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I tried switching to OSM in an effort to get away from google maps. People always say 'OSM is consumer ready' but forget that OSM first and foremost is the dataset. And as far as i…

+1 for Canada. I feel for larger countries like canada or the states some option to limit ads to certain regions/states/etc would be very benefitial.

2 questions: 1) cryptostorm would still have the ip the isp assigned a user. mapping this ip to a real name is trivial. right? 2) The cryptostorm team decided to remain 'pseudoanon…

I am really looking forward to TextSecure for iOS. I hope I am wrong on this one, but from the text on their Website Heml.is doesn't seem to be too eager to open source their code …

thanks for mentioning that. never knew that uTorrent is actually developed by Bittorrent Inc. That makes it indeed very hard to trust the BT Sync service

best of luck. i really hope you succeed with this. it seems that right now all opensource dropbox alternatives, while great, have a shortcoming somewhere (git annex, sparkleshare, …

Can anyone who is running this explain why and how he uses it? As far as I understand it, its not a media center solution but rater a self hosted social network focused on sharing …

just for completeness sake and because no one mentioned it yet: https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick yes, you need ruby for it but I dont really see that as a problem. Its …

A problem I see is every car manufacturer building his own system, maybe with a standardized communication channel to speak to other cars but the control software in itself will be…

especially when you think about the fact that a lot if not most traffic jams are ghost jams, where a slight overreaction ripples through the following cars causing them all to stop…

You're right, but the software of an autonomous car will be held to much higher standard than just 'has be to better or equal to a human driver'. The whole thing gets interesting w…

this looks awesome, lots of luck. Am I understanding this correctly that this is basically a selfhosted imap/pop/smtp frontend? I am curious how you guys would use it, i.e. where w…

I think he is referring to the PR disaster the Xbox One had a couple weeks back with the only online requirement, Kinect always listening and other lockdown mechanisms implemented …

> I'm continually surprised by how few software engineers in industry spend the time to pick up HDL and FPGA programming in general. unsufficient tooling? I did some programming wi…

yup. I worked on a simple game AI (Connect6) for a university project implemented in Verilog. Initial prototyping in python was super easy and quickly done, translating the same pr…

I just skimmed through their discussion board for a while, and it seems they are planning to employ a couple of industry experts (whatever that means) fulltime or for consultation …

I really like the idea but am hesitant at this early stage to buy soylent. If the general impression is still good after it has been on the market for quite a while I am pretty sur…

What about the recent lawsuits and uber violating transport regulations? My impression (without really following the thing, just reading headlines and a few HN comments) was that U…

When he is saying >Save yourself the trouble. Don't use cryptography. It is plutonium. There are millions of ways to mess it up and precious few ways of getting it right. I am sure…

I really like using email for staying in touch, also works with groups. But besides the fact that my friends aren't really into the whole tech thing (lot of them are still using th…

I was considering joining path with 4, 5 of my closest friends to have some kind of 'private facebook'. I don't really like sharing stuff on twitter/facebook so path seemed like a …

Very impressive demo. So happy to finally see python support. What is used for the javascript rendering? I assume since they are using the chrome dev tools they are embedding chrom…

i was wondering about the same thing. perhaps the result is a bit skewed because of people searching for the meaning if the fileextension js? On the other hand, it started to rise …