ericras

The debate that's been unfolding for a couple months about the Ghostbusters movie as leftist propaganda.

Twitter seems to really drag their feet deleting accounts of Islamic radicals inciting violence and Black Libes Matter sympathizers celebrating cop killings. If they even bother to do anything.

If you're going to police speech that's merely provocative, as Milo's is, and not expressly illegal (direct actual threats, child porn, etc) then you're going to get yourself in a position where you eventually piss everyone off. Twitter and Facebook are doing an excellent job of that at the moment with conservatives. We'll see long term how many users want to hang around a dry leftist echo chamber.

Tide detergent: http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/

They essentially have that already - verified accounts have special features but Twitter gives those away for free.

With the situation in Oregon, part of the dispute comes from the federal government wanting to purchase the land from the ranchers.

Thanks - I stumbled across it and submitted the itunes link hoping to find the discussion on here.

I suppose that should have been obvious. I would have liked to see rough prices quoted for this since I imagine it could be pricey as well.

When the lady featured in the article "brings her own hot spot network", what is powering it? Is she plugging it into the network jack in the room? Is it cellular?

I wasn't able to find much info on the current status of these efforts. Has Google (and their university/library partners) continued over the last ten years? I was under the impression that Google had suspended scanning years ago - partly due to this lawsuit and partly due to a change in company focus.

Better example might be the private Gettysburg National Tower that stood from 1974 to 2000: https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5481/11078991455_f4ebf6ffc0_b....

Disneyland had one and they ripped it out 20 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeopleMover

Of course, it was just a "ride" and only covered Tomorrowland. I've always thought they made a mistake not covering the whole park with one of these.

>>The expected win is infinite because very rare scenarios have huge payouts.

Not quite. The expected win is infinite because of the one single scenario where the games continues on an infinite basis.

The average win is approx $46 if the bankroll is all the money in the world.

Like usual, currently Facebook doesn't think they have much of a "problem" at all. It only becomes a problem if someone calls them out on it - probably in a court.

I think the answer has to do with the illusion that more buttons = more features = higher quality = better.

And this is almost three years before the huge traffic jam that occurred when they went from pay-per-hour to unlimited: http://thisdayintechhistory.com/12/01/aol-goes-unlimited/

But those tools were hard for laypeople to use in 1995. Sure, Windows now had a web browser and email program but you still needed an ISP and the email client was confusing to setup. Hell, their own Microsoft Network service was hard to figure out; one phone number to connect to the proprietary service and a different one for the Web (which never connected for me).

It was much simpler for users to put in the AOL disk and stay inside their walled garden - both conceptually and technically easier for laypeople.

I don't think this necessarily needs to be downvoted. It's pretty clear the new Macbook trades usefulness for portability and style - and is partly aimed at the masses as a fashion accessory.

Absolutely never do online chat with Time Warner Cable and never call their national phone number. Only call your local office. I've had appointments scheduled through online chat that never showed up that the local office didn't know about. Also have had the local office successfully debug problems remotely on the phone that the main corporate number claimed they couldn't fix.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8557322

From http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windo...

"Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form

  if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))
  { /* 95 and 98 */
  } else {

and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that."

"An Apology": https://community.rackspace.com/general/f/34/t/4341

Longevity increases the lifespan of the brilliant minds that can make much further progress with a few extra decades than we can in the meantime.

There's no such thing as a free lunch, etc, etc. I like the Sponsored Tweets compared to the alternatives: either paying to use Twitter or banner ads.

Apple seems to not want to get into the prosumer market because it is a tiny fraction of the size of the general iPhone/iPad/Beats consumer market. The buzz about future Apple products seems to be about things that could achieve that sort of scale. (TV, watch, something video game related, etc)

Not really increasingly expensive. For example, a TV is actually a lot cheaper (not to mention better) than it used to be.

We have/want more stuff then people in the past. Houses are larger. Families have more cars, more clothes, more toys, etc. Plus things that didn't exist like cell phones and internet access.

If from the beginning users were trained to only login to Paypal if they're on paypal.com. Could be accomplished in this sort of transaction via a new popup window.

Of course, the horse is long out of the barn on this.

It is possible, I agree, but Reddit, HN and others have much more active moderation than Google was probably interested in creating.

In all honesty I probably would have pursued the same real names policy if I had been running Google+. They were trying to avoid having it immediately devolve into the YouTube comments section - aka the scourge of the Internet.

I also think the real name policy is one of those things that we give too much weight too in analyzing the service. Lacking pseudonyms is not the reason "average" people have not used it.

"If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal."

That's quite a jump from a Prop 8 donation to accusing him of wanting to outlaw homosexuality.

Edit: The thing that makes little sense about this is that I imagine the CEOs of the other companies have -at least- one personal belief, political position, or vote that I find objectionable. A case can be made that all of them have done -something- to advocate the violation of what I view as my core freedoms. So... don't use the web?

I wonder if there's a way to nudge people to submit the "right" type of photo. I'd assume that your complaint rate will be far lower for the landscape type photo than the super close-up portrait.