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killwhitey | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | on: Hikikomori: The Postmodern Hermits of Japan

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13890782

killwhitey | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | on: DomIRC – An IRC network for all domain name owners and their communities

Freenode #startups and #dn

killwhitey | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | on: Facebook visits pages that you post in messages and stays for many seconds

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11875419

killwhitey | 9 years ago | 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 | 9 years ago | on: Email Address Disclosures, Preliminary Report

Mine starts with 'ab' and is ~7200 on the list

killwhitey | 9 years ago | on: Emoji: how do you render U+1F355?

The author works for Google on Polymer.

killwhitey | 9 years ago | 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 | 10 years ago | 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 | 10 years ago | on: 4chan founder Chris Poole will try to fix social at Google

Can't be worse than when they hired Kevin Rose.