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bmsleight_··on Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair
Wow - could not find any other details about this (my google skills are poor?)

Great tip.

Any idea some where to to find the other hidden combinations ?

bmsleight_··on Make Your Own Pythagorean Cup
Relevant, by only being link spam.
bmsleight_··on Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep, it’s YouTube
To me it is perfect expansion for Netflix.

Youtube offers a universal service provision, Netflix could carefully cherry-pick the top youtubers and offer them the money.

bmsleight_··on New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive
Wow inspiring - How can HN help promote ?
bmsleight_··on Show HN: Pdftilecut – cut PDF pages into tiles
very cool
bmsleight_··on Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary
Ok feel old.

20.5 years ago I sent out a link to a party celebrating our engagement. I spent more time explaining how to get to the website, than people finding website helpful.

Still married - so get off my lawn :)

bmsleight_··on TalkTalk hack attack: Friends jailed for cyber crimes
Yet no one held to account in Talk-Talk. The security was so incompetent, at the very minimum Directors should be excluded from being holding Directors positions in the future.

The Police appear to have gone after the easy convictions.

Corporate governance needs to add some knowledgeable in basic computer skills to ask the right questions.

bmsleight_··on The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities from Scratch
Above a flow of around 3,600 pcu/hr (passenger car units) per lane, the roundabouts does not balance each direction effectively. (No gaps).

Traffic lights (signals), can help improve flow further in these situations as well as giving pedestrians a safe way to cross.

Part-time signals (only on a peak) can be very effective.

bmsleight_··on Carbon Removal Technologies
The government of the people, by the people, for the people.

We get what we vote for, for need to vote for backbones.

bmsleight_··on Goodbye cars, hello colour: the great reinvention of city intersections
A old term used by traffic engineers... Paint is the cheapest form of traffic management.
bmsleight_··on E Ink Waveforms are a closely guarded secret
Thanks nice to see it in action, bonus points for the RickRoll
bmsleight_··on Making an emperor bed
Wow - where is the love ?

I think this is great. A mattress is something we spend loads of time (some of it quite fun) on top of. So why not research and build your own. Excellent craftsmanship and a great write up.

bmsleight_··on Short Gitlab tutorial for curious people
Eat your own dog food.

Would have more confidence if this was hosted at GitLab rather than GitHub.

bmsleight_··on GitHub Alternatives
I looked at lot of these alternatives, not many are eating their own dog food. Does not inspire me with confidence.

* https://gitea.io/en-US/ The code for gitea is on Github. https://github.com/go-gitea/ * http://gitprep.yukikimoto.com/ The code for gitprep is on Github https://github.com/yuki-kimoto/gitprep * https://gogs.io/ Guess what ..... https://github.com/gogs/gogs

bmsleight_··on 50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
> Where any laws broken here ? Yes. The article mentions "British data protection laws were probably broken". NB Facebook lawyers have been trying to push the Guardian around. - https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/974995682124804099

IMHO, but I am not a lawyer - clearly the law was broken, Data Protection Act.

bmsleight_··on Amazon Partnership with British Police Alarms Privacy Advocates
For phones, its so your phone can be locked when stolen. For TV, it is to ensure everyone pays the TV license to fund the BBC.

Both, IMHO, are good things. My phone was stolen, I don't want the lovely person to financially benefit. Also I like everyone to pay for the BBC heck but I am a socialist.

bmsleight_··on Show HN: Hacking a Mercedes GLA Class Ride-on kids car
My Dutch is not that good, but looks like the bandwidth limit hit. cc: AnnoyingSwede
bmsleight_··on Traveling to all the railway stations in Great Britain [video]
These video are great, about 10 mins each. Great history facts, great trivia and such nuggets. Warning: It can turn anyone in to a (Underground) geek.
bmsleight_··on Show HN: Self-generated custom art for your home or Airbnb
Email web/png not working for me
bmsleight_··on Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories
Knife ?
bmsleight_··on Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting
There was a very long coroners inquiry on this shooting. In this coroners court the shooters had to explain in details. Yes, they got the identifications wrong, but this was not after some random telephone call, but after four suicide bomber had filled dozens of people.

I think the balance is about right and nothing like the USA. More importantly the jury of peers, in the coroners court, thought the Met Police failed on Health and Safety grounds but not the individual shooters.

bmsleight_··on Traffic Engineers’ Epic Fail
My condolences to the family. I hope this can learn to valuable learning from this loss of life.

Really interested in what data analysis is done in the states regarding (KSI - Killed and Serious Injured). In the UK we hold good data and can related designs and design improvement to the KSI.

I strongly agree with the article, we should aim for zero-killed. The balance can be vehicle congestion vs. space vs. cost vs. time. Because our modelling is very good we can tell the impact of a new school and the behaviour of the pedestrians. I could talk about the hierarchy of roads, but Traffic Engineers need to start influencing the politicians that make some of the decisions. How ? - By clear data and model that show with this design you will have this KSIs.

bmsleight_··on Tory MP defends sharing logins, passwords with all her staff including interns
It is clear that MPs (of all sides) are just not up to date with modern office working. 1 - Hiring of staff 2 - Safeguarding 3 - Use of computers
bmsleight_··on In 2017, UK water companies still rely on “magic”
"engineering you've got to do whatever it takes to solve the problem." No, no and no. Engineering is about taking Science and finance and working out the best fit. Wasting resources in using inefficient divining rods is the exact opposite of Engineering.

A really tricky bug, back to first principles and science, then work back from there.

By the way - I work with underground services....

bmsleight_··on YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children
BBC Live Subtitles are available on all channels apart from BBC Parliament, BBC Alba and S4C. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/using_subtitles

Most of the programmes on BBC iPlayer now have the option to turn subtitles on. I think a very rare, old, program that does not have it. As the standards state MUST http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/guides/subtitles/

The standards are clear. 4.1. Full-length scheduled programmes and their associated broadcast subtitles MUST be made available online through iPlayer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/accessibility/su...

bmsleight_··on Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel
Camper-van, pick-me up at the office (London) on Friday evening, by Saturday morning we in the highlands of Scotland.

It sounds silly - but the more automation the more I want to spend within my fictional camper-van. Soccer away match - no problem. Trip to the beach again, overnight.

It is like an sleeper train - only more comfortable and spacious, as it would be my families camper-van.

bmsleight_··on How the Kodi Box Took Over Piracy
I am not being paid. Also it was good planning of me to set-up my account 908 days ago.

I just have a passion for protecting parts of football by regulation. Not every sport is about TV rights.

bmsleight_··on How the Kodi Box Took Over Piracy
The FA Laws have this regulation for a reason. To see a football match between 2:45pm and 5:15pm, go to one of them! Live! It is much more fun and entertaining the TV, with 91[1] clubs in the football league and many more football matches in non-League. It is easy and cheap to see a live football match. It not all about the Premiership.

Without supporting the lower league clubs, the top teams, do do have the talent coming through. It is easy to see the next top-player out on loan for less than £15 per match. There are many, many, in League one or two (Div 3&4) in old money or non-league within short distance - heck even walking distance from most placing the country.

This is a good regulation that protects the game. Don't let Sky/Murddock dictate what football is or is not.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFC_Wimbledon

bmsleight_··on DOJ: Billionaire pharma owner fueled the opioid epidemic with bribery scheme
"Already have 2.5x more heroin users per capita than the US" Based upon what data ?1
bmsleight_··on Text to Photo-Realistic Image Synthesis with Generative Adversarial Networks
The Appendix of the pdf - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.03242 has more examples, including living rooms.
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