schabernakk

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 am concerned, there is no good maps app on the iOS appstore that even comes close to google maps. and i think i tried pretty much all relevant ones. skobbler (which i just found out is part of coast) seems to be the most polished. but as long as there is no unified search and you have to enter streetname/adress/city in seperate boxes which excludes searching for the names of buildings (for example university buildings) for which the names clearly exist in the database and are shown onthe map, i have no choice other than switch back to google.

i really hope this changes soon and the UI/apps catch up to the greatness that is OSM.

edit: i have an iphone and although i live in canada i still use the german appstore (CC requirement).

that's why i can't comment on the app the original post was about as it's only available in the US store. it was more of a general remark about my frustration with the state of apps using the osm dataset. I want to get rid of google maps and I feel the maps part of osm would be ready for that. I can tolerate if the commercial store data is not as up2date. But if the general usuability suffers, i rather opt for gmaps.

+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 'pseudoanonymous' at this point. The points they outline (privacy activists get constantly hassled and threatened) make sense but don't help me verify the integrity of the service. You saying that you spoke to them and that they are trustful doesn't do much either. Why should i trust them? I know in the end i should trust no one, but your argument boils down to cryptostorm being outside of FRA jurisdiction?

You could argue that iPredator is not a real crypto/security vpn service in the first place. I think they are using 128bit encryption which can be cracked if enough effort is put into it. They are just making it more difficult, eliminating 'drive by snooping'.

Lastly: no offense, but that website is not very trust-inducing. i know it shouldnt matter but still....

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 after release.

I don't know any details about whispersystems (except that moxie marlinspike is with them) but I sure do hope they can provide a well designed cross platform messaging app completely open source (which I don't think exists yet)

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, btsync...)

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 media.

How would a typical use case look like: Set up a mediagoblin instance to share vacation photos and videos with your friends?

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 bit confusing at first (could be just me, but I still dont get why you have basically 2 repos, one managed by homesick and the one you checked out yourself) but it works fairly well. Takes care of symlinking, updating and whatever you want.

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 bound to a certain manufacturer. This means different bugs in each car, fixing a bug in one car doesnt mean the error doesnt exist in other cars and so on. New players entering the market are facing pretty much impossible hurdles to enter.

Some kind of Android for autonomous cars would be quite nice I guess.

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 for no apparent reason.

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 when you look at the judicial side of it: Who is responsible in the case of an accident? The car manufacturer (if it was a software failure)? Then even one accident triggered by it is too much.

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 would you actually host your emails? Running your own mailserver on a vserver sounds fun and not to expensive but I don't know if I want to maintain something like that in the long run. If something breaks this just sounds like a lot of work.

You guys pay for mail hosting? Use the one that comes with your website domain?

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 on the machines making sharing games or similar things more or less impossible.

I don't know it this will have much impact on the actual sale numbers, the release date is still quite some time in the future and the PS4 despite all the love it currently gets from the gaming scene also requires a Sony account you have to pay monthly to be usable.

I am pretty sure it will play out like it always does: lots of complaining and in the end it will get bought nevertheless. [1]

[1] http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6062/1258035395841.jpg

> 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 with FPGAs once and it seemed the best option I had for programming was proprietary software by altera (quartus). I never got debugging to work or perhaps I did and I didnt understand the stuff it was showing me (I am no hardware guy)

My impression was that an eclipse-like ide, perhaps with a built in HW simulator would make things A LOT easier, especially for beginners like me. Of course this could be completely unrealistic and impractical for hardware design in which case I will show myself out.

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 program to Verilog took multiple weeks. We split the program up into multiple modules with each module handling different cases. While writing the program we only compiled it with the modules we were currently working on and even that took long enough (remember: we were trying to more or less directly translate the python program to verilog with a bit more global state). Once we finished we tried to compile the whole program with each module enabled and it compiled and compiled and compiled. We aborted after 20 hours of compiling and no end in sight, the design we were using was just not suited to be used with hardware.

Now, this was the first time ever I worked with hardware and while I really liked having something tangible and all those nice blinking lights on the fpga board, programming one was a pain in the ass. Towards the very end of the project I slightly got the hang on how you should approach writing such software. And the most important thing is to not think like you would when programming traditionally.

Designing and later implementing a FSMD for example is far more efficient.

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 with the money they made from their crowdfunding campaign.

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 sure I will order. I don't think I could switch completely, but it sounds like the perfect food to have when you just don't want to invest time to cook something. This would definately be better than to just have a pizza.

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 Uber can compete with such low prices by not following some legislation there is in the person transport business.

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 he means don't use your own homegrown cryptography solution. Use something established and well tested. Good advice, probably can't be repeated enough. I liked the exampled he gives, I didnt know for example that you can basically extend an MD5ed string and keep the original MD5 value. Then again, I know that MD5 isn't a secure cryptographic hash function so I wouldn't have used it from the start. Nice to know why thats the case.

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 their old non-smartphone) Inlining videos, photos and threading conversations is something I really like for such a software to have.

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 good alternative to share stuff with people i definately know will be interested.

After reading this I don't think I will join anytime soon. I don't really get the reasoning behind this. Path is marketed for the use case I had in mind. Sharing stuff with only a handful of people you know well. Why on earth are they trying to lure all of your contacts in. This would make sense for facebook, not for path.

Anyone knows an alternative to path using my data more responsibly?

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 chromium into Lighttable?

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 in 2007 when ext.js 2.0 was released.

I don't think anyone says the public is stupid because they don't know what Dihydrogen Monoxide is. The problem is that no one saw the need to do a one minute wikipedia search for the term before panicking and calling the local authorities. Because that is stupid.

There are some conspiracy theories floating around the deaths of Boris Floricic [1] and Karl Koch [2]. Especially the latter one is often connected to the KGB due to his involvement as a hacker during the cold war.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_%28hacker%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_%28hacker%29

Is there a one-click all in one open source solution I can use to get rid of Gmail? And by that I mean email, calendar etc.

Something I can perhaps just throw up on an S3 instance and pay a few bucks for it every month?

Even if we are just talking about e-Mail frontends: Horde is one of the more popular ones and is just awful UX wise. I don't know of any mature free solution which at least tries to match GMail in this regard.

So the longterm goal of this would be to replace oh-my-zsh and it's host all plugins in one repository and hope robyrussel merges the change request?

Sounds pretty good if this works out I think. Are there any obvious downsides?

Well I guess the intent is the same but it looks a lot more like Vundle (or Bundler). You just have to define the package name in a textfile (like with Bundler) instead of managing git submodules or downloading plugins another way into their own folder.

What do you mean? Arch and Gentoo are two pretty successful distributions and both use a rolling release approach.