sylvinus

Do we know where the funding is coming from?

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Hasn't Amazon implemented their own?

iTunes is certainly going to ask people to upgrade without giving them a warning about the Maps downgrade!

I worked on this last week and I found GeoNames' results to be quite poor.

The best replacement I found when going over Google's limits was Yahoo's PlaceFinder.

I integrated Google, GeoNames and Yahoo in a npm module: https://github.com/sylvinus/geocoder

Just looking at the title, I thought it was going to be an article on how the iPhone 5 is just 30% better in every aspect but has no actual new feature...

I guess it's no that far off!

Beware that "walrus" may not be that easy to pronounce by a foreigner :)

I got a frozen pixel on mine and then it went completely dark! First time I have had to return a brand new Mac to the store...

How much of it is UK-specific? It would be interesting to have other countries forking these tools ;-)

Will all these cheap satellites (from NASA or hobbyists, there are a couple of them on Kickstarter) cleanly de-orbit themselves or are we just adding up to the space junk at this point?

I think it's more an apology for adding more GIFs to the Internet :)

I think the stats will clearly show that it wouldn't have been funded without the Gruber post.

What puzzles me is that the HN crowd seems to be the target audience for whatever it is App.net wants to do but Dalton & friends totally failed to get them interested enough even after so much posts here.

With Gruber they reached a different crowd and got the money, which may prove that they have something interesting on their hands but now they'll have do deal with different expectations from their users, and I'm highly skeptical it will make their strategy clearer.

Reading this, my guess is they will be replacing the physical home button with screen area. They may also have found a way to put the top speaker (but what about camera & sensors ??) under the display somehow. Any way, I hope the next iPhone won't be much taller itself.

Yes, I really wonder how much blogspam and artificial HN buzz they have to make before acknowledging that people are just not interested.

If it's open source, maybe so that people can make sure nobody messes with their hashes ? ;-)

Am I the only one to think Bitcoin is just a big Ponzi scheme benefiting the first users/creators who got all the first ones?

Does Apple have a patent on displaying "PM" next to the time? ;-)

To me, it boils down to this: Sparrow is a success story because its acquisition will make tens of teams try to imitate it and innovate further and we'll end up with some even more amazing email clients. (hopefully some of them open source :)

Looking at how much they raised until now, I'd say that if they don't have some powerful communication relays planned for the next 2 weeks they won't make it to $500k.

I don't know whether this is due to the fact that they're not on Kickstarter or that the project is just not viral/exciting/relevant enough.

As a fellow Frenchman I can confirm everything bambax said!

Maybe one other explanation for this incident is the amount of hidden camera documentaries airing on national TV recently. I can imagine these security agent being briefed to avoid at all costs having another Super Size Me shot at their location.

totally agree ;-)

Sessions should run from 9am to 6pm with gates opening at 8am but we don't have a precise schedule yet.

LeWeb isn't really for hackers (just look at the price...)

We do a Hacker News meetup called http://parishackers.org Next meetup should be on June 28th!

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For those who don't know him, he's the creator of Three.js and made great JS demos like http://ro.me or http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com

I'm wondering about the "even at half those numbers" bit, if Fred actually thinks it will go that low.

Look on pro.jamendo.com

I'm impressed that you continued developing the service with less than 100 customers for 2 years. I admit I would largely have given up by then. Are you optimistic for the future?

Bravo!

That could actually be the best incentive yet to make me install python3 right now :)

It would be unbelievable if you approached me from the center of the earth, if you want to keep the same analogy :)

There was a moment when the Dragon had a speed of 0 in that frame of reference, what's unbelievable is the complexity of catching up to the ISS!