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coob··on Salt – Sustainable Alternative Lighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vOuj_feM2s
coob··on The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set
Xcode 6's additions to Interface Builder allow for similar tools to be built now. Here's a great NSHipster article that details a modern take on the Calculator Construction Set:

http://nshipster.com/ibinspectable-ibdesignable/

coob··on BMW fixes lock security flaw
I heard of another variant where a jammer was used to stop the car from locking in the first place, whereby goods could be stolen. With the ODB programmer and the key blank the car could then also be stolen.
coob··on Show HN: Health Scout – An app I wrote for a mother traveling with a sick child
I think this a really nifty idea. Would love to know where the data comes from - are you aggregating it yourself?

Also, does it include a notification centre widget?

coob··on Show HN: Health Scout – An app I wrote for a mother traveling with a sick child
The title isn't offensive whatsoever, it's a brief origin story.
coob··on Show HN: Bond – A Swift binding framework
With all the binding frameworks for iOS I wonder why Apple haven't reinstated native Cocoa bindings that exist on OS X.
coob··on Capital One Fraud Researchers May Also Have Done Some Fraud
Wow. I'm actually quite impressed, in a 'that's impressively evil' kind of way.

Maybe anonymized CC trend data should be made public?

coob··on Why Every Movie Looks Sort of Orange and Blue
You can also see this changing after Neo acquires his bullet stopping powers in the hallway. The walls go all bendy (they're cloth).
coob··on Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
Although it runs a variant of iOS AppleTV is not counted by Apple as an iOS device.
coob··on WhatsApp Web
What are the iOS restrictions that don't allow for this?
coob··on Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system (1963)
Here's a 2 part video of Sutherland demonstrating SketchPad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKM3CmRqK2o

My favourite Sutherland quote:

When asked, “How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?” Sutherland replied, “Well, I didn't know it was hard.” -- http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987

coob··on Think Retro: How HyperCard inspired a generation of future developers
LiveCode is a (now open source) 'heir' to HyperCard / SuperCard etc. http://www.livecode.com
coob··on SpaceX Has Pinpointed the Problem That Caused the Falcon9 to Crash Land
Take it apart and examine it I would imagine.
coob··on Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective
> I despise most of them

Doesn't sound like the problem is with your colleagues.

coob··on What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps
Piracy is rampant on jailbroken iOS devices.
coob··on Audi Cruise Control Bug
In other news, HN has a bug in showing '>' in the <title> tag:

    <title>Audi&#x27;s Cruise Control &quot;&amp;gt;=&quot; Bug | Hacker News</title>

    &amp;gt; should be &gt;
coob··on In South Korea, Rivals Samsung and LG Fight Dirty Over Washing Machines
They wash OK but the drying in washer/dryers sucks.
coob··on Apple goes to war with the BBC
Genuine question: Which large companies do supply chain auditing to the same or greater extent than Apple do? Do they make the audit publicly available as Apple do? I'd like to compare.
coob··on Apple goes to war with the BBC
Which large companies take supply chain auditing as seriously as Apple?
coob··on “I’m in the US – what if I just ignore the EU VAT changes?”
It's going to force people to use marketplaces/providers. Probably a startup opportunity.
coob··on New York Magazine's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up
There are websites that fact check politicians, call them out on big lies, give them ratings etc. Why isn't there the same for mainstream news?
coob··on The Rise of Men Who Don’t Work – And What They Do Instead
Are veterans?
coob··on The Rise of Men Who Don’t Work – And What They Do Instead
Middle East wars creating more disabled people.
coob··on Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest
BMW manufacture some cars in China.
coob··on Tax crackdown on banks and multinationals 'to raise £5bn'
In 2013 US government receipts totalled $2.78tn of which corporation tax constituted $273bn (~9.9%)[1]

I imagine most of the boost in margins to be brought down increasing compensation or numbers employed so most of that gets brought in to tax coffers via personal income taxes.

[1]http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc...

coob··on 23andMe UK
23andme does help you find distant cousins.
coob··on OSIRIS spots Philae drifting across the comet
The thrusters to counteract the force of the harpoons were bust.
coob··on VP8 and H.264 to both become mandatory for WebRTC
No idea why you're getting downvoted, we use ALAC in production workflows. Prior to being open sourced it was also successfully reverse engineered in 2005: http://craz.net/programs/itunes/alac.html
coob··on President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet
Yes.
coob··on Just had a heart attack
Could a smart watch detect a heart attack?
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