jebblue
Re:Ask HN: I bought a big phone, mistake, yes/no?
on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @02:00PM (#10266734)
Trends are important to consumers and to hackers (I'm one of both), that's the purpose of the question and a huge one that matters.
Re:Ask HN: I bought a big phone, mistake, yes/no?
on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @12:52PM (#10266204)
Considering the price of phones today, the prominance of mobile use and development, it seems like a very reasonable question. There are a lot of blog and production site articles on the topic as well. If you're not interested then why not just ignore.
Reference for what should and should not be flagged can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click "flag" at the top."
Re:Block and Unsubscribe
on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @12:42PM (#10266120)
This looks great! I'd really love to see Google and Microsoft stop people from registering a new account to send spam to my accounts. If my humble Postfix/Spamassassin configuration can correctly identify them as spam; I'd expect Google and Microsoft to be able to do the same and stop those messages before they are sent, particularly when they have virus document attachments. I just got another one yesterday.
Re:Stocks Off Sharply as Market Upheaval Grows
on Monday August 24, 2015 @10:36AM (#10110069)
Why was this down voted?
Re:Stocks Off Sharply as Market Upheaval Grows
on Monday August 24, 2015 @10:27AM (#10109982)
I wonder if any of this could be related to recent tensions in Korea?
Re:Stocks Off Sharply as Market Upheaval Grows
on Monday August 24, 2015 @10:19AM (#10109902)
I'm not rich enough to be an investor but I agree, some kind of cool down system should be required.
Re:The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market [pdf]
on Friday August 21, 2015 @05:27PM (#10100365)
>> My coworkers are middle aged, suburban folks, while mostly nice it gets tiresome explaining what a selfie is or how Twitter works
Assuming you work in technology, you really know and work with middle aged people who are not aware of the terms selfie and Twitter?
Re:Facebook Should Pay All of Us
on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @12:05PM (#10086478)
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc. you call all start having my photos and blogs and other stuff if you agree to share some of the profits you make off of me. Until then, no dice.
Re:Facebook Should Pay All of Us
on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @12:04PM (#10086470)
>> The thing that so many people fail to realize is that the data isn't valuable in and of itself.
It is valuable to the company you're giving it to since they get paid by the advertising. They also get money from their partners who we so graciously agree to allow them to "share" it with which happens to be for profit for them.
>> The data is a means to an end, which is showing you relevant ads. >> If everyone stopped using Facebook tomorrow, the value of all the information Facebook has gathered would be negligible.
They can still sell your information to whomever they want which means even in your scenario they would still be making tons of money, I'm guessing here, hundreds of millions IMHO. So your arguments are not correct.
Re:FCC Fines Smart City $750K for Blocking Wi-Fi
on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:25PM (#10080090)
>> devices will frequently connect to the first, strongest signal they see
That is worrisome, someone could build a portable station to hijack people's phones, do some phishing then move on to another location.
Re:Microsoft wants your babies
on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @11:25AM (#10079676)
The blond haired kid with his face mushed against the window cracks me up every time. I wonder if some of these future developers will be using XAML and building Windows apps?
Groovy, remote execution back to version 1.7
Re:C# has var now?
on Sunday August 16, 2015 @03:26PM (#10069963)
I'm trying my hand at getting back into some C# coding and found that apparently the language now has var. My first thought was why would a professional, statically typed language have var. Checking out the page I linked to in the submission, you can also do this cool if not slightly funky looking thing where it looks like an SQL predicate just reading from an ordinary array.
C# has var now?
Re:Why NASA Switched from Unity to Blend4Web
on Saturday August 15, 2015 @11:32AM (#10065630)
I doubt WebGL will be a serious competitor to any platform 3D engine for at least another decade, probably two.
Re:Rust in 2016
on Friday August 14, 2015 @12:56PM (#10061221)
There are 5 hits on dice.com for "rust".
Re:A Guide for the Perfect Daily Standup
on Friday August 14, 2015 @10:48AM (#10060372)
Standup was never part of Agile:
Re:A Guide for the Perfect Daily Standup
on Friday August 14, 2015 @10:47AM (#10060358)
The practice is discriminatory against anyone who is disabled or has suffered an injury and can't stand in one spot for even a few minutes. Moving to a conference room is moving out of context.
Re:A Guide for the Perfect Daily Standup
on Friday August 14, 2015 @10:43AM (#10060334)
Is it just me or does everyone in the picture look younger than 30?
Re:A Guide for the Perfect Daily Standup
on Friday August 14, 2015 @10:36AM (#10060282)
I injured my back in a fall a long time ago, 2 discs are bad. I literally can't stand for more than a few minutes without taking ibuprofen the rest of the day. It's time for standups to end and go back to the old fashioned sit around the table meetings.
Re:Edward Snowden at IETF 93
on Friday August 14, 2015 @10:32AM (#10060268)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower
"or threat to public interest"
It doesn't have to be illegal.
Re:Evidence grows of cord-cutting acceleration
on Thursday August 13, 2015 @08:01PM (#10057904)
I like Fox News as well as CNN but what I just read from three sources is that it's not included in SlingTV's price:
http://cordcuttersnews.com/fox-says-no-to-sling-tv-and-to-fr...
Love Fox News but they also did not broadcast the debates on TV either recently and my wife is sure they are reducing the clips on Roku. Fox need to get their act together and stop being so greedy.
Re:Evidence grows of cord-cutting acceleration
on Thursday August 13, 2015 @07:54PM (#10057886)
We've watched a ton of documentaries on Netflix, give it some time, good ones popup now and again.
Re:Evidence grows of cord-cutting acceleration
on Thursday August 13, 2015 @06:17PM (#10057561)
We went OTA and in 2 years have had zero issues except the occasional dropout downstairs in one channel due to it being a small indoor antenna. We live about 25 miles from the city.
We get ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS and CW and several Spanish stations if we spoke that language.
We miss Fox News and CNN but catch their clips on Roku or on the web.
For movies, Netflix, M-GO and Google Play.
We may buy some sort of DVR, not sure yet.
Evidence grows of cord-cutting acceleration
Re:Disable Windows 10 Tracking
on Thursday August 13, 2015 @10:56AM (#10054652)
Yep, my restore disk set had a bad disk (and I paid for them too which sucks) so since it was the Home version and I thought I might need stuff that Windows 10 Pro has I went for pro, cost me $200 bucks. I got my license on Amazon. I thought about getting an MSDN subscription but not sure how the licensing works these days for the OS's it includes (it used to be fairly complicated years ago).
Edit: I used smile.amazon.com so money is contributed to my charity, the American Heart Association.
Re:Lenovo Service Engine (LSE) BiOS Vulnerability
on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @11:47PM (#10052157)
"Certain Lenovo personal computers contain a vulnerability in LSE (a Lenovo BIOS feature). Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system."