skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My conspiracy theory (and I don't have many) is that late in the development of the phone they discovered this feature. A meeting was called. They figured out they were looking at a recall. Then someone came up with a brilliant solution: let's make cases, sell them at first, see if someone notices the problem. If people do, we'll just give them a free case, instead of throwing out a $500 phone. Then the cases were developed very quickly.

I have no proof or evidence, just a hunch. I said this before the announcement today, and I think today may give some circumstantial evidence of this fact. Wonder if it's possible to find out when it is that they started working on these bumpers.
This is a somewhat distressing post if you actually need VC.
I really like all of the community things that have been coming out of HN lately. The HN yellow pages has already produced a cool freelance offer for me (just added my info to it earlier today), and this site is definitely much more robust than a google docs page. I'm sure great things will come out of this for everyone.
How would you monetize this hypothetical FeedBurner challenger?
Today I created a site where you can post your unused domain names
Feedback appreciated
Almost never fails. The apps you spend more time developing are the ones with the least success rate.
This is why I have a love/hate relationship with marketing. It's somewhat fascinating, but dirty as hell.
Beyond "RSS readers suck", basically reading on a computer sucks. I can't do it for more than about 10 minutes without needing to rest my eyes. On the other hand I can sit and peruse the Sunday paper for an hour or more and not have any such feeling. I can get absorbed in a novel and read without a break for half the day. That's NEVER happened looking at a computer display.
I found it questionable that Jobs compared iPhone 4 dropouts to iPhone 3GS drop outs, and said it wasn't a big deal, only 1% worse. What would be interesting is to see the numbers compared to different smart phones... I think the problem would look a whole lot worse!
It's related to a critical mass of people believing someone or their works to be notable.

Agreed. Maybe we differ on what size makes a critical mass.

I'm not sure that the world has ever been as connected as it is right at this moment.

That's precisely what's making it so fragmented. People no longer need to join one giant popular culture, and are bonded with others all over the world in tiny interest groups. Anecdotally, I've never seen American Idol or America's Next Top <whatever>, and yet there is a notable population that worships those shows. For their part, they've never heard of _why or World of Warcraft or most anything else I'm interested in. I'm talking about cultural fragmentation, specifically.
Ah. So where did you get your degree in electrical engineering or physics? I just want to know where you get such a degree without ever having learned about anechoic chambers.
The 35-year old cut-off could be considered gender-specific.

The problem with this is that there is no 35 year old cutoff. Why does YCombinator have a high percentage of people in their 20s? People in their 20s are just more likely to be willing to try to do something like Y-Combinator. It's a difficult program to do if you're 40, have a well paying job, a family, and a mortgage, regardless of your gender. If you're a 40 year old person I'm sure you are more than welcome to apply to Y Combinator and that your age will not play a part in the selection process. I don't have the numbers, but I'm sure the vast majority of people that apply are in their 20s.

I'm in a startup incubator in Utah called BoomStartup, and while we also have very few women (1 out of ~25 or 30 founders) the average age is probably closer to 40 than to 20.
What’s All This Carrot Juice Stuff, Anyhow? Radar and Spoofing in WWII
If you haven't been following, the design of the antenna makes is such that you can short-circuit the antenna if you hold wrong. Even in areas with good to great coverage, this can make you drop calls and have weak or no reception.

Poor reception by AT&T is another real problem, but not at issue here.

Edit: More to the point, the grip that causes perhaps the greatest attenuation of signal is one of the more comfortable, natural grips for the phone. The effectiveness of any phone's antenna can be reduced if you hold it right. Most phones are designed so that the comfortable, natural ways to hold the phone minimally interfere with the signal.
Too bad they tested iPhone 4 while wearing their rubber lab gloves.
Your objects contain/use various resources, such as memory, file descriptors, mutexes, etc. The way to reclaim any of these is to destroy the object, which lets you reclaim all of them. So memory management is very much tied to other resource management, since they both involve the same thing (deciding when to destroy objects you no longer need). Unfortunately not all resources can be collected equally lazily, so memory-centric GC schemes that ignore the requirements of other resources tend to get in the way (and make you do using(){...} or try/finally to make sure your files are closed, instead of allowing for RAII).
For websites yes, but often you want to transmit the hashed value over the network. In that case it might be easier to implement the constant-time comparison.

Python:

def is_equal(a, b):
if len(a) != len(b):
return False

result = 0
for x, y in zip(a, b):
result |= x ^ y
return result == 0

Java:

public static boolean isEqual(byte[] a, byte[] b) {
if (a.length != b.length) {
return false;
}

int result = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
result |= a[i] ^ b[i]
}
return result == 0;
}

Code from http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/
Who needs those photos as marketing? I've seen enough YouTube videos entitled "Free cases!". Apple know how to play their market, those photos are just for the interested technical people.
Most media companies are headquartered in NYC. These sites were mostly movie sites.
Hm. I guess that's why you and I differ. I carefully trim my RSS feed so that I have, at most, 100 items a day to read. Any more than that and it feels like too much of a chore to slog through all of them. However, with only 100 items I feel like its a manageable level of content for the day. I also tend to keep my rss feeds limited to low-frequency feeds. I find it especially nice for feeds that update once a day. I then don't have to keep checking back at the site to see if it's updated yet. Sites like Ars Technica that have high volume, I still prefer to read from the site itself. Then I can avoid the pain of having my feeds filled with hundreds of unnecessary articles.

However, the most important reason why I like using rss is for blogs that I stumble across that I like, but that I don't have the memory to keep all the urls in my head, or the time to spend flipping through all of them to see if they've updated. Let me give you an example: I subscribed a few months ago to a blog that was effectively dead. The author hadn't posted for about a year. Just yesterday in my blog feed, I saw that he had made a new post. I would have completely missed his post if not for the fact that I had his feed in my rss reader.

I completely understand your point about google stripping the formatting out of posts, and it annoys me sometimes too, but for the most part I tend to value content over nice css.

EDIT: I'd like to head off any comments I get about the "memorizing urls" comment I made. I find myself on a lot of different computers, and "bookmarking" a site through adding its rss feed to google reader is a lot easier for me than it is to deal with syncing bookmarks. Not to mention that my bookmarks have become an untamed jungle over time. I only venture into them when I am not looking for anything in particular. For most everything I use the autocompletion on the url bar.
That phone rocks and it sucks that their experiment failed. What a shame.
His attempts to get comments from Think Brilliant and Wilson seem extremely cursory. Calling a business after hours is bad enough, but expecting someone to comment on a tweet - seriously?
We were talking about a similar thing at the Software Industry Conference today: apparently, telling people vacuously true things matters in some circumstances. For example, giving reasons using the word "because" causes compliance to requests: asking to cut in line at the copier works some of the time, asking to cut in line "because I'm in a rush" works more, but asking to cut in line at the copier "because I need to make copies" works almost as much (i.e. much better than having no explanation)!
However, in many high-level languages == is written in C, and reimplementing it in the high-level language can be quite slow in comparison.
A phone that goes havoc can induce a lot of costs for it's owner. Calls cost money, SMS cost money, not all data plans are unlimited.
Google Spent $100 Million Defending Against Viacom’s $1 Billion Lawsuit
What does ICE have to do with taking down websites is what I wanna know... anybody?
Is that a real product?
How to get more free traffic to your site via digg,reddit, etc « Wsk News
"We have shown that, even though the Internet induces significant timing jitter, we can reliably distinguish remote timing differences as low as 20µs. A LAN environment has lower timing jitter, allowing us to reliably distinguish remote timing differences as small as 100ns (possibly even smaller). These precise timing differences can be distinguished with only hundreds or possibly thousands of measurements."

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/pub/crosby-timing2009.pdf

Inside Amazon datacenters you also have lan-like performance.
This is what bluetooth headsets are made for!
Funny how movies there show that iPhone loses bars after gently holding by the base but you have to grab HTC Droid Eris really high and squeeze it like mad to get the bars down.
Why not let http://freedns.afraid.org/ use them?
Pretty sure Tim Berners-Lee fits under the "wildest visionary" classification. This is a compliment.
Nice idea. I'll try to list a few later tonight.
When did they add this feature? I had no idea it existed but suggested they add it a few years (?) ago - will have to look around for it.
Fun to revisit this one-- it's one of my favorites!
Damn Vulnerable Linux - The most vulnerable and exploitable distro
A rogue Android application can do that too.
Compared to Other Countries, Does U.S. Really Do That Badly in Math?
I share this sentiment towards RSS readers to some extent. I've done a similar signup-giveup dance with Google Reader several times. It is all the work it adds to my day that I dislike. I've tried desktop RSS readers too, with the same result. It gets harder to go back after a while too - I can almost feel the stress increase when I am trying to use an RSS reader again.

I've often felt that something like the "River of News"[1] notion that Dave Winer likes to talk about would work really well, I wonder if there are any public services that behave in that manner.

The basic idea is:

1) No read/unread counts.
2) No bold-ing/un-bolding of stuff I have or have not read.
3) No emphasis on grouping by site - should work out of the box as a single stream of posts to any of the sites I am interested in.
4) Subscribe via single-click bookmarklet, ala Instapaper's Read Later bookmarklet.

1: http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/riverOfNews
Latest trends in Asia for upcoming SEO needs
Title: Ten foot grad.

FTA: Y Combinator Graudate.

:(
SIGGRAPH: Rigid-Body Fracture Sound Experiments
Does that mean that warrant was badly issued? Seems like it just means he gets his stuff back but that it is still valid evidence in the case. Any lawyer able to clarify?
First, Duck Duck Go may be popular with HNers, but it has insignificant market share. It clearly did not have the capital to make a dent.

Second, Google has an astounding 63% market share, which would be considered a monopoly in almost all industries.

Third, people "noticed" Microsoft's monopolistic tactics, but that doesn't mean that they weren't effective or didn't continue for a long time, largely unpunished.
Sorry, but real pros don't use Chrome.

No chrome until noscript, period.
I would not bother with the busy, big bloggers - they will not give you the time of day unless you have a big announcement. My suggestion to get them to notice you:

Large blogs feed off of small blogs, its the nature of the blogsphere. What you need to do is determine what blogs you feel like would make the most impact for your business, and dive into where they source their stories. Then, reach out to THOSE sources for stories, exclusives, pre-release testing material, etc. Those are the sources larger blogs trust and feed off of - not only are you bound to get coverage on the smaller more niche blog, but the larger ones will pick up the review and will most likely post - bang - 2 for one.

Once you are on the big boys' radar, then reach out with extra/exclusive content to really nail it home...wash, rinse, and repeat across the blog-o-sphere

There are many ways to really dig deep to find the influencers in any given space - happy to continue the dialogue via email info@limberdesigns.com
actually, if you know java fairly well, I can introduce you to some EU contacts that could make the move possible for you next month :)

If you (or anyone who wants to work in Germany) wish to send over a resume, I'll happily forward it. (no promises though!)

M8R-qhfq4p@mailinator.com
I have seen Antennagate, and it is us
Sorry it should read "Isn't jessica livingston a hacker because she is part of ycombinator?"
You clearly have never seen the OTRS queue if you think Seigenthaler is the closest to a suit. There have been over a handful of cases (against the WMF or Wikipedia editors themselves) and some even received media coverage, though Bauer [1] is the one that comes to mind at the moment but it certainly isn't the only one. [2]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/05/dumb-idea-su...

[2] http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/american-academy-anti-agi...
Sure. Apple don't seem to acknowledge that their design is stupid anywhere. People will hold phones how they want to hold phones. It's ridiculous for anyone to claim they're holding it 'wrong'. If they're holding it 'wrong' then apple designed it 'wrong'.
Depends where you do your PhD! It's only 3 years (in theory!)
in the UK/most of Europe.
What other cellphones have an external antenna that can be short circuited if you hold the phone? I can't think of any...

FWIW, I think it's a lame response from Apple.
Whoops, need more sleep :)

Just corrected.
Flurry: iPhone in-app purchase revenue jumps to $14.66 per user per year
Isn't this just the internet in general?
The fence is for the sheep.
Excellent talk by SICP author Gerry Sussman
MPlayer is able to play the ancient RealMedia format this video is in.
American City of Future (1925)
Also: "bars" is not a scientific unit.

Well, sure it is, if you're measuring the pressure of hot air.
No respectible engineer wants to be a reverse engineer! To me, "Hacker" is a derogatory term. My definition is working without documentation. Think about it -- if you are legitimate, you usually have documentation.
i just wanted to point out that there is only one single link from that entire page to the actual chrometa.com site, and it's all the way at the bottom corner under "sites i like". i had no idea what chrometa was and wanted to read their site first before reading about how it failed, and that took me long enough that i stopped caring.
I'm pretty sure you can disable javascript in chrome, in fact, I've done it.
Ask HN: Trying to get a copy of Hacker Monthly (in Aus)
I would really like to buy a copy of the first edition of Hacker Monthly (despite having the pdf to it), but MagCloud doesn't ship to Australia and I have no contacts currently in the states or anywhere else that they do ship. Anyone willing to help me out? I would pay for shipping of course.
Do the people with this problem have different physiological properties in their hands? Such as more conductivity..

No matter how I hold any of my iPhones, reported signal strength is the same.

Anyone else experiencing this?
Since folders feel like they open much slower than I can swipe to the next screen, I actually only use one folder (I only have three screens of apps), the one I labelled Useless. I'm not sure that folders are really that slow, it might be psychological: tap and long wait, versus lots of fun swiping action!
I guess they're foreign sites, so preventing their bits from getting into the US falls to Customs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2zqTYgcpfg
Why build them first. // I've never understood that ad - it always screams "we don't take proper care" to me..
A solution with no tradeoffs...wonder why nobody thought of it before.
Stop saying How much you paid for it, instead say X over 3 years of owning it, compared to Y for an iPhone over 3 years. After that, if they ask, say how much the phone itself costs.
The Difference Between Learning & Education
It's a 2-meter handy-talkie for amateur radio operators. It operates at about 1/6 to 1/12 the frequency of a cell phone, so the antenna needs to be commensurately larger.
I'll pop in my Startup.com dvd and watch it at least once or twice a year. Great docco. Probably my favorite.
I thought the value of a reference work was that it had things one might not know, not that it made a convenient place to engage in one's fandom.
You can do that too.

The idea with this project is when you're hunting for domains, it's a nice list of leads for domains that developers might be willing to sell / swap / donate for the right project.

Also, I would feel bad if people on freedns started using my domain and I wanted to take back my domain to use for a project.
Ask HN: Starting a startup on an F1 visa
I'm a student on an F1 visa in the Unites States.

I'm considering starting a startup (as the sole founder) and/or becoming an independent contractor. But F1 visa holders are prohibited from working anywhere in the United States except for an internship or on an on-campus job.

I was considering forming a corporation and getting paid through dividends, but my international student advisor just told me that any form of work, even unpaid internships are illegal for F1 students and could result in deportation and a 10-year ban on reentry.

So is there any legal way in which I can start a startup or become an independent contractor? If any of you know lawyers or website where I can look for legal concerning this matter, please point me to them. I'm currently located in NYC.

Thank you.
Google's Amit Singhal tells us about the dreams search engines
FUD FUD FUD. What an awful summary.

There is an efuse and they refer to it in the statement: "the technology is not loaded with the purpose of preventing a consumer device from functioning, but rather ensuring for the user that the device only runs on updated and tested versions of software". The technology is there in the device, says Motorola. It's just loaded with good intentions.

Now, what's it for? "If a device attempts to boot with unapproved software, it will go into recovery mode, and can re-boot once approved software is re-installed."

What does it mean that Motorola's "recovery mode" is eFuse based? It means exactly what was reported earlier. The phone is bricked until you go to the Motorola store to get your software reloaded and the eFuse reset. Find somewhere where Motorola says that you can get out of their friendly "recovery mode" without their assistance. If it walks like a brick, if it quacks like a brick...

What's a bigger issue to me is why so many hackers fall for easy market-speak like this. Are they English-challenged? Verbal-intelligence-challenged? Well, explains why certain politicians get so popular on the internets, I guess.
... because the US telecoms companies suck?
Textarea Tricks
All founders are on HN. Feel free to ping us if you want to know more about our product and the interesting work you would get to work on!
We are also looking for awesome frontend contractor (CSS, HTML5, Javascript)
The Flying Prius
Robots have a word for Love?
But do they dream of electric sheep...
More about what Nowmov is doing here: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/07/yc-funded-nowmov-sit-back-r...
They're sending a story:

Apple builds new product -> people have problems -> Apple solves problems.

Which inevitably will imply:

Competitors builds new product -> people have problems -> ..

There is no step 3! (badum-chunk!)
I'm curious what type of names you were looking for - I'm not actively searching for a name for a new business, but I come up with ideas for names all the time and end up buying them just because they're decent and available. I get that the "real word" options are becoming less common, but I personally haven't had that much trouble finding them. My problem? Now I just own a bunch of domains that I'm not really sure what to do with.
You overuse the word "awesome."
Yes
http://www.yaesu.com/indexVS.cfm?cmd=DisplayProducts&Pro...

(that's actually a more recent model)
A local political establishment which will subsidize your technical education so that you can develop improved weapons systems?
find social situations where you can bond over shared interests or things ... e.g., if you're really into Linux IT or something, then find local Linux IT meet-ups. you have a lot better chance bonding with people over shared interests than simply trying to chat up strangers at a bar or university

EDIT: or get involved in activities involving other people, but without an explicit goal of socializing. e.g., doing volunteer work to help out in your local community. the socializing opportunities will naturally arise, since you and your co-volunteers will be able to bond over your shared experiences of doing good for others. and in the worst-case, even if you don't mesh well with these people, at least you will still have succeeded in donating your time to do some good
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>Their mission is to help teachers. And in some cases, this also helps students, e.g., teacher's unions do a great job of ensuring teachers have safe working conditions. But in many instances it hurts students.

Presumably you think too that society is injured by giving people legal representatives? I think teachers as anyone deserve to have proper representation in legal matters, in sub-legal matters, in pay negotiation, etc..
Clojure, Node.js and Concurrency Fail
"if IIS had an exploitable stack overflow in its HTTP header parsing"

Where'd that come from? That's a very interesting example to pull out of your hat.
(((7^4)-1)/(2(3+9))+0!(5+sqrt(cbrt(sqrt(...8...))))/(S(S(..6..)))

I used an infinite number of square roots, cube roots, and sums. None of the rules require a finite expression :P

SO: ^ + - / sqrt cbrt S= 9

MO: infinite

MR: infinite
Text messages - 6,500% markup
I actually did go gluten-free for about 7 days prior to the biopsy (yeah, that was dumb). When I had my GI appointment, she had me go back on gluten for 3 weeks prior to the procedure, which I dutifully did.

She said I was extremely uncomfortable during the procedure, more so for the colonoscopy than the endoscopy/biopsy. I don't think she said outright that it prevented her from getting good samples, but she did say that it might make sense to repeat the procedure in a few months if the genetic test comes back positive, or if the gluten-free diet produces a positive result (of course with appropriate gluten-challenge beforehand). She said that if we do that she'd give me full anesthesia so that she can get further into the tract for samples.

I would certainly consider asking for another interpretation of the biopsy. Do they actually keep them around for that kind of thing? Where would I request it to be sent?

Thanks very much for your insight, carbocation.
I thought it more a parody with 'food for thought' then a deep analysis, but don't disagree with you
When I read all the fuss people have made over the antenna issues I think "God these people are lucky to have the luxury of complaining about this."
Thank you CNN for doing a report on something everyone in the tech community has known for years.