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Korg and littleBits Synth Kit to hit Japan
How to Wake Up with One Alarm, Every Single Time.
Can you show me where? Because I don't actually have it present in mine whatsoever (mycloud.rackspace.com) ==> http://i.imgur.com/AKHie5y.png
Welcome to the German version of the Youtube Music Awards
It is strange that I think of this after reading this, but this seems to be the dystopian future scenario that freaked out the DOJ due to Microsoft bundling the IE browser with Windows. It is strange that this situation actually came about, but due to reasons of law, not due to Microsoft's own market clout.
Apple openly highlights this to developers at the tech talks to encourage you to integrate it.

I'm very curious what bioanalytics apple is collecting via the M7 though. Are they testing to see how you use your device to better inform the creation of a bioaugmentation device like the iwatch?

As someone who has tried to design some augmentation software, getting an better informed persona about the user and transforming the UI to work based on car, train, bike, running would be an awesome future step.
Just noticed the coffee thing sitting at the top of HN, and realized I never posted this. I launched this a week ago through diff networks. It's gotten 5000 hits so far, 1700 from California, and 300+ sign ups (just as shocked as you by a ~20% conversion). I've already begun getting tea with people on Friday last week, but it'd be lovely to meet you / anyone you know in the area as well.
Airdrop for Android
Hey folks! Drop is a proximity-based peer-to-peer file sharing app that is simple, fast, and secure. Drop just went live on the Google Play store yesterday, and it is the first Android app that uses a combination of Bluetooth and WiFi Direct to create a seamless P2P user experience. It is still an early release so there are plenty of kinks and interop issues, but we'd love for ya'll to check it out and let us know what you think so we can improve the product! You can grab it at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ekatasystems.apps.drop

Share Simply!
Thanks so much. Checking out why the app crashed. We'd like to have only people in your city show up by default (but give you the option to change your city if necessary).

I've gotta get down to Austin ASAP - only hear awesome things!
I have a standing offer open to buy people a beer/spritz/whatever here in Padova if anyone is in the area.
Isn't the New Web great?
http://bmaeser.github.io/iptables-boilerplate/

iptables-boilerplate is a set of predefined firewall rules that are typically used on "webhosts".
You could use Prefixfree.js to provide support for older "modern" browsers:

http://leaverou.github.io/prefixfree/
It also includes alert to your spouse in case of repeated up and down movements detected outside of your primary residence :)
Well that's a stupid law. Requiring people to use a specific product. That's never a good idea. Now if you don't mind I need to go renew my car insurance and sign up for health care.
I Bought an Apartment Just to Rent Out on Airbnb
Regarding 1) and 2), that's why the author suggests XMPP. It would mean you can aggregate Google and Facebook chat in the browser, have your existing contacts lists, etc.

Of course, users of Facebook chat can't add arbitrary XMPP contacts to their friends list, but that's a different problem.
Banks are also heavily regulated. Liberty Reserve was attempting to act like a bank without all the government regulations - which is highly illegal for several reasons, one of which just happened to be money laundering.
India's superstitions are far more deeper and affect common people in their daily life. Kudos to ISRO on this mission, as they might have faced lots of opposition to their operations from many sides. Even the Nobel laureate scientist C.V Raman opposed space explorations in his time, saying that they are meddling with Gods.

For example, Mars is considered as a malicious planet in their astrology and people fear its effects next to Saturn. It is hard for one to find a matching person to marry if he/she is are afflicted by Mars, because one of the belief is that such afflicted person's in-laws will face untimely death. This belief causes so much grief for the parents looking for alliance (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangal_Dosha).

Hopefully scientific missions such as this will help the people to shed their unfounded fear and live better life.
Thanks for the heads up but not seeing them. That link is a project I worked on, not spam.
An in-person interaction can tell you a lot about someone that you can't glean from a resume. It's also provides a potential foundation from which to start a relationship (collaboration, job, etc.). We're speaking with companies now who are interested in featuring their employees as offering periodic coffee meetings to outsiders interested in the company (almost like soft interviews).
Maybe... It looks straightforward to me, but it is off course highly subjective.

Creating a folder is something that most people can do, and you don't have to do it often.

Even if what I propose is not your cup of tea, the general idea is that you have to think of a streamlined workflow for writers.

Another thing I'd add to the above idea would be a local, private branch for each branch, that would keep every step on save (no need for a commit message), and then rebase the private branch on its public counterpart on commit (message required) for sharing with others. The WIP branch may also be pushed, for backup purpose.

Now that I think of it, the above would better be implemented using tags. Only share tagged commits with you collaborators.

"CTRL + S" is ingrained in most people's hands, and having an automatic time machine would be a nice addition.

I'm just throwing out ideas, hopefully, you'll like some :-)
CEO's attitude towards the business is stupid. I would quit that company not because I would feel that I was doing something unethical, but because the CEO knows nothing about an industry he works in.

I made several online games, and there are people who addicted to them. I don't feel guilty for it. In each case of such addiction that I've witnessed, the person was in such a situation and such a state of mind that I think they got lucky to get addicted to a game, and not something worse. All of them created relationships and friendships in the game, and when they wanted to quit, quit.
So far so good. The pages load quickly.
An early pivot maybe?

Have you considered a on-premise hosted version for the enterprise?

For mundane and painful things like requirements documents. User manuals , documentation etc.

Certainly not as cool as going consumer but enterprises have way more money than hungry writers looking for feedback.

Let me know when you're ready and/or interested and I can schedule a demo at my company. I work for a large semiconductor company.
I thought 0x10c seemed really promising, both aesthetically and conceptually.

I don't know anything about any of their other games. I don't think I'd like them much. The abortion of 0x10c is a real bummer though. I hope they had better reasons than just running out of excitement for it.
How va-jay-jay entrepreneurs can get in the piñata venture-capital sex games
Intentionally omitted, just wanted to see what everyone was up to. Nice sleuthing, both are mine, about 10 months and 1 week respectively.
Show HN: A mac-keyboard-layout for german speaking hackers that does not suck.
There's something slippery about the way Mrs. Bezos writes as well.

She says: "Readers should remember that Jeff was never interviewed for this book."

She conveniently elides the fact that Brad Stone has interviewed Bezos several times for previous articles, and has written about Amazon for a decade or more.

It is certainly tricky, however, for an author to suggest he/she knows what a subject was thinking/feeling in the past.
Italian Startuppers/Developers
I'm really curious about how many italian startuppers and/or developers are reading this post. It would be nice to get in touch..Raise your hand guys!
I get an error that the page doesn't exist.
Yep! There was also GoonieTown, which didn't last very long and eventually became VR Dimension. Flatland Rover was another, but it used its own 3DML engine instead of Blaxxun Contact and VRML. Good times!
I run 2x2GB, 2x1GB, and 2x512MB servers on DigitalOcean for only slightly more than one 2GB Rackspace server :\

I understand why their costs might be higher (excellent support staff, always had stellar support from RS), but it doesn't really justify that much of a difference.
Spec-wise that 60G box is comparable to hi1.4xlarge, which is storage optimized, and you're looking at $2263 at AWS base pricing (this is ignoring reserved and spot-pricing). While their pricing is indeed rather high, it appears to be similar to at least AWS pricing.
Actually this history has one minor mistake (there may be more); Microsoft didn't make their own web browser, well at least not initially, they licensed their code from Spyglass.
Mistakes Not to Make in a Programming Interview
I still want to see this implemented with some local breweries. I'd definitely use tweet-a-beer.
An example of a premature optimization and what not following standards can do.

Some more background http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEED and http://kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s

There was some hope last presidential election cycle that this would become a topic for the new administration to tackle [1], but that candidate (Ahn Cheol-soo) lost the election and it seems to have fallen off the table for now.

1 - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/14/ahn_lab_internet_exp...
Linkedin Mobile Architecture
YC has invested in many real-time collaborative editing tools. Most similar to sharepad: https://hackpad.com/
The last " is sticking to the link. Delete that and it works. https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/392335781374619648/pho...
AOL Smacks Startup for Using CrunchBase Content It Gave Away
It's not the tags themselves that are "semantic" but how they are used. The semantic web is a content-first approach, as opposed to using tags to design the structure of your page. If you're adding div's to create a specific layout, you're doing it wrong.

That said, I think that CSS is inadequate for the task of controlling the layout of elements so there are very few truly "semantic" layouts.

It's the same problem as deciding whether an API is RESTful enough or not. Eventually, pragmatism wins over dogma. Still, I think (like REST) the semantic web is a good ideal to shoot for.
Show HN: My embarrassingly simple printscreen weekend webapp
>> "Several million people who use Android had downloaded Google Reader."

That says nothing about usage though. I downloaded a lot of Google apps when I first got an Android device. Most of them I opened once and never again. I think this experience is common with apps.
Commercial Exoskeleton Helps Paraplegics Walk
The Cost of Monoculture
It isn't strange, most monopolies are born out of bad government policies, not the market.
We tried building urbanvisitor.com for that purpose.
Yes! That's what got me thinking as well. Apple briefly mentioned 'iOS in your car' when they announced iOS7 I believe. This will play a role. Tracking movement will become part of using a device. Think of surfacing information or starting background processes. Currently their Maps application switches view modes already. When you drive and park your car it switches to 'walking'. It would be great if there would be a way for developers to build in options and ask the user to 'start this app when I start driving'.

This also accounts for Touch ID. Currently it's just for unlocking your phone. And more people in a family could unlock a device without sharing a code. On a usability level this also provides options; for example when I unlock my phone with my left thumb, open e-mail instantly. It's might not be novel, perhaps it's done before. But it sounds useful to me.
http://libre.fm -- yeah, the UI could use some work (current work in progress: http://i.imgur.com/2P9ZDx6.png) but it has a bunch of users (~130k, and we have approximately 85 million song listens have passed through the site) -- all the code is here -- https://gitorious.org/foocorp/gnu-fm/source/b4d50d2ca4dd456d...:
"Code shabbily, they notice the glitches. Code impeccably...
"Code shabbily, they notice the glitches. Code impeccably, they notice the hacker." - Coco Chanel
Not a pivot, this is a planned subset of penflip. Just realized this was one of the redacted bits from the application I posted here.

> For mundane and painful things like requirements documents. User manuals , documentation etc.

Yes. This is huge. Actually, lots of this happening on the platform already.

Not quite ready for a demo, but I'd love to chat about this. lorendburton [at] gmail
You are free to us any browser. Only for purchases is IE needed because of ActiveX.
My example was obviously extreme, but it wasn't purely a usage note - there is a meaningful distinction between forcing a lower standard of living and expecting reduced resource usage, and forcing reduced resource usage and accepting a lower standard of living.
This is why governments shouldn't be passing laws to 'protect' citizens online - they'd manifestly bad at understanding change and worse at designing legal systems that can cope with it.
Why are you challenging deepGem when he is confronting based on first hand experience and facts while all you have are just mostly assumptions?
I understand you intend to win the argument here, but this is the wrong way to do it.

>Again, you can be happy with what you get. But that thought doesn't work always. Peer pressure does amazing things to you. Even if you don't get into it yourself, you will get into it eventually once you start a family.

Can you please stop swaying away from the topic at hand just to support yourself?

I take no sides, just that your ignorant arguments are making these places a little messier (and possibly irritating). I just called one of my friends from ISRO to confirm what deepGem said and they seem to be right.

I understand you need to earn Karma here, but this is really the wrong way to earn it - By spreading mis-information about something you don't have first hand experience with.
If I had the tone of the others, I would have probably finished it off with just a single line by saying GTFO, but for the sake of HN etiquette, can I kindly ask you to stop this nonsensical Karma-whorish misinformation spreading?
Tbaggery - Effortless Ctags with Git
This is my first web application. It's built on Rails. I'd really appreciate any pointers about things to look out for as we try to build our user base and scale, as I'm completely new to this. Thanks so much!
Seeking Remote Software Development Contracts.
Skydivers in plane collision caught on camera: We'll jump again
Thanks Adam, that's awesome, looking forward to your feedback!
Are you still seeking funding?
Click my profile :)

Nice thing about an in-person meeting is that it feels (to me) like a lot less effort than typing a bunch of stuff out. But feel free to ask me any questions.
In actuality it's way worse than just being scammed out of your property. People are being deprived of their freedom and dignity, something even the most die-hard libertarian will find challenging about this "total freedom in moving my money anonymously" position.

http://blogs.aljazeera.com/blog/americas/face-human-traffick...
Sorry if you cant put together a basic back end for your app in mysql, Berkly DB or if you need to use json mongodb - you should stick to the day job at MacDonalds
Wow. The more you know. Thanks!
It doesn't help the MP4 is 115 MB, maybe compress that
Anyone can lose weight simply reducing calories, but that weight loss isn't permanent or sustainable, and it may not be healthy. If you run the numbers, the Twinkie Diet guy was actually eating fewer carbs than the average American simply because of calorie restriction, and his low protein intake would almost certainly result in the loss of muscle mass.

The age old advice of "eat less, move more" ignores the body's natural mechanism for fat regulation, which is primarily the hormone insulin. The higher your blood glucose, the more insulin your body produces, the more fat your body will store, and the less reluctant it will be to release its stored energy.

It's obvious that if you're eating fewer calories, then less energy is available for fat storage -- it's simple thermodynamics -- but basic endocrinology tells us that to lose weight all we need is the negative stimulus of insulin, which is primarily achieved through reducing carbohydrate intake.
> It isn't strange, most monopolies are born out of bad government policies, not the market.

Citation needed. There are government mandated monopolies but you can also achieve a monopoly using purely free market tools and simply lock up all supply and/or distribution via aggressive investments.

You seem to imply government-induced monopolies > free market monopolies, but provide no evidence or even an argument that this is indeed true. You just state it as a universally recognized fact, when that is obviously not the case.
Scaling across multiple machines is a completely different problem than pushing a single machine to the limit, with completely different constraints. Once you move beyond a single CPU and you can tolerate higher latency then languages like Java start to become more viable.

When you need maximum performance and minimal latency from a single machine C++ is still the first choice and the number of high-performance apps written in C++ vastly outnumbers those written in C. Check high frequency trading for another example.
Market this thing as "The easiest way to get your book sold on Amazon"

Figure out the process for people to sell there e-books on amazon and assist them all the way.

Make sure this tool outputs in what ever format it needs to be to be sold on Kindle/Nook/what ever.

Offer conversion from Word/Google Doc/ to pen flip

No one knows what Markdown is.
[transcript]:"how dare you, little people, to dream, and make the things we, the superior ones, were incompetent to do?"

I wish India the best in its effort to the future and a better life to all of their people. It by their own big dreams and achievements they will create a great and shining civilization (they already has)

Let your light shine through the world, and dont listen to the bullies; it's pure envy
Would you say »Programming in S-expressions is never a good idea« as well?
But you can choose your insurance companies and plans. This would be like the government mandating that you have to use Aetna for health insurance.
Nice! I'll be very opinionated here but thanks for using Swig instead of something more abstracted like Jade. Keeping it as close to HTML as possible definitely speeds up development for me.

I'm not usually one for hackathons but definitely do like to spin up mini app ideas and just tinker. I'll give it a shot!
Show HN: display content in various ways(js and css).
really nice project, can't wait to use it for my own needs
Octave is awesome. MATLAB can go die in a fire (purely for the reason of being non-free, otherwise it's great too).

If there's one thing that Octave is absolutely better than MATLAB is the alternative syntax for things like strings and ~=.
I basically know the geography of Chicago, having only been there in real life a handful of times, because of my time playing Midtown Madness and the various MS Flight Simulators.

I actually got a bit sad during a trip a few weeks ago when I saw that Meigs Field had been demolished.
Digital Ocean is cool and everything, however they're new to the cloud hosting industry. Take for instance Rackspace or AWS, they've been around for a long time and they can command a high price due to their longevity and also can charge higher prices because their target customers are not as price sensitive as you. Rackspace in particular can charge higher fees because of their support and SLAs, if there is a problem you can't figure out, and you have some money to spend they can find some one to fix it for your organization.
WRT multiple IPs, I am interested to see how they interact with the mods ecosystem over time. Not so much can they make a twitter app or a 2-d platformer or something equally unrelated. I don't want a blocky minecraft looking pacman clone, at all.

I'd pay more for the RailCraft mod than I paid for minecraft itself, in terms of enjoyment per $. Of course the RC mod is free ... Also I use buildcraft mod although the gold pipes suck for steam distribution, and I'd pay for buildcraft, although thats free. Thermal expansion has better steam distribution...

The great mothership recently released a new minecraft version, which amounted to a couple new flowers and some biomes for people who don't mine, and nothing at all for anyone who does anything below the surface. Its called Minecraft, gentlemen, not fuzzy bunny craft so lose the giant mushroom biome please, and beg borrow or steal the buildcraft, railcraft, forestry, applied energetics, universal electricity, and a couple other mods so people who mine in MINEcraft actually have something fun to do rather than admiring double height grass blocks and mesa biomes.

The other thing which is hilarious from a guy who's been into computers since 1981 is the mods ecosystem is from a software engineering / systems administration standpoint just a tiny bit more advanced than the msdos era, actually pretty close to my historical digging into MVS/360. So its 2013 and apt and dpkg and friends have existed since the very early 90s, but in 2013 the way you handle version dependence and bug tracking and distribution is you manually visit adware download spam sites and click 50 times to download a tiny mod, and then track version compatibility manually by visiting 50 decentralized web forums. Oh and don't get me started on people who think a 15 minute youtube video with awful video and music counts as the only form of "documentation" required. Dudes, its 2013 almost 2014 not the era of msdos 3.11 and warez BBS systems? It really does suck after using Linux since the early 90s and downshifting back to 1985, even though I run minecraft on linux (both client and server).

Mojang should implement a minecraft mod store with a payment system thats trustworthy/reliable and very fast with excellent versioning compatibility. I'd pay $40 for railcraft and mojang can keep $10 of it and everyone else will be happy as long as I get $40 of actual service, like its very fast and completely transparent and highly reliable and effective and perhaps dare I ask, effectively and centrally documented and centrally bug tracked?
Wizpert (http://wizpert.com) is one as well.
I'm a researcher at Lab#ID (auto-ID Laboratory) at Cattaneo University (LIUC) in Castellanza, 15km north of Milan.
If you want to grab coffee or lunch sometime I can show you around the uni.
Whenever you're in the area drop me a line: gcatalfamo (at) liuc.it
People have an organic need to procrastinate and Facebook satisfied this urge of the weak.
This is creative. I just had a friend that moved to the DC -area from San Francisco. She works for the Federal Government and mentioned that she felt out of place in San Fran because nearly every one is working on a start up. This post makes it appear that it is really hard to stand out in a crowd.
For anyone wondering about the acronyms above, ECB is Electronic Codebook, CBC is Cipher-block Chaining, and IV is an Initialization Vector used in CBC. IND-CPA is Indistinguishability under chosen-plaintext, a method of attack.

These are explained at [1] and [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext_indistinguishability