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killwhitey··on ‘Nobody’s got to use the Internet’: A GOP lawmaker’s response about Web privacy
The comparison to TV/cable is a good one. I don't think people who feel this way would say the same about telephones or the postal service.
killwhitey··on Remove United from your flight results
It's possible that this situation will cause all the other airlines to try improve their staff and bureaucracy out of fear of being next.
killwhitey··on $1600 Ryzen PC has double performance in Photoshop than $5200 Mac Pro
The iMac G4 could be described as half of a globe.
killwhitey··on Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account
Have you forgotten about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks-related_Twitter_cour...
killwhitey··on Hikikomori: The Postmodern Hermits of Japan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13890782
killwhitey··on Laziness isn’t why people are poor. And iPhones aren’t why they lack health care
I own a 4 year old Nexus 4 that I got for $200. Almost everyone I encounter thinks it's an iPhone initially. Many people (especially the older ones) still think it's an iPhone after I tell them it isn't.
killwhitey··on Google featured snippets are worse than fake news
I suspect most of those history questions are answered via Wikipedia. From what I've seen if the snippet isn't using Wikipedia it's not useful and/or accurate.
killwhitey··on Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation
There used to be a feature on Twitter for viewing other people's feeds[1], but was removed[2].

I made something to replicate that via Twitter Lists[3][4], but it seems like making one for Facebook is much more important.

[1] https://twitter.com/twitter/status/73833309163110400

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12117218

[3] https://otherside.site/

[4] https://gist.github.com/0x263b/7b391a1617fcbbabc57fb1e705884...

killwhitey··on CNN says that it’s illegal to read Wikileaks for anyone but the media [video]
This sounds more like gross incompetence than anything
killwhitey··on DomIRC – An IRC network for all domain name owners and their communities
Freenode #startups and #dn
killwhitey··on Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification
I wrote about my own implementation for something like this for a web irc client, which may be helpful.

https://gist.github.com/0x263b/2bdd90886c2036a1ad5bcf06d6e6f...

killwhitey··on The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’ Is Not What You Think
I don't know about the Romans, but here's an example from 1627 https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0020217.html
killwhitey··on Show HN: Read someone else's Twitter timeline
Author here: In developing this I discovered that Twitter really doesn't care about lists. The limits on API usage and aggressive following are well documented, but anything about lists is minor.

Also, if anyone from Twitter is reading: it would be nice if Twitter implemented a way to subscribe to someone's timeline instead of having to resort to this method.

killwhitey··on Facebook visits pages that you post in messages and stays for many seconds
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11875419
killwhitey··on As Japan's population shrinks, bears and boars roam among schools and shrines
You might be interested in reading this (assuming it isn't what you're referencing): http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/10/does-this-r...

>“[Nippon Kaigi] have worked steadily and stealthily with local politicians and political lobbies to oppose things like gender equality, recognition of war crimes and the comfort women [sex slaves during WWII], women using their maiden names after marriage etc. It’s anti-this and anti-that but has no vision of the future.”

>[T]heir goal may be to alter radically the parts of the constitution which define marriage and the rights of wives, thus, “rolling back sexual equality and making Japan a country pleasant for cranky old men, like themselves.”

killwhitey··on Email Address Disclosures, Preliminary Report
Mine starts with 'ab' and is ~7200 on the list
killwhitey··on Emoji: how do you render U+1F355?
The author works for Google on Polymer.
killwhitey··on Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3
>when we dug into the data we found that the votes for Pinboard look dramatically different from the votes for the other startups.

What do the totals look like if you filter out new accounts, or accounts with little karma?

killwhitey··on Chrome is the new IE
>Mobile Safari can easily handle, say, a Photos.app-like interface with a translucent navigation bar, native-like swipe gestures and smooth animations. Chrome handles none of this. No position:sticky, no backdrop-filter, no scroll-snap-type

It's interesting that the things he lists as Safari having only work via a -webkit vendor prefix.

killwhitey··on 4chan founder Chris Poole will try to fix social at Google
Can't be worse than when they hired Kevin Rose.
killwhitey··on Show HN: The best way to mindlessly browse viral gifs
>It opens videos im fullscreen automaticaly, forcing me close each video on iPhone

Unfortunately this is how Safari works and there is no way to get around it.

killwhitey··on Have FTDI kicked-off round 2 of the clone wars?
I've seen this one used on 4chan a lot https://i.imgur.com/mqLdyzE.jpg
killwhitey··on Accidental Renaissance Photos
The subreddit was made after the guardian piece was published.
killwhitey··on Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers
Here's the video https://twitter.com/Flight/status/656882929923059713
killwhitey··on Twitter's Moment
It's possible we're on opposite sides of an A/B test, but it hasn't shown up for me since dismissing it.
killwhitey··on Twitter's Moment
If you click the X in the top right and say no to "did you find this helpful" it disappears forever.
killwhitey··on Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive
Then his job is find something else for Twitter to make. Facebook has launched a lot of experimental apps like Paper, Rooms, Slingshot, Messenger. And they bought Instagram which is very successful. Under Costolo Twitter bought vine and periscope, but they haven't tried to experiment with new app ideas internally.
killwhitey··on The Grid: Certainly Misguided, Probably a Scam
Watching the latest video[0] on their youtube channel, it looks very similar to Squarespace or Medium. There doesn't seem to be any kind of AI or anything like that. Just an app to make blog posts with.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vDJZ-QufBQ

Edit: and here is the final result http://myothercamera.is/

killwhitey··on The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car, Chapter 2
>Well, for one people do not expect drivers to stop at a green light, like was the case here. You might wish everybody was well aware of their environment, but the fact is, a green light is a strong signal that makes people assume the other drivers are moving or are going to.

Watch the video. The self-driving car braked because the two cars in front of it did.

killwhitey··on How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East
Bing (and Google) block some sexual content everywhere. Try searching for child porn and tell me what come up.
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