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As a gainfully employed adult, i'd also pay for a reasonable service that would give me content that I want with less annoyances.

If I were still a teen or even a low-income college student, I'd still be exploiting all the things to get content for free.

I've gotten so used to this it's actually quite jarring when I want to background a video and I get the "rightsholder doesn't allow this" notice.

I remember having a "relativity" revelation as a kid riding in the back of our car.

So we're cruising down the highway. But wonder, what if I could just stop. I would zip through the back of the car, being stationary on the road and watch the car zoom away. But wait...

I know the earth is rotating too, and we're driving east. So if I stopped, then the car would be zooming forward on the road, but the road itself would be zooming forward even faster than the car's (relative) speed! But wait...

The earth isn't just rotating, it orbits the sun. If I stopped, the road and the car on it, wouldn't just be going forward, they would be falling away at an even greater speed. Within seconds, I'd be floating in space at a snapshot point in the earths rotation and the earth would be cruising away from me. But wait...

The sun moves too! If I were sitting in my car, on the road, on earth, and just stopped, Things would be moving away even quicker than before.

Around this point, the wondering switched from bigger frames of reference to paradoxies if space were a thing we were moving through. In one second, our car would move a certain distance on the road. But the road was also moving so we really traveled an extra special distance forward. And the place we came from wasn't just one second back on the road, it couldn't be given all that extra motion. But it was literally just one second ago, how could it not be that same definite spot on the road. My young mind was blown.

Consequently, my current mind is also blown having typed that out. Spacetime is weird, I need to go clear my head. It's currently being smeared across the solar system at speeds in excess of 100,000km/h

From the first step, "This course is for unix-based systems such as Linux and Mac OS X."

You don't even have to get to the dump itself to see expressions of extreme paranoia. See anyone in the media simply at a loss about 'the darkweb' and it being so full of unknown things by its nature.

I don't think they implied that the chip should be read only, you should still be able to have a flashable firmware of some sort.

But instead of giving this chip which should be read-only regulated by software direct access to the bus, route it through a bit of extra on board circuitry which physically prevents it from writing data to the bus. This would enforce the readonly client in hardware, not firmware.

This is one of the biggest reasons why HN needs thread folding. Once the first-loudest voice catches on, it's hard to see the rest of the discussions without distraction.

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They are. At Minecon today they announced a beta for the Windows 10 version of Minecraft. It's a port from the Pocket Edition version of the game.

More info: http://news.xbox.com/2015/07/games-announcing-minecraft-wind...

It'll be interesting to see how this new Microsoft/Mojang effort stacks up with prior partnerships that Mojang already has.

See Teacher Gaming LLC and their Minecraft Edu project http://minecraftedu.com/

They recently released a collaboration with the author of the ComputerCraft mod, @DanTwoHundred. The offshoot is called ComputerCraftEdu. It adds a slick visual programming interface to the lua-powered 'turtle' robots added by ComputerCraft.

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KwAr2gqgXg&feature=youtu.be

I really like it. It's built solidly, and the kickstand in the back is very flexible, can be used in many positions. With the magnetically attached keyboard cover, I've been able to use it on my lap without many issues.

Since the keyboard/Surface doesn't have a sturdy hinge, you can encounter some issues if balancing everything on a small surface. This is the only real negative that I've encountered to tell people about.

For me, it's an acceptable laptop replacement.

It also makes a nice tablet. Size, weight, inputs are all good. I use the pen regularly for doing photo touch-ups in Lightroom.

Ditto. My x61t was a workhorse at University and beyond. I love the the 4:3 aspect ratio. There is something about the extra vertical space that is hard to get across with some people. It's like the freedom felt with tall ceilings.

I was appalled at the state of 16:9 small screen laptops. They just felt claustrophobic doing anything but watching video.

Over time I swapped out the hdd,and upped the ram. User serviceable parts ftw! It served as only computer till 2010 when I finally built a desktop after not being comfortable with other laptop choices. Still served only laptop until finally being replaced with a Surface Pro 3.

Yep. Chrome on a Surface Pro 3. Doesn't react to click events, only worked if I actually touched my screen.

I used to visualize the sun more easily (naively) when figuring time differences. After moving from 45N to rough 60N it's gotten weirder with the even longer summer days.

The sun doesn't just "go west' as if the earth's axis had no tilt. I think that most people don't really pay attention to the path the sun makes across the sky as the year progresses. It's harder to visualize "in what position would the sun be 8 timezones away" when you account for the tilt.

It's nearing 8pm local time here in Helsinki and the sun is still quite high in the sky. Back in US central where I have family, it's nearing 12 noon. The sunlight overlaps a good deal in the summer time. In the middle of winter, we will never see the sun at the same time.

Once Google Maps reached sufficiently high-resolution satellite images to actually see all of the gravel roads, I was actually a bit awestruck. The majority of the state of Iowa looks like a sheet of graph paper.

I grew up a in the region and spent plenty of time driving around endless country roads. It's just so weird to see it from above, all at once. Makes one appreciate the skill of surveying without the modern aid of gps.

Tasker can do it, but it might require a rooted phone to be able to toggle the mobile data setting.

As someone who currently has his physical books stored away in a locker a third of a world away, I'm souring to my former preference for physical books.

It's definitely not perfect but I wish more books went the DVD model where if you buy the physical disk version, you can also get a digital license. Without really having to buy both separately.

I'd love to have to have access to the contents of my books regardless where they are, while still enjoying them physically when I can.

Unfortunately the current electronic versions are buried in DRM and sold merely as limited licenses to the content.

I provide one for introductions that winds up in my 'real' inbox. I've made one great contact through it so far and hope to make more as time goes on. No issues with spam.

It would definitely be nice to have as part of HN itself. In the meantime there is http://hnnotify.com/

Can't read the article right now, so going off of title and other comments...

This does not fly (heh) with my current understanding of "commercial use" in regards to photography, which I wouldn't consider much different than video.

I can enter a US National Park without any specific permit and take a photo of a natural feature. I can sell prints of this photo for a profit. This is not a "commercial use" of the photo.

I can't enter said park without permit and with the intention to shoot promotional photos of my new super nature product. These photos would be used to sell said product. This is a commercial use.

The distinction is profiting from the work itself or using the work to generate profit on something else.

My primary school education was at a small rural church school. We had 3 classrooms for grades 1-8. I believe it was mostly broken into 1-2, 3-5, 6-8.

The teacher for one of the rooms would have to break up the day to teach separate sub-sets of the room their own lessons. This wound up leaving ample time to work solo and in small groups on assignments. I rarely had to make schoolwork into homework.

While it was certainly a lot of work for the teacher to juggle, it also prevented them from trying to consume too much of the students time with active instruction. This is contrasted to the typical high school scenario where students are bounced between multiple rooms throughout the day where each teacher sees that they only have 40-60 minutes to cram their lesson through.

I don't think I can emphasize enough how important it was to be to be able to work on my 8th grade algebra homework on a couch cushion in the back of the room while other kids were doing their science lesson.

Obviously the shared room model is directly akin to modern open office layouts which are chaotic and can be confusing even for well leveled people.

I think my point is that kids should have plenty of unstructured time to do the vast majority (if not all) of their work at school.

I really like this idea. I'm relocating long term to a new country in 4 weeks and I need to downsize my collection of things. Thankfully i'm only looking at a one bedroom apartment but it still seems like a daunting task.

The biggest non-starter has been my wardrobe, taking on that challenge inside the bedroom isn't getting anywhere. I think i'm going to move everything out into the larger living room and hash it out there.

Then i'll have a clean an organized bedroom I can use to leverage cleaning other parts!.

I'm partial to the Elmer L. Anderson library and the Minnesota Library Access Center located at my alma mater, the University of Minnesota. It might not be quite as large as Harvard's store, but instead being located in an warehouse, it's located in two lime stone caverns carved into the bluffs above the river.

  The Andersen Library has been characterized as "geology-friendly;" and indeed, the geology of the site is an integral part of the underground structure. Behind the concrete portal, two enormous caverns, each two stories high and the length of two football fields, lie below a 30 foot layer of limestone plus an additional 30 feet of topsoil, clay and gravel. The solid limestone serves both as the structural roof of the caverns and the foundation for the Andersen Library building above. [1]

[1] https://www.lib.umn.edu/andersen/about-building https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihLwcqSJzF4

The flip side to your purely technical viewpoint is exactly why the industry created HDCP. The 'perfect' data transfer method (w.r.t. analogue copying) that you see as a major benefit is a potential disaster that would enable recording and redistributing of near perfect copyrighted sources.

There isn't a compelling technical reason why a PC couldn't have an HDMI in, it's all legal. The industry would never sanction raw HDMI signals to be read in by an unrestricted general purpose computer. It would be equivalent to no DRM at all enabling you to record high definition copyrighted material.

I know that dumping to disk is different than actually reprocessing the signal to splice it into an immediate output, but i don't think there's much of a difference there.

If all you really want is PiP, look for a monitor that supports displaying multiple inputs simultaneously. This isn't a feature that should require a PC.

I'd love to live in a world where actions such as recording and storing weren't punished just because distribution is a protected right in some countries.

This would be fantastic!

Light is essential for me to get up properly. I currently have an alarm that gradually ramps up a lamp in my room to full brightness. It works well, but the downside is that it only stays on full brightness for a set period of time which I can't change. I want my alarms to continue to pester me until i'm actually out of bed! regardless of what time it is while completely removing my sleepy self from the equation of mashing buttons.

Luna sounds like a great fit.

Gmail, Facebook, Chrome, Hangouts, Clock

2 desktops 4 laptops 2 cell phones 1 television 1 av receiver 1 wii 1 chomecast 1 amazon fire stick 1 networked printer 1 pogoplug 5 hue lights (via hue bridge) ==== 20 things

About 5.5 years ago I was only at 1 laptop, so it's increased fairly significantly since then. If I move into a larger space, my # of hue lights (or similar) is likely to increase some.

Witter has historical significance as being an accessible ice-free port in winter. This is why the train tunnel was cut, to support a navy outpost and shipping. Prior to the tunnel it could only be reached by sea.

Nowadays i'm sure the primary industries are tourism and shipping.

http://www.whittieralaskachamber.org/

I worked for about 6 months before one day there was an emergency announcement over the PA. Before the voice actually came on, the white noise generator cut out and it was weird. I had always assumed it was a noisy air duct.

What you trade off is absolute sound level for attenuating speech like noises faster than they would naturally. So going from nothing to white noise is going to sound and feel noisier. But you will find that you can't hear people talking across the room as well as you could when it was quieter.

I consider it a net positive. But then again I also wear headphones frequently to listen to music for focus (and to drown out everything).

It's actually quite interesting to me that many 2014 AV receivers support HDMI 2.0 (Fully capable of 4K video pass through) but DO NOT have HDCP 2.2 implemented.

They are technologically fully capable of providing the desired service (4K video) to the customer but as soon as HDCP 2.2 Blu-ray players and 4K content come out they are fully obsoleted.

"As of this update, among the major manufacturers of AV receivers only Onkyo/Integra offers such AV Receivers that support both HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 as will be needed to support certain of the high quality 4K/UHD video sources, such as the upcoming Blu-ray 4K/UHD players." [1]

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Blu-ray_Disc_and_HD_DVD_pl...