounds like a cultural factor as well.
Yes, human mind is genetically encoded to a) care for the weak, like children b) respect strong people who have power. But those are just survival skills that maximize chances of passing genes to next generations. There is no morality outside of human or higher animal mind. By the way, if we define morality as acting for minimization of suffering and pain, then the only real solution is end of the world. http://www.hedweb.com/negutil.htm
I don't think so; the creator /u/Deimorz is pretty cool, you could try asking him.
Math is a lot more than numerical computations, however. If you're modeling abstractions like vector spaces (as real mathematicians often will want to do), then functional languages are an excellent choice.
Gruber was referring to this being a win for the user, not Apple. I think it's pretty well established that this has been a giant clusterf for apple.
Redefining Web Designers, Web Developers, and Web Hybrids for the modern market
The content of the article with the discussion about the ecosystem of Samsung mobile devices is far more interesting than the fact that Young Sohn uses Apple products. I'd really don't think that it should surprise anyone, nor do I think anyone should really consider it news-worthy.