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I Redesigned The Website of The Guy Who Bearhugged President Obama
If you've been following the news lately, you may have heard about Scott Van Duzer, a man who owns a pizza restaurant in Florida and is known for his philanthropic and charitable works. This past Sunday he received a surprise visit from President Obama, and warmly embraced the President in a 'bear hug' that became a popular story. (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/09/barack-gets-a-bear-hug/)

I heard about Scott Van Duzer's philanthropy foundation on the radio yesterday and was motivated to donate. However I visited his web site to donate, and was struck by how "1997 Geocities" his site looked like.

So beyond donating just money, I thought I would volunteer to re-design his site and offer my services as a "webmaster." I also noticed he hadn't registered his .com and .net domains, so I thought I'd register them with the intent to transfer ownership to him.

Old site: http://thevanduzerfoundation.org/

New site (doesn't have every page up yet): http://thevanduzerfoundation.com/

The thing is -- I can't get in touch with him. I've tried to reach him at his e-mail address on his site and call his phone number, but to no avail. I'm sure he's still pretty busy with the media cycle and at this point I figured I'd just wait until it dies down a bit before trying to reach out to him again, but I thought as a last-ditch effort, maybe someone on HN would actually know some way to get in touch with this guy.
What was the the big feature of the iPhone 3GS?
What about the reversible cable connector? When was the last time you had a cable that didn't require looking at the cable before plugging it in? I know it's not really an innovation, but I don't understand why all cables can only have one way of going in -- when you plug in your usb cable, it's not obvious that it's upside down. Nobody looks at their audio cable when they plug in earphones; why can't normal computer cables be like this?

It does take a little more circuitry to detect orientation, but it seems like it would be worth it for a connector that gets used a lot.
This is more an exercise in how conditions as described in the DSM IV can be applied to almost anyone as easily as a horoscope or fortune cookie.

A psychology prof once told us that the DSM isn't a diagnostic manual or any sort of medical text -- it's just a reference book so the insurance industry knows how to bill psychological conditions.
1 Armstrong's performances have always been viewed with extreme scepticism.

2 The USDAA's investigation has also been viewed with extreme scepticism.

You believed completely in Armstrong and now completely believe in the investigation.
So this is something I've always wondered about diagnosing mental disorders.

The thing is, how strongly do the traits listed have to be manifested before it's considered a disorder as opposed to just being that person's personality?

In the comic book, these distinct personalities are what make the characters interesting. The same is also true of people in real life; if you take away every trait mentioned, you end up with a pretty bland person.

So is it simply a matter of degree, and the "disorder" label just gets applied when the traits get strong enough for others to comment on? Or is there a qualitative difference?
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All the webOS devices had wireless charging (although with the earlier ones you had to buy a replacement back cover)

But no NFC
I hate SF weather. Foggy and cold year round. Not that it matters, startup people never see the outdoors.
Only geeks delve into spec sheets comparisons.

That makes as much sense as comparing a Mustang and a Mercedes by horsepower to decide which car to buy.
Yeah, but at sub-$100? Probably not.
You could use the front facing camera and display a barcode on the iPhone screen. Voila NFC.

I know I'm going to take down votes for this, but for 90% of the population NFC is a solution in search of a problem. For most people cash, credit, or debit work just fine. NFC isn't a 10X better payment solution. Most people have to carry something on them to carry cards, drivers licenses, etc in which they will place their payment card. Instead of fiddling with your wallet, now you're fiddling with your phone.

NFC is as silly as using bump for payments.
It's good when you're running/exercising in general and can hold more than the shuffle . It's lighter than the iPhone/iPod touch.
When did they even have rapid evolution?

Sure, there was some rapid change as things like Android and WinCE dumped their old-style geek-centric interfaces and moved toward a more iPhone-ish consumer-centric approach. But after "the big switch" each one has had a similarly deliberate schedule of updates.
IPhone 5 – the Most Leaked iPhone Yet
The line at the very end made it. Well played.
@ilikecars - awesome job. love your sites.

what would you recommend is the quickest way to get to 1m for people just starting out?

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The S variants certainly didn’t – and this adds more than every S variant ever did.

Looking at the construction, the 3G was never something to write home about. The technology forced Apple's hand and they had to make that plastic monster. Acceptable, not great. Like the 5, the 3G improved every aspect of its predecessor and it added 3G.

The 5 is just like the 3G – only that this time around the construction is at least on par or better (likely, looking at first hand ons, still, only speculation at this point) than that of the predecessor. It’s also, quite obviously, less fragile. So Apple has done much more on the construction front, but the jump from 3G to LTE is also arguably not as important than the jump from Edge to 3G.

Looking at the specs and comparing them with other phones you get the same picture you always got. It’s a wash. Those kinds of comparisons never mattered.

In conclusion: no 3GS to 4 jump, but certainly a 1 to 3G jump.

Also a familiar sight since the 3G, geeks are disappointed, the phone sells faster than Apple can make it.

This phone is no surprise. It’s Apple doing what they have always done.
I don't understand threads like this. What's at stake here, whether Apple is really innovative or not? Whether there should be more features on the phone? Well there aren't. Live with that.

If you don't like the phone don't buy it, it's that simple.
nivla,

thanks! yea the link got cut off.

you are right, the correct link is:
http://www.quora.com/Startups/Which-Quora-members-were-able-...
I'm seeing a lot of surprise by the lack of NFC, but given the lack of market adoption, I can understand why they may not take it as a high priority. Plus, we've all seen the reports of Apple purchasing AuthenTec and its IdAM solutions. Fingerprint + Passbook + NFC and they will have all the pieces in place to create the NFC market with aggressive merchant partnerships.
heh yea
Yeah I have and that was the diagnosis. Thanks for the suggestion though.
This is especially true of legal issues here. I routinely see people giving advice for, or arguing over, points of law they clearly have only a surface level understanding of. I see people asking for legal advice on important topics, on which they could be seriously screwed by simple missteps no decent lawyer would make, and getting it from non-lawyers. I've probably sounded like a broken record over the years by saying "stop reading these and ask a lawyer".

It doesn't surprise me that the same thing happens with medical or other types of advice.

The bottom line is, don't take advice on anything specialized over the internet. Talk to a specialist, or do the loads of research yourself that it requires to form an educated opinion.
Let me re-phrase...

If I'm brain dead and there is zero chance of me feeling pain, they can take my organs. I just want them to be sure I'm brain dead. How is that determined?

(oh and my brain is not an electrical cpu, I understand your analogy but I'm not sure it applies given the complexity of a human brain, for example certain parts of a brain can be "off" while the others are "on")
>Nokia Lumia

>Better than iPhone

Pick one.
I want one. Pedometer is nice, 16GB is enough for the music I listen to most, and for apps and games I have an iPad. I've been using a Zune HD for years, this is basically that plus a little fitness incentive. $150 is a bargain, and I think people will make some interesting hacks for it as well.
> The idea of cancer might be a cause of cancer? Ridiculous.

Not ridiculous at all. There are all kinds of plausible mechanisms for the idea of cancer to cause cancer. Here's just one example off the top of my head: stressing out over the possibility of getting cancer can stimulate the production of excess stomach acid, which can lead to acid reflux, which is known to increase the risk of esophageal cancer.
Depends on the phone.
What You Need to Know About Apple’s New iPhone 5
Well I'm still surprised an authoritarian regime, or however anyone would classify China, would allow such an exposé.
Amazon just lowered the price on the S3 to $99: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Android-Verizon-Wireles...
This is written by someone who obviously lives within the tech bubble. The people who are buying the Nano are the same people who are still buying CDs at Walmart.

Apple is still selling the Nano because people are still willing to buy them. And Apple has driven the COGs down so low that they get terrific profit margins.
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Sorry that was bad sentence construction. I meant that for $149 it doesn't have that much functionality compared to say an iPod touch which can sell for as low as $199.
I clicked through looking for an auo-micro-composting mechanism. And auto-harvesting. Did you have ideas about handling blights, molds and other diseases?
I liked this part - "We're good. We don't need any more money right now".
"I can't wait to rsync my files on my new tablet!" -- Nobody
We compete by offering a better work environment (from the perspectives of some), better problems to work on, equity in the company, and more control over the purpose and outcome of your work.

What you're arguing is empirically false. I know tons of startups in the valley that are founded by people who started elsewhere and moved here. Hardly any move back. Those that do have to because of our moronic visa system or move to Boston, Seattle, or New York.

They are almost all hiring, and they manage to find good people (not without a good amount of effort), if they can't afford offices they work out of their living rooms and that's just fine, they don't travel during rush hour so traffic is a non-issue, and if past performance is any indication of future results (which may not be true, is that what you're arguing?) they will make up a disproportionately large portion of the successful (in the admittedly uniquely SV sense) tech companies of the next few years.
The opening line is a killer!
Do you remember when Tim Cook said that they are going to “double down on secrecy”?
...and you don't feel as scared to drop it? If you let go of a nano, it swings on the headphones. If you let go of an iTouch, it rips the headphones off you and crashes to the ground.
The biggest disappointment to me is the tiresome and childish war between Fanboys and Fandroids, not just on Engadget and the like, but also here on HN.
The same could be said about the first gen ipod, when compared against the current lineup of mp3 players at the time. The ipod didn't even have wifi or a color display!
"It seems like it would be more appealing to people without good paying work"

Good paying work is golden handcuffs.

Many of the people who started on the net (90's) were able to do so because they had nothing else significant going on at the time. If they had a high paid corporate job, or even a "normal" paying job, were an attorney, or even ran a small business, they had neither the time nor did it make sense to take chances.

If you have nothing, as Dylan said, you have nothing to lose.
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Record Low
Most mental disorders are pathological versions of normal behaviors. You can also have "traits" of certain personality disorders, which is normal. In fact, most people will have traits of one or more personality disorders.

For example, a person like Steve Jobs who is a bit self-absorbed, but can focus on good things others do when need be might be said to have narcissistic traits. It's when you simply can't accept that anyone is better that it would be considered narcissistic personality disorder.
I wanted to jump in here and to caution that finding a cofounder with the specific intent of applying for this round of YC would be a bad idea. Keep in mind that a co-founding relationship is very much a relationship, and you have to "date" a bit before you get married — having a startup is like having a child, you want to know a potential cofounder is the right person to found a startup with first.

That said, be inspired to try finding a cofounder now, work with them for a few months and keep S13 in mind — it might all fall into place by the time the next round comes around. And if you can't find a cofounder, don't be afraid of being persistant and just learning the skills necessary to build and launch startup solo, since a great cofounder is likely to come along if you already have an intriguing product launched.
Ask HN: Examples of great landing/site designs? 
I'm looking for examples of fun, sexy, clean landing pages. Personally I really like getbuckyballs.com. What are your favorites?
I think Apple is betting heavily on PassBook, which I think is superior to NFC, but would eventually fail if it's not an open standard (and even if it was open, Google and others would never use it because not using it would hurt Apple more). Maybe they should've integrated PassBook with NFC...

I think their decision to go with PassBook will backfire (like Thunderbolt did - It's even more niche than Mac itself!) and they'll add NFC in iPhone 6 like they added USB3 support.

That said, I'm not in a market that either of these technologies are likely to be used in the foreseeable future (5-10 years), so I personally don't care one way or another :) NFC/PassBook catching on just make me more jealous!
The problem with showing this tools is that noone will enter his email-credentials on my site, or would you do that?
So the only way is to make the source public so everyone can install it on his own server.
It's not like Diaspora where you can create an anonymous account to test the system.
I use it for everything from my morning beverage to putting gas in the car. If it isn't important to you then that's cool but don't assume your opinion extends to all of us.
To be fair, I'm a developer and I don't care about those features, either. Android ceding the browser wars (at least until Chrome is the default) matters so much more to me than the kind of difference you need benchmarks to notice.
I only use the scripts to slave all the dependent binaries to the main binary. If you only have one binary, it's just a single line. (I also script literally everything, even single-liners).

I don't know if there's any way to do something like that without update-alternatives or your tool having some built-in awareness of the package's dependencies, but that's not really possible for a tool designed to be able to handle literally any arbitrary, user-compiled/installed package. Otherwise you get the system package manager again.
I have two. One I wear as a wristwatch and use as a backup music player if my iPhone is running low on batteries. The other I use at the gym because it has FM radio and the gym supplies the TV audio only on FM.
Right here. No map directions, hardware failures (home button is dead after two years), and Android catching up in UI responsiveness and app availability means I'm looking at the upcoming Nexus phones more than this.
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If GoDaddy is my domain registrar, but I host my domain on CloudFlare and GoDaddy goes down, will my domain go down?
Android is removing physical buttons but still have back, home and "multitasking" buttons.
Pi In The Sky
This is a great stock, bought some at $18 and a couple of weeks ago and now its nearly $21! That's a 16% return in just a couple of weeks, heck at this rate it will return over 400% annually!

Yes, its a satirical comment to illustrate the point that FB 'stock price' stories are all in the eye of the beholder. If Mark stays focused on building a great company and the rest will take care of itself.
The big detection of 'bullshit' was at the end of the article, in 2 places.

1. " As to all the rest, I cannot but conclude that they are nothing but legal euthanasia, and should be opposed by anyone who identifies themselves as pro-life."

Pro-life? As in Christian anti-abortion buzzword? That's awfully strange to see in a "fact based policy paper".

2. Dr. Paul Byrne, a Christian doctor trying to raise public awareness of this issue. (links to renewamerica.com )

So now we get to the root of the matter. Non-religious (cough CHRISTIAN) superPAC sponsoring messages. It even mentions of a strong Christian bent towards policy discussion.

I dismiss this whole article with extreme prejudice.
It'd be so amazing if Apple decided to move all their manufacturing to the US. It seems impossible, but it's Apple, they have the money and ability to do it. It might take 10 years and lower their margins in the short-term, but I bet through automation they could eventually achieve parity with outsourcing. Not to mention that federal/state/local governments would be willing to grant massive incentives to make it happen. Hell, they could even add an optional $50 Made In America fee to every device for a while and a huge number of people would pay it.

Like every other technology hardware company they're addicted to cheap labor. Super automated factories are obviously where things are headed. Apple could lead the way in yet another way. In fact it's one thing Tim Cook could probably get done even better than Steve Jobs could have.
>As the founder of a bootstrapped startup, how do you expect to compete with the enormous employee salaries

I don't. But I couldn't compete with the salaries in Sacramento, either. Let's put it this way; I paid myself something like $40K last year (salary/profit whatever... I spent $40K on me last year)

Obviously, I'm unable to pay market rates for experienced/connected people.

Right after the .com crash it was easy. Even through the mid '00s, I was picking up people I knew personally that had worked with me during the dot-com that were now stuck making sandwiches. "I can't give you much of a raise, but I can give you a raise and work that counts as experience towards what you want to do."

Of course, that's harder now. My latest two contractors are one very raw recruit who is local, and one reasonably good person that is in the midwest and doesn't want to move.

I mean, you find someone that could be good, then you train them, then you give them maximum flexibility and hope they stick around for a while. Yeah, they move on, and that's okay... they then become the best resources for finding your next local raw recruit.

(for an example of 'maximum flexibility' I don't have any set hours; my employee shows up at the office maybe once a week, usually unplanned, and he often takes off on vacation with short notice. I mean, yeah, Facebook has 'pet insurance' and they probably tolerate you rolling in at eleven, but they expect you to be in the office most of the time.)

But yeah, you hire when the economy is shit, and you do what you can to hold on when the economy is gangbusters.

The thing is, the people you want (as customers, mentors, and employees) are thick on the ground here. Like I was saying, for the same skill? I don't even think you pay more here, because standards are just that much higher.

> What about commercial real estate? Even in Sacramento, it's just simply not feasible.

really? huh. The only reason I don't own a santa clara 'industrial condo' right now is that my credit is shit. (well, that and I don't have a whole heck of a lot to use as a down.) warehouse space here can be had in the $100-$200 per sqft range, and you look at layfayette near el camino (a not awesome part of santa clara, but still, part of santa clara) and you see nice big industrial condos starting at about $150K. You can rent in santa clara, 1000-2000sqft places for $0.50-$1.00 per sqft. (I'm talking essentially industrial units... but that's what I want.)

So yeah, uh, I guess I don't really see real-estate as a limiting factor. (I mean, yeah, if you want to be in mountain view, it's rather more expensive. But, I don't see why you would want to be in mountain view where you have to compete with google for real-estate when you can move to Santa Clara and have incredibly cheap power and incredibly cheap dark fiber provided by the city.)

Again, I think the key to understanding the economics is that while salaries are higher here, the standards for Engineer skill are proportionally higher as well.
The Downside of Hedonic Adaptation at a Scaling Startup
"This iTunes need eliminates a large segment of technophobes."

Really? It wasn't even 3 years ago when all iPhones required iTunes syncing to load music. Every single iPod, since the very first one in 2001, have required it all along, and they've done fine with "technophobes".
I totally agree with you, you don't want to take finding a co-founder lightly. Just meant it as a heads-up. Apply as a single-founder anyway :)
I don't know how it works elsewhere but here in sweden they don't check if you're a donor until they have already taken the decision to take you off the respirator ("killing" you either way).

So it's not like the surgeon walks into the ICU, scalpel in hand, looking for anyone too slow to run away.
>While it's great to understand the psychology behind the characters, this knowledge doesn't really make the movie or knowledge that much better.

Disagree with this so much. Knowing the depth and psychology of the characters is what makes the Watchman so much more interesting than say Superman or even my favorite superhero, Batman. Watchmen is very open and honest about the fact that people who would do this are probably riddled with psychological issues. I also like the subtle suggestion the book makes that most superheroes would fall onto the reactionary side of conservatism. I doubt there would be many incredibly liberal people out there taking the law into their own hands, but for some reazon the first time I noticed this mentioned was in Watchmen. Just a brilliantly written story with incredibly deep and realistic characters.
With contract only, for those of us still on contract. Without, it's still $600.
Thanks so much for the post. Once upon a time I took a grad course in social anthropology, and the professor said something like "read for the best Marx", by which he meant "don't assume an interpretation that makes him out to be an idiot; start with the assumption that he probably had something coherent to say, and try to understand it first."

I've found that to be good advice in general, and for internet conversations in particular. Start with the assumption that you are communicating with someone who is not an idiot, who has something to say, and try not to give reflexive, dismissive answers.

Not that I'm so perfect as to always remember, but I try.
This is a great example of using marketing to reach the front page of HN, not an example of a great service. The service is little more than fresh paint (and a monthly fee) on an old business model that's been proven time and again not to convert well.
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!
Pains of Open Source
"how strongly do the traits listed have to be manifested before it's considered a disorder as opposed to just being that person's personality?"

What's the difference? Why can't they be both at the same time?