What are Reddit's favorite Tech News Apps?

In Thai, the number 5 is pronounced "ha" - so instead of saying "LOL" or "haha", people just write "55555". So if you see that anywhere on the interwebs, it's not some crazy number cult, just Thai people laughing!

Edit: I feel like it's my duty to inform you all that Mashable/The Atlantic have used our comments as inspiration for an article (and they've even called this thread "amazing"!): http://mashable.com/2012/12/12/laugh-online-languages/

I read this in Dilbert the book : > > Grab a handful of paperclips and find an office/meeting room. Shut the door and lie down on the ground with your feet against the door. Sprinkle the paperclips in front of you. Now have a nap. > > If someone tries to enter the room, the door will hit your feet. This will naturally cause them to pause (and stops them entering), it wakes you up and lets you reach for the paperclips which gives you a ready excuse ("Oh sorry, I was just picking up the paperclips")

We know how Republicans feel about protecting Internet Freedom. Is Internet Freedom an issue you'd push to add to the Democratic Party's 2012 platform?

Here's a pretty amazing picture of one of the helicopters being lit up by the pointers.

Edit: conversely, it's a drone from Oblivion about to take out a hundred civilians

“I am a little worried that smash’ll be out of reach for my lifespan though and that mega sucks if I’m being real with yall,” Taylor said. “It’s kinda dumb to want a video game so much that I’d beg for it over my passing and would feel greedy and scummy because there are 3 games that fall into this category (Isaac: Repentance, DMC5, Smash) because I’d be holding my death over their hands.”

Nintendo apparently found out and gifted him with playing the demo. After a 3 year battle with bone cancer, Chris has decided to end his treatment and this was a very nice gesture in his final days.

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Pretty likely that it was this article from Monday that pushed it over the edge: You can’t offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you’re on r/TheDonald

The guy who paid $16 dollars for a $330 000 house using a loop hole that said something along the lines of if a house was abandoned and no one contested it and you moved in and lived in the house for 3 years you had ownership.

Edit: Found the article

I would add - as world leaders gather in NY to discuss future climate change action, Musk had a quite insightful response to AGW and the transition to renewable energy that most probably haven't seen: >"By definition we must move to renewable energy, how can one argue against that? because to argue for it is to say we will eventually run out of energy and die, or civilization will collapse, so obviously we must find ways to produce energy in a renewable manner, the question is just how hard we should try what pace should we go at. And i think logically we should go as fast as we can, because since we know we have to get there eventually, it is better to get to a renewable future a sustainable future sooner rather than later, get there before we do the environmental damage not after, even if one can say maybe there isn't that much environmental damage, to play the devils advocate - maybe the environmental damage wont be that bad - Why take the chance?"

This article is talking out of its ass. There is a sharing program that installs a proxy on localhost. These links to 127.0.0.1:4001 are actual filesharing links, and Universal is asking Google to take them down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9931765

According to TechCrunch it is due to DDoS attacks on MtGox and BitStamp to force the prices down and causing people to sell. The attackers sell their btc first at the high price, DDoS to cause the price to drop and re-buy and wait for prices to go back up.

My original comment about how misleading this title is is already being downvoted to oblivion. To quote Samsung:
"Should consumers enable the voice recognition capability, the voice data consists of TV commands, or search sentences, only. Users can easily recognize if the voice recognition feature is activated because a microphone icon appears on the screen."

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IT IS NOT RECORDING EVERY GODDAMN THING YOU SAY

Problem Steps Recorder, built into Windows 7 (Run > psr.exe), can record a sequence of screenshots while the user reproduces a problem. The screenshots, with annotations, are saved to an html file for easy emailing.

It could also be due to the recent class action lawsuit by investors about misleading claims he made about RT.

Or it could be Ballmer's stack ranking system that has killed morale amongst employees, if it hasn't outright fired them?

There's been a lot Ballmer has done wrong, more than he's done right, and it's time for new leadership.

Oh boy, for a while one company had in their terms and conditions that the first person to email a certain address with a certain subject line would receive $1000 from them.

It took months for anyone to find it.

EDIT: Source and some other hilarious clauses.

Longtime apple fanboy here. Nothing but iMacs, macbooks, iPhones, iPads, and an appletv.

I live in NYC and am absolutely dependant on google maps.

I am seriously considering getting an android phone because of this clusterfuck. I literally had the iphone5 in my shopping cart yesterday when iOS 6 was released, and I'm relieved I tried it out on my iPad before shelling out $500 for the iphone5.

Here's an article articulating the rage of people like me.

Some US companies are voluntarily collecting this information about us:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html

Some US carriers are adding software to your phone to collect data:

http://gizmodo.com/5864220/what-is-carrier-iq

We should all be demanding openness. No one needs to know my exact location each minute of each day for months or years.

Sadly, most people don't care

For those who haven't read the paper, the researchers used Google trend data related to the search term "MySpace" or "Facebook" and applied this data to a modified formula that predicts the spread of disease within a population. Thus, the study is predicting the rise and fall of people searching for these social networks by name in Google and assuming that this is an accurate measure of use of those social media sites. They present no proof that people who search for a social network always are active users.

Firstly I think what makes more sense is as more people sign up to Facebook, the number of people searching for Facebook in Google decreases (people type in "f" in Chrome and jump straight there for example). Second an increasing number of users visit Facebook on mobile apps, which this study fails to acknowledge.

TLDR; This paper is predicting the rise and fall of Google search volumes related to Facebook while ignoring other ways to access the social network (apps, direct type etc) resulting in aggressive timeline predictions of Facebooks demise. The study does not use actual user data for its analysis.

EDIT Thanks for the gold kind stranger.

EDIT 2 Here is Facebooks response to the study

"We trained for a year, flying out of Beale AFB in California , Kadena Airbase in Okinawa, and RAF Mildenhall in England . On a typical training mission, we would take off near Sacramento, refuel over Nevada, accelerate into Montana, obtain high Mach over Colorado, turn right over New Mexico, speed across the Los Angeles Basin, run up the West Coast, turn right at Seattle, then return to Beale. Total flight time: two hours and 40 minutes.

One day, high above Arizona , we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. 'Ninety knots,' ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. 'One-twenty on the ground,' was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was 'Dusty 52, we show you at 620 on the ground,' ATC responded. The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter's mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, ' Aspen 20, I show you at 1,982 knots on the ground.' We did not hear another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast."

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Memory usage in Windows 7 doesn't really reflect reality due to smart-caching. My guess is you have 4-8GB RAM and aren't really missing that 1GB that iTunes is 'using'. If an application needs that memory Windows 7 will release it.

This isn't a trend. It's just something a photographer started doing for the sake of art.

Its also been written about many times over the past couple years.

http://www.vice.com/read/haruhiko-kawaguchi-vacuum-seals-couples-in-plastic-bags-for-art

http://www.cnet.com/news/artist-vacuum-seals-couples-for-portrait-series/

Wow, talk about perpetuating the circlejerk. OP straight up took quotes out of context to support his bias.

First, it's two different reviewers. Not a double standard.

Second and more importantly, OP deliberately changed the context as the reviewer on the iPhone 6 CLEARLY Isn't happy with it, as in the next paragraph he says:

>I still think many people will find this 4.7-inch screen to be perfectly good, and perfectly functional while still being portable. But in the world of modern smartphones, the 6's screen resolution is a step below ideal.

but he deliberately chose the sentence comparing it to the 5S to make it seem like there's a double standard.

The same review for the Galaxy alpha was comparing it against the Galaxy S5, and the disappointment was that the S5 had a better 1080p screen. Which is true-- heck, as others have said in this thread the alpha does have a lower quality screen by comparison.

http://www.cnet.com/products/samsung-galaxy-alpha/

http://www.cnet.com/products/apple-iphone-6/

iOS and Android are introducing features which allow you to quickly disable biometric unlocking for precisely this reason:

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-quickly-disable-fingerprint-and-facial-recogniti-1827454157

They just deliberately locked out Netflix for 10 years.

The CEO thinks this whole 'internet media' concept is just a passing fad. He's never going to get more friendly with content distribution unless he's fired.

Gizmodo has been full of shit like this for years. I'll have to dig up the "Fuck you all Gizmodo readers" post from a couple years ago. It was seriously a 7 paragraph bitch session about how the author's opinions shouldn't be questioned and the readers were all drooling retards. This wasn't a comment or a "I quit" post, this was their feature fucking headline for several days.

Edit: Here it is.

This actually happened ages ago! EA bought Popcap for 750m back in July The worst part about this?.....Popcap games through Origin.

I read somewhere that Amazon accounts for 90% of cloud hosting. Microsoft 5%, Google 1%, and 4% to every other cloud provider.

I don't have a source, but this article alludes to that fac: https://thenextweb.com/offers/2016/03/11/amazon-web-services-dominates-cloud-services-market/

> AWS had more than 10 times the computing capacity in use than the next 14 largest cloud companies combined

EDIT: To clarify, I believe this stat is specifically for public cloud hosting. Private cloud and hosting (e.g. Google's own servers) were not included in the stat.

If you have strong forearms you can also tense your forearm and strop them on your arm. Takes some practice to not murder yourself, but works well in a pinch.

EDIT: I promise I am not making this up, I do this with my safety razor every shave.

Check out this Senator with a funny sounding name. He says he'll stand up for Net Neutrality if elected president!!

I pressed the Oilers button and my browser crashed. :(

I hate everything.

Edit: Aww jeez, gold? Thanks stranger, makes me happy. I mean still sad about hockey, but better. It's complicated.

> I seriously didn’t see that coming, that’s bananas

It was probably because of this article.

Love your flair choice btw <3

From the Hacker News comments: He had his account re-activated, and was offered an internship at Uber.

> Amos here from Uber. First of all, this was a very cool app Will. I love your passion for technology and your interest in Uber. For some pretty obvious reasons (many of which are mentioned in the comments), we didn't have a choice to but to suspend your account. That said, there's no hard feelings. We've re-activated your account and would love to chat with you about an internship this summer. I hope you continue creating and exploring!

Interesting discussion happening at Hacker News

TL;DR

• Sony earlier faced similar issue vis-a-vis Baidu (Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal). This seems to be lot worse.

• A guess: Baidu’s push service is used for pushing content to MyXperia, which can remotely track or lock your device. Poor choice of provider.

• Just unpacked my Sony Z3 compact, haven't installed a single app and its connecting to China. I am not so concerned about the folder itself but my phone now has a constant connection to an IP address in Beijing which I am not too happy about.

hi lizzie

i lost one of my best friends and dota teammates to something similar about 2 years ago.

please don't.

if dota keeps you going than keep dotaing. but also please try and seek help. you're important and i'm willing to bet people value you more than you know.

i can't vouch for any of these services but maybe one of these can help. https://lifehacker.com/top-10-free-and-affordable-mental-health-and-counseling-1788814933

if you ever think about stopping, remember the two rules of dota. keep the winstreak going, and never end on a loss.

i hope you get better.

They should report both. Those people familiar with computers should expect the OS to take up some room. The difference here is the proportion. My desktop had a 500 GB hard drive. I realize that maybe 10GB of that is the OS. My iPad has 64 GB, and iOS takes a few GBs. Generally, around 5% is expected, and 10% is acceptable in some devices such as low end models.

In this case it's practically 50%. It's just way beyond what is expected or even considered acceptable.

That said, I would approve of all manufacturers stating capacity and available storage on their packaging when the product requires that the storage be used for the product to function (I.e. an operating system).

EDIT: Actually, iOS 6 only takes up 957 MB (largest iOS to date).

I really don't like quote dropping, but I've always found PC master race to be the epitome of this one:

>Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.

-René Descartes (maybe, I'm finding conflicting sources, give me a minute)

according to wikiquote...

>The original source for this quote, as far as I can tell, is a Y Combinator user named DarkShikari. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011498.

IDK, IDC, it applies to PCMR and that's the important thing.

That's his ultimate play. He outsources his own job to Pogba.

Another piece by the same pilot made its rounds on Reddit a while ago:

>One day, high above Arizona , we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. 'Ninety knots,' ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. 'One-twenty on the ground,' was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was 'Dusty 52, we show you at 620 on the ground,' ATC responded. The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter's mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, ' Aspen 20, I show you at 1,982 knots on the ground.' We did not hear another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.

It's the last one in the US, not the world. And their Twitter account is hilarious @loneblockbuster. Sample tweet "A lot of people don't know this but we own a large portion of Netflix. Just kidding our electricity just got shut off."

Edit: After further review, u/certified_anus_beef s comment below mine is correct. The Twitter account is not associated with the store in Bend... https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2017/08/04/the-last-blockbuster-might-be-the-funniest-account-on-twitter/amp/ . It's still a super funny Twitter account

I hate apple. I remember when the sued some school in Canada because the school's logo was too similar to apple's logo. Here is the article: http://gizmodo.com/5059881/apple-sues-school-for-using-the-same-fruit-in-a-logo

>and for good reason considering Power Balance came out saying that there was no scientific evidence that the product had any benefits. Its all a placebo.

More like they were forced to by the Australian government.

Stupid girl. She got arrested for this, then actually boasted that she got more twitter followers for it. Follow up articles below.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/world/europe/dutch-girl-twitter-threat.html?referrer=

http://mashable.com/2014/04/15/american-airlines-threat-girl-prison/

My wife always puts her phone on silent and then forgets about it and will go for hours without answering her phone or text messages. So I set up Tasker to let me send her a text message to turn the sound back on.

Tasker helps me fix my wife's inadequacies.

Limit of 50 would allow a person to try 50 most common passwords:

e.g:

http://mashable.com/2013/11/05/20-most-popular-passwords-adobe/

This would significantly increase a chance of a breach than a lockout after 5 tries.

>Judge: Galaxy Tab not as cool as iPad.

Not making this shit up.

edit: When I say "not making this shit up," I meant it. This is literally what the judge said but this particular article doesn't mention it. Another article.

Hi Elon, on behalf of /r/SelfDrivingCars

• You've previously stated that self-driving cars will be ready in "Five or Six years from now". Could you expand on how you see events playing out between now and then?
• If you could regulate or deregulate any aspect of the US economy, how would you change the rules to encourage the commercialization of self-driving cars as fast as possible?
• Will self-driving cars be owned by individuals, or mainly used as shared fleets of robo-taxis?

Thanks so much for everything you do!

Referencing the Google Glass Policies:

> c.1.e

> Don't use the camera or microphone to cross-reference and immediately present personal information identifying anyone other than the user, including use cases such as facial recognition and voice print. Glassware that do this will not be approved at this time.

Google will not endorse this Glassware app. It will need to be side loaded onto a Glass device. I believe Name Tag is trying to push against Google with this, but as it's Google's device and policy, they're not likely to go far. They're also offering an opt out option, however, that's a joke.

edited: Corrected.

A Congressional staff member edited the Wikipedia for Devil's Triangle during the hearing. It's "officially" a drinking game now. See? He wasn't lying! https://thenextweb.com/insider/2018/09/27/devils-triangle-wikipedia-entry-edited-by-anonymous-member-of-congress-after-kavanaugh-hearing/

Here's a good start. The icanhazcheezburger network has 1000 domains ready to transfer out.

The discussion about this article on Hacker News is interesting, and given the author and another native Bengali speaker don't agree how the character in question even should be represented, it's not particularly surprising the Unicode consortium hasn't figured it out, either.

One of the VLC developers commented on Hacker News:

> VLC does not (and cannot) modify the OUTPUT volume to destroy the speakers. VLC is a Software using the OFFICIAL platforms APIs. > > The issue here is that Dell sound cards output power (that can be approached by a factor of the quadratic of the amplitude) that Dell speakers cannot handle. Simply said, the sound card outputs at max 10W, and the speakers only can take 6W in, and neither their BIOS or drivers block this.

I lived in South Korea for three years. Sure you get blisteringly fast connection speeds (this was typical of the $25 internet package in my Seoul apt.), but you also have to deal with ass-backwards internet policies.

The worst (aside from the unnecessary censorship and porn-blocking of course!) is the government policy that requires Korean websites to use Active X plugins to verify customer IDs. This is annoying in and of itself because any time you want to do anything online with a Korean company you have to download and install some crappy piece of software just to use their website.

In addition, seeing that Active X is only supported by Internet Explorer, this mean that users of Firefox/Safari/Chrome are screwed and so Koreans are stuck using IE.

He intentionally dressed it up to make it sound like he's some kind of genius science fiction artist, when really he just used a fairly well known app/plugin.

The "AI" is this, and "working with it" consisted of feeding it two images. I guess he really did create it by accident, so his title is accurate as far as that is concerned.

People interested in more examples of this sort of thing in action (and some discussion of the technique) can check out the subreddit here.

Don't worry, we'll start filling up those prisons again what with the new ban on downloading that was introduced at lightning speed by our cabinet last Thursday.

Mac OS has a really good built-in summarise tool. Use it on large texts to get the general gist of the article. I use it heaps for research papers and articles.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/summarize-text-using-hidden-mac-tool/

That must be a joke. Websites don't have access to your browser history.
Or it could be a supercookie and this nag screen should disappear when you clear your cookies.

I'm being told that articles like this one are the reason the action is actually being taken. So again it's not that they did it but that it got out and is making Reddit look bad in the media.

I would hazard a guess that RFID in credit cards and passports are of interest to them.

http://gizmodo.com/5882102/mythbusters-was-banned-from-talking-about-rfid-chips-because-credit-card-companies-are-little-weenies

CNET did a great article on him a few days ago. Definitely opened my eyes on his background. link

>Wheeler supporters also point out that it's been 31 years since he lobbied for the cable industry and 11 years since he left the wireless industry. To put things in perspective, Apple Computer had just introduced the Macintosh and "Ghostbusters" was the hit of the year when Wheeler left his post as the head of NCTA.

>"He is no more a former lobbyist than I am a former high school student," said Reed Hunt, a fellow Democrat who served as FCC chairman from 1993 to 1997.

and

>In 1984, the then-38-year-old Wheeler took over NABU Network, which offered specially designed home computers that could access news, games and other applications through the cable television network. The National Museum of Science and Technology later described the network as the "Internet -- 10 years ahead of its time." A few blocks from NABU's Alexandria, Va., office, 27-year-old Steve Case was working on a similar project that tapped into the telephone network, which Wheeler derided as inferior.

>"We used to look down our noses at them because they were so slow," Wheeler recalled in a half- hour-long interview last month.

>But it was Case's company, America Online, that became an Internet titan during the dot-com boom. NABU folded in 1985. The difference between the two approaches? Wheeler's company relied on a closed network.

>"Steve [Case] could build a national footprint immediately, and we had to go from cable operator to cable operator to ask permission to get on the network," said Wheeler. "That is exactly the situation that entrepreneurs face today. If you can't have open access to the Internet, innovation is thwarted and new services grind to a halt."

I think this is mostly confirmation bias and it's easier to lose track of the amount you're drinking when you switch up drink types. It's pretty much all just about the amount of alcohol consumed minus food/water to compensate for it.

I just googled, and yeah it's a myth.

So it has to do with your drinking behavior when you personally mix drinks if that's your experience. And/or confirmation bias. Mixing types of alcohol doesn't change the physiological processing of alcohol.

Context for those who are confused.

Edit: One of many reddit posts.

MPAA

RIAA

TIL: The difference between streets and avenues is directional... neat

EDIT: https://lifehacker.com/the-difference-between-streets-boulevards-avenues-an-1789115850

After learning that info... went to the ol' Google to verify and found this pretty interesting article

Except that no one's really accepting it.

Both the US and the entire European Union have apparently voted against the ITU's WCIT-12 plans/decisions, turning this into a tremendous clusterfuck.

> I wonder how many players are aware that Reddit even exists

Reddit is the 3rd most popular site in the US and gets more traffic than Facebook or Youtube. This isn't some secret club that only a few people know about

https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2018/05/30/reddit-surpasses-facebook-to-become-the-3rd-most-visited-site-in-the-us/

4chan photoshopped this tweet “Pop Star Justin Bieber was diagnosed with cancer earlier this morning. Bieber fans are shaving their heads to show their support.” and made it look like it was posted by Entertainment Weekly.

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/bieberbald.png

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/26/bald-beliebers-remind-us-just-because-you-read-it-on-twitter-doesnt-mean-its-true/

Just so you know, dogfooding isn't just a microsoft term. It is also used in other companies, like facebook. (where they decided to be funny with it by calling it droidfooding, but the picture makes clear that it is referring to dogfood)

I think it only applies to their industry, but that there can not be another parcel delivery service that uses brown for it's fleet & logo.

http://gizmodo.com/5673499/3m-owns-the-color-purple-but-not-how-you-might-think

I think google acquired word lens.
>Summary:Google has added Word Lens, a technology acquired last year, to its Google Translate app. The addition brings Google closer to its universal translator ambitions.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-adds-word-lens-technology-to-translate-app/

It's amazing how far adblock and some common sense goes. (Seriously though, if you don't trust it, run it through VirusTotal.)

EDIT: For those unable to trust VirusTotal, I hope you trust Google.

Pretty disappointing. As this comment from HN says, Oracle themselves are guilty of this.

I hope this goes up to the Supreme Court. I imagine that Google are sure to appeal this.

Wheeler is doing as his constituents are telling him. If fucking reddit would actually research his background the hivemind would realize he is more of an entrepreneur than a lobbyist. He is 11 years removed from the wireless industry, and more than that from the traditional telecom group he worked for previously. As a former colleague of his stated, saying Wheeler is still a lobbyist is essentially the equivalent as to saying any professional is still a high school student.

Wheeler even stated on record he sides with consumers and entrepreneurs on this issue. He had a startup in the 80s, I think, which competed with the very early version of AOL (before it had that name). His product ran through the cable lines, which gave him a major disadvantage as his company need to ask permission from the cable companies to provide service over their lines. AOL did not need to do this as telephone falls under Title II. Guess what? AOL won that battle and Wheeler's company went out of business because of this exact landscape.

Edit: Even though I summarized by memory, here is the article from /r/technology in which this is from. Read it, it is very enlightening.

http://www.cnet.com/news/why-fccs-wheeler-is-defying-the-greatest-lobbyists-in-the-world/

'rayiner at HN made a good comment that's worth repeating here:

>Offices are a really great example of the push to keep programmers from thinking of themselves as professionals, either by treating them like IT or tech support, or like college kids. Google or Facebook's revenue per engineer is probably 3x that of a law firm or consulting firm, but the overwhelming practice in the latter sorts of places is for each professional to have an office with a door.

>When you're a growing startup, having private offices costs you flexibility as well as cash because open plan is easier to reconfigure as you grow. If you're at the point where you're commissioning a Ghery, you're well past that excuse.

Oil - $35.05 vs $87.52 / Solar - $4 per watt vs $0.74 per watt

What cost $1 in 2000 would cost $1.25 in 2010

The average American (median) in 2003 made $53,500 and in 2013 made $48,111.97 adjusted for inflation

US 2003 GDP 9.898 Trillion Debt 5.674 Trillion
2013 GDP 14.41 Trillion Debt 13.561 Trillion

China GDP 2003 1.198 Trillion 2013 5.930 Trillion

I think the biggest change was the expansion of the internet and its integration into society. Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003

Well they did spend $3.4 Billion on R&D last year. It's not as much as Google or Microsoft but they're still top 20 in the world for R&D. They just make that much money that it looks small.

I hate it when any company hogs patents on common user interactions and uses them against other companies. In the end, consumers are the ones who stand to lose out.

I remember being able to tap on any phone number on a web page and have the dialer pop up. But because Apple holds a patent to that, no Android phone can have that feature any more without paying money to Apple.

EDIT: Here's one article about the phone number recognition patent. See how ridiculous it is: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/20/apple-takes-one-small-step-against-htc-one-giant-leap-against-android/

Bonus photo. background story. The first female police officer in the US would be hired in LA the next year.

Pro-tip: An easy way for Windows users to make sure that metadata is removed before you share a photo is to right-click the file and select "Properties", then the "Details" tab, then near the bottom click "Remove Properties and Personal Information". More info here.

I highly highly recommend you look into his recent comments about the biased fake news media being against him and how we need alternatives...

Edit: Here's a link, it provides direct sourcing but it seems relatively opinionated, just the first link on a Google search - https://thenextweb.com/distract/2018/05/24/dear-elon-musk-stop-spreading-fake-news/

Hmm... the links seem to lead back to this post at ZD: http://www.zdnet.com/windows-threshold-more-on-microsofts-plan-to-win-over-windows-7-users-7000031070/

...Which only tags Windows 7 users are getting the free upgrade. That seems a lot more likely.

Not that it excuses the practice, but I found this which might help you disable them, if you don't outright disconnect (which I might, just because I wouldn't trust them not to spy on me).

Apparently this has been going on for a few years. I have a Panasonic Viera I purchased in 2009, so it's not a smart TV, but if this shit keeps up, there's no way I'd ever buy another one. Farking dumb, greedy ass bullshit.

If this is your first protest here are some basic pro tips:

Be prepared to be arrested. It hasn't happened to me yet but it's a possibility. Write your contact numbers in permanent marker on your skin along with a local attorney number (many places offer pro bono for protesters so look if you can)

Pee first. Bring water/sunscreen/ comfy shoes. There's a lot of standing.

If you bring a sign put it on thin sticks. Holding it above your head for hours SUCKS.

Do not start violence first. There may be people trying to provoke you to violence. This is what they want. Do not fall for it.

That said most of the marches I've been to have been fine. People bring their kids. I've been heckled by shitty wannabe hitler youth once. The police started kettling our group once. That's the worst I've seen.

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-protest-safely-and-legally-5859590

Edit: dear wannabe hitler youth, your downvotes are delicious <3

Something a lot of people should do, is install the browser extension for like:dislike previews. It shows you how much a video is liked/disliked on the thumbnail, so you don't have to click it first:

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/ytshowrating-view-youtube-video-ratings-streaming/

The other thing on this topic, is I don't feel these videos should be "taken down" for too many dislikes - they should just stop appearing in the related videos though. Likes should be more important than views in ranking videos.

A lot of drama because of a fork from FFmpeg called "libav". I think there was a lot of aggression between the two forks and Michael was under a ton of stress from both sides. HERE is a thread from earlier today on HN, and one of the top level comments is from the president of VideoLAN, and that draws a lot of fire as well.

FFmpeg is amazing software, but I don't blame Michael for not wanting to work in that kind of environment.

> After the deletion and restoration of Toy Story 2, the team was likely hoping for an uneventful path to release, but it was not to be.

> In the Christmas of ’98, after the release of A Bug’s Life and the promotional tour was done, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter and legendary story man Joe Ranft all came to the production team to take a look at Toy Story 2.

>It was not a good film. They dedicated the winter vacation to re-writing the project almost entirely from the ground up. Production shut down on December 15th and came back after New Year’s in January, when the story team re-pitched the movie.

>Lasseter and Lee Unkrich ended up co-directing the film along with Ash Brannon as it was seen in the theaters.

>Among the things that stayed? The main characters, of course. Buzz, Woody, Hamm, Potato Head, Rexx. Andy’s room stayed. The Al’s Toy Barn sequence stayed. That’s it, nearly everything else you see in the film as it is new.

Source

Only conspiracy I’ve heard is about mattress companies being used for laundering scheme.

https://thenextweb.com/distract/2018/01/22/this-mysterious-conspiracy-theory-about-mattresses-is-everything-we-love-about-reddit/

> will provide more jobs than each of the manufacturing, utilities or government sectors.

> lying

Came to say the same. That's a ludicrous claim. The article cites a report behind a paywall for that claim unfortunately. I don't have to read a report to know that is preposterous.

With the below data in mind, does anyone think 'marijuana' is going to be the top of this list?

https://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm

Stupidity, thy name is Robert Tankson.

That was made by Mark Russinovich a long time ago before he came to Microsoft when he was working at his company Sysinternals. After Microsoft bought sysinternals all the software they made got transferred over to Microsoft. Apparently they let that gem stay there. The blue screen screen saver will actually get flagged on some Anti Virus products to prevent the gag. That being said I've pulled this on some my IT brethren. I went to Mark's last seminar for Windows Internals and I thought my head was going to fall out from taking too much information in. He also stated that Microsoft people would use this to prank eachother too. Good times.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals

Technical tools worth their weight in gold if you haven't used them.

changing a wikipedia entry doesn't make it true.

edit: It seems a Congressional Staffer did it

also not entirely sure but Renate Alumnus could mean that Renate is ... the village bicycle.

No. You can retail an American made FUCKING car at that price.

It's more like ~$1140

edit: The source article reasoning is also retarded.

American workers make 30times more than Chinese workers. Hence, a $499 iPad will retail for $14,970 ($499x30). ಠ_ಠ

Other sources show drastically different percentages, so I'm a bit skeptical about these numbers.

Edit: Here's an article that takes a closer look at the different methodologies and the consequentially varying results:

Net Market Share vs. StatCounter: Whose online measurements can you trust?

I'm too lazy to look up the source, but there was some study (that's perhaps adjusted for inflation since) that found in the US $75K/yr was the magic # where happiness and wealth seperated. Under $75K every extra dollar made you happier, over it, not so much. This post sounds very much like that idea in action.

Edit: Here's a 2014 Lifehacker discussion of the study with values per state: https://lifehacker.com/the-perfect-salary-for-happiness-by-state-1605278164

The top comment over at "hacker" news (lol) is:

> That comment was taken out of context. Wired wrote an entire article about an offhand remark.

> I was at ChefConf, the comment was made during a panel discussion on open source [1]. On the panel there was an engineer from Facebook, an IT Director from Gap, and Mark Russinovich the CTO of Azure (note Azure, not Windows).

> The conversation went something like this (paraphrasing):

> Moderator: "Microsoft used to really suck, and they were really anti-open source. But now they are open sourcing things like CLR on GitHub. I bet one thing they will never open source is Windows."

> Mark: "You never know, it's definitely possible. Crazy stuff happens."

> Nothing more on the subject.

So ... yeah, probably not. Nice clickbait by Wired though. Did they hire some buzzfeed writers recently or what?

If you want to stop advertisers from tracking you, Ghostery is the last addon you should be using. Switch to uBlock Origin and enable Disconnect's Malvertising filter list.

Back in 2009 they had a different view:

> "... conservatives will say, yes, he is an over-the-top satire of Bill O'Reilly, but by being funny he gets to make really good points and make fun of liberals. So they think the joke is on liberals."

The Oregon stuff, basically. The Republican legislators fled the capitol to deny a climate change related bill but the governor is empowered to send the cops after them.

After saying they would indeed send the cops, militia types (3%ers and the like) stated they'd kill cops if they came to get the legislators. The_Donald celebrated this.

There was an article on Monday that pointed this out and bam, they got quarantined two days later.

I'm actually curious whether anyone knows of another example that is worse without dipping into alt-med/new age/free energy/tabloid sites. (This one popped up in my Google newsstand feed.)

Edit: a few have said that they do not want to give pageviews/ad money to an article so atrocious. Here is an archived version from the Wayback Machine.

Aren't phones linked to satellite and automatically adjust with time zone info?

EDIT: I must be mistaken about android and IOS devices using GPS signals to keep track of time...

I am also surprised no one bent me over for misspelling satellite...

I was surprised when I first looked at this map (the one on the bottom of the image) because it was suspiciously blue. Then I realized that the color intensity is proportional to the population density of the area.

It gives a much better understanding of the real distribution of red and blue in terms of population, without being as disconnected from the actual shape of the land as the "population cartogram" (geometrically skewed) maps are.

edit: Looks like Gizmodo picked this up too.

edit2: removed Facebook link (wasn't my page but realized it might violate the rules).

This comment on HN on the subject, from another ex-Amazon employee who was also sued, is pretty informative:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975428

tldr "Amazon has pursued this particular non-compete "hundreds" of times, and has never [...] prevailed once"; they theorize it's to frighten other employees who consider leaving.

All of it seems odd, but the strong push towards BitLocker is really weird. It's not just on that page, but even when you install this new version you get a message box saying to use BitLocker instead.

And if they're pulling a Lavabit, why the push to BL which is undoubtedly backdoored? Why not just leave it at the "TrueCypt isn't secure! Now you can only decrypt!"?

There's just too much weirdness for this to be legit. See here and here.