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Re:'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:25AM (#30112872)
https://road.cc/content/news/what-dutch-reach-289813

"It is already an offence to open a car door, or cause or permit it to be opened, so as to cause injury, punishable by a maximum fine of £1,000.

It is not a new law and drivers who do not use the Dutch Reach technique will not be fined, unless they commit the aforementioned existing offence."

Re:SpaceX NASA returning human spaceflight to United States today (can... on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:44AM (#23324091)
Anyone know of any other tool like this that might give an idea of where in the sky to look based on your location?

https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=starlink-lat...

Re:The D-Day rehearsal that cost 800 lives (2014) on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:23AM (#20736204)
This event was also a plot line in an episode of Foyle's War (Series 5 "All Clear").
Re:Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:57AM (#17089814)
Have you thought about integrating with Sharex?
Re:Atlassian is Down on Friday March 02, 2018 @10:37AM (#16502278)
https://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/directconnect-us-east-1.rs...

We are investigating increased packet loss possibly impacting some AWS Direct Connect customers in the US-EAST-1 Region.

Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of social norms on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:44AM (#14559827)
Two words, "lookalike modelling", or as FB calls it Lookalike Audiences:

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/164749007013531

Arcade Foobar want to draw in new customers, and so generate a lookalike audience based on data they have from existing customers. The modelling algo then compares data points for people who 'look like' their customers, and those people can then be targeted with a high probability that they will also be interested in the same thing.

This is a perfectly plausible explanation that doesn't require FB to be listening to you through your phone mic.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please inclu... on Friday March 11, 2016 @03:35AM (#11265445)
This seems quite similar to what companies like GumGum are doing as well (in image adverts).

https://gumgum.com

Re:My 5.5 Months on Soylent: The Joys of Not Cooking on Monday April 13, 2015 @04:14AM (#9366482)
have you tried /r/soylent? There's loads of discussion there on flavourings.
Re:Goat Grazing by Amazon on Monday March 30, 2015 @11:03AM (#9289961)
Early April fools?
Re:Amazon to Let Shoppers Bargain for Lower Prices with New “Make an O... on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @08:41AM (#8722608)
If they expanded this to general products (and in the UK) this could kill my usage of Flubit. I regularly get 10% or more off Amazon stuff through them, but their delivery is nowhere near as reliable.
Re:Couple 'fined' £100 for leaving a bad review on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @08:29AM (#8629859)
It actually seems to me that they may have copied the idea from that other hotel, the wording is very similar:

From the CNN article:

"Please know that despite the fact that wedding couples love Hudson and our Inn, your friends and families may not,"

Guardian article: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/19/tripadvisor-c...

“Despite the fact that repeat customers and couples love our hotel, your friends and family may not.”

Re:Show HN: Kevlar.io – Secrets that when accessed are deleted permane... on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @06:22AM (#8231469)
You could use it for sending things like passwords. You may want to give someone access to something but not have it stored in chat or email records. If anyone else were to look up the link later, presumably it's no longer there as the recipient already clicked the link.

I think that's actually something worth clarifying about this service. Assuming that a link is created with a secret, but not accessed, how long is it stored for? Is it ever deleted otherwise?

Re:No crankshaft, no problem: Toyota's free piston engine is brilliant on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @09:36AM (#7976847)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7677197
Re:Show HN: Hitch – Uber meets Public Transit on Thursday May 22, 2014 @06:49AM (#7783133)
Also reminds me of Halting State by Charlie Stross. The buses in that book have an auction system where people bid against each other for it to go to their stop next.
Re:Moves joins Facebook on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:50AM (#7641018)
Any decent Android alternatives? I only installed Moves this morning as well!
Re:UX frustration while driving a car and using Google Maps on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @10:47AM (#7178126)
Perhaps some of the frustration could stem from "...holding my phone in one hand while steering and shifting gears with my other. I'm also late..."?

Seems unbelievably reckless and dangerous to me, certainly here in the UK he'd be looking at 3 points at a minimum and worst case a prosecution for careless or dangerous driving.

Re:Conquering the Command Line - Free eBook on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @08:32AM (#7023323)
The main difference for me would be that I'd consider an eBook to be something I can download (epub, mobi, pdf etc...) and read on my Kobo offline. Can't see how I could easily do that with the online HTML version.

As a comparison, I found this on Skimfeed today:

http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/guide-to-kde-the-other-linux-...

Re:Conquering the Command Line - Free eBook on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @08:05AM (#7023205)
I would say that reading for free online is different from offering a free eBook as the title indicates. 'Free online HTML book' would seem like a better description to me if that's the case.

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