skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have any experience with Nokia devices other than the N900 so I can not comment on the N770. But I remember reviews from the time the N900 was released were the touchscreen was not really praised but commented on as much better than other resistive screens.
Also there are 4 years between the N770 and the N900. There is definitly no glare on my N900 screen - to the contrary, it is readable even under direct sunlight (without any backlight) because it is transreflective.
Understand his words in context before judging-

http://www.hatrack.com/misc/Quotes_in_Context.shtml
I remain surprised that the US hasn't adopted more of this sort of attitude toward immigration. Historically it's a country that's always been about taking the best talent from elsewhere, so I remain baffled that it's so difficult in modern days. Especially with 'silicon valley' being located in America.
I'd assume so. It may not be tampering with evidence but i'm sure you'd be charged with something, obstruction at the very least.
This is bad for both wall street and the technology sector.
I agree, that can't be right if the article is not well written.
"Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet.
We're working to bring devices to more countries as quickly as possible.
Please check back again soon."

I still don't understand why they only sell this in some EU countries and not others. Friends in the know tell me it's something to do with certification which seems strange inside the EU.

But even if that's the case surely they could just show me the damn page and then tell me they can't ship to my address. That's what Amazon does for some things anyway. At least that way I could look at the damn thing and potentially have it shipped somewhere else.
Deserve?

Are you making a moral judgement about income?
That's fascinating, but how is that relevant? Yes, this device was wanted by a lot of people, many of whom were going to storm the gates. Evidenced by the fact that it sold out. If it makes you feel better trying to niche the sales of Nexus devices, good for you, but I see absolutely no point in your comment.
It's disappointing that they're already sold out, less than an hour after this link was posted. After last year's debacle, I was expecting Google to prepare appropriately for the release.
hahaha so good
Did you read the footnote?

Thrifty and low cost plan are not healthy meals whatsoever and it's highly optimized food consumption. Waste do exist. This report is disingenuous
Sold Out! wow
Icelander here. Apparently Google doesn't like our kind either.
> I have never in my time in 8 years of math classes ever heard the term "average" referred to as the median or mode.

Good, I've never seen that too, as I said.

> When median or mode has been meant, it has always been explicitly stated as such.

As I said.

> The more vague "average" being left to implicitly reference the arithmetic mean average of "sum total divided by count of values"

This is not the case in common usage which is exactly the reason this comment thread started.
This is ridiculous, how many pieces they had? A thousand?
You gotta be kidding me.
It's the old statistics vs story narrative. People don't relate to stories of the masses. They can relate and react to the story of an individual though. So governments and organizations need to be focused on the broader statistics to know where to focus their efforts, but if you want to reach individual people you have to relate to them on a personal level.
iOS 6.0 was fine, but iOS 7.0 introduced a whole bunch of bugs and inconsistent lag.
https://www.google.com/nexus/5/
Strangely it works for me while it shouldn't (doesn't work for any of my friends).
Question: Can you be compelled to decrypt a notebook written in some sort of cipher?
Lisp:

(mapcar 'funcall
(loop for x below 3
collecting
(lambda () (print x))))

producing:

3
3
3
(3 3 3 )

OK, it is the loop DSL that chooses to rebind the same variable over which I closed, but loop is in the standard so I'll blame lisp. The syntax really looks like a fresh binding. Shucks, this is almost a bug: the loop implementation was allowed to leak into the loop semantics.
Which would also mean they'd have a smaller initial inventory, no?
It's not always the person who pushed it on a friday that ends up fixing it, though. They can be unreachable, without a computer, etc etc. It's just easier to change less during hours you have less people on hand, is all.
I'm getting 349€ from France.
If you're an outsider to a social group, how would you know how to imitate them cheaply and convincingly? Your point about people buying brand items and using them in a "vulgar" way actually just reinforces how hard it can be for poor people to look presentable. They literally don't know what they're doing. And you expect them to dress well in a way that can fit their budget? That's unreasonable.
8.59 mm, 2300 mAh
If all of this pans out to be true and verifiable then this has to be the most sophisticated Malware that I have ever heard of, even beating Flame, Stuxnet and what not - really fascinating.

- Self-healing (of sorts).

- Able to spread via multiple vectors

- Falling back to increasingly stealthy and unlikely vectors

- Actively hampering efforts at eradication

However (and I am trying to phrase this delicately) A few other notable security researchers need to cross-verify that the infection agent exists and behaves in the fantastical manner described.
I am somewhat worried that this seems

1) Either like a gigantic hoax that is trying to see how much people will believe or

2) The security researcher in question has other issues unrelated to security or

3) Some kind of viral marketing campaign for a book/movie/game something else
Why is the corporate structure important? I like the Wikipedia definition that "A startup is a company, a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model." [0] And of course there's "startup culture" which is a group of people focused on iteration, learning, results, etc. Many startups are stand-alone companies, but it's not essential.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company
That doesn't prevent a latent racism in big parts of the population.

Simply growing up with almost no non-whites makes everyone who looks different stand out a lot, and the step from standing out to shunned out is quite small, I'm afraid.
You probably didn't go to East Germany then?

I have a lot of (brown) Asian family relatives who've spent decades in Germany, they tell me America is basically a heaven in comparison. Canada is pretty much the only country that comes close to America (according to them -- and my experiences ring true here as well), in not being racist to non-white individuals.
You make it sound like they blew through a massive stock of them because of demand. More than likely they blew through Google's standard, lackluster supply which is hardly surprising. Google's ability to properly sell physical hardware is abysmal
Bad idea. I get an e-mail or two a week from these places wanting either just a link or a "sponsored post" on my blog.

Besides the fact that "selling" links is against some Google AUP/ToS, it just doesn't seem right.
The key word here is vacuum. It's pretty easy to come up with compelling arguments against individual examples of inequality, but these really only hold up on their own and yes, fall apart at the structural level.

I agree retreating to argue on the structural level is rhetorically weak. That's all that can really be said against it, and it's unfortunate, because someone saying how really you are a member of the oppressed (as seen in white supremacist and MRA groups) is much more alluring than some intangible narrative about structural inequality.

I say narrative because that's the form it has taken, and indeed had to take. Mary Wollstonecraft couldn't spend her time arguing point by point in a council chamber. She wrote books, compelling novels which had to fight viciously for every inch of ground on which they stood.

You've seen how easily people convince themselves that gripes of oppression are baseless, today, 200 years after A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. We've had academics write and study and provide rhetorical tools for generations now, building a narrative, because that is what is needed. To truly argue against it, it must be met on that same narrative ground.
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Nexus 5 released [video]
I understand their decision. They are taking the SteveJobs route: Concentrate on just a few major things and axe everything else.

Apple followed this route. Google followed this route and now Opera is going to follow this route. More companies will also follow.

My feelings are mixed. They had nice product offerings that differentiated them from the rest. I wanted to become an Opera user just for that reason. But Alas! It sort of confused me what I really wanted to do online and why I was using a browser to do it.
Hacker uses bots to top music charts
What kind of rate limiting do you need? What are you trying to guard against?
"Android 4.4 introduces platform support for hardware sensor batching, a new optimization that can dramatically reduce power consumed by ongoing sensor activities."

This sounds remarkably similar to the M7. This functionality of Android 4.4 requires hardware support, which initially is only provided by the Nexus 5. It allows for continuous sensor measurements, only waking the application processor when it delivers a batch of them.
Android gets a new, dramatically better, Chromium based webview.
service network stop
New Dell UltraSharp Monitors
I think the "best and the brightest" turning away from Wall Street will leave it open for new ideas to play out.

And Google's beloved margins are about to be destroyed with the big three all developing hardware. All the cash GOOG, MSFT and APPL have been hording is about to be returned to the market.
You can count to five while still snoozing? I know I couldn't...
The old Android webview was prohibitively horrible. You couldn't build real apps in it. I've been waiting for this for years.
Android 4.4 APIs
What? That was you! You complained about someone using an ambiguous word to refer to one of its meanings.

> Er yeah, averages aren't made by half and half, they're made by dividing the sum by the count. It's quite possible to have 90% of the population be below average if the 10% is significantly above the average.

I then replied saying that the parent was correct if he meant a specific type of average, subtly implying that you were being ridiculous for complaining about it. Now you're complaining about the thing you did?
This doesn't sound completely accurate. 4G devices that Verizon does support, like the Galaxy Nexus, do indeed have a SIM(-like?) card that you need in order to use the device on Verizon's network.
The Galaxy Nexus doesn't go through carriers unless you're on Verizon (or maybe Sprint). It was sold through Google Play (and given away at developer events like I/O) completely unlocked.

Here are the images Google has supplied for this device in the past:

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#takju

Leaving it out of Google's announcement feels a lot like an implicit deprecation to me.
Co-location 101: Moving your servers to a data-center
actually the black 16gb shows leaving warehouse November 8th.
32GBs are still there.
The only thing wrong with the nexus 4 is the battery life, and I don't think an 8% increase in battery size is going to help much. Maybe on average 15 minutes extra screen-on time, but then again it's meaningless without knowing something of the new processor in the nexus 5.
yes, the n4 has been sold out on the play store for a few weeks.
If your company is prepared to sponsor you for a Green Card (permanent residency) then yes your chances are likely very good.
However, be prepared to be in process for a number of years - if the H1B1 expires and you are in Green Card process then you can get extensions, but if your application is then bounced for any reason you are visa-less.
The process is stressful, but mostly just paperwork. Get a good immigration lawyer and make sure they do their homework . Good luck!
Out of curiosity, where does HN stand on Office suites? I use iWork for most of my work, but if I need to work on something quickly on any computer I use Google. What do the rest of you use? Does anyone prefer Office?
The marketing machine behind many brands is highly effective at establishing "status". The marketers place their products across multiple media platforms and those around you simply cannot escape its reach.

While I agree that $2500 on a purse is ridiculous, some less expensive brand signalling across multiple pieces of clothing might be equally effective. I am reminded of this experiment using the Lacoste and Hilfiger logos: http://www.economist.com/node/18483423
you're signaling "I'm the kind of person who's angling for a very painful metatarsal fracture."
So the device is unavailable in Canada. Is this going to be another Nexus 4 debacle, with nowhere near enough stock to meet demand? If so, how long until we get another "email me when there's more in stock" app?
I was able to order one just now, are you in the US?
Event ROI for startups - Was #TCDisrupt worth the $3,000?
This is completely false. Verizon uses SIM cards for many devices.
You don't need a server for auth, that's what web identity federation[1] is for.

[1] http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/aws-iam-now-supports-amaz...
Google, Oracle Workers Enlisted for Obamacare 'Tech Surge'
I didn't make it sound like anything, beyond that -- relative to a Nexus device -- there is enormous pent up demand for this. The hype has been building for weeks, and the anticipated release has been very, very closely watched. Everyone knew this would be a hugely front-loaded purchase.

If Google does what they traditionally do they will be going through batches, with small delays between. With each batch the estimated delivery time will increase -- managers will meet and get agreements by vendors -- and supplies will reappear.
The thing is, if you are using deniable encryption and keep producing keys that reveal innocent data, the government will just keep demanding keys from you. Basically, you have to be able to last until they give up -- but the odds are already against you on that.

As for the hypothetical scenario, that is actually something that happened in real life:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Boucher

In real life it is somewhat unusual for the government to grab random people off the street and demand plaintexts. There is going to already be some kind of evidence against you, something to make the government suspicious. Maybe you attended an antiwar protest. Maybe you published a book about how to molest children. Maybe you are connected to some kind of fraud. Maybe a cop saw what appeared to be child pornography on your monitor. If the government is asking for your passphrase, it is because they already expect to find incriminating files; they will not just shrug and say, "We goofed!" when they see a deniable encryption system producing innocent files.
Well, there's always Firefox and a whole bunch of other browsers if you don't like Chrome.
I don't use office suites much in my work but I usually work on long documents in Pages + presentations in Keynote. Shorter documents and spreadsheets I do on Google.
Dude probably had someone pay a hundred bucks or more for that hoodie tho, it's not the $5 dishrag off the Dollar General racks.
DevBytes: What's New in Android 4.4
I think of flight attendants as firemen (or firewomen) serving us drinks and food. Because that's what they are. They will be the ones saving your ass if the situation comes to that.
It has the frequency support of 0,1, and 4 in LTE. No 13.

It will likely not work on Verizon regardless of the radio, though, because Verizon doesn't want it on their network.
Ask HN: How do you become a great hacker in today's world?
From what I read, it seems like 10-20 years ago, if you wanted to write some program, you had to do it (mostly) yourself. Nowadays it seems like someone else has already written the code, and you're just taking really big blocks of code and plugging them together. This is basically web development up to a point.

Often I need to implement some new functionality and get excited about it, only to realize someone else already did it. I might have learned a lot writing it myself, but there's already such a good implementation out there--written by better programmers than me, well-tested, etc.-- that I can't help but simply use it. Rarely do I run into a problem so novel that, say, some jQuery library or Python module hasn't already been written for it.

Have the rules for hacking changed? How can I find hard problems to work on?
I think Nexus 4 has been out of stock in most countries for a while now
We tested AeroFS and BTSync on a variety of data in shared folders, and consistently found sync issues with BTSync. We eventually abandoned BTSync for AeroFS, and while it hasn't been perfect, it's been considerably better at handling syncing issues.

Anecdotal, and just one case, but hope someone finds it helpful.
Check Your Work
The thing that concerns me the most is their deep linking from Google search directly into native Android apps. The last thing the web needs is even more of being silo'd off into closed apps.
Wireshark can also capture raw Ethernet and raw USB frames, but it still needs an interface from which to capture. Maybe it was the loopback interface?
It sounds even more surprising to me even though I have never been to US. Although I always dreamt to...

Thanks for your post. I mean no disrespect, but could you please link to any references. Specially about the working hours, minimum wage and vacation etc. If it is true then I am going to do myself a favour and trash my US visa right away. I am not much of a traveller but I can always assume that grand canyon doesn't exist or that I can see it in a different life....

Edit: looks like you are right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#United_States
That's almost identical to the Galaxy S4, 441ppi
I am sad as well given KitKat was supposedly designed to work well on devices with 512MB RAM. Given the GNex has 1GB and over the time they've added bit of bloat with 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 - I was very much expecting that KitKat would be the last release for the GNex.

But to be fair it was released with 4.0 and got 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 - 3 major releases and more minor ones. So yeah I think I'll give them a pass and hope CM team will have 4.4 for the GNex sometime down the line.

Also no news on the integration of French startup they bought - forgot the name, but they had a native code converter for Android apps which helps further with low RAM low power devices - hoping that they release it to the Play Store (DroidBooster?).
Wow, and it's sold out already.
Why is it arrogant to want to know if a candidate meets my salary and availability requirements up front? The recruiters certainly don't go out of their way to inform if they aren't, hoping we'll get so attached to the candidate we'll cave. I cannot tell you how many times I've taken the time to look at a resume, expressed interest, even had interviews with the candidate only to be told "oh, by the way...he's going to need $20k more than your top end..." or "glad it's a fit, but it's going to be 3 months before he's available".
I worked with him many years ago at Myrias in Alberta, Canada, his name (pronounced 'Ruru') is of Ukranian extraction I believe. For what it's worth, he was extremely able then, if he says this is going on, I'd take it seriously.
It's kind of interesting that you equate 'talk[ing] like white folks' with 'speaking well' and 'being articulate.' Why do you think that is?
The Galaxy Nexus came out at the end of 2011. It can only handle the latest OS for so long...
Yes, I'll try again :)
How the hell does he get so many upvotes? He has hundreds of comments with nothing but run on sentences and they all have dozens of upvotes each.
There's also the benefit that a company would be more willing to give you a chance at employment knowing they can fire you if it doesn't work out.
It could also be as simple as the bot selecting a feel better buddy from a circular queue and asking that person to send a nice tweet to someone who needs it. This could either be "handwritten" or via some web app that authenticates on Twitter and lets you manually send a canned tweet (not unlike a share button)
Office 365 is the fastest growing Microsoft product ever. Microsoft has earned ridicule in terms of Windows 8 and Windows Phone but to me they are doing all the right things in this space.

They should have launched Android and iOS support a year ago but I suspect that hole is going to be shut soon. I suspect Apple knows that too, and hence is offering their less valuable product for free.

Just think how amazing Skype is going to be when its the primary way you communicate in real time with the rest of the folks in your enterprise (I know most of you aren't enterprise folks but if you are you get just how valuable this is when 99% of the people you need to work with are in another building or another part of the world). I have no doubt that is coming.
Making The Magic Happen: Behind The Scenes At YPlan
Oak Ridge was actually pretty successful with Hastelloy-N, which pretty much solved the chemical corrosion issue in the absence of neutrons. There was still some concern about the neutrons causing problems, but Oak Ridge thought they'd figured out how to solve it by adding something extra to the alloy. It hasn't been tested long-term though.
Introducing Docker Links (Docker 0.6.5 release)
The original comment up there said, "People like you are far more dangerous, in our times, than Orson Scott Card could ever be." Just because they said maybe you shouldn't give your money to Mr. Card. No, they didn't come out and say we weren't allowed to say it, but they did call it "dangerous".
Nexus 5 Out of Stock
>I think is the same phenomenon that happen to a lot wannabe-writers or painters; they would move to Paris or New York, just to feel they were real Van Goghs or Proust's :)

It's nice to be around people who value the things you value. It's nice to have friends you can talk to who understand what you are going through. I know for me, it's nice to be around people who are impressed when I do things that I feel are impressive, and it's nice to be around people who are better than I am.

I mean, yeah, there is a tech scene in davis and in sacramento... but it is a much 'smaller pond' - it really is pretty cool to be able to rub shoulders with the leading voices of your industry, and that's way easier to do here.

In a very real sense, you /can/ come rub shoulders with Van Gogh or Proust here, I mean, figuratively speaking. Many of the leading figures in the industry. Maybe you think wanting that is silly, but... yeah, some of us are really into that sort of thing.

I am in silicon valley, mostly for the social reasons you mention. I think that's valid, and it's worth the extra money for me. It's not worth the extra money for some other people, an that's fine too, but this is what I want to spend my money on, and I feel that I'm getting a reasonable value out of the deal.

(There is also monetary advantages... but if I'm being honest with myself, I'm mostly here for the social advantages.)
It seems like they are "metering" the sales by making them available at a certain rate.

When I first went to the play store site, it showed "sold out". Later on, I refreshed the page randomly and it showed the price tag button which lets you order. I tried to order it, but by the time I got to the checkout page it showed my shopping cart as empty. Going back to the front page showed "sold out again".

I waited a while, reloaded once in a while until I saw the price button again, and clicked through really fast to the checkout screen and I was able to purchase one.

Your mileage may vary.
If you weren't talking about it being dangerous than who cares? That is literally the only thing that is being discussed.
But you only need it to start the reactor.