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angrydevon The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction

This article lacks substance and is painfully anecdotal. I was expecting something more from SA.

angrydevon Uber goes into reverse as first day stock price disappoints

Facebook's IPO was also off to a rather rough start[1], so I am not putting much stock into what happens in a single day.

I have not purchased or plan to purchase any Uber stock, I just think it's important to have perspective on this event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Fac...

angrydevon Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

He talks directly about the effects that anti-trust action would have on Google and Amazon near the end of the article.

This is a piece about Facebook specifically. You shouldn't expect that he address every monopoly that should be broken up.

angrydevon AOC Quit Facebook. The Media Bungled the Story

This article only references one news article published by the Washington Post[1]. It's not even completely clear to me after reading it that the writer was trying to do what the author of this post was saying.

To say the entire media has bungled the story is disingenuous. Go look at other articles that don't mention CA or any other political scandal[2]. This is a real non-story.

[1] https://outline.com/rBfeXn

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez...

angrydevon Facebook collects a wide range of private data from developers

This headline has been modified from the original, and is a mischaracterization of what's happening here. Facebook isn't collecting this data, rather the authors of many popular apps are sending these statistics to Facebook's analytics tool to better target with ads. The article explains Facebook doesn't want these companies sending users' personal data to them without their knowledge.

They are not completely absolved of blame because they should be monitoring for personal data (somehow), but the app developers should be to blame more using this data without users' knowledge.

Now if Facebook were to use this data for their own purposes, we'd have (another) real scandal on our hands.

angrydevon Gmail Icons are Hard

All of these icons have tooltips that appear within 100ms of hovering over them. Surely there is a better part of the new gmail UI to pick apart?

angrydevon Facebook turned on face recognition silently

I got this notification in my news feed last night and now I can't find the option to shut it off on desktop or mobile. No idea what is going on.

angrydevon Parity Wallet security alert

Good summary article: https://blog.springrole.com/parity-multi-sig-wallets-funds-f...

angrydevon Stripe is down

Comcast is having major issues right now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637412

angrydevon Ask HN: Is Comcast having internet problems?

Comcast user in SE Michigan here, can't reach certain websites (reddit, cnn, basecamp)

angrydevon F.lux v4

Tried to switch from Flux to Windows 10 nightlight, was awful. If you wake your computer from sleep after sunset, nightlight doesn’t activate automatically. Been a known issue since they released it.

angrydevon Parents Who Pay to Be Watched

I thought that little quote was the most important part of the article, it's really a shame it's buried at the bottom. Especially with all the activities outlined in this kid's life. Is it any wonder he started acting out?

Very important reading: https://www.amazon.com/Price-Privilege-Advantage-Generation-...

angrydevon Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby to be Forfeited

This isn't the same thing as buying a stolen lamp from a yard sale. In fact that's pretty ignorant to ignore the details with this case.

FTA: Notwithstanding these warnings, in December 2010, Hobby Lobby executed an agreement to purchase over 5,500 Artifacts, comprised of cuneiform tablets and bricks, clay bullae and cylinder seals, for $1.6 million. The acquisition of the Artifacts was fraught with red flags. For example, Hobby Lobby received conflicting information where the Artifacts had been stored prior to the inspection in the UAE. Further, when the Artifacts were presented for inspection to Hobby Lobby’s president and consultant in July 2010, they were displayed informally. In addition, Hobby Lobby representatives had not met or communicated with the dealer who purportedly owned the Artifacts, nor did they pay him for the Artifacts. Rather, following instructions from another dealer, Hobby Lobby wired payment for the Artifacts to seven personal bank accounts held in the names of other individuals.

angrydevon Abe Passes Controversial Bill Boosting Japan Surveillance Powers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyklos

Seems there is no end to this cycle

angrydevon Ask HN: What are interviews like in non-software engineering professions?

I've often wondered if non-SWP interviews involve homework... I hate this aspect of interviewing for positions.

angrydevon WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United States Climate Alliance

Your strawman is showing

angrydevon Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (2008)

Yeah same story here. Am from Long Island and grew up with amazing pizza on every corner. Moved to Michigan and after a few years of disappointment I started a pizza diary (http://tightpizza.com) where I break down why I am dissatisfied with the state of pizza out here.

Recently I started making my own with a recipe similar to what was posted here (but mostly from Ken Forkish's book The Elements of Pizza), and I'm pretty happy with the results so far. It's at least something to hold me over until trips home.

angrydevon CIA espionage orders for the 2012 French presidential election

Seems like the CIA was tasked with gathering intel on presidential candidates of a major European nation.

What exactly is a revelation here?

angrydevon Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

Readability is no longer available.

See https://www.readability.com/

angrydevon Video Games Are Boring

I don't think you're weak at all. They do build the games to be super stimulating and addicting. They build reward models into the games that help you form the habit of playing every day for a small reward. Then eventually you're logging in every day to play for something you don't care at all about.

Once you realize that, you're free.

angrydevon Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet

Can anyone elaborate on what he means when he says that Verisign can 'go down' and take down most of the internet with it? How would a registrar going down affect anything to do with actual hosts?

angrydevon Google is bringing new ad types to AMP

Half the AMP articles I try to read don't let me scroll on iOS 8 Safari. I like using Google News but AMP has seriously hurt my experience. I would much rather just use Safari's built in Reader View, but of course this removes the ads they want me to see.

angrydevon Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World

I don't understand how you're glossing over the fact that your buddy was homeless for 1+ years or however long it was.

Even if you don't have a family, people don't want to sleep outside.

angrydevon An engineer replaced four monitors with Meta glasses

The title should read 'A Meta engineer replaces four monitors with Meta glasses'

angrydevon Nature makes all articles free to view

This is a lame half assed solution.

angrydevon Google I/O 2014

No idea you could scroll down either, I just closed the tab and moved on.

angrydevon Steve Jobs's response after getting a Google employee fired.

Regardless of the overarching policy, this brief exchange is being brought down to tabloid level discussion by pando, it's really nothing that terrible.

angrydevon Secret raises $8.6 million Series A

Here's the company's blog post on how the service works:

https://medium.com/secret-den/12ab82fda29f

angrydevon Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi

Because a cornerstone of the currency is anonymity.

angrydevon Stuxnet's Secret Twin

Readability link: http://www.readability.com/articles/6ycbi4jx

I highly recommend downloading this extension for websites with crappy overlays like this one!