skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's darn close but not perfect on my 5.

Although when I typed in a POI it actually found what I was looking for, so I say that makes up for being short maybe 1-2FPS (I used to say Apple Maps was reasonably decent until searching for "logan" in Boston and having to try about 15 different search terms before getting the Airport when I was two miles away; Google Maps got it right with "logan boston" while I'm sitting in Palo Alto)
Why is any random Buffy episode "clearly" more notable than a cocktail fad? More to the point, why is a Buffy episode more notable than an extant webcomic or a niche programming language or any number of perfectly worthwhile subjects that enthusiasts on Wikipedia merrily purge?
Consider a painting I saw on TV a while back that is suspected of being done by da Vinci. If the experts concur, it would be worth millions. If they do not concur, it would be worth $20,000 because it's old. If joe starving artist down the street painted it, it would be worth $500 at best.

The exact same painting.
I think Germany replaced a lot more than 3.5% with renewable energy.

http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/26/germany-26-of-electricit...
Microsoft was sued simply for bundling IE with Windows, which sounds crazy when you think about it. But at the time it seemed like selling browsers was going to be huge and Microsoft basically killed Netscape. With Windows, though, you were always free to install other browsers and set them as the default unlike iOS.

In the end the case kinda fizzled out as the times were changing so fast. Browsers kinda became an accepted "default" application to go along with an operating system.

I have to admit with all of the lawsuits in the software industry, I'm kinda surprised that Apple hasn't gotten more heat.
You're right - it's not intuitive. To set your work and home while logged in, click the person on the upper right and then the gear then edit home or work?
Came here to mention the aggregation framework. +1
Two things:

1. Google now gets stats from millions of iPhones. Which can be used to infer important sales information in different regions.

2. Maps improve as more people start using them. If more users are on Google Maps, Apple's own product improves at a slower pace.
Subjects are notable by dint of being written about in reliable sources, which is something you can say about any Buffy episode and can't say about a cocktail that some guy in Camden made up one weekend and wrote about on Wikipedia as a joke.
The Google Maps voice is worse.
The trouble with Maslow's hierarchy is that it's a psychological framework that sounds good, but has no basis in fact.

The "Criticisms" section of the article touches on most of the major concerns, so if you consider taking this advice, please consider digging into it properly, not superficially.
A standard example I used to cite to illustrate the difference brought about by safe-search was an image search for 'facial'. With safe search off, that filled the screen with NSFW results.

I just tried again, and the results were squeaky clean even with safe search off. Adding the 'porn' term reproduced the old behavior (in spades). Nice job, Google!

Of course, if you want true porn, you've got to spell it pr0n. That causes Colonel Gadaffi to appear in the first row.
11) A huge supply of cheap, replaceable programmers.
Remind us how snarky zealotry tells Apple to stop (ab)using the patent system. If that's the problem you have with them, I think the world would be improved if you directed your energy at patent reform.

And comparing IP litigation to murder is just ridiculous, not that you didn't already know that. Among all the other problems, you can fix a bad call from a judge. Murder, not so much.
Google pretty much kills it with map apps. Unless Apple keeps up people will eventually complain that they want to change their default map app. I think already there are companies making better mobile browsers, mail, calendar, etc. As people become aware of them, or Apple slips like they have with maps, I think they'll start getting more pressure to allow users to change their default apps.
Wow, you're really young! When I was in high school, being caught with a cell phone was grounds for immediate expulsion. It meant you were a drug dealer. There was no other possible explanation.
This never would have happened if Steve Jobs was alive.
Funniest pull request thread I've seen this year.

Here's last year's winner: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
He kind of glosses over the fact that you'd have to probably tax this small number of people who will be very prosperous at 99% level to fund sufficient education for the masses to so they can have a chance of participating in any meaningful work. And by funding education I don't mean paying teachers and buying equipment but also providing for students. What would be the point of funding someone's college if he has to at the same time work two brain numbing jobs to pay for the privilege of not living on the street?

I don't think Eric Schmidt would be so happy realizing that he is right and that's the only sensible course of action but he is the one who has to pay for it all.
That's a totally separate issue, with completely valid security concerns (although sounds like an implementation issue that should be rethought).

It very much duplicates the core functionality of Safari, just as Google Voice does for the Phone and Messages apps. And GV was what both started and eventually ended that whole "duplicate functionality" debacle.
Tim Cook responding to bad press makes sense, but having bad publicity doesn't necessarily mean a product is awful. "Apple Maps fail hard after Steve Jobs dies" is a big headline, and it's no surprise that news agencies pick up on that regardless of how much substance it has.

And realistically, I don't think it says much. First, tech sites are obviously going to pick up on this release. It continues the narrative they've had going for months. Second, even if there had been no stories about Apple Maps, we'd be seeing tons of stories about this release. Very few people had issues with mobile Safari before Chrome came out, but the response to that was huge as well.
Any chance you can do a blog post on your process and what you learnt?
He has said many irrational things that had no bearing on this particular case. Moreover, he has used mind-altering substances, so there's no reason to assume that his erratic behavior is a result of the accusation.
Of course there is a lot of room, but it doesn't invalidate my point.
Which one ? It's different depending on the region.
"I have a 2 1/2 year old phone, and applications, especially animations, don't render as fast".

I'm not entirely surprised, admittedly - and depending on your use case (for me, anyway), it doesn't so much matter.
s/manual editing/mangement from configuration management like Puppet or Chef/
Not sure I agree its simple. They have shadows and subtle transparencies everywhere.

I'm assuming the actual map and StreetView is implemented in openGL. Heck, maybe the whole thing is.
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Its basically the same app that we android users have been using for years now. They've had a long time to polish it
What he seems to be saying is that it's all in the editorial decisions he's made, and the quality of writing and other content in "The Magazine". If this is really the case, he should totally license out the code, or release it open source. He's saying that what differentiates "The Magazine" is not the app, but the publication. If this is the case, then there is no problem with letting other people use his platform to do what they will.
Does it support biking directions? That's something I always missed in Apple's map app and maps.google.com was horribly laggy to use in iOS safari.
+1 to joshfraser - cache hits always beat requests. I remember seeing a stat about n% of top 100 sites use the google CDN for jquery, it was by far the most popular. Stick with Google for popular libraries.
Siri U.S. voice is the worst thing in the history of AI, if you can even call it that...
Hmm, the concept seems reasonable, but that website is very broken:

1. first, crappy browser detection [I'm running firefox, but it thinks I'm not], displays big "you can't really use this site" page

2. I override user agent, site properly displays home page with video and big red "sign up" button

3. click on big red button to sign up for free beta thing

4. click on google signup, then "ok" to google popup

5. error message from beta.mural.ly/signup: "The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred."

6. try to use back arrows, then just entering "beta.mural.ly" URL directly to start over (maybe I'll try non-google sign up...)

7. both actions simply redirect me to beta.mural.ly/signup again, which immediately displays the server error again

8. goto 5.
So far, it seems very awkward...

Two-finger slide from the right sometimes opens up a sidebar that apparently contains settings (not sure what the magic incantation is).

Zooming in works, but there's no street view, you just keep zooming waaaaay in.

No bike directions. :|

I might like the map drawing better, can't really say which is quicker on my relatively slow device, and it does work quite well. But so far I'm not impressed at all. The previous iOS 5- version was better, if less new-Google-aesthetic-y.
No iPad version. Seems like Google is playing it's cards.
Absolutely they should be given charity, and wages not solely determined by value provided. The American economy (and world economy to some degree) is evolving in a way that eventually only high-skilled workers will be needed, as most unskilled work will be fully automated. This continues to raise the bar on citizens for even entry-level positions.

10 years ago a college degree in business or communications was enough to land a salaried-job. Now, to obtain a well-paying job straight out of college either a STEM degree or graduate work is usually required. It is extreme to suggest that citizens either acquire a high-level of education (which many simply cannot complete) or perform work for $2 an hour.
I think the difference is apple makes all the hardware which this runs on. Microsoft software was essentially the only option for pc's made by anyone.
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You can customize every last bit of it, it being open source. Feel free pay them or someone else to do just that. Nobody would claim it's the prettiest, but it's open source and self-hosted, surely that counts for something? The devil will always have the shinier bling, but it's also the devil.
I upgraded my iPad to iOS 6, and left my iPhone 4S at iOS 5 and compared the navigation results in India. Apple maps were a letdown in this part of the world. I have used iOS 5 Maps application a lot in Northern India and had far better (if not perfect) results.
Now finally I can upgrade to iOS6.
Satellite fly-overs? You mean like the ones in Google Earth? Because then you can just use Google Earth.
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This app is fantastic. And now I can finally upgrade to iOS 6. Thanks Google Maps team!
95% charity (THQ included?), 5% Humble tip.

http://twitter.com/Jason_Rubin/status/279014483085631488
I have to disagree here. Having just come out of a failed startup, one of the (many) things that hurt us was having the primary product direction and technical expertise belong to different people.

We were racing against time and lost. A lot of time was spent transferring ideas between people, and implementing something that wasn't quite right. I can't imagine any startup in the same situation not having at least SOME similar overhead. For a small startup without funding, this can't be optimal.
Can you not just flip the switch and get equally useful data - don't look for people who subscribe to a default, but to those who unsubscribe from it?
> Two, you have to send users off your site to use it

Thats completely false.
Yea, vector graphics.

That was originally the main reason Apple stated why they developed they own maps data, didn't they?
So why didn't Google just buy data from them?
Is Apple Maps even Apple for iPhone 4? Because if it's not, then it would've probably had the same issues. iPhone 4 had a really slow GPU - one of the slowest around at the time it launched, especially with the "retina display". It consistently scored at the bottom of GPU benchmarks. Remember the iPhone 4S GPU was 7x faster according to Apple.
A Brooklyn Protester Pleads Guilty After His Twitter Posts Sink His Case
I disagree. I am in a major metropolitan area, and not only is the data worse but more importantly, usability is worse with Apple Maps.
All iOS apps are implemented in OpenGL, since that's what Core Animation wraps.
A minimum wage affords unskilled workers some amount of time to learn new skills or improve their lot in life. An unskilled worker who has to work 18 hours a day at $2 an hour to make ends meet will never be able to learn new skills and claw their way out of that hole. It's the same with unemployment benefits - it affords citizens time to learn new skills without worrying about what they will eat that night.
It does have street view, it's just not obvious how to get to it. Hold your finger on a location. When the address appears at the bottom, tap it. More info will slide up, including a street view image. Tapping that image will take you to actual street view.

Maybe there's a better way, but I'm with you, I tried just zooming way in first.
Bookmarks (while logged in) require you to find a location, and then slide-up to reveal the "save star". You use the slide-up option to "Share" and "Switch to street view" as well. If it's a business, the "Call" / Website / Zaggat(?) rating is available from slide up.
The thing is, Apple makes really nice hardware. Really, really, nice hardware. There are some pretty good Android phones, but Apple nails it in a way that nobody else seems quite able to pull off.

I'd love to have an iphone 5 running Android! :]
Ask HN: How many people actually got something from Kickstarter projects?
I pledged my money for Pebble, and while the work they have done is amazing, it is simply too long since pledge to the shelf.

Has your experience with Kickstarter projects been different? Did anybody receive any goods so far?
Yeah, no bike maps. Eh, saves me wondering if I should switch back to iOS. :D
This isn't copyright law, and turning their head isn't going to remove liability (a la Craigslist sex workers debacle). Good luck arguing financial safe harbor provisions ("we're just a marketplace! It's not our place to regulate!").
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So, in lieu of the new function* syntax, the presence of the yield keyword in the body is the only thing that distinguishes a generator from a regular function, in the current Firefox implementation?
Wow, my jaw is on the floor because of a huge, but sorely lacking feature in this app: the ability to edit the name of a starred location. This isn't a problem if I want to star "Steve's Pizza" since that's how it shows up in their directory, but what about my grandmother's house? I can star her location, sure, but it'll appear in the search history list as a random address once it's one of many other such entries. Am I wrong to think this is a massive oversight over a common use-case? Let's put the Google praise parade on hold and reflect on this for a second.

TL;DR You can't edit the name of your starred locations from the iOS Google Maps app.
Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility
I don't think this was as much of a complaint about the situation a question, so your recommendation doesn't offer much in regards to the question in general. I do understand what you're saying, I just don't think it's really what robbiep was asking nor is it the place for it.
8.5 hrs weeknights and 10.5 hrs weekend nights. I would like to reduce weekend nights to 8.5 hrs and invest that in tennis or racquetball.
ITU 'failed,' says former policy chief
I agree with the first part. If Mobile Safari had the reputation to be a security nightmare - with public attention rivaling the iOS6 Maps release, or IE in its worst days - then people would probably ask for a system-wide alternative.

But I don't think that Apple ever considered to cause drama about the Google Maps release, just like they didn't cause a drama about YouTube, or Nokia Maps, or whatever. That seemed more like Google trying to take a cheap shot at Apple's approval process.
That might be part of their problem. Instead of making a big AAA game they keep reinventing the engine. It seems most really successful game studios have 1-2 engines that they're very good at producing good games on. They may update often but it's rarely an entirely new engine. (See Valve, ID, etc.)
Making a new engine for every game can't help their delivery times.
The New Google Maps SDK for iOS
I have, and was quite impressed with the results, but without the integration found no practical purpose. The point of Siri, to me, is to not have to touch your phone at all. Something Google is unable to deliver on Apple hardware, unfortunately.

As an aside, I tried using the voice search in the YouTube app today and it wasn't working at all.

> Google is awesome at software. Apple is awesome at hardware

I think it would be better said that Apple is awesome at software, Google is awesome at data. Apple hardware, while nice, is nothing to phone home about on its own. I'm not sure an iPhone loaded with Android would really sell all that well.
> to fund sufficient education for the masses to so they can have a chance of participating in any meaningful work

Is there actual evidence that (public spending on) education leads to productivity? Because it doesn't seem that way[1], or at least it doesn't scale beyond some (relatively low) point.

[1] http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/10/did_nations_tha....
John McAfee returns to U.S.
Great Lakes Crossing Outlets, Auburn Hills, MI.

I believe I had a cheeseburger and fries, with a root beer float. 'murica!
I don't want to provide less, but still accurate, data, I want to introduce suspect data. The end result should be that anyone collecting data on me without my consent should have no idea which of it are accurate such that all of it becomes useless.
That or the thermonuclear war on Android.
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I think you may be able to now. Yesterday I did a backup of my phone, then erased the phone, selected the restore file, and ran through the questions it asked me.

I had Chrome installed on my iPhone for the first time since I have ever performed a restore like this. ( I was getting jumbled cover art on albums and a restore seems to have solved it ) During this process, I was asked to setup the phone, first I think I had to unlock it, then wait some time, then set my location, then some security questions, and then a new screen I had not seen before, where there was Safari and Chrome listed, and I needed to pick one.

The problem is I was rushing, waiting for a phone call and didn't want to miss it. While in this setup mode the 3G radio icon was not on so I wanted to get back up and running. I didn't read what this screen does, chose Safari, and moved on.

I remember thinking to myself, hmpf, odd, Apple asking what default browser I want to use, that's a first. But it was what first came to mind. I can't say for sure that is what it was, as I didn't take the time to read the screen.

It's such a painless process, I may restore my phone again to answer this question. If I do, I will report it back here.
As one who worked for Netscape, and was 12' away from Marc Andreessen when the ruling was handed down, the ENTIRE case against Microsoft was predicated on them (A) Being a Monopoly (that was critical) and (B) Trying to leverage said monopoly into another line of business.

Nobody is going to suggest Apple has a Monopoly in the mobile phone, nor even the Smart Phone industry. In fact, I think Eric Schmidt publicly said that "Android had Won" today - so that kind of puts an end to that thread.
I agree 100% with you. It's not that I don't want to have a co-founder, I just currently didn't need any.

It's weird that this should be a minus and thanks to your comments i will not force to find a co-founder just to be able to say, yey we're team.. screw it
Is there a way to manually cache areas for offline use (i.e., how could I cache all of California like you said you did)? When I go in airplane mode I can see that it's cached the areas I had been browsing online, but I can find any explicit UI to add areas to the cache.
Features are great, but if I can't edit the name of one of my starred/bookmarked locations, I can't shelve Apple Maps just yet.
So I read your article and I'm a bit distraught at how you're feeling and your reaction to how Yammer handled downtime. Did you expect, as a free user, to get notices or even an update (<24 hours)? That kind of catering will just cost more for no reason. Did Yammer handle their paying customers - we don't know that, but perhaps someone can share their experience as a paid user? In the end, a free software has made no guarantees to you and you knew what you were getting into when you are on free software. Most free versions of things have an important element missing: support. As a non-paying user, your priority of support is next to nothing since you bring no value and only utilize. So what benefit is there in supporting you?

Let this be clear: You are not a customer of Yammer, you are a user. Since you're not a customer, Yammer has no reason to help or even give you an explanation. However, it appears their Twitter was updated with their status and that's on you for not finding out how to get support from the free software you're utilizing. So Yammer losing your company from using their services is just a boon for them since it appears that you never intended to upgrade to a paying subscription.

TL;DR: You're not a customer, you're a user.
I think something with much more whitespace and less stripes and unnecessary colors would be much easier on the eyes.
Hmm.. Are there hardware level-blocks on jail breaking an iPhone so far as to run android on it?
Apple Maps will always have way more users since it's installed by default and will always be the default maps application.
I had a PC jr. The base model, which I had, came with 128k of memory, a single 5.25" inch floppy, and 2 cartridge slots. I booted DOS via a cartridge. There was an expansion unit you could purchase which had a 2nd floppy (very handy!) and I think it expanded max memory to 640k (but might have only been 256k).
I found this rather amusing as I am technical and was at that meeting. oddly enough only one person activly tried to talk to me, the CEO of genie8, and he didnt need another technical guy (as far as I could tell). Based on that one conversation I would have happily worked on his idea.

Here is a tip, devs arent scary and wont bite. We are curious and if you show some (any) attempt to get started you gain massive credibility. Try actually talking to others and not just the mentors, especially when at these sort of events. You never know you mind be able to build the relationship faster then you think.

I honstly think had someone talked to me and had shown some interest in what I was doing at that meetup I could have ended up working on their idea or reccomended someone to them.
> No bike directions. :|

Yes, what is up with that? Android app had that for ages. I guess I am not supposed to have an iPhone if I bike.
It still amazes me that devs are pulling hair trying to save a couple hundreds of ms here and there but ignores and disses the view rendering time Rails suffers from.
> Mr. Woodland perfected a system for delivering elevator music efficiently.

This isn't directly on topic, but I don't like it when people say that someone "perfected" some sort of design/tool/technology. They may have made it much much much better than it was before, but is the new version ever really perfect?
Can't seem to find biking directions... Hoping they add this in ASAP...