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beeglebugon Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions

A lot of cars today are probably more aware of what is going to happen in 20 meters than the driver is.

Surely the same data that is used for automatic braking, lane assist etc could be used to improve timings on automatic gear shifts?

beeglebugon The porn industry is in a bind

> whereas in Japan things seemed a lot more blurred

or pixelated

beeglebugon A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory

Communism: "A theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community, and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs."

Basic Income: "An income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement."

I dunno, they sound pretty different to me.

beeglebugon Git client vulnerability announced

It looks like 2.2.1 is the latest source code version, but the builds for Windows and Mac are slightly behind. The windows download is 1.9.5, but was built 13 hours ago and has the fix.

beeglebugon HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

Typo: "bare a cost" should be "bear a cost".

beeglebugon Hulu Plus now works with Chromecast

Has anyone heard any news on a UK release for the Chromecast?

beeglebugon Lego Calendar syncs with Google Calendar

That was my first thought, it seems like the 'take photo/email to special address' step is a bit long winded.

They should just slap a raspberry pi / webcam on the opposite wall and get it to take a photo every 10 minutes.

beeglebugon IE8/9 crash with CSS only

Looks very similar to the one I recreated a while ago, something to do with dotted borders and border-radius:

http://codepen.io/beeglebug/pen/ntLbv

beeglebugon Cool water vapor effect in HTML5 Canvas

I like the end result, but i'm not sure why they decided to use 14 canvas tags when 1 would have worked just as well.

It seems wasteful, canvas was designed specifically to allow drawing and manipulating multiple images on a single surface, these guys are using canvas as if it were a div with a background image.

beeglebugon Show HN: Popline – An HTML5 Rich Text Editor Toolbar

You need to add an 's' at the end of "provide".

beeglebugon How to crash IE9 with some simple CSS

That code won't kill it, it seems to need a width and height, see this one:

http://codepen.io/beeglebug/pen/ntLbv

beeglebugon How to crash IE9 with some simple CSS

Test case: http://codepen.io/beeglebug/pen/ntLbv