List of April Fools' Day Announcements - <AUTHOR> Instead of cluttering the front page with fake product announcements, let's just post them in here instead. One thread where each top-level comment is just a title and a link. <comment><USER2> MSDOS is the new mobile OS from Microsoft

Announcement: [http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft...](http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft- launches-ms-dos-mobile/)

Product page: [http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms- dos/](http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/)

Edit: Even an app [http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos- mobile/85...](http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos- mobile/8573c4a8-b9df-4409-90a6-dad2dc0b6b26)

Wow, the app is really well done. SPOILERS: Can cd into a programs folder, and launch programs like sms.exe, where I get a blue DOS-style window asking for input. Can use "phone <nr>" to call someone, send e-mails. If i launch "internet" it plays an old modem sound before launching the stock OS browser.

CDing into C:\GAMES\RPS and launching RPS.exe first gives you a question about using "PC Speaker" or "Sound Blaster", and then how many colors you would like. Then the game crashes with "Error! Not enough memory, RPS needs 641KB conventional memory (...)" and then a quote " _\---Cortana: That 's odd, 640 K ought to be enough for anyone_", haha. After that, it guides you through using mem and loadhigh to get the game to run. And of course, RPS is Rock-Paper- Scissors in 8-bit glory.

The camera is an ASCII-camera, using letters with only a few colors, or CGA mode. Here are two selfies I took [http://imgur.com/a/deajM](http://imgur.com/a/deajM)

The command help gives all useable command: CD, CLS, COLOR, DATE, DIR, ECHO, EDIT (edit autoxec.bat for instance), EXIT, FORMAT, HELP, LOADHIGH, MEM, PATH, TIME, TYPE, VER.

<comment><USER3>
        SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2

Ah, the memories...

<comment><USER4> QEMM! Protected Mode! Unreal Mode! TSR! Ralph Brown's Interrupt List! Oh man!

Had so much with my friends while in high-school trying to figure out what kind of weird graphics mode this cool game called "Scorched Earth" used... It wasn't 320x200 :)

<comment><USER5> That's "Ralf"!

[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Double bluff in today's New Zealand Herald:

[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11426501)

 _The "April Fools' Day special" promised a new BMW to the first person who took their car and the front-page coupon to the dealership.

Ms Marsh was first at the Newmarket car dealership this morning, arriving in her 15-year-old Nissan Avenir.

She was swiftly rewarded with a new BMW 1 Series worth almost $50,000 in exchange for the old station wagon._

<comment><USER7> How is that April Fools? The offer was serious and they honored it. It's not like e.g. offering all of YouTube on DVDs.

<comment><USER8> It was literally titled the April Fools Day Special and on a day where the pranks vary from annoying programs that mess with my keyboard input to annoying news articles that mess with my sanity. I wouldn't have driven down to that dealership it they were giving away junkers or Bugatti Veyrons not to mention a BMW.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> CERN researchers confirm the existence of the Force

[http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/cern- researche...](http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/cern-researchers- confirm-existence-force)

<comment><USER10> For being the people who created the internet their website is rather slow...

<comment><USER11> You mean, "created the World Wide Web".

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> [https://com.google](https://com.google) \- Google showing off their new gTLD in a silly manner.

<comment><USER13> Is it me or does everyone and their mother have a gTLD these days? I would not take any company that uses a gTLD serious at all.

<comment><USER14> what's wrong with having gTLD? Seeing lots of this new TLD hate, I want to understand the reasoning.

<comment><USER15> The TLD system is arguably broken, because it never turned out as hierarchical as it was supposed to. All the new TLDs do is force people to shell out more money to squat on pointless domains to avoid them being used for fraud (or, worse, by the competition).

<comment><USER16> Or it makes them finally realize how silly the "we must have them all" is.

<comment><USER15> Not happening in my experience. As long as everyone in the industry is earning their share from this madness they'll happily "suggest optimizations to the domain portfolio" of their vict^Wcustomers.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> April fools I wanted the most:

\- NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities,

\- Water allowed on board of planes,

\- ISIS converting to Christianity,

\- Apple patenting the patent,

\- Snapchat releasing a payment system

Note that April Fools is on December 28th in Spannish culture. [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Comparable...](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Comparable_prank_days)

<comment><USER18> Water isn't allowed on board planes? I usually bring an empty nalgene through security and then fill it in one of the many water fountains in the terminals. Works well!

<comment><USER19> Even metal Sigg bottles go through security fine, so long as you've shaken all the water out and keep the caps in your pocket.

Doesn't seem to matter if the bottles are visible or inside your bag.

Tested in: Canada, Ireland, USA, UK, mainland Europe.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> Google Actual Cloud platform

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp10_PygJ4o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp10_PygJ4o)

[https://cloud.google.com/actual-cloud/](https://cloud.google.com/actual- cloud/)

<comment><USER21> This comment looks even better with cloud-to-butt installed.

<comment><USER20> :) You have to be alert with the my butt extension installed though. Only a few days ago I answered a stack overflow question where I added a link with the word cloud in it. Unfortunately the extension changed the URL when I edited the raw text. Luckily I realised quickly when I double checked if the link worked and it 404ed...

<comment><USER21> You don't say...

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9137909](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9137909)

One has to be careful with editing HN comments as well. ;).

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER22> Gentoo website makeover. [https://www.gentoo.org/](https://www.gentoo.org/)

<comment><USER23> That's actually pretty cool

<comment><USER24> ANSI art adds 5hp

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER25> Clippy is open source on Github - [http://thebeebs.github.io/OfficeAssistant/](http://thebeebs.github.io/OfficeAssistant/)

<comment><USER26> <!-- Thanks for being one of the people that read the source. This is a very basic stunt, I thought of it on a train back from an event last week. I saved my GitHub page using a browser and then made a few modifications to make it look more realistic as a Microsoft project. I then hijacked the A href clicks and used them to show the wonderfully awesome clippyjs by smore.

        https://www.smore.com/clippy-js

        I then uploaded the result to the gh-pages branch of a Git Repo
        as I felt this would trick the average user into thinking that
        the code was a genuine GitHub Project.

        Happy April the 1st :)

     -->

<comment><USER27> The "Clone in desktop" button gave it away as fake - I'm assuming it's a windows plugin for browsers or something, but I'd never seen that on github before.

<comment><USER28> Its seems to be a native Github feature visible for those browsing on a Windows device. The button simply links to [https://windows.github.com/](https://windows.github.com/)

<comment><USER25> It's there for Github for Mac users too.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> Smartbox by Inbox: the mailbox of tomorrow, today

[http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/smartbox-by-inbox- mai...](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/smartbox-by-inbox-mailbox-of- tomorrow.html)

<comment><USER29> This's gotta be the most well produced April Fools video I've seen.

</comment></comment><comment><USER30> [http://notepad-plus-plus.org/](http://notepad-plus-plus.org/)

<comment><USER31> A fitting riposte, given that the site was hacked by Islamic jihadists earlier this year [http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/32248/hacking/notepad- si...](http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/32248/hacking/notepad-site- hacked.html)

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> Support for negative number of CPUs is implemented in the Linux kernel.

[https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/31/994](https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/31/994)

<comment><USER33> I looked at that patch, it still divides by 0 when you have 0 CPUs, I hope Linus rejects it

</comment></comment><comment><USER34> [http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/01/jeremy- clarkson...](http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/01/jeremy-clarkson- joins-guardian-drive-for-fossil-fuel-divestment)

Jeremy Clarkson joins campaign for fossil fuel divestment

<comment><USER35> _More than 1.5 million Britons signed an online petition calling for Clarkson to be reinstated and for a relaxation of the laws against assault in cases that could be demonstrated to involve banter._

Practically true.

</comment></comment><comment><USER36> Systemd is forking the Linux kernel: [http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community](http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community)

<comment><USER37> This was simply a case of someone getting the systemdaemon name on github. It's not the systemd project.

<comment><USER38> The _article_ is a fairly amusing April Fool's joke. Real quote from LP (on his blog from months ago) mixed in with quotes from a fictional developer. Googling the fictional developer's family name comes up with mysteriously few results...

<comment><USER39> And the fictional dev has "Gotya" in his name ;)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER40> Motorola Selfie Stick [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=584qPWzfhHY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=584qPWzfhHY)

<comment><USER41> Beautiful. Anyone know what music is playing in the background?

<comment><USER42> Darude Sandstorm by Darude

<comment><USER43> That's only if you use the HTML 5 player and click on the music note.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER44> The german newspaper FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) claims that there is an inititiative to block cat images from the web due to excessive bandwidth consumption (article in german):

[http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/die- digital-d...](http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/die-digital- debatte/zwei-klassen-internet-das-katzenlose-netz-13515864.html)

The other content to be blocked are 'theses concerning the future of journalism' ...

<comment><USER7> There's a campaign to keep California restaurants from bringing out water to drink because of excessive consumption.

Not April Fools though :-/

</comment></comment><comment><USER45> Bashing Haskell: Reimplementing Haskell's Parsec library within the unix shell

SIGBOVIK2015 paper: [https://github.com/mikeizbicki/parsed/raw/master/sigbovik201...](https://github.com/mikeizbicki/parsed/raw/master/sigbovik2015/paper.pdf)

github repo: [https://github.com/mikeizbicki/parsed](https://github.com/mikeizbicki/parsed)

</comment><comment><USER46> Minecraft snapshot 15w14a – The Love and Hugs Update

[https://mojang.com/2015/04/minecraft-snapshot-15w14a-the- lov...](https://mojang.com/2015/04/minecraft-snapshot-15w14a-the-love-and- hugs-update/)

"We've thought long and hard about this, but we finally feel happy to announce that we are now changing the general direction of the game Minecraft. Starting from the next update we will be focusing on the things that make life worth living, promoting healthy relationships with the environment and its inhabitants."

</comment><comment><USER35> [http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned](http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned)

Today eeryone's comments are being auto-edited to include conspiracy theory claptrap (added to end of whatever they wrote), and they've got an illuminati theme

<comment><USER47> Ah, the wonders of CSS. I bet they're choosing "random" phrases by trailing post ID characters.

<comment><USER48> Yep! [https://a.thumbs.redditmedia.com/mvUjuBTLugN70a4mTrXqmEK937F...](https://a.thumbs.redditmedia.com/mvUjuBTLugN70a4mTrXqmEK937FtiiQIN7HeMzg-p88.css)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER49> TeslaMotors: No more parking tickets for Model S owners. Today we're introducing: ticket-avoidance-mode. Here's how it works: [https://amp.twimg.com/v/cdad704b-5167-42bd-9fd7-a5c39fabf1f9](https://amp.twimg.com/v/cdad704b-5167-42bd-9fd7-a5c39fabf1f9)

(c) [https://twitter.com/teslamotors/status/583339439759310848](https://twitter.com/teslamotors/status/583339439759310848)

</comment><comment><USER50> The CSS working group has published a draft of proposed extensions to the CSS specification, which include dedicated units for denoting lengths on astronomical scales (lightseconds, attoparsecs, etc.) as well as extending the CSS gradient syntax to grant first-class support to the generation of double rainbows.

[http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-egg/](http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-egg/)

<comment><USER51> > Note: This specification does not address relativistic effects of scrolling > or animations and transitions at (or beyond) the speed of light.

I presume these would only show up if using relative paths or positions in your CSS.

</comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> Tinder for Uber*

[http://tinderforuber.com/](http://tinderforuber.com/)

*I'm praying this is a joke

<comment><USER52> I wonder how many crazy entrepreneurs use april days for validating ideas they had without loosing they're credibility :)

<comment><USER53> To assist with you're credibility:

"their"

And 'losing', 'April', missing 'fools' (or 'first of').

<comment><USER54> "your"

<comment><USER53> I concede that succinct satire doesn't really work on the Net.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER55> I may be accused of being a curmudgeon, but most of these aren't funny anymore. Companies are rarely funny, not sure why they keep doing this. /rant

<comment><USER56> I agree. The Essenes of s good April Fool's is something that is mostly believable. None of this fools anyone, it is just silly.

<comment><USER56> I probably shouldn't post via audio. Looks like I am drunk.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> You can play Pac-Man in Google Maps right now

[http://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-play-pac-man-in- google-m...](http://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-play-pac-man-in-google-maps- right-now)

<comment><USER57> Ingress (the game by Google's Niantic Labs) also replaced some of its graphics with those of Pacman [https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/8TQAYXzvQpB](https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/8TQAYXzvQpB)

</comment></comment><comment><USER58> Popcorn Time, Now part of Netflix [https://blog.popcorntime.io/popcorn-time- now-part-of-netflix...](https://blog.popcorntime.io/popcorn-time-now-part-of- netflix/)

<comment><USER26> also on torrentfreak: [http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-plans-free-tier-after- absorb...](http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-plans-free-tier-after-absorbing- popcorn-time-150401/)

</comment></comment><comment><USER59> [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/5200...](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/520042a.html)

An Australian and UK study has reported that increasing temperatures will result in an explosion of fire-breathing dragons around the world.

</comment><comment><USER19> QANTAS to become QUANTAS, to end decades of orthographic confusion.

[http://www.ausbt.com.au/australia-s-best-april-fools-day- avi...](http://www.ausbt.com.au/australia-s-best-april-fools-day-aviation- pranks-for-2015)

</comment><comment><USER60> Crypto pranks:

The winner of the Password Hashing Contest was announced to be, LM Hash!

[https://twitter.com/veorq/status/583175725206892544](https://twitter.com/veorq/status/583175725206892544)

[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc/2658](http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc/2658)

libsodium added ROT13, fast, keyless, powerful cipher

[https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/23f1c90c682484f...](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/23f1c90c682484f6984ece54b20f6cf231ca9344)

<comment><USER61> > libsodium added ROT13, fast, keyless, powerful cipher

And made resistent to timming attacks!

</comment></comment><comment><USER62> [http://www.reddit.com/r/android](http://www.reddit.com/r/android) and [http://www.reddit.com/r/apple](http://www.reddit.com/r/apple) swapped their CSS.

<comment><USER63> As did /r/guitar and /r/bass, and /r/AncientGreek and /r/latin.

</comment></comment><comment><USER64> Retro amazon, [http://www.amazon.com/](http://www.amazon.com/)

<comment><USER65> Amazon Dash Button [https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash- button](https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-button)

<comment><USER66> Hey, I actually thought it was an April Fools joke as well, but then realized that we've gotten to the point where it is crucial to have 1 day delivery for toilet paper...Honestly, it's cool, but from a sense of self-pride...no. This is how civilizations collapse...let's be honest.

<comment><USER67> > This is how civilizations collapse...let's be honest.

You're right, it's a little known fact that the cause for downfall of the Roman empire was the ability to order personal hygiene products using a button placed in people's home!

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER68> KSP now stands for Kerbal Submarine Program

[https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/310j26/...](https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/310j26/awoogah_awoogah/)

</comment><comment><USER69> Instapainting no longer uses children to paint your photos: [https://www.instapainting.com/blog/company/2015/04/01/no- chi...](https://www.instapainting.com/blog/company/2015/04/01/no-child-labor/)

</comment><comment><USER70> DigitalOcean opens new underwater datacenter in Atlantis

[https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/announcing- atlanti...](https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/announcing-atlantis/)

<comment><USER71> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP8sofAN4xc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP8sofAN4xc)

</comment></comment><comment><USER72> google japan's new keyboard

[https://www.google.co.jp/ime/___o/](https://www.google.co.jp/ime/___o/)

<comment><USER73> Pay attention to the URL as you scroll down the page. ;)

<comment><USER74> I don't know much about html/js, how is it done without #? Why doesn't it trigger a page change

<comment><USER75> [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/824349/modify-the-url- wit...](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/824349/modify-the-url-without- reloading-the-page) Google is your friend

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER76> Tumblr: [https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard](https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard)

The "executive suite - productivity edition"

[http://executivesuite2016.tumblr.com/post/115074577715/tumbl...](http://executivesuite2016.tumblr.com/post/115074577715/tumblr- executivesuite-2016-is-the-hottest-business)

<comment><USER77> They had even translated it to other languages. Color me impressed.

[http://i.imgur.com/4KI0vRT.png](http://i.imgur.com/4KI0vRT.png)

</comment></comment><comment><USER78> David Beazley releases Meẗal, a python decorator library powered by umlauts.

[https://github.com/dabeaz/me-al](https://github.com/dabeaz/me-al)

<comment><USER79> Haha, I love this bit of the README:

> _If the above command fails with an ImportError, you 're probably using a > Mac. That's an unfortunate choice as you can't really expect a toy machine > like that to be used for serious tasks._

</comment></comment><comment><USER80> xkcloud: [http://xkcd.com/1506/](http://xkcd.com/1506/)

</comment><comment><USER81> I do not believe that the University of Leicester is renaming itself the King Richard University.

[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/richard- iii-t...](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/richard-iii-the- university-of-leicester-expected-to-change-name-to-king-richard- university-10147577.html)

</comment><comment><USER82> Amazon announces the Fire HD Seven, Fire HD-7, Fire HD Sven, Fire HD VII and Fire HD 7' as successors to the Fire HD 7 and Fire HD 7". Each launches with it's own range of mutualy incompatible accessories.

</comment><comment><USER83> Reddit releasing a crowd game at /r/thebutton

[http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the- button.html](http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the-button.html)

</comment><comment><USER84> Amazon India

LucID : Lucid dream analyser wrist band [http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322727_2/278-8747141-...](http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322727_2/278-8747141-7982610?ie=UTF8&node=6264496031&pf_rd_m=A1VBAL9TL5WCBF&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1FHEMREEDFJT8ZRECTQ9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=602014527&pf_rd_i=1320006031)

Silicon Styler : Electronic Moustache Styler [http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187323127_2?ie=UTF8&node...](http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187323127_2?ie=UTF8&node=6264495031&pf_rd_m=A1VBAL9TL5WCBF&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0CNXDBGPCZBDS8J82YZM&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=602015547&pf_rd_i=1320006031)

Biovap Mark III : Bio-waste disintegrator. Processes kitchen waste to scented vapour as air-freshner [http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322547_2?ie=UTF8&node...](http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322547_2?ie=UTF8&node=6264492031&pf_rd_m=A1VBAL9TL5WCBF&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1JMXJ61E4PDSXX01JKRX&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=602014267&pf_rd_i=1320006031)

QuickClean : Electronic dry cleaner for 'dry-clean only' fabric [http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322867_2?ie=UTF8&node...](http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322867_2?ie=UTF8&node=6264493031&pf_rd_m=A1VBAL9TL5WCBF&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0RQXSKC5NX2G1CTDZ9SA&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=602015067&pf_rd_i=1320006031)

Exotic Amazon : Exotic pets from Madagascar/wildlife. Pair of two species wit heach purchase. [http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322987_2?ie=UTF8&node...](http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322987_2?ie=UTF8&node=6264494031&pf_rd_m=A1VBAL9TL5WCBF&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1DC4MYH97W7BTVJ9AGPZ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=602015147&pf_rd_i=1320006031)

</comment><comment><USER85> Spark 2.0: Rearchitecting Spark for Mobile Platforms

[https://databricks.com/blog/2015/04/01/spark-2-rearchitectin...](https://databricks.com/blog/2015/04/01/spark-2-rearchitecting- spark-for-mobile.html)

This is probably among the most technical, nerdy April fool's.

<comment><USER86> It's actually one of the few that one day might not be a joke...

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> MS-DOS for Lumia smartphones: [http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms- dos/](http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/)

</comment><comment><USER87> Duluth Magnetic Pants: [https://www.duluthtrading.com/features/magnetic-work- pants-a...](https://www.duluthtrading.com/features/magnetic-work-pants- april.aspx?src=T15C055C4&ym_mid=1570606&ym_rid=1565786&mboxSession=T15C055-9991565786)

Got me thinking: "wait, what if two guys bought these on the same work-site?" (admittedly i was pre-caffeine at the time)

</comment><comment><USER88> Banish the Hamburger Menu, Adopt Pizza Menus

[http://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menu-vs- pizza/](http://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menu-vs-pizza/)

</comment><comment><USER89> [https://github.com/mrThe/to_nil](https://github.com/mrThe/to_nil) \- to_nil gem

<comment><USER90> The best thing about it is, it is documented, tested and everything. The CoC is cool, too :)

</comment></comment><comment><USER91> ReactOS Foundation renounce claims to the logo ReactJS in exchange for investments by Facebook

[http://habrahabr.ru/company/reactos/blog/254579/](http://habrahabr.ru/company/reactos/blog/254579/)

As the saying goes, there would be a blessing ...

Some time ago, in the ReactOS Foundation, it was decided to exercise their right to protect their means of individualization, namely the registered trademark, trademark and logo (the wording depends on the jurisdiction of law enforcement). We were inspired by the successful experience of the project Gnome, which is to protect their brand from the encroachments of Groupon.

Recently, the lawyers hired by the Fund, sent to Facebook Ireland Limited warning about trademark infringement ReactOS. The fact that Facebook is developing a project ReactJS, whose logo resembles the logo ReactOS confusingly. Since over the long term has not followed any response letter, nor any appropriate action on the part of Facebook, lawyers fund full steam preparing a lawsuit against the social network. Suddenly came very late response to the complaint letter ... and what!

Facebook ReactOS Foundation offered to give up claims to ReactJS out of court in exchange for investments in the project of our operating system.

The volume and the specific conditions of the investment currently being discussed in the negotiations, but it is already clear that it is a sum equivalent to several million euros. For their part, representatives of Facebook made demands on what exactly should go money.

Is expected to develop client and server distributions based on ReactOS, a graphical shell which will be based on React.JS, then while all calculations and data processing will be carried out thanks to Node.js. It is obvious that Facebook is preparing to attack Google and Microsoft in the operating system market for tablets and handheld gadgets. It is worth noting that the social giant has long been known for its contribution to the opensource-motion: Apache Cassandra, Apache Hive, Apache Thrift, FQL, Hack, HipHop for PHP, Scribe, Open Compute Project.

Stay tuned for details of this epochal event will follow soon!

<comment><USER92> Is this news verified and true?

</comment></comment><comment><USER93> The C languages merge [http://isocpp.org/blog/2015/04/the-c-languages- merge](http://isocpp.org/blog/2015/04/the-c-languages-merge)

</comment><comment><USER94> AngularJS + React Merger

[http://moduscreate.com/reangular-angular-react- merger/](http://moduscreate.com/reangular-angular-react-merger/)

<comment><USER95> How did they not call it Rectangular??

<comment><USER96> "That's way better than what I had"

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER97> New inbox by Google

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hydLZJXG3Tk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hydLZJXG3Tk)

</comment><comment><USER98> A drone from OnePlus [https://oneplus.net/gamechanger](https://oneplus.net/gamechanger) (although they pitch it as an April Fools', they actually sell a limited quantity)

<comment><USER99> I liked that in their graph on the 3rd from last page their drone had the tallest bar which at first sight looks like it would indicate it is the best, when actually it just has the highest portability, with terrible agility and control.

</comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> The New Audi A8

[http://www.audi.jp/gohan/](http://www.audi.jp/gohan/)

<comment><USER100> lol, in japan, a new car comes with a branded spankpaddle

<comment><USER101> Gee, thanks for that. Next time I'm scooping cooked rice out for dinner I would hope that the other occupants of the house have not used it as a spank paddle.

<comment><USER100> I have never seen anything like that used for scooping rice...

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER102> Cyanogenmod 12 nightlies April 1st build:

[http://imgur.com/l6PV5x5](http://imgur.com/l6PV5x5)

[http://imgur.com/M9fRJpf](http://imgur.com/M9fRJpf)

</comment><comment><USER103> Winner from the Password Hashing Competition [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc/2658](http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc/2658)

</comment><comment><USER104> Sacha Greif's "Discover Meteor" announces a print edition with "Component- Oriented Architecture", "three-way binding" and integrated package management system to "remove" and "add" new pages: [https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/discover-meteor-print- ed...](https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/discover-meteor-print-edition/)

<comment><USER105> So like the AD&D Monster Manual then?

</comment></comment><comment><USER106> On reddit /r/andoid and /r/apple both show each other's posts (mixed together)

</comment><comment><USER89> [http://imgur.com/play](http://imgur.com/play) \- interactive Imgur experience with input commands

[http://imgur.com/collab](http://imgur.com/collab) \- collaborative post creation

</comment><comment><USER107> Google Reader re-launched:

[http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/01/google-reader- rises-...](http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/01/google-reader-rises-from- the-grave-with-new-material-update/)

</comment><comment><USER108> x86: Drop 32-bit support in Linux Kernel:

[https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/1/118](https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/1/118)

</comment><comment><USER109> [https://stormpath.com/blog/why-http-is-sometimes-better- than...](https://stormpath.com/blog/why-http-is-sometimes-better-than-https/)

Compelling argument why your app should use HTTP instead of HTTPS

</comment><comment><USER110> Fast to the Future: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLazRt8s8Wc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLazRt8s8Wc)

</comment><comment><USER111> A major ebook announcement. Science Fiction writer Charlie Stross releases an reader app to counter Clean App.

[http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog- static/2015/04/a-major-...](http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog- static/2015/04/a-major-ebook-announcement.html)

</comment><comment><USER112> [https://www.nutmeg.com/electro-save](https://www.nutmeg.com/electro-save) \- electric shock therapy to make you think twice about withdrawing your savings

</comment><comment><USER113> lobste.rs sports a full terminal interface with working chat and slowly updating lines.

[http://lobste.rs](http://lobste.rs)

<comment><USER13> Username/password to log in? Or is this a real service that put up this site just for today and requires an actual account?

<comment><USER114> try user: guest

<comment><USER115> also admin/letmein

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> Introducing the new face of Search — Google Panda

[http://googleasiapacific.blogspot.com/2015/04/introducing- ne...](http://googleasiapacific.blogspot.com/2015/04/introducing-new-face-of- search-google.html)

<comment><USER3> This gets my early vote for most likely to become a reality.

</comment></comment><comment><USER116> Not sure if this is a joke or not. HackTonight from HotelTonight

[https://www.hoteltonight.com/2015/04/join-beta- hacktonight/](https://www.hoteltonight.com/2015/04/join-beta-hacktonight/)

</comment><comment><USER117> Metasploit Framework rolls out new banners: [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit- framework/pull/5047](https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/5047)

<comment><USER106> My Little Pwny: Exploits are Magic!

Hilarious!

</comment></comment><comment><USER118> Youtube has a new 'Add Music' button to the player (left to the 'Watch Later' button) which spices the experience I suppose! :) Oh and it's action based of course, some kind of a storm inducing experience.

<comment><USER119> Searching for a song on YouTube will suggest Sandstorm by Darude.

</comment></comment><comment> m-i-l April Fool's Day: 10 stories that look like pranks but aren't: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32144005](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32144005)

<comment><USER120> There's many of those things I'm desperately hoping are simply April Fool's jokes.

</comment></comment><comment><USER121> Humble Bundle proposes the Humble Indie Ballyhoo:

[https://www.humblebundle.com/ballyhoo](https://www.humblebundle.com/ballyhoo)

[http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/115193038361/step-on-up- fo...](http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/115193038361/step-on-up-for-modern- gaming-at-its-finest-its)

<comment><USER122> Looks like it will really take your money, but it all goes to the charity, no humble tip. I like it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER123> imgix launched the Chester Face feature, which we're providing to our customers as an AFaaS (April Fools as a Service) option:

[http://blog.imgix.com/post/115195342369/new-imgix-feature- ch...](http://blog.imgix.com/post/115195342369/new-imgix-feature-chester-face)

 _Chester Face is a tool that will automatically detect any faces in your imagery and replace those faces with that of Chester._

(Chester is an engineer's cat, who happens to be photogenic and comes out of the box in the correct shade of orange for our branding)

</comment><comment><USER124> Humble bundle

[https://www.humblebundle.com/ballyhoo](https://www.humblebundle.com/ballyhoo)

<comment><USER125> You can actually buy it. They are instructions on how to play those games.

<comment><USER126> That's actually kind of cool though no joke.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER127> Study led by senior Google dev reveals direct correlation between tech conference food and blacking out in sessions.

[https://www.voxxed.com/blog/2015/04/chet-haase-forking- disru...](https://www.voxxed.com/blog/2015/04/chet-haase-forking-disrupting- conference-learning/)

</comment><comment><USER128> Slashdot has a few stories that will _blow your mind_ , like the tatooine youth suspected in a terrorist attack, or the discovery of alien life by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. [http://slashdot.org/](http://slashdot.org/)

Unfortunately, the comments section is still not an April Fools joke.

</comment><comment><USER129> Here's one we did targeted to our (customer support) audience:

"Please type your reply above this line" ([http://blog.reamaze.com/2015/04/01/please-type-your-reply- ab...](http://blog.reamaze.com/2015/04/01/please-type-your-reply-above-this- line/))

</comment><comment><USER130> The Play Framework folks will be offering the "Certified Reactive Application Programmer" \- in short: CRAP certification [https://twitter.com/playframework/status/583131097396989952](https://twitter.com/playframework/status/583131097396989952)

<comment><USER131> [https://playframework.com/certification](https://playframework.com/certification)

I just love the checkbox for "Yes! I want my organization to be full of CRAP™ developers!"

</comment></comment><comment><USER132> Pipedrive-Tinder Integration.

Being serious about dating requires having the ability to never drop the ball.

[http://blog.pipedrive.com/2015/04/manage-your-dating- pipelin...](http://blog.pipedrive.com/2015/04/manage-your-dating-pipeline- with-the-pipedrive-tinder-integration/)

</comment><comment><USER133> Google purchases Dubai's world of islands to reconfigure into Google-shaped floating cities.

[http://inhabitat.com/google-purchases-dubais-world-of- island...](http://inhabitat.com/google-purchases-dubais-world-of-islands-to- reconfigure-into-google-shaped-floating-cities/)

</comment><comment><USER134> Raspberry pi model C launches

[http://raspi.tv/2015/raspberry-pi-model-c](http://raspi.tv/2015/raspberry-pi- model-c) [http://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=12281](http://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=12281)

</comment><comment><USER135> [http://espresso.economist.com/3525bb43cce253e2e8f04e7b62f1ba...](http://espresso.economist.com/3525bb43cce253e2e8f04e7b62f1bac2)

Economist reports that Poroshenko has suggested a winner takes all judo match with Putin to end the fighting in the Donbas.

</comment><comment><USER136> Vail Resorts buys Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

[http://www.tetongravity.com/story/ski/breaking-vail- resorts-...](http://www.tetongravity.com/story/ski/breaking-vail-resorts-buys- jackson-hole-mountain-resort)

</comment><comment><USER137> [http://blog.sunrise.am/post/115135988899/introducing- clippy-...](http://blog.sunrise.am/post/115135988899/introducing-clippy-for- sunrise)

Sunrise joining Microsoft, they just added Clippy to their calendar

</comment><comment><USER138> SAS SPACE TRAVEL by Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) [http://www.sas.se/](http://www.sas.se/)

</comment><comment><USER139> Neocities raises $400m at a $14b valuation [https://neocities.org/blog/neocities- raises-400-million](https://neocities.org/blog/neocities-raises-400-million)

</comment><comment><USER140> Space Rock - Build computer things that are nice to use, faster than you could before [https://space-rock.meteor.com/](https://space-rock.meteor.com/)

</comment><comment><USER87> The effort to fork Debian (Devuan) capitulates: starting here: [https://devuan.org/](https://devuan.org/) follow "BREAKING NEWS: Ultimately, we give up. Read here in detail" to here: [https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150401.095603.4a3a1e...](https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150401.095603.4a3a1e39.en.html) at least i _think_ it's an April fools joke (not a super funny one at least)

</comment><comment><USER141> Run to get offers by flipkart:

[https://twitter.com/Flipkart/status/583145516218720256](https://twitter.com/Flipkart/status/583145516218720256)

<comment><USER141> and another one [https://twitter.com/91bilal/status/583177078238945280](https://twitter.com/91bilal/status/583177078238945280)

</comment></comment><comment><USER142> [https://www.ifixit.com](https://www.ifixit.com) announces iFAXit! On-demand repair guide delivery (to your fax machines! For free!)

</comment><comment><USER143> Introducing PlayStation Flow [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bPUaLpNcMY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bPUaLpNcMY)

</comment><comment><USER144> Google Fiber dial-up mode [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTTtkisylQw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTTtkisylQw)

</comment><comment><USER145> Redact.js for ultimate web performance:

[https://codepo8.github.io/redact.js/](https://codepo8.github.io/redact.js/)

</comment><comment><USER114> Quantum music on arXiv: [http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.09045](http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.09045)

</comment><comment><USER146> Container Solutions is proud to release today its own container technology, Rocker. Rocker is an amalgamation of ideas and sources from both the Docker and Rocket projects.

[http://container-solutions.com/2015/04/container- solutions-i...](http://container-solutions.com/2015/04/container-solutions- introduces-rocker/)

</comment><comment><USER147> H1Z1 and PlanetSide 2 switched reddit banners: [http://www.reddit.com/r/H1Z1](http://www.reddit.com/r/H1Z1) [http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/](http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/)

That's because PS2 says they get cheaters from H1Z1, and viceversa.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> \- Game of Thrones clue

\- Power Wheels Desert Drifters

\- Steam-powered Gaming Cabinet

\- Voltron Cat Condo

\- and more...

[http://www.thinkgeek.com/](http://www.thinkgeek.com/)

<comment><USER148> My favourite Think Geek April Fools was the 2001: A Space Odyssey Monolith Action Figure:

[http://www.wired.com/2010/10/2001-a-space-odyssey- monolith-a...](http://www.wired.com/2010/10/2001-a-space-odyssey-monolith- action-figure/)

(which they did end up selling due to demand)

"It's Full of Stars!"

"Zero Points of Articulation"

</comment></comment><comment><USER149> Fake Job Ad: MyAppConverter is seeking a new senior developer to open up their new San Francisco office in their expansion plans.

[https://www.myappconverter.com/blog/senior-developer- wanted-...](https://www.myappconverter.com/blog/senior-developer-wanted-sf- based-250000-300000-annum)

$250,000 - $300,000 per annum + bonus + benefits

Join our new San Francisco office!

We're looking for a Senior Developer to bring their talents to our brand new team. This opportunity is simply unmissable! Join the innovators in app conversion, and take your career to new heights.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Developer to join our expanding team.

MyAppConverter is seeking a talented Senior Developer to sit back, relax and have all of their work done for them. A lazy mindset is essential, and someone with a passion for the latest revolution in app conversion is a must.

Developer skill / responsibilities:

\- No previous experience necessary.

\- Excellent Java skills (drinking coffee from a mug/cup/thermos).

\- Thumb twiddling expertise.

\- A passion for the latest revolution in app conversion.

\- Watching in silent awe.

\- Enjoys boredom.

</comment><comment><USER150> Not sure if UberLIONS is an April's fools joke or not, but it probably belongs here. Use promo code LIONCUBS and lion cubs (and a trainer) will come right to you ready to play. They'll also donate $1 toward the Big Cats Initiative.

[https://blog.uber.com/nyc-uberlions-2015](https://blog.uber.com/nyc- uberlions-2015)

<comment><USER151> My bet is that the donation is real, but the lions are not.

</comment></comment><comment><USER152> Dachshund-Powered Delivery Service

[https://docsend.com/dachshund](https://docsend.com/dachshund)

</comment><comment><USER153> Looks like iFixit has multiple A1 jokes today:

[https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+Watch+Teardown/38659](https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+Watch+Teardown/38659)

[https://www.ifixit.com/ifaxit](https://www.ifixit.com/ifaxit)

</comment><comment><USER154> Samsung announces the world's first IoT smart knife, Galaxy BLADE edge, made for the modern chef with cutting-edge technology.

[http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/galaxy-blade-edge-chefs- ed...](http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/galaxy-blade-edge-chefs-edition/)

<comment><USER74> They had to include a warning about it is being aprils fool

<comment><USER155> This is coming from the company who brings you the "IoT" clothes washing machine...

Also whats with curved phones?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER156> blink-dev: Intent to deprecate and remove: JavaScript

[https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!topic/bli...](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!topic/blink- dev/6mfrkTkw808)

</comment><comment><USER157> Online.net has a "Selfie" option when ordering. Pretty fun way to order a server to be honest!

[https://console.online.net/en/server/selfie/Al5dpTp6Awp3](https://console.online.net/en/server/selfie/Al5dpTp6Awp3)

</comment><comment><USER110> Code School is Now Customizable: [https://www.codeschool.com/geocities#?bg=1&cr=1&ff=1&g1=0&g2...](https://www.codeschool.com/geocities#?bg=1&cr=1&ff=1&g1=0&g2=0&g3=0&g4=0&g5=0&g6=0)

</comment><comment><USER158> Dirk Nowitzki announces he is retiring

[http://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2015/4/1/8320117/dirk- nowitzki-...](http://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2015/4/1/8320117/dirk-nowitzki- announces-he-is-retiring-on-APRIL-FIRST)

</comment><comment><USER159> Today, we're pivoting. Major League Hacking is now Major League Packing: [http://news.mlh.io/major-league-hacking-now-major-league- pac...](http://news.mlh.io/major-league-hacking-now-major-league- packing-04-01-2015)

</comment><comment><USER160> Eagle Optics introduces a way to attract more birds to your feeder. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6mlw3165fo&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6mlw3165fo&feature=youtu.be)

</comment><comment><USER161> FlipTheWeb Chrome extension:

[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fliptheweb/jfdmnek...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fliptheweb/jfdmnekbhhloooancdmoomkggpejdjfd)

(inspired by com.google)

<comment><USER162> Phew, this fixed com.google. Now I can search again!

</comment></comment><comment><USER116> Uber Car Shop

Pick up a Car Shop catalog on your next Uber trip and discover world class products from the comfort of the backseat.

[http://issuu.com/ubermo/docs/ubercarshop](http://issuu.com/ubermo/docs/ubercarshop)

</comment><comment><USER163> Flippa is selling itself on itself: [https://flippa.com/4334300-premium- pr-5-online-marketplace-w...](https://flippa.com/4334300-premium-pr-5-online- marketplace-with-3mil-uniques-mo-making-10mil-mo)

</comment><comment><USER164> Compilations of Pranks from TechCrunch, CNN and TheVerge

[http://techcrunch.com/gallery/april-fools-2015-the-mega- roun...](http://techcrunch.com/gallery/april-fools-2015-the-mega-round-up-of- the-best-gags/)

[http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/world/april-fools-day- pranks/](http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/world/april-fools-day-pranks/)

[http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/1/8327379/april-fools- roundup](http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/1/8327379/april-fools-roundup)

</comment><comment><USER165> SOLVING AN UNTIMELY SYSTEM ERROR ON OUR SITE [http://blog.airbnb.com/solving- an-untimely-system-error-on-o...](http://blog.airbnb.com/solving-an-untimely- system-error-on-our-site/)

</comment><comment><USER166> Bob Loblaw hired by Applause:

[http://blog.applause.com/2015/04/01/bob-loblaws-applause- blo...](http://blog.applause.com/2015/04/01/bob-loblaws-applause-blog-debuts/)

<comment><USER167> Funny - "Applause AppleWatch Watch – Where we watch for updates on what people are watching for from the Apple Watch"

</comment></comment><comment><USER168> Ministry of Supply sells The Armstrong, a space suit for the modern man - [http://ministryofsupply.com/pages/the- armstrong](http://ministryofsupply.com/pages/the-armstrong)

</comment><comment><USER169> Selfie Shoes

[http://miz-mooz.com](http://miz-mooz.com) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw72zFX2rsk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw72zFX2rsk)

</comment><comment><USER170> Education.com announces it will become a cat-based learning platform Announcement: [http://www.education.com/cat-based- learning/](http://www.education.com/cat-based-learning/) "Science" article: [http://www.education.com/magazine/article/cat-co- learning/](http://www.education.com/magazine/article/cat-co-learning/) Homepage (they added cats): [http://www.education.com/](http://www.education.com/)

</comment><comment><USER171> Spotify CEO to launch rap career

[http://www.thenordicweb.com/blog/spotify-ceo-to-launch- rap-c...](http://www.thenordicweb.com/blog/spotify-ceo-to-launch-rap-career)

</comment><comment><USER172> "Functor is now a superclass of Monad in GHC HEAD"

[http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3121lh/functor_is_n...](http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3121lh/functor_is_now_a_superclass_of_monad_in_ghc_head/)

Same as last year:

[http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1bfojn/functor_is_n...](http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1bfojn/functor_is_now_a_superclass_of_monad_in_ghc_head/)

And I fell for it again... Hmpf.

<comment><USER61> Isn't it now? Or is it only Applicative?

</comment></comment><comment><USER173> Coldfusion is making a huge comeback in the London Tech-Scene. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302185](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302185)

<comment><USER174> it very well could:

CFWheels.org - [https://github.com/cfwheels/cfwheels](https://github.com/cfwheels/cfwheels)

and no, this isn't a joke. Full disclosure: I worked on and LOVE this project.

</comment></comment><comment><USER175> Parse Pigeon - add on-demand delivery to your app with a few lines of code: [http://parse.com/products/pigeon](http://parse.com/products/pigeon)

<comment><USER176> Plus, a Parse coupon for joining the waitlist!

</comment></comment><comment><USER177> Dato targets MS-DOS as the next Big Data platform, processes terabytes of data in 640KB of RAM

[http://blog.dato.com/dato-on-ms-dos](http://blog.dato.com/dato-on-ms-dos)

</comment><comment><USER178> Facebook to acquire Meteor Announcement: [http://joshowens.me/facebook-to- acquire-meteor/](http://joshowens.me/facebook-to-acquire-meteor/)

</comment><comment><USER179> /tmpShark [https://appliance.cloudshark.org/tmpshark/](https://appliance.cloudshark.org/tmpshark/) Cloud Storage for your temp files.

</comment><comment> m-i-l Microsoft Announces Its Own Linux OS: [http://itsfoss.com/microsoft-announces- linux-os/](http://itsfoss.com/microsoft-announces-linux-os/)

<comment><USER105> That is one thirsty fucking site. Something popping up every five seconds saying "Subscribe! Retweet! Look at meeeeee!!"

</comment></comment><comment><USER180> Mithril.js website in elvish

[http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/archive/v0.1.34/](http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/archive/v0.1.34/)

</comment><comment><USER181> Uber-like on demand cab service in India launches an on demand helicopter service [https://www.olacabs.com/air](https://www.olacabs.com/air)

<comment><USER16> It's 404ing.

<comment><USER182> [https://www.olacabs.com/ola-air](https://www.olacabs.com/ola-air)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER183> Latvia to get Mistral warship instead of Russia: [https://euobserver.com/news/128217](https://euobserver.com/news/128217)

It was picked up as fact by several Rusian media outlets: [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KJbT4Xw...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KJbT4XwEOicJ:sputniknews.com/military/20150401/1020300718.html+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)

</comment><comment><USER184> [https://github.com/npm-ruby/npm-ruby](https://github.com/npm-ruby/npm-ruby) \- Bringing npm functionality to Ruby applications

</comment><comment><USER185> Kim Jong Un chooses an Italian education provider to have a course about freedom of the press

[https://youtu.be/d_vit8ZRHx8](https://youtu.be/d_vit8ZRHx8)

</comment><comment><USER186> Glide to be acquired by Apple for $430 million, will open an R&D center in Jerusalem

[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://medium.com/%40MadeinJLM1/confirmed- glide-to-be-acquired-by-apple-for-430-million-will-open-an-r-d-center-in- jerusalem-8f53ba24684c&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=ubuntu&channel=fs&gws_rd=cr&ei=5KQbVbzeNcP1ggT214D4CQ)

</comment><comment><USER187> Angular and React have merged

[http://moduscreate.com/reangular-angular-react- merger/](http://moduscreate.com/reangular-angular-react-merger/)

</comment><comment><USER188> Digital agency launches division to make tiny websites for the Apple Watch

Page: [http://www.applewatchdesign.co/](http://www.applewatchdesign.co/)

</comment><comment><USER164> InternetIsBeatiful went retro

[http://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/](http://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/)

</comment><comment><USER189> Instacart: Self-driving Carbs [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzjkFiv6CPs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzjkFiv6CPs)

</comment><comment><USER190> Disney announces X-Wings: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ3n_D1zBrg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ3n_D1zBrg)

</comment><comment><USER191> Houzz releases HouzzLenz VR Goggles to visualize home remodeling.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYIKDcMwreY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYIKDcMwreY)

[http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/46342399/list/houzzlenz- the-n...](http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/46342399/list/houzzlenz-the-new-way- to-see-your-home)

"If you can swipe your face, you can update your place."

</comment><comment><USER192> Dumbstone.com [http://www.dumbstone.com](http://www.dumbstone.com) We Bedazzle Wearables and trade them as virtual currency!

</comment><comment><USER193> T-Mobile Pets Unleashed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kj-4F8pWfk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kj-4F8pWfk)

</comment><comment><USER194> We added new mentors, including rms for iOS, Elon Musk, etc.

[http://www.thinkful.com/mentors](http://www.thinkful.com/mentors)

</comment><comment><USER195> Hailo Piggy Back. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw49oK9bMLM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw49oK9bMLM)

<comment><USER196> When they mentioned rebranding the mount as a Hailo lift I was hoping they'd take it a step further and invent the Uber Hailo Lyft

</comment></comment><comment><USER197> Keanu - Download the New You by Nootrobox [https://nootrobox.com/keanu](https://nootrobox.com/keanu)

</comment><comment><USER198> Blinkist announces Blink-ku, poetic summaries of nonfiction books.

[https://www.blinkist.com/page19/introducing-blink-ku-the- wor...](https://www.blinkist.com/page19/introducing-blink-ku-the-worlds-best- nonfiction-books-in-verse)

The summary of Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek is hilarious:

So Much Depends Upon a 40-Hour Lie

So much depends upon

a forty hour lie when

all you need is an out of office responder

and a bunch of virtual assistants

</comment><comment><USER199> Lunar Impulse [http://www.lunarimpulse.com/](http://www.lunarimpulse.com/)

A plane that use lunar energy.

</comment><comment><USER200> How Avocarrot Replaced Targeting Algorithms With 742 Real People

[http://www.avocarrot.com/blog/how-avocarrot-replaced- targeti...](http://www.avocarrot.com/blog/how-avocarrot-replaced-targeting- algorithms-with-742-real-people/)

Announcing HERO, the Human-Enabled Relevancy Optimizer, to address one of the hardest challenges we faced yet.

</comment><comment><USER201> Jobs4Pets: [http://www.indeed.com/jobs4pets](http://www.indeed.com/jobs4pets)

</comment><comment><USER202> Hodor Lang by Hummingbird Tech

[http://www.hodor-lang.org/](http://www.hodor-lang.org/)

</comment><comment><USER203> "Send 15$ to this account and let's fight SPAM together!" Memeoirs launches the Spam Book! Make your own!

[http://blog.memeoirs.com/2015/04/making-spam-matter- memeoirs...](http://blog.memeoirs.com/2015/04/making-spam-matter-memeoirs-now- offers-a-brand-new-feature)

</comment><comment><USER204> Micromonitor reaping huge rewards as nearForm moves all developers to four inch screens!

Announcement: [http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/micromonitor-reaping- huge...](http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/micromonitor-reaping-huge-rewards- nearform-moves-developers-four-inch-screens/)

</comment><comment><USER205> One of my favorite April 1 things is Wikipedia's bizarre frontpage: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)

The featured article, picture, and various highlights on the frontpage are always delightful. And true and educational! Check it out.

<comment><USER206> The cake is a pie!

Also whoa [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_cake](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_cake)

</comment></comment><comment><USER207> There also is Tinder for Stupid things: [http://getstd.us](http://getstd.us)

</comment><comment><USER208> Elance-oDesk announcing new name and the shift to online dating. Elove-oDate, double click on love.

[https://www.odesk.com/blog/2015/04/announcing-new-name- new-s...](https://www.odesk.com/blog/2015/04/announcing-new-name-new-shift- online-dating/)

</comment><comment><USER209> Uber Shop

Uber's trademark innovation and convenience have revolutionized the way you move. Starting today, we're revolutionizing the way you shop.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bECYvHkDrMo&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bECYvHkDrMo&feature=youtu.be)

</comment><comment><USER210> Here's one from 2011, "Stetson hat to be new Army standard headgear":

[http://www.army.mil/article/54202/Stetson_hat_to_be_new_Army...](http://www.army.mil/article/54202/Stetson_hat_to_be_new_Army_standard_headgear/)

</comment><comment><USER211> Nokia HERE's first wearable tech - geo-intelligent kitty collar: [http://360.here.com/2015/04/01/unveils-first-wearable- tech/](http://360.here.com/2015/04/01/unveils-first-wearable-tech/)

</comment><comment><USER212> Blizzard joins in on the fun: [http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/18486737/new- garrison-featu...](http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/18486737/new-garrison- feature-tindr-for-followers-3-27-2015)

</comment><comment><USER213> Embrace Pet Insurance Proud to Say Direwolf Coverage Is Coming

[http://www.embracepetinsurance.com/about- us/press/direwolf-c...](http://www.embracepetinsurance.com/about- us/press/direwolf-coverage-is-coming)

Disclaimer: I work there.

</comment><comment><USER214> Popular DIY blog "The Crafted Life" is acquired by Kraft Cheese, rebrands to The Krafted Life, focuses solely on DIY tutorials that utilize Kraft cheese products: [http://thecraftedlife.com](http://thecraftedlife.com)

</comment><comment><USER215> Google: Moon optimize mobile pages [https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile- sites/mobile...](https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile- seo/other-devices/moon)

</comment><comment><USER216> Introducing Tumult Hype Edition

[http://blog.tumult.com/2015/04/01/introducing-tumult-hype- ed...](http://blog.tumult.com/2015/04/01/introducing-tumult-hype-edition/)

Light theme, Dark theme, and now the Gold theme!

</comment><comment><USER193> KINDLR, the New Goodreads Dating App [https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/498-announcing-kindlr- th...](https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/498-announcing-kindlr-the-new- goodreads-dating-app)

</comment><comment><USER217> Glitter resin launched by Formlabs:

[http://formlabs.com/company/blog/2015/04/01/introducing- glit...](http://formlabs.com/company/blog/2015/04/01/introducing-glitter- resin/)

</comment><comment><USER218> Adopt A Pothole: [http://www.adoptapothole.co.ke/](http://www.adoptapothole.co.ke/)

Created by OkHi, a tech startup in Kenya that has a mission to give a physical address to the 4B people in the world who don't have one.

</comment><comment><USER219> New teeth jewelry line: [http://www.loveandpieces.com/blogs/online-jewelry- boutique-b...](http://www.loveandpieces.com/blogs/online-jewelry-boutique- blog/19039275-all-new-teeth-jewelry-line)

</comment><comment><USER220> Government to sell-off playgrounds - kids don't play outside anyway. Proceeds to be used to build digital parks inside Minecraft.

[http://daily.koalasafe.com/](http://daily.koalasafe.com/)

Got picked up by a few places in Australia.

</comment><comment><USER221> Transform your work world with holograms!

Tempo Vision is hardware that enhances the way teams experience their environment in Tempo and JIRA.

[http://www.tempoplugin.com/tempo-vision/](http://www.tempoplugin.com/tempo- vision/)

</comment><comment><USER158> Hillary Declares 2016 Run, Files For Divorce [http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/hillary- declares-2016-run-f...](http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/hillary- declares-2016-run-files-divorce/)

</comment><comment><USER193> Dominos driverless delivery vehicle [https://www.dominos.co.uk/blog/dominos- rolls-out-driverless-...](https://www.dominos.co.uk/blog/dominos-rolls-out- driverless-delivery-vehicles/)

</comment><comment><USER222> HubSpot Goes #DeskFree, Pioneering the Next Frontier of Workspace Collaboration [http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/hubspot-desk- free](http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/hubspot-desk-free)

</comment><comment><USER223> New York Code + Design Academy has a web development class for your furry friends now!

[http://nycda.com/classes/web-development-for- dogs/](http://nycda.com/classes/web-development-for-dogs/)

</comment><comment><USER224> Removing support for credit cards in Kill Bill: [http://killbill.io/blog/deprecating-support-debit-credit- car...](http://killbill.io/blog/deprecating-support-debit-credit-cards/)

</comment><comment><USER35> Hailo Piggyback

[http://www.techdigest.tv/2015/04/hailo-introduces-the- piggyb...](http://www.techdigest.tv/2015/04/hailo-introduces-the-piggyback- revolutionising-personal-transportation.html)

</comment><comment><USER225> Now fly using Ola App – Introducing Ola Air! [http://www.tdgmag.com/2015/04/ola-air-fly-using-ola- app/](http://www.tdgmag.com/2015/04/ola-air-fly-using-ola-app/)

</comment><comment><USER226> Furious 7 got banned in Pakistan: [http://www.shareonfb.com/n4nqp0/film- censor-board-bans-furio...](http://www.shareonfb.com/n4nqp0/film-censor-board- bans-furious-7-in-pakistan)

</comment><comment><USER227> NordVPN - Internet unlocked... on Mars [https://nordvpn.com/blog/how-did-we- unblock-the-internet-of-...](https://nordvpn.com/blog/how-did-we-unblock-the- internet-of-mars/)

</comment><comment><USER158> Petbox, from the people who brought you Redbox. [http://www.redbox.com/petbox/?CID=EM:37311&et_rid=79397907](http://www.redbox.com/petbox/?CID=EM:37311&et_rid=79397907)

</comment><comment><USER228> [http://www.wiffi.co.uk](http://www.wiffi.co.uk) \- The Scent of Connection

Scented Wi-Fi that lets you know if a connection is secure or not. If it smells bad, don't connect.

The best thing is... It's not an April Fools!

</comment><comment><USER229> I suppose the SailfishOS for console games is a joke: [https://twitter.com/JollaHQ/status/583176660821913600](https://twitter.com/JollaHQ/status/583176660821913600)

<comment><USER230> This is a good list of games, which can be used in SailfishOS's console: [http://www.tuxarena.com/2014/02/several-great-linux- terminal...](http://www.tuxarena.com/2014/02/several-great-linux-terminal- games/) :)

</comment></comment><comment><USER35> Chrome Android App - Introducing #ChromeSelfie

[http://chrome.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/introducing- chromeselfi...](http://chrome.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/introducing- chromeselfie.html)

<comment><USER231> This is awesome. I've been thinking about a meta-youtube-channel, where you can watch people watch youtube (if anyone has the time, please pull it off!).

</comment></comment><comment><USER232> Bacon Flavored Asthma Peak Flow Meter to improve asthma adherence.

[https://twitter.com/AsthmaMD/status/583333806469337088](https://twitter.com/AsthmaMD/status/583333806469337088)

</comment><comment><USER233> Dragon Drop for Asana

Accouncement: [https://blog.asana.com/2015/04/breathe-some-fire-into- your-t...](https://blog.asana.com/2015/04/breathe-some-fire-into-your-task- list/)

</comment><comment><USER234> Coffeevault - [http://blog.hemavault.com/2015/04/01/introducing- coffeevault...](http://blog.hemavault.com/2015/04/01/introducing-coffeevault/)

</comment><comment><USER235> Google acquires XDA : [http://www.xda-developers.com/google-to-acquire-xda- dev-rewa...](http://www.xda-developers.com/google-to-acquire-xda-dev-rewards- policy-changes/)

</comment><comment><USER236> Miscellaneous Month at Travaasa Experiential Resorts – [http://travaasa.com/newsletter/2015/april/](http://travaasa.com/newsletter/2015/april/)

</comment><comment><USER193> Coca-Cola in a new 10 ml sip size pack [https://twitter.com/CocaCola/status/583303638090694656](https://twitter.com/CocaCola/status/583303638090694656)

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> Share a Reaction

[http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2015/03/chrome-selfie- share...](http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2015/03/chrome-selfie-share- reaction.html)

</comment><comment><USER237> A new Startup Vitamins product

[http://www.startupvitamins.com/products/startup-condoms- trip...](http://www.startupvitamins.com/products/startup-condoms-triple-packs)

</comment><comment><USER238> Language translation company Translated releases a klingon version of its website: [http://www.translated.net/tlh/](http://www.translated.net/tlh/)

</comment><comment><USER239> Introducing Prezi Retro [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOgnaEc5hg&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOgnaEc5hg&feature=youtu.be)

</comment><comment><USER240> Introducing Prezi Retro [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOgnaEc5hg&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOgnaEc5hg&feature=youtu.be)

</comment><comment><USER241> Not on the Highstreet. Happy Hatchery - hatch at home eggs ordered online.

[http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/happyhatchery](http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/happyhatchery)

</comment><comment><USER242> [http://www.shopclues.com/laggayi90percent- offsale.html?icid=...](http://www.shopclues.com/laggayi90percent- offsale.html?icid=Happ|cnl|laggayisale|010415)

</comment><comment><USER243> Share underwear with the world - MeUndies introduces the #ReUndies program.

[https://www.meundies.com/videos/reundies](https://www.meundies.com/videos/reundies)

</comment><comment><USER244> Indiegogo Heat: The world's first hot sauce crowdfunding platform. [https://learn.indiegogo.com/heat/](https://learn.indiegogo.com/heat/)

</comment><comment><USER245> [http://visual-seo.com/SEO-Blog/Case-Study-CR-increased- neuro...](http://visual-seo.com/SEO-Blog/Case-Study-CR-increased- neuromarketing)

</comment><comment><USER246> Sync physical post-it board with trello using magnetism, pencil and a Raspberry Pi. [https://vimeo.com/123835399](https://vimeo.com/123835399)

</comment><comment><USER247> The future of programming languages, a long jumbled series of HODOR to create functional scripts. [http://hodor-lang.org](http://hodor-lang.org)

</comment><comment><USER248> #CHAMPRANK Your Friends

[http://blog.tablelist.com/tablelist-april- fools-2015-champra...](http://blog.tablelist.com/tablelist-april- fools-2015-champrank)

</comment><comment><USER249> First Raspberry Pi in Space [http://www.raspberrypi.org/first-pi-in- space/](http://www.raspberrypi.org/first-pi-in-space/)

</comment><comment><USER250> [https://instagram.com/p/078SdFQ3hJ/?taken- by=marutaro](https://instagram.com/p/078SdFQ3hJ/?taken-by=marutaro)

</comment><comment><USER212> Razer - Project McFly Hovering Mouse: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCx5gjAmqI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCx5gjAmqI)

</comment><comment><USER251> Moz is offering support to all users through Snapchat.

[http://moz.com/blog/snapchat-support](http://moz.com/blog/snapchat-support)

</comment><comment><USER252> Terminal interface for omgubuntu: [http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/bash/](http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/bash/)

</comment><comment><USER253> The latest in eSignatures: carrier pigeons. [http://info.hellosign.com/avian](http://info.hellosign.com/avian)

</comment><comment><USER212> Grouber from Groupon: [http://www.groupon.com/pages/grouber](http://www.groupon.com/pages/grouber)

</comment><comment><USER254> Prysm announces headband control for collaborative display walls

[https://vimeo.com/123800794](https://vimeo.com/123800794)

</comment><comment><USER190> Google Panda: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI9Qb4PuiOU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI9Qb4PuiOU)

</comment><comment><USER255> We are launching our MMO Gangs of Space on Game Boy!

[https://www.gangsofspace.com/en](https://www.gangsofspace.com/en)

</comment><comment><USER68> [https://meh.com/](https://meh.com/) applies one of several vertigo-inducing CSS transforms

</comment><comment><USER256> SpeedRunners (a game on Steam) is running with graphics like 320x200 & 16 colors, and 8 bits music.

You have to restore an old version of some files to play ...

</comment><comment><USER257> Apparently HealthLoop was attacked by zombies: [http://ow.ly/L42S9](http://ow.ly/L42S9)

</comment><comment><USER258> I published my Work-in-Progress maze game in Google Play: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinjas](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinjas)

After a minute or two (after tapping Start), it will jump-scare you with your friend's photo. You can then jump-scare your friends with your own photo.

It uses Facebook, but doesn't post anything (other than Game Request, which is user-initiated).

The game itself is still largely unfinished, but playable. Feedbacks welcome!

</comment><comment><USER259> Complete rewrite of HAProxy in Lua [http://www.haproxy.org/](http://www.haproxy.org/)

</comment><comment><USER260> Hubski, clicking a hubwheel plays "thoughtful" audio clip.

[https://hubski.com](https://hubski.com)

<comment><USER261> Too bad I get redirected to an auth page after 50ms of audio.

</comment></comment><comment><USER262> Microsoft to buy Mozilla: [http://imgur.com/oF0S74Y](http://imgur.com/oF0S74Y)

</comment><comment><USER263> The Today Program (news) on BBC Radio 4 had a suggestion by FIFA in the sports section to make football (soccer) goals 6 inches wider.

</comment><comment><USER264> The XQD - Quantum Entanglement Camera

[https://vimeo.com/123649095](https://vimeo.com/123649095)

</comment><comment><USER265> Joylent Green - a powdered food replacement made from people

[http://joylent.eu](http://joylent.eu)

<comment><USER266> #NSFW

<comment><USER267> Haha wow, I did not see that coming.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER268> The Hurr Durr Archives

[https://www.kernel.org/](https://www.kernel.org/)

</comment><comment><USER269> Pipedot is now in Esperanto.

[https://pipedot.org/](https://pipedot.org/)

</comment><comment><USER270> black out whole country was good idea. and Turkey did it for 10 hours

[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/nationwide- blackout-...](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/nationwide-blackout- throws-turkey-into-chaos-10145504.html)

</comment><comment><USER271> Checkout our newest product - an online medical reference. The main feature would be our new creative UI that would let users navigate the site easily and comfortably with a nostalgic feeling. [http://www.explainmedicine.com/](http://www.explainmedicine.com/)

</comment><comment><USER272> [http://olaair.com](http://olaair.com)

</comment><comment><USER273> From the Hungarian iPhone site szifon.com comes the news that Apple buys Yosemite Park :)

[http://szifon.com/2015/04/01/felvasarolja-az-apple-a- yosemit...](http://szifon.com/2015/04/01/felvasarolja-az-apple-a-yosemite- nemzeti-parkot/)

</comment><comment><USER274> +1, thanks for creating this.

</comment><comment><USER275> yoloimport: Python package that eliminates ImportErrors.

[https://github.com/codysoyland/yoloimport](https://github.com/codysoyland/yoloimport)

</comment><comment><USER276> slowpath data appliances for buzzword dense storage: [http://scalableinformatics.com/tortoise](http://scalableinformatics.com/tortoise)

</comment><comment><USER277> Apple is releasing iPhone-7 on a price below than Galaxy s7

</comment><comment><USER278> superfeedr rebrandes as Batfeedr

[http://blog.superfeedr.com/](http://blog.superfeedr.com/)

</comment><comment><USER279> [http://www.ebuyer.com/k9-audio-hf-hifi-canine-hifi- unit](http://www.ebuyer.com/k9-audio-hf-hifi-canine-hifi-unit)

</comment><comment><USER280> BuzzKill - [http://offers.freecharge.com/buzzkill/](http://offers.freecharge.com/buzzkill/)

</comment><comment><USER281> Michael Bay will be doing a reboot of Casa Blanca.

</comment><comment><USER282> Changed my HN title bar from gray to blue

</comment><comment><USER283> [https://phplist.nova- wings.com/lists/lt.php?id=fk4BAwkaUFMZU...](https://phplist.nova- wings.com/lists/lt.php?id=fk4BAwkaUFMZUVUFUw)

Flying 365 days per year!

Austrian paragliding manufacturers NOVA plan to convert a reservoir into an indoor paragliding centre

During a press conference in Terfens, Tyrol, local paragliding manufacturer NOVA has announced their intention to open an indoor flying centre. They plan to convert a reservoir into a so-called Para-Hall, in order to offer pilots from all over the world the opportunity to fly regardless of the weather conditions. At present they are in intense negotiations with hydroelectric companies and the state governments of the Tyrol and Salzburg. The project focuses on sustainability and will contribute to the long-term future of the Austrian tourism industry.

"Climate change cannot be ignored" says NOVA CEO Wolfgang Lechner, "glaciers in the Alps will melt sooner or later. Therefore, it is inevitable that some reservoirs and their hydroelectric plants will no longer be profitable. Our Para-Hall is a ground-breaking alternative."

NOVA intends to empty, dredge, clean and cover a reservoir. Lechner explains that from a technical point of view, a reservoir with a hydroelectric plant is ideal for converting into a flying centre: "the turbines can be reversed and used to blow air into the Para-Hall. Add a few filaments and indoor thermals are possible. Our test pilots have already tried this in the indoor ski centre in Dubai. It worked fine!"

A highlight of the NOVA Para-Hall will be the Open Air Access, which is a huge retractable roof. With strong indoor thermals, it will be possible to take off inside and go through the roof. Alternatively, it can launch outside, for example in the Outdoor Hike & Fly Area in the mountains above the centre, and then land inside.

The Spectator Area will be situated at the front of the Para-Hall – with glazed viewing areas facing into the centre and down to the valley. Several levels will offer visitors the chance to have a variety of gastro-experiences: Tyrolean Stubn (inns) will offer locally produced local organic produce, an Ayurveda restaurant staffed by genuine Indian chefs, Schnitzel-World (a self- service restaurant with good cost-benefit ratio), on level three it is possible to fast, while next to the landing zone, pilots can avail themselves of the obligatory landing field beer. "The absolute highlight", according to Wolfi Lechner, "is the Silent Zone. This is situated in the Fresh Air Zone and offers complete relaxation. Here everyone can discover their inner apricot."

NOVA plans to convert the current engine room into an Outdoor Experience Centre. Lechner explains: "We hope to install eco hotels with straw beds and Tyrolean pinewood interiors, a climbing wall, wellness centre, a spacious spa area with attached salt cave, an ice climbing wall, yoga retreat and a children's crèche with a mountain pasture experience - featuring real cows. Part of the drainage channel will be converted to a night club. Finally, there will be conferencing facilities. We're thinking big and are focussing on the family - and all very sustainable!" In co-operation with the ZAMG (Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics in Innsbruck) NOVA has commissioned research, which will pinpoint the optimal moment to start the building work. The project should commence no later than the 1st April 2020, probably earlier.

"At first glance, the concept may sound a bit crazy", explains Lechner, "but the planning is in the advanced stages." Currently the reservoir at the Moserboden in the Tauern area is favourite. The site offers the advantage of two dams. On one side the topography will enable soaring flights, the other will be developed as a thermalling paradise.

Lechner is convinced that the power generation companies will be enthusiastic about the concept and he is anticipating investment from ski resort operators. "Sooner or later they will no longer have a viable business. With our long- term sustainable concept we will be able to save the day. The Para-Hall we will mean we are all ready for the future. It will allow tourists to experience all facets of nature – without having to step outside!"

Find out more at www.nova.eu

</comment><comment><USER284> Why do you want to ruin the fun? :P

</comment><comment><USER285> MS Definitely win here.

<comment><USER285> Thanks downvoter, I love you</comment></comment>


Review my startup: Bundlr - bundle & share web content - <AUTHOR> http://gobundlr.com

<comment><USER2> It looks really good. Seems like a great concept and good design. One suggestion I would make is have something about the app on the front page such as a video demonstration or a slightly more detailed explanation of what it does. Maybe just a paragraph above the part where the random reviews appear.

<comment><AUTHOR> We're working on a video that will explain the usefulness of the service, like someone having to aggregate multimedia content for a specific purpose and using it. But probably a simple description wouldn't hurt.</comment></comment>


Why? Fried chicken pizza crust - <AUTHOR> http://www.ohbiteit.com/2014/05/fried-chicken-pizza-crust.html

<comment><USER2> Because it's Chicken Parmesan without all those unhealthy carbs from the pasta.

I would add bacon though. And black olives. Maybe artichoke hearts. But probably just bacon.</comment>


Learn Python or Ruby? - <AUTHOR>

I want to learn either Python or Ruby, so which language do you recommend, why do you recommend it and what are the best tools/books/tutorials to learn that language? <comment><USER4> Python and Ruby are very similar. Here are some of the differences that I see:

Python's design and community encourages a more object oriented style. Ruby encourages a more functional style.

Python lacks some support for closures and inline functions. Ruby has good support for both.

Python has libraries for almost everything. Ruby's libraries are more web focused. It also has libraries in other areas, but not as much as Python.

Ruby is a little more flexible, which leads to some of the DSL's and metaprogramming that seem to be common in the Ruby community.

Ruby has more syntax than Python. Ruby has a few ways to do things, while Python tries to stick to one way.

Both are good. It might help to skim through a tutorial for each first, and see which one you like better. Between Python and Ruby, I think it mostly comes down to taste.

</comment><comment><USER5> Learn both. A lot of people say Ruby & Python are very similar, I disagree. They are similar in that, they look at similar problems (domains - <USER2> Python is applied in much greater variety by its community, ie. sciences, web, gui, server admin, whereas Ruby's popularity is primarily in the web). However, they are different in that their design and philosophical ideas stem from two very distinct ways of approaching the building of software.

It is commonly expressed that in Python there should only be one way, and only one way to do something (Pythonic). In Ruby, you can express yourself in a number of ways. Not in ways that are subjective to your taste, but subjective to the needs of your solution.

The way Ruby approaches blocks (and closures) is unique. There is no substitute and Python, and it forces you to code in a manner that is unique to the language. It exposes you to different design patterns and a new way of thinking.

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To keep it short, learn what language best suits your needs. If you are doing this for fun and are just starting out, I recommend Python. Ruby does way too many things implicitly that it'd be hard to keep track for a beginner (but you can be pragmatic and learn as you go).

For resources, here are my recommendations per language:

Python: \- Udacity's courses are fantastic. They are engaging & challenging. They will teach you the language features as well as resources. They also handle domains from debugging, to simple console software, to web applications. <http://www.udacity.com/> is your reference. \- Learn Python the Hardway is usually a good way to breeze through the syntax. \- Think Python - a fantastic book. \- Dive Into Python 3 - also a great short intro.

Ruby: \- PickAxe. Google this. Must read book. Absolutely _amazing_ reference. I don't think you need anything else if you read this. \- Rubymonk, if you want to do fun exercises. Also a good intro to the syntax.

</comment><comment><USER6> The two languages are very similar. What I would really suggest is see which has the more active user group in your area. This is actually how I ended up learning ruby. If I had found another user group as active in my area I would probably be coding in that instead. Having someone infront of you to ask dumb questions is amazingly helpful.

What resources are best depends on what level of programming experience you are starting with. For Ruby: 0 experience I recommend starting with Learn to Program by Chris Pine Have some experience go straight to Learn Ruby the Hard Way by Zed Shaw After you have some exposure to the ruby language start on rails with the Rails 3 Tutorial by Michael Hartl. It goes step by step through building a twitter clone. Follow the Rails 3 Tutorial with Agile Web Development with Rails. It builds a shopping cart using a different methodology than the Rails 3 tutorial. After that I the classes from code school are pretty awesome and the railscasts by Ryan Bates is the best $9 I spend a month.

</comment><comment><USER7> I'd recommend giving them both a try and see what suits you best. There are loads of interactive tutorials online for both languages.

I personally found I preferred working in Ruby, so that's what I use - eg: I'm not a fan of significant indenting, I like that in Ruby you have to put 'end' (or '}') at the end of code block, I find it makes it more readable.

Also, if you're going to be doing web development, be sure to check out the available frameworks. Rails and Sinatra are the main Ruby ones, Django (and I'm sure others) for Python. Again, I found Rails works in a way that makes sense to me (probably because I came from CodeIgniter in PHP) so that helped sway me towards Ruby.

If you do go down the Ruby on Rails route, be sure to check out Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby and Rails for Zombies (<http://railsforzombies.org>)

</comment><comment><USER8> My major pet peeve with python is that closures are not done quite right ..

[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141642/what- limitations-h...](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141642/what-limitations- have-closures-in-python-compared-to-language-x-closures)

Ruby does seem to have somewhat more powerful constructs (e.g. blocks).

One nice thing that python has (which ruby doesn't) is indentation-based syntax. With ruby you have to use "end" all the time to signify the end of a block.

</comment><comment><USER9> What are you hoping to accomplish? I've been working through python, and it seems like most ruby tutorials are geared toward web development, while python's tutorials are more varied. There are plenty of python webdev tutorials, especially for django, but there's also a bunch of statistical/scientific ones as well.

Not saying Ruby doesn't have all that stuff, though. One factor was how much of a pain it is to develop Ruby on Windows.

</comment><comment><USER10> I'm a webdesigner and I have decided to learn to code. First I tried Python, it was cool, I had a great feeling with the language BUT there was not enough GOOD tutorials for web development. I switch to ruby and I was able switch easily from "Rails Tutorials", to "rails for zombies" to "PeepCode" and now I'm able to produce a decent website on my own. I wish it were the same with Python but now it's history

</comment><comment><USER11> Learn Perl! Perl has: \</comment><comment></comment><comment></comment><comment>--- * Great Community * CPAN - <USER3> Perl you have one command to access literally tens of thousands of open sourced modules * Awesome Tools: \- Moose for best way to model objects \- Plack for web application building \- perlbrew ... And Perl is open source software among many other things.

</comment><comment><USER12> It depends on what you want to do. They're about "equal" in general terms. But you haven't provided more details so I cannot answer.

</comment><comment><USER13> They are both very expressive languages, but the one difference I noticed between Python and Ruby is what happens when you read someone else's code and the code hasn't been aggressively unit-tested or properly designed upfront. Ruby code tends to be much more readable in that case, and it's much more likely that you'd scan through it and go "Oh, I see what he's trying to do here" than with Python.</comment>


Android demonstration - <AUTHOR> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/puffbox/hyperpuff/audiovideo/technology/wide_av_hyper/7631173.stm

<comment><USER2> This BBC article is 7 months old. There are new videos on all the gadget sites.</comment>


COVID in the Counties: Tracking Coronavirus Across the USA - <AUTHOR> https://chartingcovid.com/ <comment><USER2> Pretty cool. Would be nice to see deaths too.

<comment><USER2> By which I mean a chart of the deaths... Not actual deaths.</comment></comment>


The World We Have Lost: On the Silk Road Roots of Our Global System - <AUTHOR> http://www.historytoday.com/peter-frankopan/world-we-have-lost <comment><USER3> Interesting, I learned a few things:

> Cataclysmic struggle between the eastern Rome and Persia opened the door for > Arabs to stream through and build one of the greatest empires in history.

More at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Sasanian_war...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Sasanian_wars) ... I dimly knew these two empires fought but could not have named any of the episodes nor did I realize the direct link to the Muslim conquests.

> Cities like Venice, Verdun, Utrecht, Prague and Mainz all did good business > trafficking slaves to Arab lands, above all, women and children. It was the > Vikings, however, who seized control of this lucrative business, eventually > building trading stations along the Russian river systems flowing south > towards the Black and Caspian seas that grew into towns such as Kiev and > Novgorod.

I knew about the Vikings and the Volga slave trade but did not know it previously extended to northern and central Europe; not sure if Wikipedia has a detailed article, but there's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe#Sla...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe#Slave_trade)

</comment><comment><USER4> Some of the Eurocentric focus on history is partly because of the lack of historical documents from South Asia. I know that in India for e.g., recording a history of the region was never a priority, infact some of of India's early history is only known because of Chinese travelers noting down stuff in their diaries.

In modern times, producing an "Official" History of their region is a major undertaking that all nation states engage in. This is where they get to 'correct' the existing biases/stereotypes but a lot of nations lack the interest and frankly survey expertise to produce a decent and accurate History. I'd say that the West in general has been very good at documenting (sometimes with overflowing negative bias) the history of the 'other' much more than the 'other' has been, at documenting their own history.

</comment><comment><USER5> A very good article! The author does a great job of painting a unified view of world history within the confines of his length restriction. Of course many things are only touched upon, and many others omitted entirely, but he certainly manages to broaden one's view of cultural and political history, and shows how the histories of different peoples interlink and influence each other even today.

</comment><comment><USER6> If you're interesting in this kind of history. I can recommend the youtube series: Crash Course - World history.

[https://youtu.be/Yocja_N5s1I?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9](https://youtu.be/Yocja_N5s1I?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9)

Only 42 videos of around 12 minutes. Gave me a good brush up on history.

</comment><comment><USER7> Americans and Western Europeans focus on the history of America and Western Europe. I'm not surprised at all.

<comment><USER5> The point is not the focus on their local history, but the exclusion of other peoples' history that enabled their own history in the first place.

Generally, the view taught in schools in the West is that "civilization" as we know it developed pretty much linearly on the axis Greece - Rome - <USER2> Europe - Modern Europe/North America. Sure, there were some other civilizations in some obscure places like South America or China, we are given to understand, but they don't really count, they didn't have any lasting impact.

What is all too often neglected is that history doesn't work as simply as that. Greek culture developed in interaction with ancient Persia. Rome was also influenced by places like Carthage in North Africa. The Middle Ages in Europe weren't known as the "Dark Ages" for nothing - compared to contemporary Arabia, it looked pretty barbarous. (Arabian influences on medieval Europe are many and varied, ranging from architecture to food and weapons.) In 1793, the envoys of the first British diplomatic mission to imperial China were still viewed as "barbarians" [1].

Of course it is entirely justified to focus mainly on your own history. However, the danger of focussing too much on yourself is that you forget the achievement and importance of others, leading to unwarranted nationalistic pride.

[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macartney_Embassy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macartney_Embassy)

<comment><USER8> Given the abysmal state of lower and middleschool historical education, merely teaching the kids some basics is hard enough.

<comment><USER5> Could you elaborate? I don't quite see how a subject curriculum can make it harder to teach?</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Show HN: Does your browser supports WebAssembly? - <AUTHOR> https://wasm.joway.io/ <comment><USER2> I'm not up-to-date regarding JS programming, so: why is this solved as it is, i.e. as anonymous function that is immediately called? First idea would be to prevent leaking anything into a global context but this shouldn't be an issue here. Can anyone explain?

        var supported = (() => {
          try {
            if (
              typeof WebAssembly === "object" &&
              typeof WebAssembly.instantiate === "function"
            ) {
              const module = new WebAssembly.Module(
                Uint8Array.of(0x0, 0x61, 0x73, 0x6d, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00)
              );
              if (module instanceof WebAssembly.Module)
                return (
                  new WebAssembly.Instance(module) instanceof WebAssembly.Instance
                );
            }
          } catch (e) { }
          return false;
        })();

Edit: is it maybe to save one from _having to think about_ leaking anything, i.e. wrap everything in _(() = > { ... })();_ and call it a day?

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi, actually, the function is referenced from [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47879864/how-can-i- check...](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47879864/how-can-i-check-if-a- browser-supports-webassembly) . :(

But I think there are two reasons to write like that:

1\. It avoids multiple assignments, which could make codes cleaner.

2\. My website is too simple so maybe there is no enough reason to do such "optimization". But if we are talking about a big project, this initialized global variable could make other codes which required to check if the wasm feature enabled easier and just need to calculate the status one time.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> It just seems to display a blank blue page on browsers that don't support WebAssembly. I tested on Safari 9 and the Nintendo 3DS browser.

<comment><AUTHOR> hi, ggreer, I fixed some browser compatibility issues. Could you try it again? Thanks!

<comment><USER3> Now it shows a red screen with the message, "Your browser does NOT support WebAssembly!"

Thanks for fixing that.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Could you save some of this data and show a table of what has been checked? Guess I could just check caniuse.

<comment><USER5> [https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/WebAssembly#Browser...](https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/WebAssembly#Browser_compatibility)

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> if you want not only check supporting WebAssembly but also support by version, which post-MVP feature currently support in your browser like simd, threads, multi-values and etc check this package:

btw it use only WebAssembly.validate which much faster and synchronous:

[https://www.npmjs.com/package/wasm-check](https://www.npmjs.com/package/wasm- check)</comment>


C Pointers Explained, Really (2012) - <AUTHOR> http://karwin.blogspot.com/2012/11/c-pointers-explained-really.html <comment><USER2> Note that "%x" is not the correct way of displaying the value of a pointer with printf(), since "%x" assumes that it's printing an unsigned int and a pointer may be longer than an int (e.g., on a 64-bit architecture a pointer would be 8 bytes and an int would typically be 4 bytes). The correct format to use to print a pointer in hex is "%p", which knows how long a pointer is on the current system.

For more details on printf() formats, see:

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf_format_string](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf_format_string)

<comment><USER3> Actually %p can only be used to print values of type void * . Since there is no requirement that other pointer types be converted to void * when calling a varargs function, you need to cast:

        int x = 4711;
        printf("x is at %p\n", (void *) &x);

Of course the conversion will be a null operation on many modern systems, where all data pointer types are implemented identically, but this is what the language standard requires.

<comment><USER4> Interesting, I thought pointer representation could only be different for function pointers. Has there ever been an architecture where data pointers could have a different representations?

<comment><USER5> Yes, different representations as well as non-zero null pointers. More from comp.lang.c FAQ at [http://c-faq.com/null/machexamp.html](http://c-faq.com/null/machexamp.html).

<comment><USER4> Ah, very interesting, thanks!

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> When I was learning C I had heard about how terrifying pointers were and so I expected them to be super difficult to learn. Maybe, my experience is atypical, but I found them pretty intuitive.

<comment><USER7> I have a similar experience but I have to admit that pointers became reasonably trivial once our teacher told us to use pen and paper (or a digital equivalent) to schematically draw how these pointers work, much like this article does. The difficulty with pointers is, for me, keeping track of them in your head, especially when you work with arrays. Otherwise it's actually pretty straightforward!

<comment><USER8> > The difficulty with pointers is, for me, keeping track of them in your head, > especially when you work with arrays.

I think this is mostly an artifact of C's type system. I wish pointers were taught in a language with similar runtime semantics as C with a more expressive type system. Drawing it out helps a ton, but the way C forces you to embed that structure into code doesn't help.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> When used within the context of pointers, it helps to think of '*' as the 'at address' operator and '&' as the 'address of' operator. Especially when reading code.

<comment><USER10> A shame they didn't use "@" for the dereference operator...

<comment><USER11> Wouldn't that also have made parsing simpler?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> Just came to say I think it is impressive this guy has an email from 1990 backed up.

</comment><comment><USER13> Is this really from 2012? Examples are in 1978 "K&R1" C:

      func(p)
      int *p;
      {
        body ...
      }

No, memory is not one big array, sorry. Objects have boundaries even though there are valid addresses below their base and above their last byte. Not everything that looks sensible from a machine language point of view is well- defined.

Comment below article:

> _Marin Todinov said..._

> _Dear Programming Guru_

> _You are an absolute legend, ive been programming for 4 years and i have a > masters in computer science, your explanation of pointers has helped me > increase my efficiency in recursive functions and made a map in my breain of > how these basic fundamental structers._

Lol, what the heck? Troll or astro-turfed? Where can you get a CS Master's Degree and on only four years of programming?

<comment><USER14> _No, memory is not one big array, sorry._

No, no, memory _is_ in fact one big array of bytes. Everything else is just really nice syntactic sugar over that fact.

Now, it may well be that attempts to _access_ that memory result in page faults or weird interrupts or IO behavior or what have you, but the computer _really does_ only see a big array.

<comment><USER15> > but the computer really does only see a big array.

Define "the computer" in this context.

Certainly not the x86 chip itself - it sees memory as a series of caches (L1, L2, L3) and eventually the memory bus, which it manages through various lookup tables (TLB etc.) more closely resembling a series of hash tables on steroids than an array - and that's ignoring per-processor caches on multiproc systems and all the invalidation logic that needs to occur as a result.

What about processes? One flat memory space! ...except when you communicate with another process, say by sharing memory. Then you realize you can't share your 'indicies' without associating them to other indicies, because even if the physical memory is the same, each process has their own 'array' for indexing into that memory (and yours doesn't even contain everything in theirs.) That's at least 68 arrays on my computer at the time of writing this, not one.

The kernel's the one managing this mess of arrays, pinning pages needed for interrupt handlers and software TLB support (for not even it is addressing pure physical memory most of the time?)

I guess you could argue that because your chip supports DMA, you can do all your array indexing through that to get to your 'one true' physical memory addressing scheme, label that as what your computer 'really sees', and ignore the 99.99% of instructions executing and making up the bulk of your computation, which have nothing to do with that addressing scheme, but that seems a bit disingenuous.

<comment><USER14> From C and assembly, that's very much how memory is access--compared with the objects notion mention in the GP.

The fact that certain accesses may cause memory layout to change or other strange things is something better left to the computer engineers. :)</comment></comment></comment></comment>


An entrepreneur's time versus an employee's time - The Next Web - <AUTHOR> http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/08/26/an-entrepreneurs-time-versus-an-employees-time/ <comment><AUTHOR> Be careful where you spend your time, is one of the most valuable assets that you have and you can't recover it</comment>


Guns, empires and Indians: Imperial politics triggered an indigenous arms race - <AUTHOR> https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-the-introduction-of-guns-change-native-america <comment><USER2> >...gave European colonists significant military advantages over Native American people wielding bows and arrows, clubs, hatchets and spears. The attractiveness of such goods also meant that Indians desired trade with Europeans, despite the danger the newcomers represented.

Every time they use "Indians" after this I have to assume they mean Native Americans, though no where is that indicated or made understandable.

Is there any expectation that at some point in the future we will never again refer to the original habitants of North America as "Indians"? Everyone understands the term "American Indian" to mean indigenous person, but using just "Indian" and expecting people to know by context that you mean literally not an Indian person doesn't seem like a future facing literary move.

<comment><USER3> As the article talks about Mohawks, Iroquois, Cherokee etc and European colonies at "the East Coast of North America" the meaning is quite clear.

<comment><USER4> But not from the title - I assumed it was talking about India, not North America.</comment></comment></comment>


IT vs HipHop who's really "Got Money"? - <AUTHOR> http://youtube.com/watch?v=xw6YPh-fAko

<comment><USER2> Funny, but painful to watch.</comment>