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I agree - "Mathematics, in the end, does not help you understand computer programming. It is not about finding metaphors, or understanding “fundamentals” that will never be applied. Rather, mathematics is a tool for understanding phenomena in the world." - I couldn't agree more with this. I come from an Electrical Engineering background originally. We did a lot of applied mathematics (in the sense of the article). One year we had a lecturer from the mathematics department who didn't really have a clue about the kind of mathematics an engineer needs. He spent a lot of time proving the most basic/fundamental things, nearly down to the level of 1+1=2. My attitude at the time was "OK that's interesting but so what? I don't need it to get things done in the real world". Its the same thing with the lambda calculus or type theory for me. "OK I get the idea - so what". Its not really of any use to me. Its probably of very little use to anyone except programming language designers and there are very few of them. Its kind of disheartening to me then to see such a focus on these things, article after article. To me it seems that the field is very inward looking in this sense.

For me code is just a tool for modeling/solving problems in the outside world. It is the outside world that is interesting. I think the emphasis in the article is the right one. If more people focused on applied mathematics rather than category theory then we probably would get more innovation. Eric Evans said something similar in Domain Driven Design "Instead, the technical talent goes to work on elaborate frame-works, trying to solve domain problems with technology. Learning about and modeling the domain is left to others. Complexity in the heart of software has to be tackled head-on. To do otherwise is to risk irrelevance."

One problem though is that I do like lisp and its lineage (smalltalk etc). Had to take fortran years ago. Never really liked it.
General statement, not making any presumptions about what you personally believe:

One of the great ironies is that many people who think that what you're born with have no correlation with how your life will turn out are also the same people who think that an inheritance tax is a socialistic imposition that unjustly punishes rich parents from helping out their kids.
SociaLink is a revolutionary iPhone app that allows you to connect with someone you meet instantly on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Now, when you are at bars or at business events, you will never lose a contact again!

http://www.Facebook.com/SociaLinkApp
http://www.Twitter.com/SociaLinkApp
I think you're mistaken. They are on Android so it seems odd they wouldn't be.

The ability to zoom to arbitrary levels with no pixellation seems to imply it most definitely is vector.
Chrome was, and no one was really asking for it beforehand.
> G Fiber gigabit internet (AirBnb won't let me spell the word here - rhymes with oogle fiber)

Why is that?
Honestly, I'd say there's a much higher anti-Apple/pro-Google sentiment than there used to be. I've been downvoted heavily for point negative things out about Google. The tech zeitgeist moves onwards.
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Curiously, I wonder what they do then because they definitely have the vector data in the backend. Google Maps for Android has been vector based for 1.5 to 2 years now.
Light is good. I'm in.
The somewhat-off positioning of the cursor is a known issue and we're still attempting to fix it.

We're also looking into implementing the API part of Google Drive required for clipboard access to enable copy and paste.
If you want to try out some other vector based map system there's Open StreetMap. I have no idea about how functional the iPhone apps are but OsmAnd for Android is able to cache all map data for Sweden in 200MB.

It is then able to do routing on that data for both walking and going by car, both from search and random positions pointed at on the map. Not to mention that it has information about resturants so that you can plan where to stop for lunch when going on longer trips, all of which without a data connection.
As I'm not terribly familiar with AirBnb and its terms, why won't it let the poster spell out "Google"?
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I don't understand why people don't get this. It's not a matter of being able to get places without our smartphones. I'm sure we can all handle that just fine. It's a matter of knowing that your smartphone claims to know how to get there but is wrong.

The proper response to bad search results is not to talk about how you can still manage just fine with paper maps, unless you're implicitly proposing that we give up on the electronic maps completely.
While I understand what you're implying, you need to realize people depend on these devices. If they didn't exist, yes, people would find other ways (as they have in the past).
This is spam, it's a pile of Google ads shoved above a scraped article submitted by a 14 day old account that only submits this domain..
I'm visiting Cincinnati for 2 months (I grew up here before moving to SV 5 years ago).

I am visiting some of the startups and related services and while visiting at one named the Brandery the person I was talking to said "you know how it is in Cincinnati, everyone wants to help".

And I thought to myself, really? Then I realized. In Cincinnati, and probably the midwest as a whole, people do generally have more a sense of community and are more forward about "helping".

But this doesn't apply to business or startup ventures. They'll help you pick up groceries that you dropped or hold doors open for you. But when it comes to providing support for someone that's doing an entrepreneurial venture it's almost non existent.

The support is there at first, but when things get really tough the fact of the matter is most people haven't gone through that and can't relate.

It's frustrating as I believe we'll eventually end up back here to be close to my wife's family.

I talk to a lot of people here who speak of it being a great place for technology entrepreneurship. I'm just not seeing it. I really wish I did though.
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Can't wait until they ship an iPad version.
Java Video Tutorials launches Video #6 - Primitives
from the google blog : "The app shows more map on screen and turns mobile mapping into one intuitive experience. It’s a sharper looking, vector-based map..."
HN tends to reward responses that clearly point things out in a non-silly manner, and punish purely silly responses, even if those responses were pointing out how silly something else was.
I'm not sure why you think that the lessons of The Road to Serfdom are being ignored. Does anybody in the halls of power seriously think that Soviet style central planning is a good idea anymore?

But the real reason that nobody pays too much attention to Hayek is that the way countries recovered from the Great Depression worked entirely counter to Hayek's predictions. Going off the gold standard worked. It worked really well for every country that tried it! The way that the events of the 1970s conclusively disproved paleo-Keynesianism.

So now we have neo-Keyesianism as endorsed by people like Krugman and Monetarism from people like Friedman and they agree about a lot more stuff than Hayek and Keynes did. Now, they use different terms and have different ideas about the transmission mechanism by which monetary and fiscal policy influences aggregate demand, but everybody these days thinks of aggregate demand as the thing that drives fluctuations in the business cycle. That's progress, maybe in another 100 years economics will be a real science.

And please don't take the talking heads that show up on TV seriously. Mainstream reporting of economics is just as bad as it is of every other technical field.
Not a new attack. There is a decent history of an arms race in TOCTTOU races in access/open that leads to this type of algorithmic complexity attack against bad hashing. Maybe btrfs does worse things if you do this but it's not alone.

See http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~xcai/races2.pdf and some of its references.
Thank you. Please never forget about the problems going on in the world, but take the time to appreciate what you got, and what we indeed have accomplished, during the last couple of years. We're doing good, but we can do even better. I don't see any harm in celebrating that.
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It sounds a bit like they are prepared to go ahead if they receive less funding than the goal -- which is possible on IndieGoGo.

I think the trailer looks great but I have asked for some clarification on these points:

- What do you mean by “enable internet distribution”? Will the film be freely available to the public? What copyrights do you plan to reserve?

- Could you give a better breakdown of the budget? How much is going to be spent on what? Are you really going to pay someone like Johnny Depp a ridiculous sum to do the narration?

- Are there any past projects by this team or individuals in this team that you could point us to?

EDIT: keithcu is responding to these points over on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/14s7rf/software_wars_...
Poor people will not care about facebook status updates. I have in no way have disrespect for poor people, just saw something wrong with your statement.

Low income individuals also will not care about smartphones. It is not expensive to get a smart phone, I believe most of them come free now as part of 2 year contract. The thing that is expensive is monthly phone + data plan bill.
No shock really, they seem to have been completely stagnant for years now
Following a late night flight into the Orange County airport a couple of years ago, Google Maps on my iPhone directed me into the ocean. I was lost, it was nearly midnight, and instead of seeing the road continue on like the map showed me, I saw the dark expanse of the sea.
Apple Maps also doesn't handle small spelling mistakes (transposed letters) well. That's been one of the most annoying things.
I think it's a huge loss for Apple. They tried to break free from Google and failed. Apple users are now more reliant than ever on Google services to use their phones.

I would imagine that Gmail, Calendar, Search and Maps are used on almost every single device that they sell and they have no control over those services.

If Google would introduce a new feature in Maps, let's say indoor navigation, then Apple would be completely in the hands of Google for when that feature would be available to their users.

You could easily see a future where more and more Google services become popular on Apple devices. If that's the case Apple essentially becomes just another OEM like Samsung or HTC.
This is currently the best streaming solution, with which I can stream my whole collection from my PC to my phone, tablet, and any other PC. The audio quality they achieve and the responsiveness are way ahead of any other option out there. And the "pinning" feature that allows you to dynamically control which songs are stored on your mobile device is a great bonus.

It will be a real shame if this all gets shut down just because of this acquisition. I would have paid for this service if they had asked for money. The tone of the announcement does not make me optimistic, but I hope Dropbox can see the value of Audiogalaxy's assets and open the service up again, even if it becomes a paid subscription.
I think jwoah is referring to infant mortality, i.e. historically mankind's greatest killer.
I think there's a common misconception that Time is anointing their "best person of the year" when in reality they're looking for:

> Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) is an annual issue of the United States newsmagazine Time that features and profiles a person, group, idea or object that "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year
Still no bike directions. Why is that?
It's good, it's really good!
I don't see any reason to reinterpret this as an anti-government pamphlet. It's just pointing out that economic conditions and mentality are changing around the world, but that this is often overlooked in the news cycle because politicians don't report on it when it is not their personal achievement.
Surely you agree that your example is a non-standard address. The things are more important to get right: postal addresses, searches for company names, airports, schools, searches for intersections. Of course you want to get the other things right like, parks (what's the pinpoint location of a park?) and things like pier 39. But those errors don't make Apple Maps a non-starter. I've been using it in the Bay Area with 99% success.

This isn't a pass for Apple Maps- the last 1% is the most difficult and it's the difference between so-so and great. Apple has in the past been known to make things with the ultimate attention to detail and things that "just work" so if anything you could argue that they shouldn't have launched something that was below this bar, but apparently there were other business considerations.

BTW: From the Pier 39 website, "If you are using a GPS Navigation System, input: 2 Beach Street, San Francisco, CA 94133" http://www.pier39.com/Information/index.htm
As a child, I lived in England for a brief stint (around a year) because my dad was transferred to his company's British branch. We lived somewhere near the Magic Roundabout (Bovingdon, which I think is pretty close).

We had just moved, so both of my parents were still getting used to driving on the opposite side of the road. And roundabouts in general. I have fond memories of my mom getting stuck on the Magic Roundabout for about an hour, too terrified to leave. So we just kept going round and round and round. Being a small child (3 or 4 years old), I just kept telling her every-time we passed the same building.

"Mommy! There's that building again!".

I'm sure she wanted to reach back and strangle me. When she eventually mustered the courage to exit...she did something wrong and we stopped up the whole roundabout. I don't actually remember that part, but she claims traffic basically ground to a halt until she maneuvered her car out of traffic.

Fond memories =)

Edit: Based on another commenter, looks like it was the "Plough" roundabout, not the one in this article. Whoops!
Triple-buffering allows for arbitrary relative speeds. The result is, you draw to the buffer as fast as you can in total disregard of the actual refresh rate. So they're both at "100%" CPU/GPU, but that simply isn't enough for Google Maps.
Interesting. I use a similarly expensive keyboard [1] and, although I am fully used to it by now, I'd like options. Particularly, the key travel is a bit mushy and I'd like a higher voltage USB port.

[1]: http://www.kinesis-ergo.com
Thanks for covering Mono. Does it also cover other alt.NET technology?
I loved to read Joel, I was surprised when he announced he would not be writing again, same thing with Yegge. Obviously they get to choose what to do on they spare time, but damn, i miss those long blog posts.
Free and no ads. What's your business model?

Or: Do you play with user data?
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A similar problem happened at Harvard Business School. In the mid 80s they found no correlation between GMAT scores and success at the school, so they stopped requiring applicants to submit scores. This was a thermostat-unaware view.

The real answer was that they were giving it the right amount of weight. If they were overweighting the GMAT, unqualified people with high GMATs would get in. If they were not underweighting it, the opposite.

Approximately 10 years later they did a correlation of student GMATs (which weren't used for admissions purposes) and school success, and found that there was indeed now a correlation.

The lesson was that if you're properly managing a factor, you won't see it in the outcome. Or in the thermostat example, if you're properly managing the thermostat, you won't see the changes.
I highly doubt Google Maps has reached its peak. You're constantly hearing about new things being added, such as the Photosphere feature in Android 4.2 letting people take 360 deg indoor pictures and attach them to buildings on Google Maps, or doing an underwater "Street View" at the Great Barrier Reef. Just a few weeks ago, 3D structures appeared on Google Maps for my parents' house in the suburban Midwest. Google Maps is constantly advancing.
Apple engineered a process that tarnished a major iOS release, broke a key function on the iPhone as smartphone competition started heating up, prompted the departure of key leaders and basically ceded control of mapping.

In exchange, they got Google to release their own maps app, which included features that Google refused to license to Apple previously, and gave Google a platform to sell ads and make money. So users get good maps + transit + turn by turn navigation at no cost.

Yup, sound likes an Apple win.
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Sorry, I somehow missed it. Now I get this crap when I try to rate apps and this makes me very sad. If Google wants to spend their resources on Google+ - something I'm not interested in - that's their business, but pushing it down everybody's throat like that...
This should work right now - did you try it?
Google Maps is vector based. Are you perhaps talking about the original "Maps" app on iOS 5 (and below) which relied on Google data?

On Android, you can select regions of the map to save for offline use and the file sizes for entire cities are only a few MB.

I don't believe a "save for offline use" option is available for Google Maps for iOS yet.
i don't want to log in to an account.
Everytime i tap search, three fourths of the screen is filled with how my life would better if logged in to my account. It's a big nag screen.
It's certainly not like that in Germany. There is usually one Java course in the first semester. The rest is math and cs theory.
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U.S. court rules that Apple’s iPhone infringes three patents from MobileMedia
Unlike JavaScript, Dart was created with performance (and tooling) in mind. There are a few people involved who worked on several VMs such as HotSpot or V8. JavaScript didn't have that kind of guidance. There are some features in JavaScript which make optimizations very difficult or even next to impossible.

The most obvious ones are probably `eval`, `with` (each property can mean something different with every iteration), and messing around with `arguments` (changing values of that pseudo array also changes the values of the actual named parameters).

You can also change, overwrite, and delete everything. `this` can also refer to something different each time.

Those quirks make JavaScript VMs very complicated and they also result in many surprises. For example, using `delete` can degrade performance quite a bit and adding properties to built-in objects can break some optimization-related heuristics.

Dart just skipped all of that really nasty stuff.

Well, to be fair, they also skipped one of the very useful nasty parts: on-stack replacement (OSR). If there is just one long-running function it won't get optimized (it won't get replaced - right there on the stack - with an optimized version).

Generally, this doesn't matter much, but there are some cases where it's really inconvenient.

It's safe to assume that they will address this once they are done with all optimizations they deem more important. I'd guess it will happen before they hit the big 1.0 (M1 = 0.1-ish).
(offtopic) made me realize how bad the ":=" operator looks with fonts that don't have the horizontal centers of ":" and "=" at the same level...
We track anonymous usage time and ask for your email address. That is all.

One of our potential business models is to work with other companies to make their web apps work on the iPad.
Because as soon as some percentage of hosts on the internet is IPv6-enabled there will likely be an avalanche effect of people actually taking advantage of it. Chrome and Firefox don't have 100% market-share, yet webapps that push the boundaries of their features are all over the place. We need to get to the tipping point ASAP.

Also, you can ssh to any machine in your home when you are on the road (my most common use case), and this works already.
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This is so typical - a government agency screws up, so it blames the fact that it didn't have enough powers, and does another power grab:

"However, Mr. Abdulmutallab and his underwear did alter U.S. intelligence-gathering. A Senate investigation revealed that NCTC had received information about him but had failed to query other government databases about him. In a scathing finding, the Senate report said, "the NCTC was not organized adequately to fulfill its missions."

"This was not a failure to collect or share intelligence," said John Brennan, the president's chief counterterrorism adviser, at a White House press conference in January 2010. "It was a failure to connect and integrate and understand the intelligence we had.""

From what I'm reading here, this person would have been within the jurisdiction of the previous rules as a person connected with terror activities. The agency just failed to connect the dots. If I recall recall correctly, the guys own father had contacted US Embassy to tell them that his son is trying to get involved with terrorists...

The solution to this problem seems to be better data interconnection between agencies, in order to ensure that as much detail about identified threats is available. I don't see how have more data about a much broader set of citizens is going to help... if anything, it's going to make the identification process more complex.
Apple did not put beta on its app, and it eventually apologised and also fired a VP who was not willing to sign the apology .

google launches a map with beta warning and everybody going gaga on it, yeah their data set is better.

"Google Maps Navigation is in beta. Use caution.

Please keep your eyes on the road and obey applicable laws. Do not manipulate this application while in motion. Directions may be inaccurate, incomplete, dangerous, or prohibited.

Traffic data is not real-time, and location accuracy cannot be guaranteed"

I would love Apple to build self driving cars and display projecting to retina and bring it to market, instead of just announcing them like what google does
Another job for siphash?

https://131002.net/siphash/
Checking signatures obviously won't help here.
Selling flak jackets in the cyberwars
You're always welcome to host your downloads on SourceForge, even if your project is hosted elsewhere.
The developer and the homeowner almost always come to a voluntary agreement. Almost by definition, if the developer wants to build something in a specific location then the land is worth more to him then the homeowner can get for the property. The homeowner gives a "make me move" offer, the developer accepts it, and everybody's happy.

If the homeowner still refuses, then the developer will say, "Okay, thanks" and moves on to another project. Maybe put that shopping center a few miles away or something.
Sort of off-topic and I've harped on this before, but when I search "google maps" in the app store, it's the fifth search result!

As a developer in the App Store, I really hope they do something to fix the abysmal searches in it.
The projects in the book look like actually-useful case studies. Yay!
find that explanation shorter & faster, although polsci

http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/07/31/milton-friedmans-th...
Sounds like the nail in the coffin on this topic.

It always sucks when you accuse an entire profession of overlooking a fundamental principle, only to find out you've committed the same error in a more egregious fashion.