skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's insane that this phone has a better screen than a great deal of laptops for sale these days. The laptop manufacturers need to get with the program :-/
Those are hardly challengers; they service upscale condos and select buildings only. I live in the damn city and I can't get CenturyLink/Quest 40mbps (12mbps max), CascadeLink, CondoInternet, or the future Seattle Gigabit. Ridiculous.
> "Linkbait."

You are being very generous. OP is obviously either a PR hit piece paid for in full by microsoft, or indistinguishable from one.
I've been using an HTC One alongside my iPhone 5 for several months. When you first see it, you think "oh, this is great hardware, it's not far off from the iPhone." But then you live with it and use it and you realize it's a far cry from Apple hardware.

One example is with the hardware buttons. They are so flush against the body (both the sleep/wake and volume), that you almost always have to look to see what you're doing. I can't blindly turn down or up the volume nor can I wake up the phone in my pocket before I take it out like I do on my iPhone.
I think you read that wrong. At the current exchange rate to the US Dollar, it's $5,404.

The ASUS PQ321Q (great product name, guys!) is offered at B&H Photo for $3,262 [1]. I'm a big fan of Dell's Ultrasharp line and have bought several over the past decade, but ASUS is winning this battle. That $2200 is almost the price of the low-end MacPro you're going to want to buy in order to drive this beast.

[1] http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=98636...
I wish I could, but I can't remember what the thread was about originally. I tried searching, but I can't find it.
"The fact that they haven't gotten what they're after yet is not evidence that you have more keys, because it's indistinguishable from the case where you've simply already deleted the files."

Perhaps, but then why not just provide no key at all and rely on the semantic security of the cryptosystem? If you need to give the court a reason why you are not producing the secret key, you can always claim to have forgotten it. How does deniable encryption improve over that, if in the end it comes down to indistinguishability?

"I'm expecting them to realize that with a well-designed deniable system, they can't tell the difference between you being uncooperative and there being nothing incriminating to find."

OK, but the same is true of non-deniable encryption when you say, "I forgot the key!" Anything that might lead them to believe otherwise would be equally applicable to deniable encryption.

To put it another way, what is the difference between saying, "I only have this key," and saying, "I cannot remember the key at all?" In either case, you need to convince the police that there is no incriminating key they can demand from you.
Slightly glad to see ASP.NET improved a little (at least the stripped/raw/barebones version).

Slightly sad to see the Mono performance is still abysmal.

Edit: link to the blog. It was submitted earlier, but apparently got killed:

http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/10/31/framework-benchma...
The U2414H is 1920x1080, that's only 91 DPI. Wtf?

The UP3214Q is 3840x2160, but it's huge, 31.5", so it's only ~140 DPI.

Neither of these are mind-blowing, especially the U2414H. I suppose it is nice to see >100 DPI on a really large monitor, given how stagnated/shitty external monitors have been for so long.

But, still, doesn't quite seem "front page of HN" exciting?
Damn you're right, can't believe I missed that detail, I'd pretty much decided on a PS4 because, hey, free PSN

http://www.geek.com/games/sony-psn-running-costs-are-too-hig...

I guess it was pretty amazing to offer that for free, all good things...
I am currently on this plan (on a Nexus 4), and it works quite well for me. There's also a 100 minutes talk time limit on the plan, with 10C per minute for extra talk time.
We launched our brand new service into production pointing the backend at our dev instance, at the office. The entire internet showed up at our wee little DSL connection, effectively DDOS-ing our office. We had to leave, go to a cafe with public wifi to fix it.
US and Canada and France at least.

And probably a few more countries.
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You bought it, why do you expect to be able to unbuy it?
If this malware is actually real then exploiting a large variety of different USB stacks (whether it's done via the the BIOS or OS stack) seems implausible. Maybe the flashed usb stick either:

1) Hides a bootloader on the devive that runs at reboot (assuming the BIOS allows it).

2) Pretends to be some kind of device (that most OS's have stock drivers for) that allows it to access main memory. Maybe it pretends to be a USB to firewire bridge (or something similar that gives it DMA).
Consider the failure rate of startups vs. those of established businesses.
The preview at http://www.amazon.com/The-Programming-Language-hardcover-Edi... shows a proportional dark blue font, with comments in italics, at least in the paperback edition (is color printing that cheap nowadays?)

The blue looks problematic on screen. I don't remember having problems with the font in the print edition.
How Self Validation Drives Growth
Judge learned to write code in Oracle v. Google (2012)
With people like Sheryl Sandberg getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars, I'm not so sure I can blame them. This forum is heavily engineering focused, but the technology industry is paying some of these MBAs extraordinary sums.
Ordered one about an hour ago (from France).

Originally, the message after payment was: "Order not completed
It is taking a little longer than normal to process your order. We will let you know via email when your order is complete. This can take up to 15 minutes."

Now, it just displays "PENDING" in my orders...

Fingers crossed!
It's not so straightforward if Google thinks you are not in the US.
Why startups need techops 
Devs sometimes think ops are unnecessary. Meanwhile ops think Devs are careless. Why can't we all just get along?
Comcast services only select locations too. A good number of apartments around the city don't even offer Comcast (and instead the aforementioned and other services such as 'Wave'). The building I live in (granted, yes, an upscale condo), had several offerings.

Full on competition? No. But better than a wide majority of cities? Yes. (Try living in Florida...ugh)
I don't care that it's free - I'd happily pay for a good office suite. But it'd need to run on Linux and OS X. And it'd need to be available remotely. And support collaborative edits.

Unlike you I've never run into problems with the collaborative editing. The relative lack of features is not a hindrance for me either, and in some way it's a benefit - less UI clutter.

It does certainly lack features, though, and things like the spreadsheet suffers from performance problems (a spreadsheet with more than a couple of hundred rows is total agony), but for me it's still meeting more requirements than Office.
I guess this one was removed too
You could put one in landscape (code), and one in portrait (browser, email, etc). that solves some of the width issues, though it might offend one's aesthetic sensibilities. I got over that very quickly when I decided to try it.
"At the risk of Godwining the email, this is the essence of the 'banality of evil' in the precise Arendtian sense of the term."

"Those charged with assessing the risk we face are the same ones who will be blamed for underestimating it. They are also the ones who benefit by overstating the dangers."

"The national-security complex was charged after 9-11 with this credo: 'Never Again'. This is a mission so absolute that it permits no cost-benefit analysis of any kind."

"The surveillance-state apparatus creates a chilling effect on the very democratic activity that is prerequisite to its dismantling."
The problem with that display is that it's only 30hz. Any movement on the screen looks terrible.
An important caveat: will the new monitors be VESA-mountable?

I have a pair of Viewsonic VX2370Smh-LED with almost identical specs:

* 1920x1080 at 23" = ~96ppi
* Nearly 'frameless' 11mm bezel
* 178/178 deg. viewing angle
* _Full_ sRGB support
* Samsung PLS panel (Samsung's IPS)
* Matte screen
* Multiple input types

But, to make it 'frameless' the controls are placed in the non-removable stand! Notice that Dell has left out any mention of mounting, as did the creative Viewsonic copywriters.

After discovering this I hacked the Viewsonic and turned the stand into a discreet VESA mount -- giving me an incredibly nice HD panel considering the price (~$150 each).

But, there are almost no VESA-mountable quality panels for that price. Viewsonic _doubles_ the price to almost $300 for the nearly-identical VP2365-LED with VESA mounts.
In this case I'm not blaming underlings, I'm just saying that there is no verifiable evidence that the White House ordered park and monument closings. The head of the National Parks Service could have made a decision to keep things open, or he could have made a decision to close things. The Secretary of the Interior could have done the same.

Do you have any evidence that the president sent out an order to close the parks and monuments? In that case, yes he is responsible. Otherwise you are just speculating, just like everyone else.

If you want to make the argument that ultimately the president is responsible for everything that happens on his watch, that's a different argument. The parent post was saying that Obama sent an order to close the parks.

We've been at sequestration level funding for months. Some agencies moved things around to minimize disruption, some didn't. Do you think the president sent orders down to individual agencies on how to mitigate the effects of sequestration, but didn't send that guidance to others? It's possible, but it is more likely that the different agencies figured things out for themselves and some made out better than others.
There could actually be a concern that your site is not legal to promote in the US since it involves gambling.
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>stark contrast

7 months difference doesn't seem that stark.
It really bothers me that they disallow people altogether from seeing the page just because they live in the wrong country (or happen to be passing by). The web is not supposed to be like this.
Summary: if you want performance, use Java, Scala, Go, Clojure, Lua, or C++.

Honestly, now with all the great Scala frameworks, Clojure, and the ability to run Rails, plus Cassandra, Storm, etc, I'm a little creeped out that I'm actually strongly considering building my current new project completely on the JVM.
I'm going to guess "rain".
One of the best parts of working with ember since 1.0 has been the way you can break apart code into components and easily drop and extend them in the application as needed. The consistent declarative API is really nice.

I hope there are more projects that come out like this and make it easier to get started building ember applications.

The current "drop in a JS library" usually involves learning and using too many JS APIs with very different styles.
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Same. I emailed support. I'm not worried cause it's not shipping for a week.
> That's more of a misconception propagated by half-educated HRs.

No it isn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
IIRC his son, Brent Hatch, was one of SCO's lawyers. Nothing crazy there since SCO was based out of Utah.
Android 4.4 KitKat arrives, focuses on budget phone performance (video)
Apple doesn't facilitate realtime use through AVFoundation, but there are workarounds. Apple doesn't specifically restrict realtime use and does approve apps using the workarounds.
Most of those complaints are from people who haven't lived in Seattle long enough to know those areas have been problem spots for at least 20 years. My father worked downtown in the early/mid-80s and says it was exactly the same then, if not a little bit worse. Not that that excuses the problem. Also, the Seattle PD is absolutely petrified of doing anything that might incur the wrath of the Department of Justice. Blaming McGinn for the street people is like blaming him for I-5 traffic: it's been a problem before, and it will continue to be a problem until something very drastic happens (and in the case of street people, it will take something unpalatable to Seattle's NIMBY/sensitive electorate)
Any chance of a Nexus 3 for people who don't want a tablet in their pocket?
I'm on this plan and the biggest issue I've run into is that while the data is "unlimited", after 5GB it's throttled to frustratingly slow 2G speeds.

I was under the impression it was 5GB 4G then 3G from there, but it is not so.
The story behind the scene to my eyes is Google removing out of the box apps from Android to leave it PLAY dependent 100% if possible %200. This means that no other store like Amazon will be able to create a second store based on Android with a fresh environment out of the box. Google says is due to modularity I say due to market strategy. As a clear example (apart from the clear explanation of the article, great article BTW) a feature released today on KiKat 4.4 is that WebView is based on Chromium, this means the sole purpose of only Google using WebView. If I where Amazon I would be reconsidering having to develop all again for future releases or today make a fair deal with Google.

However this is not bad news at all for startups like myself because of two things.

1) Google will spend about a year or two on refactoring Android to fully cope with PLAY dependence allowing some spare "time" for third party ideas on features that can advance outside Google internal teams.

2) Third party developer a are now in equal position to compete with Google applications to win terrain into Android future tiny out of the box. Basically on future ex-activated apps like mail for example.
Try calling the store support at 1-855-836-3987 - Although they might be busy right now.
But I wanted the tee-shirt! (we're never happy)
Measuring the impact of introduced change is key to any optimization task. With Google no longer sending the search terms used to discover the page, SEO is more like a guess work - you follow the best practices and hope Google will start sending traffic one day. This leaves spammy black-hat approach as the only option. Not everyone is comfortable with this though.
Every country has standards for this. Heck, in the US different states have different standards for how much water a flush should use. Replacing those national standards with a single EU-wide standard would be a step forward.
Really, it is. Use it.
In the lower right of my order status screen is a help link and a free phone number for support. This is in the UK, so I don't know if yours is identical.
Ok, sorry I'll change that. I figured the chances that a random reader would have started, but not finished a TV series from 22 years ago would be pretty slim (whereas @EnjoyTheFilm specifically targeted those people) ... but apparently not. My bad.

Updated : spoiler removed; just the reaction is shown now. Again, my apologies.
>Lean process,

we've had it (and still have, just the buzzword itself somehow magically stopped flying around). It isn't lean. Process by definition can't be lean, because process itself is the fat, and once the word "process" is uttered, you may be sure that you aren't in Kansas anymore.
Does anyone know how much it costs to produce desktop-sized displays compared to phone-sized? I'm wondering why Dell would still make the 24" UltraSharp just 1920x1080.
Thank you very fucking much Google. 4.2 and 4.3 trashed the experience for GNex users, now that 4.4 is "butter smooth" again it ain't coming to the phone. Excellent

God bless CyanogenMod.
> But, still, doesn't quite seem "front page of HN" exciting?

It's exciting because there is movement at the top end of the general monitor market (ignoring specialist stuff like medical imaging), for the first time in almost a decade. Dell moving into this new segment is particularly important because they make excellent monitors as a rule.
Is it so just because tax rates are higher in Germany, or for other reasons?
I hope so because this is just silly.
Can Canadians donate to a candidate?
US price (San Francisco):

$349 + 8.75% tax = $380

French price (without tax for companies):

349E - 19.6% tax = 292E = $403
aiaf is likely talking from a relative perspective, and the G1, Nexus One, Galaxy Nexus S...they all were somewhat in line with contemporaries. The Nexus 4 was a massive regression compared to its kin.
At-will employment and salary basis are orthogonal issues. At-will is not a feature of overtime exemption.

No matter what kind of job you have, hourly or salaried, you can be severed at any time for no reason virtually anywhere in the US. At-will employment increases labor mobility and, very notably, makes entrepreneurship less risky by mitigating the problem of every termination being grounds for a lawsuit. At-will has social costs in other sectors where negotiating leverage isn't as balanced between buyers and sellers, but it is probably a significant net benefit for the tech sector.

The swap that is supposed to take place for salary-basis employees is that employees exchange their right to overtime pay for an assurance of full salary payment regardless of hours worked. If you dock an exempt worker's pay for leaving early or coming in late, they revert to overtime-eligible status; that's something that came up at a company I once worked for. Obviously, the other swap that salaried employees make is higher compensation; salaried employees out-earn non-exempt employees.
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But 27" 2560 x 1440 monitors exist now.
In the spirit of Balaji Srinivasan's talk, how about accepting bitcoin? At the time of this comment, USD $40 = 0.19388 BTC = 193.88 mBTC.
I'll pile on here. Lync's fantastic. Seamless integration, multi-device. Has phone support that's just plug-n-play (over USB). Proper presence info that just works. The tie-ins with Outlook/OWA/Exchange for voicemail and such is also really slick.

Slick and easy call management (forward, sent to group, VM), easy IM, group IM, easy escalation to screen sharing or voice and video conferencing. All of this is secured by your own TLS certs. IM history goes into Outlook, one simple place for all forms of communication from SMS to missed calls, voicemails, IMs and emails.

Edit: Oh, also, easy federated IM. We can now have customers federate via O365 and IM us directly. There are blocking tools in place to prevent abuse. But it's far better than having to list a Skype/GTalk/AIM/MSN ID.

I'd love to know of a non-enterprise competitor in this space (like why go to Cisco over MS?). Pretty much everything I've seen is not remotely on the same level. For example, they'll plaster a "Dial" toolbar by rendering on top of some other part of the Outlook UI, and then call that integrated dialing. Or you'll have to use a web UI somewhere and login to a phone just to change your call forwarding settings.

No particular pieces are terribly hard by themselves, but it's a massive amount of work to get it all really polished up and have it just work so wonderfully. Without the centerpoint of Exchange/Outlook, I think a Lync competitor has a pretty big uphill battle.
Those look amazing! tho the price of the 4k isn't that great and the resolution on the 24' is lower than the current U2412/13m models.
Just FYI , there is a batch of Dell P/U (and probably other series) that is revision A00 that have yellow tint, beware of that ! so far there are 7 revisions but Dell are shiping A00 manufactured in january - july 2013
NSA officials told to evoke 9/11 sympathies when justifying mass surveillance
Is there a way to get static SVG (i.e. no JavaScript) out so you can incorporate the chart into a document, edit in Inkscape, etc., or does SVG+JavaScript inherently mean that the result is stranded in the browser?
That page is very misleading. Not only does it wildly distort the original policy of CBP that included the "100 miles" thing, but it ignores the fact that the "100 miles" aspect has since been retracted.

All the original policy stated is that the "border search exception" to the 4th amendment did not have to be at the literal border. This was to accommodate border checkpoints in the southwestern U.S. which are for practical reasons not right at the border but a few miles inland along major highway routes.
Can confirm this. Fiancee works in Pioneer Square and I worry every time she has to work late...

And Westlake is looking a lot more like Portland every year (as far as homeless youth go).
They were busted on 25 as well, but my FFbeta just upgraded to 26.0 while I had the article open - it's fixed.
I doubt that would cut it. If the police are expecting you to reveal spreadsheets detailing your real estate fraud, and your deniable encryption system outputs some embarrassing fetish porn, the police are going to ignore the porn and demand your other key. Why should they believe you about the embarrassing files being the real or only reason you are using deniable encryption? Why would they not simply assume that you put those files there as part of an attempt to develop a plausible excuse?

The real problem here is that, in a way, using deniable encryption is itself incriminating unless everyone uses it -- and we do not live in such a world. Unlike other cryptosystems, it is hard to develop a "legitimate" reason for using deniable encryption, as it has no particular advantage in protecting data from criminals over non-deniable encryption.
You do make a fair point from a future proofing perspective, however worth noting that 4.4 brings zram, which is in-memory page compression (OSX Mavericks just brought that functionality there, so you may have heard about it).
I am regretting the GV port I did when I moved to the Nexus line. All my friends like to MMS/ group text and I've had to revert to the base number of my sim card to communicate with my close friends.

With regards to one of the up the stream comments, I love the T-Mobile $30/mo 100min, unlimited text, 5gb 4g plan on my Nexus 4.
Came here to reference Campbell as well.. Campbell said the problem is that most people don't know what a metaphor is. Myth is metaphor -- so they don't understand it. Theists read the bible and say this is literally true. Atheists read it and say this is false, it's a lie. Agnostics read it and say, not sure.. But the transcendent perspective is to see that "God" is a Myth, not a lie. God is a myth that represents the unknowable ground of your being, and the religions are a mythology designed to aid your ego on it's journey of self discovery and guide society. Myth is a mirror for the ego with a schedule on it - it shows you where you are. The literalists will be hard pressed to have the spiritual salvation they seek without knowing what a metaphor is -- they will be stuck looking outside themselves when the God they seek is within -- the mythologies are designed to help find it.
On which interface do you have Wireshark listen? Not eth0, not wlan0. As far as anything outside the virus can tell, audio in and out is just sounds.