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So basically all the peanut-safe zones we're creating around young people these days are just part of a cascade failure, whee...

What does this have to do with "hacker news?"

Does anyone else think the death of The Dissolve was part of step zero for this?

I'm not really sure this is revolutionary or even "news" when high school wrestling coaches have been telling kids to sleep with their bedroom windows open to cut a couple pounds for decades?

(no idea if that works, always wrestled above my weight)

Do we really need the reddit headline editorialization on HN?

When you're working with NASA, and they officially help you with the encryption, you're not "seizing" anything. This is a very cool and interesting story without the L33T HAXX0R DUD3Z angle being weirdly inserted into it...the McMoon team are heroes many times over and awesome in their own right.

Pittsburgh is a pretty amazing place right now, because it's a recovering rust belt city that's managed to transition from manufacturing (steel) to services (health care, banking, higher education, technology firms) pretty well but because their initial crash was SO hard they still have very affordable cost-of-living comparitively. So you have all the public transit and nice museums and great libraries and all that but a bartender and a waitress can buy a house and raise kids together too. It's someplace where "hipsters" are not secretly living off their parents' money to front as making it.

If Apple really wants to impress nerds with the "Yosemite" reveal, they should loop "Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?" as people take their seats. ^_^

I find this article directly interesting, as a parent, but also sort of "meta" interesting as someone who's always been fascinated by the differences between shame-based societies and guilt-based ones. I'm not discounting the author's insights, but they are very clearly influenced by western thinking.

This sounds pretty reasonable, and I have absolutely no technical expertise or personal experience with which to refute it, but does this fit with the claim by Rolls Royce that the engines' feedback systems were still talking to them well after the course change?

If you "pull the busses" do the engines still have the ability to send their telemetry data?

"Linguistic analysis" and...pretty much every facet of evidence there is. Newsweek is such a joke.

It seems to me like someone excitedly posted this without really understanding what Krita actually does, or perhaps the differences between an app like Photoshop, an app like Illustrator, and an app like Corel Paint.

I guess it's a good thing for them that's almost entirely impossible then...so I guess they'll just have to enjoy ignorance.

Woah! It's Dashboard for iOS! ;)

I think we should also look up the exact details of how "stuck" they are with Intel, if this new-Mac-Pro-like-thing ends up being as revolutionary as some hope...I seem to recall way back at the "switch" to x86 that there was some deal with Intel and Apple that only locked them together for a certain number of years? That number of years may be approaching, I don't remember the details.

The positives for having a standardized, compatible, usable national data bank are amazing...but the negatives for giving such unprecedented access to privatized ventures scares the hell out of me and seals the deal on deciding to send my children to private schools when it's time.

It will most likely show up first in bodies that look like the C300 and C100 do today.

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/professional/products/professi...

Have you ever played with a Sony RX-100? Nowhere near full frame, but like four times the sensor area of a typical pocket camera. I got one recently and it's nothing short of astonishing for what it looks like on the outside and how it feels to use. Even the AVCHD video capabilities are damn impressive (again, for its price and form factor).

I think it's possible you might be unfamiliar with just how sensitive current sensors are, for photographic use? You can easily capture these kinds of images in very high resolution with a very affordable DSLR body today. The trick is capturing them at only 1080P or 2K, over and over, 24 to 60 times a second, consistently. That's what would be a game changer.

You're right, about photography. In video, however, you need tons and tons and tons and tons of sensitivity in addition to dynamic range because you can only use fast "shutter" (electronic, not physical, of course) speeds. Needing to create a perfect image 24, 30, or 60 times a second in the dark requires a very different bag of tricks. This is why, for example, having fewer and larger pixels is vastly preferable for motion versus stills.

Is it conceivable that one could ever play old school Abuse on a modern OS X machine?

http://abuse.zoy.org/

I'm confused, and a little depressed, that anyone would describe four miles per hour as "a light run." Maybe, if you're four feet tall?

Also, I agree with the "April Fools" question but I'm afraid the answer is "no, it's just TechCrunch."

"That is a very responsible and logical response from the American people, when faced with rising costs in areas where they are essentially powerless."

I think the core problem with the presumptive "conclusion" is that it leaves out the whole issue of one of the biggest parts of "miscellaneous" or "entertainment" expense. Many Americans spend over $100/month on media consumption, most of it cable bills. That's pretty much sending money to the government...not the fake elected one but the one that's really in charge, multinational corporations with absolute power and no term limits (which shape pretty much all of our policy on everything, including health care and education).

So are Americans really spending all that wisely? After all, these are the organizations directly responsible for the rising costs and dwindling quality of both those services.

Okay, I must be missing something...forget about sexual positions or suffocating infants for a second: how on earth do you keep this thing clean?

Neat writeup, now please please please search and replace "MAC" with "Mac" so it doesn't look like it's all about Ethernet hardware addressing or cosmetics? ;)

Well more importantly, both sides will have to be "responsible" for a new app to become available. Google has to make it, and then Apple has to allow it into the app store. So that's going to be fun.

If they have made any such announcement, their search engine sure can't seem to find it for me...

I'm pretty sure that identifying someone for their sexual preferences first and their career accomplishments second is a textbook example of bigotry...so I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with the author here. I'm not slapping a high five to ESR, but this author is profoundly misguided even if their heart is in the right place.

First question, why dig up someone's blog post from last summer?

Second question, what gives with defining "toys" to so consistently mean "branded icons from franchised fiction?"

This is precisely what I kind of hate about yuppie culture. You can't have a model railroad, you have to have Thomas The Tank Engine. You can't play with your mom's broomstick and be a wizard, you need a Nimbus 2000 (no, wait, make that a 3000). It goes on and on, and even toys that used to have malleable generic purposes by design, like LEGO, need to be branded and defined and limited and explained and attached to some existing, trademarked, copyrighted, closed universe of predefined meaning.

There's nothing wrong with having a bit of this, sure. I have nothing against a couple Transformers or GIJOEs or Barbies or whatever. But if anything those kinds of toys should be "a sometimes food" for the imagination, and certainly not an all consuming obsession.

What kids need most of the time are real toys, the opposite of these sorts of things. Some blank pages to color on, some simple building blocks, a train that doesn't necessarily "go" anywhere...a racetrack whose races haven't already been run.

If there's a nostalgia to be had for something "lost" in youth, that's where it lies for me...not about anything I've lost, but rather what today's kids are having stolen from them before they even have a chance to miss it.

For the same reason porn is expensive inside a hotel, and not elsewhere.