skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to lay my cards on the table: I'm registered as a member of the US Green Party and have been involved with various left wing activist movements since I was fifteen. I've also been poor, living in a junkie hotel and doing day labor for cash. My most upvoted comment on hn (before I ragequit my previous account (for basically leftist grievances (!))) was one describing what that was like.

Still, I find the intellectual attitude that you've described deeply unsettling. As you've sketched it, the "social justice narrative[0]" is unfalsifiable: what claims does your theory of politics actually make about the world if any given piece of it can be overturned without making a dent in the theory itself? A theory of social inequality can't be correct in general without being correct in particular cases. Refuting (not "deconstructing") a particular thesis is not "intellectual showboating", it's engaging in argument. What else is someone who sincerely disagrees with you supposed to do?

I've seen this happen with depressing regularity: a self-styled social justice advocate will make a claim, and sometimes that claim will get demolished by an intelligent opponent. (Yes, this can happen, and it is a portent for the future of the left that most activists never learn to take a drubbing from a perceptive conservative.) Rather than taking stock at that point, the social justice advocate throws up a polysyllabic ink cloud ("institutional", "systemic" and "societal" seem to enjoy heavy rotation) and jets away. Whether it is true or not that nebulous social forces conspire to constrain outcomes for the poor in the way that the social justice advocate believes, I have no idea why such verbal behavior should be considered convincing.

This is especially frustrating if you actually sincerely think that the left has good ideas about social policy that should be argued for in earnest and implemented.

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[0] The heavy rhetorical weight placed on the word "narrative" also gives me goosebumps. What happened to plain old arguments-- a set of propositions intended to establish (or at least raise the probability of) the truth of a conclusion? I would hate to think it's because "narratives", unlike arguments, are impossible to demonstrate or refute.
I loved the Startup School Notes and this is the perfect continuation. You've taken all the publicity and activity and directed it straight to a cause which was pitched with emotion and conviction to the Startup School crowd.

It's one of those one of those "see an opportunity, take the opportunity" moments, and I'm really glad you took the opportunity to do both the initial sketches and the book! Thanks!
For all, unless you are on Verizon.
3WCircle Brings Women Together for Real Conversations
Also, with encrypted volumes, just reading files on the raspi is very slow. Consider replacing raspi with odroid, utilite, or other fast, fanless, cheap arm sbc.
> "Android 4.4, KitKat, which comes on Nexus 5, will also soon be available on Nexus 4, 7, 10, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks."

Hopefully they get it working for the Galaxy Nexus somehow, mine has been a crapshoot for memory recently with Chrome just randomly restarting at times.
Don't let your health issues become a nightmare
I had a terrible experience with the Nexus S. I bought it a couple years ago (which seems to be a vety long time in Google terms) and right now it's totally unusable. It's very slow, the battery is sucked up in less than an hour when on wifi, some apps can't work, the play store is a mess and I can go on and on.

I experienced the nexus 4 a little bit and though it's a great phone I'm afraid the next OS updates are going to ruin it just like it happened to the poor Nexus S.

My next phone is going to be an iPhone as I had a rather pleasant experience on the iPad.
Machine Learning for Relevance and Serendipity (Strange Loop '13)
"One of us". It's tribalism. Same applies to logo hoodies, conference t-shirts, and various other things programmers do, deliberately or otherwise, to provide authenticity.

It may have started as simply being too lazy to pick out clothes from the closet, but at this point it's a full-blown subculture, with signals and counter-signals. Notice that if you walk the streets of San Francisco you can spot the tech workers incredibly easily. They're not just dressed down, they're dressed down in an very specific way. Toe shoes is one such way - they've achieved a cult status in our subculture and almost nowhere else.
I admit the journalism is sensationalistic and the datafiles uncompelling, but so is the response here on HNN.

Literally the DAY AFTER we learn about MUSCULAR, which far exceeds PRISM in its scope, extralegality and generalized dastardality, and half the comments here are, "nope, I didn't think of that before, hence impossible." Well, you didn't think that Linda and John at the station were enjoying your girlfriend's selfies in your inbox, did you? And yet they are.

Bakane. I want to hire all of you as shills, as the best shill is the one who just knows they're right. And I don't even have anything for you to shill! Expect calls from headhunters with federal ties soon.
So, have they completely dropped the n4? Did they clear them out at the old low price?
Online dating is hard.
Some background on how this fits into a wider trend:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...

And the discussion, much of which involves explaining why this tendency is maybe not as sinister as the Ars article implies:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6582494
I'm having a hard time finding the specifics on this. Do you know if this is due to it not supporting Verizon's CDMA/LTE bands, or due to a bureaucratic/carrier certification issue?

It looks to me like LTE on Verizon wouldn't be supported (bands 4 and 13), but technical CDMA should work?
I love this as a stark juxtaposition to the Apple "Hold a grand event to announce new OS and phone dates"
That's kind of interesting. They seem to be tracking the expected delivery date really well. At first, it says 1-2 business days. Then it went to November 5th, then it moved to November 8th. The black 16gb is moving the quickest at the moment.
If your own country allows dual citizenship, you are not legally prohibited to get your original citizenship again after taking German. Germany doesn't explicitly prohibit their citizens to take another country citizenship, it just doesn't want to grant its own if you don't renounce all your old citizenships. IANAL, but know many people who did just that.
It's not just Nigeria.

And I agree. The way Google does this with an error page for non serviced locations feels really off. It's not how the web is supposed to work. Not shipping to other countries is bad enough. This is rude.

Google should just put these things on Amazon.
Almost exclusively an OSX house, but with one Linux box for the LTO archive (tape is still cheaper than 'the cloud' when your internet isn't that fast and a single event/project can be over a terrabyte of footage...).

We may switch over to a linux or BSD based server at some point in the future. Others in our organisation have deployed synology machines with great success.
1080p screen vs 720p, faster processor, wireless charging, opengl es 3.0 support.
It's quite depressing that a 350$ phone will probably translate to 460€ in Belgium and the Netherlands. That's 626$ if you use the official exchange course between euro's and dollars.

We don't have phones on Google Play.

EDIT: Strike that, it's dropped to 399€, that's still 543$.
I was wondering about that. Can you can still buy an unlocked phone and use it with their service?
That's not a counterpoint in poor-person logic. It's a counterpoint in you-the-guy-who-has-more-correct-assumptions logic.

This is what I'm trying to get across with my posts on this topic.

People keep using reasoning from within a higher-class group where you already know the rules and assumptions of the game. The whole point is that the people below don't.
Adapting Backbone.ajax in a Crossrider Browser Extension
The edit window is now closed, and I realise I forgot to post a link. To make up for it, I'll give you two for the same price.

https://www.requestpolicy.com/ and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon./RequestPolic...
This is purely an opinion and totally depends on where your priorities lie. All of these things are true and your overall cost of living will be lower. However you will most likely need a car and your social life won't be as exciting because everything will be happening in the city.
That was to be expected, so long as Google and LG don't skimp on releasing sources I don't see the issue.

Developers shouldn't need a specific device to feel like a special snowflake, if you ask me, they are by default.
It was announced a couple of months ago. I don't think any money changed hands it just a big marketing partnership. KitKat are producing millions of bars with a special Android competition and Google are naming the OS KitKat.
You are indeed correct, you do not understand. I did not state in any way you are not allowed to express your opinion. I suggest you read over my post again to see that I did not suggest this. My post was about someone attempting to shut down an opposing viewpoint they do not agree with. Expressing your opinion is one thing, preventing another from expressing his is another.

As for "somehow dangerous", please read the post again. Here, I'll quote from the very first sentence for you; "in this case I can't speak of it being dangerous".

Yes indeed, you are allowed to express your opinion and recommend that people avoid providing him with money if they disagree with what he has to say. But that's the consequences part; read the post again. The consequences being that with your boycott in an attempt to punish the target of your disagreement you are more likely hurting people who have nothing to do with the thing you are disagreeing with. Those are the consequences. If you feel fine with that, then power to you and by all means speak up. Just keep in mind that their might be hundreds of people with families to support that may be somewhat upset with your choice.

In the end I'm not even suggesting that Card should be saying the things he does. I disagree with him with my total being. But I am aware of how these things work, just read history. If you provide someone with the power to curtail speech that you do not like, that gives them the power to curtail all speech. It's why I disagree with hate speech laws. Who defines hate speech? Today hate speech may be defined as stating negative things about minorities, tomorrow it could be defined as saying anything negative against government or your local police department.

Sometimes when you make your short-term choices, you have to consider the long-term consequences.
Android KitKat WebView is powered by Chromium
you can see it in:
www.google.com/nexus
The doubling of screen resolution is what has inspired my update, not to mention the ridiculously powerful CPU/GPU.
I think your privilege — and lack of awareness thereof — is showing...

Re: your edit, it's not the choices that are privilege, but all too often, the opportunity even to make them. As a white male, I have choices, and opportunities to make them, that women and non-white people simply don't. That's privilege: not what you do with the choices you do have, but the choices you have available to you.
Stupid is as stupid does right? Also when the going gets tough, the tough get going. And don't forget rome wasn't built in a day. A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.
LTE connectivity, a bigger battery, and a better camera. On, and a faster processors and more storage and stuff.
I don't think the play store link works for people in countries where it isn't sold.
Well, it's just about how much max memory you need at a time, no matter whether that size is split into many small chunks or allocated as a single block. True, an application which needs very little memory most of the time, and spikes to huge sizes from time to time is not optimal with emscripten's approach.

But I don't want to nitpick all day. The more options we have the better, keep up the good work :)
Though "weeding out" or "filtering" to any real extent clearly isn't all that much of a priority when a large part of the system is a lottery.

The green card lottery (Diversity Immigrant Visa) makes up less than 5% of the total green cards issued in the US. I'd hardly call that a large part of the system.
Weird links on Play store. The default link takes you to the 16gb black version but doesnt show the other options.

This link shows me both colors as well as 16/32 gb options.
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_5_whi...
Ask HN: What services should be included as UserApp add-ons?
We recently launched UserApp (www.userapp.io), a User Management SaaS, and have now begun working on add-on functionality.

The question: If you were using UserApp, then what services would you see as "must have" for your business?

Some services that we are looking on integrating:

1: Sync users to newsletter/email services (MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, Customer.io)

2: Payment processing (Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Coinbase)

3: Welcome email and password reminders (Sendgrid, Mandrill)

4: Social login (Facebook, Twitter, Gmail)

5: Referral program

6: Launching soon page (LaunchRock)

7: Analytics (MixPanel)

If you have any other ideas on what we should integrate, please share :)
what's "half a PhD"?
Also to reduce distractions from actual problems during takeoff landing.

If you're playing games on your iPad with your headphones in, you're probably less likely to be aware of the little rattle, or to spot the flames coming out of the engine, etc.

Everyone on board an aircraft is required during takeoff and landing to be actively aware and help spot potential problems. Also, if there is a problem, you'll have better situational awareness of what's going on and you'll be ready sooner to take action to deal with that situation.
English will get you by in Berlin. If the startup has international employees, then English will be spoken heavily inside the startup (usually).

Outside of your startup, you'll want to at least learn enough German to be able to ask for things in a shop, order at restaurants. Though even if you were to speak in English, you'll find most people will be able to respond in English and help you out, but that depends on how far you travel. Once you start getting out beyond the ring (metro system), you'll find the level of English degrade.

One tip when you start out here: Genuinely apologise to someone that you do not speak German in German, ask if they speak English in German, and they will almost always be happy to speak in English. Start blurting out loudly in an American-English accent and you may not receive the same level of hospitality.

Source: Live and worked for a few startups here in Berlin, speaking from anecdotal evidence based on experiences from both German and expat friends
That's because it's not done to be a jerk, but to be edumucative eh? :P
Show HN: Stride & Prejudice, endless runner played on Pride and Prejudice
Just purchased one thanks. It says dispatch 8th Nov. In uk. Moved from sg3
Part of the problem is since Verizon is CDMA and there's not really SIM cards, they can just say: "Your ESN doesn't look like a device we want to support, you can't activate it, sucks to be you"
best of luck. i really hope you succeed with this. it seems that right now all opensource dropbox alternatives, while great, have a shortcoming somewhere (git annex, sparkleshare, btsync...)
>WebView is now based on Chromium

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.

If that means that the same engine is the only one officially supported on 4.4 forwards, then that's really sad and unfortunate.
See, isn't this interesting? You provide the very answer I would have liked to see but somehow my reasonable post gets downvotes. Much the response I predicted.
>> "I'm a little bummed that this is now a consumer device instead of a legit developer powerhouse"

What's your reasoning here? You don't develop on it, you develop on a computer. As a developer I don't particularly want to be testing on a really powerful device as most of my customers won't have that power available to them. I want to test on a few screen sizes running average hardware.
I have flown a lot (IE: 100K+ miles/year) at various points in my career, and I'm disappointed by the commentary here about flight attendants. Think for a moment about their job - every day they are interacting with hundreds of people, assessing which ones might be a problem and trying to deal with each personality type with a smile, all while balancing (often in high heels) your drink at 30,000 feet in a vehicle traveling hundreds of miles per hour AND to add insult to injury, doing so on little sleep and for very little pay. Give 'em a break, eh?

Separate from that, even as a frequent flyer, I'd rather people not have their attention stuck in their iDevice during takeoff and landing. Those are the times when a problem on the aircraft is most likely to materialize, and I'd rather not lose my ass in an accident because your attention was on Angry Birds. Further, in those minutes at the beginning of a flight if you are fooling around with your phone/kindle/etc and blocking the isle, you delay expedient loading and unloading of the aircraft. I've had colleagues busy on their [device] say things like "but, but I was just wrapping up a call, why was the flight attendant so rude!" No asshole, you were blocking the plane from loading / unloading. Think of others for a whopping ten minutes and put down the device so we can all safely load / unload and get on/off the ground.
Admittedly it is a bit of a strawman, because we haven't really defined "smart" wealth distribution in this thread :)

Re: inequality
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/the-inco...

So you have a point that the status quo isn't actually all that great except in the one country that The Economist always yells at.... France and Belgium. Though the Scandinavian countries also seem to do well (lots of natural resources help).
Lithium-sulfur battery breakthrough - potential for 5x energy density of Li+
Wait, wait, does that mean that I can expect some version (possibly not entirely official) of Android 4.4 to run on my old HTC Desire Z? A snappier Android on a device with a keyboard would be great.

Or is it for the billion people who buy a phone from now on?
Deniable encryption only works if either (a) everyone is using it or (b) there is no way to tell if you are using it. I doubt you will ever see the former, and that latter is pretty difficult -- even if such a scheme exists, you have to also hide the deniable encryption software you are using i.e. it is the classic warden problem.

To put it another way, let's say you are using Truecrypt, and the prosecution can prove that you have incriminating documents on your laptop. You enter your "innocent" passphrase and behold! No incriminating documents. I think the next obvious move will be for the court to demand that you enter your other passphrase, leaving you trying to prove that you really were not using the distinguishing feature of Truecrypt.

A better solution, where applicable, is to destroy keys as quickly as you can. Keep your keys on a smartcard, and self-destruct the card if you think you will be arrested. You will deny yourself access to your files, but you will also deny your adversary such access. The police might try to prove that you destroyed evidence, but that is much harder to prove if your own procedure is to periodically destroy your keys (and such a procedure can be done individually without raising suspicion). Basically it all comes down to opsec -- something the military has known for centuries.
Lean process, not lean budget.
Or encfs, a per file encrypted filesystem.
Thank you! For my purposes, Pixelmator is perfect!
Just to counter your anecdote, my HTC Desire D which is the same hardware as Nexus S was one of the best phones I had with great battery life, durability and it works well even after I dropped it on the concrete and in the water on several occasions.
Nice, wish I hadn't gotten my s4 now...
> Even Seattle is cheaper on average.

Unless you mean "cheaper than Europe in general", I guess these sites could use your input:

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...

http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/seattle/...
Foreign large-scale network spying uncovered in Finland
...anyone else seeing 'out of stock' for all configurations and models?

Yep, definitely another high-grade Google Play user experience....
The shape of what we share: measuring design features of online content
Google Webmaster Blog: Indexing apps just like websites
I kind of wrote that comment with the expectation that you'd chime in and set me straight. Thanks! :)
Well, I imagine it's some kind of app that you allow to post on your behalf. When you allow it, you know what it will post. If you really want to go the extra mile you could ask each new member to tick off which messages they don't feel comfortable sending out before authorizing the app. But I think that is unnecessary or release 2.0
Moreover if you relate back to the group, the person can see the larger scope and, maybe, join on the effort.

I'd be more concerned that you get hacked like buffer did a few days ago and you start sending bad tweets as the members :)
but besides that I'd be willing to "donate" a few of my tweets to this do-good project
>which seems to be a very long time in Google terms

To be fair, that was during the iPhone 4 period.

The iPhone has since gone to the iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, and then iPhone 5s. Many users report an absolutely miserable experience with iOS 7 (and even 6) on the iPhone 4.

The mobile industry has moved very, very quickly, and devices are a magnitude more powerful+ than just a couple of years ago. As a developer with an interest in mobile, I've gone through literally seven different smartphone devices in the past three years.
One of my mentors, the late David Crane FAIA, clearly articulated how to understand what poor folks want. They want the same things as folks who ain't. Better than nothing, starving and shivering aside, means the same to them as it does to me.
There is a difference between investing money in quality goods as tools & means of improving one's condition, vs. squandering money in luxury goods with no reasonable expectation of return on the expense. The author points directly at this difference without recognizing it.
Because if you look at how Google Drive and Dropbox do it, they enable you to run fully client side and use their storage. I can serve the whole thing statically, it's far simpler architecturally and saves a ton of CPU and bandwidth costs.

From what I'm reading, you can't do this auth fully client-side.
You can use a proxy http://6.hidemyass.com/ip-1/encoded/czovL3BsYXkuZ29vZ2xlLmNv.... I'm in south america and they also disallow it here
What is the price difference between 16gb and 32gb devices? Can't see it in my country.
You can choose some privileges.
>Really? Since when is the FDA (actually, USDA in this case) a private, for-profit operation?

i already addressed that - the Republicans forced for it to be done through private for-profit operations instead of a government agency like FDA/USDA/etc...
It won't work on Customs and Immigration. When you're talking to them you're not "in the US" yet. After that, yes, the privilege against self-incrimination is granted to everyone in the United States, citizen or not.

Caveat: The "border search exception" has some other pretty enormous holes.
All true, but there is something special about having NYC outside one's door. Astoria is a good option if money is an issue, but I would splurge on the rent and go for Manhattan. West Side was my roost for 30yrs, East Side far from the Lex is also cheaper way to go.