skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently the iphone screen is just big enough that I can hold it with one hand and reach all four corners with my thumb.

This reminds me a bit of the argument that 90 feet is the optimal size for a baseball infield, as evidenced by the number of close plays at first base after a ground ball to an infielder. In actuality, though, the high frequency of close plays is the result of how the infielders choose to position themselves.

You can reach all four corners of the screen with your thumb not because of the size of the phone, but because of how you choose to hold it. Change the size of the phone, and you'll naturally change your grip.
Nutrition is everything.

My dad last year suffered from a mix of dizziness, nausea, depression and if he got too nervous, muscular contractions.

Went to a bunch of doctors, each one gave a different pill, and his situation wasn't improving. I had to research the internet looking for symptoms and possible causes.

Then, in the end, talking with a generalist doctor, it ended up being a thyroid disfunction (he was taking pills for that) and magnesium deficiency. After a year taking kelated magnesium and cutting the thyroid medicine (the doctor told to), he's 100% again.
Cannot edit anymore, so what I wanted to say (I was not very clear) is : The lives they have is not necessarily as nice as you picture it, nor yours as bleak as you think. In the end, I would not really think too much (even if I know it's hard) about them. After all, they might had enormous advantage, or actually a shitty live, because everything is too perfect or maybe they struggled so much to be where they are and so, are exhausted intellectually and depressed.

You achieved an incredible feat by controlling your depression, I'd be proud of it.
Using the ruler tool in photoshop and comparing the ratios, it looks like they're pretty close to the same scale, and, even though it doesn't effect the message of the picture much, the second area is definitely smaller...
So we are exactly where we were 6 years ago, with "I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature."[1]

Those checkboxes look exactly like what they came through after testing dozens or hundreds of different combinations, optimizing for acceptance rather than honesty.

[1]http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/11/01/92244...
The Problem With Big Bang Theory
But worth $200 and lock-in for 2 more years? Probably not for me. My ATT contract I got with the iPhone 4 just expired. The iPhone 5 specs don't make me want to fork out the cash and get locked into another 2 year contract. I'll wait to see what Android devices do in the next few months.
How Facebook Drove 340,000 Voters to the Polls
I love the idea of a morning email that reminds you of the things that were accomplished the day before. I've read a few articles recently about the importance of the first activity of the day. This positive reinforcement strikes me as empowering; do that and then follow up with accomplishing a discrete task and you'll feel productive for the rest of the day.
Eye Tracking hardware + Kinect games for fighting against dyslexia
It's interesting how middle-class people in the first world elevate their own decadence to the level of a human right. For most of human history, people have had to work very very hard and endure massive absolute poverty. Even today, somebody has to go pick fruit all day and even unemployed Americans aren't willing to: http://seattletimes.com/html/dannywestneat/2016582976_danny2...
IPhone 5′s Larger Screen Won’t Give Developers Any Trouble
We are still waiting to hear back from AngelPad after 2 months. I personally prefer the smaller size of AngelPad to YC. But I'm hopeful we'll hear back and get into AngelPad before application date of YC, if not we'll be applying to YC to hedge our bets.
I know this is really silly, but every year I wish they would put an FM tuner in the iPhone, and every year they don't.
Will YC consider funding a nanotechnology company?
Because a third party binary expects posix FS semantics for some data that does not require strong durability?
"Exploit" is an ambiguous term, but in context it's clear what he meant to convey by it.
In my area, Square and LevelUp are pretty much solving the mobile payments "problem." I say "problem" because in every situation where I use Square, I also have a credit card handy (using my credit card is not really a problem).

If I were to buy an iPhone 5, NFC would be the feature I would be guaranteed not to use. There's simply no vendors who are NFC-enabled anywhere near me. I'm not sure I've ever seen an NFC-enabled vendor anywhere, for that matter.
Starting a company is different than building a disruptive startup. Elad is really getting at potentially disruptive startups. Disruptive startups require a supportive ecosystem and often need to burn cash for years before they can monetize. Those sorts of companies are almost impossible to build outside of the ecosystem of Silicon Valley. Starting a small business or starting a nice, healthy enterprise business that makes a few million a year can be done in a lot of places but those are not disruptive startups.
Winner of Microsoft Imagine Cup - 2012 People Choice Award and 3rd Coca Cola Health Awareness Award. http://imaginecup.com
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/techies-with-a-mission/...
It's rather hyperbolic to say it's "the worst kind of manipulation", and that it will ensure "customers never trust you." (Disclaimer: I'm not on facebook/zynga in part because of these concerns...)

I also guess that tactics like these will erode user trust over time.

But most users are neither savvy nor concerned with things like this, in my experience. They may be annoyed with it, but the majority of people simply don't apply any meta-analysis to the sites they use, as we so often do here on HN.

I'd guess that they use these techniques because they are successful. So that's an interesting dilemma -- how can a (public) company decide which ethical path to take? If they don't use these techniques, they are doing their bottom line a disservice. If they do use them, they are crossing into a grey area of ethics.

What are companies (startups, especially) supposed to decide, between a slightly grey area success or an ethical failure?

PS - I know that's a bit of a false dichotomy, but making it a black-and-white issue simplifies it for discussion.
Looks nice. Going to install now. Hope you have updated the app for the new iPhone :)
I'm not sure if Obama has an appeasement and apology approach (1), or were you just talking about this specific incident?

1. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/bush-obama-war-on-t...
Hey, look. Please go and talk to your loved and trusted ones about this, and go see a pro. Simply that is progress, and it is the kind that'll keep turning into more progress. Just make a few phone calls and get yourself into that office.

Don't fret about choosing the right doctor etc. It's like startups: release your MVP as fast as you can, and then tweak it later iteratively.
I use /tmp all the time. I find myself needing to interact with things for which the filesystem/shell interface is appropriate, but for which I don't want to worry about having to clean out the directory before it gets too large.

Having it sit in RAM is great, because I get the speed without subjecting my disk to unnecessary writes - for certain operations, this can be a huge bonus.
Serious question: how is Google going to deal with the advent of technologies like this being used to create billions of pretty decent pieces of content?
See the Video here of the project: The D Labs http://www.imaginecup.com/IC12/Champions/PeoplesChoice
Why Men Fail
YMMV. With a relatively small bit of concurrency code, for example, I can poll 100 RSS feeds virtually simultaneously; e.g. if the maximum return time of the remote sites is 5 seconds the whole thing finishes in < 6 seconds. If I wanted to bump that up to 1K or 10K feeds I could do that by changing only a constant, because the goroutine for each feed takes only 4K of memory (versus 1MB per thread in C# by default). There may be a way to achieve the same functionality in .NET but having done some multi-threading C# code I doubt it would be as straightforward.
> and what is/was wrong with slavery

Seriously?
Y Combinator Now Accepting Applications For Its Winter 2013 Class
I'm seeing a few places this will come in handy:

* toggling booleans in a config file.

* switching a string literal between 'single quotes', "double quotes #{so I can add interpolation}", and :symbols. I do this pretty often. The former is easy enough with surround.vim (cs'"), but the latter is a pain (ds'bi:<ESC>)

* the ability to add a "tap" and remove it with a single key combo is interesting for debugging.
Likely for size reasons. "Micro" USB is still pretty thick on the iPhone thickness scale.

I'm just speculating, but it seems more reasonable than the "because they can charge you for it!!!" hand-waving going on in my sibling comments.
I hope this experience will be a success and that it may convince a lot of government to use ubuntu like instead of MS Windows...
I'm wondering about this too. Or is is 69+ regular hourly charges?
I think we need to wait for some real benchmarks and not just Apple's sales department's numbers to find out the real performance of the new processor.
I can just picture the anti-skeuomorphism crowd having a meltdown over Apple's "iRadio" app that they'd inevitably release. It would probably look like an old-timey stand-up radio.
IPod nano: Lumia ripoff? :)
I'm not a YC founder/partner but as far as my knowledge goes, I don't think YC discriminates between hardware and software startups.
Faster image capture is better in an "Apple" way. The speed with which I can take pictures with my 4S makes it far superior for e.g. taking pictures of kids, who tend to not wait for your camera app to get ready.

And yet, you will still miss shots because the camera was slow. 40% improvement here is a big deal.
Eagerly waiting for a new post from him saying how actually 4" is the perfect size.
I was in Apple's corner for the Samsung debacle, but seems they're doing exactly the same thing. Which changes my whole mind on it all.
That is not the case for me personally. I've written about this at length:

http://raganwald.posterous.com/how-to-win-friends-and-influe...

I believe that in the long term, personal credibility is bolstered by wins and losses are forgotten. So I'm happy to risk losing face in exchange for once in a while saying something that might be a big win for everyone on certain subjects, like programming.

Depression is different. It probably works the same way where karma is concerned, but the difference is that with programming, I am motivated by getting people to think. If they try some hair-brained programming scheme like "The Williams Style:"

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/11/...

I don't lose sleep over the result: They are adults, they made a choice, they are smart enough to rewrite/refactor, they learned something, their colleagues can stop them, &c.

With Depression, I am motivated by people's outcomes. If I tell them CBT is wonderful but it doesn't work for them, I might have steered them towards a very poor outcome. It may not be so easy to just start all over again. I fear giving bad advice about depression because I believe the consequences are far more serious than writing conjectures and anecdotes about programming.

With programming, I sincerely believe that a beautiful failure is a win unto itself. With depression, a failure may have fatal consequences. This isn't a face or karma issue for me personally. I can't speak to anybody else's eagerness or reticence to speak to programmin or depression.
Here, let me man 7 hier that for you:

/tmp
This directory contains temporary files which may be deleted with no notice, such as by a regular job or at system boot up.
And then what? Foxconn lays off all their workers and they go back to whatever conditions it was (subsistence farming, maybe?) that led them to decide that working at Foxconn was a better choice for them?
This is a great post and a real eye opener.

Translation: In maths for SF

1) $1-2 million, minimum for a house for 4

2) $250K per kid x 2 = $500k, assuming public high school

3) Min $1 million per head, 50k pre tak 30-40k post tax

total: $3.5 million to $4.5 million, NAV ~= 5% pretax of $100m exit

Sorta-back-of-the-envelope

This is why you need N exits, not just 1
Absolutely. Many people apply even without a H1B
Doing nothing as an action is hypocritical because it's not really an action. You're declaring you are trying to do something [to rectify that which you object to], but in fact are not doing anything. It's like a politician saying "i'm going on a fact-finding mission to resolve this issue of pollution of the watershed", when in fact they have no intent of finding any facts or solving any issues. But it sounds nice.

I guess my point is I find embracing consumerism at the expense of cheap labor to be more honest than refusing to admit my role in not being a solution.
Unfortunately (and speaking as one who has never knowingly given Apple any money) not all USB devices get this right: I've got a card reader (made by Kingston) with the USB logo on the wrong side of the plug. It's really anoying.
I think it is fair to say that YC doesn't care about your immigration status.

YC has a great community to discuss this kind of question: do not let your immigration status prevent you from applying.
I think the reason this happens is because no matter what people say, the idea that if you can't finish a story within a sprint it will simply slide into the next one is anathema.

People spend more time on estimation when the consequences of mistakes are higher. If you can't realize that a story is larger than you thought and reprioritize mid-sprint without it being equivalent to missing a deadline in your old model, it's not going to work. In my experience this is the key failure mode of scrum.
Apple Outs 5th Generation iPod Touch With 4-Inch Display
Ask HN: How will iPhone 5 release affect app developers?
It's a solid 5 -- made the kind of change that electrification did, in terms of there being massively many more ways to get informed, fact-check, collaborate, organize, the importance of location, and so on.
There's nothing wrong with JavaScript. It's a beautiful, powerful language if you know it.

All numbers are 64-bit double-precision floating-point. Interacting with binary protocols or cryptographic libraries is painful.

All strings are UCS-2, not true UTF-16. Characters outside the BMP are second-class citizens.

Those are two issues that I can think of in JavaScript-the-language. The most common use of JavaScript-the-stack, providing interactive functionality in a web browser, is riddled with gotchas like bizarre inconsistencies and arcane corner cases.

That's not to say that you can't do great things with JavaScript (plenty of evidence for that), or that the situation isn't changing (Mozilla added arrays of all the various integral types, but the individual elements still get treated as floating-point when extracted). But you have to be very careful (or use a framework made by someone who was careful), which IMHO makes it anything but "beautiful".
Do you really believe Android manufacturers use fundamentally different chips? Most of Apple chips are designed and manufactured by other companies, including the CPU.
"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."

I agree with this statement.

A larger display delivers a much better experience when reading text, watching videos, playing games or touching controls in apps.

I agree that the "I can reach the corner with my thumb" feature is an advantage. But that advantage pales compared to the fact that a large display (4.3+) significantly improves almost every action that people use on smartphones today.

IMHO the only reason Apple sticks with the sizes they use is because they built an operating system that is not designed for multiple screen sizes.

[edit: strange comment fail: I actually wote that I disagree with a statement that I actually agree with ;). fixed this now I guess]
A reasonable estimation is that apple is going to NET about 32 billion dollars in sales of iPhone 5s in its first sales year. Take that $8 surcharge, add an extra adapter at $10 a pop for every one of those customers, and you're talking about an extra 0.5% of net revenue.

It's meaningless to them. It really is. Regardless of what reason they ended 30-pin, it cannot be seen as a primarily financial one.
Which is amazing seeings they have one in the iPod Touch... how hard could it be?
I took the guidelines to say the important thing about the idea submission is that it provides evidence the founders are smart. Wouldn't smart founders still want to take advantage of every opportunity to provide such evidence?
I've never even thought of this - the iPhone doesn't have an FM radio? That's pretty ridiculous. Pretty much everyone, at least outside US, wants that on their phones. But I guess some learned to live without it because iPhone.
Agreed; this prevents establishment of expectations otherwise.
The iPhone 5 is like HTML5: overpromise and underdeliver.
> The optimum will be with when there is no opt-out at all.

Not necessarily. You may lose someone immediately who would've eventually given in and opted-in after the 50th dialog.
Agile should also be subject to Agile. I like to think of it in terms of the Viable System Model in which the system has the potential to change itself based upon feedback. Put another way - make sure your implementation of Agile/Scrum supports tail call optimization and macro expansion or face the reality of being stuck in BlubScrum.
OK, replying to my own comment here, but you know what would REALLY be cool? Software defined radio. Think about getting to the point where not only could all the baseband stuff be done in software, but apps could program the transceiver to do whatever they wanted. Then we could get AM/FM, Shortwave, and all other kinds of apps.

Granted, the hardware is still nowhere near there right now, and there would be all kinds of complications with the FCC, but imagine how cool that would be!
Which is why he made the iPhone's circle both wider and taller than the S II's, I suppose?
> Edit: It's not a drug - but it will, imho, produce a change in the basic human condition, if/when implemented.

He's probably talking about an idea similar to the H+ neural implant (http://www.youtube.com/user/HplusDigitalSeries).

It's a nano device that is injected into or around your spine/brain, and after a week it learns how to interface with your body.

Then it links out to the network and you can do all the things that we can do now online, except it's all in your head.
Your using the wrong FB share count. Despite what some sites report, the correct number is 2.74 billion which means $57 billion at current price.
Yes, but it's still the connector most people put in correctly on the third try. ;-)
I tried to add your RSS feed [1] to my reader, but there are no articles there. I think you've misconfigured something.

Would love to have a nano tank like the one you describe. Please keep us posted.

[1] http://blog.automicrofarm.com/rss
Can you elaborate on why Scrum is not agile? You are the first I read claiming this.
Also, the new connector is reversible. I'll gladly take that over standard, although I know other people have different preferences.
This attack procedure applies only for dictionary based compressions. Correct?

What would be the procedure if you use bzip2 (which is based on Burrows-Wheeler transformation) compression?
Exactly - this is a major benefit of using tmpfs on /tmp
Doesn't help in the dark, which happens to me every night as I put it onto charge.
Break Apart Your Backbone Render Methods
Thanks! Next update will take care of the new iPhone :)
Analysis of the subreddit community structure
Fighting about ENCODE and junk
Sprint Life Hacking
PG: What would your advice be to someone with no co-founder? Apply anyway and see what you think, or don't even bother and wait until you've found someone to work with?

I appreciate the issues with single founder companies however am finding it hard to locate someone with the required interest and skill in my area.
Apple iPhone event live stream
No it doesn't. iPhone's new screen is 16:9, same as every Android phone. So a 4" iPhone screen would be exactly the same dimension as a 4" Android phone's screen.

Also check this out. The Droid RAZR M is just slightly taller than iPhone 4S, and I guess on par with the new iPhone - even though it has a 4.3" screen!

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/6242/DSC_8062_575px.jpg

http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ipho...
When does design simplicity work and when does it fail?
Since it's keeping the same width and that most apps are used in portrait mode, they just need to make sure they adapt to the longer screen.

For a lot of apps, it could mean doing nothing at all, since the typical app has a navigation bar at the top, which won't change, a list view which will just stretch longer and show more cells, and a tab navigation at the bottom, which won't change either.

Of course, this won't work for all apps, but at least it will work for many, whereas going for 720p, will make pretty much nothing work out of the box.
Not much. All existing apps will be letter-boxed, which means that for your app to take full advantage of iPhone 5, you'll have to submit a new version with tweaks for the larger screen.
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Solaris has done this for many years; it's not the end of the world as the author believes.
I think whether people have a right to do it (which I also believe they do), is less important than realizing that their desire and decision to do it is based on faulty logic. Depression completely changes the way people think.
Certainly a programmer should not be sitting idle waiting for tests to finish. If you have a test suite that takes hours, it should be run every night. If that's still not frequent enough, you want test runs during the day, and it would slow down your machine too much to do those while you are working, fire up an EC2 instance.
But it's not the fact that the data is being transported that's leading to new attacks, it's that the parties are online and responding to arbitrary messages sent by the attacker. The data itself isn't creating problems - what's new is the ability for the attacker to ask interactive questions of the parties.

When authenticating messages, a receiver necessarily gains the ability to reject a message as invalid. Adaptive chosen plaintext attacks arise when this rejection ends up containing more information than a simple Y/N. From the perspective of an attacker, the verifier becomes an oracle capable of answering say "How many bytes are valid", leading to a sub-brute-force attack.
using the metro interface was totally annoying for me. i disabled it immediately and the rest of the experience was ok.

fortunately my iMac doesn't force me to use the same UI as my iPhone, or I would be disabling that too. but then again, apple !== microsoft.