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> I can barely believe its bugging smart technical people.

I doubt they're complaining on behalf of smart technical people... instead, it's all their friends who fill news feeds with junk because they don't know any better!
Manufactured? Yes. Designed? No. Of course, their processors are ARM based, but that doesn't mean that they just stick a reference design in there and hope for the best. A lot of work goes into the design and Apple bought P.A. Semi and Intrinsity and acquired a 9.5% stake in Imagination Technologies, the folks behind PowerVR for that very purpose. Blithely declaring that Apple don't design their chips is somewhat wide of the mark.
I've got an HTC Sensation (the same size as the S II), an iPod Touch, and a Nexus One, and my "thumb range" is pretty wildly different from Dustin's diagrams.

I said it when he first posted it, and I'll say it now - the larger screen isn't a problem unless you have midget-thumbs, and the diagram is not true to the actual range of motion for the devices.
You're right, but Hacker News is not the place for memespeak.
Totally agree about getting everyone on the same page and putting things on paper. The main reason I asked, however, is cost. Some lawyers have squishy/unpredictable pricing when it comes to formation and advice, while the fixed "good" ones are not cheap (e.g. ~$5K). Others try to wave their hands around pricing and just use a "pay it later" approach, but we'd rather keep things simple. I was just wondering if it's safer to get YC help/guidance to make sure we don't get burned, in case we get in since the timing between now and the deadline is almost a rounding error.
Chrome for Mac is a 32-bit application. Firefox for Mac is a 64-bit application. If you force Firefox to open in 32-bit mode (by editing Firefox.app's "Get Info" settings in the Finder), its memory footprint is smaller (but you lose some of the 64-bit benefits of large address space and ASLR).

Also, I assume you are adding up the memory footprint of all of Chrome's processes? ;)
Very true! Here is one of my personal favourite essays about how human problems affect hackers in particular:

http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm
Okay, then create a segmentation strategy and preventative intervention and then solve effective, ethical, and informed distribution of that intervention. You're also going to have to prove that your intervention actually improves mental health outcomes if you want funding/support from anywhere in the developed world.

I'm not even evaluating whether or not your claim is accurate, just that there's a lot that stands in the way of delivering that kind of change.
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My HTC One S is a unibody.
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> I suppose the author of the blog was only recently compelled to try out the game?

The post is on the blog of a social gaming company; their key take-away seems to be:

Developers beware the backlash with yet less discovery for quality games
If that's your perspective, what do you think it means when people choose to buy the iPhone instead of the Galaxy S3?

It doesn't mean that the people who choose the iPhone are sheep, or don't understand what they want. It means that the iPhone has some kind of appeal that you don't understand. Rather than claiming that something is "basically" something else, I'd recommend taking the time to understand why it's actually different, then applying those lessons to the products you develop.
I'm fairly certain this could be defeated with a little differential cryptanalysis. Similar approaches to defeating side-channel attacks on smart card power usage have been tried and defeated :/
Great question.

I might have a harsh tone in my previous comment but I've got really frustrated with scrum (or implementations of it) over the last few years.

Scrum in my eyes is a process and from what I've seen it makes teams very process oriented. The whole idea of scrum master certification and the success it had in enterprise adoption might have something to do with that.

It incentivises teams (at least all the teams I've seen) to work for the process as good as possible. They focus on complying to the process, getting estimates right (or working in a way that makes the estimates right), they focus on the backlog instead of throughput or frequent re-prioritization …

If you can free yourself from viewing the 'process' as fundamental religion it's easier to apply agile & lean principles like focusing on delivering value and improving the framework, changing things, changing the process so it fits your needs, etc.

In a nutshell: I see scrum incentivising people to work in a way that is not agile but pseudo-agile/feel-good-agile. I see no feedback loop for the process itself (at least I see no one doing that, except teams that adopt kanban and scrumban or do scrum but …).

But I'm interested in learning from people who've made other experiences. It's an exciting topic.
I'd assume it's because controlling the adapter means controlling the device ecosystem and therefore both less testing they have to perform and less support issues from the random stuff people try to connect up to the device.
Factoring in supplier changes and development costs, I would wager that the .5% revenue would result in an overall wash on the accounting sheets.

I really don't think it was to sell connectors. Those kinds of things are too low margin for Apple to really care that much.
> Where are the muslim moderates at times like these?

Here you go: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/12/arab-world-outrage-...

There is a rather large gulf between "absent" and "absent in the Western media."
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I played Eve in Goonfleet years ago with VR, but didn't know him all that well. Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for doing this.
I don't know that this helps or hurts anything really, what they're really doing (for this example at least) is translating stat lines to text.

It's pretty easy to say something like:

This week's top quarterback was %qb% from the %team1% who had %qbyards% and %qbtds% while playing the %team2%.

The total amount of information is exactly the same, they just use a little NLP to make it sound 'hand written' but display a box score in a easier to read manner.
He filled out the online application as a single founder but he had found Arash by interviews, a few weeks later.
Actually, you are wrong.
Libyans overwhelmingly supported the revolution. My family, friends and family friends are from Libya I just spent a month there this past summer.

These actions have been pretty clearly condemned by Libyans and don't represent the whole country.
But nice try flogging your conspiracy theory.
[EDIT: tptacek is right. Listen to tptacek.]

PBKDF2 isn't necessarily better than bcrypt. But yes, it's a good choice.
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I use GohuFont (http://font.gohu.org/).

It is the best font I've used. I also like Dina (http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/).

Consolas isn't bad either.
I have one too. That clippable top part totally ruins anything else they did to the body for me. It falls off if I even drop the phone lightly on the desk.
No more than Apple's detractors are quick to say things like "No doubt all the Apple fanboys will now be..." :)
Maybe Norway, but are you kidding about America? There are tons of shootings in America all the time. Not all are big mass mutli killings. That's how you know there's a problem, merely 4 people dying probably wouldn't even make the news.

There was recently that one where some white supremicist stormed a sikh temple and shot people. That's just the most recent one in my memory, wasn't that a few weeks ago.
None of what you've said about PBKDF2 vs. bcrypt is true. PBKDF2 is inferior to bcrypt (see Colin's scrypt paper for details), has never had a published design flaw, and is less widely deployed than PBKDF2 (many people think they're "doing PBKDF2" when they iterate a hash function 1000 times).

Having said all that, who cares? Pick one or the other. I'd have exactly the same positive comment regarding the new PHP interface if they had used PBKDF2 with a sane cost. The only harmful decision you can make regarding password hashes is to wait to implement them in order to pick the "best" one.
I just want to ask whether a prototype and customers willing to use the product will be valuable for YC? The problem is we are an unproven team and because YC focuses more on the teams rather than ideas, should we wait for the YC S13 applications? Your take on that?
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PG: are music related products still something you are avoiding? We have found a clever way around the liability and would like to apply with it.
So you are supposed to md5 the results of the password_hash() function before storing them in a database right?
"impressive list of improvements" if you lived in 2010.

Nokia Lumia 920 beats iPhone 5 in pretty much every spec.
Auditing bcrypt (OpenBSD Blowfish) hashed passwords with JtR is much less satisfying than auditing md5 hashed passwords ;) Joking aside, I agree that this is a good move in the right direction.
I hadn't seen that video, thank you! That's an excellent analysis.

On the subject of policing strategies, my feeling is that the relative newness of internet-distributed mobs (and less mobbish but still easily-formed groups) could be a significant factor in the rise in warrantless wiretapping that we're seeing in the U.S. The police recognize that this is a new problem, but they don't have precise strategies to deal with it, so they're left with an imprecise one, which is ubiquitous surveillance. If it's very hard to target individual contributors, you want to cast as wide a net as possible and then sort them out later. My hope would be that strategies for dealing with this will be refined with time and we'll be able to reign in the surveillance too, which has already done a lot of damage.

That's just a hypothesis and it might be refuted by actual cases where members of anonymous groups have been arrested. But the most recent overreaching in U.S. government surveillance does seem to roughly correlate with the increased ease of anonymous group formation.

Well, that or fear of terrorism. It strikes me that destructive 4chan campaigns are an inversion of "terrorism" as it's usually defined. With a terrorist cell you have a small group of people trying to intimidate a much larger group through extreme but limited acts. In an internet campaign like this one, you have a large group of people trying to intimidate one person through a collection of acts which might be fairly innocuous if it were only a single person doing one of them once. The large power imbalance is still there, but turned on its head.

In any case, better strategies to catch up with technology aren't going to solve the basic moral problem, which is how to assign appropriate culpability to individuals who each barely participate in a leaderless action that is massively destructive in aggregate.
Are there credible situations where you would be able to do (2) but not able to simply read the cookie from the DOM and send it to an attacker controlled website?
Different continuous delivery teams do it differently. I don't like having a dedicated QA team/department. QA is an effort, not a role.

The key part of continuous delivery is that the safest change to make to a stable system is the smallest change possible.

So instead of batching up lots and lots of stuff and throwing it over the wall to QA, you make one change, have humans and robots test it, and deploy that change. The mindset shifts from "features per release" to "releases per feature" so with truly friction-less automated deployments, you can release very small changes individually. You don't have to test everything in order to change anything.

As you may expect, multiple layers of test automation are necessary. Each change runs a gauntlet of different kinds of tests before release. A set of "safe to run in production" tests immediately after release. Rollbacks are trivial, but exceedingly rare.

Obviously, this only works in some contexts. If you're pressing things onto gold master DVDs and shipping them in boxes, the QA effort will be more traditional.
For such things I invariably use WriteRoom. I find formatting and futzing with a web app to be built in procrastination mechanisms. It's generally trivial to spend a few minutes copying and pasting once the actual text is done.

http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom
I don't have midget thumbs or the largest fingers but my range of motion pretty much matches his diagrams. I have an iphone but don't operate it one handed enough [1] for this to be remotely a dealbreaker.

[1] If anything I prefer to use the phone two handed and in landscape.
I agree with mseepgood. For a GUI app I likely would always choose the web (HTML, CSS).
Yeah, I'm just saying, the new standard password hash has a simple function signature; it's now easy to take a new PHP codebase and quickly check it to see if they're doing something wacky with passwords.
IonMonkey does loop invariant code motion as well, and of course it's not "naughty", that's a widely used and standard compilation technique. It's also exactly what you want: there are many instances when keeping an invariant statement inside a loop results in clearer code, and there's no reason you should have to realize that and make your code more awkward and less maintainable when it's something the compiler can handle easily.

What it sounds like you're describing is that people are still writing terrible benchmarks. The days of this sort of thing on jsperf being useful are numbered:

function benchmark() {
for (var i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
var result = computationWithNoSideEffects();
}
}

Yes, a good compiler will turn that into a noop. And no, that's not being naughty either. It's just a terrible benchmark.

(also, when using crankshaft, doubles in V8 are unboxed and not allocated on the heap).
This is a great step forward. I wish it was in an object rather than globally scoped methods, but it's nice to have.

Also, in case you didn't know, you can use bcrypt with PHP5.3 and the crypt() function. It's not as user friendly as this, but you can do it.
Raganwald's point is well taken - going out and reading some research is much better than head-butting for karma. But I feel that he's not appreciating the value of informal conversation enough.

First of all, depression is characterized by people who have distorted thinking about themselves and rationalizations for avoiding treatment. So that discussion is going to be necessary to have.

Secondly, it's reasonable to be skeptical about psychiatry and self-help books. The industry is saturated with snake oil. One has to rely on one's own judgment or one would be endlessly drowning in research. Judging books by their cover isn't just appropriate, it's mandatory.

Sometimes literally. One of the best-selling self-help books for CBT depicts a guy with a lobotomized smile floating in a dreamy cloudscape with the title "Feeling Good".[1] When it was prescribed to me I was disgusted. It looks like Stuart Smalley.[2]

But people who made the same mistake were corrected by others who had read research, or had personal knowledge. Which leads me to my last point: head-butting has its place. In the wild, animals who butt heads are doing so to determine which is the stronger, without actually engaging in wasteful combat. Similarly we are often arguing to probe which argument might be better, without fully testing it. It's enough, sometimes, to sense someone's confidence, to see a glimpse of the detail of their knowledge, even if they don't cite anything.

That heuristic is highly exploitable by people who have abnormal abilities to project confidence (aka, "confidence men"). But it's all we've got in a world that none of us have time to fully investigate.

At the very least, in that discussion, I hope people learned they couldn't just dismiss CBT out of hand; intelligent and experienced people had decent arguments for it.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-Handbook-David-Burns/dp/0...
[2] http://schlegelrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/stuart-sm...
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100%. It's not the number or attractiveness of options that make you unfree, it's the guy with the rifle who shoots you if you "quit".
But does "surprisingly good" actually mean "good", or just "not as bad as every other proportional font"?
Remember that it's another ARM based SOC; as a percentage of gates it would surprise me if Apple's input was more than a percent.

I also suspect that most of the speed and power gains come from process improvements.
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Your automatic (unit, functional, system) tests assure stuff doesn't break (too much), and manual QA happens after deploying. If something is broken, you can fix it very fast, since you are deploying continuously.

Stuff might sometimes be broken on production, but you could argue this makes people think twice before pushing to master.

Also, you can deploy to production with a delay (e.g. 1h) and deploy to a QA server first to give the QA people some time to check before stuff goes to production.
Because tmpfs is RAM cached disk (swap) space just like any other filesystem?

Is there some better place than swap to accommodate /tmp?
The level of civility in this thread is great, but I would pay money to see a DEF CON panel debate between you two where you each had to take a shot every 8 minutes. We could get Mikko Hypponen to moderate and pour shots!
I wonder if the CDMA versions are also going to be GSM compatible as the 4S was.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2246544: > Don't incorporate, though, if you can avoid it. It's easier to start with our paperwork than to transfer an existing LLC or S-Corp to a C-Corp.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1778985: > It's not a deal-breaker unless it's botched. The right way to do it would be to use a convertible note written so that YC funding wouldn't trigger conversion. If you have a lawyer who can arrange that. But you'd have to incorporate, and you (and we) would then be stuck with however you did, so we'd hope you did it right.

According to those and other previous comments from him, they prefer it if you leave the incorporation process up to YC, since they specialize in setting up startups, but if you've already incorporated (or even taken funding), it's not a deal-breaker -- unless it's been done in a way that's incompatible with YC investment.
I was hoping that the iPhone 5 would be as exciting as the iPhone 4. I was disappointed.

Things I was hoping for:

- Completely waterproof design: would allow taking photos/videos underwater, and prevent water damage in general.

- NFC: I think a lot of people wanted to see this. I know not many places use NFC right now but Apple has always been a driving force of technology, not a follower.

- Built-in projector: Would make it ridiculously easy to show your photos/videos to friends (just project them on a wall). Would also allow giving presentations on the go (important business use-case).

- Solar panels: for emergency recharging.

- Radio receiver: not only for listening to the radio, but also for developing integrations between the iphone and remote control devices that use radio frequency
Solid device, nothing groundbreaking but catching up with the competition..I am not sure about the form factor though
PBKDF2 is objectively worse than bcrypt, but the difference between them isn't meaningful. The only meaningful choice in password hashes is between PBKDF2/bcrypt and scrypt, which is hardened against gate-level-optimized attacks.
New iEverything except iMac. Come on Apple, we know it's imminent. Just announce the damn thing.
>> My point is that this is a Chinese national who lives in China and has actually worked at the plant. Regardless of journalistic pedigree, the writer is vastly more capable of writing an honest story from the Chinese perspective than a Western journalist or the OP.

I actually agree. What I wanted to point out is for the reader of the story to keep in mind that the writer is a white collar Shanghai journalist, and would inevitably come with his frame of references because of it. For a NYT journalist living in NY, I believe most Western readers will assume a liberal bias, and view the reporting through some lenses, but the sophistication towards China probably stops at the reporter being a "Chinese Journalist".

Sure, the writer is more qualified than you and me, but he didn't answer some critical questions - is this factory above or below average in Chinese manufacturing plants? Is Foxconn raising or lowering labor standards in the area? Is Foxconn providing better alternatives to local labor, who may have to make a living by going down a tunnel in a coal mine or planting rice under the sun? Is having the plant there better or worth than not having the plant there?
The radio is universal CDMA/GSM/LTE.
How is the 'biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone' simply a taller screen and newer processor? What about NFC? Wireless charging? Sorry Apple, but this just isn't that impressive.
I believe I can answer that.

Christian fundamentalists wish to take control of the US society, as well as government. We only have to look towards a religious-economic theory called Dominionism.

Dominionists wish for religious (of their brand) education taught in schools. Not only that, they wish for the 'laws of the land' to represent what they see fit for laws.

Others have discussed the evils of fundamentalist Islam more eloquently than I.

The underlying idea is fundamentalists of all types wish to force their rules, edicts, and etiquette upon others whom do not wish it. Fundamentalists need to be stopped, especially in cases the individuals being forced do not have enough power to defend themselves.

An example: I am effectively a pagan. I have certain beliefs and practices. I do not want to force my beliefs on others, up to and including wearing a pentagram on the inside of my shirt. However, I meet people regularly who try to preach the 'word of christ'. Is your faith that weak that you have to sell it like a used car dealership or auctioneer?

Yet, politically, we have rules enshrined that say one cannot hold state offices if one does does not believe in the "1 true god". Or politically, rules that allow Christians in classrooms but not of other religions. One only needs search google for countless examples.

I don't want other religions to bother me. It's like philosophical spam.
No dedicated Camera button. Apple sacrificing usability for design once again.
I was really hoping for a barometer so I could recruit iOS users to pressureNET. No such luck. Maybe next time.
Once upon a time a good friend tried to convert me to Scientology. That didn't work out so well for our friendship either. All I did was ask to see him levitate...
Are Apple skipping the keynote altogether now, or did I miss something?
Which is why Apple had to sue Samsung so people are no longer allowed to buy that phone. They love users so much they didn't want to see them using a phone where you can't reach the other corner with your thumb.
Wow, I can't believe I missed the Apple announcement today. I've caught every other announcement til now.

It's sad but that just shows little hype there are around this new iphone. =\
No new iPad either. Also no new Mac Pros.
I recommended everyone to watch this TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/leslie_t_chang_the_voices_of_china_...

"In the ongoing debate about globalization, what's been missing is the voices of workers -- the millions of people who migrate to factories in China and other emerging countries to make goods sold all over the world. Reporter Leslie T. Chang sought out women who work in one of China's booming megacities, and tells their stories."
Terminus 10pt. I am done with fiddling around with fonts.