skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome to see them doing well and excited to see what they do with the extra ammo :)
Rebrickable (http://rebrickable.com) shows you what you can build with your existing LEGO collection, including hundreds of fan contributed designs. Not truly passive as I work on it every day.
How many years - the domain appears to have only been developed in 2012?

FWIW they also appear to be breaking European law by not displaying their trading/registered offices address on their website.

Crazydomains.co.uk seems to be a non-registered trading name (ie it's not lodged with Companies House) for DreamScape Networks FZ-LLC. That company is apparently based in UAE?

http://www.auda.org.au/news/breach-of-registrar-agreement-by... :

>"auDA has found that accredited registrar Crazy Domains Pty Ltd has breached its obligations under the Registrar Agreement to comply with the .au Domain Name Suppliers’ Code of Practice and all applicable laws."

UK branch may be no better ...

http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Crazy-Domains/internet/Crazy-D...

Caveat emptor.
Near perfect = it does everything I want to they way I like it.

[restarting] 10 times a day = it has a bug that needs restrarting 10 times a day to do so.

He didn't say it was perfect as in bug free. Just as in "does what I want".
TEK Robotic Mobilization Device
Ask HN: Enable "car mode" for your mobile app
I am building a mobile SDK/SaaS service that allows developers to easily integrate "car mode" into their app. By using the SDK, a button would show up in the app and the user will be able to launch an "audio/voice interaction mode" of the app.

We are working with car manufacturers to make the SDK dead simple. I wanted to know if anyone would be interested in using this. It would be great to hear feedback on the idea.
Android Mobile Users Most Active on Google+ [Infographic] • vlogg.com
>then we aren't using them to "promote" the product //

Which budget are you paying them from, advertising. What profession are you in, marketing. What are you hoping to gain from this project, increased sales.

You are using them to promote the product. They're paid endorsements.
More subtle is the point, particularly in early economic thought, that land is a proxy for the master economic input: energy.

With sufficient energy, you can provide other inputs (raw materials, labor, capital). Without it, you're sunk.

In a preindustrial society, energy == land (and sea), in the form of food and fuel production (agriculture, grazing, fuelwood, wild herds, fish, all by way of direct or indirect sunlight conversion), as well as in the form of wind and water power resources which can be tapped through mechanisms. Ricardo's "law of rent" was in part a lament that all the good ones -- that is, most productive acres -- are taken. He was complaining about asset allocation in his day (he also saw economic surpluses accruing to landowners and labor rather than hard working capitalists and bankers, which is a tad curious).

With an industrialized society, energy's become something we extract from the land (coal, oil, gas, uranium), rather than which is produced or converted by it. But the fundamental truth remains.

In a future sustainable world, we'll again either be at the point where what we take from the land matches the rate at which it's created, or we'll have found some entropy gradient so abundant (fusion? thorium?) that it can be used extractively for tens to hundreds of thousands of years or more without exhaustion, despite the very formidable technical challenges to its utilization.

My leaning is more toward the former than the latter.
"A 'Fiat' currency is one which the government of a country has declared to be the official currency...by government fiat."

No, it is not. You are falling prey to a rather politicized definition of the term. All non-commodity currencies are fiat money, but not all fiat currencies are backed by a government.

The word "fiat" is Latin for "let it be done" or "it shall be". It implies only that something happens by decree. The party making the decree does not have to be a government, or even a person of authority.
I will donate to a charity that will directly take cash and not pester me for my name/address etc.

The last thing I want or need is to get on one of the nagging "please give" lists. I give when I can, when I can afford it and to those I think deserve it. Like war veterans left without help by the government or public television.
Santa Cruz is indeed a nice place to live, but most tech workers who live there wind up commuting to Silicon Valley over Highway 17, a twisty four-lane that runs through a mountain pass. The commute is time-consuming and stress-inducing and occasionally leaves one parked on the roadway for two or three hours while an accident is cleared.

A lot of people do it every day, but I decided it was too much and moved to the Valley. If it weren't for the commute, though, I'd love to live there again.
This is one of those few projects that everyone is really excited about. Docker will change many aspects of software development for the better.
I understand Finland (home of Nokia), but why Windows Phones are gaining market share in Italy?
T-Mobile Hopes to Shake Up the Check-Cashing Industry, Too
I've been running the Airmail beta version. Overall it is very stable, plus it gets bug fixes faster. One great feature is that it supports Exchange, and the most recent beta overhauled the whole Exchange engine.

One exchange oddity, the contact lookup only appears to work from a "Global address book" drop down under Window.
I had the same reaction, and I am American.
Verb: A CAD Library for the Web
I don't think it works like that. The only known way to make antimatter is to convert energy into matter-antimatter pairs, so basically you need the same 100% of energy to produce antimatter in the first place. (In fact, I think the current physical theory prohibits any kind of matter-antimatter conversion, but I'm not a physicist so I might be wrong.)

So, if we had enough energy to make these antimatter, we could simply use the energy directly, without going through the massively inefficient step of funneling that energy into liquid helium and superconducting magnets and city-wide vacuum circles and so on.
Some European countries have tax around 60% and VAT over 20%...
It's in the data in the article.
>BBC especially is definitely not allowed to do that kind of product placement //

You've never seen the Graham Norton Show I take it. It's a thinly veiled infomercial - someone's promoting a book, this persons promoting a movie, this one's selling a new single.

When appearing on BBC though, at work, I was not allowed to wear my company uniform tshirt - cause you know not allowed to advertise ...
Are you blogger - how about having storytelling style?
Methinks you've misunderstood me. If I had money to invest, how would I do so in this area? If I buy stock in Google, I don't learn search engine technology. When I buy Apple, I don't learn hardware design, etc.
Building a citation manager (for like research papers and stuff) that maintains a central list of all sources, authors, and publications cited and also helps manage paper/project level stuff for the individual level. Hoping that the central list makes it easier to keep the db clean and also provides the user with some benefit by being able to just look stuff up instead of typing it in.
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment is a very detailed book which will refresh a lot of concepts. Needless to say C skills need to be polished (K&R). Or you can go the hard way and start contributing to the testing of Linux kernel.
Perhaps the east coast elite want to see the public associate west coast tech, rather than Wall Street, with economic oppression so eastern media has focussed on relatively minor protest incidents against the tech industry.
Yeah, it's like an illusion. Some early apps did make a lot of money out of it though. Now it's like overflooded, and everybody expects free apps for sure.

When they suggested you, they only care about whether they can get it on smart phone. Email actually reaches broader, but just like you said, it's hard to make money either.

So a real business model comes out from intensive marketing research and practice, especially experts always suggest to create a business plan including marketing plan for any business.
Ha-Joon Chang is a leading economist critical of much of the orthodoxy. Korean born, currently at University of Cambridge in London. He's studied under a prominent Marxist scholar though I'm not sure he's classified as same himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-Joon_Chang

His books include Bad Samatarians (which cma mentioned) and 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism.

He has a few online articles and videos on YouTube.
Not sure I follow. Kevin Rose seems pretty successful with Google Ventures and the piratebay is just a torrent site.
There's fashion in SF? (says the new yorker)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7098639
One of the simple ways to solve the payment issue is to open an LLC in USA, receive the payments in a US bank account and transfer the money via a "cueva" (cave).

There are legal ways also, you can find the details in the Globant's SEC filling: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1557860/000114420413...

In that way you can buy and sell dollars using the black market currency in a legal way.
This is just for the pilot program. State law forbids the city from collecting more money than the estimated costs of the program.
Myrddin: new programming language for coding close to the metal
Yes, that's what I meant. Bah.
The US hasn't been pushing high density public housing projects for twenty years. The last major construction initiative for public housing initiative was Hope VI. More recently, programs that funnel public money directly into the private sector have seen greater favor, e.g. Section 8 vouchers and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit projects.

Ironically [or cynically depending on your point of view] LIHTC projects in particular saw increased funding in the rush to fund 'shovel ready' projects as housing cratered due to oversupply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_VI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_8_%28housing%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-Income_Housing_Tax_Credit
Well put. I too am often shocked by how truly dysfunctional and inconvenient SF is compared other metropolitan areas in the country. Yet I still can't see myself ever living anywhere else in the Bay Area...
> It also attempts to strong type checking, generics, type inference, and other features not present in C.

I'm excited already! I always love new alternatives to C.
Do you buy the same drive model when buying in pairs? I've anecdotally had 2 identical drives die of the same type (manufacturing batch) at the same time.
But you don't need to rely on private health, private security, and private education there. The taxes in those countries have a counterpart.
No-no-no ... don't mention Steam!

You just blew your endorsement money.
Apple could just, you know, implement oauth.
The Hobbit was 48fps; I bet most people either didn't notice, or thought it looked better.

I, and everyone in my family, thought it looked terrible at 48fps and in 3D—like a mid-80s BBC soap opera. I didn't see the 2D version, so maybe the film itself just sucked even in 2D.

There's a very good chance that the last 3D movie you saw was depth-ified in post process. Shooting in 3D is expensive and requires more editing, calibration etc, so people don't like doing it.

This is just flat out wrong. "Depthifying" things in post produces better 3D, full stop, because a single 3D depth works poorly across the entire image.

Every. Single. Animated. Film. uses multiple 3D depths in the same shot, which is what "depthifying" allows you to do, and that's a huge reason why animated films have the best 3D currently. If you just shoot 3D in-camera, you're forced to choose a particular 3D depth and the results, in most shots, are sub-par.

BTW, my information comes from talking with actual 3D supervisors in Hollywood (where I lived) and the cml-3d list, which is where the people who actually do this shit for a living hang out and talk about the 3D releases as they come out, the techniques they used, and why. If you're curious about the craft, you could do worse than signing up for the mailing list and listening in on the conversations happening there.
Why? We've pretty much limited ourselves to Apple and Microsoft on the desktop for almost 2 decades. In fact, it has been pretty much limited to Microsoft. They still have about 90% desktop market share, and almost 100% of the corporate desktop.

Microsoft illegally killed off most desktop competition when they forced hardware vendors to pay for DOS on every PC they shipped, regardless of which OS they shipped.

Personally, I think we're better off with Google taking the place of Microsoft in the mobile space.
Bah now we're into semantics, but say you're running xpra on display :1. Running an Xnest or Xephyr inside that can't re-use the :1 display. Further, you can run multiple Xnests/Xephyrs inside an xpra session.

I stand by my statement that xpra has only a "rootless" mode, but I will agree that with Xephyr (which is a less-sucky Xnest), there is less of a difference anymore.
So, the thing that scares me is this:

http://www.mailpilot.co/bestuseguide.html

The repetitive "Finding messages outside of Mail Pilot" sections make me think that it's not going to play well with other clients -- unless it means that it's storing some sort of metadata/copies in those other places, which is not the impression I get (it seems to be saying it will actually make a bunch of folders and move your mail into them, which is Not OK).
zyxley, have you found any other good options? One issue it seems w/ all these services is it seems like it's easy to setup w/ a Form 1583, but none of these guys provide any sort of forwarding options for when you want to cancel!
Land has productive value.

Cash, of and by itself doesn't, though there are investment opportunities. It's a transfer and exchange medium.

The reasons someone would care to exchange land for cash could vary, but generally would indicate a need for liquidity. That could be because of a perceived profitable investment elsewhere, but could just as easily be the result of financial pressures (bad loans, business losses, poor financial management, a need to move, being forced from the land (refugee or other forms of political repression), etc.

Just because both parties benefit from a transaction doesn't mean that one doesn't end up with, net net, a better position afterward.
The purpose is to deal with the issues arising from the physical presence of the buses, and $1 a stop might be enough for that.

The purpose is not to discourage the buses. If a person wishes to live in San Francisco, and work at Google, that is their right (assuming they can pay the rent). No one has any moral basis for trying to stop them from exercising that right, any more than I have a right to stop people from paying high prices for caviar so, that I can afford it.
I'm sorry, but you are mistaken. There are many other places in the Bay area that offer dense urban areas. Palo Alto, San Mateo, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz come to mind. I know someone who lives in the south bay and does not have a car. There are places which are very hard to live in without a car (Sunnyvale comes to mind), but different places in the south and east bay are... different.

And frankly, there are parts of SF that I personally would find difficult to live in without a car (or at least bicycle), because they're far from effective public transit or commercial areas. BART and CalTrain don't serve the western part of SF at all, and muni is often slower than walking.

The south and east bay may not have the same density as San Francisco, but then again, it's far from clear that super-high density is a good idea in a seismically active zone. A lot of people seem to treat the choice as being between super-low density and super-high density. The alternative, medium density, never seems to get much P.R., but it seems like by far the best choice.
People in the comments below have already started complaining that the 1$ fee isn't enough. What would be enough anyway? What do you feel charging a fee is going to accomplish?

The controversy surrounding these buses is just a symptom of the much larger problem, affordable housing development. If you want this issue to go anywhere, stop worrying so much about these buses full of people headed to work. Getting rid of the buses isn't going to solve the real problem. It's just something that people have latched on to.
It's the f you, I've got money, I can do whatever I want mentality that some people don't like. Illegally using bus stops, threatening to move out of the city if your capital gains taxes aren't lowered, etc... It pure power play that shows that tech is no more enlightened than say Wall Street despite pretensions otherwise.
Visa processed ~4.2T of payments last year (page 32) and earned ~5B of net income on ~11.7B of revenue (page 29). By my calculations that is ~0.1% off the top of the transaction net of costs to do business. Not much.

All from the most recent 10K: http://investor.visa.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=215693&p=irol-SECTe...
Free income to those without jobs is often arranged as to create perverse incentives. Free income period doesn't provide much in the way of incentives at all. So no it doesn't.
Ouch. Although, he could fork bash and make it valid syntax.
Not according to the people who enforce advertising rules. Sure, in terms of logical thinking that's why we're doing it. But I care about two things, legality and morality. I was careful to ensure we were being legal (see what I said about discussion with the ASA), and I don't consider this product placement to be misleading, yet alone immoral. When I said we don't use them to "promote" products I put it in inverted commas to indicate that I'm going by the authority's definition, not just talking in prose.
Ah, so you have money that you would like to put down as a bet that the underlying Bitcoin technology will succeed, but not invest in Bitcoins themselves at the moment?

It's a little tricky since basically all Bitcoin companies are startups and so are only open to accredited investors. But one thing you could do is short the competition - Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, Discover - on the public exchanges.
And this from T-Mobile, of all places.

Their "mother company", Deutsche Telekom, is known in Germany for excessive pricing, ridiculous customer service and monopolistic business policies, including making a carrier switch away from them as difficult as legally possible.
we could simply use the energy directly, but I think he was talking about storing energy.

>most efficient ways to store energy
Sorry, making Windows ubiquitous on our PC's by monopoly position shenanigans does not equate, evil-wise, to the abuse of workers rights, health and our environment that many blue chip companies have participated in over the past 60 or so years - e.g. oil companies, food giants, mining corps.
Sometimes I've thought what might be the next GitHub. The answer is Docker. Can't imagine to develop, test and deploy without Docker totally.
Mail.app in 10.9 seems slightly less crappy than in 10.8, but the overall experience has been going steadily downhill for years now. I've been using Mac OS X + Mail.app since the public beta was released in Sep 2000.

Having tinkered around with other mail clients for the Mac, I'm starting to believe that something in the vein of mu4e[1] holds the only truly brighter future for me, but it will be such a radical break after years with Mail.app that I'm hesitant to take the plunge. On the other hand, I am "living" in multi-term[2] now rather than iTerm2, so it probably won't be all that jarring to emacs-ify another element of my daily computing experience.

[1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html

[2] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultiTerm
The VirtualPostMail pricing page may be confusing, but I think calling it deceitful is a stretch. I think the prices are reasonable for the service they provide. It may even be cheaper than it looks, as I don't think they enforce the storage limits (I've definitely had stuff sitting there for many months with no fees). It's true that their web app could use an overhaul, but it was nicer than ECM's at the time I compared them.

(I have no affiliation, I've just been a satisfied customer for a few years.)
Not to take away from Docker's achievements (seriously, well done), but it's a funny world we live in, Docker gets 15M (or "another startup casually gets $XXM), while OpenBSD foundation (which pays for stuff all of us rely on every day) have to beg for donations and 100k is a huge achievement.
Do people know about Nature editor doxxing a science blogger?
Because they wish to do business in South America, or with South American companies.

Economic unity is very attractive, especially considering the financial/legal hurdles that come with reaching customers in a dozen different currencies in a dozen different national jurisdictions.
T-Mobile announces Mobile Money
I also dislike "howdy" (and "g'day"), but I wouldn't necessarily go to "grating". Depends on my mood.

I think the issue partially stems from the fact that the internet can be seen as culturally removed. So if I visit someone in the US I expect to encounter their culture, and I am prepared for it. Same for Australia. However, on the internet I expect something more culturally neutral like "hello".

But then again, maybe it's just that certain words/phrases/accents annoy certain people, and you can't please all the people all the time
I would guess that most iOS users think that the confirmation message for in-app purchases (prompting you for your iCloud credentials) is from the app from which they initiated the purchase, rather than from a system service.

This probably conditions them to trust all iOS apps with their password if prompted to enter it.
Currency controls like this are the hallmark of a corrupt regime trying their best to pretend there isn't any problem with printing a whole lot of money.

Maybe they've been listening to former Enron advisor and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman over at the NY Times. He's adamant that nothing bad can come from "printing a whole lot of money", and that it's just the ticket to get a problem economy going again—the more the better.
I would guess that if they had another way to access your iCloud calendar from their servers they would. Apple unfortunately has everything linked to a single account without any sort of Oauth. This is more an issue with iCloud than it is with iTunes or the App Store.
After a century of failing to manage its economy, Argentina continues to fail to manage its economy.

In other news, water is wet.
I think OP might have been thinking of s/efficient/dense

Antimatter is certainly the densest way we know to store energy, which is great when it works. But unfortunately, it's also the densest way we know to store energy. Which is not so great when it explodes.
I hate that Unibox grouped together all my Github emails. I want separate threads for every issue/project.
Hey everybody, Solomon from team Docker. We're all lurking here and are happy to answer questions.

Just so you know I conzider Hacker News to be a key part in Docker's success. Your feedback, both positive and negative, made us feel like we weren't crazy and were building something that mattered. I hope in the end you will feel we live up to the expectations :)

We have lots of really cool things in store this year, I hope you will like them.

Happy hacking on behalf of the entire Docker team and contributors.
In less developed parts you do.

Most people here have gun, since it takes about 1 hour for police to show up. Local hospital sucks (once they forget scalpel inside patient) so most people pay bribes to get better hospital. And there is school here, but I would not dare to send my kids there.

I think "people just give up" well describes situation here.
Zen and the Art of Staying Mindful in the Tech Community