Hacker News Reader

notNowon Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results

The saturation point of the smartphone market is near and Apple knows this very well and the novelty factor for their products is diminishing and people are looking for a new thing to experience rather than the old Apple can deliver.

What's with the Samsung bashing on an Apple thread?

notNowon Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

It's definitely elementary school stuff to snitch and play the informant on your colleagues. The worst thing that this was coming from an old fart stuckup who thinks that they could police every thing and everyone around them and act more royal than the king himself.

Old habits die hard.

notNowon Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

I can't believe that you snitched on these guys and you're proud to share it with us! WoW!

The guy consented to their experiment and he voluntarily engaged with them. It is not like they set him up for this.

Maybe you could argue that they could have jeopardized the lives of people on the highway with their reckless behavior esp the engine shutdown stunt and I believe that they didn't exercise wise judgement in doing so but didn't they instruct the driver to switch off and back on to regain control of his vehicle and move ahead?

You also claimed that they're boasting of their act by publishing this video when it was Wired that produced and made the whole report and experiment and not them. The reporter himself the subject of this experiment didn't file any report with the authorities so you come and act more royal than the king!

What a mess!

What was that snitching for? This is completely uncalled for.

This is a knee jerk reaction from you and testament of your true character.

You should be ashamed of yourself snitching on your colleagues like this and your phony outrage at this act is not fooling anyone.

Grow up you are not in elementary school anymore!

notNowon Afrostream (YC S15) Is Netflix for African and African-American Movies

Does this mean content will be sourced exclusively from sub-Saharan countries with no room for North African drama on the screen?

We're after all Africans :)

notNowon Homejoy says goodbye

We’re determined to support you to keep your homes humming and business buzzing, so we will do our best to ensure partners and clients who want to continue to work together get a chance to do so independently of Homejoy.

Is this why they had to terminate their operations because clients and partners managed to cut them out of the loop and to do business independently of their platform?

notNowon Soloshot: Automatically film outdoor activities without a camera operator

Aren't you afraid of theft or loss of the equipment?

notNowon The Really Big One

Shouldn't it have been "The really LOOOONG one" instead?

notNowon The Really Big One

A heads up: this peace is 6.3K+ word long and according to my estimate it would take you around 45 mins to finish reading it.

Enjoy!

notNowon The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950

Does this have anything to do with the measles outbreak and the ensuing vaccination/anti-vaccination debate in California?

notNowon NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols

Financial markets can be manipulated provided you have the right keys. At this point in time, this is just a wild conspiracy theory and it's explained as retaliation for all the cyber attacks allegedly carried out by the Chinese govt or people affiliated with it.

notNowon NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols

Does this have anything to do with the Chinese stock market rout and the rumors circulating that it's synthesized to a certain degree?

notNowon United Airlines System-Wide Computer Problem

But a month from now, some people will be confused for sure. So, it's more future-proof to settle for ISO or alphanumeric format to avoid confusion and miscommunication.

notNowon David Cameron: Twitter and Facebook privacy is unsustainable

"We just want to ensure that terrorists do not have a safe space in which to communicate. That is the challenge, and it is a challenge that will come in front of the House."

What do Amnesty International and EIPR from Egypt have to do with terrorism that prompted GCHQ to spy on them?

I am not saying that these two orgs are above the law but I am just wondering what's the probable cause for these rogue spy orgs to target them and try to collect as much info as their hands could grab.

notNowon David Cameron: Twitter and Facebook privacy is unsustainable

This hole is called the "Memory Hole". If this sounds Orwellian to you, it's because it is indeed Orwellian.

notNowon The Unreasonable Effectiveness of IT

Germans figured this out a long time ago with their "Auftragstaktik". In a scenario of asymmetrical warfare, you don't wanna be rigid and stringent with command control, you have to allow capable and independent teams to carry out specific missions and then review their performance afterwards and I don't see any prob extending or porting this to the business domain and to startups in particular.

notNowon Guess Who Doesn’t Fit in at Work

What about stupid people like you who struggle with simple "reading comprehension" exercises in their native language?

Are they protected as well?

notNowon Guess Who Doesn’t Fit in at Work

Have you heard of the term "figure of speech" or the phrase "figuratively speaking"?

notNowon Why Google Employees Quit (2009)

I'm glad that you spoke your mind however unpopular even though I disagree with some of your findings/conclusions but it's really brave of you to stand up to the downvote goons on HN that all they care about is social engineering, suppressing free speech and stifling constructive debate.

notNowon Guess Who Doesn’t Fit in at Work

Again I have no prob with teetotalers whether for medical, social or religious reasons.

The only prob I have is how to screen candidates to root out the fanatics and fundamentals from the moderate and regular conservative folks. Unfortunately, these two subgroups share common traits or values and abstaining from drinking is one of them.

What I said was simply that I'd need to extract more info from the candidate to make sure I'm making the right decision.

It is not about anti-religion or religious folks but a policy not to hire crazy and unstable people. I don't want female employees to feel uncomfortable at the company because of a new hire because he might have some objections to how women should dress or debating whether people should eat or have a cup of coffee during Ramadan.

This sort of stuff is unacceptable and I might say that it is not a controversial point for many people. I experienced first hand how some fanatics could drive people out of an org because of their conduct and social antics & crusades. The org lost very competent people to the competition because a fanatic thought he was on some holy mission to transform the workplace into a utopia just to feel good about himself. Needless to say, the place turned into a living hell and he also was in a position of authority to do that and we couldn't do anything about it before it was too late.

So sorry if my opinion shattered your idealistic view of the world around us but it's way way better for me not to hire a "rockstar" fanatic and see people leave in drove because of his social toxicity and to stick to normal and skilled people who would fit and blend well with the group without friction and uneasiness.

notNowon Guess Who Doesn’t Fit in at Work

Apparently I am not "culturally fit" for this "inclusive and tolerant" community or an HN material in general which should be a good news in and of itself if you ask me.

notNowon Guess Who Doesn’t Fit in at Work

Because I don't want to hire religious fanatics in where I work or bigot means that I don't share the same opinion as yours?

notNowon Guess Who Doesn’t Fit in at Work

With this stance, you and the OP are uncompromising on this issue which can be viewed as good or bad depending on context but I think in this case it's very unfavorable.

Everyone has hobbies just take the time to think about it and you will come up with something better than "none" which is not really exciting to hear and might send the wrong signal to the recruiter that you are not interested enough in the opening position.

notNowon Guess Who Doesn’t Fit in at Work

Drinking beer should not be the glue to any team. It is not about drinking alcohol either. It's about smoking out unfit candidates when it is inexpensive to do so and religious fanatics/fundies come at the very top of the list.

The skills and expertise of a candidate have to be pretty convincing for me to overlook the fundamentalism part and the troubles that they might bring onboard.

notNowon Guess Who Doesn’t Fit in at Work

If you don't like the taste of beer or alcoholic beverages for the matter is fine with me and I'd like to clarify that I don't have prob either with the religious cop-out but you'll have to forgive me if I get you under more scrutiny just to ensure that you fit well within the inclusive environment because from my experience religious people esp. from certain backgrounds (let's stick with PC for now not to inflame the thread) are difficult to integrate and make our lives harder and we usually up to the ears with work stuff to deal with cultural friction and sensitivity training for new hires.

notNowon Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

Gays wanted this way to be a top down authoritarian decision not a bottom up democratic one so there you have it.

The govt should not be in the business of meddling with personal affairs in the first place except voluntarily and for minimum legal purposes.

notNowon Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

Sure! Like I said the whole US political system is a big joke but at least lawmakers can be held accountable theoretically for their voting decision to their electorate but to whom these appointed judges answer actually?

I guess you know the answer for this.

notNowon Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

If you are so intent on redefining/bastardizing marriage, while we're at it, please take a look at family bonds and friendships and see what we can come up with "novel" and "progressive" ideas to add to the conversation.

notNowon Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

It's a slippery slope when you allow a bunch of unelected middle aged and old folks gather in a room and decide what is good and what is not for the rest of the population.

The US political system is a big joke in my opinion.

notNowon An Incredibly Detailed Map of Europe's Population Shifts

As I see it, most of the blue blobs are in Portugal and Galicia or the Northwest in general. Other population centers in Spain are growing despite the recession and stratospheric youth unemployment.

Also worth mentioning, Spanish people are still regarded to be religious to some extent and so are the Greek. So, I'm a bit surprised to see the divergence here where Greeks shun marriage and raising children while their Spanish counterparts still hold to these traditional values.

notNowon An Incredibly Detailed Map of Europe's Population Shifts

Anyone have any idea why in the countries most hit by the recession (Spain, Italy and Greece to name a few) there's striking divergence between population growth specifically decreasing Greece on one hand while increasing in Italy and Spain in general despite the three of them share the same dynamics at play and especially Greece and Spain?