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i dont want to move anywhere. things are worse in other spaces.

iphone 5 is awesome. the point i was trying to make was, if they had notified us before the screen change, i could have waited and got the new ones.

I didnt say this when they released iphone 4s or iPhone 3gs where there wasn't a screen size change.
Comments like the ones you link to are the reason I blow so much time on HN.

I have read everything patio11 has written about consulting , twice. As I've said on HN before his writing has changed my life in a few dramatic and interesting ways. Specifically this guy: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/07/08/business-psychology/

I somehow missed that link you posted by tptacek but it truly is a gem. I'm at about stage 2 of that now and it's exactly what I needed to hear.
Yeah, this is a Django thing, still, you can put your Django project one directory deep in your project tree and do as you said.
Very cool, especially for a 4-hour-project! And it works really well. I just don't know what I should use it for...
They don't want to support non-Javascript browsers, but they don't want users who've turned off Javascript to think their site is broken. So they put a warning box up to explain the situation. Seems fair enough, as long as it's just a passive warning rather than blocking the actual site.
In the realm of web-apps though, unqualified tyre-kickers i.e. people who just try the demo, have an almost non-existing cost (a bit of traffic and a few system transactions).

So I can't see why you would sacrifice more potential customers (higher funnel throughput) for an artificially higher conversion rate.

I mean the conversion rate is just a metric. A conversion rate of 5% of 1000 is better than 10% of 400. The goal must surely be, at least as long as the cost of serving a tyre-kicker is almost nothing, to get as many to try as possible.
> Name for me one brand new feature

I don't understand all the negative reactions - name one brand new and truly "wowing" feature the new Galaxy brought to the table? Pretty much all modern smartphones are at the technological cutting-edge and I cannot think of much they could possible squeeze into those things. You already have all sorts of sensors and pretty much all connectivity options you could possibly want and it can do frakking 3D games in the palm of your hand too and play music and videos and etc.

NFC could be interesting but I am happy enough with paying with my CCs or directly playing with my ATM card in a LOT of stores here in Europe. I don't see what paying-over-NFC could do for me. And wireless charging? Sounds incredible and very "sexy" for the average user but really, very "meh" for me. You still going to have to plug something in somewhere... I could not care less.

I can understand people feel a little disappointed but really, what was everyone expecting??? ALL current smartphones were just relatively small updates to existing models. Everyone is doing the "xx% slimmer/lighter/longer/bigger" increments and has been for some time now. There was no "paradigm shift" in ANY one of them. What were people hoping Apple would do... add a nuclear reactor or some drones or what?
I have that happen with current iOS (Google) all the time.

Don't type: "21st and 6th", type "21st and 6th, CITY".
Goodness is this true. Early in my career I worked some positions that were great career-wise, but terrible commute-wise. I simply didn't know what a difference a short commute made in quality of life. Over the years I went from a 2 hour commute down to a 20-30 minute commute and I couldn't really see going back. It really restricts that places I can look for work as I love where I live, but the tradeoff is worth not spending 2-5 hours a day stuck in my car doing really a bunch of nothing. There really is a limit to how much music and audiobooks you can tolerate day after day.
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I agree that PayPal does a good job to deal with a very, very hard and very real problem of fraud but that's not the issue. The issue is the part that comes after the account freeze, the part that frequently seems to take a large amount of internet frenzy to get PayPal to pick up the phone and go 'we're really sorry, we'll sort it out today'.

They're getting better, and taking steps in the right direction but they really need to step up the processes for dealing with the aftermath of it, blocking something for fraud is a good thing, making someone run around for months and months is a bad thing.

(Upvoted as it was a genuinely insightful post)
I'm using "PLSQL Developer" at work instead of console prompt (sqlplus in my case), and it works in similiar way to xexi (but the results are in tabbed, excel-like grid in the bottom - you can edit it, sort, filter, etc, instead of right inside the main window). But the interaction is similiar to that of screencast - you write a few queries in the main window, click and CTRL+ENTER to run a query, you can at any time change them like in normal editor, or edit results and save them if you want.

It works great, much faster than regular prompt. Shame it's only for oracle db.
The 9th paragraph from the end of this article on Salman Rushdie (I'd recommend the whole thing)discusses the British security approach versus the American. Big presence versus almost no presence.
Rushdie is oddly relevant here...
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/17/120917fa_fact_...
I don't see it as a gimic. Microsoft has the amazing Kinect, and 3D projection is its missing counterpart. That combination could lead to a new experience of gaming for some titles. Its a shame its limited to games...
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No, this is totally insecure. You're supposed to generate a public/private key pair for the user, encrypt the hash with the public key and store the private key in a separate database on a separate server that isn't connected to the internet and doesn't allow remote log-in from the lan.
These types of complex mutualistic interaction between multiple species are precisely what biologists predict are most prone to being disrupted by environmental degradation and climate change, leading to high extinction risk for the dependent species. This fascinating flower (one of the few "living fossils" in the yam family) has been successful in persisting over vast evolutionary time scales, yet is now critically endangered. In the face of the mass extinction event we humans seem determined to inflict on our biosphere, conservationists often advocate concentrating our efforts on saving ancient species like Borderea chouardii, because they present relatively isolated, long branches on the tree of life. This means that saving them equates to saving the maximum evolutionary history - and thus the maximum phylogenetic diversity - with the minimum effort. (In practice, many other factors have to be taken into account.)
I also like it if it is 20 to 30 minutes by bicycle. That way I already get some exercise in for the day.
I get that perhaps some people are bored with the insistence that companies like Dropbox/Airbnb/etc are just money making machines and arguably (n.b. not my argument) don't make the world a better place... but porn sites seem to make the world a worse place: by making porn users less capable of enjoying ordinary sex (habituation to super-stimuli) and less capable of participation in ordinary sex (increased rates of erectile dysfunction); this doesn't just harm users' sex lives, but also their emotional and romantic lives, and those of the people they'd like to share them with.
How to piss off Indian call centre employees and have fun.
"Oops, an error occured."

Perhaps another hour on QA wouldn't go amiss...
Looks very nice. However, what must be typed in is somewhat unclear. Maybe you could add a small help label or something?
Co-founder dynamics are extremely important and extremely fragile.

You are choosing someone to go on long term journey, where you will no longer only be building something cool, but you'll be building a company, be responsible for hiring and, God forbid, firing people. You will be responsible for your employee's lives, and their families, you will be responsible for your investors time and effort to make all your promises come true.

All of this becomes extremely harder after you've been traveling alone for a long time (which can often be a few months, as startups are that intense). Sharing all this responsibilities with someone who has not been there from day one is challenging for both parties: can you trust them to be with you in the long run, do you agree in fundamental things, how do you deal with different company stakes and vesting periods? And, if you ever pivot (as many successful startups have[1]), how will all of these pressures come to live?

And it gets worse after you get investment (in the form of YC money, angel money, and progressively more) as your choice of co-founder will likely reflect on you, from your investor's idea. And it always add risk to the table, no matter how you put it.

All of this while still working and growing your startup.

Don't take this lightly. It may be harder to find a proper co-founder under these circumstances than founding a successful startup. But being able to have people you trust beside you building a company can be an invaluable thing.

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/1836238/how-eric-ries-coined-pivo...
Obviously MG is a big, big fan of Apple but that was a pretty solid article. And he's right, Apple is just hammering it down now and making it as good as can be, because that's what Apple does with pretty much every product it releases and that's great.

I'm pretty sure if Apple wanted to they could sit and pull out concept devices all day long, but that's cost intensive and reaps comparatively little reward compared to making something that's nigh on iconic and then improving it constantly. It's the 911 theory basically, take a really good product and improve and improve and improve. There'll be detractors of it, but there'll also be a dedicated group of people that will love the fact it's the product of their dreams but better.
People do run HTTPS clients on AWS, though. Web APIs tend to [1] require exactly that.

[1] Lala people never send sensitive data over plain HTTP I'M NOT HEARING YOU.
This is true, but: for many areas of expertise where I am pretty much ignorant, I wouldn't even know about existence of certain terms, ideas and starting points if I haven't first read about them on internet forums. With the obvious disclaimer that I usually do a followup readup on such topics.

So "stop reading these and ask an expert" is obviously a good piece of advice for someone seeking resolution of their own serious problems but there's still value in reading internet discussions.
Thanks! :).
License to create? Information overload is no longer an issue
But Samsung didn't deliver any magic in the S3 - and what could Apple have delivered as a super-duper-WOW feature? I cannot think of any technologies out there that they haven't squeezed in there yet and I don't think "wireless charging" is anything to really care about, novelty and "OMG!" factor aside. Adding NFC would have also been just catching up and personally, I cannot see the benefit from NFC and it looks like Apple can't either.

So what is left then? What COULD they have added to floor people? Nuclear reactor? Drones? I cannot think of anything.
Ah yes - I did have a job years ago where I had a 12 mile cycle to work (generally uphill and into the prevailing wind) and there was the opportunity to go for much longer offroad cycles in the Pentland Hills in the evening.
Imagining that your RSS client does not support filtering or rules, you can use these to get the filtering performed directly on the server. Can be convenient.
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Completely unrealistic but a cool "device of the future" video.
> Where's the innovation?

Where was the innovation in the S2, S3 or the Nokia 920? And no, nfc nor wireless-charging don't really floor me. These are pretty small.
The description mentions that this has been done in 4 hours, bugs are to be expected. Your message thus just sounds condescending.
I may be in the minority here, and obviously no-one should continue to work in a job that makes them unhappy or is abusive, but work is work and fun is fun.

Work is what you do to pay the morgage, feed your kids and put them through school etc. It may suck, but (speaking as a husband and father) I have responsibilities that trump whether I am enjoying every hour of my work day.

Fun is the stuff that you do voluntarily because you enjoy it.

If you can get the two to overlap, great, but I would say that is the vast minority of people and for most probably unachievable. But, that's OK.

If work was that much fun, then they wouldn't need to pay you to do it.
CLA... wow, this is bad and sad. :(
Seems on-topic to me. See how subjective life is?

It concerns someone who is a founder, personal wealth and its relation to society. That's pretty interesting to a group of people.
So for this to work, an attacker needs to be a Man In The Middle, and get the attacked client to execute some malicious Javascript, which in turn crafts requests to a target site which uses TLS and SPDY. The MITM intercepts and compares the encrypted and compressed payload for recurring patterns that result when using DEFLATE. By playing with the crafted requests, he can e.g. guess cookie values that were added by the browser to the request (as many XSS attacks work) by comparing the lengths of the encrypted payloads.

See http://security.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/how-can-you-protect... for technical details.

This seems to be a very basic attack, wondering why this attack vector wasn't publicly known much earlier...
QR code is unfortunately still more common than NFC. Everyone was hoping that Apple would make NFC common.
If it's monospaced, I'm good. Far more important is the colour of my chair, it must be red or I simply can't get anything done.
Sure when you look at the mm and g it seems ridiculous but 20% lighter, 33% slimmer and stronger hardware and battery? I don't think this is SO insignificant in terms of miniaturization. They are already extremely thin and light, then managed to reduce if yet again by a fifth and a third. And the variations for their parts are below tenth of 1mm.
Chart showing dimensions of iPhone 5 compared to other smartphones
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A players hire A players, B players hire C players

Likely or not? Maybe the new CEO just realized that and is fixing the house.
Your story is no different than what PayPal sent in their email to a select number of account holders; that they will continue to freeze accounts (or as you put it, "rob" people) until you have an outstanding account performance (or as you put it, start making real money).

Never mind having had a clean track record for years, your reputation, credit history, no chargebacks, no disputes, you will still be held to the same scrutiny until you start performing "outstanding".

Your experience only shows they've always made exceptions and the email they sent out is just to make that fact public which doesn't change a single thing.
Neither credit card nor ATM-cards managed to get rid of cash. Honest question: why should NFC-paying and what does it have to offer more when compared to just using your CC or ATM card?
I would genuinely be interested to hear what makes IntelliJ Idea better than, let's say, Eclipse for example.

I know Eclipse is a bit slow, and sometimes buggy (mostly due to addons installed on top of it), but it is also free, open source, and powerful. I would thus be interested to hear about IntelliJ Idea.
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Why is streaming from a webcam so difficult?
There are a bunch of folk (me included) who spend a lot of time thinking about getting UX and Agile folk to play nice together. You can find some of my rantings via lanyrd http://lanyrd.com/profile/adrianh/.

You'll likely find Jeff Patton's work of interest - this might be a good starting point http://agileproductdesign.com/blog/emerging_best_agile_ux_pr....

There's a stack of stuff under https://pinboard.in/u:adrianh/t:agile/t:ux that you may find interesting. Some of it may need filtering through my brain before you see the agile/ux connection though :-)

The UX track at Agile 2012 had a bunch of great sessions around getting UX and agile running well together (bias warning - I produced the track :-) http://agile2012.sched.org/overview/type/user+experience - I think all the sessions have slides now. Nag me if not.

There are also the sessions from Agile UX NYC earlier this year http://agileuxnyc.com/presentations/

Personally I'm finding UX works better outside of an iteration context with a more lean/kanban approach. The stuff Janice Fraser is doing at LUXr for example http://www.slideshare.net/clevergirl/. Google around the "Lean UX" topic. Ignore the folk who talk about it as if it's just about less deliverables. It's more than that.

Finally the agile usability mailing list http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/agile-usability/ is a useful place to chat about this sort of stuff.
Congratulations to them. Does seem like an age old industry to 'disrupt'
There is something magical about Firefox OS
See also popular understanding of migraines, which aren't merely bad headaches. (And for that matter, flu isn't just a bad cold.)
Uber is a good example. Started as a black car service for Silicon Valley but are fixing transportation problems in major cities with eventually 5+ modes of transport for anyone. They're fixing urban logistics, at first they were a neat app.
Works on FreeBSD's make as well (with a sligthly different output format).
> Firstly, the authors still found a difference in effect depending on the severity of the depression of the presenting patient.

Yes, and they came to the same conclusion that I stated in my original post -- for the majority of people, antidepression medications do not work. This is a fact that's being kept out of the public's view the the degree possible.

But those efforts seem to be eroding:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-02-26-depression-st...

A quote: "Given these results, there seems little reason to prescribe antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients unless alternative treatments have failed to provide a benefit."

> Second, this paper is not without its critics ...

And that is the way it should be. But until the critics perform their own studies of equal quality, the result stands. This is how science works -- authority means nothing -- evidence trumps eminence.

> Thirdly, you do a disservice to psychologist and psychiatrists if you believe they are further behind on their reading than either you or I.

Believe me when I tell you, based on my voluminous correspondence with psychiatrists and psychologists, they aren't very well-read at all on this topic. That is how they justify writing all those prescriptions for ineffective drugs.
This would just mean you would have to run a very large number of requests, and take an average of them. That might be trickier, but if you can persuade a page to auto-reload it sounds quite possible.

Another option, a little trickier, is that you could take user-definable values (like cookies) and not compress them. I haven't looked carefully at DEFLATE, but in many other compression systems you can choose to simply not compress a short part of the stream. This could get complicated of course.
Apple created the modern smartphone; they did definitely not invent all the necessary technologies but they were absolutely the first ones to come up with a package that people actually loved and bought. Before that, such a package did definitely NOT exist. Together with the "Apps" and AppStore, that is a market that Apple created.

And they did the same with the tablet, they created a market that did not exist before - from existing technologies.
We didn't game anything. We're a small startup trying to disrupt much larger competitors and there are actually some very hard technical problems we are solving. I agree that what we do isn't as sexy as many other things out there but we are trying to solve a big problem that a lot of people have.
I've done a bunch of reading about Scrum

Without trying to be inflammatory, this is no way qualifies you to speak with any authority on Scrum, or indeed any topic where your experience amounts to nothing more than a bunch of reading.

That is not to say that you don't make any valid points. I think the fundamental tenets could be relaxed over time, but I guess with some organisations when you start removing some of the restrictions you'll eventually remove more and more until you're back where you started.
Of course, apply with your current idea. None of the accelerators have anything against existing product. The later the stage, the easier it gets to make a decision. And from your side, your product hold more truth than the application itself.

On the other hand, if you are about to launch but you are ready to give up something at this stage just to work on something else for YC, you have a different problem, think again :)
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The article is very poor.

The facts are that from the early 1990s the use of EPO was widespread in professional cycling.The evidence for this is overwhelming (will clarify this but assume needs no explanation) but very few riders failed dope tests.

The way that most were discovered was from the fallout from various scandals, when certain teams were caught with blood, drugs and the like.

Confessions and allegations followed from certain riders, who no doubt were cooperating with a view to being treated more leniently.

Where Lance fits in is that his team had many dopers, who have cooperated with the authorities and named names.

What is unsatisfactory is that no the only evidence against Armstrong appears to be the word of these people. No samples have been retested, no bags of Armstrong's blood have been found etc.

It is undoubtedly the case that Armstrong's performances, where he convincingly beat known dopers and delivered power outputs that are thought implausibly high, deserve serious scrutiny.

So too, do the performances of many other sportsmen. What is needed is proper investigations with real evidence.
I'm always a bit surprised that an open source project can change its licensing terms so easily. Can't any contributor to the project with their code upstream oppose this change? How does that work?
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Smoking Ban Compulsion, People’s Opinion Still Absent
Can you help me understand why NFC matters? It is not like using my credit-cards or ATM-cards or just plain-old-cash didn't work just fine and comfortable and reliable enough...? I honestly don't understand it, especially from the "payment industry"'s point of view - why would they care? It is just costs to them and they wouldn't be able to replace existing payment terminals either because people will still use cards or just cash.