skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always looked at the yc program not as a means to get funds but rather as a sort of exclusive community where you get very good advice for your startup. if money is crucial for starting your business then you might indeed be better of with more traditional VCs.
One of the things that impressed me (we'll see how well it works) is the panorama function. Plenty of cameras have a automatic panoramas but you'd be surprised how cruddy the results tend to be (often very low resolution). It looks like the panorama function generates very high resolution output.
Why does every new phone have to be a fucking revolution? It's a better phone than the last one. If you're not impressed, don't buy one.
TBH, there's almost zero extra annoyance for me. On the day my iPhone 5 arrives, I'll pack up the old connectors in the family misc cables box and never use them again. I'll probably buy two extra connectors, one for the car and one for the office. Overall effort spent: less than twenty minutes and twenty dollars. Definitely worth it by my accounting.
Thinner, lighter, faster, better battery life, and it has a bigger screen. I will take these over NFC and wireless charging any day. Sometimes they are ahead in raw specs (screen ppi), sometimes they are behind (LTE), but everything they include, or don't include, is well thought out. (e.g., at the time of the 4s release 4G LTE phones suffered from terrible battery life)
API Automation is the New SDK
It'll come in late October, along with the new iTunes version.
Then wireless charging and NFC could be counted as mere improvements (of existing features, i.e. cable charging and scanning barcodes) too!
I agree, but I think some of the pressure for accurate estimates come from managers wanting to track employee time.

I had a manager that would pretty much go through the board and ask who did what card so he compare the estimates to the actual time.
And apps :)
Apple's iPhone 5 Uses A6 SoC: ARM Cortex A15s Inside
First, Kansas City is located in Missouri, not Kansas. Second, the point in time which Google was created was an entirely different era of the Internet, Silicon Valley, and the world in general. Third, Google was founded while Sergey and Larry were studying at Stanford University, which I've stated in my other comments, is one of the most optimal places to start a company.... Nearby or on a college campus.
There's a new chipset that does 802.11, NFC and Bluetooth. According to the date of the press release below, this chip was released sometime in June 2012, so obviously not enough time for Apple to integrate in the new iPhone.

http://www.marvell.com/company/news/pressDetail.do?releaseID...
A virus is a piece of information that exploits a security vulnerability in an existing complex system, tricking the system into propagating the virus to its own detriment. Remember the word originally only applied where the target was a living cell. The usage where the target is a digital computer might have been considered a metaphor, but the deep structural similarity outweighs the difference in substrate, sufficiently to merit considering the new usage a valid extension.

Zynga 'games' are viruses that exploit security vulnerabilities in the human mind. The extension of usage is just as defensible as the original extension to digital computers.
Stating otherwise is - frankly - bullshit

Want != may need | so thats a logic fail

Viz, police, armed forces, etc.

Safety-factor is a principle of engineering. The folks that do stupid shit for "sport" do so in every walk of life, with every set of tools. Viz, black-hat...hacking, etc.
Have you even read that? It recommends bcrypt too: http://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm#faq
Oops. I guess it wasn't that hyped, then.
Thanks for the feedback. Seems like we're missing the mark a bit with our story telling. Maybe the audio might have helped. The demo showed a study where the reseracher wanted understand the user behavior of rescue dog owners, maybe to launch a community website for these owners.

The target right now is for people who want to collect a lot of qualitative feedback over time from a select user group. Use cases include beta tests or a screened users from a particular segment (new users, freelancers vs. enterprise, etc.). The goal is to understand user behavior so you can solve real pain points or tweak your value prop to reach them better. One powerful reserach technique is user diary studies (which is where we got our namesake).

We think that user diary studies can be pretty powerful, but they take a lot of time and effort to run. All methods out there are a trade off between ease of use or high maintenance. We want there to be free communication (more qualitative data) yet preserve organization (each user gets their own feed). That way, over time, you get a rich story about Jane, the freelance designer in the midwest, versus John, the cupcake shop owner in Manhattan. Then you can really understand what's driving user behavior for each, and you can take those insights and focus your product accordingly.
Not to mention the politics behind the DSM.
I wonder how this compares to a Microwulf cluster [0] in terms of cost / gigaflop. I'm guessing it isn't very efficient.

[0]: http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/
Your Wikipedia reference begins with "The history of copyright law starts with early privileges and monopolies granted to printers of books." Not 'authors of books'. Printers. Why? Because printing books was expensive, and printers needed some assurance they were going to have a monopoly if they were going to invest the money. How is that in any way contradictory to my statement?
Just to clarify a bit more: Usually you need more (a lot more) code than this on pre 5.5. In particular you can't normally assume that `openssl_random_pseudo_bytes` is available. Instead you'll go through various entropy sources (typically `mcrypt_create_iv`, `/dev/urandom`, maybe COM, with fallback to `mt_rand`).

People often get the salt generation wrong, e.g. by just using a substring of `md5(mt_rand())`, which is obviously wrong (in several respects) :/
Incremental improvement? Yes. Underwhelming incremental improvement? No. Far, far, far from truth.
Don't forget that Start Fund offers every YC startup a $150k uncapped convertible note.
20% lighter - because that was a big problem lugging around that heavy iphone 4.

slimmer - because that thick fat iphone 4 taking up way too much room in my pocket

faster - because my iphone 4 is too slow?

what I'd upgrade for: screen that is readable in direct sunlight or when wearing polarized sunglasses, camera that takes picture the instant I touch the button, better phone reception
(1) You get $150,000 from Start Fund.

(2) As founders, you should NOT be paying yourselves real salary until you raise significant money. Even then, you should be paying yourselves on the order of $50-60K/year, modulo a few edge cases if you have a family, mortgage, etc.
Iphone 5 is the New Iphone
Here is a unique take on skeuomorphism - It mentions that if Apple doesn't eventually steer away, younger users may feel a disconnection with iOS...

http://blog.apptopia.com/discussing-mobile-design-pt-1-apple...

Thoughts?
Hrm, just tested it on Chrome on my Mac and it worked. We're using Launchrock to collect signups. Maybe they were down temporarily? Try again or email us directly at greentealabs@gmail.com. Thanks for your interest!
You made a big mistake: It's now some 700,000+ apps! :)
There is no phone which has everything you need. Everyone has different aspects of things. Maybe the iPhone doesn't fit you. Why don't you buy an WP7/8 if it has those features?

I don't understand what this discussing is helping. It doesn't have one and I'm pretty sure it will never have a dedicated button. I can understand why Apple is not going the way others are going. This is a phone not a dedicated camera, so why would you mix these things? I know the camera these days are pretty good and a lot of people are using only their phones to point-and-shot but I think it would and it is (on different phones) feels wrong to have dedicated button for camera.

This is all my opinion. Others do different views but this mine. I respect every other view.
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And the ones that do have a like-for-like hit rate typically attract people that try to dump trash traffic in the system in the hopes of getting gold back out, or they outright try to scam the system by faking engagement through embeds and other tricks.
There are numerous errors on this chart, so I'll just cover one. Some of the items under the Samsung Galaxy S III are wrong, at least on VZW and AT&T. There are only 16 (AT&T/VZW)and 32 GB (VZW only) versions at $199 and $249, respectively.

Also, the talk and standby times are a total crock [1]. The battery life is great -- slightly less than on par with the 4S.

1. Citation: I own an SGSIII (along with an iPhone 4S) and have tested battery life quite a bit.
What percentage of people sitting on upgrades are now debating just switching to Android?
Something that the FAQ doesn't answer, but probably should: If for some reason my company decides we no longer want to use this service, is there any way to export all of my company's data in a usable format?
Apple Presents "Nothing"
There is a whole spectrum of vision impairments (pun intended) involving
excessive sensitivity to bright light. As you might expect, there is no
single answer to all of them. A lot of people have trouble with white
background and dark text normally seen in applications and on the web.

The best answer is knowing how to configure your software. There's
actually a reason for the ancient phrase "User Agent" which predates the
web by decades; your software should be an agent for you and handle the
details for you much like a Hollywood agent takes care of the details
for a star.

You can configure some web browsers to take care of the pesky details
for you like fixing dark text on white background:

http://www.designtools.org/pix/news.ycombinator.com_w2013for...

For me, with my config, every website looks basically like that. The
web would be nearly unusable for me otherwise.

I can hear the "artistic designer" faction gathering their torches and
pitchforks due to me offending their skilled sensibilities with
something so ugly, but when you have a disability, often your only
choice is between something less cool and nothing at all.
I worry this may be little too politicly provocative for HN, it liable to start an argument between two very passionate sides. (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Does anyone have a link to a none biased look at the science of this? I would like to know a little more.
I think they said it now takes photos 40% faster (or so) than 4S. And that takes photos much faster than my 4.
>How is "new connector" a good thing? It's still not USB.

Well, it's smaller enabling the phone to be thinner, more durable design, can go in either side up, and it's faster.

>Looks like iPhone is playing catchup. How times change!

Catchup to what? Phones with USB chargers?
This has to be one of the most intellectually backwards arguments I have ever heard. It is almost on par with arguments presented by christian fundamentalists.

Being brain-dead is essentially being dead. Hospitals and surgeons will not operate on you unless you are not expected to recover, or regain consciousness. Being brain-dead, it is also very unlikely that you feel pain. Reflexes can easily still be active even with brain-death, leading to convulsions during surgery. If the author had ever seen a serious car-accident victim in a coma, he wouldn't have second thoughts about organ donation. In his blog post, he is insinuating that you are still a normal, living, conscious human being. You aren't.

Having grown up in a family of medical doctors, I find this blog post appalling.

EDIT: As thebigshane pointed out, my wording is indeed terrible, I wrote my response in a hurry, and I will not edit it to avoid confusion. I do not have any professional medical education, all I know in this field is derived from in-depth conversations and discussions with my parents, whom are both medical doctors. Brain death is indeed classified by the Harvard criteria, but these also include the patient being non-responsive to external stimuli, such as pain (which contradicts the blog post's claim of convulsions during surgery due to the lack of anesthesia).
Consumers don't care about product specs, they care about their dreams, goals, and aspirations.

Compare an iPhone commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP1YAatv1Mc

to a DROID commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-K71MpwCko

Apple commercial => fun, likable personality using the product, and benefiting from it.

Droid commercial => OMG uber technology forged from a robot beast with a processor and LTE and a bunch of other stuff. 0 product. 0 benefits.

Droid is selling technology, Apple is selling an experience. It seems so obvious which one a mainstream consumer with no interest in the innards of their phone is going to choose. Google understands this concept, judging by their own marketing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqiSE-ukmgc

Maybe now that they've acquired Motorola they'll knock some sense into their marketing strategy
Not that this is a real solution, but you can lock and swipe up. Two motions instead of one.
bcrypt uses Blowfish as it's block cipher, so an issue with blowfish is an issue with bcrypt. There have been Blowfish problems, like this charset issue: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2483

bcrypt also weakens on long passphrases, since it only uses 55 chars of input.

I'm certainly not suggesting that people not use bcrypt, I'm just surprised that it's the only option.
Wireless charging, finally mainstream!
Oh wait, they DIDN'T include it?
At least I can take good pictures easily with it, you know just press the button no matter what you are doing. No? So this is just a CPU upgrade, wow!
Probably a solid device, a little outdated camera and charging etc, but the apple hype is getting annoying. Every new device is tried to be sold off as the biggest thing ever.

So what is better in the iphone5 than eg a lumia 920 except the "ecosystem" (appstore, millions of apps)?
The lumia is better at least in these:
- nfc
- wireless charging
- best camera phone after the 808
- great inbuilt free gps/navigation
- excellent exchange and MS documents integration (important for business users, not so much for startup kid-wonders of course)
This is hilarious. Well played by Christopher McDonald.
I'll take "more secure" over short and readable any day.
Apple Unveils iPhone 5
There are quite a lot of misguided statements in this article, like you are "alive" because your heart is beating, or you feel pain if they don't give you pain killers. You should be "brain dead" to be an organ donor. And brain dead means dead, no chance or recovery, I am sure there are cases that mistakes happen but that is a mistake, you need to be confirmed brain dead by quite a lot of doctors to get harvested!
Good. Micro USB is an awful connector.
Oh, please tell me about how having a single button for everything provides great UX. Seriously, no back button is what you call great UX?
I am not sure how you can say that, considering the dramatic technical advances over the same period. I mean, there is no way to experimentally show what is cause and what is effect, but to me, the idea that we had this incredible technical progress because a few guys figured out how to better socialize, rather than the other way around (what social and organizational progress we had was enabled and really, made almost inevitable by the incredible technology we developed.) We all have opinions, I guess. I disagree with yours.

Technological progress and building a big business/fortune are not the same thing. At the end of the day, to build a big business or fortune is about convincing people to give their capital to you. People who deal well with people do this the best, by definition.

Social skills are extremely context-dependent. The same attributes and actions that mean you are well liked at the sales meeting will get you the cold shoulder at a sufficiently technical conference.

And if I was working in tech, I would want a relationship manager/account man/business cofounder who was good at dealing with people in both contexts.

Really, a 'business guy' isn't necessarily a social specialist, either. I mean, a lot of what makes a professional a professional is the ability to grab as much of the surplus value in a deal as possible. Being a nice person with a sense of fairness can hold you back at that, sometimes.

My original point boils down to one simple thing - the people who are good at dealing with people are more instrumental to creating big companies and fortunes than the people with technical expertise. Getting the most value out of the deal comes back to dealing with people. Selling the most widgets is about convincing a lot of people. People, people, people.

Does this person have to be nice? Does this person have to be everyone's pal? Not necessarily, no. But such a one does have to be able to get people to do some desired action.

So if you're better at selling to nerds than lay-consumers, make more products for nerds. If you can deal with nerds better, you'll be able to build a better business around serving them.
> Why make a product perfectly suited for NFC, then just not use it in your newest products?

The hardware's not ready yet? After all, the original iPhone was arguably "perfectly suited" for 3G and GPS, though the hardware for those things wasn't ready until the iPhone 3G. Maybe NFC is on the roadmap for iPhone 5S?
>Hospitals and surgeons will not operate on you unless you are not expected to recover, or regain consciousness.

Except when they can cut corners, because "ok, the guy is badly injured, there's some other patient that needs that organ", etc. It's not like they are gonna be extra thorough each time. Humans are known to do that...
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What a brave author. I have to commend their duty to publish this, since there is a good chance it will be quite unpopular. There's been such a homogeneity to Internet published articles recently (whichever factor you wish to interpret, if you agree with this claim). It was refreshing to read someone's perspective on this touchy subject from a completely different perspective. Bravo, author.
You've been pretty disappointed with the iPhone launch it seems. Thanks for letting us all know, Mr.Staunch Apple defender =)
Hands On With The New iPhone 5
This is a great argument. Thanks for the clarification. Storing the salt, algorithm, strength, etc in some standard format would certainly be required for a simplified API like this.
This comparison isn't very useful without display PPI, NFC, thickness, etc.
During the Defcon password cracking contest this year, there were 5,150 bcrypt hashes. In 48 hours, only 76 of them were cracked. In contrast, there were 8,544 plain sha1 hashes, 4,111 of those were cracked. You can see the full list of hash types and how many were cracked here:

http://contest-2012.korelogic.com/stats.html

This is probably the premier password cracking contest in the world. I placed 7th overall and was first to crack most of the TrueCrypt volumes and I despise attempting to crack bcrypt hashes (most sane people do). You really have to try and crack them for yourself to fully appreciate how difficult and slow they are to attack.
"Apple are now seemingly playing me-too with Android/WP7-based handsets"

This seems like it must be a joke, but I read a lot of people saying things like this. The sum of a phone are the features that come with it right out of the box, like little checkboxes to look for, without regard for the quality of their implementations or their usefulness in general. And here of all places, Hacker News, to show such complete disregard for the 3rd party app market (and the quality of their apps). iOS has much, much higher quality apps available in general than either Android or WP7. And while iPhone may not yet have NFC capabilities that the average user probably has little or no use for right now anyway, it does have things like a very nice music player that stomps on Android's. A fucking music player, that's like the first app that both iPhone and Android had, and the one in iOS has always been superior. But somehow iOS is the one playing catch-up.

I just don't understand this new mindset that iOS has fallen behind Android, much less WP7.
!!!

Why is Verizon so popular in the U.S.? I see no (absolutely no) reason why someone should choose Verizon over Sprint... Verizon plans are about a hundred times more expensive.
I haven't found a compelling reason to enable any app in facebook, and I suspect I'm not alone.
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Let's compare this to the changes in Samsung Galaxy S3 compared to the S2:

- Slightly larger screen
- Faster CPU
- Improved camera
- Added LTE
- Faster Wifi
- Added NFC
- Added a couple of sensors
- Better battery life
- Heavier

Not a whole lot different from the iPhone changelist, and I bet it's not a whole lot different from any other phone maker's changelist between generations either.
Samsung Galaxy S3, of course. And has for about four months now. NFC, wireless charging, quadcore processor, and a 4.8" screen all in a lighter, thinner package than the iPhone 5. EDIT I meant iPhone 4
I think the idea of level 6 is not merely an incremental increase in effective IQ -- the internet and smartphones putting most of human knowledge at anyone's fingertips could qualify as that -- but something that fundamentally changes what it means to be human. Defeating obesity, the African AIDS epidemic, or even cancer would be amazing, heroic, and worldchanging, but still wouldn't qualify as changing what it means to be human.
Newly standardized Opus audio codec fills every role from online chat to music
And no iWork ;-(

iWork (for Mac and iPad) are both amazing. So sad iWork for Mac is still called "iWork '09".
Every time I come across "why scrum sucks" articles like these I can quickly point the problem: the ScrumMaster.

#1 - Iterations are less efficient than pull-based approaches: A good ScrumMaster keeps an eye on the burndown chart and negotiates with the stakeholders and team to either add or remove tasks from a sprint. My first sprint ever as ScrumMaster, we estimated a 3 months project, we did everything in 2 sprints (1 month)

#2 – Iteration planning meetings were wasteful: You are doing them wrong. A good scrum master keeps everybody focus on one user story at a time and keeps the meeting moving. I use a 3 min stopwatch in my phone. The whole meeting should not take more than 1 hr (I do 30-45 mins estimate new stories, the rest to plan and commit team to next sprint)

#3 – Scrum is highly disruptive in established organizations: A good scrum master servers as a bridge between traditional management and keeps them out of the team's backs. This one is the reason I don't like being ScrumMaster anymore. A good ScrumMaster needs great people skills, I rather write code.
Are there any good websites that cover non-software startups? As a physical scientist/engineer in training, I am more interested in the "physics or advanced materials" type of startups mentioned in the article.
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We just released our new feature, TalentMash two hours ago. It let's you import your best friends so you can rate their talents.

Any feedback is highly appreciated! Questions too of course. :)