skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I was thinking for a second there that it was Lightning to Thunderbolt and that I would have to pay extra just to buy the USB adapter to charge the new iPhone. Glad that's not the case.
So, to summarize for the laypeople, if the user has Javascript and/or cookies disabled, this exploit will not work?
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The iPhone 5: A Tale of Adventure & Delight
MEMS barometers are commonly used for relative altimetry (e.g. stair climb calculations on activity trackers, etc).
People keep saying that, but no, Apple are not "marketing experts".

They just make cool stuff people want to buy. Most of the "marketing" is grassroots.

What exactly is the "brilliant marketing" they do? Make some good tv ads and being secretive before launch? It would hardly be a benefit to be secretive if people don't care about the end product in the first place. In fact, being secretive is the anti-marketing.

In my country we didn't even have any of their TV or billboard ads (and we still don't), and yet everybody knows the brand and lusted over/buyed the products.

MS, on the other hand, spends tons for advertising, promotion, special events and the like.
IPhone 5 vs. iPhone 4S: what's changed?
Which has me turning my phone off, and then unlocking to the camera because it's quicker than swiping 3-4 times to get to my camera app.
Putting a self-contained piece of wireless pentesting kit into the hands of every preteen with rich parents, and then allowing any app developer to blast arbitrary RF through the airwaves doesn't exactly strike me as a good idea.

It certainly would encourage small businesses to fnially secure their wireless networks.

Guess we'll see whether WPA2's security is as strong as imagined.
I would expect them to extravagate only slightly. But "the biggest thing to happen to the iphone since iphone" is pure BS.
We lost data in the github crash, did you lose data as well?
I just noticed that we had at least one pull request go missing after the github crash(es) this week.

Out of curiosity did anyone else lose something and in that case what did you lose?
I think it does, although not precisely as described in the SO post above: in SPDY the request headers are compressed separately before any TLS compression would apply, so the attacker would have to put her guess of the cookie in the request headers or the URL (as the URL is sent as a pseudo-header in SPDY).
I noticed that micro USB is better in this respect.
It's mainly[0] to give the phone/tablet a rough altitude reading to make GPS locks faster.

[0] https://plus.google.com/112413860260589530492/posts/jVJhPyou...

EDIT: relevant thread
New processor, new internals, new OS, new camera are all just expected upgrades at this point. Where's the innovation? That's what I'm expecting.
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#9 is transhumanist dogwhistle phrasing-- it essentially means the end of the world.
Why the only thing some “Entrepreneurs” will invent is excuses
Good Luck Google!
They had to save some things for the iPhone 6.
Sept 21st with preorders on sept 14
Unfortunately, the iodine has to be available before the third trimester for the full 10-15 point effect. :)

For everyone reading this, it's already far far too late. I've been compiling some of the child & adult iodine studies into a little meta-analysis: http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#iodine

Current conclusion: for 13+ year olds, the effect size is (95% CI) -0.11 to 0.29. Yes, we can't even rule out that iodine is harmful to adults.
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I guess. They can't all be the 'biggest' though. And the subtlety is in fact the play on typical marketing-speak, which, as evidenced by the parent comment here -- and many others -- is typically ingested wholesale by the consuming public.

I imagine AAPL are not worried about turning off the hyper-literal critics amongst the crowd.

Good lord, what am I doing debating/discussing a marketing headline... Anyway.
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Lack of NFC makes me sad, but I've been screwing around with Bluetooth 4.0 LE recently, and I think I can do basically all the things I want (in a closed ecosystem -- access control, digital leash, etc.) using 4.0 LE, and then use 2d barcodes on screen for interfacing to existing systems. It fails to mass transit, but I have a car.

The main things I would have liked:
* "geofencing" in some security-strong way to let a phone use a 4-digit pin when in home/office, and a longer PIN when outside the home/office. Could ninja this on Android I think (you'd do some kind of low-latency challenge-response on a LAN -- depending on the threat model, even 802.1X might be ok, but wouldn't resist an RF relay over a long tunnel...)

* Biometric authentication on the device

* Integrated credential management ("Passbook for Websites") where SSL client certs, passwords, or something got managed inside the secure element of the phone

And, a real stretch, but a 128 or 256GB "pro" version of the phone, even if it cost 2x as much. Kill the iPod Classic.
Yes, it's fairly obvious (after you pointed it out).
I would assume that the people who use them would describe them as "marketing tactics" and not "disdainful exploits". Not that I disagree with you.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say

- you could try to change career, become a renowned research scientist and invent number 3-8 on the Yudkowsky Ambition scale, but ...

You are just one person, probably without the right inclinations to be a world class researcher (or frankly you would have become one, it would have been an irristable calling)

So a more worthwhile use of your time and effort would be as part of a co-ordinated effort to select, support and reward a world wide network of inter-dependant researchers, and then layers of secondary innovators and implementors who in totality will bring the benefits of scientific progress to all humanity.

They also serve who stand and insist politicians use
empirical based testing to validate their spending on
our behalf

As it were
that's literally the only thing stopping it from happening. the FCC is terrified that someone could write a virus which could then jam emergency radio frequencies.
has anybody seen the pricing for this?? outrageous!!
http://static.ips.apple.com.edgekey.net/ipa_preauth/content/...

Look specifically at the data plans
Agree, but it's ugly and purposeless. I think the nano (wrist watch)could have been a great product with wireless iOS integration,like Pebble.
Isn't that just a No True Scotsman argument? You're saying that Agile is good because it's isomorphic to any successful, minimal ad hoc process that fits the project. Well, OK, if that's your defintion of "Agile".

But the "Agile" (rather "Scrum") described in books and web videos and blog posts isn't like that at all. It has become a decidedly "heavy" process with all sorts of jargon behind it. My guess is that this is what the linked post was talking about, and not your "Agile==good" metadefinition.
The RI team is hiring if you want to put your research to good use. Just get in touch with me via the email address in my HN profile.
Have there been any proposed contenders to TLS/SSL?
For clarity, the current and new ways to use bcrypt in PHP:

// pre-5.5
$salt = substr(strtr(base64_encode(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(16)), ['+' => '.']), 0, 22);
$hash = crypt($password, '$2a$10$'.$salt);

$match = crypt($password, $hash) == $hash;

// post-5.5
$hash = password_hash($password, PASSWORD_BCRYPT, ['cost' => 10]);
$match = password_verify($password, $hash);

Brilliant effort and should really help to ensure password security on the web.
Every release for Apple is the biggest thing they've done so far. Apple does not do uninteresting releases. At least, they don't tell you that.
Apple unveils its newest innovation: not innovating.
Careful: you're outlining the attack well, but you wouldn't want to give someone the impression that defending against CSRF also defends against attacks like BEAST.
> NFC and wireless charging? Who promised you that? And who delivers those at the moment?

I believe the new Lumia 920 by Nokia has both NFC and wireless charging. Not that those alone make one better than the other but just pointing out that they do exist.
Guess who can give you more privacy: Apple making money from selling hardware, or Google making money from selling ads?
Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't mean to fault them for not changing much; sometimes there simply isn't a lot that should be changed. I just think it wasn't a particularly bright wording.
Started work on my new startup :)
Got the following when trying to sign-up:

405 Method Not Allowed
The method POST is not allowed for this resource.

Typed in an email and clicked Go.
The thing is, the scraps from the talent wars here are, generally speaking, competitive with the best from elsewhere. Yeah, wages are a whole lot higher; but I've moved back and forth from SV to the Sacramento area several times - It's really funny how a 3 hour drive takes me from being a 'meh' employee... middle of the road kind of guy to being the go-to guy; the best on the team.

If anything, I think the talent gap makes the pay difference seem small.

The cost of living gap isn't as huge as you'd think, either; especially for the childless (and let's be honest; Illegal or not, everyone discriminates against parents. Once you have kids, well, your job just isn't your highest priority anymore, and rightly so.) I mean, in the suburbs around sacramento, you get a reasonable single family home for the price of a silicon valley condo. Let's simplify and say you pay half as much for housing. But housing is a vanishingly small part of a nerd's budget, at least until kids come. Yeah, food, gas and stuff cost a little bit more... call it 10%? not a lot more. Cars, computers, non-real-estate capital goods and gadgets cost the same or are slightly cheaper in slicon valley.

I mean, yeah, when it comes time to have kids? you have a point. But for childless nerds? silicon valley looks pretty nice.
Law of diminishing returns?
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Show HN: Spoiler Free Apple Keynote (iPhone 5)
I wanted to watch the video on the page, but it told me to install QuickTime. Yeah, sure...
I am just like that, but I got one thing - if you want to live within existing ecosystem, you have to apply certain rules to yourself as well. Yes, these rules are stupid sometimes (education requirements,) but we live in real world, not ideal one. If you want to get hired (i.e. become part of the "system") - get education and piece of paper to show to HRs, otherwise - start on your own.
I don't know... what kind of impact has the internet actually made on human lifespans, or manufacturing output?

The internet has affected global GDP a lot, but almost entirely in the "moving numbers around in a database" fields, with all the profit ending up in the pockets of a few hundred hyperrich. (high finance, entertainment)
Help people to make more babies perhaps?
There are multiple purposes for a firearm (hunting, sport, and self defense). Already, you're wrong in your assertion. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, since i was obviously talking in the context of self-defense.

No, I do not WANT to kill anyone. I hope I never have to kill anyone. To imply that I sit here now desiring harm against some unknown person since I own a weapon is absurd.

That's like saying I want my house to burn because I have a smokey detector. After all, why would I want to detect smoke unless I wanted smoke to detect?
But the appropriate area for fundamental research is in explaining consciousness and intelligence so that in the future someone trying to build an AI can actually define what they are trying to build.

That kind of science takes large scale organization and specialization by each person in a narrow field. It carries enormous organizational costs. It's also frequently quite a lot of boring work.

Easier to just speculate on a wide area of interesting topics while you wait for people to do the real work.

Looks like I leaned so far towards the cynical interpretation that I fell over on it.
Were you even along for the ride man?

Jobs/Apple was never about bundling tons of irrelevant features together (wireless charging? Please...), and winning by ticking feature checkboxes.

Jobs used to introduce a new iPod model every year or so. And he also got to introduce 4 iPhone models. Lots of times the changes were incremental (3G -> 3GS for example).

Heck, back in the day, a new color or some more storage was considered a huge improvement over the previous iPod model. People literally went bezerk in the possibility that the next iPod could also play video (imagine that!).

And now you have a mature phone, in it's 6th version, fast as hell, with a GPU that you would have killed for to have in your laptop half a decade ago, camera, gyro, retina, bigger screen, thin, new extremely featured iOS, some 500.000+ apps etc. What exactly do you want with that? Magic sprinkle dust?

I would be satisfied even if Apple had only sticked to making computers/OS. They have far surpassed that. Nobody even asked them to make mp3 players, phones, or tablets in the first place. Since we will be using all of the above for the next 20 years, I think they will be fine, even if they dont pull another market/device out of their hats...
Some ill-sourced dirty laundry about Apple Retail does not apply here. If I may engage in some hyperbole: this is the highest-profile product in all of consumer electronics that is at the forefront of almost any discussion regarding the biggest change in how seven billion humans spend their days in a long, long time. And disrupting a decade-old ecosystem of a billion 'things' is not engaged in for cost saving measures.
Now I don't know what to buy!
Don't forget double rot13.
Not sure if anyone will ever see this...

It is not a traditional module I will agree. However I see it as a hybrid class/interface/module and in this role, it works very well and allows you a tremendous amount of flexibility due to the dynamicness of js.
This announcement plays into my theory that Apple will miss Steve Jobs a lot. It was very much a 'gradual improvement' -- and 'routine' announcement.

A few missteps, from my perspective:
* Apple Maps -- while this may prove good for mapping technology in the long run, I think the iPhone users will miss Google Maps quite a bit, for now.
* Seemingly no fundamental improvement to Siri. "Conversational Searching" is the best way for Apple to bring the fight to Google, because this is the natural evolution of search. Why type queries into a search engine, when you can have a conversation with an AI instead? Google sees this danger and is developing Google Now, leaping ahead quickly.
* No signs of trying to get into the emerging mobile payments battle.

All in all I didn't get the feeling of a large vision being played out or of an arc of forward advance, but rather a feeling of slowing momentum.
Of course it's marketing, and Apple certainly isn't alone in selling stuff with hyperbole.

What I think the grandparent was getting to isn't pointing out the silliness of the ad copy, but that the actual device being advertised is an underwhelming incremental improvement. This is less of an improvement on the 4S than the 4S was over the 4, and the 4S was uniformly dinged for being a disappointing (most of the best new stuff was software) iteration.

Really, this isn't even to ding Apple: smartphones are becoming commdities. The years of rapid evolution are behind us. The Android market is seeing similar pressure, as the most recent phones all more or less look and work identically.
> Name for me one brand new feature.

LTE
Different ways to write the same thing don't warrant a language change.

I have Go experience, didn't not find any of the features you referred that different than similar features in other more established languages.

Go is amazing for people with limited language experience, which have not tried the wide spectrum of languages and abstractions that are already available.
I'm sorry you are so brainwashed by Apple marketing. Apple's Ax line is using reference ARM designs, with negligible modifications.
They're very useful for fine-tuning altitude readings.
I've been interested in applying to YC for quite a while, but recently I graduated and moved to the south bay (near Mountain View) for work. It really stood out to me this time that $11,000 + $3,000n is not a lot of money. With 3 founders that's $20,000. 3 founders working in the tech industry can make $20,000 PER MONTH on typical salaries. It seems like it would be more appealing to people without good paying work, or who are interested more for the connections (which maybe applies to me, I'm thinking about it). Assuming all 3 founders cohabit (which I think is standard), this is a reasonable amount of money to live on, but it would be fairly bare bones if my quick mental math is right.
No more putting in the connector upside down
is the screen still made of glass that will shatter if you drop it to the ground? If glass, I hope they have managed to hardend it. Also I dont want those silly bands/rubber rings around the phone.
Chrome for Android just got safer
The Amazon Kindle HD press conference was more exciting.

Kindle x-ray is an amazing feature, and the front lit display is really an achievement.

I guess apple doesn't have the same fire to innovate that it used to. This might be proof that Patents don't spur innovation.
Most cellphone makers will come up with a new product name or number because someone sneezed at the factory, and you're complaining that Apple went from 4 to 5 in two years merely because they improved every single aspect of the phone? Gee. Tough crowd.
I think you didn't get the joke. Great that you don't think the iPhone is up to snuff, but the marketing slogan is a play on the size of the device.

That part is quite clever and will perfectly communicate to people what's new about the iPhone.
In this case I can blame the user if what was described is true. While correct that the checkbox is off to the side, not really hidden, the problem surfaces when they get to the next screen. There they are supposedly offered an explanation of what's going with an option to say no that is all provided by Facebook, not Zynga. If at that point the person quickly clicks yes just because they want to get back to the game then I would say that's their fault.

If moving forward required clicking an okay with no other obvious out, then I would agree. But in this case they had two chances; the first with a not-so obvious opt-out while the second had the obvious opt-out.
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I don't know how these acquisitions are relevant at all given that all dissections of A-series chips revealed reference ARM Cortex designs underneath. At best Apple design packaging of these chips, but that's 1% of work.
Yesterday, comedian Chris Gethard wrote a long and poignant letter to an anonymous fan wrestling with depression and suicidal thoughts. A very interesting read:

http://thechrisgethardshow.tumblr.com/post/31345619495/for-g...
It's funny, but that chart made me want to buy the Galaxy S3 ... on specs alone O.o.

... also, I tend to like Android, especially for the back-button.
How accurate are they for relative altimetry indoors? I could imagine climate control throwing in a decent margin of error if all the inputs/outputs (vents and blowers?) aren't balanced correctly.

Edit: They probably carry barometers already, but AC installer people could make use of phones with this hardware.
Outside of tech geeks, real people don't care about this. They care about the UX.
At WWDC, in the external accessory and core bluetooth talks, they make mention that they would prefer to see bluetooth 4.0 LE profiles for payment systems, and other NFC type applications. I think this is a big reason they feel they don't need NFC.

The Core Bluetooth framework is definitely worth looking at if you are interested in iPhone external connectivity stuff.
"infinite hype"? Where? They announced an event, the day came, they announced the product. A slogan like that on the product announcement/product page, does not amount to "infinite hype".

If you want to see "infinite hype", check the Microsoft Courier and other hypeware, in which videos were made, the press touted it for months, it was announced to be "the future" and nothing came of it.

"Zero payoff"? Really? It's an amazing device to upgrade to, after your 2-year contract ends, even if it doesn't have magic unicorn powers. It's the best iPhone YET made, period, I don't think someone can argue against that (and no, it's not a guarantee with any product update to be better than the last one).

Your response amounts to the proverbial: "No wireless, less space than a Nomad. Lame".

>Name for me one brand new feature

"Brand new" is used here to preempt any mention of the tons of incremental improvements?
>Name for me one brand new feature.

Navigation App
Really? I found the pacing incredibly slow.
I don't think anyone seeing this marketing slogan is going to think that this is the reason.
Altitude measurements. My (standalone) GPS 10 years ago had it as one of its main features. The extra hardware needed on a phone can't be that much.
No Silverlight I guess.
NFC: http://www.nfcworld.com/nfc-phones-list/#available
Wireless charging: Lumia http://mashable.com/2012/09/05/nokia-wireless-charging/
That's just an implementation detail of an improvement of an existing feature.
It's not about the money, it's enough to survive. The founders of Reddit after selling their company for tens of millions went through YC again for Hipmunk. It's not about the money, its about the people.
> Depression completely changes the way people think.

But that's the point, right? Depression causes so much pain that some people decide it is better to end their life rather than suffer. I don't see how it's any different than someone in chronic pain from any terminal illness desiring physician-assisted suicide. Of course their decision is affected by the pain they're suffering. That's the whole point.
Do you work for Samsung's legal team? ;)
I'd call this an antifeature. Generally, I want to decide when to use the camera. (Also, I have children.)
A technical description and how they got it running together with more pictures:

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_supercomput...

As you can see from the pictures each of the devices uses its own power supply, so there should be quite some possibility to improve overall power consumption.

Anybody with more experience of using MPI ?
I picked up an HTC One S yesterday, since my previous droid was stolen. This phone is a tank. Compared to my previous, Galaxy S 4G, it's solid as a rock.
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NFC and wireless charging? Who promised you that?

Sorry, false dilemma and totally disingenuous. Just because no one promised it doesn't mean that one couldn't hope for it or be disappointed at its absence. Similarly, having big deal features like those are reasonable expectations for comparison to the original Iphone for "bigness" which I interpret as "important new features that will change how most people use phones in a radical way".

It would in fact be a really big deal if Apple included those - NFC is a fantastic idea that the Iphone could really launch into big-time use. It would in fact be a really big deal if they had wireless charging. Both those would more or less require all the other phones did it too, drastically changing the landscape for a lot of things.
Good developers+zero formal process only works to a certain scale, though. I think that's where scrum might have a place, just enough process to keep things from going off the rails when the team is too big to self-organize over a long period of time.

Agree about the danger of zealotry though. Also, the vocabulary is just so ridiculous - I have to mentally think "black dog grooming" when I say "backlog grooming" just to keep my self-respect.
Poverty is the state of nature.
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