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Smartphones, Google Glass, Is this it ? What's next ? Interactive Retail Storefronts with Internet Access.

And this post citing the obvious gets upvoted to the main page and the app ecosystem for touchless user interfaces i built over 2 years and posted to HN at the same time gets unoti…

Hi HN fellows, Here is my recent project that took me more than ... well lots of time. The pitch is: Developed for interaction via depth cameras. Designed for the living room, for …

It's immoral that governments take poeples money and use it for intents orthogonal to those original people intents, e.g. war, subsidies to monopolies such as the oil industry, cor…

Politicy makers are dumb. They took ages to resolve an issue such as availability to choose the default browser on an operating system, yet, in their closed world of waiting for th…

Normally i contact the authors of GPL code and ask them nicely to move to LGPL. It has been working so far.

Replace all comments with: Use web2py instead of django

The most boring presentation ever. He is like, so i created google, so i don't have to make an effort to show excitement in my new product, that's for the marketing and sales. No o…

I don't get all the development... so is this like an html5 player ? linux + some webkit ? what's the novelty ? Again a bunch of developers working for free on Samsung (20% of SK G…

If the guy that invented sms patented 140 char messages there would be no twitter. Or irc messages, or smoke signals, or X where one people sends a text message to others. Patents …

Google closing reader was probably something to do with the French un-digital papers that wanted the interwebs going to their website-o-pages to read content there.

The only crime here is the judges act to take life time of someone that caused no harm.

Should have been coded in python :( . Whenever i see a project that i think is cool and then see that it has been coded in languages other than js, c++ or python i consider it just…

dwarf fortress is the new simcity.

I could use this for a Qt app. Why not a c or c++ api instead of IOs and android ?

I divide my days into coding and planting seeds+farming, and i like very much both tasks. My opinion is that there is a bandwidth for everything, but kids should follow their passi…

Manning was just a kid, playing games, never thought he was doing something that these skeletors of society would pursue him in the future for. And again, something that had no con…

I can't use Ubuntu, I've tried countless times, the experience sucks. I'm trying mint, and i can't even access latest libraries, everything is old, no partition resizing during ins…

The creators of DF could partner with some game studio to create a nice GUI for playing, or create an API that could allow for beter interfaces to evolve, the tilesets are great, b…

Damages ? is easy just count the people in the hospital for this. A way to compensate is to link to the original artist page and maybe buy a license from him.

What about a petition to prevent lawmakers from creating legislation that turns regular people into criminals. One simple legislation to rule them all. The GOML (Get off my lawn) l…

The two games i enjoyed the most in 2012 were played in linux: FTL Faster Than light, Redrogue. I don't care much about fancy graphics, i prefer a good story and gameplay.

Could the guy responsible for making the contents of his hd available online do it so. Use the dd command by the way, don't just copy files.

Cheaper solution: - Make people ride bicicles. - Reduce work hours to 4 / day. - Make it expensive to buy gas. So people ride bikes and so that Electric vehicles that are charged b…

I use pycmd -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycmd/ Also tried console2, and zsh win32 variants i found.