skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if I can agree with 'democracy' (which I believe you're using equating to the US style of representation) is a prerequisite for tolerance. The Dutch have had a monarchy that was pretty tolerant on a lot of things for a while (just as an example of it not being required). I'd be Ok with saying that democratically formed governments are more likely to be tolerant because tolerance works toward enhancing the number of votes they can get.

But your second comment is scary indeed. "transplanting our culture/values", especially when it comes to US culture and values, is an offensive thing to a lot of people in the world. The US State department pushes exactly one 'value' (and no 'culture') which is that the people who are governed have the right of electing the government they want. Period. There aren't any constraints put on the kind of government the people pick, be it heavily church influenced, strict representation, constitutional representation, etc.
and with much better specs particularly in camera department.
Very sneaky doing this during the Apple iPhone 5 launch event. I wonder how many ideas just got doomed and founders now have to do something new.
I know this is a somewhat inaccurate comparison, but no-one (and by that I mean major brands, etc) had mobile apps until Apple made a phone that allowed them. If Apple made an NFC-enabled iPhone companies could see reason to jump on the bandwagon.
"Fewer than three Development Team members decreases interaction and results in smaller productivity gains...Having more than nine members requires too much coordination." - Scrum Guide, page 6

Source: http://www.scrum.org/Portals/0/Documents/Scrum%20Guides/Scru...
Interesting take. Glad Canada has done this. Its about time we followed the US lead.
PG, any results from the apply without an idea experiment?
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Software
I would feel comfortable in keeping something like this explicitly mentioned rather than charging more without any explanation.
That's the one put in at the behest of the NSA and DHS. You are not supposed to know about that one. You can't turn it off. Physically blocking it is a violation of the Patriot act. The idea started with Onstar and will now be an FCC requirement on all US phones.
I'd argue that the reason the iPhone succeeded as wildly as it did is because the one-handed-thumb-operation use case pales in comparison to everything else a big (for its time) touchscreen lets you do. My old T9 Symbian was fantastic for using one-handed with my thumb. I didn't have to look at the screen to type since the keypad had tactile feedback, and navigating up and down with the direction buttons to, say, delete a row from my grocery list while walking through the store was a breeze. I can type faster on a touch screen (especially when using two thumbs), but I can't do it blind nearly as well.

Nowdays I hold my phone in one hand, and use the other hand's index finger to manipulate the screen. It's vastly better than a physical thumb keypad for watching media, browsing the web, or viewing any other kind of information (all of which benefits from a larger screen, which is why—epecially as a guy with large-enough hands to do one-handed operation in a pinch even on a bigger screen—I prefer 4.3" screens over the 3.5" of the iPhone). It's also vastly better than a physical keypad for most other forms of interaction. But one-handed thumb usage has always been my mode of last resort for a touch-screen phone. So I like trading against the usability of that mode in exchange for more visible surface area.
The /tmp on your system is not 'your' /tmp. The home directory is yours. /tmp exists pretty much solely as a place for programs to fill up with a mess of files, with the understanding that it will get automatically cleaned out and they aren't messing up the system proper. If a program needs to trash a place with large files, /tmp is where it should do it.
This is to preserve backwards compatibility with existing apps. It is unlikely anyone could see the difference between 1280x720 and 1136x640 on a 4 inch screen. Also that "small difference" is 27% more pixels.
> They could have scaled it in one direction

Yes, I'm sure "blurry as fuck" is what people look for in a backward compatibility feature. With 2:1 already dodgy, 9:8 scaling would have flown really well
So you want them to do the very thing you are complaining about with not having 720p? I don't know about you, but I use my phone for apps more than watching 720p video and I'd rather not have my email be blurry...
The negative connotations for the word "exploit" (1) are baggage. The word itself does not require a negative interpretation.

Indeed, for the actions of a corporation, failure to exploit is damning evidence of incompetence.

(1) https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aexploit
It's hard to know if it makes sense or not without the actual number.

Microsoft gives 90% discounts to EDU...
Cane - Ruby code quality thresholds - The Changelog
I wonder what Google plans to do once, in a year's time or so, Android's userbase begins to slow, just as Facebook's has.
> I have a confidence HTML5 will fail in the end.

When is the end? What will replace it in the browser? Will people stop using browsers? Why do you have confidence other than things are not perfect now?

>optimistic

Being optimistic makes people want to solve problems. Being pessimistic makes people think defeat is 100% likely so they never try to solve anything.

Our games already work very well in HTML5. They "work" on an iPad 3, but we still make native versions because the technology we use, Monkey, allows us to very painlessly do so.

On desktop, Chrome, Firefox, and IE all run the games perfectly on a now 4 year old computer build.

I'm not betting everything on HTML5 but to me it already is succeeding and I am confident that consumers will drive demand for it, vendors will produce and release devices which support it. Even if Apple, or the other big sellers don't support it there will be those who do and the great support will sell units and make anyone who doesn't support it well look bad.
Crushing The Block
Smaller sensors make them worse. Sure, they can mitigate that with better software and better optics, but sensor size is the best estimate of image quality. It's really disappointing to see that the 5 has a smaller sensor than the 4S.
True, if you spend enough time on Facebook that you can block social viruses as they appear, then you will never see more than one or two at a time.

But there is no technical reason why Facebook doesn't allow users to categorically block a virus developer. It's a political reason: new viruses entering the system get new eyeballs, reinforcing the business model.
Based on previous years, this means:

* Interviews will be around November 25th [EDIT: November 27th-Dec 1]

* First dinner will be around November 30th [EDIT: Early January]

* Demo day will be approximately March 25th
iPhone 5 is less retina than Nokia Lumia 920
s/faith/{dedication, ferver}; and even if faith is an acceptable term there, faith != religion.
Looks like a great tool to add to your continuous integration pipeline.
That is fantastic. Seriously, USB is annoying that way. But now when I take a trip for a couple days, which my work has me doing regularly, and if I have an Iphone 5, I have to be sure to bring my adaptor kit, or pay a $30 adaptor tax. With micro usb, I pay a $1 forgetfulness tax, if that, because almost everywhere has a spare usb charger or cable lying around.

I don't want to pay that much to not have to turn the cable over once.
It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. If Apple were to include NFC in iPhone you can bet adoption would start taking off soon after.
Copyright has always been primarily for the economic benefit of distributors, and only rationalized as a benefit for creators

This statement is sort of nonsense. Copyright has always been exploited by groups of people formed to exploit it. Yes. But its "purpose" is and was independent of such.[1] The problem is that these groups are now re-writing laws to entrench their business interests as public policy. The "purpose" needs to be seperated more clearly. (1)It is independent of "copyright" per se, as a strategy; and (2) it is independent of any particular implementation of that strategy via law or fiat. The point of noting these differences is that in order to solve these problems they need to be framed more pecisely and more clearly. That's not to say I agree or disagree with the direction you are proposing. And I think you are dimensionalizing the problem in useful ways and at the right level of abstraction.

Notes
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[1] As a point of history, copyright predates the industrial revolution. And thus predates widespread organizing economic actors as corporations. Authors and independent professionals were in a much different position in society, and corporations were relatively few, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law
"Older apps" = "everything made up until about 45 minutes ago"?
I'm sure it would, but it's not a huge loss IMO. It'll come eventually and I'll miss not being able to do things like the Nexus Q + NFC Android phone pairing, but oh well.
Apple unveils the iPhone 5, the world's thinnest smartphone
Well, NFC is not a joke. It's just not been widely adopted...yet. I use it everyday to initiate pairing between my nokia phone and nokia play 360 speakers without any problem.
Keep in mind that there's a well-argued view that the worst excess of enlightenment thinking is totalitarianism, and that the American Revolution was in part a Counter-Enlightenment revolution.

Of course there is no one "Enlightenment" to point at - but the point is that one can take reason too far, to the point it has the same effect as religious extremism: "you are logically wrong so I'll hurt you".

Ultimately the point of many religious faith is a constant reminder we are all fallible and do not have access to absolute truth. Many fundamentalists forget this, preferring to focus on morality over faith.
Given that some people think YC is starting to see scaling problems, I wonder if they will continue the trend of growing each class size or try to keep it around the same (or maybe even try to scale it down?).
That doesn't seem clear from the coverage so far. Obviously it has to be USB in the box, but the name hints that there would be a Thunderbolt option at least.
1136 means adding 88 screen pixels, which is 44 x 2.

44 is a magic number in iOS development. All navigation bars are 44px tall. All tap targets are recommended to be at least this size. It's very easy for developers to conceptualize 88 more vertical pixels and what to do with them; much easier to work with.

And let's face it, iOS is about the apps over watching videos. I'm sure 16:9 videos will look great.
Yeah i see your point. I just mean, if Canada wants to attract the best people, the best way for this to happen would be for them to create a visa thats open and slightly more "risky" (its the nature of the game)

I have a B1/B2 visa as well, and in general ive never had any real visa issues but I just feel that with all the options available to people today, you need to do more than say "if the VC says yes, so do we"
CRIME researcher says 4 request are enough to decrypt: https://twitter.com/julianor/status/245943430570704896
Scumbag HN user

Talks about evidence and/or the lack thereof

Cites zero evidence (via links) towards his assertion that there is no evidence
I doubt youd even have to break SSL using that attack. Lots of people do SSL termination at the load balancer.
The etymology of OK is far from settled -- just check the Wikipedia page! I remember an etymology book of mine describing the puzzle as the holy grail. It's not even agreed that it was originally an acronym.

And regardless of where it came from, "okay" is certainly a word now, at least in the sense that it's widely used and in dictionaries.
Well, yes. Basically. It's just like the Retina display release.
You know what is really scary....when I lost my Wells Fargo debit card and requested a replacement only the last four numbers changed. The same exact four numbers that are shown on virtually every webpage and purchase order in the world!

Wouldn't take long to guess those last four if you were the reason I was getting the new card (i.e. you were in possession of my old card).
im sure i'll get in this time ;)
The problem with SCRUM is that it is not agile.
That's why we see most of the pragmatic companies adopting a kanban or scrumban approach and they see good results.

I would argue that just having a kanban board during stand-up meetings and "walking the board" instead of interrogation-like status reporting is going to do wonders to team collaboration atmosphere, morale and actual productivity.

You start to see and talk about the flow of value, what's next, what's in the moment ("what can we do right now?). You see context. All of that is missing with SCRUM or only possible with a highly motivated and responsible team that communicates a lot automatically.

I'm not yet saying that kanban is solving the software crisis [1] but it turned around quite a few teams that I've seen and been part of.

DISCLAIMER: I'm working on https://www.blossom.io which is a lightweight kanban board.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_crisis
Those circles aren't the same size, favoring the iPhone. It's not an honest comparison.
Wikipedia, for one. I went looking to confirm what you said, and found that the canonical page for the word/abbreviation on Wikipedia was 'Okay'[1] with a redirect to that page when you ask for 'O.K.'.

The page itself says there is no consensus as to the origin of the word, and links to another page[2] with a list of possible origins. 'Oll Korrect' seems like it's the definition with widest acceptance, but it's not the only contender.

I've seen 'Okay' used on other websites, though none come immediately to mind, and have never given a second thought to Facebook's spelling of the word.

Even if 'oll korrect' was the origin of the word, 'okay' is still perfectly acceptable to me. It would hardly be the first English word to make such a transition.
> The US State department pushes exactly one 'value' (and no 'culture') which is that the people who are governed have the right of electing the government they want.

This is the official policy, but everyone knows it's bullshit. Using post WW2 changes as an example, we quickly forgive countries that Americanize (such as Japan), while we quickly forget allies who veer off on their path (such as Russia). We overthrow democratic governments who oppose us and bring back monarchs who are on our side (such as in Iran), while we prop up oppressive monarchs who support us (such as in Saudi Arabia).

And I recognize the fact that it's offensive to transplant our culture/values, which is why I think it's best to just try to bring those people who already agree with our culture and values to America. Let the extremists kill one another - we just need to get the bystanders out of the way.
It's still too early to tell.
Show HN: A universal iOS app for creating and sharing pixel art
The Facebook app was soooooo slow. Perhaps some of that was due to not having a native app, but it seems like the back end API must have been slow as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay: "There is no consensus on the origins of "okay." Several possibilities exist."

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/OK: "OK (also okay)"
I asked PG yesterday and last week here are the links:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4507244
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4475469
I actually watched the demo video without sound and saw an email client-like experience with a bunch of pictures of the same dog.

It didn't look bad, but wasn't particularly relevant to feedback management either.
In nearly every single situation, the right orientation for a USB cable is with the USB symbol on top.

There are exceptions, but this one rule let me get it right for all but 1 device I own.
Do you disagree that Java typically requires the additional boilerplate I showed?
Selling Apple connectors - $2
"I don't think he actually handled diplomacy, even low-level work."

Diplomacy isn't like steel working where 'regular' people can't do it without a lot of equipment. There are really good diplomats in all sorts of places, from the president of the PTA to the stay at home parent with more than 2 kids. The guy's ability to see the problems and a path to solutions was legendary in the Eve community, so he wasn't negotiating who really owns what island in the south China sea, he was an excellent diplomat.
> Just because a government was chosen by its people does not mean that it is legitimate.

Actually, it does.

One can't argue the Nazi's were illegitimate. They were legitimate (for a short time). One could argue they were evil and needed to be deposed by external force.

> This brings them into direct conflict with us, and it's a conflict they started.

They started it? That's cycle of violence rhetoric, and partly why you're getting pushback.
For those who prefer working offline, I've created a raw-text version of the application here: https://github.com/nickbarnwell/YC/blob/empty_app/form.txt

It was very useful for me when faux-applying to have the dark glow of vim instead of the YC page's harsh white, and I thought I might put it out there for others to use.
Whoa now, ad hominem much? Let's keep the mudslinging to a minimum, please.

The point he's (admittedly somewhat poorly) attempting to make is that the article doesn't have enough context to draw conclusions about the greater state of factory workers across the entire Chinese industrial base. He never states that the workers shouldn't demand better working conditions, and never says that Foxconn offers a better work environment than other factories.
I would be shocked if the difference between 720p native and slightly-downsampled 720p is really noticable on a screen that physically small.

Edit to clarify: for video. Videos and photos scale oh-so-much-nicer than pages of static text.
Ubuntu Mono on Ubuntu and Consolas on Windows. Both of them look so much better on their own platform.
I downvoted you because you added nothing to the conversation by claiming you have a 6 but then adding no details to it. Hey I can do that too. I have an idea that ranks a 7! I am cooler than you! But I am not going to tell you what it is because I think having a good idea is harder than executing well and I don't have many good ideas and I am afraid you are going to steal mine.
You Can’t Run A Political Campaign Without Digital —Romney Digital Director
I'd be surprised. There's nothing you would need 10 Gbps for on a phone. The flash memory wouldn't even keep up. Plus with cables costing $50, it'd be an expensive option to have a second kind of cable. It's probably just marketing lingo to make it seem like it's related to TB.
Can a non-citizen currently on H1B visa apply?
> What if someone else has an important piece of information that the dev and the architect don't?

That isn't good enough justification. You are too much erring on the side of caution.
Interviews are November 27 through December 1. The first dinner will be the first tuesday in January.
Neither! Using Apple products makes your appendages larger, including your thumbs, obviously! :)
Seriously? New iTunes in "October"? That's a weird thing to pull considering the new iPhone's out before then, new iPods, iOS 6, etc...
> My conclusion was that CBT is effective to the extent that you are willing to give up on the concept of truth. People who train themselves to see only the positive are happier than those that insist on truth. I decided that truth was more important to me than happiness, dropped the CBT, and stuck with the meds.

I think you may have gotten the wrong impression of CBT. The point isn't to delude and bombard yourself with constantly positive thoughts. In fact, that rarely works for us HN-types.

In fact, I'd posit that it's the opposite of self-delusion: It's about viewing plain facts as well as your emotional bias towards them, and the (maybe false or exaggerated?) conclusions that those biases lead you to.

It turns out that some of us have different cognitive biases such as badly weighted risk assessment, picking the worst possible conclusion etc. It doesn't help that these form a vicious cycle. Nor that these biased thoughts sometimes seem to happen automatically (rather than you consciously coming up with them) and appear to be plain facts, already assumed and taken as granted.

The point is, something that looks like a crisis to me may look mildly uncomfortable to someone else. The idea is to dig down and see why.

edit: Another point I forgot to make is, this arms you against future encounters. You know how your mind falls into certain pitfalls and you learn to recognize them. The next time, you're not fooled as easily. This is a very powerful notion: knowing your own faults. Not to mention the feeling of victory that you get when you catch your mind red handed :)
Apple should just hire Will Ferrell and/or Danny McBride to do the keynotes. "We didn't just make a new dock connector, we went the extra mile and gave it a rad name. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Lightning. It's made with bits of real cheetah, so you know it's fast."
That's not a strategy for mobile.

If what you said where true more of their revenue would come from mobile. It doesn't, look it up.
Comparing yourself to others is an easy way to think negatively and possibly even descend into depression. It's important to accept who you are and what got you there and not think that your life would be so much better "if only things had been different". Things weren't different. You were given the genes you were given from parents who you didn't choose and countless other variables influenced you to become depressed and then recover at the time you did. No need to feel bad about it.

I don't mean for this to sound like a personal attack. I'm in a similar position to you and I've found it incredibly rewarding to realize that it is useless to worry about the past and what could have happened.
Why? Or just because 10MP has more pixels than a 7MP one?

I doubt people could tell the difference between 7 million and 10 million pixels, unless you want to put it on a billboard
Let's face it, in this consumer world, where our needs and wants are defined by enormous marketing budgets, every new model simply has to be revolutionary. Even if they just put a new color on something, it has to be marketed as such to convince people they not only want it, but actually need it.

When that new Ford F-150 comes out with 34% more power, it always amazes me that nobody says "what the hell were you doing last year that was so crap?".
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Because selling the new cords and accessories and licensing the new connector to other companies will make Apple a lot of money, and the costs are not visible to the consumer (i.e., a cable costing $10 instead of $2, with $8 going into Apple's pockets - the $8 Apple surcharge is not easily visible to the consumer).

If Apple had decided to make the same amount of money overall by raising the price of the iPhone 5 and using standard connectors, it would be more visible to you. This way is akin to the "cheap printer and expensive ink" paradigm, or the "cheap airfare but you have to pay all the taxes and fees separately" paradigm. Most consumers will not look ahead to calculate the lifetime cost of ownership of the device, they'll only look at the initial price.