skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The server sends a challenge to the client. The client computes response = f(challenge, password), and sends the response. Then the server compares the response with its own computation of f(challenge, password). Since f is some type of hash function, we can assume that the client knew the actual password, as it would have been too hard computationally to come up with the correct response without it.

In such a scheme, the keychain can do the computation and the password never leaves the keychain. We can even go as far as to have the keychain be separate hardware (eg USB dongle), so the password never even has to exist on the client's computer at all.
Its probably more about morale than marketing. Getting employees to experience and enjoy the company's products is very important. Also, they might build more apps for WP and Win8 in their spare time. But 90K people...isn't really enough to make a huge impact, perhaps the ~40K in Redmond/Bellevue, but the effect would dilute quickly as you approached downtown Seattle from the eastside.

Edit: morale vs. moral
AeroPac team takes out Carmack Prize at ARLISS launch at Black Rock
Definitely still bogus. They have to test webapps on iPads somehow.
webOS had some ugly bits under the hood that probably would have required cleanup.

This would have been great if webOS was in a form ready to be adopted by Mozilla or someone else.

As it stands, open webOS has still yet to ship (hopefully soon). Most likely because it has taken this much time to untangle the non-open bits.

Even though I understand the reasons why, I'm still extremely bummed that this effort does not cover the Pre3 (or phone based device). Which means people will not be able to go back and retroactively fix a lot of the unfinished bits on the phones.
Here are the details:

This is our notice of a successful attempt to claim the Carmack Prize for an amateur flight above 100K'. Our flight on Tuesday 9/11/2012 reached 104659' AGL as verified by both the onboard Beeline GPS as well as APRS telemetry from the airframe that was streamed in real-time to the APRS database. The flight track for the sustainer is at KG6DLV-4 and the booster is KG6DLV-5 at aprs.net.

The airframe is a two-stage, minimum-diameter design. Construction is primarily of commercially-available fiberglass components with carbon-laminated fins.

Architecture: Two stage minimum diameter - 4" booster to 3" sustainer

Motors: Commercial motors. Aerotech N1000 in booster staging to Aerotech M685 in sustainer. 25 second total burn time.

Total impulse: 21,650 ns

Length: 126"

Pad weight: 61 lbs

Avionics: (Raven+RDAS, Beeline GPS (70cm APRS), GoPro2 + WiFi BacPac) replicated in booster and sustainer
Payload: Smartphone+sensors with 2m APRS telemetry
Launcher: 12' rail

We flew at Black Rock, NV, during the AeroPac ARLISS and XPRS events, September 11, 2012. We had full recovery of the airframe within 6 hours - both booster and sustainer. We flew the same stack today, Thursday 9/13/2012 on an N1000 staging to a CTI M840. However, the CTI motor failed - while it burned completely it generated no thrust. The airframe was again recovered intact and flight ready. We intend fly again with a replacement sustainer motor on Saturday 9/15/2012 and plan to again webcast the video of the launch as well as real-time telemetry of the flight from the AeroPac web site (www.aeropac.org).

Ken Biba - Team/Technical Lead

Casey Barker - Project Manager

Erik Ebert

Becky Green

Jim Green

David Raimondi

Tom Rouse

Steve Wigfield
Sequoia should take out or redesign the leaf in their mark. It looks like cannabis and conflicts with their image.
Shame on Apple for building something light.

Why is it a bad thing that they've innovated to the point where they can get the level of quality they're happy with and lowering the weight?
> they allow me to get a lot more done and they also keep me entertained/informed when there's nothing else to do.

That makes sense for you then.

I've heard people make snide remarks at me when I am out and need to find the nearest restaurant "why don't you get a smart phone, it would be so much easier". They are basically advocating paying hundreds more for a phone, and then, $40 for a data plan every month, so that 2 or 3 times a year I can find directions when I am lost.
I read your first version and didn't think it was particularly off topic, but then again I can meander all over the place when it comes to discussions.
I can't say for certain on the number of tech vs non-tech startups and it varies depending on what each person's take of a startup is. So putting that aside, what I can say is I that not every startup is tech base, even if a large number are being covered here. For example, I think of Zappos (although fairly no longer a startup by any means) as a shoe company. Not a tech company. They merely utilize tech to run their business. Some startups are very tech centric. Some utilize tech to run. And there are a range of everything in between. I think because of the community, HN tends to clearly have a lot of tech related startups covered but there certainly are a number of non-tech businesses out there.

What industries are you interested in?
There's a different dock connector.
There is also S4: http://incubator.apache.org/s4/
I use web dev tools pretty hard, and I end up using both Chrome and IE Web Dev tools. They both have their strengths when you get to know them.
That's nonsense. So long as we're talking about the mechanics of the idea, which is implicit when talking about a business plan, then yes, you most certainly can invalidate an idea. Just because people would like to have something doesn't mean you can either produce that or make money selling it at the price point they'd like to buy it at.

I'd like a hand-cranked machine that takes my daily garbage and spits out Ferraris in under 10 minutes and I'd like to pay $5 for this machine. I'm sure I can demonstrate demand quite easily. Will you fund it?
The fact that the links says nothing about power or memory management worries me.

Those two things IMO were major things affecting webOS. Pretty much all the phone devices shipped with insufficient memory.

And given that Fx OS is JS, HTML etc. based, those things have a tendency to chew up a fair bit of mem. Throw in a JIT and suddenly you are in a mem swap situation (which is definitely not batt friendly).

So, yeah I would like to see more docs about how those are going to be addressed.
Google Finally Adds Do-Not-Track Support in Chrome
$5 Million Bitcoin-backed Ponzi Scheme Mastermind Disappears
I hope Fiddler benefits from the backing. It is a great tool. But will it remain free?
It could be as simple as an energy tradeoff. Our brains already consume a significant fraction of our daily calories, having them work harder might not improve our reproduction results sufficiently to balance the increased risk of starvation.
I want to believe your statement, but could you share some references for it?

I mean, some clue that education has been the driving force in the growth of east asian countries, rather than internal/external factors of other kinds.
Battle of the Smartphones: iPhone5 vs Samsung Galaxy S3 vs Nokia Lumia 920
Playing devil's advocate:

"Pick the one thing that is of burning importance to the customer then delight them with a compelling solution."

"Customers will only buy a simple product with a singular value proposition."

What about iPhone, probably the most profitable product of the last 5 years? Is it really that focused?

I don't think that many people in 2006 would have said: my phone is not enough like a computer. I would have said that cell phone call quality and battery life sucks, so give me something that will hold charge for a week, has the quality of a land line, is ultra light, small, can be dropped, etc. That would have been focused.

Steve Jobs said it was 3 products I think... it's a phone, an ipod, and a computer in your pocket. It's this thing where you can play music, surf the web, call your friends, text them, take notes, download apps, and the interface is better than predecessors because you can use your finger.

Not to say their advice is wrong... it's just that thing kind of advice is applicable in limited ways. It sounds like conventional wisdom, and isn't one of their points to challenge conventional wisdom? :)
Without ActiveSupport I'd probably type something like this:

%w(top left width height).reduce({}) { |memo, pos| memo[position] = @element.style[position] and memo }
You're absolutely right. Like I said, it's a good exercise. A business plan that works on paper is, roughly speaking, a necessary but insufficient condition for success. So as such, you shouldn't bring it to a meeting with an investor or whatever and present it as proof that your business will work. The only thing it proves is you can dream up some numbers that result in an up-and-to-the-right graph.

What proves a business works is traction and revenue. Walking into Sequoia with "I've thought really hard about my startup and I'm pretty sure it'll work," is far less compelling than "my business is currently working and I need your money to scale it."
This was a naked fraud from day zero. These victims should get some kind of Darwin award.
I completely agree, if your point of view or style of reply doesn't fit into the Quora mindset, it'll get downvoted or blocked. It seems they don't really like when you don't think like them.
My advice is AdBlock would have been a honest tool if the users were allowed to block the ads on a site when they are annoying rather than unblock them on a site when they are not - that rarely someone does.
The Zune desktop app is actually (still!) pretty popular with employees.
Does the SPDY spec require TLS compression? IIRC, TLS is needed. Hence, SPDY+http compress+no TLS compression is workable, no? It's not ideal but would still work...
"but this time I'm going to refrain"

Refrain from what?

Damning him with faint praise and labelling him a cult elder seems pretty cynical to me.
Some of us would still like that kind of phone. :-)
Ummm... i'm pretty sure that the devs over at DropBox know their JavaScript inside and out. These "rules to master" are in no way complex to understand.
I think the vast majority of what Apple does would be considered "safe".

But to me, where you see safe I see refined. They focussed on building them better. They focussed on putting in the different radios, better/larger screen, while keeping consistent battery life. While making it smaller.

Just because there's no NFC (of arguable real-world usefulness, and I'm sure that's not what you're talking about anyways) doesn't mean its not innovative.

Apple doesn't really innovate on hardware features very often. They put capacitive touch in the mainstream with the original iPhone. They pushed HiDPI displays into mainstream with the iPhone 4. They redefined the tablet computer form-factor with the iPad.

Why change a great thing?
You would be able to buy a cable for $2 and share it with other phone users?
WTF that project is awesome and doesn't even have a page on Wikipedia?!?!?

I don't get it... what's the point of creating awesome software if you don't even make the effort to put the links out to help people find it?
"Good developers concentrate on building things. Bad developers concentrate on how much they like their tools."

serious lol
Animals Play | A fun app for your kindergarten kid
And have another port on the phone for anything other than charging?
There's fewer affordances for interaction, yet the screen is always visible. Huge win if the software guess correctly that you want to see something, potentially quite annoying if not. I've never used a Glass though, this is just based on watching videos of it.
>If the phone needs a case then it wasn't properly designed

I agree, but the iPhone 4 has no edges to hang onto. Maybe I'm clumsy but I think they are too slippery hence I put it in a case so I can get it in and out of my pocket with out dropping it.
What a poor article. Some responses:

> [..] Ghostery appears to be the ultimate do-not-track plugin.

Then it's not evil, is it? If you have to manually opt-in by installing an add-on, how can it be evil?

> AdBlock silently removes all advertising and social buttons

AdBlock exists because users got fed up of massively intrusive advertising. If advertisers had thought a little more long term, AdBlock would be a dead project.

> What makes me angry about the AdBlock plugin is that the author – while happy to destroy our revenue stream – is also profiteering from the very same free content model by asking for PayPal donations when the plugin is installed. Talk about hypocrisy.

Asking for money via a different route other than advertising is not hyprocrisy.
IPhone 5 may need third antenna for simultaneous voice-data
The author claims that Adblock asking for donations is hypocritical. It is not. Hypocritical would be if the Adblock+ website had advertisements which were automatically whitelisted [1]. This is just asking for money for a useful tool, which is where the internet is headed.

[1] I seem to recall this actually happening for a plugin, but couldn't find it.
You're missing the point. They didn't learn on the best bikes.
Well, yes, that makes sense.

But -- it seems so scary (even crazy) to start a business without a concrete "idea". Like getting onto a boat and launching into the ocean to "see what happens."

All the "startup" articles scream the accepted wisdom that you will have to change your original idea many times (pivot, pivot pivot), so I believe it is true.

I suppose it needs to evolve, just like a kid growing up needs to go through wanting to be a firefighter and then an astronaut and so on until he/she finds what she really wants to do.

But that means the "original idea" that helps you hire the core team and raise funding is really just a "cover story", and the founder is either (a) fooling himself with his own cover story, or (b) fully aware that it is just a cover story that he uses to bring in others.

Is it really that way? I suppose it is, and I suppose the VC's know it better than the entrepreneurs do. But wow, it is a paradigm change for me.
No problem! That location is fine. I'm sure I'll find my way there... :-)

By the way, do the Starbucks / McDonald's in Kyoto and Osaka provide free WiFi? Just trying to figure out where to get some free Internet while I'm away from my hotel.
This article conveniently ignores that advertising is a flawed revenue model in the first place, seeking to attack people who want to access content without being annoyed - this a natural market reaction. People don't want to be tracked, they don't want intrusive irrelevant ads, but they clearly want to access content.

I think AdBlock, NoScript etc. are symptoms of consumers reactions to this flawed revenue model, not attacks on content creators. Content creators need to either find some other way to monetize, or else accept that this is the risk they undertake by monetizing through ads.

Maybe a better way would be to draw down revenue directly from ISPs, since people access the internet to view this content and ISPs can track which IPs a given user points at. That does put us on dangerous ground with respect to net neutrality.
As long ad ad networks contine to try their hardest to track me online I will still unapologetically use these extensions. Maybe that all these things exist should show you where the real problem is.
nessus42: I got my SB from MIT in Philosophy. MIT's Philosophy program is considered to be in the top few in the country, as is its Linguistics. I was taught creative writing by Joe Haldeman, photography in dark rooms that had been built by Minor White, psychology by Susan Carey, etc.

I normally don't call people out. But You're a MIT Philosophy Major spouting off. You know how bad these arguments are. This is my problem. With this type of background there is no excuse. I'm happy to give the benefit of the doubt to a normal HN reader who may be lacking in technicals or experience. English as a second language. But these argument forms are rhetorical garbage.

I'm not sure in what decade you were at MIT. Maybe that is the problem. Maybe these simple-by-modern-standard ideas, techniques, and technologies are beyond than your training in photography? You owe more to the HN community than that. You owe everybody here some intellectual honesty.

This is the 21st century. We are deconstructing perception and re-constructing it image by image, pixel by pixel. And tools and techniques that have been field tested for two decades. With cognitive psychology in mind. Its a long way from Minor White's Darkroom. These are now the tools of the Documentary photographer.[1]

I happen to have first-hand experience with this. Years worth of training. In school and in the field.

I don't need to "argue" a point when demonstrating or illustrating a standard technique, it's superflous. You confuse actual experience with an "affected air of authority."

The point of my contribution on this thread is to share some experience. So, if nothing else, people can talk more precisely. About what they are looking <at>. I'm not hear to rain on a parade about what people do or don't <see>. Images are ultimately viewed for there enjoyment regardless of provenence.

Time for more enjoying.

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[1] A Rigorous and interdiscilinary book, written by a Philosopher: The Objective Eye: Color, Form, and Reality in the Theory of Art (Oxford, 2006)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Objective-Eye-Reality-Theory/dp/02...
I can say this for, say Reddit, as well. My point is that these are anecdotes.
Overhead measurement in Java. Not an easy question to answer.
It's true that manipulating the DOM is easy. The template thing makes more sense and becomes somewhat of a necessity when you write apps with data binding. As with about any framework, you can definitely do the same thing by just hand-rolling everything. But you wind up writing a pretty significant amount of custom code for every page. Using a framework you trade off highly efficient (but one-off) code for something that is more re-usable.
Kinda weird to see Apple fans defend them for their newfound stolid conservatism when they earned their reputation on their willingness to break eggs to make a better omelette.

In today's backwards world it's boring old Microsoft that's really sticking its neck out and thinking different.
Also:

Almost weirdly light, to my oh-so-utterly-accustomed-to-the-heft-of-the-iPhone-4(S) hands.

I think the thing that bugs me is the tacit admission that he hasn't even tried any other devices. I own (although no longer use) a Samsung Focus S- a 4.3" Windows Phone. Weight? 110g. At this point the Focus S hardly a new phone- Apple was behind the times and is just catching up, it's not blazing ahead.

But then, Gruber is only reviewing this for people that have already decided they want one, so the bar is lower.
Are you planning to add more animals in this app?
I believe you are describing the <keygen> HTML element.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/keygen
At least for me, NoScript is less a reaction to annoying ads, and more a reaction to "not wanting to see your god damn web 3.0 flashy bullshit." Unless I explicitly need to interact with a website, I'll just leave it in a dumb js-less state so I can read without having random signup forms, broken scrolling, moving graphics, etc. popping up in my face every minute or two. If those flashing blinky annoying things are ads, then those are disabled too, but it's by no means the main reason I use NoScript.

I couldn't understand if the article was serious or not. The point about AdBlock seems sort of in the right direction, if a bit missing the point - but the next two just left me scratching my head.
Perhaps I'm misinterpreting. But I got the impression that dev tools that qualify to be sent out into the world need to have a primary emphasis on friendliness, automation and autogeneration, and general polish. By contrast, internal tools need to be industrial grade workhorses, and if you can improve them by putting a better interface on them, that's merely nice. One of the clearest examples I can think of is the difference between their internal workhorse Source Depot and their public tool TFS (nevermind the horror that was VSS).

Like I said, I might be misreading things. And certainly the blogging community around their dev tools has improved the level of detail that goes out to developers committed enough to keep up with them.
Well, there is DreamSpark...

DreamSpark is again, for non-commercial use. You're probably referring to Bizspark / Webspark.

And it's far from ideal to go this route.

To get accepted into the program, you first have to start a company. As a lone developer that just wants to try stuff out and see what sticks, dealing with such bureaucracy is far from ideal - of course, in the US you can start a company probably in a couple of hours, but many in the rest of the world are not so lucky.

Then you need to apply by describing what you intend to do with it. If you have an idea for a project you have to describe it in detail, including the business plan, otherwise you can get rejected. And people have been rejected.

And then, assuming you did the above and got accepted, the *Spark programs are a ticking time bomb. When it's over, it's over. You can keep whatever software you have on your desktop already installed, but then you do have to license whatever software you're using in production (SQL Server, Windows Server).

Again, I'm mainly speaking from the point of view of someone that has a day job and that would like to try stuff out. Skipping over the fact that if you tell them you have a day job, you probably won't get accepted, it can take a lot of time to start earning money from what you're doing and thus afford those licenses at the end of the program. And it's not like successful businesses haven't been built this way.

So I just don't get why would somebody be willingly getting into this, when many companies and individuals succeeded by using the free and open-source alternatives, which personally I find technically superior.
We're arguing the same thing. :) I'm not critical of their choices. They did their best work making the best product for the most people with the most money.

Unsafe was cashing in 100% of their market credibility to drop an uncompetitive keyboard-less featurephone into the 2007 market. Unsafe was Retina. Unsafe was the iPhone 4 design. Unsafe was Siri. Unsafe was the sealed filesystem. Unsafe was unsubsidized sales.

Of all of their dozens of unsafe decisions, I think only two burnt them: unsubsidized sales and Antennagate. And they course corrected on both of them as soon as feasible.

But here we are 6 product cycles later and they've successfully gotten to where they wanted to be: The Unquestioned Best. It's the safe choice. It's the sure thing. It's the one everything else is compared to. It's the standard bearer.

And seriously? I can't think of what the next Unsafe decision is. Is it in payments? Is it in docking? Is it in Zigbee/NFC? Is it in broad identity management? Developing markets?

Apple is in a position where they don't -have- to make Unsafe decisions anymore, and that roaring sound you hear is tens of billions of dollars rushing their way. They survived the gauntlet. Now it's time for them to feast.

Pardon my metaphor soup.
"What makes me angry about the AdBlock plugin is that the author – while happy to destroy our revenue stream – is also profiteering from the very same free content model by asking for PayPal donations when the plugin is installed. Talk about hypocrisy."

What an idiotic comparison. The adblock author is directly asking money (voluntary donations actually) for something useful he made for your use. Straightforward quid-pro-quo. You know... commerce. What the hell is wrong with that ?