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alogray··on Firefox removed Yandex search option
Making a reply to say you won’t make a reply because a reply you make could be downvoted does not really follow. Can folk who disagree with you not just now downvote this reply, both for political disagreements but also wasting everyone’s time?
alogray··on Firefox removed Yandex search option
It sounds like your issue is not that the browser is promoting a moral view but rather that it’s promoting one in conflict with the moral view you think it should be promoting.
alogray··on Facebook says I'm abusive content [video]
Facebook would need to hire around 2.489 million moderators to meet a 1:1k ratio. Even at 1:10k, you’re looking at increasing the size of the company six-fold.
alogray··on Joe Ligon: America's 'longest juvenile lifer' on 68 years in prison
Are there crimes that are “juvenile actions”? Would adults who commit them be tried as juveniles given that it is a juvenile action?
alogray··on Joe Ligon: America's 'longest juvenile lifer' on 68 years in prison
Most of us on here are in tech rather than psychiatry and not fit to make a call on whether someone is a psycopath, especially from a single article about them that doesn’t really focus on their mental state.
alogray··on Joe Ligon: America's 'longest juvenile lifer' on 68 years in prison
That is not what the person you replied to what the person you replied to said and you know that.

Intentionally misconstruing what others say is something best left for Reddit.

alogray··on Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure Websites
Same model laptop but I'm stuck spinning counter-clockwise instead of panning up.
alogray··on Amazon Restaurants
I think the parent's worry deals with cases like we've seen with Google and other large companies where automated systems sometimes get inappropriately triggered and customer support is either ineffectual or non-existent until the user is able to make a viral stink on social media (think malicious/bad copyright flags on youtube causing channels to get demonetized). With reviews, the restaurant theoretically at least has a reasonable deal of influence in most cases.
alogray··on The bank lent me $2m so I spent it on strippers and cars
Sure -- but typically the result of defaulting on a loan is not debtor's prison unless you happen to still be living in 1820.
alogray··on The .zip file specification is flawed
IIRC, it was not fixed at release for Excel for Mac 2016 but there is now an option to Save As a "CSV UTF-8 (Comma Separated)".
alogray··on Tesla confirms “Autopilot” crash in Montana
Has this feature decreased safety? Tesla's first fatality came after 130 million autopilot miles whereas traditions in the US, we have one fatality every 90 million miles. If that continues to hold, this seems to be significantly safer with it's own set of caveats. Not altogether different than getting stuck in a burning car due to your seatbelt.
alogray··on Sony agrees to pay millions to gamers to settle PS3 Linux debacle
It doesn't seem unreasonable to suggest that a solution which results in the vast majority of true members of a class being unable to prove their membership is not really an improvement.

This seems like a ... sidegrade.

alogray··on The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It
Interesting.

Although, if housing in Boston tends to be of lower quality than SF housing, might that not put extra demand on the more recent and presumably nicer housing?

alogray··on Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
Not really - Paypal was doing it via their browser toolbar ages ago, back when toolbars were still a thing. They stopped offering this functionality back in 2009, I think. That said, it's not particularly common at US banks despite being a horrifically useful feature (Bank of America has it, but I'm not aware of anyone else).

I'm excited that I can hop on and use Privacy but it seems like it's more of a feature than a product.

alogray··on Uber seeking to buy self-driving cars: source
Sure - but I think it's always been the expectation that Uber/Lyft/Sidecar before it went bellyup were participating in the sharing economy only as a stopgap until autonomous cars are available.

With Airbnb, I don't think anyone expects them to pivot into owning their own property. There's no real benefit.

alogray··on Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Go 620 Miles per Charge in 2 Years, Autonomous in 3
And this is why Uber has such a crazy valuation.
alogray··on Happy 10th birthday to us
Frankly, I don't feel like Reddit's quality has changed altogether too much since even before Digg v4 killed Digg.

There was definitely a period where the average quality of a comment seemed higher. But those times also coincided with the rise of novelty accounts, power user personalities, often with foul sounding names and awful subreddits. Drama over subreddit bannings is nothing new, either.

Honestly, I'm enjoying the website more today now than I was a few years ago.

Which, I suppose, is the same thing the people say about The Simpsons.

alogray··on The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and iPads
The next obvious target for monetization by news organizations are sponsored articles. I've started to see them in certain San Francisco specific news websites. It's not exactly the sort of thing we want to push these sites toward.
alogray··on Facebook Overhauls Its Inmate Account Takedown Process
Doesn't facebook already have policies in place that are inmate agnostic that cover both of those scenarios?
alogray··on All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem
When updates are free, what are the realistic alternatives? Android devices, for example, just reach end of life much more quickly. Given the option to update at the expense of performance or no option at all, it at least seems the better of the two choices.
alogray··on Ask HN: MTurk is no longer available to non-US companies. How are you coping?
Hey Jorge,

Looks like Lukas might have missed your response but I can jump in. We definitely love to work with the little guys, too. Nothing is more interesting than the use cases that academics and startups come up with. You should reach out to Lukas via e-mail (he shared it elsewhere in this thread) or our sales team (http://www.crowdflower.com/platform-plans) to talk specifics.

We've also got a trial that will let you process 5,000 rows of data without having to worry about a paid plan. It's not time limited, either, so you can take as long as you need to go through those first 5,000 photos of yours.

You might want to check out a recent blog post up about a photo keyword gen job run by one of the guys at CF: http://www.crowdflower.com/blog/how-i-got-the-crowd-to-gener...