ben010783
Joined 13 years ago
Karma
126
Submissions
62
Member since
Mar 27
@ben010783
View on Hacker NewsRecent submissions
Comment · 7 years ago
America's best-selling car in 2018 is the F150 series!
American's are going crazy for SUVs and pickups, but the F150 has been the best-selling vehicle for decades. Pickups have outsold passenger vehicles for a long time.
Comment · 7 years ago
This argument sounds a lot like the ones I heard about why Instagram would never be as big as Flickr. YouTube needs creators and if other platforms keep attracting them, YouTube could have a big problem.
Comment · 7 years ago
The map seems like it doesn't specifically stick to municipalities. In New York City it gets granular enough to show that Sylvester Stallone was born in Hell's Kitchen. But for the city of Chicago, it only shows Barack Obama.
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't think I've ever seen a longbow in person. I love the art on them though.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think you're going to have to wait to get an answer on this. The hope is that you can use a standard USB-C card reader to quickly import directly into a Files directory.
I import raw pictures all the time, but it's usually just a few pics. I don't think people realize how long it takes to import a days worth of pics or how you lose all your file names when you import the pictures.
Comment · 8 years ago
That Windows comment didn't make sense to me either. The last few years have been good for Windows.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think the biggest difference is that the disinformation was performed by state actors in Russia while the Steele Dossier was research on the actions and relationships that state actors had. Not to mention the fact that the details of the Dossier did not become public until after the election.
Comment · 8 years ago
People bought them knowing that they were making tradeoffs in performance, but the real problem was that the computers were not even hitting their advertised specs.
Comment · 8 years ago
>Second, we already have a perfectly fine train to O'Hare!
I wouldn't say that it's perfectly fine. The Blue Line to O'Hare has become notorious for it's overcrowding. I think the goal is to reduce some of that congestion to O'Hare and get people to stay at hotels in the city. I'm not convinced that it's worth it though.
Comment · 8 years ago
If you don't have money you take a deal and plead guilty. If you have money, you can drag things out for years.
Comment · 8 years ago
In the US, those kind of messages are usually more overt and organizations are legally required to disclose some info about the organization that sponsored the ads. You can (could?) kind of get away with influencing people anonymously using Facebook: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/russia-2016-e...
Comment · 8 years ago
I initially skipped the quotes because I'm used to them being repeated.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comments on images, voting on images and comment, stuff like that. Imager went from a simple image host to being it's own image sharing community.
example: http://imgur.com/gallery/SkAns
Comment · 9 years ago
The United States has federal and state prisons. There are also private companies that run prisons. In the US, there are a mix of prisons that are run by the government and ones that are run by private companies. I know the CIA hacking thing sounds funny, but these guys were doing basic social engineering and identity theft.
Comment · 9 years ago
It is more extreme in the gaming industry because you need so much staff to make a game, and then the needs change drastically after the game is released. From the article:
> Layoffs often hit after a game was released, which was hardest on workers who were let go and damaged morale for those who stayed. “It was like ‘Welcome to the family!’ ” he recalls. “Then we released the game, and it was ‘See you later!’ ” Outsourcing became a solution to the hire-and-fire cycle, says Mr. Hartsman.