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Re:Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native on Thursday July 26, 2018 @06:50PM (#17622046)
This is not related to the post but I have an honest question. I use nitro(and absolutely love it) and I'm constantly getting inquiries about how I use blobs. There are literally 5 accounts I would happily gift a nitro subscription to but dont have the option. When is discord going to allow people to gift nitro to other accounts. It's a huge potential revenue stream and something I would happily engage in if I had the chance to. Thank you for your work. I love discord.
The recordings stopped being random a long time ago. I work for a major insurance company and literally every second I am logged in, they record what I say and do. This company has had an issue with fraud being committed by employees so I understand their scrutiny but it still is unnerving to think about.
Re:Cocaine tourism is now a thing in Medellin on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @09:17PM (#14809366)
This is not "now" a thing. It's been a thing there for years.
I saw this change last night. I will never, EVER install FB Messenger because I don't want facebook to have access to my contact list. Period. This is the worst move the company has made since Beacon and I am at a loss for words to think of how they are justifying forcing people to use an app they clearly don't want to use.
If they wanted to name the boat after someone like Attenborough that's great but why open the vote to the public and then ignore the most popular choice?
Re:Apple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:25PM (#10422561)
I believe they're talking about trying to access a phone once it has been "locked" from too many wrong tries at the lock screen.
Re:Forex Scandal Drives Shift to Algo Trading on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:10PM (#10304955)
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lol no thank you

I don't say this often, but I really hope this guy gets prosecuted.
Re:Nevada puts stop to ridesharing Uber for now on Saturday October 25, 2014 @08:49PM (#8509932)
I find it funny that Nevada is willing to bend over backwards for one tech company(Tesla) yet wants to prevent another from gaining a fair shot at the market.
Re:Reddit on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:35AM (#8392844)
The admins didn't want to ban /r/TheFappening but decided to after they got a flood of DMCA takedowns from the celebs lawyers. The sub actually broke the site because of how much traffic it was generating and that was almost 5 days before it got banned. They knew about the sub for several days and let it go because they have a hands-off policy and don't generally step in unless something drastic happens.
Re:Fake name generator for social media on Thursday September 18, 2014 @11:43PM (#8338896)
Did they register a large block of phone numbers? I reverse searched the number they gave me, and it was valid, but I called it and the number is "not reachable".
Interesting idea, but how will it scale? How many people can one competent developer mentor?
Re:Meet Google's Security Princess on Thursday July 10, 2014 @01:06AM (#8013707)
Not really sure that needed 5 pages, but I guess ads don't view themselves.
Re:Facebook was down on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:36AM (#7915193)
I would hardly call more than a half a million dollars a "drop in the bucket."
Re:Facebook was down on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:02AM (#7914955)
Wow. As far as I know, this is unprecedented. A worldwide outage.
Thanks for posting this. It'll really help me out.
Thank you for mentioning the cash injection. I was starting to wonder where RIM was getting all this money they keep losing quarter after quarter.
Re:Ask HN: Is it me or ...? on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @01:07PM (#7474751)
This seems the most likely reason behind your discontent. People who start companies rarely fit well into other peoples organizations.
Re: on Monday March 17, 2014 @03:50PM (#7417606)
This is an ad and serves no purpose to the HN community. Flagged.
Re:Wireless electricity? It's here on Saturday March 15, 2014 @02:36PM (#7405651)
It's been here for more than a century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power

Re:Ask HN: Looking for contributors? on Friday March 07, 2014 @12:48PM (#7361625)
I would really like this. I'm looking for something to contribute to, and threads like this are the ideal place to find projects.
Re:Log in to Yahoo by July 15th to keep your email address on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @06:31PM (#5908865)
I feel conflicted about this. On one hand, I haven't logged in to my yahoo account for several years so I clearly don't "need" it but on the other I don't want to have someone steal my username. I think the fact that yahoo is so desperate to get people back on their platform that they're willing to resort to this tactic should be very unsettling to anyone with a vested interest in the company as a long term investment.
Just be sure to uncheck the option to tell your address book about them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5827251

Ask HN: Why was Google Maps down today?

I tried throughout the day to look up locations on maps but I kept getting an error page. It said "system 27 is down". Did anyone else experience this? I've looked all day here for a thread or link explaining what happened, but thus far I haven't seen anything. And of course, google doesn't exactly have a call center where I could ask someone. So, what happened?

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Re:Ron Johnson ousted as JC Penney CEO on Monday April 08, 2013 @08:42PM (#5515735)
Jeff Bezos buys it for 15% above yesterdays closing price. Rebrands it as the Amazon Store®. What do I win?
Re:Voyager 1 has left the solar system on Thursday March 21, 2013 @04:20AM (#5413723)
We'll never know.
I hate to be a Negative Nancy, but I genuinely don't give a shit what Sony does. After their persecution of Geohot for having the audacity to crack their perfect little box, I refused to patronize them at all and a shiny new widget isn't going to change that. Sony is not the kind of company hackers should be patonizing. Please don't let the new toy make you forget what they've done in the past.
Re:Ping-pong gun fires balls at supersonic speeds on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @07:06AM (#5170217)
Adblock. Things like that should only be a problem once.
Re:Wozniak: Facts in Steve Jobs movie look 'atrocious' on Saturday February 02, 2013 @10:17PM (#5158443)
Why do you say that? I think the closer someone could get to portraying Steve Jobs, the better it would be.

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