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Imagine society as being like an array of arrays of humans. There's lots of levels, but there's a clear trend where low numbered arrays are large and high numbered arrays are small. Some of the arrays aren't full, and there's an operation where you can swap up to the array above you if there's a gap. And it's theoretically true for a number of swaps to carry you all the way up to the very short arrays up top. But there is no particular operation to grow the width of an array, in fact the high numbered ones have been getting more cramped. So the trajectory of any one human might end right the top, and you can guarantee some humans definitely will, but the expected trajectory of a human is stagnation in the low numbered arrays.

This should make you understand why the American Dream is a cruel and manipulative lie on the population level, even as it's undeniably true on the individual level.

Also note: the only thing meritocracy adds to the above is competition for the level swaps. Assuming it works perfectly, it becomes a bubble sort, where the humans with most merit semi-randomly bubble up into the highest numbered arrays. The arrays do not become larger. And now you've told the people in the low numbered arrays that they deserve all the crap they're getting.
Depends on the browser. Mobile browser URL limits used to be much shorter.
Still no bike maps on iPhone.
Google Maps is now available for iPhone
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> It does matter when a potential buyer will mentally juxtapose the cost of production with the price being charged.

Such estimates are routinely utterly wrong. People underestimate the cost and difficulty of pretty much everything.

The book I reference elsewhere includes an entire chapter on explaining value to customers.

Not always useful or even possible (here we pass into the world of marketing, advertising and salesmanship). And yes, there is a market-clearing price which may be below what you want to make. Either you accept a lower profit or you do something else. That doesn't change the concept of charging for value vs charging for cost.

However you seem skeptical about the idea of charging for value -- to the point of calling it "value", with what I presume are quote marks intended to convey sarcasm.
Voice guides, street view, search/favourites syncing...oh and the maps are actually correct.
It is available at:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-maps/id585027354
No I don't want a second screen seamlessly attached to my TV. No Apple does not have to play nice with providers. Apple is a behemoth and a bully. They likely make more money on content than any other company in the world. If one cable provider, plays hardball, Apple can go to another.

This is the iPhone all over again. Verizon turned down Apple, ATT knew it had to or it would come back to bite them. It bit Verizon for Three years after. Verizon publicly said we would like to be selling iPhones only two years after launch.

Now you have a larger playing field of cable operators, they all have antiquated systems, and Apple is going to revolutionize one of them. The rest will be begging to have a piece of the pie within three years. The only difference is the monopolistic practices of the cable operators coverage.

This article seems to miss the point of innovation when approaching the current TV climate. Adding needless features is not innovation. Changing the way we viewed a problem by solving it in seemingly unheard of way is innovation. To paraphrase ford, 'If I ask people what they wanted, they would have said "a faster horse"'.
I once built an app on their API for a hackday, and I had to film the demo because I could never get the devices to connect via a bump. It would happen like once every 5 tries.

Just installed it again to see the mobile to pc bump, and although the web app picked the device, my phone never got a confirmation. Considering I still have to download the pictures from their servers, Google+ instant upload does a pretty nice job in this department. Until NFC.
Not seeing this in the Australian App Store either. Can't wait, my girlfriend will be especially pleased she relies on having maps on her iPhone because she's a hopeless navigator and the iOS 6 maps frustrate her.
Yeah, I copy pasted the link into Chrome on iPhone 5, it opened the install page on the iTunes app (instead of the App Store app). Possibly because of the itunes.apple.com/... in the url. What are regular app link domains anyway?
The crime rate in Victoria is dropping by the minute.
Would be interesting to see how large this would be. I remember a few years ago (3-4?) when there was a project for mobile devices that would cache Google Maps for your city onto your device.
I'm not even technical and the quantity of those group B ideas that get thrown at me is ridiculous.

Best one so far: "ebooks, like they do with mp3s." That was in 2009, so he missed the boat by a little bit, but I bet the guy is now walking around telling people he thought of ebooks "before anyone else" and just couldn't find the right person to help him build it.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/google-maps/id585027354?mt=8
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He isn't talking about video chat but visual chat. Check out the link to his startup that he mentioned to get a better idea.
The item is not available anymore in the US App Store :|
How did you get the 15% number? Assuming IQ of 70 is taken as margin of borderline intellectual functioning, and 15 points being the standard deviation, only people below two standard deviation lie below 70 IQ, or about 2.5% of population. (The other 2.5% being above 130 IQ)
Speaking from the perspective of the photography-enthusiast category, I've been coming to the conclusion that Google+ may become the next Flickr.

It has first-class communications features that Flickr has always sorely needed. Commenting isn't a tiny box at the bottom with awful pagination, you can upvote posts as well as comments, and it has group sharing capabilities well beyond "add to pool".

The photo upload process is also far superior to Facebook, and the photo viewing experience is superior also when it comes to high-resolution, high-quality compression that many photographers desire. Facebook butchers uploads with awful compression artifacts.

I've been seeing a lot of amateur and professional photographers flock towards G+ - doubly so since the launch of Communities.

Personally, I like using Google+ to talk photography a hell of a lot more than I like to on Flickr. That might be telling.
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This is also the case with many professional fields. There are plenty of lawyers, accountants, marketers, etc. who start a small firm and then run it the rest of their life without expanding much, if at all. There's nothing wrong with a lifestyle business, it's just not a "startup".
It takes a few minutes for all CDNs to get the download file I think...
It's stupid and non-threatening and asian; that's the ingredients. That these ingredients bloomed into "success" was pure chance. Or so I claim.
Apple had an interesting choice here, they could allow it, or they could not allow it. If they didn't, Google had a very good opportunity to slam Apply publicly and get users riled up, and enemies more ammunition. They chose the latter, which I think is the best choice as they now have real competition and they'll have to step up their game. This is app number two that will probably take place over the natively installed apps now by Google.
They tried a CoD clone in Homefront, and it did not do very well.
Edit: yeah, it's a cheap shot, but my point is "correctness" is not binary

http://au.news.yahoo.com/technology/news/article/-/15610781/...

Now police in Colac, west of Melbourne, say faults with Google maps are putting people's lives at risk along the Great Ocean Road and in the southern Otways.

Sergeant Nick Buenen says trucks, buses and tourists are being directed down Wild Dog Road, which is a one-way track, not built for heavy traffic.

He says VicRoads has denied responsibility and Google Maps has not responded.
This is leaps and bounds better than Apple Maps and even the original maps client on iOS that used Google Maps. I didn't even think Apple maps were 'that' bad. The huge hole was POI data, in London at least. Most POI's seemed to be approximated and the rest of them were missing, old or incorrect.

After playing with this app for 10 minutes I think this is far superior to the iOS5 Maps experience. It's an extremely refined and clean app that is extremely fast with lots of features. Start typing a street or location and it'll know what you mean within a few letters.
IOS SDK released as well: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-new-way-to...
Are you sure? I just downloaded it (30 seconds ago).
What does that have to do with anything? Google is going to sell the exact same amount of phones with or without Google Maps on iOS.
Master plan for REVOLUTION: make an application that is double-paywalled.

* You have to pay for the content (The Magazine).
* You have to buy an expensive Apple product to access it.
Here's a full, frank discussion of the use of thorium in a LFTR http://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast/79398/kirk-sorensen-de...
The nice thing about this item is that there's a transcript. For example, "Why thorium, not uranium?" Well the technicalities are explained (thermal vs fast reactors).
There are lots of data sources other than Street View, satellite and aerial imagery being big ones obviously, but also user provided data, Business Photos, phone calls, etc.

The Yellow Pages attribution you see doesn't necessarily mean all data came from Yellow Pages, just that some may have.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57558777-93/police-google-m...

"Update, 12:41 p.m. PT A Google spokesperson said that Google Maps routes drivers onto Wild Dog Road only if the driver searches for a destination located on that road. For directions to other nearby locations, Google Maps routes drivers onto Forrest-Apollo Bay Road/Skenes Creek Road.
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Google Maps for iPhone is here
Maps SDK was released as well: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-new-way-to...
What is app number 1?
Bump in its current iteration doesn't support using it with PCs. NFC could work in this context if the PC had NFC hardware on it. Upcoming laptops are supposed to have this, but I agree that it would be a rarity making it difficult to rely on. However there are various methods to sync with a PC. Have the PC display a QR code and use the smartphones camera to scan and connect. I believe Clik employs this, among other apps.

My point in pushing NFC over Bump is that it achieves all of what Bump is trying to without relying on an external service or data connection. It's beauty is its simplicity and relatively low friction to use it for impromptu data connections, especially with strangers and people you just met.
Yep, I'm also getting "this item is no longer available"
On the android version of google maps, I saved the route from Philadelphia to Kentucky (~675 miles) without a problem. You loose voice turn by turn, however.
For a data point, my home server is a fanless Atom D2700.
What would Apple have gained by not allowing it?
Death rates of misguided tourists are plummeting!

But seriously, this is just great news for us folks outside the US and who use public transit. I can now get an iPhone 5 today! :D
Google Maps are hardly perfect themselves. Not so long ago (as in September), searching for "city hall" with the Philadelphia City Hall centered on the map would transport you to a police station in Chicago. Rittenhouse Square still has a random assortment of businesses inside it. Washington Square is labeled Independence Mall State Park. There's apparently a heliport in the Constitution Center.

As long as your definition of urban locations excludes Philadelphia, Google Maps are just swell.
Now we just need a jailbreak tweak to make this the default map app.
I hope this get's more use than the "Open in Chrome" button does. Both are awesome, my only gripe with iOS 6 is not being able to set default apps for browser, email, and maps. (coincidentally I'd switch them all to Google or google owned items)
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7.5h-8.5h. There's nothing glamorous about being sleep deprived...
Ah cool, I figured this would be coming with the new app.
Thanks man. I just realised the app is so new Apple's app store search index probably hasn't been refreshed just yet, so went onto the HN homepage on my phone and it opened up in the store.
Requiring me to login to test it out almost drove me away. Then I found the inspiration wall link to check it out. The immediate pop-up window asking me to register was annoying (and the facebook, twitter, and google links in said window don't work).

Good job with non-blocking javascript.

I have no idea what the icons mean on the individual dreams on the inspiration page.

If I was logged in, would there be a way for me to upvote dreams? I know it sounds silly, but if I had a dream to lose weight, I would appreciate the encouragement, and if I thought someone had a cool dream, I would like to encourage them as well. And if I were looking for a dream to have, I could go and check out the most popular dreams for inspiration.

Are you doing an natural language processing of these dreams to serve up target ads? Many of these dreams seem like the perfect place for a wikihow link.

You seem to have alot of travel dreams. When I post a dream, can I categorize or tag it? Furthermore, could drimmit suggest people with similar dreams? Maybe the two people on the inspiration page who both want to go to california could get together. Or the ukulele players could follow each other.

On the inspiration page, I had to scroll a long way down to find someone who had actually made progress on their dream. I feel the dreams that are happening should be moved to the top of the page, so when I visit the inspiration page, I actually get inspired by people who are accomplishing their dreams using the site. (And thus want to use it myself). The same goes for the dreams that are marked done.

I doubt anyone else will notice this, but I think that Brian Funshine is a fake account created to comment on everything and has a girl's (or feminine looking picture) so people will follow the account.

Profile pages seem to be throwing out 500 errors:
http://www.drimmit.com/public/profile.php?username=ayhoung

Great facebook page. I'll bet you hate Luke LeFerve.

The color and design are nice. Now that you have a small user base, I would focus on expanding it by showing off how people are using the service to accomplish their dreams.
I can finally upgrade to iOS 6.
Google Maps SDK for iOS
Same here. I visited this story on an iphone 4s, clicked the link, the app store came up, and I installed google maps.
Presumably the Gmail app. Well worth a try if you've been using the Apple default.
The new Google Maps' shake to give feedback feature is so genius. Shake your phone in frustration, and get to yell at Google :)

Is this feature in any other app? Maybe I just haven't seen it yet.
That was not cool. Froze my browser (FF, linux).

I'd flag the hell out of this if I could.
The first thing I did after reading the headline was go to the app store on my iphone and search for "google maps" - 328 results, and google maps isn't one of them.
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1. I get the most work done when I have a clear list in my mind of exactly what needs to get done, and am then left alone. Best hours: midnight to 3am, followed by 10am-12pm. 4-6pm is a bit of a productivity death zone.

2. It chafes somewhat, but when I don't have them, I'll eventually go crazy. Plus there needs to be some kind of reasonable hope of being around at the same time as your co-workers for those chats where email just won't do.

3. I'm not good at multitasking (at least not if one of those tasks is programming), so I'll give all my focus to whatever the interruption is, in the hopes of getting it out of the way as soon as possible. Sometimes, if it's an interruption that doesn't seem immediately important, I'll end up ignoring it. Neither of these strategies is the greatest thing ever.

4. Hacker.

5. I try to avoid it unless necessary. I find if I'm in any conversation, it takes over all my attention, at least to the exclusion of programming. If there is a conversation needed on a subject, I find in-person conversations have much higher bandwidth, so it takes less time overall to go and find that person (if they're physically proximate) than a slow back-and-forth over instant messages.

6. Away from them, mostly. I need to have enough discussions to have a plan for where I'm going.
Have you tried Google's updated voice search app? I find it to be a better experience then, though unfortunately it's not built into the iPhone.

Google is awesome at software. Apple is awesome at hardware, I wish the two weren't competing, as the iPhone was better when they weren't competitors.
9 hours is my sweet spot. Anything less than that, and I don't think as well. Below 8 and I'm generally a bit of a zombie, and operating at 50% speed. Above 10 and I tend to get groggy and depressed.
I wonder if Apple is still willing to pay the 80/20 piper with iOS maps? It must be awfully expensive to keep up on data quality.
Or you could use Android, which lets users select default apps for handling different user intents.
Yes!!! finally.

I expect Apple to see a drastic increase in iOS5->iOS6 upgrade over the next few days. Hahah!
As much as I need, but I try to go to sleep at 11. I usually wake up (naturally) between 6 and 7:30.
If you are having trouble installing on phone, try using iTune to search for it, then download it and sync it to the phone.
"I somewhat agree to an extent, my take on things is that a successful startup needs two founders; a technical founder to do the programming and a business development founder who possess's high amounts of confidence and a vision to push both the development and end goal of the startup."

A Jobs and a Woz.
Considering the games are between 1 and 8 years old, I think the amount raised is decent enough.

Also, it would appear as though the THQ president was attempting to get people to match / beat his top donation: https://twitter.com/Jason_Rubin/status/278920299909636096
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I typically get between 5 and 6 hrs (with 2-3 times getting up for the kids). If I get more than 8, I feel slow and groggy all day. 6 uninterrupted hours seems to be my sweet spot.
Notice the cheeky use of London and Japan in the screens. Two locations Apple maps had real difficulty with.
It's great, but nothing on the iPhone will open the app, which is very annoying.
Not having played it, I thought that most of the criticism went to the game's short length rather than the engine.
I sleep 6.5, and usually I do not use an alarm, this is just my natural sleep schedule.
We seem to be cut from the same cloth. I would add that my sleep requirements vary based on my work load. If my work requires me to really think things through, definitely 9 hours to get back to normal. If its routine stuff, I can get away with 7 hours.
Who wouldn't act erratically if they were accused of a crime in a corrupt country?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, let's not get too crazy here!
Reviews mention street view; anyone figure out how to enter it?
Ask HN: Is technology headed for a crash?
Or a deep depression? Or stagnation? A while back I posted this "Ask HN: Are tech companies becoming more unrealistic in hiring?" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4667524)

In the world of finance, when things become unrealistic, reality has a tendency to knock down the house of cards causing everything to collapse. Could something similar happen with technology?
How is that not blackmail? You might as well say if everybody started reading the list of ingredients of food they buy and take them seriously, corporations would just start to lie and put whatever they want in there. Sure, maybe some would, but that's what jail is for.
I don't think it is coincidental; I think that is precisely the main reason why Apple chooses what apps can be used for these purposes, instead of the user being allowed to choose.
Given the vast differences in smart phone use (such as iOS web use stats versus android), how meaningful is this? If a smart phone is being used as a dumb phone (feature phone in marketing speak), it seems a touch meaningless to use stats like these to show that Microsoft is declining. It's not that I'm saying Microsoft's relevance is declining, it's that stays like these may not mean anything. Taken a step further, surely a low cost phone being used as a dumb phone is actually a point against Google, due to development costs and no monetary gain for Google.
Until 'Cloud Atlas' happened out of the blue, I'd no hope.
Yes very cool love this also
You can distribute your own GPL code through the App Store. You just can't include other people's GPL code.

That would be enough for a useful "free for free software, pay for commercial development" model.
There was a poll on this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3479410
It had real difficulty everywhere except (parts of) California :)
I'm wondering if Japanese carriers will pre-install google maps on iphones they sell, and maybe even figure out a way to get it wedged in as the default maps app...
this seems like it assumes that there is only one founder. this is one of the magical moments where you realize how amazing a cofounder can be. at my new startup (http://matchist.com) im the "nontechnical" cofounder and handle all of the stuff this post mentions founders should do so my cofounder can code. and code. and code.

having a cofounder (especially one with a complementary skillset) makes it so much less frustrating in the beginning phases of a startup
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Weekdays between 5.5-7 hours per night

Weekends around 8-9 hours per night.
Hey, great to see you in here- how is the timeshifting dubstep codetana coming along?
It's actually Chrome, I use it 90% of the time. The other 10% is when things open in Safari. Apple could be a little looser about setting which apps to open by default.
Wonder if this will hit 1,000,000 download in one night...

Unavailable for me still, I see in the App Store and within iTunes but no go on the D/L.
It is positively beautiful for public transport. It shows the next service leaving and how far (time) it is.

I'm still looking to see how the option to save Home and Work addresses helps me - it makes home and work function as search terms but there must be more to it?
I'm unable to download on phone and mac - anyone else?
I am seeing that too, on iPhone 5 and iPad Mini: "The item you tried to buy is no longer available."
True, but I think the shot utilising London public transport is definitely a dig at Apple...see here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9557702/Apple-pr...
They have a history of being very picky about allowing certain apps that compete with their core products.
Consider the possibility that

a) Miguel De Icaza doesn't set the pricing on the product

b) Even if he did, that indie developers who are unable to fork over the $500-$2000 for a license are not part of their target demographic.

Monotouch seems to be popular enough with their existing pricing that they don't need to address anything smaller (and FWIW, their products are too expensive for me too, as much as I would love to be writing Mac/iOS apps in C#, I'm not forking over that money for it)