skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
facebook integrated - no thank you apple, we want privacy
(a) I would lose the debate, (b) it would be boring, (c) I can drink Colin under the table.
They meant it's physically biggest. The only excitement they could generate was "it's slightly taller!"
Hiring developers just got easier with job postings on geeklist
Perhaps it's the beginning of the end, eh? Jobs's legacy may not last long.
Probably a play on the fact that it is physically bigger (taller).
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Looks pretty cool to me. As for specs some people love: I don't care much, provided everything works smoothly and seamlessly. (Fine tuning Apache and MySQL has saved me tons of cash by doing a lot more with the same hardware.)

Now replace Redmond with ...http://farm1.staticflickr.com/29/43356340_36deb98522.jpg :)
Is A CS Degree Worth It?
Just to clarify: some young men find life (making friends, college, dating, getting and holding a good job) easy, and for those young men, I do not doubt that founding a startup is the rational path -- especially if they care as much about improving the world as they do about themselves. (If you're trying to improve the world, a 1% chance of making 5 billion dollars is a much more attractive choice than it is if you care only about yourself and your family and close friends because your ability to improve the world is approximately linear in how much money you can spend whereas your ability to stay safe and happy and to keep your friends and family safe and happy is distinctly sub-linear in "spending power" once spending power gets above $100,000 a year.)

However, I do not find life easy (nor am I young).
I imagine the use of 'biggest' is meant to highlight the size increase explicitly, versus your typical hyperbolic marketing.
I have no idea what "Boopoohoo is a place for a boo & poo without knowing who!" means.
the up volume button controls the shutter when in the camera app.
On Rails, Sinatra, and picking the right tool for the job
Why would you tell somebody that they completely agree with you when they just said that they disagreed? That's so rude. You say "That's cowboy programmer bullshit", he says "I completely disagree." Do you really think there's a chance he secretly agrees that his view is "cowboy programmer bullshit"?
Me too, and I was also hoping for a pony.

I don't think anyone ever predicted there was any chance of a waterproof design, projector, solar panels, or a radio receiver. I get being disappointed that Apple doesn't include the features you want, but why hope for things that are almost certainly never going to happen?
All you have to do is... well nothing. Just don't add your facebook account.
Apple iPhone event 2012 in bullet points
Of course! It totally adds another layer of protection :)
Wow, some people REALLY don't get irony. My whole post was aimed at the parent post by emphasizing the ridiculousness of his argument by use of irony/sarcasm.

From the wikipedia definition of irony: "Ironic statements (verbal irony)[2] are statements that imply a meaning in opposition to their literal meaning."
The volume up button doubles as a hardware camera button.
A better title would be "The End of software startups in Silicon Valley Is Nonsense". There are plenty of companies in the SV that will still be there when the software startups are gone.

Also, behind the strawman arguments there are some hidden truths but they have to be rephrased to be interesting, e.g. software isn't easy but it appears to be easy so lots of people enter the field that shouldn't. Also, people should be working on harder things but not for the reasons discussed in the article.
You are correct, I misread the code commit. The link to the 2010 bug was removed from the code, not added to it.
Heathrow Airport Transfer
TED talk on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E...

A cool Maker-type article on how to build your own setup (it looks like the AutoMicroFarm may be loosely based on this):
http://www.northernaquafarms.com/knowledgelibrary/NAF_PDF_Fi...

I know someone in Campbell who is playing with this stuff, and he's sent me tons of links that I can share here if people are really interested.
Hmm "Lightning to USB Cable".

Doesn't say if it's USB 3, and doesn't say if in the future, it could be Lightning to Thunderbolt.
Anonymous Pro (http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html).
Good to know that I'm an idiot for thinking that VS2012 is trying to follow guidelines by a product in RTM instead of a product that is in beta and I have no interaction with. Of course I'm also just in a bad mood because I have to use the Pending Changes window in VS 2012 on a daily basis.
I was gonna write asking if you are sarcastic, but the solar panel thingy settled the case.
For those of us who paid good money to designers to make backgrounds and graphics based on the old aspect ratio this is going to be quite a costly headache.

Increasing the screen size diagonally would have given a much better power of two increase in surface, which is desperately needed with iPhones (I have a 4.6inch device and feel that the perfect size would be just a tiny bit bigger than that). There was no need for aspect-ratio fragmentation.

If they didn't want to increase the device width, they should have tried doing like Motorola RAZR M and reduce the bezel.
I don't even mind declaring variables all that much. I think a lot of it comes down to locality, as I've got all the "testing" code in the same piece of code, instead of in a totally separate test suite. So type declarations, design-by-contract, debug statements would be my first choice, and I actually often start out with these (or approximations thereof) even in more dynamic languages, refactoring some of those as unit tests later on.
(In a similar vein, I don't usually start out with interfaces, abstract classes etc. - if possible not even with classes at all. Guess that makes me a spaghetti sorter.)

Granted, that's mostly for starting out. In an existing code base, especially a larger one, different rules apply. I don't believe in methodology panaceas.
The tech spec page says "Lightning to USB Cable".

Doesn't say if it's USB 2 or 3, and doesn't say if it could be Thunderbolt (unlikely)
Of course, Apple "designs" the exact same Cortex-A9 and PowerVR cores as everyone else. (I'll give them some credit if they are first with A15.) Qualcomm is arguably more innovative given that Krait, Adreno, and the baseband are all in-house.
No USB connector, really sad.
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Programming, a n00bs view
I remember when the 4 was 'The' phone to have, and two iterations later, Apple are now seemingly playing me-too with Android/WP7-based handsets.

Especially the odd approach they're taking with NFC & Passbook in iOS 6. Why make a product perfectly suited for NFC, then just not use it in your newest products?

I was holding off on a new handset until the iPhone 5, but the Nokia's Lumina series seems to do more.
"facebook integrated - no thank you apple, we want privacy"

Who's we? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_statistics

Personally I use it on a separate browser but wanted to point out that you (and me) are in the minority.
Samsung, HTC to block US, EU sales of iPhone 5 using LTE patents
Looks interesting, but why do I have to create a username and password even if I sign in with Facebook? The whole reason for allowing people to sign in with Facebook is so they don't need to manage yet another login and password, or so I see it.
This pretty much sums it up : http://blog.textoo.net/graphics/iphone5/
This blog post [http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2012/08/lucenes-new-blockpost...] and the associated Lucene Jira issue [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3892] may be of interest to those who are excited by this paper.

If I'm reading it right, I think the main conclusion from the Lucene patch was that using a straight "FOR" (Frame of Reference) approach was faster in the real world than using "PFOR" (Patched Frame of Reference), and only slightly worse in index size.

I haven't read this new paper yet, but would be interesting to compare and contrast the approaches.
Apple unveils iPhone 5: Thinner, lighter, 16:9 4-inch display, LTE
There is apparently.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34865/Screenshots/Screen%20Shot%202...
And since iOS 5 there's a shortcut that takes you to the camera directly from the lock screen.
I didn't realize they had the single Qualcomm chip for CDMA/GSM back on the 4S too. That's a nice piece of tech.
Damn I kind of assumed it would be Thunderbolt. Guess they're just preparing for when Thunderbolt controllers are small enough to fit inside.
Analyzing, talking through, and attempting to change thought patterns isn't just a clinical technique for serious problems. In my experience, the smaller the problem and the healthier the person, the more quickly and dramatically it seems to work. Other than people who have been in therapy or who have grappled with mental health issues on their own, I rarely see people using it, with one exception: I see the parents I know using it with their children all the time to help them deal with everyday emotional difficulties such as anger management. A decade from now, there might be a generation of adults who consider it common sense and have no idea it originated in the treatment of mental illness.
The problem is that it draws attention to the fact that other than literally a size change, there is not terribly much that makes this an unusually "big" update.
Apple debuts long-awaited iPhone 5 with 4-inch display, LTE
You missed it. Engadget's live coverage (for example) is here: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/12/apple-iphone-5-liveblog/
New iPod Nano looks like Nokia Lumia!
Because if there's one thing Steve Jobs was known for, it was cramming in as many tick-list features as possible. /s
http://live.gdgt.com/live-iphone-5-launch-coverage/
Maybe the NFC hardware is there, and the software support wasn't ready in time? We'll see once the teardowns commence.
Yes I think you're the cat I was looking for!

I recently got a Galaxy Nexus and I remember reading here a while ago about your app that crowd sources barometer readings from phones that have it but I couldn't remember what it was called when I got the GNex.
I'll go sign up. Thanks.
I was trying to find a real comparison of MIPS of this thing compared to an I7 and landed on this page for performance data for the RPi. The most interesting thing to me is power consumption data at the bottom - that shows idle with network is around 370mA, which should mean (ignore power supply efficiencies) that 64 of these things should use about 120W at idle.

http://www.elinux.org/RPi_Performance
Various iOS 6 features: panoramic photos, photo stream, shared photo stream. Also the loyalty card market (passbook).

Also, missing stuff: there's no NFC, so NFC payments are pushed out for another year in favor of scan-screen.

iPod Nano pedometer kind of kills fitbit somewhat (or a new fitbit like product, including sleep monitors like wakemate).

Arguably the sapphire crystal vs. glass lens for camera makes the market tougher for iPhone/iPod Touch cases.

New iTunes + iTunes Match/iCloud features should hurt Pandora/Spotify type companies.
Here is another perfect examplee of what's wrong with SCRUM, it creates zealots. When someone starts talking about a need to give good, self-disciplined devs a little freedom instead of micromanaging them to death the scrum zombies start shouting about "cowboy programmers". When someone starts talking about long-term or strategic planning they start screaming about "waterfall".

The truth is that there is a lot of evidence from the field that having good developers and zero formal process is actually fairly workable, and often produces results. It's typically not the best system, but it's a strong antidote to the poisonous ideas of SCRUM, which holds that constant micromanaging at every level is strictly necessary otherwise puppies will die.

There are good elements within agile, such as iterative development, continuous integration, etc. but if you just choke down a whole ideology without exercising any degree of critical thought then you're going to make a lot of people miserable.
I used to work on mobile products at Google using both, HTML5 for mobile and native. When betting on HTML5 you get the benefit of quick updates across multiple platforms and smaller team size. However, most of your time is allocated towards finding work arounds for strange browser bugs. Mostly glitches in the UI. With native, things work the right way most of the time, so you can quickly create exciting new features, which excites the team. The down side of native, is that you'll be implementing that exciting new features N number of times for each platform.

Now that I am doing a lean startup, the reality is that the first app will be re-written completely. My bet is to focus short-term on one platform and write using native code for speed and lack of bugs (higher moral). For longer-term multi-platform play and if you plan to stay small and lean, I would recommend HTML5 or a hybrid.
No doubt all the Apple fanboys will now say things like "No more than Apple's detractors are quick to say things like \"No doubt all the Apple fanboys will now be...\" :)" :)
Anonymous Pro is about 4th on my list of favorites, after Gohu, Dina, and Proggy
I prefer just to buy the phone cash and go with a regular monthly contract.
The marginal improvements are diminishing...
Plus, "simply a taller screen and newer processor", really? New screen, new processor, new innards, new machining and construction, new connector, new iOS, new camera, improved battery life AND lighter.

NFC and wireless charging? Who promised you that? And who delivers those at the moment?

You might want to see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
Speed is not the only benefit of RAM. The internal data structures of most programs are gnarly messes of intertwined pointers, fragile, easily corrupted, hard to upgrade in place, almost impossible to fix when they break. The division between RAM and disk forces everything to be serialized at intervals to clean storage formats that can be reread for a fresh start. As a practical matter, that's a big enough benefit to justify enforcing the division at an API level even if disk were as fast as RAM.
Here's one viewpoint:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a...
Has Apple declared it doesn't have NFC? Couldn't this be a 'software enabled upgrade' in due time?

A number of chipsets do 802.11ac + NFC/RFID + (wifi,etc) in the same package. I suppose we won't know until teardowns begin appearing...
New iPods
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Then the Lumia is a copy of the nano from a few gens ago.
No, I mean't like Windows Phone, the camera button takes a picture automatically regardless of the app your in.
Good to know. I was thinking more along the lines of long-term effects- what type of effects do you think it will have on app development trends in general moving forward (if any at all)?
With adapter.
The last few decades has seen the largest and fastest movement of people from absolute poverty to relative middle class. The last few years has seen factories along the coastal cities of China beginning to compete for labour by raising wages, because many migrant workers are choosing to move back to their inland cities, where the economy is beginning to flourish.

No, it's not pretty, and it's going to stay not pretty for a while. But buying goods from China, and buying a lot, is the best foreign aid money can buy.
what a pleasant surprise to see our little OSS project mentioned/used... surprised as this is a Windows/VS Python IDE & they're running Linux on the nodes - http://pytools.codeplex.com
Thank you, but your post is somewhat patronizing. Yes, I have accounted for each Chrome process. And you forgot to tick one of the 'we're in denial that FF sucks' boxes...what plugins are you using (aka blame the plugins).

I'm apposed to hacking the settings and installing 32-bit versions. It should give somewhat acceptable performance out of the box. I'm not adding bandaids, FF has wasted enough of my time.
When are these actually available?
An attacker can build a hidden form that submits to a URL at the victim site, and submit it repeatedly using javascript. Alternatively an attacker could put the test content in the URL (we don't care if it 404s), which would work just as well and allow them to use a series of script-free pages full of images.

edit: tptacek is absolutely right; there isn't a way to defend against this in application code. All you can do is turn off TLS compression. This is NOT by any means the only approach, it's just the most obvious one.
Here's an explanation of my rationale for not making it an object instead of a function: http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/zrprk/the_new_secure_pa...

Here's the last paragraph (in case it's TLDR, or you don't want to click through):

> So in short (or not), I just felt that there's room for this API and things like PasswordLib to live side by side. And I will continue to maintain that project in the long run. But for the generic use-case, I felt that an OOP API was too much risk for not enough gain for a core implementation.
With that said, if you can come up with a clean API, I'd be all ears and willing to consider implementing it. But for now, this is the better alternative IMHO...
All opinions aside: it doesn't matter that much what font you use. Use whatever you feel comfortable with. Switching fonts won't magically make you a better programmer.
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop made available
And that's not dedicated, so you have to launch the app any time you want to take a picture, so you miss photo opportunities doing that. Dedicated is like Windows Phone where pressing the button takes a picture, regardless of the app you're in.
UK MP seeks to criminalise written description of some criminal acts
In android, at least on my phone, dedicated camera buttons will take you to the camera application whenever you press them. It is quite nice, honestly I never bothered figuring out how to take a picture with it otherwise. In iOS I assume the UI is sufficiently less dreadful that this is not as necessary.
Announcing F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web
Oh. You were serious. I feel bad for laughing now.
To me, "Lightning to USB cable" means something to connect it to a charge brick or your Mac/PC, just like the 30-pin to USB cables they used to include.
They've accepted several music-related startups in the last batch or two. Maybe the bar is higher, but they still accept them regardless of the hesitation. There is a difference between a music startup that needs millions in upfront record label deals and one that relies on getting music in other ways (e.g. artists upload their own music with consent).
I've had what would call an a depressive trait since i was a teenager until now at 28. When i was 20 i was diagnosed with severe clinical depression and received treatment, including counseling and medication.

My own anecdotal evidence - when i was at my worst the talk did nothing to help me. Citalopram really help leveled and my mood, dull my anxiety and helped me balance myself out. There probably was some sort of placebo effect, re-enforced by the physical side effects. It helped either way...

Over the years i realized that brain does lie to me.
Sometimes my brain convinced me I'm depressed when I'm just ill, grumpy, tired, frustrated. etc.

I've know now not to trust my brain, my feelings or medication.

Talking helps keep your perception in check, i recommend it.
I have a whole writing workflow built around using vim and git for testing out new story ideas or structure, and this format works best for in terms of rebasing/merging at the very end. It's really about getting all the distractions out of the way and taking a long, hard look at your business - whatever gets you to that point is awesome :)
...and you expected them to instead say what, exactly? "This is the smallest, most incremental update to the iPhone since iOS 5.1 begat iOS 5.1.1?"

It's marketing, sheesh.
Which chipset does 802.11 and NFC? And even if there is a chipset that does both, NFC requires a flat antenna about the size of a contactless card somewhere near the surface of the phone.
How about here? (September 2012 ask HN: Who's hiring freelancers, is a freelancer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463692
Name for me one brand new feature. This is a product update, this isn't deserving of a new version number, and it certainly isn't "the biggest thing to happen to the iphone since iphone".

This isn't to say it's a bad device, just infinite hype for zero payoff.
They didn't but seems unlikely. Would be good if they could.
This has been the resounding response to almost every iPhone revision. And every iPod announcement. They've been losing their magic touch in forums everywhere since their stock was under $50.
I'm partial to writer.vim - aesthetically similar to WriteRoom with none of the foreign keybindings.
Cool project dude!

But why on Earth does any phone ship with a barometer? Weather is the only application I can think of, and surely it's easier just to pull weather conditions from the network.
Not really, it's not actually bigger. Just taller, only 4" not 6.
Airdrop support.
Yes! I was hoping for wireless induction charging.
> new connector

How is "new connector" a good thing? It's still not USB.

Looks like iPhone is playing catchup. How times change!
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The Galaxy S3 has a Quad core version too, though.
Yeah, what a loser for collecting weather information... ?
The author has a point. Scrum is costly. Obviously it is more productive to silo specific knowledge to specific people, generally the expert (or more motivated) in that field.

At least it is in the beginning. People leave, experts become expert teams, silos widen and it soon become the good old planning nightmare we have all learned to "love" in enterprise development.
Leaders are idea seeders
The main reason that I didn't provide bindings to PBKDF2 is that I didn't want to create a new output format.

There's presently no crypt(3) format specified for PBKDF2. So that means that I would need to invent one. That's not something I'm willing to do for a core language feature.

Additionally, pbkdf2 is actually slightly weaker than bcrypt (partially due to the higher memory requirements of the later, 32kb vs < 1kb).

So without a strong reason for including it, it wasn't included.

However, the API is designed to be extendable. When scrypt gets bindings to crypt(3), it'll be made available. If PBKDF2 gets bindings, it'll be made available. If a new and stronger algorithm is made, it'll be made available (but not default for quite some time).

But I personally am not willing to go out on a limb and create a new cryptographic specification for this project. And that's what it would have taken to put pbkdf2 into it. Hence, why it's not there...
Which itself is a redesign of the iPod Mini.
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They might not call it heath insurance, but it still is de facto heath insurance. Also, nominal charges of 40k is small potatoes in the healthcare world, that can literally be a few days of moderate care in some hospitals. However, a lot of medical bankruptcys are around end of life care, where medicare forces people to 'go broke' before picking up the rest of the tab.

PS: I have awesome medical coverage, that limits out of pocket expenses to 2k per year with an unlimited sealing. However, many plans cap lifetime expenditures to 1million in coverage because people really do spend that much and far more.