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randomerr··on Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket
That was my first thought. Followed by this is a smaller Pi-Top

https://shop.pi-top.com/products/pi-top

randomerr··on Apple's Schiller says kids with Chromebooks are “not going to succeed”
The best tool to challenge children is a Raspberry Pi. They can build an entire computer from scratch for less then $100 and an old TV. Price is not what makes a tool great.
randomerr··on How WeWork's “Fiasco” Could Threaten Silicon Valley's Rich and Powerful
Before you put a dime into a business look for the paper. If they can't supply it run like hell. If they have no plan for profit for at least 3 years don't invest. There are some many IPO's filing were the CEO walks away with golden parachute of $50 million whether it succeeds or fails. Its not just Silicon Valley. I've seen it recently in exercise equipment and office space rental.
randomerr··on French city of Dunkirk tests out free transport
For tourist location it work. Government gets the money back in sales and other taxes. But in other cities it will be money pit with no possible way to recoup the cost. It can never work in rural areas because there isn't a dense enough population.
randomerr··on McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs
The local economist has been ascribing this move to the $15 minimum wage. His take is that the only way fast food can stay profitable, with the higher minimum wages, is automation. Computers cost less than people.
randomerr··on California Approves Statewide Rent Control
It usually comes from a recession or a depression were rewrites are finally deemed necessary. Unfortunately unless people with common sense participate in government and we vote in selfless people a generation will suffer the consequences of our inactivity.
randomerr··on A dream of an ultimate OS (1995)
My dream is simple OS that works kinda like DOS: * Micro OS - Boot base from floppy drive if need be * Let me edit a text file to left put in the pieces I wants instead of a hundred pieces I don't * Includes BASIC language that build build a binary * Includes text based GUI for a text editor * Allow me to pick the drivers I want

I like concept of some Linux OS'es but the ecosystem has got some huge it takes an expert to truly understand it. For a server I really only need a network drivers, SSH client, and the server software. I maybe nostalgic but I miss the good old days.

randomerr··on Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy
I've been able to get the same or very similar performance with modern languages that are a lot easier to debug. It just a matter of developers and management letting go of the old ways.
randomerr··on Ask HN: Do Press Releases still matter?
Yes, because it still makes those SEO links. But more so that if you do a good press release you can cross link it on sites with higher SEO ratings. Like here if it makes it to the front page. Even if it doesn't go anywhere beyond the 'new' section a search engine will eventually pick it up.

I wouldn't pay $300 is worth it. Just do it yourself or hire a reputable PR firm. the best path to go to forums like Reddit. Talk about your product, get feedback, and build a community. Thats worth more than any press release.

randomerr··on Ask HN: Popularity of Unicode Versions of URLs?
I believe because of Cyrillic URL spoofing from a about 10-15 years ago most people stay away from UNICODE urls. China's numeric URL's maybe so that tracking URL's are easier, but that's just a guess.
randomerr··on Web scraping case fails under Supreme Court's Dastar doctrine
Plaintiff had bad copyright notice. If the copyright notice is changed to be specific about the data and not 'everything under the under sun' on this website. This would be like someone trying to copyright the word 'crayon' on his website. Crayon in most countries counties means 'writing device'. Since So you can copyright the word 'crayon' your website. But you could copyright 'Crayola Crayons' since that is specific.

In this case the copyright was 'This is our website. We don't have anything specific about our data.' So no specified claims to sales or specific claims to sales data puts everything in the public domain as long as the scraper uses the data for 'informational purposes' and does not make a copyright claim to the data itself.

FYI: a more specific definition for crayon is 'a writing device where the writing material wears off to leave a meaningful mark.' Examples are: crayons (duh), pencils, charcoal sticks, etc. Since pens and markers have ink or pigment reserves and do not wear down they are not considered crayons.

randomerr··on Micro.blog
Maybe its just me but it seems like a love child of Diaspora and StatusNet (formally Laconica) that you have to pay for.

Oddly enough, the pay element is the only really attractive element right now. At least that way I know I know I will not have advertisements all over the place. Still $5 dollars seems steep. For that I could just host my own microblog theme on WordPress and make my own community.

randomerr··on Ask HN: Is email the new fax?
Yes. We have our Exchange system setup that if we have 'SECURE' in the title it will check if we TLS agreement with the receiving server. If we do, we'll send the email through with encryption. If not, the receiver is required to sign-up for our secure web service and then use a one-time code to download the file.

We do limit the file size of what we'll send in encryption. But does someone really need a 3 gig PDF?

We really only keep fax for government requirements and the few outliers that will not cut the phone cord. We were getting some many junk faxes we had to implement a white-list.

randomerr··on Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls
I think phones are stilled needed. They're still the most reliable form of communication. But I see most people switching to white lists. Anyone not in your address book will get sent to voicemail right away.
randomerr··on FDA permits marketing of AI-based device to detect diabetes-related eye problems
I don't see the big deal. We've been using 'AI' in medical equipment for nearly decade. Look at DeVinci surgery devices. Its just until recently the technology has been called AI.
randomerr··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?
Other then here, Voat is the best overall. Their source is on GITHub if you want to roll your own.

https://github.com/voat/voat

If you want to do your own Reddit here are some clones, largely PHP based:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/77bhdx/phpbased...

randomerr··on 32-bit app compatibility with macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
And to really mess things up Apple is rumored to drop Intel processors for a modified ARM processor. It will be desktop version of their mobile A11 processor. The new chip will emulate the Intel 64 bit processor for older applications not written to use the LLVM. Otherwise Swift apps that use LLVM with just run as normal.
randomerr··on Ask HN: What are the consequences if you don't put your phone into flight mode?
With the current digital phones there is almost no chance of the phones interfering with the airplane's operations. When phones were analog their frequencies did live in some of same ranges as the plane's equipment.

Analog phone used lower frequencies to cover longer ranges. Back then we had of fewer towers so you had to use lower frequencies. The lower the frequency the more ground you can cover, the better reliability. Airplanes used the similar frequencies for all the same reasons.

Now both planes and phones use better equipment with better FCC oversight on was frequencies and transmission type each uses. Airplanes rely more on satellite communication then terrestrial towers which further helps to prevent radio communication collision.

randomerr··on Ask HN: Which messenger do you use on your phone?
Facebook Messenger for friend and family that can't use SMS (or understand texting.) Google Voice for everything thing else. I really like Line, Quidd (don't judge) and Telegram. But I use them more as BBS services then a true messenger app.
randomerr··on nukapi – the reliable cloud database with dead simple pricing
Can you help me. Why wouldn't I just setup Postgres or a similar database on a less expensive and better known cloud provider (Digital Ocean, AlibabaCloud, Amazon, Azure, Google etc.)? Many of these have similar pre-configured database systems.
randomerr··on Here is why nobody has succeeded at running IoT on the blockchain
Aside from the exponential increase of data traffic the devices would need an similar increase in processing power. A central hub in a location would help. But the you're partially defeat the idea of a universal block chain.
randomerr··on China is running out of American goods to slap tariffs on
Why not raise tariffs on pre-existing goods? Eventually it will push the US to find alternative sources or make their own, pushing China into further debt.
randomerr··on Crayon programming language
It looks like you're using Visual Studio 2015. Could you rewrite it into .NET Core so that it can run on Linux?

I like your idea.

randomerr··on The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter
Nope, its real. Slow but real. It makes a good backup DNS so you could use it to manually update your 'hosts' files.
randomerr··on The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter
How do you get a query to through?
randomerr··on Microsoft Announces a $5B Investment in IoT
I thought they were getting out of IoT because of how bad they did with the Raspberry Pi.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/21/first_look_windows_...

randomerr··on Ask HN: In 2018, should we use SnakeCase or CamelCase for JSON?
'camelCase' is the JavaScript standard. Since JSON is an extension of JavaScript I would stick with that.

Ex. allTrue, charAt(), indexOf, ect.

Mozzila's JSON examples are in 'camelCase': https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Ob...

Microsofts's JSON examples are in 'camelCase': https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh923971(v=vs.85).a...

randomerr··on Ask HN: Paid random email inbox generator service?
Mailinator has a similar service: https://www.mailinator.com/pricingmatrix.jsp
randomerr··on Hosting Asp.Net Core Applications on Windows Server Core
Good read. For our organization we use IIS and Nginx as a reverse proxy. Each separate instance of the Kestrel server in .NET Core runs on it's own port and gives us for flexibility.

Web server implementations in ASP.NET Core https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/se...

Setup IIS with URL Rewrite as a reverse proxy for real world apps. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/friis/2016/08/25/setup-iis-...

NGINX Reverse Proxy https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/web-server/reverse-...

randomerr··on Ask HN: What are the downsides of ICO fund raising?
This article gets into a couple of points. I pulled the higlights: https://blockgeeks.com/guides/initial-coin-offering/

Legality - The legal state of ICO is mostly undefined. Ideally, the token is sold not as a financial asset but as a digital good like many other things.

Profit and Loss - Many ICO has been a lucky choice for investors. ETH, for example, was sold at 0.0005 Bitcoin and is worth today 0,05 BTC. On the other side, many ICO ends with losses. Cryptocurrencies like Lisk, IOTA-token or Omni did not hold the value in Bitcoin the token has been assessed at the ICO (or struggle to keep it).

Another article: The Declining Middle Tier of ICO Fundraising https://medium.com/tokenreport/the-declining-middle-tier-of-...

The median fundraise in initial coin offerings (ICOs) has been on a steady march downward since its peak in the heady days of the second quarter. In the fourth quarter, even the high-profile Science Blockchain (12.2 million USD) failed to come near its hard cap. Chatter at cryptocurrency conferences points to a more cautious investor base. But the truth is, crypto is starting to resemble the world wage economy: tokens that can command large fundraises are rolling in on bigger and bigger waves of money, while the bottom tier bounces along and the middle tier gets squeezed.

Kik's coin the 'Kin' has been a fairly study decline since it's high in January (then $0.0031 and now $0.0001.)

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kin/

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