skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A non-rooted android is pretty useless. I was trying to find a way to disable the volume buttons on my GF's Nexus S, only to find that I with my rooted phone, could just edit a configuration file, but was completely unable to do it on her non-rooted phone. This is just one example, but I've run into many other hurdles trying to do simple tasks due to the 'security' design they've put into Android. Not having a root account by default on a device is handcuffs, whether it's Android or IOS.
But it won't. Because you can't have a revolution in education that's only available to people who spend $600+ on a piece of electronics. And Apple won't open the standard to competitors to build cheaper devices.

Like they were gonna revolutionize video calling?
Yep, I was explaining it to my girlfriend and to my parents over the weekend. There was almost no understanding there ahead of time. So let's build it.
Does this mean that one could be convicted of a felony under SOPA/PIPA if they posted a video of the speech online?
That's something I don't completely understand: why sales of entertainment goods are delayed across international borders. Don't get me wrong, I know there's a good explanation. I just don't know what it is.

I also hope this changes in the coming years with the growing popularity of e-products.
Hacker to Release Symantec's PCAnywhere Source Code
You've been around here for quite a while, but other than recognize the name, I knew little about you.

I want to say that I just finished reading your account of the London bombings - and how close you were that day - and was quite moved. Recognize this coming from a 5 year infantry vet that often sees stories about "how I was 5 km from a bombing!" as much ado about nothing.

I'm glad you took the time to share, and I hope that the action helped in your healing. Cheers.
ipython+nltk+networkx+pytables+numpy+matplotlib=full of win

Seriously - text mining made fun and exploratory with open source tools.

One of the text sources I like to use is the Launchpad tickets for the Ubuntu project, since they get a good amount of traffic from international end users, a professional interest of mine.

It would be great to hear about some other interesting open data sets that people have found.
HootSuite Reaches 3 Million Signups
that is awesome! I'll be watching this project. lots of potential when it matures.

I always laugh when I see somebody say: "…uses friendly regular expressions".
tl;dr version: People usually do a depth-first search for product-market fit, but there are good reasons to consider a breadth-first search.
Why the need for these "how to configure" this and that when it can be as simple as runthisnowdamnit.py using gunicorn or cherrypy? Or you know, some other server which doesnt require learning and blogging about its configuration and various options it can be set up? Sure that might come in handy, when or rather if you ever face millions of users/load problems.

Wasnt the point of a web application framework that you could put it anywhere and type run and have it done, instead of having to think of process- or event- or thread- based serving and static files? Thats not python. Even php is simpler/better in this regard.

Its not so difficult to run an instance of a threaded/process/eventlet server and let your app do the work.
Clearly there is a profitable industry built around Twitter. Where will Twitter move next in their way to profits?
Not true, your government can through diplomatic means have an impact. You could call whomever represents you or even call the US embassy.
How to teach history (and lots more) with Minecraft
I thought this bill is for private-sector research, which NIH funded research is not. Or am I missing something in how the lawyers are going to twist this once it gets passed?
Call it what you want, it's still designing and it's still going on the web. Information design, communication design, user experience design .. whatever... they all sound cool and trendy but it doesn't matter the name, only what you're capable of doing.

Web designers don't need to "become" anything. They just need to continue to adapt to the newest technology, while also evolving their skills to use the latest in design techniques.
It would be difficult to do properly, unless it just cached only what you were looking at.

Most links in HN are to external sites, so you wouldn't want to be caching them on your phone. Then there's the amount of traffic to HN meaning that you would be caching massive amounts of data only to get mostly unusable links, and some comments about them.

I agree that it would be nice to keep reading things after you go offline, but I think the technical side of it would be prohibitive.
Riiight, but disabling the volume buttons on a phone is an extreme edge case in the functionality one might expect from their phone. Non-rooted Android still has 99.9% of the functionality the average user expects.

but I've run into many other hurdles trying to do simple tasks due to the 'security' design they've put into Android

Maybe I'm cynical, but I think that the average user absolutely needs this security design. They'd probably turn off the volume buttons by mistake then think their phone is broken.
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/lamp/milestones.html

for a slightly better read than the Times page. Bigger picture too!
I am about a month away from launching a site that will easily produce error free e-pubs all the time, every time and have an editor. http://www.pixelpublish.com if you would like to be informed of beta and the launch.

I though the same. Textbooks are a no brainer. But aside from user issues that many have accounted here, there is also an issue of professor/textbook publisher relationship.
Textbooks authors (aka the professors) have extensive and long lasting contracts with the publishers of textbooks. They did not start doing this yesterday and 'an app' type of approach will hardly hurt them. They promise distributions to bookstores, printing, lectoring by people who know what they are talking about, typesetting (which isn't a small feat given graphs and figures in textbooks) and other services.

Apple is flailing. They want to get into the e-book market, but they do not know how. E-bookstore is already a flop and they are not about to issue an app that will feed Amazon's pockets. That is why I think they are initially focusing on textbooks, but I am not sure that it will work.
Google will protest SOPA using home page
Google will protest SOPA using home page
I'd love an email API that you could forward an email thread to, which would be parsed into a set of linked emails with contacts attached. Email to JSON is great, but not when the body is the text of 20 forwarded emails. Seems like a gimme for a CRM app -- does anybody provide this?
Thanks for letting us know! Already fixed.
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He picked some awfully unusual examples to make his point. By the end of the post I'm still not sure what to take away from it.

http://asmartbear.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads...

"Torturous chaos for 6 months... before hockey-stick profitability" is the exception. Most startups have to grind it out for years before becoming anything more than ramen profitable.
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The design is very nice and clean. I don't see any problems there.
Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks
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I’m no scared of complexity, I’m scared of yak-shaving. That’s why I personally use OS X and iOS. YMMV...
The latest are things like metadata exchange and PEX, where you can get everything you need including the torrent file and a list of peers directly from the BitTorrent DHT given only the SHA1 of the torrent file. This is the direction TPB has chosen, where they're only going to have those hashes and not host the torrent files at all. The entire TPB index will fit on a USB drive.
I think Adam's write up is missing this link to ICANN's 'Thick vs. Thin Whois for New gTLDs' Explanatory Memorandum : http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/thick-thin-whois-30... (PDF warning)

On paragraph states:
"Proponents of requiring thick Whois argue that being able to access the thick data at both the registry and the registrar level will ensure greater accessibility of the data. The draft report of the Implementation Recommendations Team put together by ICANN's Intellectual Property Constituency stated "the IRT believes that the provision of WHOIS information at the registry level under the Thick WHOIS model is essential to the cost effective protection of consumers and intellectual property owners."

The doc is probably stale though. Not sure where to find the latest revisions.
Badly managed businesses that are run the "top down" way the author describes typically have no respect or desire to understand the product development process they depend so heavily on for success and profit. No amount of "Agile" or "Lean", no consultant or trainer, no Kanban or Scrum board can really ever hope to change this for them if these organizations cannot self reflect and see that they are standing in their own way.

The concepts and learning that has come from the agile and lean software movements are still valuable though. Valuable for those who choose learn and are willing apply them, test them, validate them and actually self discover what is and is not effective. But they are absolutely snake oil and worthless for those who are unwilling to put in this basic effort.
Internet Blackout: SOPA, Reddit, and Networked (Political) Publics
Java Thread Affinity support for hyper threading
I've been a big Sinatra fan, but these days I'm definitely moving to Rails for almost every app.

If I had to tell why, I'd say that it's mostly for the ecosystem: just about everything I currently need is available and works with the latest Rails without much tweaking.
Java Thread Affinity support for ExecutorService
Adding business class management features to Gmail
Yesterday SOPA was "shelved", today DNS filtering is "off the table". I'm not sure I follow.
"This title will be auto-delivered to your Kindle on February 1, 2013." Well, props to Amazon for ensuring at least I don't forget this exists.
Google+: Adding funny text to photos
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The devil is in the details. You still need competent people to determine and estimate tasks, and to implement those tasks. Implementation is the biggie. How do you design the implementation? How complete are your tests? What are the important requirements of the task?

There seems to continue to be this idea in management that process will take the place of skilled programmers. That you can then just plug any programmer in, and the process will produce a usable product.

It's amazing how most other skill based industries require certification exams, to verify that you truly do know how to build a bridge, prepare a legal defense, or perform a hip replacement. Software development is the only place where process is thought to replace skill and knowledge.
Let me give you another reason why you should always use standard classes.It is because good design goes very deep

For example you can easily create your own implementation of a scrollview by animating the bounds property but there is no way you are going to come close apple's implementation of UIScrollView.It will take months if you try to make it from scratch.(I just spent a month!)

For starters you will have to understand the physics of it i.e the inertia,friction,damped harmonic oscillations etc.And even after that you will have to use a CADisplayLink timer to do the animations right by syncing them with the refresh rate of the display.
If you keep treating average users as average users they will always be...average users.
Hey David, what kind of stats did you have in mind on inbound?

The topic is a constantly discussed one, however at some point you cross the line from handling email to handling CRM related tasks and there are better tools/patterns to dealing with that.

I'd love to hear what you have in mind: oren@wildbit.com
Recommendations for calendar with iOS or Android sync and ignores time zones
I am commuting between the West Coast and the East Coast about once a week. The time zones are 3 hours apart. I enter most of my appointments on a PC with Google calendar, some on the iPhone and some on an Android tablet. The iPhone switches time zones automatically, the other ones don't so I have to switch manually (sometimes I do, sometimes I forget). I often make appointments for one coast while I reside on the other coast and when I agree to meet somebody at 10am this means the local time of wherever the meeting will be, not the time zone adjusted time.

So it happens all the time that when I enter an appointment it gets displayed by three hours off on the appointment date. My calendar is one big mess by now and I have zero confidence for it to show me the right time for an appointment.

What I would like to see is a mode where the calendar shows whatever time I have entered it at no matter the current time zone. Interestingly, paper calendars do this extremely well.

I would think other travelers have the same problem. Flight departure and arrival times always are quoted in local time so you can't just enter them into your calendar without setting time zones.

I hope this makes sense and maybe somebody has recommendations for either different calendar software or a different system. Please keep in mind that I just want the calendar to display my times the way I entered them without changes. Having to set time zone for each appointment or different calendars for different time zones wouldn't be a good solution because it would add more complexity and is also error prone.
from your link,
"The speech was drafted with the assistance of Stanley Levison and Clarence Benjamin Jones[12] in Riverdale, New York City."

"written" and "drafted with assistance" arn't quite the same thing. Though imo it's a silly point regardless.
The Wikipedia blackout is (still) a great idea
I listen to almost all the fiction I "read" (while in the car, on a flight, walking around the mall, etc). As long as the production is good, I agree with Card (and have enjoyed listening to his books as well).
At it's core Lamson is just a really sweet wrapper around smtpd (http://docs.python.org/library/smtpd.html) using asyncore for asynchronous socket IO.

When a mail is received you can optionally process it and when done processing you can drop it on the floor (e.g. you're done with it) or you can send it to a 'relay' which means a IMAP or POP server (or really anything) if you so choose.

I would generally say that yes, lamson is much more focused on receiving email via SMTP and doing [smart] processing on it.
Let's define what root access means. It's not a fancy "feature" that only "advanced" users will know how to use. You don't really "own" a device unless you have root access. The way I see it, "non-root" users are the feature preventing harm, not the other way around.

How would you feel if Toshiba didn't grant you root access on your laptop/mac/machine? It is as destructive, isn't it?
This pretty much describes exactly what I did. I worked on my idea nights and weekends for about 6 months (iOS app) before launching. 6 months after that I was profitable enough to quit my job and do it full time. Instead of going the typical startup route and seeking funding and hiring people, I decided to travel the world while building up my startup. After a year of doing this, I'm making many times what I was at my day job in silicon valley and really enjoying being my own boss. I think the army of one part-time idea really resonates with my personality. I like the idea of startups, but I have a family and am fairly risk averse.
This got me thinking... Are there any startups that are doing something similar with physical mail? I can picture a large centralized mail room with a bunch of industrial sized scanners, mail gets opened, scanned, and uploaded. Customers could access pdfs of their daily mail through a Web interface and could search through archives. Through in some super OCR and I think you'd really have something...
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How well does this deal with the cruft of a "Replied to" email

Are there particular requirements/restrictions for emails to be robustly parsed? Even Facebook had problems early on with their email-response parsing.
Couple of spelling errors in your footer.
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For one thing, the friendships were actually closer and longer lasting at the small colleges, suggesting that there is nothing intrinsically beneficial about seeking out similar people. (Opposites don’t attract, but they should.)

This is worth noting for anyone networking or doing hiring. You have to make a conscious effort to find people who balance you out instead of finding people who are just like you. Many of the most rewarding relationships I've had have been with people who think in ways that are diametrically opposed to mine.

The above noted, you have to make sure that this interaction goes both ways. Some people just can't handle relationships with people who are different from them, and possibly for good reason. They're usually high-challenge, high-reward affairs.
Irony Alert: Google ‘Good to Know’ Ad Campaign Educates Users About Privacy
thanks, I'll give Gandi a try with my next domain. I am using some free services from Hurricane Electric, particularly an IPv6 tunnel and also a dynamic DNS after dyndns.com pissed me off.

for production domains, I would still prefer a DNS hosting that is somehow paid for (with godaddy it was included in the registration price).
'Otherwise, you're a loose canon and should probably just go write Android apps until you finish puberty.'

I don't really see what this kind of comment adds to the article..
New study by Facebook puts the web as "echo chamber" theory in doubt
There's some excellent examples of horrible ergonomics in about half of those offices. Laptops on desk and craned necks lead to back problems. As do dinky plastic chairs.

I'd like some of the smaller meeting / quiet rooms shown in a few places, and the decor is nice looking, but give me a small office with a window, door, and walls any day over an open layout. As long as the office is at least decent, a designer office isn't that important.
listened to them myself, they are also among the best audiobook I listened to, reading-wise.
Disabling the volume keys likely requires root, but modifying the volume setting does not. The few android applications that need to do this typically listen for volume changes and then change them back. For example, I've seen some kids apps (Zoodle's) that allow a parent to set a max volume.
Any hints from Amazon on whether they intend to provide Elastic IPv6 addresses?
This is a self-serving statement. You really don't hear anyone else repeating this. What's wrong is that SecondMarket has to exist to fill a large liquidity void between startups and public companies.

What I'd love to see is a public stock market akin to Toronto's Venture Exchange, but specifically for technology companies. A mini-NASDAQ if you will. If I could raise money in the public market I could skip VC's, brokers, underwriters and all these middlemen between my company and potential investors.
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I agree, a "good" solution to this is hard. But I'd rather have a very bad solution right now, and if someone comes along and iteratively improves it, so much the better. Something like the text of the top 30 links + the ones you were reading in the last hour. A refresh button that updates the current content if it is changed, and an update cache to update this cache. I will certainly be very happy with something to start with.
Jimmy Wales: pranks for January 18th when Wikipedia shuts down
That's a particularly clear-cut example, but what about something like "my great" and "migrate"? 33 million hits for one, 37 million hits for the other. They're both pretty likely to come up, so it's important to have separate strokes for both. On the other hand, what about "mycolic" and "my colic"? Mycolic has more hits, but it's also a more specialized word; if you're not captioning in a scientific setting, you're very unlikely to hear it. On the other hand, while a phrase like "my colicky baby" appears less frequently on Google, you're more likely to encounter it in general conversation than you are a specialized word like "mycolic". So a lot of these decisions depend on the context in which you're likely to use them. They can sometimes get tricky.
Is there a 'Hacker News' for design?
The closest thing I can find is reddit/r/design. Anyone know of any other ones?
I see your point, but I think the post that you are responding to is clear that the Samsung bootloader is unlocked. If the bootloader is unlocked, you can do anything that you want with the device (including installing the tools to use root access).
You have just posted exactly what I was wanting to post although you probably said it clearer than I would have.

I always have the same reaction when I see a quote attributed to an actor in a film rather than the writer of the film, too. Similarly comedians (like Bob Hope) are often attributed for the work of gag writers.

It's an interesting that this seldom happens in theatre, music or literature but often happens in film, comedy and speeches.

I wonder why this is? Is it simply that we assume live speakers to be speaking off-the-cuff and the same translates to film? If so then why don't we do the same for Theatre?
It sounded to me as though DNS filtering was off the table until the controversy dies down. I don't think the MPAA/RIAA is going anywhere. They want to control the technology & destroy it if necessary. This is a strategic retreat on their part.
Samsung to Buy RIM?
He has a point. Jailbreaking an iOS device is also a dead simple process, and they too are wonderfully hackable machines, arguably more-so than Android, once you have root access. But I'm not sure that means Apple's iDevices are great machines for hackers.
Cogent de-peered Google about half a year ago:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nsp/ipv6/29238

If you're single-homed to Cogent and want global IPv6 connectivity, you should look for another provider.
Well i think the gist is that serving files and running applications have different resource requirements. Therefore it is common to have a proxy serve statics and proxy in addition to an application server running python. The advantage with uwsgi as i understand it is that the proxy protocol is faster than http.
SOPA/PIPA Could Have Huge Impact on Enterprise IT
no, actually I've seen one of the ladies too many times during the crankygeeks.com shows, and that annoying advertising... probably it worked?
:)
All of it is double speak. The bill can be revived at a moments notice, when we finally let up and go back to being complacent it will be pulled from the shelve and passed as quickly as possible.
You know, when I started working on Postmark I thought that would make a fantastic April Fools joke.

then I discovered there really is a company that tries to do that. I can't remember the name though…
It is on the record that the speech was written by them rather than written "with their assistance". Obviously MLK would have had input (and veto).

There was an interesting interview with one of them on British TV last year and he said as much particularly he claimed the "I have a dream" part.
I would imagine that its parsing functionality could be a boon to someone wanting to do something higher level with IMAP. Thanks for the response.
Ok, I'll bite: What do you think is wrong with FreeBSD's network stack?
but here me out...

Crap, can't believe I made that mistake. "Hear me out" was what I meant to say.