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Spear fishing seems to a big problem these days. Not sure if there is any other way to stop it except to educate people not to click on links in email or to sandbox and totally loc…

The Nexus Q is what you get when you try to channel your inner Steve Jobs and allow him to get carried away.

This HN submission is getting heavily flagged. Stay classy HN, 12 of the top 32 links were Google related yesterday, must you flag articles that are critical Google? http://hnranki…

Ugh, look at the HN Rankings graph, that's a sudden big dip within five minutes. Sigh, Google fans continue have a veto power on the front page to silence any critical stories. htt…

And I don't work for Microsoft, never worked for them or any affiliates nor own their stock or ever owned it and the closest that I know I was ever to any MS employee was when I wa…

This thread says otherwise. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714681

Wait, so Google is dropping XMPP support because Outlook.com is supporting it to allow Gtalk users to chat on Outlook.com, so in order to perpetuate the GMail/GTalk lock-in by cagi…

Lots of posters report that the Youtube mobile site and phone apps don't show ads so I don't know what the fuss is. Also, if WP allegedly has such low adoption that Google doesnt f…

I don't have an issue with them pulling it, but they did it suddenly and gave MS very less time for a workaround and increased the time only after public shaming. MS implemented Ca…

See this thread for more details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5716010

Agreed, I also think its just overzealous fans acting on their own. By the way, Microsoft's response is stuck on the 2nd page despite getting a ton of upvotes https://news.ycombina…

Okay, I agree, Apple and Google rock and Microsoft sucks. So how is all that related to the article idea's and the OPs point about the FUD on HN about .NET dying? Is .NET dying bec…

>So, they made in a year something around what Apple makes every quarter just from iPad sales? That's the rosy sign MS's "Servers and Tools" business is doing OK? That's their serv…

Thanks for the post, but have to disgree on some points. the differences aren't small, they're quite big when you realize that ranking makes a huge difference to how many people se…

Note that the complaint is not about lack of upvotes, it's about people going out of their way to use their flagging powers which is meant only for spam links.

Wow, they just had to just send an email to their instead of pleading with Google for three years for API access. Microsoft sure is stupid! Or perhaps the Xbox Youtube app was writ…

>If Microsoft wrote a TOS-compliant YouTube app and put it in their app store, but it was written in a way that bumped up against the quota limits, I'm sure they and Google could w…

>You realize that if ads are required by the TOS, but you don't have the ability to include ads, that it doesn't mean it's just okay to ignore the TOS and distribute the app anyway…

Windows Phone has tens of millions of users and YT is a really popular app so it would hit the quota limit real quick and get banned. https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getti…

>I don't know if that's a valid extrapolation. I, for one, in all my working years have never met a Linux company that was interested in switching to .NET, but I met many that want…

The flagging ability is removed if you do a lot of flagging in a very short time, like the poster who didn't like all Steve Jobs posts on front page when he passed away and flagged…