skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if the eNotate software is magically unhackable, it sounds like there's no verification during the tournament that players are actually running eNotate instead of something else with the same appearance. The best way to cheat would be to write something that looks like the eNotate UI to a casual observer, but that doesn't have any of its security measures. The custom software could take the moves as it gets them and feed them into Fritz, giving hints when some secret button is pressed.
Assuming you wear light or silky undergarments and there is no constant air flow/current in the room:

1. Take off your undergarment. No one else is there, you don't need it anymore.

2. Tear apart your undergarment into as many small pieces as you can. Use your teeth if necessary. Let them dry to prevent clumping later. Make it an odd number to prevent you biasing the results, later.

3. Stand up straight. Place your feet together. Cup undergarment fragments in your hands at chest level.

4. Extend your arms, still cupping the fragments. Keep the center of your cupped hands on your plane of symmetry (in line with point at which your feet meet).

5. Drop fragments.

6. A. If more fragments land on the right side of the plane of symmetry, write 1.

6. B. If more fragments land on the left side of the plane of symmetry, write 0.

7. Repeat as many times as necessary for the number of random bits required.

Upside: you can do this in the dark (problem did not mention if a light source was readily available or not).

-- e.w.t.
Hopefully Google releases a Google Maps app into the App Store, like they did with YouTube. Apple Maps looks like a major regression from Google Maps.
There are many. The easiest answer is being able to run iOS apps -- which for many overrides almost anything else. Another is deep integration with Macs and AppleTV -- that solves real problems for me that (for example) wireless charging does not -- it's better, but not along a vector I care about (i.e. would make a decision on or pay for).

Even just counting hardware, a giant battery and a much better processor enable a lot of use cases. Does the S3 have three mics, equivalent WIFI speed, as good a camera?
It's sad to see this on the front page of HN.

It's a cheap laugh, and certainly not "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Javascript just makes the attack faster, but it can be accomplished with raw html. Cookies are required though; it's what you are after when using this attack.
> Well, to be fair, NFC is capable of two way communication where scanning a barcode is one way communication.

OK, then NFC is just a slightly improved Wifi+Bonjour.
Chrome Killed UserScripts.org
Yawn. Looks like a taller iPhone 4 with an ugly back. Looks like Apple have stopped innovating, I guess the patent litigation industry is more profitable for them these days.
I am Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, ask me anything
Sorry Apple, but this just isn't that impressive.

You know what? Just like any startup that posts here, Apple is filled with real people who take real pride in what they do, and I can imagine that for any of the thousands of folks who worked really hard on designing this product and manufactured to absurdly low variances, the sentiment you just expressed was deeply hurtful, and, in fact, wrong. There's a lot to be impressed by here. Lots of tiny details that aren't captured on a feature checklist.

If you don't like it, don't buy it. Don't sling shit publicly on their announcement day because your pet features weren't included (1).

1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4357133
Hopefully projects like this will fill the void. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/228865951/transit-app-fo...
With Android, the back button's a case of mystery meat navigation: App developers are able to override the button's behavior to implement their own semantics for the "back" command, which means that for the end user its behavior is unpredictable.

The standard on iOS is to implement navigation buttons in software as needed. Done right, this is better UX, because different apps can provide different navigation buttons to support different navigation schemes.

iOS's One Button to Rule them All also behaves different ways in different contexts, but the way it behaves is fairly easy to learn because it's consistently linked to the screen's visual state.

In short, neither is terribly great UI. But I think this is one of those cases where which one is worse is entirely dependent on which one you're more used to.
Through diagnostic tests (each disease has tests associated to standardize the results and make it more objective) and differential diagnosis.

I don't have any names off the top of my head, but see something like the Apgar score to get an idea of what would go into evaluating a person's presented traits. For example depression has a series of question that identify a risk score and a threshold for treatment.

Some further reading if you are interested

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_diagnosis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_diagnosis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP_note
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apgar_score
Or in this case; short and readable is more secure because attack vectors, like generation of salts, are wrapped inside the new API.
When your brain is 'working' it gives off signals, these are measured by an electroencephalograph (EEG). When those signals stop, you know the brain isn't functioning.
Front lit display was a me too feature (nook; kobo both had it).
They're not sockets, they're WebSockets, and they require a custom HTTP server setup just to open a socket connection to a service.

This means that I can't do something that should be really simple -- like open a VNC connection to a remote server -- without first configuring an HTTP WebSocket proxy.
I was hoping for some discussion of the new OS and phone's impact on development instead of a Droid/iPhone flame war since I've just started developing my first iOS app. What's the biggest impact to iOS developers? The only one I can think of is a new aspect ratio.

Update:
Discussion on Quora: http://www.quora.com/iOS-Development/From-a-developers-persp...
The original iPhone was a clear discontinuity: doubled the screen size, relied solely on a capacitive touchscreen and on-screen keyboard. The iOS market that arrived with the iPhone 3G was the first of its kind and a huge hit. The arrival of a serious GPU in the iPhone 3GS likewise changed the game for slick native UIs and all smartphones since have had one. The 800x480 resolution on the Nexus One enabled new kinds of apps (for the first time matching the anglular pixel size available to a person sitting very closet to a monitor) and the Retina display in the iPhone 4 completed that process. Most recently the dual core A9 SoCs in phones like the Atrix and 4S have become requirements.

Note that all of those features are required for a modern smartphone, and almost all of them were driven first by an iPhone release.

The iPhone 5 just isn't like that. There's nothing "new" here that we'll expect to see later on in other phones. It's just more of the same, but slightly better.
Check out http://deployd.com/ It's very well done.
but a properly calibrated barometer is WAY more accurate than GPS. 10 years ago I could track a two meters offset (that's the difference between your head and your feet!).
Right. And when Apple creates hype, people for some reason buy into it. In droves.

I don't understand why so many people blame Apple for this.
On Anandtech's live blog it was said that the maps demoed did not match the maps in beta. I think they specifically said he checked and there was no Big Ben 2 days earlier on beta.
I agree, so much so that I started working on something for Python after seeing this.
Agree. Take the wrong co-founder and you will regret for a long time.
That is exactly what I was going for. Basic algorithm yourself to help people understand the math but you wouldn't want to use this code in a production system.

In fact I perform the vast majority of my statistical analysis in R.

Ruby is just a fun language to implement basic statistical algorithms in and it the Ruby community as a whole doesn't hasn't put a lot of emphasis on stats.
With three kids I am excited to go home and spend time with my family anyway. I am trying to stay focused on my work when I am in the office.

Overall I agree with Mike. Well written post.
I have always been impressed by Apples products (I use them to earn a living after all) & was planning to upgrade my tired old iphone 3G to an iphone 5...but now I'm having second thoughts.

When a friend handed me his S3 I immediately felt a little wow'd by the screen size, responsiveness & general look / feel of the phone, this new iphone does not look like it will give me the same "wow factor".

I am extremely disappointed that Apple have not worked harder to improve the battery life, it has been & remains pathetic, primarily for this reason I will not be buying an iphone 5.

Come on Apple, I want to give you my money - but please start putting some creative innovations back into your products, if you cannot do that then at least give us a phone with a battery which can last for a full / busy day.
Would 64 Raspberry Pis actually be faster than a single current Intel CPU? Just asking... it probably was a fun project anyway...
No. I'm advocating to booking a mechanic to make sure that the car is repaired properly. The fact that it is a light bulb does not matter. Then you wonder why people dont want to hire you to build them "just a website."
Won't help in this case.
So it knows when you change floors for indoor maps?
I said 3 founders at their day jobs would make >= $20k/month. Not that I would pay each of them that much.
For me it was that my original iPhone contract was finally up and I could get 3G. Is that the one with gyroscope? -- Jobs playing Jenga during the keynote?
The code he posted has different vulnerability; i.e. SQL injection.

Your password could be ultra-secure, but it doesn't matter if you use that code without sanitizing inputs :)

I guess the reason he is being downvoted is; badly hashed passwords are not merely a newbie problem...
Your just outright wrong. All of the companies that design SoC's put a heck of a lot of work into the design of the chip. Saying that it's mere packaging is simple mindedness at it's best.
Code what well?
Go ahead, but post you're numbers...
YC will make it extremely easy to incorporate, so do that if you can.
I did look at GSL :). I decided to write it by hand because I wanted to help people understand the underlying math. I find that too many people use libraries without understand the math which can become problematic especially when performing statistical analysis.

Thanks for pointing out GSL. I appreciate the feedback.
I have to agree with the part of this about Sheldon and his being scripted as behaving like someone with a disorder on the PDD spectrum such as Aspergers and this being seen as something to laugh at.

This acceptance of laughing at those with disabilities such as autism spectrum disorders - the popularization of using the term "RETARD" as an insult - pervades American society.

Yet when people do this they normalize the abuse and victimization of people who do fit clinical descriptions of retarded, or who do have disabilities that lead to them riding the short bus to school.

As someone with an autistic 9 year old I can tell you for a fact that mainstreaming is the hardest part of dealing with his disorder, and as his peers get older, they're increasingly aware that it's okay to use terms like retard, short bus, and the rest as forms of insult - just a joke, just humour - because they see adults and often parents and authority figures doing the same.

Getting back to the BBT. I studied Physics at university. I work in Silicon Valley. I'm now a 40 year old man and very comfortable with where I am in life and who I am. I liked the BBT when I first saw it for the same reasons. It was well observed in places and I enjoyed the playful stereotypes. But I just drifted away from watching it for similar reasons to the OP. It is really just laughing at nerds with lazy humour and makes it safe for dumbed-down mainstream America to continue its anti-intellectual bent, and remain comfortable in ignorance. This plays well for advertisers and those who want us to not take science too seriously when it goes against the desires of political or economic power-brokers, and people who want to stay tuned to TMZ while their lives meander past them without them even noticing.
Probably more than that, I would imagine there are plenty of Android devices that don't phone home. (Kindle Fire, for instance)
Faster, slimmer, lighter and longer lasting - yes, these are really good updates in a small piece of equipment that iPhone 5 is, there's no denying that.

But what really irks me is the way Apple marketing team is hyping it up - "This is the best <insert iDevice> we have ever made!", "This is revolutionary!", "This will change everything you were doing before!"...
A slathering of these so often during the entire event and then on with their advertisements makes me cringe and shake my head with disappointment. This iPhone and the iPod[x] are pretty much an iteration and minor upgrade, not what the actual 'revolutionary' things were - iTouch, iPhone, iPad, retina display, etc.

I don't expect 'revolutionary' every year or any time, I just expect some sincerity announcing.
IPhone 5 vs Nokia Lumia 920–specs
Its not the same thing. You are comparing a live closed system (brake lights have live 12 volt wiring) to a open circuit that you can switch off at at least two points.
I had to sign (hit accept on a webform) an agreement when I started at my university that said the university would own any intellectual property I produced using university resources. Which I am to assume is just to cover them for anything I create for assignments.

I am not sure on exact details of the agreement, as this was just under a year ago now and having asked for the agreement since I haven't been provided with a copy of it.
At the very least the author insinuated some wildly inaccurate claims regarding organ donation. That's not my definition of bravery.
For auto-composting (not sure how micro you need to go...), we're thinking of using Black Soldier Fly Larvae to process the compost and auto-harvest into the fish tank for a snack for the fish. Another option is using earthworms, and manually (eventually automatically) harvesting them into the fish tanks, thus recycling one's food scraps back into food.

As far as blight and mold, those problems have been identified and solved with greenhouse and hydroponics growing. The key to these problems and other diseases is to make it easy to prevent, or failing that, treat those diseases. But again, this is a solved problem.
That's a good explanation why the device has FM radio built in. One of the target segments must be people who use it with TV audio at gyms and similar.
Was Arash central to choosing to invest? What I mean is do you think you would have passed if he hadn't found a co-founder by the interviews?
Larger screen is a "new feature" since we are talking about hardware. LTE would be a new feature as well. Not having a big piece of glass on the back seems like a new feature too (my iPhone 4S has had a cracked back for a couple of months). I know this may seem silly, but a new dock connector that is symmetrical and is easier to plug in without looking is a new feature as well. Also, something about a panorama camera, but I wouldn't call that a BFD)
Good point that we should mention this in the FAQ. You can export in plaintext and PDF easily.

(And I know you can export your personal entries as CSV but I'm not actually 100% certain about companies -- but you definitely should be able to and it's something we'd help you with.)

It's absolutely our belief that the data is yours.

Thanks to gsmaverick to answering as well.
, = . (and vice-versa) in some European countries. So he meant 500k + apps.
So, it's Acme?
or well not per se acme, but plan9 terminal style.
>People often get the salt generation wrong

Yep. Can't wait for GoogleGuy's php-doc changes to get in, then I could downvote suggestions like this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.hash.php#101987
Sprint users get free access to Verizon's network until 2016.
Definitely. Many of our members tell us that they read their morning email on their phones in bed, and it gives them a little boost to go out into the world and accomplish great things.
Cool, it's different from other shells out there. I am still waiting on TermKit to become 1.0. https://github.com/unconed/TermKit#readme
I totally agree that Ruby + R makes a great data toolbox. I use Ruby + R for almost all of my day to day exploratory data analysis work.

As far as python goes I think python has become more popular simply because it has more community around data applications. Unfortunately a lot of people view ruby as just Rails. I think academia's adoption of python has also helped it grow into a data analysis language.

Really any MR you do with python you could do with Ruby as it all uses hadoop streaming.
Nitty Gritty Advice on Raising Venture Capital
You could try calling Big Apple Pizza in Fort Pierce florida and try to get in touch with him that way. Frame it that you want to talk to him about a donation to his charity but have been unable to contact him, then once you get a hold of him, explain what the actual donation is.

If you try to go through his employees by saying you want to redo his website, they'd probably be less susceptible.

Just a thought - good luck, that's a rather noble endeavor of yours.
After I played with the iOS 6 beta for a bit, and noticed the lack of transit and 100 other things, I got rid of my iPhone and bought an Android. Android maps are amazing, and I use it so much it makes up for the general lack of polish that you get with iOS. Though, to be fair, iOS maps have been getting better as it gets closer to release.
I was watching the video:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/#video

And at about 3:35 when they're showing the step-by-step driving directions and I was like WTF:

Super attention to every detail, state-of-the-art everything, and then that scratchy godawful synthesized computer voice comes on and it's sounding slightly worse than my Amiga back in the 1980's... srsly Apple...
Building a site bookmarking service using python and phantomJS
You are born with the rights to your soul, otherwise you wouldn't be able to contractually give it up.
Here's a treasure chest of examples and explanations:

http://www.quora.com/What-startup-homepages-are-most-simple-...
Nanex ~ HFT Inspired Music
Http://www.lomography.com/
Depending on the type of company and product that they offer. Seed rounds are also made by institutional investors who require much more legal documentation than a non-disclosure agreement. IF you're thinking an Angel round from a friend or family type of investment that I would agree that it's not absolutely necessary. However to say that it's almost never used is too much of a far reaching comment. I've signed and agreed to verbal non-disclosure to engage in the due diligence process. Perhaps you misunderstood Seed Stage vs. an Angel investment. The funds listed that invest as "angels" syndicate and engage in a full due diligence process.
Indeed, it does improve the story by not just leaving you with a niggling sense that something is wrong with each character, but instead opens the realization that each is, in fact, a textbook-perfect example of that wrongness - dissected, analyzed, quantified and classified as such. It's a great improvement for those of us hyperanalytical geeks now inclined to re-watch the 4-hour director's cut with the DSM IV list in hand and finding every instance where each defining point is exemplified. (And then go meta by wondering where in the DSM IV such a hyperanalytical geek is so categorized.)
Okay, point taken. But I guess I spend so much time around a computer, I carry my laptop with me most places, that I honestly don't ever find myself with a desire to do things like rsync files and folders.

For me, a mobile phone is not a replacement for a computer. There are a number of things that I can do on a phone now that I couldn't do 10 years ago.. but there are a ton more things that I hope I never have to do on a phone. There are already plenty of things that phones do now, in their race to out-feature one another, that I think are just plain retarded as fuck. Do I want to watch a movie on a 4" screen? Fuck no. That sounds like the most awful cinematic experience imaginable.

I own a Galaxy Nexus right now, and I think it's a really nice phone except for a few things that drive me nuts (like the music player being awful). I used to use an iPhone 3GS, and everyone at work has iPhone 4 or 4S, and I think the iPhones just feel like nicer phones. Better quality cameras, generally nicer apps with it (with the obvious exception of maps.. Android's navigation feature has been the one thing I loved better about it for years), nicer designs in general, etc.

It's all about what you get out of the phone though. The two apps that I use the most are music and maps/navigation. That's been kind of an issue for me since Android has had the nicer maps app, but iPhone had the nicer music app.
i've never had any trouble with my battery life while i have friends with android phones that say the lte drains it in 1.5 hours. I'm not sure what you are hoping for, but i don't think switching from apple is going to help your battery life.
Forever idling on Gamesurge.
Before I actually experienced depression first hand I might have made a comment pretty similar to yours.

Before you actually experience the sapping, frightening, frustrating, even debilitating condition that is depression, it is easy to stand on the sidelines and make all kinds of logical arguments and find bits and pieces of research supposedly supporting any particular viewpoint, for or against.

I would even have been quite judgemental about the character of people claiming they had depression. After all it just in the mind isn't it? Pull yourself together, get some exercise, eat a healthy diet, would have been my advice. I would also have been missing the point completely. Those are of course all good things to do and will help with depression. The point, is that depression makes you almost incapable of doing these things. Until you experience, either in your own self of through someone very close to you, the full manifestation of depression, you just actually don't have a clue.

You are a virgin trying to talk about sex. You may think you know the theory, you may be very widely read, but you are still a virgin.

Depression is a highly complicated and very subjective condition that cannot easily be diagnosed. It is far from scientifically understood. No one knows exactly why certain drugs work or don't work. This just makes it harder for the sufferers, who often have to undergo all sorts of different drugs/treatments to find one that works for them, that is if they are lucky enough to actually find a treatment that works.

I personally was lucky to find a treatment that worked. It was a combination of CBT and drugs. You can call it placebo effect, you can call it anything you want but for me it works.

I personally know 4 other people who suffer or suffered from depression. 2 of them recovered without drugs after many months, 1 without any treatment and 1 with the "wrong" treatment, i.e. tranquillisers. The third person, like me responded to CBT and drugs, albeit different drugs. The 4th person is not fully cured and suffers bouts. Any amount of different drugs and treatments have not completely controlled the condition.

I am not even sure why I am posting this, other than to try raise awareness that Depression is not simple, it can happen to anyone and often happens to highly intelligent, motivated people as well as your average Joe.