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I'm guessing you watched the recent BBC documentary about the 'war' between cyclists and other road users?

As long as you have your wits about you, take all reasonable precautions (helmet, lights, high-vis clothing, etc.) and ride defensively, I don't see much that can go wrong.
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How well does ZFS work under FUSE?
I'm planning to reach out to potential customers to test an idea and this is really helpful.

Thanks a lot!
If you knew more about IPTV than I did then you'd know that there are internationally standardised definitions for what "IPTV" is designated as compared to "Internet TV".
Single-Molecule Motor Sits On a Single-Atom Ball Bearing
You should check this on an ipad. The layout is doing some squishy, floaty things.
"Why these canny subversives have let idiots like the Koch Brothers buy the American government, I just dunno. The Stacks could buy the Republican Party, lock stock and barrel, with their pocket change."

I'm sort of flabbergasted that the person who wrote Distraction could say something so simplistic and naive about how money and political influence work. I guess he just isn't thinking of "the Rebpulican Party" as being composed of human beings?

Still, there were a lot of gems in there.
Interesting way to get free publicity.
Testing Go on the Raspberry Pi running FreeBSD
Vanishing Landlines, Factory Help, Spectral Analyzer, and the State of the World
Our Galactic Environment
? I know many people who practice yoga weekly (CA), and none of them have any form of religion imbued in it - it's just gymnastics (and the postures have funny names)
It should work if you put it in landscape mode, but it's something we'll look into. Sorry about that!
As if your way to brighten up your life was not a delusion. If you insist on the material worldview everything is a delusion, that means me and you (the ego) included. None of that is real.

It's sad how much you hate God around here. I hope for you that he's not real.
It's nice but only for Apple products...
Like others have replied already to: look around on the system, to transfer media (mp3, documents, etc.).

I also used it to develop and learn the Objective-C on iOS. I didn't have a Mac at the time and didn't really have to money to buy one either. Eventually this got me into a 3 month job (sabbatical from my regular job) to develop a prototype on the iPad for a startup.
Incorreggibili, Alessio e Lucilla all'Altare: Video Backstage
How to Manage your Time Better as a Startup Founder
Glad to hear it. Have fun!
I've asked something similar last year here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2188928
It obviously all depends on what the 22 000 requests do. But PostgreSQL can scale to ten times that on a single server in synthetic benchmarks.

http://rhaas.blogspot.se/2012/04/did-i-say-32-cores-how-abou...
Ah right, I should have known that saying something about the effort was going to be taken like that. What I meant is the effort is completely different. The story about biking makes it very obvious that it's just a very temporary happiness that can be achieved by something like that. It's not reliable in any way. You fight for one moment of happiness and you don't even know if it will even come. Wonderful.
>I favor open devices without those hastles.

Surely an Android device would have been a better choice? Jailbreaking is a kludge, it doesn't make the iPhone less encumbered from the average user's perspective.
The Real Hazards of E-Devices on Planes
Only the government should have access to encryption and guns. Why would ordinary citizens need these things?
| "The police have their priorities skewed," complains B Arun, a journalist with a prominent newspaper. Theoretically, Delhi has a policeman for every 223 people, but what’s unstated is that most of their duty hours are spent on protecting the teeming number of political leaders who crowd the nation’s capital. Policing streets therefore is shoddy as is investigation of crime".

Delhi is full of construction work (flats being developed by builders). The police are too busy fleecing the builders (who are financed by the politicians to buy land) to take our calls for help. At the same time, they are literally "in the pay" of these builders, so they listen to the builders in the case of disputes with other citizens.
IANAL, but aren't quotes binding? If the dealer gives you a quote for a specific vehicle, that's binding, isn't it?
Seems like there ought to be a way to crowdsource some of that.
Yes I thought you might say that. But I personally feel like this is a psychological issue - I am quite unwilling to pay 9.99 for an account, to get access to all the stuff you make(no offense, I think your art is great). I like this wallpaper, I want it now,and I would be more than happy to pay a single-time fee for it - 1.99,2.99 or even 4.99 - that would be psychologically easier to stomach than getting an entire account made,which I don't want or need.
They used fire to help keep warm, for light, and to cook. See, for example: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/555978/South-Ameri... :

> Among the archipelagic tribes of southern Chile it was predominantly the women who gathered shellfish on the beaches at low tide and who, from bark canoes, dived with a shell blade and a basket held in their teeth. The shellfish gatherers were careful not to exhaust the supply in one area. These people also always carried a fire on a clay platform in their canoes, both for warmth and for roasting shellfish over the coals. The men hunted roosting cormorants, penguins, steamer ducks, petrels, and other marine birds at night with torches and killed them with clubs. Ducks and geese were lured by decoys, then captured with pole snares.
Yeah you have to read Sterling in his entirety to get some of his comments. They are not all claims of truth but rather angles on observations IMHO.
This is not quite addressing the point, I think. The appropriate thing is to bite the bullet - it's probably true and unfortunate that some dictatorial regimes would last longer. It's not a very hard bullet, though - if we are viewing aging as a weapon against dictators, it's a pretty poor one; a nuclear ICBM strike on Pyongyang would be, by comparison, surgical.
I imagine they'd swap out the whole blade as a quick fix, but then have it diagnosed, repaired, and put back into service.

Makes more sense than trying to fiddle around with a defective server while it's still in the rack.
Global Traffic Machine will get you web traffic fast.
I always wanted to be an amazing jump roper. As a kid I couldnt ever play with others jumping rope, I just couldn't do it. When I would jump rope solo, I had to double jump each time because I was so physically out of rhythm.

Last year my new years resolution was to get in shape. In the summer I jumped rope almost everyday. There becomes a moment when you are jumping, where you stop jumping and you feel like you are floating. Your legs are moving the rope, and as you continue your mind flourishes and floats. I love this feeling; jumping rope is my cycling.

Last time I went to the gym I was doing double revolution jumps and this guy looked at me and was like "I haven't seen anyone do that since Rocky". ADRIAN.
I first came across most of this information from these two posts:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/ewrr0/writeup_on_th...
http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/exgiu/a_guide_to_fi...

I have been doing many of the exercises for some time now. Not only do they feel good, I can really notice the difference they make. Many thanks to Reddit-user troublesome.
Computing in 2165
I've been riding seriously for 18+ months, in rural and urban environments in the South of England. I get nervous when I think about the accidents I read or hear about in the news, but I have never had any problems with deliberate harassment, and only a couple of times when people have been careless and I had to bellow at them (works incredibly well, bellowing).

Training and hi-viz are everything: I have lights for daylight running and a fluorescent jacket.

Jacket: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackrock-Workwear-Highland-Visibili...
Headlamp: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lumen-Cycling-Bicycle-Light-HeadLigh...
Blinkies: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cateye-HL-LD130-TL-LD130-Light-Set/d...

Also, learning how to ride correctly has made a huge difference, try this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyclecraft-complete-enjoyable-cyclin...

If you want the reassurance of a helmet (I have mixed opinions) get a Specialized since they're made to a higher standard than most other brands.

Try to find quieter routes if you want to try riding. This app can help:

http://www.transportdirect.info/web2/journeyplanning/findcyc...

As can scouting your route using street-view, etc.

Try it, you should live :) And as OA says, you'll live well too.
Microsoft says IE 6, 7, and 8 vulnerable to remote code execution
The link between broadband and apps is tenuous at best.

The US has lagged in consumer broadband behind most other countries for a long time. It also lagged in adoption of text messaging and so on. This is presumably due to the weird regulations that the very powerful telecoms companies managed to place themselves under, which stifle competition. The US never led here. In Japan, for example, gigabit to the home has been available reasonably cost effectively for almost a decade.

In terms of apps, there is much freer competition. I think the biggest difference here is that in the Bay Area there is a very high proportion of iPhone users, whereas in the rest of the world Blackberry, Nokia and Android dominate. That explains the success of WhatsApp's cross platform strategy and the relative sidelining of Messages.app!
In my experience Zynga have amongst the most polished of the social games. I've encountered occasional bugs but nothing like you're describing here. If what you describe is typical how do you explain their huge audience?
My sources tell me that Busybox is actually not included in at least vanilla Android. Not in the AOSP tree at least (just checked (v4.1.2)). I'm not sure if OEMs have included it in actual products, but why would they have? I might be wrong. There are separate installers available to get Busybox on a rooted Android device.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busy...

They have a version of the Ash shell, Berkeley licensed, with the original notice by Kenneth Almquist. The Busybox Ash is also derived from the same origin.

As others have pointed out, they also have their own libc.

Most of these decisions seem to have been made to avoid using the GPL outside of the kernel. And a custom libc seems to entail that patches have been necessary to enable some of the standard GNU based tools they do have. If I understand correctly, mainly because of Bionic, you often can't just take a standard piece of Linux userland software and make it work without modifications or without including the GNU libc.

Also because of avoiding the GPL, the hardware driver model is different, with most of the driver logic being in closed source userland code.

The filesystem layout is non-POSIX-like, the way the user accounts and processes are handled is non-standard, they have their own dynamic linker, etc. Not to mention that a large part of the system relies on their Dalvik (Java) virtual machine, with a large application framework implemented in C++ and Java through JNI.

I'm not familiar with the embedded Linux landscape, so I don't know if this heavy avoidance of the GPL is common there. But I do know Android does not resemble GNU/Linux for these reasons.
Dexedrine is sooo last century! Can't wait to hear about Borne Legacy [1] like things like using viruses to fix/improve one's genes. Though considering the rightful medical uses of such technologies, having them and keeping them secret considering military applications would kind of count as... genocide!

The worst thing of this bio-enhancement arms race will probably be that dozens of technologies with medical applications that could save millions of lives will end up being kept secret due to their military applications. This could be the true main cost of such an arms race!

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Legacy_(film)#Plot
Like with a business, you could probably buy the party - the name, the branding, and anyone happy with your new policies or too lazy to leave. But the best and the brightest would probably go off and start a new one of their own.
Show HN: Get a girlfriend in 30 days
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We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.
Asia Tech Scene 2012 Year in Review
You should check it on your phone. "mobile devices are unsupported"
Very nice. How can this be more helpful than the desktop version
Show HN: AboutOurWork, the "eHarmony for the small business community."
We recently launched AboutOurWork, a small business connection network... imagine "eHarmony for the small business community."

We created AboutOurWork because even with the advent social, business-to-business connections (B2B) on the major social networks are a rarity. The focus is instead on business-to-consumer (B2C) or consumer-to-consumer (C2C) conversations and connections.
Our mission and vision is to connect the world's small businesses and we'd love any and all feedback: design, UI/UX, business model, etc.
It's definitely not perfect not the most pleasurable experience but if you find the right streets for your route it can become quite a relaxing ride. :)
The Science Of Persuasion (Cialdini)
I took a nasty tone against someone who was trying to bully me. I'm sorry you don't like it but he had it coming.
This is totally disgusting.
Getting off the island in 2013
I can't open it on an ipad 1 (safari or chrome). It crashes after a few seconds of trying to load.
Show HN: a new way of sending spam that WORKS
1. Create a Google Group

2. Import all emails you want

3. Send an email to the group

Done!

This will result in sending the email to all emails and it will not go to spam at all.

live examples:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/sepehr5tot

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/roozbehostad

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/tarlan13

http://i.imgur.com/AVz3D.png

(I'm publishing this to find a way to prevent it)
I had bought the game years ago and installed and played it yesterday, 2 versus 2. It is really a great game.
The year 2012 for Viraliti
Reminds me of a Stephen Wright joke (IIRC): Someone broke into my apartment last night and stole all of my furniture... and replaced it with exact duplicates.
I am not talking about security. Fedex being the scumbags they are allow you to deliver 4 pounds of anything legal, anywhere in the world for a 100$. That is the price you have to compete with. Also post has some more rigorous privacy protections than a real human at the border.

IANAL - so check this things on your own

Thing of the top of my head that could go very wrong with ease:

1. Brown guy bringing anything into the US - the non racially profiling DHS and TSA seem to have random generators that are very good at avoiding WASPs and catching persons with high amounts of melanin in the skin. Also at the US border you don't have reasonable expectation of privacy and the federal government can detain you indefinitely. (check EFF) How much do you expect as a compensation to take that kind of risk?

2. Child porn - the eternal scare. The problem arises from that the definition for CP in most of western Europe and USA and Canada is "anything that the procecutor think is CP". You will be able to filter the real disgusting stuff (lets hope so) but what about family pictures where the mother is playing with her 5-10 year old on the beach. You need just an overzealous prosecutor that needs bodies for the sex offender list and your courier can be in very long and expensive legal battle. Will you pay for that?

3. Anything encrypted in UK or Russia - in UK you are obliged to decrypt anything that the authorities think is encrypted information and in Russia it is just illegal.

4. Anything that could be considered blasphemous in the Arab world and the Muslim parts of Asia.

Should I go on?
Murakami chair - rocking chair that powers a reading light by the rocking motion
Only if that company is publicly traded. Even then, if it is, acquiring ownership comes through spending capital, not by virtue of having control over yourself and what you do.

Would you prefer it if instead workers were paid in equity, and needed to use the public markets if they want to convert equity to cash?

(The difference between this scenario and the current status quo is only $8/trade and a few mouse clicks, so I'd love to hear why you think this distinction matters.)
The page looks really beautiful in general. A single scrolling list feels really old fashioned though compared to modern grids like Pinterest. The Google Ads are huge and white and ugly and don't fit at all as well. I'd rather even image ads, but don't think you should have ads at all while you are trying to build traction/users. You might be driving off 10% of users to earn a few pennies a week when starting out, and your product may have lots of bugs and be lower quality then it will be later on, so may not be strong enough to keep a user around despite the ads.
I never used the "official" js codec because it didn't exist when I started. My codec has been optimized for nodejs and does rather well there. I recently did a jsperf for the browser port (msgpack-js-vs-json) and while slower than the nodejs version, it looks a bit faster than the "official" one.
Reflections on the first 6 weeks of new job and thoughts for 2013
Or just get a Casio f91w for $10. More accurate, has led to light it in the dark, waterproof, has a stopwatch, alarm and won't get nicked by anyone and doesn't carry a repair cost ever.

I sold my Omega watch and got one and have had it for 3 years. When it dies, I'll just buy another one.
Self-improvement vs self-confidence
Seemed a bit of a straw man argument, really. I don't think those are the best criticisms of taking VC money.
Pets Are Not a Substitute for Children
For the most part, childbearing is declining due to fears that overpopulation will cause economic and environmental distress. As a consequence, people are turning to pets as a substitute for children. But pets cannot replace the benefits of children.
"Mobile devices are currently unsupported."

What, exactly, is there to support?

Is your site Flash or java based? If so, that's a decision that should be reconsidered.

Assuming its html and js like most other sites, it turns out my phone has a perfectly capable and modern browser on it. Indeed, I'm using it right now to leave this very critique.

Don't tell the user they can't do something because their browser "isn't supported". Of course their browser is supported if its anything made in the last 4 years.

I'm hypothesizing you think you need some dumbed down "optimized" mobile experience. That might be a nice thing to have down the road, but is absolutely no reason to put up a wall when you're trying to launch.
It's a nice concept (and the fact that you have ads off to the side is great because too few sites of this nature worry about business model), and I appreciate the focus on credit, but I guess my question is this:

Clearly the site that this reminds people the most of is Tumblr (I also see shades of imgur and 9gag in this), and Tumblr has some distinct advantages in that it allows you to create a site around the stuff you curate, and also has a few other options. But — and here's something key — you can customize the experience as much or as little as you want.

Does this design focus too much on the centralized angle of the site as a whole and too little on the end user? It seems like the design of this site doesn't offer much in the way of customization and doesn't seem focused on letting end users make the content "theirs" as much as the collective whole. This is reinforced by the fact that you discourage repeat posts — a key difference between this and Tumblr, where they have a reblog button essentially designed to allow repeat posts. While that kind of approach makes sense for an individual blog, if you're looking to build this out as a wider content-curation tool, you should focus on the end user pages.

Now, this approach doesn't need to look like Tumblr. Look at what RebelMouse does. While it's somewhat Pinterest-y, it has a few key differences, such as the ability to customize HTML and embed on user websites.

I guess that, if you sold this as an alternative to imgur that can do a couple of extra things for Reddit users that imgur can't, that would be an angle. But I think the reason why people use curation tools is that they're trying to curate for themselves and not the site itself.

Let me know what you think.
The algebra of algebraic data types (London Haskell talk)
Can women's bodies shut down a pregnancy before it occurs in the case of a legitimate rape? Nope, but now there's an app for that!
Easy Rules for Improving Your Writing
Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution
At least the builders are getting some service for all the fleecing they're paying for. ;(
I don't know what it is, but there is something requiring a plugin as the first item in the page, I imagine they may be thinking of that kind of things (videos, audio)
Show HN: Cyanogen based Android  ROM where you apply MiUi themes
And if employers were allowed to pay them below minimum wage, they will do so.

This is silliness. Most employers pay well over minimum wage. If they did not do this, no employees would be willing to work for them. This is true in the US as well as in many countries where the minimum wage is so low as to be irrelevant.

Yes, and society if better of without poor people. Let's exterminate them. I see where you're coming from.

Huh? I just applied the exact same reasoning as you to a different field. But I guess it's easier to appeal to godwin than to actually use logic and reason.
Pseudo-scientific drivel.
"A recording device for the users to record their words."

Do you mean a software device like some kind of control panel? While that's a solution that eases the software developer's job, that's not how people want their software to work. I'm a software developer myself and I don't want my speech software to require training. Or if it's going to require training, fake it for me. Maybe a wizard: "Hi, I'm Simon! I need to hear your voice a bit before we get started. Please read the following sentence: ..." or something.

Sure, while this is a <1.0 release, maybe this recorder will help the devs learn their problem domain a bit more deeply, but I'd sincerely hope it doesn't become an engineer's crutch- IMO, it's Not Good expecting users to adapt themselves to the technology that's supposed to be serving them.
Yes, hundreds upon hundreds of websites CAN all be wrong
Not cool at all!
No one in their right minds should even apply for a job here after such a gimmicky job post.
Thanks, how about suspend/resume?
The problems right now for gaming on Linux
Tic Tac Toe with Simple Deterministic Free Will
Sorry about that. I've deployed a fix that removes the mobile block. It seems to work fine on the Android browser, but on iOS if you zoom in any further than the default zoom level then the sidebar floats and gets in the way of the content. We'll work on fixing that, but at least you're now able to access the basic content.
You might want to check the rules on floating adsense/locking adsense position on scroll. Last time I checked it was not allowed. Yes 9gag does it.
That's an issue on narrower desktop browsers too (for me in Chrome at least). Kudos though, it looks really nice!