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#1 investigates breaches of Internet civil liberties.

#2 Provide legal support to people who's civil liberties has been violated. Mostly related to free speech.

#3 Protects security researchers from government harassment, particularly those who produce encryption software.

#4 Develops software security tools, like https everywhere.

#5 Uses legal tools to get government to admit and publicly release documents related to surveillance, incorrect search and seizures, anti-file sharing laws, patents and free speech. see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_litigation_involving_t...
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Yes that would be a solution too. But I think it increases the barrier to action and participation of the members of the group. I don't use that much Twitter so I would probably miss on the request for help.

I think the automatic bot style is the way to go.
The importance is not the "really thought out message" that someone can send, while rather the low latency, the immediacy of the reply to those that need it. So timing is more important. At least this is what I felt from the positive comments you showed off in your blog post. :)
I found this talk rather illuminating; I try to re-read it at least every couple years.

http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html

It's largely about Perl (delivered at a Linux conference), but I believe it will give you some material to consider while exploring how postmodernism applies to technology.
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It's also $200-$300 cheaper than other manufacturer's top offerings, so...
I dont think news.ycombinator.com is that usable on iphone either. I use ihackernews.com for 98% of my HN browsing.
Try it on your phone.
I just tried it, and it's even worse. While it doesn't do anything as brain-damaged as font boosting (at least not on HN), I uninstalled it after 45 seconds when I saw what it does to fonts. I don't care what it does wrong, but fonts definitely look different than on the whole OS and just generally bad. I know that getting this thing quite right isn't easy, but holy hell, is it annoying.

I'm too lazy for this shit. If there's no popular, working, desktop-class browser available for this platform, then, sincerely, fuck this shit, my next phone is iPhone, thank you very much.
Neat idea. It is amazing how often those phrases come up.

It's also interesting that people would find comfort in a random tweeter passing them a hug. Imagine in real life some strange guy coming up and hugging you - a bit odd to say the least. Not that a virtual hug is the same thing, but one would think people would be more often turned off than happy, but apparently folks on twitter are different than I think they are.

It's a shame twitter keeps banning you - you would think they wouldn't want to keep wasting their time reviewing it and give you a once and for all yes or no.
Man, the first paragraph made me think I'm at www.reddit.com/r/nba/

Although I agree with your comments I still think it's an inefficient use of his talents (stepping further outside to make room for LBJ and Wade).

Either way, I'm expecting him to have his best statistical season this year, which may mean he'll become too expensive for the Heat.
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Ask HN: Where to work in Chicago tomorrow?
Is there a co-working space or a startup space that I can work at tomorrow? In the loop, near metro is preferable.
There are lots of startups in Berlin, and the tech scene is flourishing. However, I always feel that companies here are behind the state of the art. There might be exceptions, this is just my impression when I go to meetups, presentations, or talk to colleagues (they have worked for quite a few different companies here in Berlin).

That being said, there are quite a few companies that are into the big data business. Having a PhD will certainly make it very easy for you to get a good job here.
See jewel's comment below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6648109
1x is only too small if you're concerned with things other than visual creative work. I would love if my Photoshop menus could scale down to leave more room for the content I'm creating.
Hacker News is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.

For the record, I don't really advocate disobeying or even arguing with air crewmembers. That's a well-considered holdover from maritime law that probably goes back a thousand years: their boat, their rules. However, if nobody pushed back, the annoying parts of the rules would never be fixed.
Still no qwerty slider. No thanks.

If I wanted to waste half my screen on a keyboard I'd buy an iPhone.
My point is that setting scaling to 200% is a waste of money. It needs to be something like 160% which is not handled well AFAIK.
Huh? What are you trying to accomplish? If you want to process some packets without them reaching the CPU, rather use an FPGA module with an Ethernet layer and connect it via USB to your machine.
How to fail your startup and still make money
Regarding the wife not having permission to work: aren't there other visa types which allow this, other than H1B?
The article is about two different models.
I think that's a picture of two U2414H monitors, which they're touting as having thin bezels, and not two UP3214Q 4K monitors.
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I find it ironic that Germany emigration policy is considered friendly. I live in Czech Republic, but it was easier to move to Ireland than to neighboring Germany.

Germany is very nationalistic state, it had number of exceptions from EU open space. Even now German Police searches vehicles with foreign registration plates (search is nearly disassembly).

German law is VERY unfriendly to startups, and the taxes for companies and workers are very high. I would choose Ireland, Czech Rep or Poland over Germany any time
it's two different monitors.
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I had straight talk for a bit. If I used more than 2GB of data in a month they would threaten to cancel my service. I'm not sure how much you use but that's something to be wary of. Otherwise, my service was fine. They didn't do LTE at the time so I was stuck with 3G.
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I'm saying two things:

- A 4K monitor has less DPI than a "retina" monitor, so you still see the pixels, thus it's not like someone took a 27" cinema display and doubled the pixels.

- Two 27" displays feel 'worse' to me: While it seems like dual 27" displays would be able to display more, I can't use them both horizontally because my head has to pan too much. And if I switch them to portrait, it's hard to fit two editing windows side-by-side in 1400 pixels comfortably.

So I like the 4K better than the 27" (or dual 27") setup I used before.
Anyone know if it's possible to order the international version from within the USA? I'm moving to New Zealand soon and I'd be tickled if I could get the one with support for LTE bands 3/7...
I'm pretty sure the single monitor picture is of the 32" monitor, the pic with 2 monitors has two 24" ones

edit: lmao, 3 other people said exactly this in the time it took me to type out the comment...
We're not using that. Dropbox is a shared drive for the company.

My question, still unanswered, remains whether anyone has made btsync work well in a setup where it's used as a shared drive for 10-20 people who interact with many files, though usually not the same file simultaneously (though that happens occasionally, and Dropbox seems to support it...)
A friend of mine had a retina-quality screen on his laptop in 2003. I think it was a ThinkPad with a 2048 x 1536 screen. Of course, at the time there wasn't a concept of resolution-independent scaling, so it didn't look as nice as today's retina displays.

specs: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:R50p
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Google works better than it used to, yes. Though, it also seems to be moving away from the permalink and title, keywords, description meta tags that we would use to help Google identify and classify our content. Google taking away keyword referrer info is the nail in the coffin for SEO services, as a business.
It appears that you're not a native english speaker - I'd like to give you some feedback to make your sentences sound more natural. This isn't meant as criticism of you, at all - I only speak one language!

Typically we use two-word nouns (in your case 'ice cream') as a whole - they would not be shortened.

Also, generally a sentence like that would be constructed with the continuing tense - 'putting' versus 'put', since you're describing a continuing trend.

So I'd reconstruct your sentence as:

> So then in come a lot of people, just putting in 2 euros, demanding their ice cream and soda, and as soon as they finish eating the ice cream, they vanish.

:) Have a good day!
The six months rule
Sometimes, people actually are entitled. Something to think about.

This isn't to say that the engineer is necessarily correct and the flight attendant necessarily incorrect, and I don't agree that the "sleeping with the professor" statement can necessarily be applied in general, but following rules 'cause rules are rules is not really something to aspire to. It's unfortunate that for many, blind conformity seems to be the order of the day.
T-Mobile has non-contract plans.

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans

Scroll alllll the way down to the bottom, look for the $30/month plans. They include 5 GB of data per month at 4G speeds, after that you're throttled. I've never come anywhere near to hitting that limit, so I don't know what the throttle is.

You can order a SIM card online, or pick one up in a store.

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/phone-sim-card

Once the SIM is in your hand, then you can go into one of their stores or online to get one of the $30/month options.
This article prompted me to look into something I've been interested in for a while - what's the skilled vs unskilled breakdown in immigration for various countries?

Canada and Australia, as far as I understand it, do emphasize skilled immigration, though not exclusively (Australia has a points test that I think the US would do well to emulate). I read a lot of praise for Germany's startup visa, but I'm also reading about hostility toward immigrants, boats of poor, uneducated (and most likely) migrants sinking off the coast of Italy or the shores of Australia... there's a lot of anecdote here (stories like that attract a lot of attention - but are they typical?). A really broad look would be interesting to read about.

I actually haven't been able to find much about this, though - at least not on a nation-by-nation basis. It does sound like a difficult bit of data analysis, because the numbers themselves are tough to interpret (for example, would migration within the EU count as immigration, whereas Californians moving to Texas wouldn't?).

Anyone got any good links?
Not being from the US, I always thought that community colleges had a bad reputation. Isn't that true?
There is a good deal I disagree with in the post, and there is one point that I think is missing.

Most of us on HN have usually lived in a world with a margin of security, where $1 saved at the end of the week might be $1.05 this time next year. Below a certain level of security, that's not something one can count on. It could just be another $1 swept away in the next disaster. Someone who has seen enough bust cycles will likely get into the habit of spending it while it's there.
Because the intersection of utter surreality and being really really nice to people is ... to me, both awesome and hilarious.

I would suspect but have no idea how to test that the upvotes are coming from fans of it as performance art who're following the user, rather than particularly from people already interacting in the original thread.
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It's not about Google.

It's because each OEM would have to obtain, merge and release a new Android image for each of their old phones that have the specs to run the new Android. And the images originate from chip makers (because Android needs kernel and probably some userspace support for a particular chipset). And same merging and releasing process applies for the chip makers as well.

I would suppose that all OEMs and chip makers are currently busy porting the new Android for their new phones that will be out in the spring or the summer.

For Apple, the backporting process is linear rather than NM.

Based on history, it seems that some* chip makers and OEMs are willing to port a new Android to their previous-generation devices sometimes.
This is correct, here are the physical measurements:

Nexus 4: 133.9 x 68.7 x 9.1 mm

Nexus 5: 137.84 x 69.17 x 8.59 mm

That said, I still find it frustrating -- the Nexus 4 screen is already too large for me to comfortably reach all parts with one hand.
Have you gotten all the features, the iPhone 5S got?
Do you have the nice blurred Control Center background?

Android's Problem is fragmentation, and it wouldn't help at all to just backport some functions to older devices, because then developers coulnd't be sure about tthe availability of any API.
Now that's an interesting piece of history. Thanks!
I'm in a major city (so coverage is good on most networks), but T-Mobile has a $30/mo, pay-as-you-go plan for unlimited text/data and 100 minutes of talk (which isn't a problem if you use something like Google Voice).
To those unfamiliar, it's probably fair but only up to the point where you expect the site to be serving up the same code every time. It's a bit like JavaScript crypto; makes you feel good but has little bearing on anything in the real world.

The server sends the client a hash of a secret, the client sends a locally generated nonce back, and the server hashes the two and determines the outcome. The idea being that the server can't change the result because the secret has already been verified as the same as before they rolled by the client via the previously exposed hash. Still relies on the code being served to not be changed on every load, which is a false assumption to make.
A big yahoo bug is you cannot register an account without giving them a mobile phone number.

I don't own a mobile phone with a phone number.

Very strange way to register people.
> I wasn't out there making wise choices

You give yourself too little credit. I am not discounting luck -- I too have gotten very lucky in my career -- but without good decisions and hard work luck is wasted. You didn't have to accept the job at KC. You didn't have to go along with your boss' demand to spend the money on wardrobe. You didn't have to do well at that job. These are all things you did that nobody forced you to do.
Not visiting the US as a tourist due to the laws on salaried employees seems a bit short sighted.
and for those of us who almost never use our twitter account and have less than 30 followers, are sol. I guess I could get some followers but that seems like too much work to try a casino game that I'm probably just going to lose the .005 btc in.
Keep checking. When I first looked they only had 32GB versions. I checked again and the 16GB ones showed up.
That's because those are two different displays - the large one with the uniform bezel is the 32" 4K display but the ones in dual configuration are just some new 24" Full HD (that is, 1080p not 1200p) IPS displays.
If the MIT team had just printed their device on a 3D printer, their article would have knocked the Nexus 5 release off the front page.
T-mobile has a $30 prepaid plan that looks pretty good (100 minutes talk, unlimited text and "unlimited" [throttled after 5gb] data).

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans, click "Which plan is right for you?"
I think the typical solution is to have something embarrassing but not incriminating (or incriminating, but for a lesser charge) for the last password you give up.
On my N7, reading replaces the action bar with faded out dots. I'm assuming that in 4.4 the action bar disappears now too. I've read that you swipe from an edge to make it reappear. I'm interested to see how edge swipe heavy apps (Kindle) will handle it.
I was hoping for waterproofed...
What did they say about making a system that is idiot proof...
Are there any Berlin startups in here willing to write a "Letter of Intent"? If so, I'd love to send you an email and explain more!

(Basically, a Letter of Intent is a non-binding letter used to get a freelance visa that shows the applicant is capable of building connections - I intend to actually work on my own projects once I get in the door.)
Take steak for example. Cheap steak needs sauce. Good steak on the other hand is spoilt by sauce, a good steak tastes amazing on its own.

Take standard supermarket vegetables: nothing special there. Know someone who grows them themselves? Try them. Taste the difference? Suddenly vegetables are worth eating again.

Take a bad dessert: it's got all the right ingredients, but it tastes meh. You've just ingested half your daily calories eating meh. Now try a good dessert: omg how did they do this.

That's the difference.
I don't know what you use that space for, but you could store things in the cloud. Google Music is great for this. You could delete things once you are done with them.

If "expansion" is your most important feature, then this isn't the phone for you.
Interesting since my iPhone 4 has slowed the a crawl with iOS7. Nearly unusable now.
Today is the last day for Google.com/ig. What alternative are you using?
Looking to find out what other people are doing to replace google.com/ig? It has been my home page for so many years that I imagine it being gone will have a significant effect on the flow of my workday.
> Does that mean that there will no more be stock 'Browser' app? I refuse to use Chrome on Android because of brain-dead, non-disablable 'font-boosting' that makes (among many others) Hacker News absolutely unusable.

WebView is the UI class for displaying webpages as a native Android view. The Browser app contains much more than the WebView class itself.
Probably by monitoring the hardware when the machines were supposed to be doing nothing. If you get activity with certain timing you can be pretty sure that the machines are sending packets to each other.
My nexus 4 is still an excellent phone, but I want to buy the 5 anyway...

Brain... brain stahp...
Same for Georgia.
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I agree, but a button or link somewhere (anywhere) would be nice. Instead I have to google to find out how to do it. I've bookmarked it now ;) (I believe it is /shipnow)
I'm really tired of IPS glow, I hope they come up with a new technology soon that doesn't have that problem.

MVA was decent but they seem to have retired that technology.
Yeah, I looked into it[0]:

Optimal resolution:

3840 x 2160 at 60 Hz (DP1.2*)

3840 x 2160 at 30Hz HDMI

Hmm, I think I'll stick with my $270 144hz 1080p 24" for a few more years.

[0] http://accessories.ap.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=hk&c... (tech specs tab)
Note that this is still not even close to the pixel density on the Thinkpad you described. The 32" Dell monitor has 140DPI, 2880x1620 has 220DPI, which is a huge difference (compare today's high resolution desktop displays with a MBP's Retina display).
The plan is $20 for 1GB/mo of LTE data, so you can make calls and use data on the go. I might not have been clear enough about that in the post.
I have an Asus PQ321Q, and use it at 1x. It's fine. It replaced two 30" monitors I had before and is so much better now that I no longer need to pan my head and the middle (where the bezels used to be) is actually useful.
The pictures are showing different displays. The first one is a 31.5" diagonal 3840×2160 pixel display (140 ppi). The second is showing two 24" diagonal 1920×1080 pixel displays (92 ppi).
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Your skin deep assessment of the Apple model so misses the point. What's that old saying? "Less is more". Apple understands this - the Android ecosystem doesn't.
This actually has LTE?
Maybe EU should fine google like they do microsoft. But the countries tat actually make those decisions don't get that message. So much for the EU equality.
could laptop graphics cards handle that type of resolution back then?
I'm not sure that everything you said is correct, but the beauty of at-will employment is that it allows most of these problems to be solved by people looking to their own best interests. I don't know many companies that would try anything like that because their entire workforce would likely just give notice and quit. That's not in anyone's best interest, so labor conditions (at least in reasonably in-demand fields) tend to be sane.

Of course, it's true that there are differences in the social contract you usually get working in the US compared to other places -- for instance, there is less expected vacation time here than in a lot of EU countries. But that's a tradeoff that people choose to make.
>If you define pay as something that you can spend when you deduce tax, health, pension, rent/mortgage, education of children I'm not sure that US offers double.

I define pay the way most people define pay. The gross amount paid to you by your employer per pay period.

>And even if it were double in absolute numbers, so is the number of working hours per year of software engineer in US compared to Germany.

Unless the average German software engineer works 20-25 hours a week, I'd love to see some statistics on this. According to OECD stats, US workers work 30% more hours than Germans. There's no reason to believe that's different for software devs (in fact, especially on the west coast, it probably trends in the opposite direction).

http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS

I was also unaware rent and mortgages are free in Germany. Why do you not have to take those into account?
LibreOffice is goddamn awful. They should just scrap the whole thing and start over, because I have never not been screwed by LibreOffice.

Make a presentation within L.O., save it to the native L.O. format, then when I open it again later, things have moved and fonts are different.

Any form the company sends me will be displayed incorrectly. Maybe fields won't be fillable, or only some of the checkboxes will check. Maybe the 2 page form will magically spread to 3 pages. Maybe it won't print at all.
Performance depends on the hardware, it seems. On my dual-core+1GB RAM tablet (a Nook HD), Firefox is visibly faster than Chrome (to the point where the latter is almost unusable). On my N4, they're about the same.
While I hope that this will be the first 4K monitor to do 4K 60p over DisplayPort using SST I highly doubt this is the case. I was hoping the same for the Panasonic's 4K 65" LCD but no such luck.

Still waiting for the first 4K display to support 10-bit 4K 60p over DisplayPort SST and have HDMI 2.0 ports. Will have to wait until CES 2014 for more HDMI 2.0 displays.
That would be cool as crap. And quickly the subject of all sorts of hell across the board.
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Haven't been able to post to Twitter for at least 20 minutes, anyone else? 
Nothing on site regarding outage. I can get site to load, but if I type text directly in post window or use a "share" link, neither work.
If you're still in the U.S., just order it. I bought my old nexus here and it works just fine in Europe and South America. Just need to pop out the SIM card. If it works on t-mobile, it basically works anywhere.
That says they support for 18 months, but the Galaxy Nexus was available from Google Play as late as July 4[1] - that's less than 18 months.

[1] http://www.redmondpie.com/galaxy-nexus-pulled-from-google-pl...
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