>Teen prosecuted as adult for having naked images – of himself
The prosecutor is prosecuting on behalf of the very person who is also supposedly the perpetrator. Do you seriously think our founding fathers intended for "The People" v. Copening to be a replacement for Copening v. Copening?
Firefox disabled HTTPS Everywhere with no warning to me whatsoever. I use Dev Edition. I always just assumed it would always work, but apparently I can't rely on that anymore. Wasn't Mozilla pushing for non-encrypted HTTP to be deprecated? They should wait for that to happen before disabling HTTPS Everywhere.
Ever since they integrated G+ with YouTube comments, I thought that the comment dislike button was just a placebo. I've never actually seen the score of a comment go down upon it being pressed. Has it actually been working the whole time?
Companies have an interest in forcing users to manually download updates because of ad revenue from the download page, and bundled software on the updater. It will take a lot to convince them to prioritize user security over money.
What should I use as a VM environment/OS? Obviously I know GNU/Linux distros, but if all I'm going to be doing is using Firefox, I don't want a 8GB+ VM file hogging space on my normal system. Right now, I only have a 256 GB SSD in my laptop, and have my VMs on an external hard drive, which when plugged in to use uses up 1 out of my 2 USB ports. I would love to browse in a VM if I could get away without using a ton of space on my SSD. Also if you have any suggestions for options that also support high-DPI, that would be great, but not strictly necessary.
There was a time when Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. apps were all around 5-10Mb in size. Now they're 30-80Mb. That's on the developers, and makes the download take longer.
I feel like mobile developers and the creators of the hardware have given up on heavy optimization to work on minimal hardware and instead just gone with more expensive, top of the line hardware so they can continue current programming practices.
Even after many HNers read this thread and appreciate the points being made, I'm sure we'll still see the same "Site I made in unique2me.js" garbage headlines in the top feed. Hopefully what we all take away from this is that we need to better spot patterns of articles/blogspam and self-moderate those submissions.
There are times when the plot changes and for example, in a romance, characters may switch from using surnames to first names. I've seen many low quality subtitles where the character will use another character's last name, but the translation will use the first name. While it does require some knowledge of Japanese (or other Asian cultures), it does contribute to the overall consumption of the anime, and only distracts from the attempted transition from Japanese culture to Western culture as translated.
What really makes me love fansubs is when they include the honorifics when mentioning names. There's a lot of meaning that is put behind various honorifics, and that is lost when they are absent.
I'd say the largest reason to download anime from fansubbers rather than stream it is that you become part of a culture that dedicates their life to anime. It can be rewarding, time consuming, and you might end up taking Japanese classes hoping to one day translate anime and manga.
To be clear, I don't hate the content I choose to view from the people I follow, I hate the content that Twitter provides for advertising. There was a weird time when Twitter was actually showing me relevant ads - about computer stuff, startups (close enough). Now the ads are all random.
I wish there were an equivalent for finding internships. One suggestion: integrate with Google Maps, allow the user to outline an area and show jobs in that area. I found myself searching the names of major cities in my area.
From the README: "built at the 2015 Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon". I'd say it definitely doesn't need a public API, but for their apps on various platforms, it's probably useful.