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It's only a matter of time until human drivers will be banned because they cause too many accidents and impede traffic. Robot cars don't need traffic lights for example, because they can just coordinate their speeds such as to not collide. They can drive much closer to each other at high speeds.
Forgive me if it's already being done, but I would love to see this capability at my local Home Depot or maybe in an app for a locksmith service. Store pics of my keys on a secure server at the provider, and if I ever lose a key, I hit a button and it's made for me. Could be a whole new revenue stream for them.
Great open source story, bro.
Why bother? Around here places like Home Depot will just generally copy it even if it says "DON'T COPY" right on it.

And the one time I was trying to copy a key which Home Depot didn't have blanks for, it said "DO NOT COPY" on it, and the locksmith I went to only asked me to fill out a slip of paper with my name, the address the key was for, and the type of location it was for (house, garage, etc).

I filled it out with entirely incorrect information.

This service really does not open up many doors that were not already open.
I predict a Facebook meme urging people to post pictures of their keys.
For the companies others have listed here, you'll need to send the Gerber file (or similar PCB-level file), not the schematic.
sooo now i only need a picture of my nemesis/crush to get in his/her apartment? sounds good...all the fun i can have...

...and totally not crepy...

WHAT THE FUCK?

one more reason to get a $70 lock where the key is not that easy to reproduce! and hopefully they stick to the normal rules and ask for the certificate when u want a copy. that would make it a bit safer.
My day job is writing a calendar product. I'm currently re-writing the entire product as an API. Something as simple as "Create a new event" has taken months of work (when you save an event you have to update recurrences, alarms, attendees, etc.)

Our legacy code has an event save method that's a few thousand lines long. It's the one part of the code that we avoid at all costs because a seemingly minor change can break some weird edge case.

We also have a CalDav module that works but also has weird edge cases when different calendars handle things in different ways. For example, you have an event that starts on a Monday, set to repeat on Wed and Fri for 10 occurrences. Do you display the Monday occurrence of the original event even though it's not in the recurrence rule? If so, does it count as one of the 10 occurrences or not? In our testing, iCal, Google Calendar, and Outlook all handle this same case in completely different ways.
Fastmail (paid) or Zoho(free)
you might want to check this tutorial out:

http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/tutorials/implementation/simulat...

which is what this thingy seems to be based on...
I sub to Netflix to watch movies; I would like it if there was a wider variety on their streaming offerings but it's slowly and consistently improving. Original programming is gravy - although it's increasingly tasty gravy. HBO's been doing this for ages, whereas this is pretty new territory for Netflix. I think they're doing fine.
Very like svtble in that it's invariably a woolly Gladwell-style "thought piece" based on some flimsy anecdotal "data" and puffed through a lens of pure ego.

Also the space bar doesn't scroll down in my Firefox.
This is a pretty dangerous website, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

A unscrupulous car mechanic could save up a bunch of pictures of keys then sell them online anonymously to random people with fake credit cards. You wouldn't even need the peoples address just google map the neighborhood and look for their cars.

It'd be a lot harder to sneak off from work to the hardware store then just take a picture of their key.

This isn't even a real problem people have.
Google didn't just shut down my Calendar, they shut down everything. I am travelling and trying to use Google for various services, then Google locked me out because I logged in from somewhere different to my usual location.

Now they want me to verify my account using a mobile number. Except that I'm overseas and I don't have global roaming enabled (because otherwise turning on my phone will cost $2 and every text I send costs $2, and I get charged $5/MB for data).

Whether the "verify your account by giving us information we've never demanded from you in the past" is related to my lock-out, or is simply a new demand they started making over the weekend I don't know.

In the meantime I have to find alternatives to Google for everything.
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Or someone steals your phone and then everything else you own...

Edit: I'm assuming this is idea was relating to an online business. You could always give a copy of your keys to your friends if your willing to drive/walk somewhere
No love for xmonad?
Same here.
I guess there is no alternative that can match GMail in terms of abailability/reliability, features, spamprotection, 3rd-party support etc.
Would be nice if there was some community-driven, non-profit alternative available for such basic, albeit important things like email though.
Have them require ID to pick up the key. Or have the app require a picture of the person(s) authorized to pick up keys and store it along with the key photos on the server. Everyone is talking about the security issues, but these are far from insurmountable problems.
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Ordered, waiting to play with it :)
Well, that like doubles the price, for one. Also, it maxes out at 1080p resolution, good luck getting it to work with the ipad screen.
It'd be better for this money to go to strengthen technical education (and more importantly, re-educution) in the CUNY system rather than to burnish yet another elites-only institution, but training and re-training ordinary workers isn't quite as flashy or sexy a cause.
Looks like "killed by success". ;)

Couldn't get through with Firefox (haha) and my german VISA, too.

Also note that 55 Euros shipping is NOT the only option.. ;)
Interesting. I once tried to get a copy of a key to a security lock (a fact I didn't know) in Germany. The guy in this tiny little shop (which I'm sure would otherwise be happy for every customer) had one look at the key, then handed it back to me straight away. He wouldn't do it.

Maybe I should have just gone to a couple of other shops?
There's one more thing that obviates the need for traction:
social proof. If Marc Andreessen is investing in your
round, the round will get done, it doesn't matter what your
product, traction, team or technology look like.

To raise money, you really only need to be exceptional in
one of these categories (product, team, traction, social
proof).

Since everyone thinks they're exceptional, here is some
calibration by way of analogy: it is the equivalent of
getting into Harvard or getting 1600 on your SATs. That's
the bar to get funded. The bar for success is 1000x higher.

One of the comments buried in the comments section from Nivi(cofounder of AngelList) is actually pretty good.
> I would not expect real-world behavior for programming language constructs.

While that's indeed an invalid expectation, the term "delegate" is used technically in Objective-C, for example, in a way that cannot be related to "prototypal inheritance". The "delegates" don't use the resources of the delegating object. Quite often, they provide resources or data to the delegating object.

JS's prototype system doesn't fit this model of "delegate" either 'cos the "delegate" does appear as though it is wearing the delegating object's shirt. The delegate itself (if you still want to call it one) has no identity apart from the delegating object in JS, whereas that isn't the case in ObjC.

> If I want to understand a programming language feature

This is not so much about understanding a language feature. It is about a model of system design being force fitted onto the language constructs. The language feature itself is dead simple and doesn't need to be viewed through the filter of OO to "understand" it.
It's sad you can only pay with credit cards. I refuse to get a credit card.
That's good if you know it's coming, but if they surprise you...
Will orbital chaos cause Earth, Venus and Mars to collide?
Urgeous seems better thought out. It makes clever use of an interface that most are already familiar with, has a better visual design, and it doesn't put DISQUS ads on your content. I'd rather use this or GitHub Gist.
In general I agree for the sake of security, but in all fairness, the types of locks for which they are duplicating keys are pickable in under 60 seconds. It is essentially a waste of time to go through making a duplicate key - it is quite a sobering moment for me when I realized how easily I could defeat the locks on my house.

High security locks whose keys need protection, such as BEST Locks, are probably outside the scope of this service, and are not normally available to consumers anyways.
> then Google locked me out because I logged in from somewhere different to my usual location

I very recently had this happen to me too, except it took them 3-4 days after I arrived at my destination to disable my account and demand a phone number.

I have two-factor authentication, and I did a very thorough inspection to ensure I had no malware - nope, it's just because my location changed. Their "kill this account" algorithms really need some tweaking.
Based on these specs I guess my good old Galaxy Nexus should have no problem running FirefoxOS? I'm really hoping it'll be ported to existing devices too.
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I've written Windows software in C++ for more than 10 years, and I've compiled as recently as 6 months ago software that was written in the early 1990's, and that would compile and run unmodified on today's OS's. Show me one platform (or library even) that has that sort of backward compatibility.

There is a lot to be said about developing for Windows, but not being backwards compatible for sure is not one of those things.
I read one of the books, but I hate the idea of getting sucked into the plot and then waiting years for the final installments. I manged to postpone reading all the Harry Potter books until last year so I think can hold out on GoT too. I don't have HBO so I'll just pick it up on DVD sometime...after I've gotten around to watching The Wire.
The world is turning SaaS-only because it's easier to do business when you have predictable monthly income, processes that are easily debuggable because they are only on your platform, and a far simpler customer support scenario (fixing one person's bug is fixing all persons' bugs). SaaS is basically wholly unrelated to blocking ads.

What should this guy do to meet your approval? Unblock and click every ad? AdBlock gives users more power to enter into agreements with websites that are respectful with their users' attention and reject websites that are not. Use a website occasionally? Add them to the whitelist. Meanwhile you never notice the scummy websites that have giant ads mid-article nor the 20-year-olds in your area trying to meet you for sex.
Yes, I would find it impressive. Problem is, there's about a 5% chance I'd ever get to downloading and running it.

Especially since it very likely wouldn't be compiled for mac or linux (the only systems I have) and I very very likely wouldn't feel inclined to compile it myself.

That's why we love javascript demos. We're lazy sods.
Apple iCloud, MS Live, Amazon Kindle Libraries, Dropbox.

All of these widely used and are subject to loss of service, arbitrary account shutdown, data loss, and data theft. None of them are really trustworthy, particularly not as a primary data store, so I find it odd that the commenter rants about Google - the problem is trusting any corporation with control over your data.

The interests of a corporation and an individual are not likely to coincide in the long term. Google is not evil, they're just a corporation like any other.
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05:24 < ryan|> quite rude of you

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05:27 < ryan||> Quite rude out of you

05:27 < ryan||> To ban me like that

Really puts into perspective the difference in the levels of skill involved.

When dealing with someone of this level, they really should have just notified everyone immediately. There's no telling what info these people have now.
> It'd be better for this money to go to strengthen technical education (and more importantly, re-educution) in the CUNY system

It's very difficult to say that with any level of certainty -- The Null Hypothesis in Education is Hard to Disprove http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-null-hypothesis-in-educa...
Bitcoins, with the added bonus that you can use them for speculation
Author here. Believe it or not I originally had the compression ratio graph rotated 90 degrees, and had manually modified it to run from 0.00 to 1.00. Google docs for some god awful reason insists on starting at 0.2 by default. Anyway, when my colleagues reviewed a draft of this post they requested that I rotate the graph back, and in the process I forgot to reset the scale. Sorry for the confusion. It's fixed now. As for the definition of "compression ratio", I looked this up and went with the definition found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression_ratio

I agree that it's kind of counterintuitive.
It's for sale on iTunes, and I believe on physical media as well.
Agreed, I live in Scandinavia and the the content is really lacking. But at ~12$ it's so cheap (cable is maybe 50-100 $) I can keep Netflix and NBO Nordic..

Edit: That being said, I'd probably discontinue Netflix if it weren't for Arrested Development and, to a lesser extend, House of Cards
Don't they already have https://payments.amazon.com ?
A lot of the stuff in it is out of date, but `Unix Text Processing' is a great read, if only to get a feel for the concepts and ideas.
Well, the Amazon approach is much better than the Google approach. At least they sent a notice, while Google's policy is "shoot first, discuss later". Well actually the first part, I'm not sure if there is a second part.
> I always thought that the roads would be much safer if our legal drinking age and legal driving ages were switched

They are switched in many Western European countries, and imho that works fine. Also because there generally is more public transportation and/or neighbourhood pubs/clubs.

(though some countries have raised the drinking age, making them come about at the same time, which is even worse)

A 16 drinking age, 18 driving age does create quite a different youth culture though. Less fuss about alcohol (though it differing more with parents permissiveness), more about cars, and early networks and contacts being more local.
Ask HN: What's a good webmail platform for linux?
Prompted by this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5591133

I am wondering what webmail system HNers would recommend for self-hosting on linux?
The hardware store where I had a "DO NOT COPY" key reproduced asked if I wanted "DO NOT COPY" stamped on the copy.
No. Still ELBs. Amazon changed the ELB software silently sometime last week. Our ELBs all started accepting arbitrary methods.
Very true, but it can sometimes be hard to convince the boss that we need to go to step 2 when the system is working. I try to apply at least some parts of "right" the first time.
I'm having the same issue. I switched to COD. I am hopeful they will fix the issue beforehand.

Either way, paying an extra 30 dollars to have a Firefox phone is worth it to me. I'm sick of my iPhone.
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Email is decentralized because Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and whatever server you can setup can talk together. You don't have to use Gmail to send an email to a Gmail user.

The only thing that's threatening email decentralization is the war on spam. It's becoming more and more difficult to send messages that don't go directly to spam boxes if you're not one of the big player.
My immediate thoughts as well. Perhaps a different scenario.

eg- Anyone can easily just take their friends key, snap a pic and have creep access to their house/car/locker/safe/etc.

I am not sure if this kind of easy service is a good one to have around. Do not forget real-world security too!
How open is the hardware? Are the drivers open source?
I especially hate the kind of spam you find in the comments over at rockpapershotgun.com, which looks similar, but is more annoying as it interrupts the comment tree:

Joshua. I just agree… Bonnie`s postlng is good, on sunday I bought a gorgeous Acura after bringing in $7140 thiss month and-more than, $10,000 last-munth. this is certainly the coolest job I’ve ever done. I began this seven months/ago and straight away was bringin in over $81 per-hour. I follow instructions here <url>

It was very pervasive for some months, but it looks like the guys finally found a way to block most of it. Shouldn't be too hard with alle the numbers and dollar signs.
In which case the impressiveness must be coming from the lack of domain familiarity. It's basically getting excited about a game physics 'Hello World'.

I remember a good few years ago a colleague writing a fully textured 3D cloth sim that would remotely unfurl on your screen, displaying a given message on the cloth. He used it to display goatse.cx to me, which I wasn't very pleased about. This was developed in python and took him a few hours over a weekend as far as I remember, which seems about right.
Interesting but is it only me who can't find the author's name or a link to his blog?
The popularity of Game of Thrones disproves that attention spans have ``shortened and people want condensed action delivered immediately''. It's incredibly complicated, in-depth, and sometimes takes entire seasons for the pay-off to be delivered. Spending the first two episodes (20%!) of the third season laying the table for the remaining eight is pretty much the antithesis of ``condensed action delivered immediately''.
I often get the same feeling. The fact that it's running in the browser on one hand is an amazing achievement of those who brought canvas and etc. to the web. On the other hand the idea itself can perfectly run as a standalone demo, and the browser doesn't really enhance it in any way (if not making it slower).
Speaking of Austin....

Lincoln, NE

(I know, I know, but give me a chance.)

Home of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), it is often referred to as "the next Austin." It isn't there yet, but it is going there. For instance, it was recently ranked happiest city according to Gallup's index. (http://journalstar.com/news/local/lincoln-is-the-happiest-pl...) Additionally, the university recently made a huge land purchase to start "Innovation Campus." A new arena is being developed which isn't the biggest in the area, but is big enough to attract the bigger names. Commute times are low, buses are available, and bike trails are being built all the time because the city is repurposing old railroad paths as bike trails. With respect to the latter, it is easily possible to bike from downtown to the city's limits without having to venture onto main streets (though you'll have to cross a couple in crosswalks)

With respect to Austin, you get some of the best parts from the proximity of a nearby university, while getting things Austin can't offer such as a smaller size, a lower cost of living, etc.

Ten years ago I couldn't haven't recommended it, now I could easily recommend it. It is on the up and up.
Status of earlier Google Calendar issue
The rate at which he's writing the books, expect to be finally cracking the binding on them in 2025 or so...
Probably this is a more appropriate article as it hasn't just stolen someone's content.

http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/santos-getting-online-after-...

His name is Michael Santos and he did 25 years for running drugs.
No, those needs will only go up. That they won't be serviced is a different matter.
No. See the status page for the issue: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...
I suspect physical security in terms of keyholding is less fragile for people's house keys than it might seem on first blush. They're mostly in your pocket when you're out and about.

That said, you can stick many doors through in some parts of the world by simple expedient of giving them a swift kick. People don't seem overly concerned. So I suspect even if it proved simple to get pictures, it would have to be horribly abused before people did anything about it.
I a, pretty certain they will pad the envelope so it's not immediately obvious that there is a key in there.
FastMail is a fantastic IMAP email service and a very good webmail service, but it's a very poor mobile email service - for access from smartphones and tablets (including contacts and calendar syncing) it falls woefully short.
Yes, but we could find ways of letting people mature that don't involve giving them control of two tons of accelerated steel on public area. It's not like people who can't afford cars stay children forever.

For example, we could provide training areas/streets (paid, hopefully) where people can drive without big obstacles or crossing children.
My familiarity with game physics ended somewhere in the early 00's when I went fully Linux. Since then the most visually impressive game I've played has been Diablo3. Intuitively I still think games look like counter-strike and when I see anything better, I am impressed.

But you missed the more important point in my post: if this wasn't in a browser, I'd never see it.
For what it's worth I consider the so called 'limitations' of movies their greatest strength. TV shows, given an almost unlimited time budget, have a nasty tendency to ramble unfocused all over the place, telling 20 stories badly as opposed to 1 story well. With a movie you have to pare down and focus on what is really important and have a clear vision of what you're trying to say. To my taste this almost always leads to a much better story.
I've read about this guy before and what continues to puzzle me is how well versed his Internet terminology is. Things like "amazed me to see how the search engine indexed so much" just doesn't make sense, this guy was already aware of what indexing is and yet never used a computer inside prison?

It also seems that he built up an entire online presence before he'd stepped out of prison, the way it reads.
Exact same experience for me. Hit some database errors along the way but I managed to pay and verify the MasterCard transaction. Then nothing on the "My Orders". No email confirmation. Emailed them and fingers crossed a peak will be on its way soon!
Uh, why? Because they have access to different IPs? That's trivial.
The learning never stops - and that's a good thing (it would be boring if you were done at some point).

In my case, I finished an M.Sc. in computer science, and really loved all the subjects we were exposed to. When I graduated, I had decided to go back and do a Ph.D. to be able to continue learning about cool stuff.

But I worked in industry several years before going back, and loved that too. I quit the Ph.D. program after one year, mostly because I liked working in industry better. And by that time (yes, it took me that long), I had realized that learning doesn't have to take place at school/university. You can keep learning your whole career, which is one of the things I love about being a programmer - it never gets boring.
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