skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out postmarketOS. It's porting mobile linux to a whole host of old smart phones. It's a relatively new (open-source) project, but has already progressed considerably. A lot of people (myself included) are excited about the possibilities of having a fully hackable linux phone.

I am not active in the porting side right now, but am prototyping a mobile computing device that runs pmOS. It's kind of a neuromancer style ono-sendai portable deck: A rectangular box (approx 11x29x3cm) that you can opem up and velcro your linux phone into and have a full-sized, stainless steel, porclean, or plastic mechanical keyboard and foldable mouse with slots for extra memory and battery life. It is designed to be as compact and as durable as possible, while staying true to the postmarket name by sourcing from reused materials whenever possible.

My hypothetical market is mainly highly mobile autonomous individuals residing in developing world megacities, but I'm interested to know what someone from the US or Europe thinks about the idea.

Oh ya, one more thing, the profits go to pmOS, to scale up a re-wilding project, and to getting these hackable linux devices into the hands of children forced to work in the supply/waste chain of electronics manufacturing.

How's that sound?
Agreed, my one visit I couldn't get the page to scroll at first except with the mouse wheel, which I don't normally scroll with. So that unfortunate animation sequence where it seemed like copies of the page were being dealt to me like cards, must have messed with the focus. It would have been easier to cope with an ad!

To have someone talking from a position of simplicity and economy use such an excess of technical design to present it was a bit much.

I would be surprised if the site renders decently on a chrome book. Ironically.
Check out postmarketOS. It's porting mobile linux to a whole host of old smart phones. It's a relatively new (open-source) project, but has already progressed considerably. A lot of people (myself included) are excited about the possibilities of having a fully hackable linux phone.

I am not active in the porting side right now, but am prototyping a mobile computing device that runs pmOS. It's kind of a neuromancer style ono-sendai portable deck: A rectangular box (approx 11x29x3cm) that you can opem up and velcro your linux phone into and have a full-sized, stainless steel, porclean, or plastic mechanical keyboard and foldable mouse with slots for extra memory and battery life. It is designed to be as compact and as durable as possible, while staying true to the postmarket name by sourcing from reused materials whenever possible.

My hypothetical market is mainly highly mobile autonomous individuals residing in developing world megacities, but I'm interested to know what someone from the US or Europe thinks about the idea.

Oh ya, one more thing, the profits go to pmOS, to scale up a re-wilding project, and to getting these hackable linux devices into the hands of children forced to work in the supply/waste chain of electronics manufacturing.
What does this mean to PhantomJS?
I think this is a really good point. It's true that indie games are often simple, and don't use complex graphical features. But it's also true that a lot of them are startlingly memory-heavy and poorly implemented - they're comparable to AAA performance, but for a vastly simpler task. Every so often something like Dungeons of Dredmor will bog down on me despite being a very basic task on a high-end machine.

I don't object to that, either. People are knocking out games in high-level languages or using extremely rich frameworks. You can put out an Android game and barely touch a single Android feature because your environment is so extensive. We do pay a price in speed and memory usage, but the upside is that people get to release all kinds of wild projects without learning the arcana of their environment.

It's fantastic that a team of <5 people with limited software expertise can put out a genuinely brilliant game. I'm less happy with it outside of gaming, where people often have to standardize on a single product. But video games are moving steadily closer to boardgames, novels, and other art forms where the tools of the trade aren't a limiting factor.
Um...you know this is basically threads right?

(not disagreeing, but having watched the past few years as "threads bad, don't know why though..." it is amusing to see thread-style concurrency rediscovered with a new name).
Yeah, I try to remember not to use the AMP link (I don't see this as fundamentally an AMP problem as a UI problem with using bare hyperlinks in text that is exacerbated by AMP, but we use the message boards we have, not the message boards we wish we had.) I've corrected it.
> I mean there's literally undercover video evidence.

Let's see it.
Erlang has been around for many many years though, and is not going anywhere. Elixir who knows? It's popular now but where will it be in five years?
> I don't get what they're plan is.

"This launch is a giant step forward in our efforts to bring rich content to Reddit, following last year’s release of native image hosting and our introduction of native video ads earlier this year."

Which means having to watch a 30 second ad before a 15second video clip.
But the thing is, even if 100% of your apps are vulnerable, it doesn't mean anything unless the attacker can reach your phone somehow. That can only happen in 5 different ways: (1) Low-level Wi-Fi bug exploit, (2) SMS exploit, (3) Cellular exploit (like a Stingray), (4) Cellular internet connection (open ports, etc.), (5) App-level exploits.

I don't know of any critical examples of #1 that I would need to protect against where upgrading is my only solution (maybe I'll upgrade if I find one). #2 can be mitigated at the app level (see my reply to the other comment here) and probably faster so than the update you'd receive. #3 can't really be mitigated by phone updates. #4 is impractical since cells are behind carrier-grade NATs and don't have dedicated IP addresses to be reachable via the internet. And #5 just involves updating the app, not the OS or hardware.

If you can give me an example of an actual attack that cannot be prevented without upgrading the hardware or the OS, I would find that far more convincing than a hypothetical.
FTL will definitely make a high-end Macbook Pro break a sweat. It's not that it couldn't have been written a decade ago, but it would have taken far more man-hours on the implementation side of things.
Executives somehow never seem to join the open office plan. They normally seem to have their offices or just book up a meeting room week after week. If you go open office I think everyone needs go open office including the executives.
I never buy phones on contract and I don't live in the states, so it can sometimes be hard to compare prices. But isn't this a fairly similar price to a similar iPhone/Pixel/Galaxy ?

I mean, isn't this the price range for a premium phone and isn't this premium specced?

Except for the silly "Everybody should be able to afford craftsmanship" line, I am having a hard time understanding why people are flipping out about the price.

I for one welcome what looks to be a great premium phone with better software than most flagship phones.
I could type faster (and without looking) on the old Nokia style keypads than I can on a touchscreen.
I think he's talking about _services_ not the interface to them, ie: gmail.com, dropbox.com, facebook.com (which is weird, so maybe call it IRC/Usenet?).
If you are not one of the... "affected demographics", you may never notice this. Which is part of the nature of Facebook and its curated content.

WHICH is why you really owe it to yourself to read this.

This isn't self-reinforcing and targeted "popularity". This is biased moderating with significant repercussions -- whether or not it's intentional.
Google AMP's existence is just bad in general.

Please stop trying to make the internet literally only google.com and facebook.com
The last sentence of this post perfectly describes Austin, Texas.
>> Or being able to decide if a proposition is true within an axiomatic system?

You mean like Prolog?
Much of Cleveland is a dump. Close to 100 murders a year is a lot for a city of 400k. Lots of crime, high car insurance, it's just dreary looking and feeling like Milwaukee or Detroit. The white areas of Cleveland are pretty racist - it's a very segregated city, like most other large cities in the rust belt.
Jeff G. has a long history as an open source contributor including as a Bitcoin developer. I'm not sure why you think it's professional behavior for you the CTO of a prominent crypto currency company to trash someone like this in a public forum.
Yeah a good thing for reddit that users get bombarded with heavy Youtube and Imgur ads?

If Youtube and especially small company Imgur can profit this way, so can reddit.

And seeing as reddit has so few avenues to monetize users, letting Google and Imgur mop up the vast majority of link ad revenue seems very silly.
I'm curious how much time was spent trying to write test driven code before deciding it wasn't working for you. Did you succesfully write a few small programs using TDD (coding katas)? Or did you apply TDD to your project at work? For how many hours or lines of code did you try TDD before deciding it wasn't going to work?
It's kind of like a business saying that it doesn't discriminate against a minority, but when one of those people walk in the door they just never get served. It's still discrimination even if it's not overt. It's the kind of thing that Netflix could definitely argue as a Net Neutrality violation over at the FCC, especially once they got a demand to pay up.

It's not like the consumers could switch to a less dickish provider, they're often a local monopoly. You may also note that there were no repeats of this problem after 2015, even though many high bandwidth services appeared and grew in this time.
Yup. Ad hominems on HN are OK, so long as it's against people who don't support the violence left.
I think it's pretty simple and I always wondered why they didn't do it sooner. Reddit is already one of the most popular sites on the Internet - but since it was just an aggregator it constantly took users off their site. Now they're owning more and more of the content and keeping users there longer. Sure, video is expensive, but now they have a much bigger revenue opportunity. They can't monetize videos they don't host.
I think to a large extent (i.e. enough to eliminate the worry in practice) it is how things work, actually. See my reply to the sister comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15040745
I'm thankful I've never had a serious bug with MATLAB. I have a friend who spent two days debugging an issue in one of their distribution files with a rep. Sounded like hell.

Similarly, MATLAB's concept of packages is also non-existent.
If I put a copyrighted image into an internal presentation, I am still copying and redistributing this image. Without permission to do so, that seems like it's straight-up infringement. I don't believe it usually meets the criteria for fair use, either.
No, again, discrimination != disagreement.

Communism, as an ideology, disagrees with capitalism... and capitalism equally disagrees with communism.

However neither ideology discriminates against the other - a capitalist company will employ a communist if the individual is a productive employee, and a communist commune will welcome a capitalist if they strengthen the commune.

Individuals within both groups do advocate for violence against the other, but the ideologies do not. Contrast that with Nazism or literal Islamism - ideologies that explicitly espouses violence and discrimination against "the other".
Also another giant step away from Imgur, who has a very simple YouTube-to-hosted-GIF meme maker.
A lot to offer in what way?
> What do you think about this site getting dropped from GoDaddy, then Google for T.O.S. violations?

I think it's a little disturbing. On the one hand, I vehemently disagree with TDS and what they are saying. On the other, what if the political tide turns against my religion and my church's website is knocked off the web for being "anti-LGBT"?

I personally would prefer if domain registrars remained politically neutral. I'm hoping this is just an extreme case and that they won't do it on a wide-scale in the future.
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Ya, great point, though at big companies it can be very hard to just let things fail. Though that reminds me of another answer to the parent question which is managers who reward people who fix broken stuff, but don't reward people who didn't build fragile things to begin with.
from the guidelines[0]: Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important. ... Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Politics.

Using the too expensive AWS and Google Cloud where DO would have been totally fine.

People who can't admit their mistakes or even blame others for theirs.

Bad architectural decisions.

Kubernetes instead of Docker Swarm for small clusters without any traffic or just plain Docker.

Expensive Github instead of free Bitbucket.

Asana, Jira, Pivotal Tracker instead of free Trello.

Slack.

Self-hosting of non-core tools.

Team retreats nobody wants.

Team events nobody wants.

Team members with weak communication skills.

Teams which are not synced, where some come after lunch and some finish few minutes later.
If I go for the highest paid tier, it comes with Proton VPN. Ist that only ONE VPN user or do all users of that tier get to use ProtonVPN?
> No, it's really not. It's literally just a tool I use for communication.

I'm curious, wouldn't that imply you're not the demographic they're seeking? So are you basically saying, "I'm not in their demographic"? Or is there another point to your comment that I'm missing. I ask because often I see people get pissy about statements like this, almost as if they think the web page was curated for them.

I could make a webpage targeted at guitarists with something like "Your guitar is something you cherish", and clearly that statement isn't true for someone who neither owns a guitar nor plays. So what purpose is a statement like this?

I don't make snarky comments at bra commercials on TV about how I don't have breasts and therefor am not concerned with support. Do you (assuming you're male, of course haha)?
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Mail would be hard to host at home since that's what many spammers did. Too many measures in place to discourage it. You would need at least a proxy service to make it work reliably.
Kansas City is worth a look
>way beyond that

By quoting Luther King? I'm having a hard time seeing what you find wrong here.
> Of course, and this is exactly why tariffs exist, to level the playing field.

Tariffs can be used for this purpose, but they traditionally weren't used to "level the playing field". They were traditionally used to benefit local goods over imported goods. The history of the US and England are rife with counterexamples of "level playing field" tariffs.
Looks like i'll have to remove reddit from whitelisted sites on my ad-blocker. Sigh.
This is spot on.

It's bad enough that money is saved within IT departments that costs multiples of wasted staff wages in the business, but there are battles between sub sections of IT that try to save money in their area by pushing it on to others (again at net cost).
The answer is that this is, in fact, a slippery slope, because though TDS seem to be something that could be reasonably called actual Nazis (I honestly haven't investigated them to determine the validity of the accusation), we've also got an enormous cottage industry with a thriving amateur sideline of political activists calling anyone they disagree with Nazis. And it's entirely possible for the "X is a Nazi" narrative to get off the ground and self-perpetuate without any actual truth to it, with no one involved actually examining the claim. A lie can run around the world, &c.

If you agree to censor any category of thing, then you'll immediately have a large group of unscrupulous people attempting to cast all their enemies as that thing. The only general countermeasure is to not censor anything.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Change what hash? Of the image? I can't think of how that could help with removing a watermark.
And actually there is... For me the image is cut at about one third down the way, and I can't scroll to see the rest.
When do you dump a product even when “it still works”?
> Today when a genocide happens somewhere on Earth the UN quickly intervenes.

No, it doesn't, and it only intervenes, at all, in fairly weak states, or where geopolitical interests of the sole superpower align with the intervention.

> The US is not some weak-ass state

Which is why a violent racist faction rising to power in the US is particularly frightening, globally as well as locally.
> or if they're just using us to buy dollar bills for $0.97

This kind of thing confuses me. I've heard similar thoughts before, but as someone out of the loop, aren't investors still expecting a return on their investment? Sure VCs have high toleration of risk but they need at least one or two of their companies to make money eventually, right? If investors really are buying dollars for $.97 this seems like the best indication yet that we are in a huge tech bubble.
> Sure, video is expensive, but now they have a much bigger revenue opportunity. They can't monetize videos they don't host.

I totally see your point but shouldn't they monetize what they have now before go on to tackle other revenue venture?

Or is it better to tackle all possible revenue venture at the same time?

I feel like it's stretches them thin no?
Content uploaded to youtube/imgur and embedded in reddit has the avantage, that you actually serve two communities at once with the (tiny) possibility of going viral in both. As a content creator I'd prefer that. Moreover users can discover older content easier in youtube with the stream of recommendations of similar content.

If your goal is to reach the largest audience it doesn't make sense to me to only hide it in reddit.
> > especially those who capture videos on their phones

I guess this is a problem with the in-house Reddit app. There are many problems which can, and should be, solved on the frontend. This is one of them.

> I don't get what they're plan is.

Exactly, they could just add gfycat/imgur support to the app (which is what Sync already does).

> losing money

They will also have to deal with DCMA (historically, the content hosts have), which means hiring people to vet false claims. Not to mention that redditors are ferocious when it comes to false claims and 'censorship.' This is a PR nightmare waiting to happen.
Yes, we did something similar to disable the triggers. Unfortunately, while this resolved some issues such as being unable to delete LVs which were erroneously in use, it didn't resolve the oopses and kernel freezes which were presumably locking problems or similar inside the kernel.
> No, but it only took a relatively small amount of those evil people to take over the country.

And somehow I doubt they'd support the free flow of information.
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As someone who just spent the last 4 years in Cleveland (for school), I want to comment on professional environment of the city for those interested in tech careers. The number of companies is pretty low, and the professional environment is far more conservative/traditional than what you'd see in the big tech hubs. Also if you look at BLS data, there is a below average number of tech jobs when compared to other economic regions.

The kinds of industries that dominate in NE Ohio are either advanced chemical manufacturing and medicine through the Cleveland Clinic.

Other comments both positive and negative:

The RTA is pretty bad, but it isn't bad at all by American public transportation standards.

The city has amazing opportunities within the arts for a city of it's size, the museums are really great and free. Additionally, the Cleveland orchestra is relatively cheap to attend and they are one of the best orchestras in the world. Lastly, big acts and shows do come to playhouse square.

Cleveland has some really great public events, Bright Winter and Ingenuity Fest are absolutely amazing. It has an amazing food scene that is constantly expanding, where waiters at top restaurants can also afford a home in the city.

Lastly, for a city that is constantly ranked as one of most out of shape cities in the country, people are so incredibly passionate about this place. In bigger, more global cities, there is less of a desire among the general population to improve the community at large. In Cleveland, everyone is on the same team.

Overall, if you are a person who likes small cities (I personally am not), Cleveland is a pretty great choice overall, especially if cost of homeownership is an important factor in the city you choose to live in.
The 2016 release of George T Stagg came out of the cask at 144 proof, or ~72%. You might want to recalibrate your high-water mark. ;-)
How many miles did you put in?

It literally takes me like 3 years and a few 1000 miles before my shoes need resoled...
Regarding hostile Wi-Fi: okay, so that means when such an exploit comes out, you can then decide to buy a new phone if your phone is still not receiving updates and if your phone is vulnerable. And I would expect most such exploits to be specific to the phone brand, not the Android/Linux kernel in general. Out of curiosity, do you know of any actual such exploits that remain unpatched in (say) late versions of Android 4?

Regarding someone stealing your phone: I don't understand what this has to do with OS or hardware updates. You can put a PIN on your phone and encrypt it. Perfectly possible on older versions of Android.

Regarding fine-tweaking app permissions: Privacy Guard and XPrivacy do the same thing. Why necessarily update the OS? And in any case, why constantly keep updating the OS past Android 6 where this feature was introduced?
Takeaway/tl;dr: "Overall, there is a fine balance between diluting the whisky to taste and diluting the whisky to waste"
WikiLeaks Turned Down Russian Government Leaks During U.S. Presidential Campaign
"People in the Valley get admired when they drop out of elite schools, but if you’re not dropping out of Stanford, you don’t get congratulated. It’s all dependent on your demographic situation."
Hah, catholic guilt and environmentalism work together so well.

yeah, I feel bad for taking a similar lifetime on my phones - I wish there was a company with the kind of reputation for craftsmanship and long-term support that Apple has that would offer stock Google Android devices.
Free speech harms nobody. DOS attacks harm the people whose service is denied to.
:) I'm in the same boat. Built a 1700x with 32gb for my home workstation.

Feels lot faster than the 4670k it replaced.

I suspect most of that is the ddr4 + another 4 cores + nvme , rather than IPC gains.

I like the direction the CPUs moved, although after 7nm in few years, they'll have to redesign a lot more than CPUs to get anything substantial out of it.

We'll see, exciting times otherwise.