dmschulman

Painting insults and threats and bullying as legitimate criticism is the main rhetorical fallacy of the alt-right movement. They have a guarantee of free speech in this country but they do not have a guarantee of Twitter access.

"Let's remember stripping connectivity is nothing new for Apple."

I think you answered your own question.

Someone didn't pay attention in civics class. You'd prefer the federal government to manage the decisions of all the major political parties?

But you're not a federal employee, that isn't your full time job. That's a responsibility you volunteered to take on, the fact that you get compensated for your time every time there's a primary vote doesn't imply you're an agent of the state, it's not a "functional equivalent".

That's a bit of a stretch to reach the conclusion the DNC and RNC are "state funded". Poll workers are volunteers, the machines are bought with taxpayer money but they are used for multiple types elections (from state to federal).

It's not collusion, the decisions are all being made within the party. It's wrong and unfortunate the way Sanders was treated by the DNC (I supported and donate to Sanders), but it's the DNC's call to operate however they want to operate.

They're not federally funded, correct

That's a bit of a strawman argument. The least they could do is vet the material with reporters, the media would have jumped all over these emails. If their reporting partners for some reason determined they didn't want to run with the story, then WikiLeaks could just go ahead and do what they've already done.

The fact that they don't care about the vetting aspect anymore just confirms the DNC leak was petty and personal, not an exercise in transparency. The DNC isn't even a government, wasn't the whole point of WikiLeaks to hold governments and their leaders accountable?

Lenovo's Thinkpads, especially the T and X series. Look around the web for Lenovo employee discount program codes to help bring costs down significantly (sometimes 30% off)

They're making a lot of bad anti-consumer choices with their products the last few cycles and I have no reason to believe it will get any better.

I've been waiting for such a long time for the new line of Macbook Pros to come out, I've been in desperate need of an upgrade for quite some time now and am finally at the point where an MBP makes a lot of sense to me (I've been using Thinkpads exclusively the last 12 years) but here I am still waiting for a product announcement.

I'm highly discouraged by Apple's move to replace every port on the Macbook with a single USB-C and I believe the new MPBs will feature a similar concession, possibly 2 or 3 USB-C ports only. And adding insult to injury, the new machines will probably not include a 3.5mm headphone jack (among other Apple "improvements").

The MBP is a flagship product and I believe will be around for a while, I don't believe Apple is giving up on that market segment, but if they bungle the new products enough it might be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's crazy to me that I'm still anticipating this product launch yet am aware that the machine itself will probably be a letdown and I'll ultimately go with another Thinkpad. I need to see the announcement to know for sure, but gee, what a way to ruin an entire product line.

Like driving a pin with a sledgehammer

I never thought I'd be one to own a smartwatch. I enjoy wearing traditional mechanical watches for quickly being able to tell the time as well as for the fashion aspect, owning a wearable that would tie to my phone, delivering notifications and giving me access to apps, didn't really appeal to me as I prefer to disconnect rather than hyperconnect to my devices.

Being someone who does a fair amount of outdoor activity (cycling and hiking mostly), and knowing a few people who are crazy about their Fitbits, I ended up looking into some fitness tracker-oriented smartwatches, landing on the Garmin Vivoactive HR with it's HR monitor and built in GPS. It's a very attractive device for $250, especially if fitness tracking and mapping your workout is important to you.

$250 is maybe the upper limit of what I'd want to spend on a smartwatch, but the Garmin has been great for me as a simple intuitive device that knows what it is good at and doesn't try to complicate itself.

Though you can cram a surprising amount of information and interactivity in these devices, it goes against good sustainable user experience to make a wrist-top computer as robust as a smartphone. Smartwatches should be a bundle of sensors and quick intuitive bits of display information, not a surrogate to my smartphone.

This Twitter bot (Deathwatch) kind of has the right idea, nice way to pseudo-automate the process at least. The downside though is that it can throw a lot of false positives, just because a startup stops tweeting from a particular account doesn't mean they've perished:

http://deathwatch.io/

No one is going to steal your idea http://www.tonythings.com/not-worry-idea-theft/

A poorly planned chart at that. The x-axis is so tiny and hard to read

Interestingly enough, the New York Times' erroneous reporting had more to do with the inception of the "bystander effect" than the actual murder, for in fact, Geneovese's death was more the result of a single neighbor's negligence than 38 neighbors' inability to act.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_03/...

http://nypost.com/2014/02/16/book-reveals-real-story-behind-...

Please explain

The dog is Snow's property. His irresponsibility as a dog owner set off this series of events. The victim did not threaten a man's dog out of spite, he felt threatened by the animal and Snow's actions (or lack there of) escalated this unfortunate situation.

How can you ignore the inciting incident in this case? Perhaps the victim was a man with some personal issues, but before being harassed by Evan Snow, Alex Nieto was a man minding his own business.

This police-assisted murder is a shame but I don't understand why we expect neighborhoods to remain frozen in time forever, never changing their racial or socioeconomic makeup for as long as the area exists.

It's a given that neighborhoods, especially in the city, will change over time. The real issue isn't whether people who don't look like the lifelong residents will move in, it's if those new neighbors will treat the area and neighbors with the same reverence and respect that those before them did. I don't think people resent a changing neighborhood so much as they resent people with different values settling down and expecting the neighborhood to bend to their preference.

This is clearly what's at stake in the death of Alex Nieto.

Not with Facebook or Google...

Archive.org has a ton of these films peppered around various collections:

https://archive.org/details/british_gov_public_films

https://archive.org/details/educationalfilms

https://archive.org/details/prelinger

Authentication tie-ins are friction. Why do I need to sign in to do a reverse lookup? Maybe your site doesn't explain the product correctly?

Sign in with Google+ for a reverse phone number lookup?

No thanks.

How about instead of complicating the problem with technology (hello Internet of Things!) we mandate Election Day as a national holiday in the United States and give people the day off so they can vote?

I don't even know where to begin with the author's idea that the Patent Office should be staffed with AI...

This notion that technology is the only way to solve the problems of our time bothers me to no end. It's a foolish mindset at best, dangerous at worst, and it takes any innovative thinking off the table.

Great idea!

Feature request: I know that many podcasts I listen to have comprehensive show notes for each episode, it'd be great if there were an easy way to tie in or link to the information in the show notes on a per episode basis!

Or a shoulder mounted cannon that fires a net http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/03/the-skywall-100-is-a-net-...

Can you link to these threads? I didn't see these attacks you describe in any of the comments on your HN submissions.

EDIT: I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, I'm just genuinely curious since sexist/mean responses go against what I generally observe in HN comments.

I was coming from the fact that your Medium article is titled very differently than the title of your link on HN. While I've not had the same experiences as you in terms of comment feedback (full disclosure: I'm a man), I would say that HN is a much more high-minded community than other popular destinations on the internet.

That doesn't excuse any behavior obviously, but I've seen many instances of outright misogynistic comments and hateful no-content replies get downvoted consistently on HN.