skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Solving the inconsistencies grouped around the back button"

Android's back button used to be incredibly inconsistent and hard to predict, but now there's a fairly well established standard for this, which is supported by the API (http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation.html).

There was even a full-length Google IO session on it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwGHJJYBs0Q).

It doesn't mean all apps follow the standard, especially those naievely ported from iOS. Even some Google apps don't always meet expectations. But the convention is mostly there now and just needs more adoption.
I can't wait. The amount of time, money, and energy that goes into this absurd activity is nothing short of pathetic. America will be a lot better off without football.
I know that the iPhone comes with a bluetooth transceiver, but I was unware that it also shipped with a 3.5" floppy drive that was similarly crippled.
Identifying Pirates Now Easier Following Swedish Supreme Court Decisions
His name is Dr Murray Hamlet.
You are not "the mainstream" for Facebook. Sure, many mainstream focused products are not going to get everybody. The point is to get critical mass across a broad enough demographic, not to get every single person on board.

One cannot refute the iPhone's popularity by saying "but I hate it and own an Android phone". One needs to look at sales data and trends and even then correct conclusions are not always immediately clear from the data at hand.

Arguing against Facebook being mainstream from the get-go by saying "but I don't like it" or "but I don't use it" misses the argument. A few people who don't like it does not argue against its mainstream appeal.

A better argument is that, of course with 20/20 hindsight Facebook seems like a great, popular idea with mass appeal just waiting to take off. But in 2003 that wasn't at all obvious.
I you think this was done not because they are pissed off with Google, you are quite naive. This is very much an aggressive action against Google.
It's not really that they threshold the bandwidth, it's that they refuse to upgrade a saturated peering unless money flows in their direction.
Which is actually a problem with people. Attention to details, along with basic technical 101, seems non-existant in society at large.
So use Adblock then. That's your choice. But don't turn it on by default for everyone. What if every ISP in the world decided to block all ads by default within 5 years. How many Internet businesses it would kill? Most of them?

This is why I never liked IE's DNT on by default solution either, which besides being mostly pointless, and making it even more pointless by activating it for everyone and making advertisers not even consider it, I think it's a really bad idea to get gatekeepers like these (ISP's, browser vendors, etc) to block ads for everyone by default - all ads.

Imagine if cable companies blocked and skipped all TV ads by default. There would literally be a revolution from the networks.

I'm pretty sure Google can win a lawsuit against this ISP if they sue them, and they should. However, France is also pretty weird about Internet stuff. They forced Google to offer paid Maps instead of free before, and other such silly backwards things.
Google shows plenty of studies and sources.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/05/18/uta-prof-video-games-lead...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13799616

http://gamepolitics.com/2011/08/23/research-video-games-help...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8798927/Vi...
Diaspora is not as good social network as facebook and can not be very good at privacy because personnal user data stored in a pod are not encrypted and can be read by the pod owner. Encrypt/decrypt should be performed only at the browser level. I think diaspora should first start building a good cryptographic framework. Once the foundations are ok, they will find people to help for pretty features.

The problem is that a social network that respect privacy would be a paradise for bad guys.
This is probably just an artifact of how Google Translate works. It uses statistics to see corresponding terms and presumes that that's how it's translated. Sarkozy used to be president of France, Bush of USA. What was probably happening was that the phrase "President Bush" was being matched up against "président Sarkozy". So it figures out "President" in French is "président" (correct) and "Bush" in French is "Sarkozy" (incorrect).

Sometimes "Baile Átha Cliath" (the Irish for "Dublin", the capital city of Ireland) gets translated as "London" (the capital of the UK). This is due to Google Translate trying to match up Laws in Ireland (in the Irish language) with UK laws (which would be very similar or potentially based on the same original law). However in the Irish law "Baile Átha Cliath" would be replaced with "London".
Here's an example of it: http://translate.google.com/#ga/en/L%C3%A1%20alainn%20inniu%....
Help HN: Friend just deleted her life by mistake (Facebook and iPhoto)
Hi,
So hopefully someone who works at Facebook can actually follow up with this. She's not sure where to ask and neither am I.

Basically, due to unfamiliarity with how iPhoto works on her Mac she was having disk issues and wanted to try and tidy up her system. Knowing that her photos were also uploaded on Facebook she tried to delete her photos from her system. However, because the photos were uploaded from iPhoto to Facebook doing a delete on iPhoto[1] causes all the images to be deleted from Facebook, including all comments.

She's pretty devastated as she has now lost the last 5+ years of her digital life (university, travelling, wedding) memories and comments with friends. (An interesting aside, but I think she thought she had backups by using iPhoto and Facebook.)

I've suggested that she attempts to do a "Download" of her Facebook account but I doubt this will help.

Is there a magical switch at Facebook that might help recover these images? I assume since most operations are done under a soft delete for weeks+ that the photos must be to some extent recoverable.

If you are able to help, drop a comment or contact me in the email on my profile. Every little upvote helps.

[1] : http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2432
Unlike most people commenting here, I got a sub-200$ Android (Huawei G300). I got it a few days ago through Amazon just to try something new, and it's way better than I expected it to be.

I first had an iPhone when it came out, then moved to a BlackBerry (weird, I know), and now I'm considering staying with Android, at least for daily use. I still have to stick to the BlackBerry as it's the only phone on the market that provides international roaming at affordable prices, very good battery life (+replaceable, I have my own arsenal and can go for weeks travelling without charging the phone) and a very good keyboard, which is good when you spend your time writing awkwardly long emails.

Android, since ICS, seems to be mature enough for most users. It's snappy (its multitasking, background apps and toggles mean you can do things faster than in an iPhone), does good resource managing and has a very good integration across the whole system. And, as some people have said, it's no longer ugly!
Apple is increasingly making me look stupid, something I couldn't imagine happening when the iPhone first came out.

Few days ago I saw a friend of mine unlock her phone using facial recognition. I was amazed. She was surprised at my amazement. I feel lots of iPhone users have similar moments when they see their friends with android use "magical" looking features the iPhone is slow to adopt.
I would love to see the undo function implemented in Android. Text editing is very fiddly here, and you aren't even allowed to make mistakes.
And how many people who already got their ads blocked by default after the firmware upgrade, will look for that opt-out or know how to do it?
"Devout readers of Ayn Rand" (and, y'know, most other people who like markets) don't claim that the market will always "pick the best product". They merely claim that governments "pick the best product" even more rarely than markets do, and when they don't, it's much much harder to rectify the mistake.

It obviously doesn't follow that governments can never do anything right.
I am happy with the apple default. I would not be happy with the default android layout, and I have tried to be.

I don't spend my time changing my desktop items. I don't customise my chrome borders, fiddle with rainmeter, etc. I don't even change my desktop background from the first one I got years and years ago. This may not be a very "hacker" attitude, but for me I just want function by default.

Personalisation is never a bad thing, but having a worse default is. Not wanting to faff with your display to get something acceptable is entirely within reason. In each case it is a choice, and the ability to personalise your screen is very much a subjective benefit.
Uhm. Seems like an unnecessary attack, especially with him having a HN account (only 1 comment but still) and you being a former Apple engineer.
Yeah, I refer you to my go-to guy for American law - Aaron Sorkin :

Kaffee: It was oregano, Dave. It was 10 dollars worth of oregano.
Lieutenant Dave Spradling: Yeah, but your client thought it was marijuana.
Kaffee: My client's a moron that's not against the law.
Lieutenant Dave Spradling: Kaffee, I have people to answer to just like you do. I'm going to charge him.
Kaffee: With what? Possession of a condiment?

Your interpretation of mens rea is just way off. If I'm driving a propeller boat, and I kill a scuba diver that forgot to post the bouy signalling his presence, then I haven't commited a crime, because I was unaware, and could not reasonably be aware, that there was a scuba diver under my boat.

On the other hand, if there is a bouy, and I drive over the top without killing the diver, and it can be demonstrated that I was intending to harm the diver then yes, I can be convicted for attempted murder. Attempted murder mind you, and not murder itself. This requires that attempted murder be a crime. Back to our erstwhile smugglers, if there is a crime of attempted smuggling then yes, they should go down for it, as they were indeed attempting to smuggle. If the only crime on the books is actual smuggling, then they should waltz out of the courtroom.
If you read french, that's the thinking behind it: http://www.bfmtv.com/economie/adfreegate-revolution-is-not-a...
Shame, because I find irc to still be the best chat I've ever used.

I agree with you. I recently worked with a lovely tech agency who used IRC for a lot of communication amongst their office and remote-based workers. Typically, each project had its own chat room, and we'd create private chat rooms as required if only a couple of us needed to discuss something.

I was really surprised with how well the system worked - and how easy it was to use! It'd probably been a decade or more since I'd used IRC, and it was a really pleasant rediscovery.

In short: I'll be recommending its use in future.
I absolutely love the #Python channel. For that alone I will love IRC.
Silverlight.. HAH
Wow. The downvotes. I usually don't care about the downvotes but I'm curious on this one. Did I say something off topic? Offensive? Trolling? Not contributing to the conversation? I merely pointed out another factor for the crime decline and got the downvotes. The HN crowd really doesn't like anything deviated from the norm? The HN quality is really going downhill.
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Brilliant, really really like it!

Would be good if you could "lock" the screen size as it's annoying when you try and start/resize boxes to full width as your cursor changes to an arrow to resize the screen..
First, consider XMPP instead.
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>We built our own [map app] because we didn't want to depend on another company for a critical application.

I believe, in retrospect, Apple's Maps.app will be considered in the same league as Safari. It may have had a rougher start than Safari, but I think it's a great program.
This seems like a really cool idea. What are your guys thoughts? Also does anyone know their business model?
Rocklin girl allegedly drugs parents to get around Internet curfew
For sake of clarity, both bothers me, but it's the fact that a trivial UI implementation detail can be patented and monopolized I consider fundamentally wrong.

That someone can build a 1 billion dollar beast on top of that, what any decent software engineer can do in a matter of days, just makes it so much worse.

Some people have a rather mellow attitude to it all and simply say "Don't hate the player, hate the game". I proclaim the right to hate the game and anyone who plays it. Apple should have some pride and a sense of dignity. Apple should be better than this.

Clearly they are not.
If 20Mbps for 20EUR is passing as good plan in France, then your disruptor is ripe for becoming the disruptee.
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I wasn't complaining, I was stating it. If no one says anything, how will people get an idea of what's ok?
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How blind people use Instagram [video]
no wait.... in the NY State you can't own a deck of cards? Did I get this right? Is this for real? Because if so this is the most crazy thing I ever read..
Amazingly, innovation is where the OEM skins we normally deplore really shine. Yeah, a lot of their experiments don't work out, but some do and it pushes Android forward.

Looking at 4.2, for instance, at least lockscreen widgets, wireless display and gesture typing (usually via licensed Swype) were anticipated by OEM skins.
At my previous job we setup a internal company IRC server using InspIRCd [0]. We decided to host it on EC2 as well, and restricted access to it by putting the instance in our VPC [1] (only reachable over VPN).

It became pretty popular and it was a great way to communicate between branch offices.

[0] http://inspircd.github.com

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/
It seems like the only way to fight Facebook would be to embrace (er wait, leverage) it ... Something that simply crossposts to your account but draws anyone interested out. Whether the tool is like FB or G+ or Twitter or something else is irrelevant, it needs to integrate with all of the above while holding YOUR stuff outside.
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It's just a rant about some poor support experience with name calling.
I completely agree, that's why I'm saying that it shouldn't be in the codebase. It should be handled by external tools that are performing the concatenation.

Of course that begs the question if this is necessary at all since I personally haven't seen it used but I haven't read the source of many JavaScript projects either.
Good stuff man.
"The Order of the Stick" web-comic has returned (after author injury)
Holiday Suicides: Fact or Myth?
The facial recognition is very cool. Does it take longer than a swipe+pin? I guess it's just a matter of the hardware - how long it takes the camera to focus, how long it takes the chip to process, etc. It's just that I can swipe+pin in probably 1 - 1.5 seconds and I'd be surprised if facial recognition is faster.
It seems Free already has an investigation against them for violating net neutrality (they've been throttling Youtube traffic):

http://gigaom.com/europe/french-isp-blocks-online-ads-by-def...

This is most definitely a vindictive move against Google. I don't see this ending too well for them.
Love the gesture typing as well, it's really impressive how well it works. I've only been using it in english so far, and feel crippled as soon as I have to write a message in other languages.

Is there any way to quickly toggle between different languages?
Moreover, the guy behind Free Mobile is also behind an Israeli mobile network operator called Golan Telecom. They have been game changers in Israel as well, providing unlimited call/text/data package for 99 NIS/month (about 26 USD). This package also features unlimited calls to more than 50 countries. Recently they even cut their prices in half (49 NIS/month), for 6 months for new subscribers.
It's pretty well known. Don't know that I'd use the term voter ring though.

It's just that if you're in a YC batch or an alum you get posts, especially job posts, boosted.

I wouldn't pay much mind to this talk of mechanisms and gaming systems, sounds like post-hoc reasoning by outsiders.
Think about this: YC is a business. YC likes hackers -- hell, YC are hackers. Gaming systems is what hacking is about. Hacker News provides a platform to let their companies get attention. Being front page on HN brings you traffic and tech attention. The HN that you read is the same one potential hires, investors and journalists read.
I bought a total of 3 Nexus 4 phones for myself and my friends. All are pleased and so am I.
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Around 2000 when I got out of school I was working as a programmer for a company that made J2ME mobile games.

They were sitting in the Netherlands and had hired a bunch of teleworkers. Mostly from Germany and Poland.

And whenever there were meetings (even with the bosses) we used IRC for that. It was pretty cool. You were also allowed to go AFK but you had to leave your client open to read the backlogs. (People knew beforehand if their active presence was required in the meeting.)
I hate the bouncing scroll - yet another example of Apple's idiotic focus on skeuomorphism. I like to scroll up when I'm at the top of a list, or down when I'm at the bottom, while reading an article or whatever. If that bouncing scroll thing existed in Android, the page would move as a result. That's not a problem with the highlight.
That would have been a perfect response! I can't believe I forgot about it.
There's a disclaimer about lack of support for css3 animations in IE7-IE9 further down the page
Chances are, there is a ketnel wakelock held by a device driver and preventing the phone from sleeping. This is a common issue with poorly written drivers (even Nexus 7 3g suffers from it). Properly functioning Android phone should be managing its radios automatically.
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Having read the article, what does really happen in a TSA private room? All the article seems to say is "use your imagination".
Unnecessarily sensational (and editorialized) headline. People at the TSA are juvenile. Not at all unbelievable.
"Oh and of course you can 'customize everything' and here you have 4 examples of the most ugly homescreens I have ever seen on a mobile phone."

Agreed. I really don't like the look of most Android customisations. I think default Android is pretty gorgeous, though.

My homescreen currently looks like this - http://i1.minus.com/iidfIgCTZsXEX.png

The only thing I've added is the widget: everything else is stock. I'm very happy with the way it looks.
My cheapo android phone from Virgin had an app installed by default (ICS) that lets you automate power control. My phone goes from 100% to 60% about twice as fast as 60% to 0%, because once it hits 60% it automatically dims the screen (unless you force it bright). And if you ever watch power consumption, by and far it's the screen that uses the most.
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This article focuses ONLY on minor syntactic differences. These are nice, but the things that will make all the difference are bigger issues, like the ability to easily write functional code (good) or incomprehensible type inference error messages (bad).
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I totally agree. If you are developing an app for a corporate customer Native may be the obvious choice. But for the purposes of an early stage startup a Web app has so many advantages that it becomes not a matter of choice anymore. From a startup perspective what you really need is testing and validating ideas, trying different things and maintaining the growth as much as possible. Even using things like Phonegap or app store distribution becomes an obstacle for that purpose.

Besides, we don't even prefer native applications on our PCs anymore. MS Office is undoubtedly superior to Google Docs but most of us rarely run Word in these days.
Very cool idea to let the user mark an area before selecting widget, rather than the reverse, which is more or less the standard way. It works well.

I would suggest that you save state in local-storage and/or hook into the onunload event, to prevent people from accidentally abandoning a sketch.
Are you kidding me? The iPhone has the optimal width? You sound just like Marco, Gruber, and all those other Apple sycophants who were claiming that the iPhone size was perfect for the hand, until the iPhone 5 came out, of course.

Just like they got their thumbs surgically altered when the 5 came out, no doubt you will be getting all your pockets resized if Apple increases the iPhone width.
This is the first new OOTS comic in about 3 months. Rich Burlew announced the new strip on Dec. 31 and describes how updates of his Dungeons-and-Dragons-inflected stick-figure web-comic will be sporadic, given that his thumb is still not 100% healed, in this post:

http://www.giantitp.com/index.html#f952CzHnLAmXZtNFeNk

For those of you unfamiliar with the delights of The Order of the Stick:

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

For those of you unfamiliar with Rich Burlew's amazing Kickstarter success with The Order of the Stick:

http://singularityhub.com/2012/03/06/the-crowd-funding-pheno...

(Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3701721 )
I wonder if there will be similar stories about CSG mining in 30 years from now...
Awesome, I've been looking for something like this for so long. Thanks to whoever made this.